Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

Who had the audacity to attack Ministry of Magic officials in the camp area?

But Lockhart was immediately relieved, because the person who made him be careful was Arthur Weasley, and the Weasley twins, Fred and George, were on the way.

The two of them carried a wooden stick on their shoulders, and under the wooden stick hung three buckets filled with water.

The bucket was obviously very heavy, and the twins carried the bucket staggeringly, and the water in it was spilled all the way, and they were about to bump into Lockhart.

"Oh oh oh... children, slow down!" Lockhart quickly avoided, "The rope for hanging the bucket should be longer, and you should take small steps when walking, not so big.

Chapter 260

The twins staggered and put the bucket in front of their family's camp, and then, without apologizing to Lockhart, they immediately sat down on the grass without any image, panting heavily

"It's all Daddy's fault!" Fred complained, "It's obvious that you can lift water by magic

Mr. Weasley ignored his son's complaints: "It's impossible, it's illegal, we can't use magic in Muggle camps... Gilderoy, thank you for your help, have you been busy recently?"

"Fortunately, before the game started, the minister allowed me to go out for a walk." Lockhart pointed out.

The Weasleys didn't get it, but Arthur did.

He took down a sausage that was roasting on the fire, put it in front of his eyes, looked at it carefully, and then nodded with satisfaction.

"Don't worry, Fudge will figure it out... Shall we better feed our stomachs and have a sausage before the game?"

Lockhart was not polite either, he sat down and took the sausage

"Thank you." He took a bite of the sausage, allowing the delicious smell of fat to spread into his mouth, "I didn't eat anything at the welcome reception, so I just went to talk."

Lockhart glanced around and found the wreckage of more than 30 matches lying beside Arthur. It seemed that he had put a lot of thought into trying to light the fire the Muggle way.

After thinking for a while, Lockhart took out a lighter from his pocket.

"Here you are, Arthur." He opened the metal cover of the lighter and lit it

Then handed it over.

Mr. Weasley took the lighter in his hand curiously, and was immediately attracted by it: "What is this?"

"Dunhill lighters, a Muggle brand that supplies the British royal family, can be lit with kerosene or alcohol," Lockhart explained.

"Oh, that must be expensive..."

"Not at all, this is something I got out of their club." Lockhart said without blushing, "To be honest, I don't know how much this thing costs."

The shape of the lighter is quite exquisite. Arthur tried it in his hand and couldn't put it down.

"You keep it for now." Lockhart said hastily, "I rarely watch football, so I don't need to camp on the Muggle side. I used to use magic tents when I was adventuring outside."

Arthur was a little embarrassed, but he just got a new toy and he would never let it go, so he invited Lockhart to eat roast chicken on the fire.

Lockhart glanced around and found that there was no one else in the camp except Mr. Weasley and the twins, so he asked a question.

Later, Sirius and Harry invited them to go for a ride in the newly bought sports car, and said they would stop by the souvenir stand. Molly was a little worried, so she followed. ' Arthur told him.

"A sports car?"

Lockhart thought to himself that Sirius still bought a sports car, and he didn't know whether he bought a civilian version of the sports car or a third- or fourth-hand car of some old luxury cars, and then refurbished it himself

"Then why don't you two go?" Lockhart looked at the twins wonderingly, don't tell me you don't want to go by car. "

He didn't ask how a sports car can hold so many people. Sirius is definitely not the kind of person who follows the rules, and the traceless stretching spell must have been cast.But sometimes people have to learn to pretend to be confused, and Lockhart thinks it's better not to ask such questions.

As a result, Fred and George looked at each other, then shook their heads resolutely together.

"No, we're afraid we won't be able to resist spending money after we go," George said.

"Spending money? You shouldn't be short of money, right?" Lockhart asked strangely.

Fred: "If we go to the souvenir stand together..."

George: "Then it's hard for us to keep our hands off those things.

"No, no, this is not the point, the point is that even if we hold back, they will buy it for us."

"But in this way, we owe them a favor... It's not like we don't have money."

"It would be embarrassing."

"So the best option is not to go."

The more Lockhart heard, the more confused he became: "Since you have money, why don't you buy it?"

Mr. Weasley answered Lockhart's question for the two sons: "Because the two of them want to save money to open a shop, they are saving capital... Molly is not very happy about it, so don't tell her about it later. "

Lockhart was devouring the chicken, hadn't eaten anything at the welcome party, and was famished now.

