Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 131 Harley’s popularity is soaring

Harry didn't figure out how to torment the Malfoy family for the time being, so he temporarily wrote down the grudge.

Anyway, their house elf Dobby is already in his hands, and he apparently belongs to the Malfoy family.

With this "time bomb", as long as he has an idea, he can give the Malfoy family a huge surprise at any time!

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In the next few days, the wind direction in the magical world changed rapidly.

The Ministry of Magic seemed to be trying to eliminate the bad influence caused some time ago, so it spent a lot of money to promote Harley crazily.

They conducted an exclusive interview with Harley and took a photo of Harley standing in front of the basilisk corpse.

At that time, Harley had her hair combed into a single ponytail, with light makeup on her face, a black pointed wizard hat, a black waist-slim robe, and shoes with inner height increasers.

Holding the wand in her right hand and her other hand on her waist, Harley stood on top of the basilisk's head with an indifferent expression on her face, and her whole person showed a heroic appearance.

As soon as this photo came out, coupled with the writing style of a professional writer, Harley instantly became popular in the wizarding world, and her popularity quickly surpassed that of Lockhart.

Fudge has little presence in these articles. Although when chatting with Fudge at that time, Minister Fudge seemed to be preparing to gain some credit for himself.

But in fact, the newspaper article still attributed most of the credit to Harry, also praised the Aurors, and only briefly mentioned the overall command of Fudge, the Minister of Magic.

As for the specific reason, Harry remembered that Fudge's book "From Prefect to Minister" mentioned that Fudge was the Deputy Director of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters before becoming Minister of Magic.

According to information unintentionally revealed during chats between Ron and Susan, classmates who have elders working in the Ministry of Magic, basically only the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement can serve as Minister of Magic.

So Harry deduced that Fudge was probably not particularly popular in the Ministry of Magic, at least not by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and its subordinate Auror Command.

After all, they are not a faction. It can even be said that Fudge has taken the position that should belong to their faction.

To this day, Fudge's direct line combatants are still members of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters.

When the auditorium was being cleaned up, Scrimgeour, the boss of the Auror Command, showed genuine appreciation for Harry.

In addition, as a violent organization, Aurors must also highly respect those who are capable and capable of fighting.

The Aurors themselves are not fools. They all know exactly what role the Minister of Magic plays.

So Fudge couldn't fool them at all.

Fudge probably took these points into consideration, so he simply did a favor and didn't take the credit from Harry. He also took the opportunity to promote Auror.

After all, a Minister of Magic can do it anytime he wants to promote himself. There was no need to deepen the Auror's dislike of him over such a trivial matter.

In addition to promoting Harley, Professor Lockhart was also used to whip the corpse.

The Daily Prophet always likes to praise someone when promoting it, so Professor Lockhart will not be able to rest in peace after his death.

He was labeled a dark wizard, and all the bad incidents of stealing other people's memories were exposed.

At first, many Lockhart fans didn't believe it and bombarded the Ministry of Magic with letters, demanding that their idol's reputation be restored.

But when several authorities in the Ministry of Magic exposed Lockhart's "stealing" other people's memories and changing the protagonist to write the book himself, the trend changed instantly.

The wizards began to scold Lockhart, and many female fans began to cry and turn to follow Harley, who revealed Lockhart's true face.

But Harley doesn't have time to deal with these ardent fans.

In fact, for most of the letters she received, Halle just glanced at them and threw them in the trash.

During these few days, Harley had more important things to do. She is completing her plan in an orderly manner.

Channeling Professor Lockhart was high on Harry's agenda.

According to Dobby's eavesdropping on the Malfoy couple's conversation, he is the only one left in Professor Lockhart's family and there is no heir who meets the contract. Therefore, according to the regulations, as long as you hold the corresponding key, you can enter the vault.

Therefore, the Aurors searched Lockhart's vault, but it only contained the current month's royalties.

According to the goblins, Lockhart withdraws his royalties every month and never leaves them in the treasury.

But the Aurors also searched Professor Lockhart's office, and it was clean. There was no such thing as legal items such as Galleons or evidence of violations of law and discipline.

Even the so-called evidence displayed in newspapers by the "authority" of the Ministry of Magic was concocted using magic.

Professor Lockhart is clearly ready to run away at any moment and distrusts any official institution.

This also shows that Lockhart must have a hidden wealth, after all, he is really rich.

As a wild Extraordinary person who has poverty and frugality engraved in his bones, Harley will naturally not let go of a large sum of innocent gold Galleons.

Therefore, channeling Professor Lockhart ranked very high on the list.

This is not an easy thing, because although Professor Lockhart's soul has no resistance, it is strong enough.

Moreover, the witch herself is not good at channeling, which makes it very likely that Harley will not be able to get all the important information during the channeling process.

For this reason, Harry made a detailed plan and started preparing to collect various ritual materials for the soul.

In addition to planning to channel Professor Lockhart, Harry also spent a lot of time dealing with classmates.

Although Hermione was temporarily appeased, after Harry told Hermione about the entire Chamber of Secrets incident, including the existence of Senior Riddle, Hermione still lost her temper for a while because of Harry's solo adventure.

During this period of time, Harley would receive attention wherever she went. Even when she went to the library to read a book, she would be surrounded by girls, and Harley did not stop these behaviors.

This also made Hermione often have a cold face towards Harry.

Harley had a headache about this, but she had no good solution and could only let it go.

However, these are just minor problems in front of the secret room. When the secret room incident was solved, the castle returned to peace and tranquility.

The arrival of the final exam gave the students no time to think wildly or watch Harry, but they quickly resumed their studies.

Harley was glad the crowd had dispersed, so she had no problem with the final exam.

But other students didn't think so. After all, in the scary atmosphere this semester, many people didn't study much. So there was a lot of resentment in the castle.

Especially those students who were petrified.Just a while ago, Professor Sprout's mandrake matured.

Professor Snape prepared the potion in just one night, so easily that he even allowed Harry to watch and help him.

The students came back to life that night. After just one night of lying in bed, the stiffness in their muscles completely disappeared.

But they would rather not wake up, and would rather continue to be petrified for two months.

Because as soon as these poor little wizards close their eyes or open their eyes, the final exam is here.

孽 孽!

If the professor hadn't left them a chance and allowed them to make up the exam at the beginning of next semester, these unlucky children would have considered repeating the grade.

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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu for the tip!)