Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

And Moody, who drank the talent potion all night, finally returned to the level of his youth.

He took his wand and prepared to have a good fight with Dumbledore while he still had some strength.

Seeing him play, Dumbledore's expression showed a trace of regret.

Although Moody told Lockhart that he wasn't lying when he said his magic eye was called "The All-Seeing Eye", he wasn't telling the whole truth.

The name "All-Seeing Eye" is what the Muggle Church called it. They thought it was a blessing from the gods and represented God's all-knowing and omnipotent power.

But Dumbledore and the others know that it also has a name called "Blue Magic Eye", or "Evil Eye", "Eye of Jealousy", which is a familiar symbol in the Greek-Turkish Mediterranean area.

Wearing it can not only enhance the wearer's magic power and allow the wearer to see through invisibility and illusions, but it also has a hidden ability - that is, if the wearer has strong jealousy, it can make the person stared at by him target in doom

Unknowing Muggles thought it could ward off evil spirits, so they imitated the blue magic eye.

Zizi made a lot of amulets and sold them to tourists. If ordinary people travel to European and American countries, they can often see imitations of these amulets in handicraft souvenir shops.

Alastor Moody, in order to fight against the Death Eaters back then, knowing that he would pay the price of insanity, still wore the genuine product of this magic eye.

Although Dumbledore objected to him doing this, Moody's attitude was firm and he expressed his willingness to sacrifice to fight against evil, so Dumbledore finally agreed to him reluctantly.

Because Alastr is "revenge" and Moody is "mood changeable", Dumbledore cannot prevent Moody from taking legitimate revenge, and at least as far as Moody is concerned, he will never Will abuse the forbidden power of this magic eye.

"Actually, you don't need to be like this, Alastor." Dumbledore said slowly, "Everyone knows you well and trusts you, and you also know my opinion of that magic eye."

"Thank you for your trust, Albus, but I can't trust myself anymore." Moody's voice was also low, "I want to see how much I can do now."

Everyone here knows how stubborn Moody is, so Dumbledore just persuaded him and didn't say anything.

"Come on, then," Dumbledore motioned, "I'll try to hurry.

Chapter 350 Four Small Gangs

The defeated Kingsley Shacklebolt rubbed his dropped shoulder, staggered to sit beside Lockhart, and cast a bone-setting spell on himself.

"Ah, it feels better now," he exclaimed with satisfaction.

Seeing his exaggerated performance, Lockhart vaguely felt that he seemed to be planning to say something to himself.

"Hello, Shacklebolt." Lockhart took the initiative to say hello, "You performed very well just now."

Although it was the first time to speak face-to-face like this, Kingsley seemed very familiar: "My family knows my own affairs, and I don't have much room for improvement."

"It's okay, there should still be time for training."

Although Lockhart said this out of politeness, the words themselves were not false.

After all, it has only been two and a half years since he took office at Hogwarts. During this period, all he did was to train himself extremely self-disciplined for 2 hours a day, and the result has reached this point.As long as you give people like Kingsley professional iP11 training for half a year, they really may not be worse than you.

But this is clearly not what Kingsley was going to say:

"I'm so busy in the Ministry of Magic right now that I sometimes think, if only I could split myself into five and use it..."

Hearing what he said, Lockhart realized that the other party was aiming at the clone magic he had improved.

For the comrades-in-arms of the Order of the Phoenix, Lockhart felt that he should not be too stingy, not to mention that Kingsley is one of the few people in the Order of the Phoenix who can understand politics. It's as simple as learning magic.

But Lockhart didn't care.

"If you're just dealing with simple official duties, that magic is capable, but it might be better to go directly to training portraits." He told Kingsley.

Kingsley somewhat understood Lockhart's magic mechanism: "You mean that your clone used the Portrait Charm and then materialized it."

In the magical world of "Harry Potter", wizards can leave their own magical portraits.

Although the appearance of these magic portraits is exactly the same as that of the owner, it does not mean that it has the same magic power and wisdom as the owner. It is just a mechanical "program" that will instinctively imitate the habitual actions of its original body.If you want these portraits to have more skills, then it needs to be trained by the portrait's owner.

For example, when Dumbledore knew that he had only one year to live, he spent a whole year training his portrait so that it could play a role in the crusade against Voldemort.

In fact, Kingsley also has a few magics similar to clones and illusions, but it can only confuse the enemy, and it is completely impossible to use magic like Lockhart just now. Every clone can even use magic. different magic.

But if it's a portrait spell plus some magic storage technology, it would make sense

Lockhart affirmed Kingsley's judgment: "Yes, so the clone with the better effect

?The more iP11 training time is needed..."

Speaking of this, Lockhart seemed a little regretful: "I spent a lot of time training those three clones, and the principal destroyed them all."

Kingsley nodded thoughtfully, and then suddenly remembered something, showing a suddenly realized expression.

"Ah?? I see. No wonder you like to hang photos and portraits of yourself in your residence and office. It turns out that you are using your daily time to train your avatar! When Ogden told us about this, we thought you yes…"

Kingsley stopped his mouth in time, so he didn't say the following words out of his mouth.

