Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

…Wait, so Dumbledore thinks I'm already in the top three in the Order of the Phoenix besides him?

Lockhart felt that this was a bit funny. Although he did beat Moody once, Lockhart actually did not have the advantage in the previous rounds of competition. Considering how he was still cracked by Moody after setting many traps in the past, Lockhart Hart doesn't think he can secure Moody now.

As for Kingsley Shacklebolt's fineness, Lockhart has not tested it yet, so he doesn't know his strength, but since Dumbledore put him behind him, it shows that old Deng has his own judgment.

Even though he was only "third", compared to the time when Lao Deng thought he was a liar, Lockhart has turned around now, so he simply became more frank and prepared to have a real fight. In the contest.

And other members of the Order of the Phoenix are also very curious about this-although they were able to "see" some of Lockhart's strengths from Lockhart's book, how did he do what he said in his book? No one has seen it with their own eyes, and even Mr. Weasley only knows a little bit.

The reason why Mr. Weasley can know a little is mainly because of the narrative of his son Ron and the Weasley twins. At that time, Lockhart made a move to get rid of the diary.

Now they have the opportunity to see the details of this "internationally renowned wizard", which cannot but make them curious.

"Attention, Gilderoy..." Dumbledore said slowly, "I will use real dark magic."

"Okay." Lockhart also made his own preparations.

While posing for a duel, he secretly calculated in his mind: because he is not proficient in Transfiguration, no matter whether he can make a breakthrough in the spell, when Dumbledore starts to use Transfiguration, he can only sit back and wait for defeat.

So his only chance of winning is probably to carry out a strong attack, and he can't give Dumbledore a chance to distract himself from transfiguration.

After Moody announced the start of the duel, Lockhart was not polite, and threw three slimy spheres at Dumbledore.

Mr. Weasley's pepper powder can bypass Dumbledore's protection, probably because the spell is white magic and does not contain any malice, so Dumbledore's spell is specially used to defend against malicious black magic It didn't come in handy.

Therefore, Lockhart also used a magic ball with almost no lethality in the attack, and he attacked from three directions at the same time, trying to make Dumbledore make a mistake.

However, Dumbledore's reaction was extremely fast - in the face of this level of attack, he did not directly resist, but directly controlled a magic ball.

As a result, one of Lockhart's three magic balls immediately appeared, and under the guidance of Dumbledore, he rammed into Lockhart's magic ball in turn.

Of the three magic balls, two offset each other, and although the remaining one exploded, it did not splash a single bit of Dumbledore. Lockhart had done a useless effort.

But Lockhart was not idle at this time, relying on the skill of splitting his mind, his second spell was to reward himself with a silent spell while Dumbledore was controlling the ball.

Dumbledore apparently recognized the spell Lockhart had used to strengthen himself:

"Is it an invigorating spell? I feel your magic power swell... very good application technique."

Sure enough, as Moody said, Dumbledore can feel the fluctuations of the enemy's magic power without using magic eyes, just as he has discovered Harvey hiding under the Deathly Hallows' invisibility cloak countless times. .

Because the opponent is Dumbledore, so this time Lockhart has no reservations.

After the magic boost, the power of Lockhart's spells has also increased to a higher level.He stretched out his wand non-stop, and cast another double spell at Dumbledore.

—A strong acid arrow shot out of Lockhart's wand, heading straight for Dumbledore's face, with a hidden "soul spike" wrapped in it

"Hey!" Dumbledore exclaimed.

Facing Lockhart's double attack, Dumbledore just held on to the powerful old wand, aiming at the thorn.

With a bang, the acid arrows and soul spikes that were still in mid-air exploded in mid-air, leaving no trace of their bodies, and the blasting airflow that it shot out made all the members of the Order of the Phoenix back one after another. Take two or three steps.

"There is nothing wrong with the use of double magic, but you have overlooked that these two spells are made of magic power. As long as you disturb them a little, they will conflict by themselves, Gilderoy." Dumbledore was even in the mood to point out lockhart.

