The Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts is always up for business

"Yuck~"

The moment the sewage poured down his throat, Tom returned his body decisively, and Lockhart, who had just woken up from a dream, choked on several sips of water unexpectedly.

If it weren't for the wizard's physical fitness being above the standard under the nourishment of magic power, this place would almost become his final destination.

After finally swimming back to the shallow water, Lockhart began to vomit profusely, wanting to turn his stomach out.

God knows how long it took, and Lockhart, who had calmed down a little, didn't take his own image into consideration first. He took the diary out of his arms rudely, and greeted Tom in a friendly manner.

[Calm down, my friend, this was just an accident. 】

Tom replied quickly, but the handwriting that emerged was very scribbled, as if it was not so calm itself.

[I swear that everything was normal when I came last time, maybe there was a blockage somewhere in the Hogwarts sewer system, so the water flowed over. 】

At this time, this descendant of the Gaunt family has scolded a certain ancestor bloody, so can't the design and construction be more reliable?Even if the waterproofing is not done well, at least some water holes should be made. Hey!

【****, I'm such a fool to believe you.You're not an accidentally trapped soul at all, are you?Everything was planned by Scamander just to make fun of me. 】

Lockhart felt bitter, no wonder Aini didn't care about the loss of the diary. It turned out that it wasn't that he didn't discover the strangeness of this thing, but that the diary was made by others to play with a fool like himself.

[Calm down, Lockhart.Look here and think how far we've slipped, who would go to such lengths for a prank? 】

Those who dared to insult the Dark Lord paid a heavy price. Neither Tom Riddle nor Voldemort were merciful.

But after revenge, Dumbledore taught it never to bark its teeth at the strong when it was weak.In the same way, it is even more necessary to judge the situation in a crisis. Tom is also afraid that if Lockhart can't stand the stimulation and throws himself into the water to leave in anger, it will be broken.

So in the face of the furious preparation of rations, Tom, who was also angry, had to be patient and comfort the other party first.

He took two big breaths, and the foul air that was roughly poured in made him vomit again. After he stopped retching, Lockhart even became cautious about breathing.

Just now he lost his mind after the upheaval, of course he knew the words in the diary, and he also understood that he was not worth making that person so troublesome.

In short - he doesn't deserve it.

Facts were more difficult for Lockhart to accept than fiction.

He wants to be the sun of everyone, to be worshiped by everyone, to let everyone boast of himself, and even his enemies dare not despise him.

But who cares about him?

In fact, Lockhart has always known that he has no background and is not a genius, and all the halos are all special effects, which are purely fooling people, but he just doesn't want to admit it in his heart.

In order to become the dazzling sun, he can only climb up by all means. In order to gain a higher status, Lockhart took huge risks to sneak attack those elite wizards and make their stories his own.

It's not enough to have a good story. If you want to stand higher, you have to work hard. Going around against your will to curry favor with those powerful people has also made him flourish in the wizarding world.

But everything changed after entering Hogwarts. Lockhart's tricks didn't work here at all. The children's world is more pure, and you have to have real skills to convince them.

When he stepped into the gate of Hogwarts confidently at the beginning of school, he never imagined that he was about to face a pair of contemptuous and disgusting eyes.

Lockhart always complained that his parents failed to give him a good background, failed to give him superhuman talent, and failed to inherit a great reputation like Harry's, otherwise he would easily become the sun in people's hearts.

But he never thought that the reason why the sun is dazzling is not because it is high above, but because the warm light illuminates everyone.

The position of the sun is not easy to come by, one day, one month, one year, one hundred years, ten thousand years, one hundred million years, if Lockhart really understands the word "constant", maybe everything will be very different.

But there is no "if" in reality, even if Tom made himself so embarrassed that he wanted to throw the diary far into the water, let it stale and stink until it disappeared in this no-man's land, Lockhart still had to Forced himself a smile.

[Sorry, Tom, I was too excited.This place has been blocked by sewage, what to do next? 】

Looking at the handwriting that appeared, Tom wished to kill him and exchange for a meal ticket immediately.

what to do?You're a wizard, so what's the point of standing water?Wouldn't it be solved by just throwing a spell?

Dumbledore must have been foolish enough to let such a thing be a professor, or a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.Fortunately, he still wanted to apply for this position after graduation, but fortunately he didn't succeed, otherwise he would be compared with this stuff!

In the past few days, Tom has obtained a lot of information from Lockhart, including some of "his" experiences when he grew up.

Now he feels that when he grows up, his brain must be twitching to want to take up such an unstyled position.

[Of course, use the Vanishing Curse to clean up the stagnant water, and the Drying Curse is also very effective. 】

Tom's suggestion is very pertinent. He knows that Lockhart's magic spell is average, and the two options listed are not very difficult.

【Haha, it suddenly occurred to me that I have something to do during this time, so I will clean it up later. 】

After seeing the handwriting on the diary, Lockhart found an excuse not to be distracted.

[Well, try to be as fast as possible, after all, the sooner you get the inheritance, the more help it will be to you. 】

Tom didn't pay much attention to the other party's answer. The horcrux had not eroded Lockhart deeply enough. He came here today just to see the situation in the secret room, but he was not in a hurry to go in.

He thought Lockhart didn't want to clean up the stagnant water in the near future because of the psychological shadow of what happened to him today, but he didn't know that it wasn't that the other party didn't want to, but that he couldn't.

During the communication between the two parties during this period, Lockhart pretended to be a master of magic, hoping to gain the admiration of his "favorite".

However, facing a portable "golden finger", who can resist using it?After Tom helped him solve the problems in teaching, he also thought he had figured out the details of the other party—an ordinary mage who might have some special skills, but the overall level was not worthy of his current position at all.

Even though he already knew a little about Lockhart in the written conversation, and didn't dare to overestimate his strength, the evaluation given by Little Tom still far exceeded the opponent's true level.

Who can believe that a professor can't use the Vanishing Curse?

He couldn't even use the Vanishing Charm, not to mention casting spells without a wand, so after touching the smooth tube wall and thinking about how long it would take to slide down, Lockhart gave up the idea of ​​climbing up.

【Tom, how do we go up now?My wand seemed to have fallen into the water just now...]