Hogwarts: The Savior's Strong Cousin

The crowd made way for him and Lockhart suddenly leapt over the desk, rushed forward, grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him forward.

The whole audience soon burst into cheers. Harry's face felt a little hot and he didn't even realize what was happening.

The flash went on and on, and thick smoke drifted onto Dudley's body. He sneezed unceremoniously, scaring the short man who was taking the photo so much that he shrank back and almost fell to the ground again.

"That's a nice smile, Harry. We could both be on the front page."

Lockhart showed off his big, sparkling white teeth and spoke to Harry with a smile, but Harry only felt the noise around him.

"ladies and gentlemen!"

“What an extraordinary moment!”

"I want to take advantage of this small occasion..."

"An announcement!"

Dudley broke out into another fit of uncontrollable chuckling.

What? You want to issue Brother Tiger’s Declaration of Independence too?

"Young Harry Potter walked into Flourish and Blotts today, simply wanting to buy my autobiography - and I'm willing to give it to him for free!"

There was another round of applause from the crowd and Harry curled his lips.

Who wants to buy a middle-aged man's boasting?

"But he doesn't know that soon he will get something more valuable than "I Am Magic"!"

"In fact, he and his classmates will get a real me who can do magic."

The crowd fell silent. This kind of ups and downs in voice obviously gave the audience enough time to react. From this point of view, Lockhart seemed to be quite suitable for talk shows.

Dudley almost laughed his ass off. You can do magic? You're a master of the Oblivion realm, right?

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely happy and proud to announce that this September, I will become the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

The young girls and wives immediately clapped their hands happily, including Hermione and Mrs. Weasley. Harry then realized that he had a complete set of Gilderoy Lockhart's works in his hands. They were so heavy that he almost fell. When he looked up, Ginny was standing next to her new cauldron.

"These are for you. I'll buy mine later—"

Harry stuffed the books at Ginny. He didn't want a signed book from a greasy old man. At this moment, he suddenly felt that Severus Snape, with his greasy hair, seemed to have found a strong opponent.

"You must like this, Potter? Being the big shot on the front page?"

A teasing voice came, and Harry narrowed his eyes. Sure enough, Draco Malfoy was slowly walking down from the second floor of the bookstore, looking at Harry and Ginny mockingly with his usual arrogant eyes.

"Don't talk nonsense, he doesn't want that!"

Ginny suddenly spoke, and Harry was stunned. This was the first time she took the initiative to speak in front of him.

"Oh, Potter, you got a girlfriend!"

Malfoy drew out his voice. When it comes to making trouble, he is quite talented. At least when Ginny heard this, her face turned red.

Ron and Hermione also squeezed over, and Ron immediately became like an angry little bull.

"Draco, I..."

The following words were a bit too dirty for the nobles - or rather, rather than being dirty, it was more like some kind of vicious "statement of fact". In short, the general meaning was that Ron wanted to have a story with Draco's mother, Narcissa Malfoy, which was completely emotionless and purely driven by certain ideas.

Harry, Hermione and Ginny were all stunned. When had they ever seen Ron be so foul-mouthed?

However, you have to know that Ron was not idle during this period, but studied and practiced hard with Dudley, and finally integrated the mysterious techniques from the East into his thick British accent. As soon as he spit out five knuts and a spoonful of dragon dung, he fed it steaming and solid into the ears of the dragoon.

"You...you poor Weasley, what did you say?"

Malfoy's face was red with anger, and if it were a concrete manifestation, flames would have appeared on his head.

"You can actually come into the store? I guess your parents will have to go hungry for the next month to buy these things, right?"

Ron's face also turned red. He angrily threw the book into the crucible next to him, rolled up his sleeves and was about to pounce on Malfoy.

Malfoy was startled, but when he thought of his biological father behind him, he suddenly became braver.

"Haha, you are indeed a poor fellow. You jump up and down as soon as your sore spot is touched."

"I will pay for all the Weasleys' expenses today. Malfoy, what else can you spit out of your dog's mouth? Ivory?"

Harry suddenly reached out and stopped Ron who was about to pounce. He imitated the way Dudley usually communicated, and lightly took out a gold Galleon from his briefcase, shook it in front of Malfoy's eyes, and put it into Ron's hand.

"Ron is my good brother. I am willing to pay for his consumption to consolidate our friendship. This has nothing to do with economic strength, but is a testimony to our friendship, nothing more."

"And what about the distinguished Draco Malfoy? I forgot, you have no friends. So, where are your lackeys? Where are Goyle and Crabbe?"

"Oh, yes, of course. Although they are two cowards, they are still your followers, Draco. So what do you think? What do you want to change for your Slytherin team this time? Nimbus 2001?"

Malfoy felt a chill down his spine when he heard this. Was this still the Harry Potter he knew?

Such a flexible tongue and such sharp words made all his harmless attacks suppressed in his stomach.

"Harry, Ron, what are you doing!"

Mr. Weasley led George and Fred out of the crowd, "What are you doing? It's too chaotic here, let's go out."

"Ah my, Arthur Weasley."

Lucius's sarcastic voice sounded, he put one hand on Draco's shoulder, the arrogant and sneering expression on his face was exactly the same as his son's.

"I heard that you've been very busy with official duties recently, with so many searches. I guess they paid you overtime, right?"

He reached into Ginny's cauldron and accurately pulled out a tattered "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" from the brand new Lockhart works. This was a textbook that Mrs. Weasley bought for Ginny in a second-hand bookstore. After all, the Weasley family didn't have much money, and the price of second-hand textbooks was cheaper.

"It seems not. My God, what's the point of being a scum among wizards if I can't even get a good reward?"

Mr. Weasley's face turned even redder than Ron and Ginny's.

"Bullshit!"

A rough shout was heard, and Dudley strode through the crowd, looking down at Lucius and Draco from above.

"The scum of wizarding society? The Malfoys' self-introduction? That's so true."

Lucius' sneer suddenly froze on his face.