"Opening a shop is a good thing, why is she unhappy?"

Makeup also wants us to work for the Ministry of Magic. Fred sighed, "But it's too boring there, we don't want to go in, but when we told the truth, she

Got mad. "

Mr. Weasley actually agreed with his two sons:

"... the Ministry of Magic work is really boring, but I think the real reason for her anger is not because of this, but because you both only got three 'owls'

"It's not our fault!" the twins said in unison, "If you have to ask Professor Lockhart about this, it's all his fault. This year's exams are more difficult!"

Seeing that Lockhart stopped eating the chicken and looked at himself inquiringly, Mr. Weasley quickly reprimanded his two uneasy sons: "Nonsense, didn't you two get the Defense Against the Dark Arts? Is it? Obviously it was hindered by other subjects."

Lockhart felt a little curious: besides Defense Against the Dark Arts, what subjects did they pass? "

"I got an E for Charms, an E for Defense Against the Dark Arts, and an A for Protecting Magical Creatures, and either a P or a D for the rest, and a T for Ancient Runes and Divination..." Weasley The gentleman sighed, "To be honest, with this achievement, no organization, company or farm will hire them. If they don't open their own shop, they really can only work in the Ministry of Magic."

"It's better not to enter the Ministry of Magic or not. That's where people like us go." Lockhart said to the twins.

Mr. Weasley and Lockhart looked at each other, then burst out laughing in unison.

Although they knew they were joking, the twins took Lockhart's words seriously.

"Isn't it?" said Fred, putting down the chicken bone in his hand, "so we must open a shop, if we can win this bet... Oh, George, how much we can win."

George took out a large sheet of paper from his pocket: "Let me see...Ireland vs. Bulgaria, excluding overtime, within 120 minutes, Bulgaria's odds of winning, drawing and losing are 3.14,3.06, 1.95 and [-]," Goblin Gaming Company is more optimistic about Ireland... If we buy the Irish team to win, we will not make much money, even less than - times. "

Looking at the odds table in his hand, Lockhart secretly said that Odd-Gonuk was really shrewd, he directly copied the rules of the Muggle gaming industry.

"Why, did the Bulgaria you bought win? To fight three times?" He asked curiously.

"No, no, no..." Fred said, wagging his fingers, and looking smug,

"We're not that crazy yet, Ireland will win."

George's smile became more sly: "That's right, so we bought an add-on - the Irish team won, but Krum was the one who caught the Snitch in the end."

"In this way, according to the limited player rule, the odds can be increased to 5 times the original, and we can get 9.75 times the odds."

Dyke, we've put all our savings into one"

"A total of 07 Galleons and 10 Sickles." Fred showed a pitiful expression, "If you guess wrong, we will eat dirt."

"Scared? No wonder you dare not go to the souvenir stand." Lockhart was taken aback. "How did you guess...guess such a result?"

After hearing this, the twins are not only proud this time, they are simply turning their noses up to the sky.

"Ireland's Chasers are too strong!"

"The goalkeeper is also the best goalkeeper in half a century."

"Although the Bulgarian Seeker Krum is stronger..."

"But Lynch of the Irish team is the best at pestering the guy. If he concentrates on

Covering and entanglement prevented Krum from rushing up to speed, and Krum had no chance.

As long as Ireland leads by more than 160 points, Lynch will relax his tracking of Krum. "

"At this time, Krum's stronger strength can be brought into play."

Lockhart understood: "In other words, Lynch will let Krum get the Snitch when he is sure to win."

"Yes, that's it." Fred gave a thumbs up, "Professor Lockhart, don't tell those goblins."

George also said: "We trust you to tell you this. Although those goblins are sensitive in numbers, they don't understand Quidditch."

"Absolutely not." Lockhart promised, "Besides, there are not many people as knowledgeable as you."

The twins were even happier when he said: ""When we get the money, we're going to

Diagon Alley for rent! "

Lockhart did a rough calculation, and found that if the twins really won the betting, they would have earned more than 1000 Galleons. Even if the 20% unexpected income tax imposed by the Ministry of Magic was removed, the Galleons that fell into their hands The original principal was more than 900. According to the monthly rent of 150 Galleons for an ordinary store in Diagon Alley, as long as the twins don't spend money randomly, they might really be able to open a store in Diagon Alley by their own strength.

