Harry Potter: Glory of the King

When Harry and the others came, they dispersed. Percy muttered to buy a new quill pen, Fred and George saw Lee Jordan, Mrs. Weasley and Ginny were going to buy a magic wand, and Mr. Weasley insisted on taking the William and Mrs. A cup.

"Assemble at Lihen Bookstore in an hour and buy you textbooks." As Mrs. Weasley confessed, she took Ginny and left. Before leaving, she shouted at the twin brothers: "No go to Knockoff Alley! "

The five Ona strolled along the winding cobbled streets. Harry bought five large strawberry peanut butter ice creams, and ate them comfortably, wandering the alleys, browsing the dazzling array of shop windows. Ron reluctantly stared at the full set of Chadley Artillery uniforms displayed in the Quidditch boutique window. Hermione and Glory went to a nearby shop to buy ink and parchment.

They met Fred, George, and Lee at the Bounce and Frolicking Magic Joke Store. They were buying a large number of "Dr. Hardcore Auto-ignition and Magical Fireworks". The twin brothers still had a lot of money left in their hands. Most of the errands paid to them by Ona.

In a junk shop full of tattered wands, rickety copper balances, and old cloaks stained with medicine, they found Percy was attentively reading a book "How the Prefect Gained Power".

"The prefects of Hogwarts and their careers after leaving school," Ron read aloud the explanation on the back cover. "It sounds attractive..."

"Go away!" Percy said grimly.

"Of course, Percy is ambitious. He has all plans. He wants to be the Minister of Magic!" Ron whispered as the group left.

An hour later, after replenishing the needed herbs, potions and other things, they walked to Lihen Bookstore.

A large group of people were squeezed in front of the store, and they all wanted to go in. A big banner was pulled out in front of the window upstairs: Guidro Lockhart signed the autobiography "I Can Magic", 12:30-16:30 this afternoon!

"Are we going to buy his book?" Hermione asked when she saw the familiar name.

"Well, a complete set." Glory glanced at the book list, "I really don't know why I have to buy it."

Most of the crowd seemed to be witches of Mrs. Weasley's age. A tired-looking wizard stood at the door and said, "Ladies, be quiet! Don't be crowded! Watch out for books..."

In the end, they gave up their plan to get in through the cracks, and watched the crooked line all the way from the door to the back of the bookstore. Soon, everyone else came.

"What's the matter?" Just after Mrs. Weasley asked, she saw the banner and couldn't help but yelled, "We can see him in person!"

The excited Mrs. Weasley squeezed into the crowd. The Weasley brothers glanced at each other and could only keep up. Poor Ginny was dragged by her mother and couldn't keep up. Ona and the others could only follow. They squeezed in.

Guidro Lockhart signed the book at the door of the bookstore, Ona and Harry went to get the book together, and Glory and Hermione stayed outside in a relatively unpopulated place.

"Oh, that's great!" said Mrs. Weasley, breathing fast and patting her hair. "We'll see him in a moment..."

Since there was no additional interest in Lockhart, the children went to the bookstore to find the textbooks they needed. In fact, no one of them planned to use Lockhart's book at all-if it weren't for Mrs. Weasley's confession to each of them to give her a copy.

Ona saw Lockhart sitting behind the table. He was surrounded by large photographs of himself. The faces in the photographs were all blinking at the crowd, showing dazzling white teeth. Lockhart was wearing a robe as blue as forget-me-not, matching his blue eyes, and the pointed wizard hat was slanted playfully on a wavy blond hair.

A short grumpy man holding a **** camera, jumping back and forth to take pictures. Every time the flash strobes dazzlingly, a puff of purple smoke erupted from the camera.

"Get out of the way!" he shouted to Ron, choosing a better angle as he stepped back, "This is for the "Daily Prophet"!"

"It's amazing," Ron said, rubbing the sore instep of the man's foot.

Guidro Lockhart seemed to hear it, and he looked up, saw Ron, and then Harry. He stared at Harry for a while, then jumped up and shouted, "Isn't this Harry Potter?"

The crowd stepped aside, whispering excitedly. Lockhart rushed forward, grabbed Harry by the arm, and pulled him to the front, a burst of applause broke out in the audience. Lockhart held Harry's hand for the photographer to take a photo. The short man pressed the shutter frantically, and heavy smoke drifted over the Weasleys and Ona.

"It's a beautiful smile, Harry." Lockhart himself showed his brilliant teeth. "We can both make headlines!"

Ona looked at Harry, who was at a loss as a marionette, with a stiff smile on his face, more like crying. Lockhart is lucky. No one should grab the headlines with him. After all, he is not surnamed Wang.

When Lockhart finally let go of Harry's hand, Harry breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately one of Lockhart's arm was placed on his shoulder and he was firmly clamped by his side.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Lockhart said loudly, waving his hands to silence everyone, "what an extraordinary moment! I want to use this wonderful occasion to announce a little thing, which I have already suppressed. Days, never said."

"When young Harry walked into Lihen Bookstore today, he just wanted to buy my autobiography-I am willing to give this book to him for free on the spot..." Lockhart's words greeted applause, "but he didn't know He will soon find something more valuable than his own book "The Magical Me". In fact, he and his classmates will get a real, magical me. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy. And proudly announce that in September of this year, I will become the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

The crowd applauded and cheered. Harry was stunned by Lockhart. He didn't even react to Lockhart's entire set of works. Then he walked to Ona in a muddle-headed manner. Ginny and the others were hiding from the sun by the wall in this corner. , Ginny had her new cauldron at her feet.

"Give these to you!" Harry poured the book into the cauldron and said vaguely, "I'll buy it myself..."

Before Ginny had time to tell him that he didn't need it, a nasty voice came: "You must like this, Potter?"

Harry straightened up and had a face-to-face with Draco Malfoy, his usual mocking smile on his face.

"The famous Harry Potter," Malfoy said, "you can't even get into the bookstore without making headlines."

"Don't talk nonsense! He doesn't want that!" Ginny glared at Malfoy.

"Potter, you found a girlfriend!" Malfoy gloated at Glory behind them, but the latter seemed to be only interested in gossip. He was asking Ona about Ginny and Harry, and Hermione too Listening with ears upright on one side.

But at this time, Ron just came back with the book in his arms.

"Oh, it's you!" Ron looked at Malfoy, as if seeing something disgusting on the sole of the shoe. "You must be surprised to see Harry here? Huh?"

"What surprised me even more was that you actually saw you in the store, Weasley." Malfoy saw that Ona didn't seem to want to intervene in the affairs between them, so he was more courageous, "I guess, in order to buy these things. , Your parents are going to be hungry next month."