Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts.

Chapter 177 The Fallen Lion King and the Know-It-All Miss

All the young wizards were looking forward to the upcoming Defense Against the Dark Arts course.

I have to say that in terms of appearance alone, Gilderoy Lockhart is impeccable.

Although almost everyone knows that judging people by their appearance is wrong, in reality they still cannot help but do so.

Such as now.

Even if Professor Lockhart did nothing, just standing there, he gave people the feeling that he was far stronger than Quirrell.

There was no way around it. Compared to Quirrell, who reeked of garlic, wore a weird scarf, had twitching eyes, and stuttered, the handsome Professor Lockhart was far superior.

To put it bluntly, even in the magical world, looks matter.

The little witches looked at Lockhart with sparkling eyes, and some of them even had their eyes turned into heart shapes.

Sitting in the first row happened to be the round-faced Neville Longbottom.

Professor Lockhart saw that everyone's eyes were focused on him, so he picked up "Walking with Trolls" which Neville had placed on the table and held it in his hand.

The cover was a photo of Lockhart himself blinking. He turned this side towards the young wizards and spoke slowly:
"I am Gilderoy Lockhart, Third Class Order of Merlin, Honorary Member of the League Against the Dark Arts, and five-time winner of the Witcher Weekly Most Charming Smile Award.

Of course, I don't say that, because I'm not trying to exorcise the banshees of Bandon with a smile!

Lockhart's admirers are mostly women, and cover a wide age range.

There are young witches like Hermione who are obsessed with legends, and there are middle-aged witches like Mrs. Weasley who are her age.

So, if all the students in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class could be replaced by women, it would be a surefire hit.

It's a pity that it can't be replaced.

There naturally couldn't be a middle-aged witch in the classroom, so Professor Lockhart's self-introduction didn't have the effect he had imagined.

The main reason is that girls of this age are relatively shy and cannot give him the enthusiastic response he imagined.

"You said you didn't mention it often, but you clearly mentioned it once at the opening ceremony!"

When facing Lockhart, Ron seemed to be even more disgusted than Harry, muttering, "Then don't say that!"

Lockhart glanced at the class again and continued:

"I see you all bought all my books, that's great..."

"You talk like we're happy to buy it, even though it's clearly a mandatory requirement on the book list!"

Ron beeped again.

He has a lot of resentment.

Because Lockhart's books are really expensive.

With Ginny going to Hogwarts this year, their family has to buy five sets of textbooks.

What’s even more infuriating is that this guy’s books aren’t even available second-hand!

So before going shopping, the family had to go to the Weasley vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank and take out all the family savings.

With the help of Bill and Charlie, who had already left school, it took a long time to scrape together enough money to get all the clothes for the five children in the family.

After a somewhat exaggerated self-introduction, Professor Lockhart continued:

"However... before today's formal classes begin, I would like to do a small test."

"There's so much shit!"

Ron scored three goals.

"Ronald!"

Hermione was very dissatisfied with Ron's continuous complaints about Professor Lockhart. Even Lavender, Patil and other girls beside him cast dangerous glances at him.

Ron immediately fell silent upon seeing this.

After hearing Professor Lockhart's words, the whole class, except for a few individuals, became subconsciously nervous.

In fact, the attitude of most students towards exams is similar - this is the same whether in the Muggle world or the wizarding world.

Professor Lockhart took everyone's gaze in his eyes and smiled gently:

"Don't be afraid, I just want to see how well you read and how much you understand.

Of course, even if you don’t know anything, I won’t deduct points.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Lockhart say that he would not deduct points.

In the blink of an eye, he waved his wand and dozens of papers flew into everyone's hands.

"I'll give you thirty minutes. Start counting now!"

The young wizards all lowered their heads and looked at the papers handed to them.

then……

━━∑(￣□￣*|||━━
"What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?"

Harry was petrified when he saw the first question. What the hell is this?

He calmed down and read on, and found that the next questions were:
"What is Gilderoy Lockhart's secret ambition?"

"What do you consider to be Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest achievement to date?"

"When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday? What would be his ideal birthday present?"

There were questions like these, filling up three pages.

Harry stared at Sherlock in amazement, his green eyes filled with confusion.

Brother, this is the professor you think will be useful to us?
When you say useful, do you mean asking the whole class to mass-produce funny expressions in front of the test paper?
Sherlock naturally noticed his friend's gaze. He sighed and said to Harry:

"My dear friend, my advice to you on this paper is to answer it from the back to the front."

Harry couldn't help but feel even more confused after hearing this.

When I was in Muggle school, the teachers did teach me how to do the last big question first and then the smaller questions at the beginning of the exam.

