Chapter 99: Cheating Lockhart

The next week was considered the happiest day in Harry's mind.

Life in the magical world made him novel. Everyone in the Weasley family liked him very much. He could live with his best friend every day, and his other two good friends were his neighbors. He even hoped to live like this for the rest of his life. Never go back to the Dursleys again.

As for Levin, Harry's arrival did not bring many changes to his life.

During this time, he became obsessed with space magic,

After learning [Wandering Step] and [Any Door], Levin's understanding of conjuration spells became deeper and deeper. The more he studied, the more interested he became in the mysteries of space.

The existence of [Demiplane Seed] has also added a lot of convenience to his understanding and practice of space power.

Today, Levin is studying the [Space Expansion Spell], and he is committed to casting this spell for every room in the tower.

Obviously this is a good thing, but you have to know that in the Muggle world, how many people are trying to make their houses extra square meters?

Nowadays, with just a wave of your hand, the area listed on your real estate certificate can be expanded tenfold—there is such a good thing in the world!

But it happened that Hermione and Ciri were quite crazy about this.

Both girls had to grapple with the problem of how to fill a room that was ten times the size of theirs.

By the way, after Levin learned [Any Door], Hermione finally no longer had to stay at Levin's house all day long.

Now Levin would pick up Hermione from her house every morning and take her back to his home in the evening.

Occasionally, on a whim, Hermione would stay in the tower overnight.

Since then, the Grangers have looked at Levin much more kindly.

At least Mr. Granger wouldn't be staring at him like he was the brat who kidnapped his daughter.

And after the week passed, one fine morning, Levin received a letter from Hogwarts School,

It was an envelope of yellow parchment with green writing on it.

The letter listed a list of new books he would use this year.

Sophomores will read:

"Standard Spells, Level 2" by Miranda Gorshak;

"Breaking with the Female Ghost", by Zhou Deluo Lockhart:

"Walking with Ghouls" by Gilderoy Lockhart;

"Holidays with a Dominatrix" by Gilderoy Lockhart;

"Walking with Trolls" by Gilderoy Lockhart:

"A Voyage with a Vampire" by Gilderoy Lockhart;

Wandering with Werewolves, by Gilderoy Lockhart;

"A Year with xz Snowman", Gilderoy Lockhart

It seems that Dumbledore helped Lockhart sell books in exchange for Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship this year.

Hermione and Ciri also received the same letter. Ciri's fifth-grade textbook had different textbooks on other subjects, but there was also a long list of Lockhart's works.

This is too confusing,

With Levin's financial strength, just a few books are nothing.

But some families are different,

For example, the Weasley family,

Their family has five children going to school this year.

This means they have to buy five sets of Lockhart's books, for a total of 35 copies.

According to the market price, these seven books are close to more than 20 galleons.

Five sets of books are 100 galleons,

This is undoubtedly adding insult to injury for the Weasley family, who are not already wealthy.

The Weasleys probably turned green.

"The new dark arts professor... I wonder if this year's one is reliable?"

Hermione looked melancholy after reading it.

Professor Quirrell's performance last semester made her despair of this course.

Fortunately, Levin is tutoring her this summer.

This gave her a certain degree of "Dark Magic Defense" ability.

Compared to those of her peers who were tricked along with her, her strength was already much higher.

"I seem to remember this person's name. He seems to have received a third-class medal of the Order of Merlin.

Shirley said as she rummaged through a pile of newspapers.

"Ah, I found it, I hope this article will be published!"

The Cub of Sintra picked up an article of the Daily Prophet and read it aloud: in recognition of his brave behavior in facing the creatures of darkness, and for introducing methods of resistance in his autobiography.

Hermione hummed and asked again: "The Order of Merlin, Level 3...is it very powerful?"

"...Should it be okay?" Levin was unsure.

The girl raised her head, looked at the two people beside her, and chuckled: "You two, one is a first-class medal winner and the youngest Merlin Medal winner! The other has won a second-level medal. Compared with you , he’s not that powerful.”