Mr. Weasley threw a basin of cold water without losing the opportunity: "Don't think about good things, children, if Ireland loses, you will have nothing."

"Absolutely not!" George said with disgust on his face, "Dad, can't you say something auspicious? If we lose so much that there is no one left, then we will really have to work in the Ministry of Magic."

It's up to you, anyway, it's your money, as long as your mother doesn't mind

That's fine. "Mr. Weasley seemed less interested, "I can't control you two years ago anyway, Percy also entered the Ministry of Magic, Ron and Ginny also..."

"Percy?" Lockhart remembered something, "By the way, which department did Percy join? Why didn't I see him? I thought he would come to report to me."

"Department of Magical Creatures Management, there is a newly established "Economic Creature Centralized Storage Office", he said that it is easier to get promoted from the new department... This is also learning from you. "

Having said that, Weasley winked at Lockhart.

Lockhart didn't feel disobedient at all, but laughed out loud.

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The four of them chatted and gobbled it up until the end of the dusk when they returned to Mrs. Weasley and the other children.

Lockhart could hear Sirius' loud voice clearly even though it was far away:

"Listen Harry... that girl doesn't have 'I've belonged to some boy' written on her forehead, so if you feel like it, go for it, be yourself, and fail , because it shows that there must be better..."

Mrs. Weasley's sullen voice followed: "Sirius, they are still children! The main task now is to study!"

"But you and Arthur are obviously in the fifth grade..." Sirius retorted immediately.

After everyone returned to the door of their tent in a noisy manner, they realized that there was one more person here.

Mrs. Weasley was overjoyed: "Gidero, you are here too! Why haven't you come to the Burrow as a guest? Percy has been talking about you for a long time...just in time, tell me about these children."

Lockhart looked at Harry's blushing face, guessing in his heart that he must not have noticed the disappointed Ginny behind him.

"I think it is necessary to try, Molly." He decided to say a few words for Harry: "Even a relationship that is doomed to fail is still a relationship. As long as you talk about it with your heart, children can learn a lot from it. And that’s when you expect them to marry after they graduate—you can’t expect them to go through their entire student life like a fakir and suddenly learn how to fall in love after graduation.”

If someone else said this, Mrs. Weasley might not listen to it, but Lockhart

The effect is somewhat different.

"But...their studies are OO" she hesitated.

"So, we should teach them how to control themselves when they are emotionally heated. As for academics, I believe that only irresponsible men will not realize the importance of their academic performance, money and social status to their families. Are you like that, Harry?"

Harry Potter shook his head subconsciously: "No, I'm not."

Then he realized that he had been tricked again.

Lockhart laughed with everyone around him, and even Sirius joined in the laughter, which made Harry feel even more embarrassed.

"Well, maybe I should try...but to be honest, if their grades and performance in school are similar to Percy's, I might be more reassuring about them," Mrs Weasley said.

"That would be a real disaster," Fred whispered into George's ear, just loud enough for everyone present to hear.

Lockhart slowly stopped his laughter, then stepped forward and formally greeted Harry and the others.

"How was your summer vacation? I heard that Harry went to Italy? Hermione, Ron, how about you?"

"It's not bad, the sunshine is very good." Harry looked at his two little friends and said, "When Sirius and I went to Italy, it happened to coincide with the Ascension Day in August, so we went to the beach to dance on the beach, I also ate stewed chicken with green peppers and took pictures...

"Sounds good." Lockhart showed a fascinated expression.

"Yeah, he also brought us Italian frozen honeydew melon and biscuits." Hermione added, "I tasted it after I arrived at the Burrow yesterday, and it tasted very good, I think it's better than French panna cotta. "

"Did you arrive yesterday?" Lockhart was a little surprised, "I thought you two would spend more time together during the summer vacation."

Ron seemed a little embarrassed when he heard this—because of the matter of Scabbers, he and Hermione had a cold war last semester until the end of the semester, even though it turned out that Hermione was right in the end, he was still embarrassed—probably lack of An opportunity to ease the relationship with an adventure.

In the end, it was Harry who advised him to use the Quidditch World Cup to ease the relationship in the letter, and Ron agreed graciously after he found the steps.

He would not know what to say for a while, but Hermione eased his embarrassment