Of course Lockhart knew what he wanted to say, and it was nothing more than "narcissist" or something.

It's a pity that I misunderstood you. "I" was narcissistic at the time, so I hung up my own photos in my residence.

And the inspiration for Lockhart's avatar magic does come from what the original owner did—after all, not everyone hangs photos of themselves in their home, bedroom, office, or even their mother's house.

He originally wanted to burn all these photos to say goodbye to his past self.But there are too many magic photos left by the original owner. Lockhart will inevitably feel like he is killing people, so he didn't do it.

In the end, he still thought of a way—instead of burning them on fire, he might as well make use of the waste, hang them in the basement where he trained his spells, and let them watch his usual moves of training spells.

When they could use the physical-only spell in the picture frame, Lockhart would take it down, illusionize it to give it a false entity, and use the Spell Order to store three spells for it.Then put on new photos and hang them in the basement, and repeat.

Although each of these avatars can only use three of the same spells, Lockhart can take a lot of photos!

After figuring out the principle, Kingsley seemed very happy.

"It's a good way, I can spread the word to my colleagues in the Auror office," he said.

"Great, Scrimgeour and Robards will be delighted." Lockhart echoed.

It's not that Lockhart didn't know that Kingsley "later" became the Minister of Magic.

Might become a thing for his opponent, but he's not stingy enough to get offended by it TtdT

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After all, it is a matter of the "future", and the "future" is not destiny. He does not believe that the current Order of the Phoenix will be so embarrassed when facing Voldemort that its main force will be exhausted, and it has to rely on a quasi-first-class person like Kingsley The point of the pillar.

In the original book, he succeeded in successfully inheriting Deng Xiaoping by relying on his responsible performance against Voldemort with McGonagall and Slughorn in the Battle of Hogwarts, and his performance in stabilizing the Muggle army when he was an assistant to the Muggle Prime Minister. The political legacy left by Bullido.

Now, the biggest communication channel for Muggles is Lockhart, and there are no less than seven or eight people in the Order of the Phoenix who have magical powers similar to Kingsley. Considering him, it was difficult for Kingsley to have that kind of ambition.

To put it bluntly, things like ambition are developed step by step. Even a "man of destiny" like Jack Ma, he will not dream of being the richest man before he is in his early years. to think about that

So what Kingsley asked him to talk about must be other things.

Sure enough, Jin Sicai began to reveal his real purpose.

"Robards is recruiting Aurors sent to Nigeria by the government." He said to Lockhart seemingly casually. "I heard there is a shortage of people in Lupine? You know, I am also of Hausa blood, and I Knows Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, and my mother kept nagging me to go back to my hometown to see it."

Lockhart knew what he wanted: "It's sorely lacking, and what's most lacking is the

To train the instructors of the security forces.Only the locals can govern the locals, and we can't help the local wizards. "

"Wish I could change some of that."

"Of course you can! The Sniff Drilling Company will donate to the Auror Office for this

Yes, in return for the Ministry of Magic's protection of overseas citizens. "

When Kingsley heard this, he knew that there was no need to say any more.

If you take money from someone, you have to speak and do things for that person. This is not even an unspoken rule.

At this moment, the final duel in the chamber was decided.

Although Moody's resistance was heroic, when he passed the point where Dumbledore's last "missed" spell pointed, many green spots suddenly grew on his wooden artificial leg. The branch bound him firmly in it, unable to move.

Although this is also not a black magic, considering that the opponent is Moody, there is no need for Dumbledore to use it on him, because he has seen enough.

Lockhart could be proud now, because he was the only one present who made Dumbledore use Transfiguration to solve the battle, and even Moody was knocked down by the Growth Curse.

Probably, besides Voldemort, the only ones who can enjoy such treatment are Professor Flitwick and Snape, right?

Dumbledore taught everyone a lesson without using Transfiguration - who said a duel was just about wands being thrown at each other?How could magic be such an inconvenience?

Chapter 350 Five Entrusted with Important Responsibilities

After the bout was over, the members of the Order of the Phoenix sat down and chatted for a while.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Although the people of the Order of the Phoenix came together because of their beliefs, or their trust in Dumbledore, when they really started talking, people still unconsciously divided into several factions. .

Most of the veterans of the two dynasties, such as Moody's Dorje Podmore and Emmeline Vance, have meritorious service, and they are not too young, so facing the melons like Lockhart and Shaker, they It showed an unconscious alienation similar to that of veterans to recruits.

This is not to say what they think of Lockhart, or any generation gap, or comrade-in-arms, but just like the situation explained in "Band of Brothers"-because they don't know when the recruits will die, so at the beginning If you just keep a distance from the recruits, you won't be too sad when the time comes, which is a kind of human body's stress response.

Lockhart knew this was happening, but he didn't care.

Anyway, this kind of short-term psychological isolation is nothing after everyone is in the same trench, so when he mixes with Kingsley, Hessica, Arthur and Nymphadora Tonks, it is considered a heart attack. No worries.

