𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐠𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬

Chapter 44

Harry eventually showed up with Lockhart and proceeded to hide himself behind all of Lockhart's books, "You could've fried an egg on your face," Ron said with a smirk, "You better hope Colin doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll start a Harry Potter fan club."

"Shut up," Harry said through gritted teeth.

"Pretty sure Ginny might start a fan club for you too, Lucifer," he said while laughing.

"Why would she do that?!" Hermione asked him, somehow able to tear her face away from burning the book in Lucifer's hands.

"Well, ever since he helped her out on the platform about... she's become a little... obsessed, not Harry Potter obsessed, but she wouldn't shut up about him either, for some reason," Ron replied, trying to forget Ginny's mutterings out of his head.

Because Lucifer was looking at Ron, he missed the vexed look on Hermione's face.

The students all sat down, Harry, Ron, Lucifer and Hermione all at the back of the classroom to be as far away from the teacher as possible.

She didn't trust him to kill a fly without causing injury to himself or someone else.

When everyone had finally been seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly and silence befell the whole class.

He reached forward and grabbed Neville's copy of Travels with Trolls, and held it up to show his own winking portrait on the cover, "Me," he said, pointing at it and winking as well.

Hermione's head swung towards the desk again but Lucifer placed his hand in the way.

"Gilderoy Lockhart. Order of Merlin, Third Class; Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League; and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award, but I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her."

“You'd probably make her scream,” Hermione muttered, Lucifer had to hide behind his books so Lockhart didn't see him laughing.

But, it turned out the whole class was just giving him dead-panned looks, making Lucifer's chuckle echoed.

Hermione, now almost put her head in her arms.

Lockhart recovered pretty quickly, though, "I see you've all bought a complete set of my books - well done!"

“I even regret buying those 2..." She was definitely on a rapid fire mode, today.

"I thought we'd start today with a little quiz. Nothing to worry about - just to check how well you've read them, how much you've taken in." He quickly handed out the test papers and returned to the front of the class, "You have Thirty minutes, starting... now!"

Hermione flipped the paper and read the first three questions.

1. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favourite colour?

2. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's secret ambition?

3. What, in your opinion, is Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest achievement to date?

Hermione now really couldn't believe it, was this the whole test? She checked the back to find out.

54. When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday, and what would his ideal gift be?