But Lockhart responded by firing another acid arrow, almost in exactly the same way as before.

Just when the members of the Order of the Phoenix thought that Lockhart's attack would still return in vain, Dumbledore chose to move away.

His robe bulged without wind, as if a pair of wings had grown out of thin air from his back, bringing Dumbledore's body over.

Then Dumbledore roared: the soul spike fired by Lockhart was shattered.Lockhart giggled in his heart—unexpectedly, his little trick was still discovered

The.

The first attack was just a simple double magic, but the second time he used the spell sequencing technique when firing the soul spike, if Dumbledore still chose to detonate the spike in the acid arrow, then Dumbledore It is very likely to be hit by the other two spikes.

But Dumbledore wasn't fooled, and Lightspeed responded.

In return, Dumbledore also cast a spell back on Lockhart.

Due to his lack of perception, Lockhart was completely unable to recognize the magic in such a short period of time, so he had to call out the silver shield he had "long-term rented" for two thousand Galleons and block it in front of him.

The powerful spell slammed into Lockhart's silver shield with a loud bang, and Lockhart himself was knocked back a step by the force of the spell.

After summoning the silver shield, Lockhart still didn't stop.

He hid behind the shield, and used the stored spell sequence for the third time—it was estimated that after the duel, Lockhart would have to rest for a long time.

And the price he paid was naturally rewarding—the three clones of Lockhart and Lockhart walked out from behind the shield together, and pointed their wands at Dumbledore together.

Then comes the real action.

Chapter 350

Lockhart knew very well that whether it was magic power, spellcasting skills or learning talent, he definitely couldn't compare with this old man who was four times his age.No matter how long he struggled, what he would eventually meet would be the end of defeat.

It's as if you have mastered Sword God and Martial God in Shilipo, and Wanli Kuangsha in Yinlong Cave, but you still have to kneel when you meet Elder Shi.

But this doesn't mean that Lockhart doesn't need to do his best in this test, on the contrary, he must show his full strength.

Because this is a "testing for the bottom line".

In Lao Deng's view, in order to achieve his goal, there is nothing in this world that cannot be sacrificed, even his own life.

As for the members of the Order of the Phoenix, although Dumbledore really loved them sincerely, if there was a need to sacrifice on the road to designing Voldemort, I am afraid that Dumbledore would send that person to the altar with tears in his eyes.

Between the "id" and the "superego", Dumbledore can always let the "superego" occupy his own personality, and always lead everyone to pursue "positive freedom". Negative liberty's non-interventionists criticized.

From the perspective of an outsider, you can either praise or criticize Dumbledore, but as a member of the game, Lockhart must now think about how to keep himself from being sacrificed, and this is where the contradiction lies.

If you want not to be sacrificed, or at least not to be sacrificed easily, you must show your worth.

Being rich is certainly a very good value, as is being proficient in politics. With these two, Lockhart can be sure that he will not be used as cannon fodder, and he can also

In order to become the cornerstone of maintaining the wizarding political arena after the war.

But Lockhart's ambition is not limited to this. What he wants to be a leader is not an important pawn, which means that he needs to show more abilities before he can be regarded as a successor by Dumbledore.

A wizard, after all, speaks at the level of spellcasting.

Seeing Lockhart's clone, Dumbledore showed interest for the first time

"Each one has magic power? Is it a paper man? Or a skeleton puppet?" However, Lockhart didn't answer him, and cast four completely different spells at Dumbledore together.

The Blazing Curse, the Acid Arrow Curse, the Confusion Curse, and Lockhart's unique skill, the Forgetting Curse

Seeing that Lockhart was serious, although Dumbledore's demeanor changed, he still looked very relaxed.

The tip of the Elder Wand released a fiery red phoenix that looked like a real entity, incinerating Lockhart's two tangible spells, and Dumbledore didn't even try to dodge the Confusion Curse.