But the test paper given by Professor Lockhart consists entirely of short-answer questions. Does it make any difference whether you read it from front to back... or from back to front?

Harry turned to the last page of the test paper with a puzzled attitude and was stunned again.

Hermione and Ron naturally heard what Sherlock said to Harry. They both turned to the back of the test paper with curiosity.

Then they froze, as did Harry.

The last question was indeed a short answer question, but the style was completely different from the previous ones.

"What are the vampire's weaknesses?"

Let’s look at the second to last question.

"Please describe in detail the specific process of Gilderoy Lockhart's dealing with the werewolf."

Look further ahead.

"After Gilderoy Lockhart broke with the Banshee, what methods did he use to expel it?

If the conditions were not met at the time, what other methods could be used to expel the other party?"

Questions like these are all excerpts from the adventure stories in his book.

Although there are only seven questions like this in the entire test paper, they only account for a paltry one-eighth of the total fifty-six questions.

But even so, it was enough to surprise the three of them.

Hermione secretly clenched her fists. Sure enough, she was not wrong about the person!

Professor Lockhart is capable!

Harry exchanged a glance with Ron, the shock in his eyes beyond words.

Are they really wrong?
Lockhart has a pragmatic side beneath his flamboyant exterior.

Although it seems like they are doing things in a chaotic manner on the surface, in fact, everything has been arranged clearly for them long ago?
In any case, the test paper given by Lockhart did change their impression of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor a little.

After discovering the last few titles, the other young wizards felt the same way as Harroch and the other two, and their gazes towards Professor Lockhart changed a lot.

But then again, the content of this test paper is quite disconnected.

To put it in an analogy, most of the first half is more like the content of the Lockhart Research Society.

Only the latter part is related to the Defense Against the Dark Arts course.

Half an hour passed quickly.

When the time was up, Professor Lockhart collected the students' papers.

Then, in front of the whole class's surprised gaze, he began to correct the papers on the spot as if no one was around.

While correcting and evaluating:
“Tsk tsk—few people remember that my favorite color is lilac, which I mentioned in “A Year with the Tibetan Snowman.”

It seems that some of you need to read Wandering with Werewolves carefully again, because I clearly stated in Chapter 12 of this book that my ideal birthday gift is:

Let all magical and non-magical people live in harmony.

Of course, I wouldn't say no to a big bottle of Ogden's Old Fire Whiskey!"

If it weren't for the different styles of the last seven questions on the test paper, most people wouldn't listen to his awkward comments.

Even so, some young wizards, represented by Ron, still looked at him with distrust.

Seamus Finnigan and his good friend Dean Thomas, who were sitting in the front row, tried not to laugh out loud.

Gilderoy Lockhart?

He is just a novel writer and knows nothing about black magic!
Of course, there were also some young wizards who were listening to his comments attentively, such as Neville in the first row and Hermione in the last row.

Harry couldn't help but glance at Sherlock beside him.

When he found that he was actually looking at Lockhart with interest, he patiently listened.

Just then, Professor Lockhart suddenly mentioned Hermione's name.

"Miss Hermione Granger!"

Hermione, who was listening attentively, was startled when she heard her own name. She looked at Professor Lockhart in surprise.

"Not only did she know the answers to the above questions, she also knew my secret ambition was to rid the world of all evil and to sell my own line of bird-snake egg yolk hair toner!

Good girl, a really good girl, in fact…"

Professor Lockhart turned Hermione's paper over and said with surprise:

"One hundred percent! Which one is Miss Hermione Granger?"

Hermione raised a shaking hand excitedly.

"great!"

Professor Lockhart looked at Hermione, smiled, and said, "Excellent, very good! I'll give Gryffindor twenty points for this!"

The whole class looked at Hermione in surprise.

The young wizards of the same level as Hermione knew very well who she was.

Although he comes from a Muggle family, he is an undisputed academic master.

To date, no professor has ever been able to stump her in class.

So she not only became the scoring leader last season, but also won the first place in the grade in the final exam last year without any dispute.

With her ability, it would be no problem for her to answer the last few questions.

But the problem is, she even knows the answers to those boring questions above?!

This is too outrageous!

Who would bother to remember boring questions like what color an author likes or what his ideals are!
Miss Know-It-All, you've fallen!

Just as the young wizards were hesitating, Professor Lockhart, who was grading the test papers, once again showed a look of surprise:
"Who is Mr. Sherlock Holmes? He got all the answers right too!"

Seeing Sherlock raise his hand calmly, all the young wizards in the class were shocked, even more so than when they heard Hermione got full marks.

The little eagles who took classes with Gryffindor were better off.

But the little lions were all furious.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!
How could Sherlock do this?
Lion King, you have fallen!
(End of this chapter)