Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 186 Lockhart's Usefulness

The semester is coming to an end, and Hagrid has been very busy recently. There were several times when Saiens came over in the evening and didn't see him.

Today, I happened to catch Hagrid out, so I asked casually, "Hagrid, you seem to be very busy lately. You went to the woods again. Wasn't Fluffy sent back to Greece?"

"Ah, it's Sainz," Hagrid said sadly with a bit of depression when talking about Fluffy, "I don't know if he is getting used to living in Greece. The damn Greek Ministry of Magic doesn't even allow me to visit him."

"Don't worry, Hagrid. Fluffy is a native of Greece. They should be able to take good care of him."

"I hope so..." Hagrid was still not in a very good mood.

Sainz tried to divert his attention, "Why are you going to the Forbidden Forest now? Have you raised other creatures in the Forbidden Forest?"

"No, absolutely not!" Hagrid explained quickly, "I'm not going to the Forbidden Forest, I'm just going to the fence."

"Oh, Professor Kettleburn is looking for you? Then go quickly..."

"The professor didn't tell me to go. I took the initiative to go." After saying that, he went happily.

The professors at Hogwarts had a very good habit of rarely working overtime and rarely doing anything related to the class outside of class time. It was a little strange that Hagrid happily and voluntarily worked overtime during his break.

Looking at Hagrid's figure gradually disappearing into the jungle, Sainz's heart moved, and he probably guessed the reason why Hagrid was so active.

Could it be that the Care of Magical Creatures professor has already revealed that he wants to retire?

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During the Christmas holidays, Sainz brought the school's disappearing cabinet back home.

There is an obvious difference between the two disappearing cabinets placed side by side; they were definitely not a pair.

The one in school should be older, but it is in better condition. The one bought from Borgin and Burke is pure black and a little darker in color.

Sainz spent the entire Christmas holiday in the basement studying the disappearing cabinet. After unremitting efforts, he has more or less figured out how it works.

The Vanishing Cabinet, like many ancient alchemical items, is gradually being eliminated with the application of new technologies.

Compared to Apparition, it has obvious disadvantages: poor mobility, fixed connection points, easy damage, difficult and expensive to make.

With the development of Apparition, a convenient and fast way of traveling, this expensive and precious item gradually disappeared from the stage of history.

Sainz speculated that even before Apparition was developed, space teleportation through the Vanishing Cabinet was probably only a special treatment for some wizards. At that time, most wizards probably traveled mainly by flying.

As an individual player, Sainz was able to collect these two thanks to his advantage of foresight.

After all, it was a unique piece, so he was more cautious when he first started researching it.

The first experiment we did was the disappearing apple experiment. The result was the same as before. Even if the apples were placed next to each other, no matter which cabinet you put the apples in, the other cabinet would not receive them.

Nothing that had been teleported away could be seen in the basement.

The two cabinets are like two walkie-talkies, and the frequencies just can't match.

Finally, Sai had no other choice but to resort to a crude research method. Just like taking pictures of a TV with unclear image, he just kept outputting a lot of information to the disappearing cabinet in the school.

He's replicating Peeves' method.

Every time I break it, I throw something in there and see if a miracle happens.

The result was of no use.

Then use the "time converter" to go back a while ago and bring back the complete cabinet.

The Christmas holidays passed in a few weeks.

As soon as the winter semester started, Sainz approached Lockhart.

Lockhart maintained his coolness and confidence every day, "Come on, Autumn, if you need any help, I think you may need me more than the hundreds of readers who wrote to me. Tell me, tell me your difficulties."

"Professor, I saw in your book that you encountered many powerful and dangerous creatures during your travels. I wonder what other wizards who don't have your powerful abilities would do if they encountered them."

"You are such a clever fellow, Autumn. This is why I wrote down my experiences for all wizards to learn from, so that they know how to protect themselves."

"But, Professor, many people can't even cast a simple Shield Charm properly..."

"Yes, yes, not everyone has the ability to protect themselves."

"So, will your dueling club continue to operate?"

Rohari nodded, "Well, Autumn, although I am very willing to continue training you, I am too busy. As you know, Dumbledore has many important things that need my help..."

"In that case, can you recommend a few more books besides yours as supplements?"

"...Well...this...the little wizard should learn to find it by himself..."

"I know, Professor, you said before that I should learn to find answers on my own, but there are too many books in the library. I was wondering if you could write me a note asking Madam Pince to help me. This would save me a lot of time and would not delay my further study of your works."

"Of course no problem, who wouldn't mind giving the best little wizard a little extra help?"

Lockhart happily wrote a note for Sainz, asking Madam Pince to cooperate with all of Sainz's book-finding requests.

When Sainz handed the note to the librarian, she was so angry that she almost cursed out loud, and said very unhappily: "What book are you looking for?!"

Sainz sincerely apologized to her, "I'm sorry, ma'am, for causing you trouble. I want to find some books about ancient alchemical items, especially about the principles and production of the Vanishing Cabinet."

After he apologized, the unhappiness on Madam Pince's face was slightly reduced, but her attitude was still very stiff, "Wait!"

After about ten minutes, she brought back five or six books. "These are all books about the Vanishing Cabinet. This one is not allowed to be borrowed and can only be read in the library."

"Got it, ma'am. I promise to protect them well and not do anything to harm them."

Mrs. Ping nodded without saying anything and left with a cold face.

"Can only be read in the library? Not possible. Look, I copied it in pairs."

Last semester, Sainz also looked for books related to the Vanishing Cabinet on his own, but the library was too large and the books were not arranged in a very regular manner. The few books he found only introduced that such items had existed in the past, and there was no detailed record of the specific production methods.

Sure enough, asking Lockhart for a note was the right move. Although it made Madam Pince disgusted, it was worth it.

No, the problem was solved immediately.

Who said Professor Lockhart is useless? Isn't this quite useful?