Chapter 142 Gilderoy Lockhart and His Portraits

Looking at the large crowd in front of Flourish Blossom Bookstore, Wright and Chang Chu couldn't help but look at each other. Chang Chu naturally knew that Wright didn't like to walk together with others, and Wright couldn't bear to see Chang Chu squeezing among so many people.

However, the Gryffindor trio didn't think so much at all. If there are more people, there will be more people! Just move on.

Just when Harry, Ron and Hermione were about to use their size advantage to slip through the cracks in the crowd, Wright stretched out his hand to stop them.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked Wright. Ron and Harry beside her also cast doubtful glances at Wright.

"Wait a moment, it'll be fine soon," Wright said.

Wright took out four pieces of parchment from the Mock bag and threw it to the ground. He held the rose scepter in one hand and lightly touched the parchment with its bottom. In an instant, four pieces of parchment the size of ordinary books turned into four flying blankets that were large enough for people to stand on.

Wright motioned to Chang Chu and the others to stand on the blanket, and after a few people stood firm, the flying carpet immediately floated into the air, taking the four people to the front row of the crowd where the Weasley family and the Granger couple were queuing up, which Wright had just noticed. The place. The moment the four flying carpets landed on the ground, they immediately returned to their original parchment appearance, and were carefully put away by Chang Chu.

"Hermione, Chang Chu, this way of arrival really caught Wende and me off guard." Jane said to the two girls with a smile, Lu Wei was being held in her hands at this time.

Wende was chatting enthusiastically with Arthur Weasley at the moment. It seemed that the little unpleasantness they had just had in Gringotts had been completely forgotten by them. It seemed that these two middle-aged men should be Deep friendships were formed over alcohol in the Leaky Cauldron.

But the one who looked most excited at this time was Molly, the hostess of the Weasley family. She was staring at a curtain at the back of Flourish Blossoms with a flushed face, and was still patting her hair. It seems that he wants to use this crude method to make his appearance more decent.

"Oh, it's great that you are here." Molly quickly glanced at Harry and Ron who appeared next to her, and then immediately withdrew her gaze. Her breathing was rapid, as if she was rushing to do something. Like, "After a while, we will be able to see him right away..."

Wright did not follow Chang Chu and the others to line up downstairs, but found an opportunity to apparate to the second floor of Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, which was much emptyer compared to the crowded situation downstairs. Wright found a more suitable position so that he could see everything happening on the first floor of the bookstore in detail.

In addition to the crowds of wizards and stacks of books, Flourish and Blotts Bookstore now also contains countless photos of Lockhart, large and small, and the blond middle-aged man in all the albums is now there. They all scratched their heads and made poses in unison.

To be honest, Wright is quite interested in the magical portraits in the wizarding world. Take a portrait of Lockhart not far from Wright's hand. Although the Lockhart in it cannot speak or make any sounds, he can move freely and can travel to other places at will if necessary. into the portrait of Lockhart.

According to the description in the book, this movable portrait is manifested through spells and potions. Whether it's a photo or a painting, a wizard can enchant it to animate it, as long as the correct potion is used on the image.

However, Wright has never found the opportunity to come into contact with the hanging paintings in Hogwarts Castle. If he simply applied developing potion to the static photos, Wright always felt that the characters inside would not have such vivid reflections.

But these can only be explored later. Wright's eyes moved to the first floor. The protagonist of today's event held at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore appeared.

Gilderoy Lockhart walked out of a closed curtain at the back of Flourish and Blott Bookstore. He was wearing a delicate and elegant blue robe, and a pointed wizard hat was tilted on his head, covering his head. With her wavy blond hair, she seems to be trying to express a bohemian style in this way.

The moment Lockhart walked out, the entire Flourish and Blott Bookstore was almost overturned by the shouts of many witches!

Lockhart sat down behind the desk, where he sat surrounded by large photographs of himself. Then, Lockhart showed a standard smile to the wizards lined up in front of him. A large group of Lockharts in the photo also smiled at the wizards along with the real Lockhart, showing their white faces together. Dazzling teeth.

The entire Flourish and Blott Bookstore suddenly lit up.

Hermione, who was not far away from Lockhart, had a very obsessed smile on her face, and her hands were still clapping wildly unconsciously, like an extremely excited little beaver.

"Huh?" Wright on the second floor suddenly frowned. Lockhart seemed a little strange at this time.

In Wright's impression, Lockhart was just a wizard who was good at the Oblivion Curse and did not have any advanced spell-casting abilities. But judging from the information fed back by the Shadow Sense, the magic level of the Lockhart in front of him was at least on the same level as Lucius Malfoy, who was also standing on the second floor!

Don't look at the fact that Lucius was directly repelled by the house elf Dobby's magic in the original book, but that's because the house elf's magic and the wizard's magic are not the same system. As the contemporary patriarch of the famous "pure-blood" Malfoy family in the wizarding world, Lucius's true strength should not be underestimated.

So from this point of view, if you just look at the level of magic power, the Lockhart in front of you is at least a wizard who is not inferior to the head of the Malfoy family! This seems a bit weird.

But at this time, Wright also recalled the first time he fought against Dumbledore (?). At that time, he also wanted to rely on his extraordinary shadow energy to give Dumbledore a hard blow. But in less than three seconds, Wright was tied up by Dumbledore's match rope! The battle was declared a failure without even launching an offensive means.

Therefore, from Wright's point of view, the level of magic power in the wizarding world cannot be used as an accurate measure of strength, but it does have certain reference significance.

While Wright upstairs was thinking about Lockhart who suddenly became a little strange, Ron downstairs angrily avoided the short photographer from "The Prophet's Forecast" who took the picture of Lockhart. The tall and violent wizard just stepped on Ron hard.

"It's amazing!" Ron complained loudly while moving the instep of his foot that was painfully stepped on by the man.

But unfortunately, Lockhart heard Ron's words and discovered the legendary scarred boy standing next to Ron, the famous savior - Harry Potter! A famous person as famous as him!