In addition to the veterans and their new recruits who are assigned to each other, people like Lupine and Black who were once suspected of being traitors are also in an awkward position. Mundungus Fletcher of the Mundungus Fletcher is considered "unpopular"

But Tonks soon invited Lupine to come and talk together, and Lockhart also took the opportunity of "cooperating with the Muggle government" and "the person in charge of Nigeria" to invite Lupine and Black to talk together , naturally took the other two.

And this scene was also seen by Dumbledore.

After everyone dispersed, Dumbledore kept Lockhart in the name of teaching magic, but when Lockhart thought he could accept guidance, he realized that what Dumbledore had to say in the end was not the case at all .

"In addition to Alastor, I plan to set up two new secondary command centers in the Order of the Phoenix." Dumbledore told Lockhart, "So, Gilderoy, are you ready?"

Lockhart was really confused this time: "What preparation?"

"Prepare to become the pillar of the Order of the Phoenix." Dumbledore said with a serious expression, "Hogwarts has Minerva, Felius, and Severus staring at it, and it is a very strong iron triangle. But If Alastor is the only one watching outside, I'm a little worried."

"So..." Lockhart's heart was pounding.

"Kingsley has already discussed this issue with me. I originally hoped that he would contact the Muggle government, but he told me that you are obviously more suitable for this work, so he volunteered to contact foreign wizards." Dumbledore told him.

Lockhart said in his heart that Kingsley Shacklebolt really knows how to play, and with one move, he won the favor of the common people in the Order of the Phoenix, Lockhart's industrial faction, and the Auror Office. He is worthy of being "Holy 28 "Old Leopard pure-blood family member

A man like this, Lockhart must not force him to be his opponent

...Why don't you let Kingsley be the Deputy Minister when you are the Minister of Magic?Divide part of his real power and jointly form a cabinet. This can not only increase the political power of his own faction, but also prevent others from saying that he is monopolistic.

It's just that now is not the time to think about it carefully, he has to answer Dumbledore's question immediately.

"Of course there is no problem. This is what I am good at." He hurriedly told Dumbledore

Lido promised, "Although Sirius and Remus are handed over to me, I will build a command center and have an independent combat force before that person returns.

He didn't ask Dumbledore why he did such a thing that was similar to "teaching the orphan". On the outside, he may be a rising star in the political arena, but in the Order of the Phoenix, he is a soldier, and the only duty of a soldier is to obey orders. Like Forrest Gump, you don’t need to think about anything, just do whatever the officer tells you to do

After hearing his statement, Dumbledore nodded in satisfaction.

However, there is still a lack of veterans who have really experienced wars on your side, and Remus and Sirius are still too young. Dumbledore added in turn, "I'll send you another person—Emeline Vance, and my old friend Effias Dorji.Emeline is proficient in identifying the Imperius Curse, but she lacks the ability to fight head-on. Ephias is a special advisor to the Wizengamot, so you can consult him legally. "

"It turned out to be those two seniors. I will definitely ask for advice." Lockhart hastily agreed.

"Emeline is a stronger person. I hope you don't stimulate her self-esteem. Old people like me are more stubborn." Dumbledore added.

"no problem."

"If I'm not here, don't contact Alastor and Minerva directly, just contact Aberforth. There is a secret passage leading to Hogwarts behind the Pig's Head Bar."

"I see. No wonder your brother won't let us remodel his bar."

The three members of the Order of the Phoenix that Dumbledore just mentioned did not come here to participate in the "training camp" today. It seems that Dumbledore knows their combat effectiveness well - they all belong to the kind of people who will cause chaos on the frontal battlefield.

Dumbledore is not so much giving Lockhart the Cypriot as making him responsible

Protecting them, Lockhart can still understand this.

But does this also mean that after today's preliminary test, Dumbledore also regards himself as a member of a reliable combat force?

If this is the case, then this is really not easy—since Lockhart became the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, he has handed over countless nominations and done countless things for Dumbledore. How many times have you fulfilled your responsibility, how many times have you shown your strength before you get this drudgery.

And then it looks like he'll have to carry on.

After explaining the matter, Dumbledore finally took out his wand.

"It's almost like this... The spell I'm going to teach you next, it originally required a lot of concentration to cast, and it's relatively difficult, so I didn't plan to popularize it in the Order of the Phoenix.

But you are different. Although you can only use your mind in two ways, you have a little skill that can release three spells at the same time, and you are very good at this kind of memory and soul-level magic, and you can control the magic power very well. I After thinking about it, I think you should be able to do it.

Although I really want to tell you "It doesn't matter if you can't learn it for a while, you can practice 77 slowly, but I can't say that because time is tight... I want you to learn it as soon as possible, and I will set off to find Voldemort's weakness soon .”

Seeing that Dumbledore was serious, Lockhart took a deep breath and took out his own wand.

"If you lack talent, make up for it with hard work. Even if I have to use up my stock of Buffy Brain Refreshing Potion and Stimulant Potion in the past three days, I still have to learn it."