The only thing he really took seriously was Lockhart's Oblivion Curse - and saw Dumbledore's long silver hair and beard floating by itself, blooming like antennae.

After the light of the Oblivion Curse hit the range of Dumbledore's head, it seemed to be attracted by something, and it melted in front of Dumbledore like snow falling into a frying pan.

Others couldn't see it, but Moody knew that Dumbledore finally used the technique of splitting his mind, and then blocked Lockhart's magic one by one.

Even though Lockhart had tried his best to attack, it was still not enough to fight against someone of Dumbledore's level.

Probably feeling that he had tried enough, Dumbledore took off the pointed wizard hat on his head, and threw it on the ground.

Under everyone's surprised eyes, the wizard's hat that was supposed to be deflated first bounced twice on the ground, and then a rabbit jumped out from the middle of the hat.

Without saying a word, Lockhart raised his hand and cast a spell, hitting the rabbit.Although he doesn't know what this rabbit is for, it's better to get rid of him as soon as possible.

This big gray rabbit, harmless to humans and animals, was directly hit by Lockhart's spell under the watchful eyes of everyone.

After being hit, the rabbit let out an extremely shrill cry, and then "fluttered" and turned into a huge easter egg.

Lockhart looked at the easter egg hesitantly, then decided to let the two clones deal with it, and continued to put pressure on Dumbledore himself.

But Dumbledore smiled and put away the Elder Wand, as if the duel was over.

Before Lockhart could figure out what it was for, the eggs on the ground trembled and cracked a few cracks, and a puff of steam sprayed from the cracks to the ceiling.

After spraying for a second or two, the egg suddenly exploded, dozens of throwing knives shot out from the egg shell, and directly stabbed Lockhart.

Lockhart was taken aback, and quickly commanded the clone to squat down with him, and used the Iron Armor Curse, trying to block the flying knives.

But after these flying knives flew over their heads, they suddenly turned into rabbits again.

While Lockhart was stunned, the rabbit fell from the sky and stuffed a carrot into its own mouth, shouting "I have a surprise for you" in its three-petal mouth

Lockhart lowered his eyes subconsciously, and looked at the "carrot". It's not a carrot, but a firecracker with a ignited fuse!After a few bangs, while members of the Order of the Phoenix were stunned, Lockhart's clone was completely blown up, and his face was also blackened by the gunfire.

"Bah, bah..."

Lockhart put away his wand in embarrassment, and then spat hard, trying to spit out the residue of the firecracker in his mouth.

Cut, what about "true black magic"?This is black magic?

Of course, since the rabbit can stuff firecrackers into its mouth for pranks, it can also stuff more powerful explosives or deadly poisons. This duel can be said to be a decisive battle.

He originally wanted to use the newly created avatar technique to pretend to be a force, but he didn't expect it to become a piece of debris before it worked. It didn't feel very good.

Dumbledore raised his head and laughed, and it was obvious that the old urchin hadn't been this happy for a long time.

Only then did the members of the Order of the Phoenix who were watching the battle come to their senses, and laughed along with Dumbledore.

There wasn't much time to see Lockhart make a fool of himself, and they had to seize every minute of it to enjoy the scene.

"Clean it up." Lockhart hurriedly cleaned off the residue of firecrackers on his body, and also the traces of soot and soot on his face.

Dumbledore stepped forward, with a look of narrowness on his face.

"Sorry, Gildero... Your spell didn't bring out your full potential. You need a finishing spell that suits you. If you don't mind, come to me later and I'll teach you a new spell." He said.

Although he was ugly, if he could get a powerful new magic, then Lockhart felt that he would not be at a loss.

"What magic?" Lockhart asked curiously.

Dumbledore didn't intend to make a fool of himself either: "It's similar to the "Soul Spike" you used in the sneak attack just now, it can be said to be its advanced spell, called "Soul Torrent""

almost?

