Chapter 127 Lockhart's Plan

Chapter 128 Lockhart's Plan

Everyone's eyes became more serious and solemn. They stared at Lockhart, waiting for his explanation.

Lockhart rubbed his golden hair in distress, and rolled them into a mess of straw. Like a deflated ball, he became listless and said unhappily:

"Okay, okay, this is the first time I reveal my plan in advance! These are all confidential!"

Zhang Xiao had quietly touched the desk and carefully looked for a black-covered notebook.

Unfortunately, there were quite a few notebooks on Lockhart's desk, probably manuscripts when he was writing, and no black diary.

Lockhart was weakly telling his "plan":

"Halloween is coming soon, and I am preparing to launch a new event to add a little atmosphere to Halloween.

First, write some wonderful sentences from my new book on the wall to arouse the curiosity of the little wizards, and then invite a few ghosts to play ghosts."

Zhang Xiao listened to Lockhart's story, and the more he listened, the more familiar it was. Isn't this a common routine for the promotion of movies in the previous life?

No wonder he can become a best-selling author. You have mastered the warm-up, appetite, and atmosphere!

"Speaking of which, this idea has something to do with Zhang Ye."

Zhang Xiao was stunned. How can it be related to himself? I don't have much communication with Lockhart!

Unexpectedly, as Lockhart told the story, Zhang Xiao found that it seemed to be related to himself!

Because of his existence, many wizards have a strong interest in the East. They curiously explored the East and finally got a lot of seemingly true news.

Lockhart is one of them. When he was looking for inspiration for a new book during the summer vacation, he found a very interesting thing in the East.

That was something called a movie made by Muggles, and it was suspected to be about an Eastern wizard beating a kind of zombie.

Muggles loved it!

Lockhart was overjoyed. He immediately got the movie and watched it repeatedly, staring at the subtitles that he was not used to, and watched it several times!

At the end, he added with a hint of aftertaste:

"The name of the movie is rather strange, it's called Mr. Corpse!"

He also praised his Eastern colleagues:

"They have already started to promote themselves among Muggles! We haven't done enough, far from enough!"

Lockhart. Watching Mr. Zombie?

These two words together are so inconsistent! But I have to admit that it really has something to do with me.

Dumbledore pondered for a while:

"Gilderoy, what you mean is that you wrote a seemingly plausible sentence on the wall in order to arouse the interest and discussion of the young wizards.

Then invite the ghosts to play ghosts and scare the young wizards, so that the fear and rumors will ferment to the peak before Halloween.

Finally, on Halloween, you will invite the ghosts of Hogwarts to "attack" the Great Hall and invite a skeleton band to accompany.

And at the last moment, you will appear like in a Muggle movie, "drive away" the ghosts, "save" the young wizards, and take the opportunity to promote your new book?"

Lockhart nodded every time Dumbledore said a word.

Good guy, it's a waste of talent to stay in the wizarding world! Don't say it, Zhang Xiao really wants to see it. The reason why routines are routines is because they are easy to use.

"Too much! Professor Lockhart! You are a professor at Hogwarts, you should spend more time on how to teach students better! Instead of..."

Professor McGonagall was so angry that her face turned pale, her thin lips pursed into a line, her eyes full of severity:

"Instead of spending a lot of time on these things, I thought that the moment you accepted the school's invitation, you understood this truth!"

Facing everyone's gaze, Lockhart sat back in his chair angrily, and it seemed that he was quite unconvinced by Professor McGonagall's rebuke.

Probably knowing, he dared to do it again next time.

"Please allow me to say one thing, Headmaster." Snape said in the shadows, and Harry, who was silently shrinking aside and dared not say a word, suddenly jumped in his heart.

Since Snape's rare loss of composure last time, he has become more and more severe to himself. It was originally only one point at a time, but now it has increased to five points!

He believed that what Snape said would never do him any good.

"Maybe, Potter and his friends just shouldn't be in that place at that time," Snape's half face was hidden in the shadow, looking more like a villain.

His lips twisted to reveal a hint of sneer, as if he was deeply skeptical about it, "but we do encounter a series of doubts.

For example, why Mr. Potter and his two little followers."

Ron and Hermione blushed and glared.

Snape ignored the two little wizards and continued slowly:

"Always causing some trouble, or why they appeared at the scene first."

Dumbledore looked at the three little ones calmly, mainly Harry's.

The three rushed to explain that they were detained by Professor Lockhart and replied to fans.

Lockhart looked up in bewilderment:

"Yes, my fans are too enthusiastic, so I need some help to deal with it."

Finally, Dumbledore made the decision:

"Let's leave it like this for now. Before we figure out why Filch and his cat were petrified, I hope you can lead the students of your own college to stay calm.

I hereby advise everyone to act collectively and avoid unnecessary outings and wandering around.

As for Mr. Filch, don't worry about that. Mrs. Sprout recently got some mandrakes.

Once they grow up and mature, I have a medicine that will revive them. "

Several professors nodded silently and left.

Zhang Xiao also wanted to leave with everyone, but Dumbledore stopped him. The two of them walked in the corridor. When they passed the place where they were petrified, Dumbledore asked softly:

"Zhang, I noticed that you were not busy discussing like others, but were observing carefully. This is a good habit.

So what did you find? "

Zhang Xiao shook his head. Now he had many doubts. According to Harry's account, it was probably the Basilisk who did it, but without a medium, Filch and Mrs. Norris should have died long ago.

He thought for a while and then said: "I noticed that Filch had his cleaning bucket at his feet, which was used for cleaning the wall. I speculated that Filch must have discovered the writing on the wall.

That's why he brought tools to clean it up, but before he could take action, he was petrified. "

Dumbledore nodded and said in approval:

"Reasonable speculation."

He paused and said meaningfully:

"Zhang, I hope that if you find anything in the next time, you will not take any unauthorized action. This is different from the situation last year."

The meaning is very clear, he didn't design this time, so he doesn't want the little wizards to take risks.

But it's useless for me. I won't jump into the basilisk foolishly. You have to talk to Harry about this issue.

After complaining in his heart, Zhang Xiao also said meaningfully:

"Principal, maybe this is a good opportunity. It's the proposal I made last year."

"Well, it's indeed a good opportunity."

"Try then?"

The next day, the explosive news spread throughout the school.

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