Different from the original work, Hermione now hangs out with Levin every day, which is something she has seen before.

At the award ceremony, the scene of Levin chatting and laughing with celebrities in the wizarding world is still vivid in my mind.

She was used to meeting truly awesome people, and although people like Lockhart were worthy of admiration, they could no longer arouse her admiration.

However, Xili had some different opinions.

"I have read his book at Mrs. Tonks's. At least his method of solving monsters is quite professional. Putting aside the behavior of selling books, this man does have some real talents.

Each of Lockhart's (bheg) writings describes "his" experience of dealing with a dark creature:

Female ghosts, ghouls, hags, trolls, vampires, werewolves, yetis...

In the world of The Witcher 3, these things are completely the job of the demon hunter.

Ciri was raised by a demon hunter again,

After coming to the world of Harry Potter, she also acted as a witcher to earn galleons.

Therefore, Ciri almost regarded Lockhart as half a peer.

"You're right." Levin nodded, "But I advise you not to have any expectations.

"Why is this?"

Shirich said that she had always believed Levin's words.

"You'll know when you see him with your own eyes..."

He thought for a moment and added:

"It just so happened that this guy had written before and invited me to attend his book launch in Diagon Alley. Although I refused, I also learned that the launch would be next week.

"We just picked that day to go to Diagon Alley to buy new books for next semester, just so you can see what kind of person Lockhart is."

Next Wednesday will arrive in a blink of an eye,

Levin used [5 Rings·Any Door] to take the two of them to Diagon Alley early in the morning.

Never let the Floo Bang company that produces Floo powder make an extra penny.

Well, the main thing is that the teleportation effect through any door is more comfortable. From a physical point of view, it is almost the same as walking through an ordinary door.

Unlike Floo powder, which has to go through the fireplace, not only does it make the world spin, but it can also easily become smoky.

Floo powder itself is not expensive. It was originally invented by Ignatia Wildsmith, a witch born in Ravenclaw.

After her death, Floo fans were returned to the state and were controlled by official agencies. Currently, there is only one licensed manufacturer, Floo Bang Company, in the Yin Kingdom. It is illegal for anyone else to sell them.

However, this kind of monopoly behavior is not for huge profits, but for the convenience of the people.

Because for more than a hundred years, the price of floo powder has never changed, it has always been 2 sickles per spoon.

In Muggle society, this is equivalent to cheap subways, buses, and green trains.

Such cheap charges make the Floo Network the most developed public transportation facility in Da Yin, which can be regarded as a rare virtue in magic.

In Diagon Alley, the three Levins happened to run into the Weasley family. The family had red hair together and stood out among the crowd.

The Weasleys were going to Gringotts to get money, and Ronald stayed to chat with them.

Ronald asked Levin curiously: "Don't you have to go to Gringotts to withdraw money?"

Levin shook his head: "I can't trust those goblins. I would rather keep the money in my own home, which is much safer than Gringotts."

Not to mention the goblin Gringotts, he couldn't even trust village banks.

"My money is with Levin." Xili said calmly.

"I don't need to go to Gringotts to exchange for galleons. Levin directly uses galleons to buy pounds from my father." Hermione looked at Levin with grateful eyes, and she knew very well that Levin suffered a loss.

"You guys have such a good relationship," Ronald said dryly, with a look of disgust on his face: "I guess our family won't need to save money for a long time in the future."

Even though he had never met him, he was already full of disgust for Luhart.

"That's a lot of galleons!"

Levin thought for a while and said to him: "If you really don't want to spend the money, I have an idea. Although there is an [anti-copying curse] on ordinary books, the [anti-copying curse] cannot be copied directly with a pen. I created a little spell called [Scribe Curse]..."

Ronald's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but look at Levin with a much kinder look: "Levin..."

"But... this is piracy!" Hermione said weakly, "Isn't there something wrong with doing this?"

"Perhaps seeing him in person can dispel your thoughts."

Levin suggested,

"We can go to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore first and see it with our own eyes before we make a decision."