Lockhart felt that although he had already mastered no less than 20 languages, he still needed to relearn English.

Chapter 350 Three Emotions Are Not Idealistic

After being repulsed by Dumbledore, Kingsley Shacklebolt was next to go.

After cleaning up the duel field, Lockhart retreated consciously, found a corner and began to rest.

His performance in this round is undoubtedly amazing. Although he did not last as long as Mr. Weasley, and the way of defeat was somewhat humiliating, anyone who knows the goods can see that his confrontation is undoubtedly stronger than other People are taller.

To put it bluntly, if Dumbledore really puts out all his strength to fight them, I am afraid that everyone present is not enough for Old Deng to do it in a minute, so the time spent on failure is actually not a measure of their power. Their only problem is How much strength can Lao Deng be forced to use.

Lockhart's burst of strength in a short period of time is amazing, but it also consumes a lot.While Spell Sequencing does not consume more mana, casting spells does consume too much emotional energy.

Although things like "emotions" seem idealistic, according to the research results that Lockhart read from Muggle medical journals, human emotions themselves are also a kind of human energy, and using this energy requires effort of.

It's like when people feel bored with ordinary work after watching a magnificent movie or a small movie with big boys, and after playing exciting computer games, it is difficult for students to be interested in books again. generate sufficient concentration.

The emotional energy and concentration that a person can use in a day is actually limited. After spending too much energy on exciting and exciting things, even if there is still time left, it will be difficult for him to keep studying and working in the remaining time. high efficiency.

Through further research, scientists discovered that emotions actually have high and low

frequency difference.

Negative emotional energy often has low-frequency characteristics, and positive emotional energy has high-frequency characteristics.When a person is in a positive mood, because the frequency is higher, the signal-to-noise ratio and resolution of the signal in the brain will also become higher, making it easier for people to focus.On the contrary, negative emotions will only make people feel self-pity and distracting thoughts

Lockhart's "Sequencing of Spells" is a new spell-casting technique born from the improvement and analysis of Muggle emotion theory based on a certain spell in the Book of Spells.

He can adjust his emotions, and each frequency can be fixed within a range in a short period of time. During this period, he can empty the magic power stored in his body at one time, and use that fixed frequency to release it.

Such power is naturally huge, but in addition to consuming magic power, it also consumes a lot of emotional energy.Therefore, after the duel, Lockhart has now entered a state of numbness, and he can be neither happy nor angry, flattered or surprised by any stimulation from the outside world.

Looking at the duel in the center of the Chamber of Secrets, even though Dumbledore had already experienced more than a dozen people's round-the-clock battles, he still seemed to be able to handle the duel with Kingsley with ease. This also made Lockhart wonder whether Old Deng had no feelings or was too emotional Rich.

He was able to control his emotions so well, obviously he had been able to switch between high frequency and low frequency freely, otherwise he would never have been able to use white magic at once, — he would use black magic, and his expression was so relaxed.

You must know that the reason why Professor Flitwick's "rising tone" and "falling tone" theory can be established is mainly because people's emotions cannot switch too quickly, so it is necessary to adjust the emotional frequency by raising and lowering the tone. , so that the effect of spellcasting will become better for ordinary people.

If Dumbledore has really reached the realm of "do whatever you want without transgressing the rules" as Confucius said, then I am afraid that everyone present will not be his opponent, because

He can beat everyone in terms of spells

Sure enough, Kingsley Shaker was also defeated not long after.

The reason why he lost so quickly was not because he was weak, but because Dumbledore believed that his combat system was already quite perfect, and he would just make progress step by step, and there was no need to spend too long with him, so he used A Refracting spell hit him from an angle Kingsley couldn't see.

The whole body of Kingsley who was hit seemed to be caught in the hands of a giant. He was thrown up and then patted down. When he fell, he even injured his shoulder.

In the end, because it ended too quickly, Lockhart still didn't figure out what Kingsley's fighting style was.