In fact, when he was in school, Lockhart wasn't very popular, but he still achieved his primary goal through repeated and eye-catching 'great achievements'. He wanted everyone in school to know him.
For example, he once used magic to carve a huge personal signature on the Quidditch field. Each letter of the signature was 20 feet long. For this, he was punished with a week of confinement and forced to work.
He also imitated the Mark of the Dark Demon and projected a huge, shining portrait of himself into the sky during that tense period. At the same time, he sent himself 800 greeting cards on Valentine's Day every year. The gathering of owls in the auditorium forced everyone to give up breakfast because too many feathers and feces fell into the porridge.
Because of these extraordinarily "grand" means, when he graduated, the professors and school workers could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
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When Dumbledore heard about Lohat again, he was already quite famous.
Dumbledore heard about Lohat from another teacher. It was said that Lohat had made great achievements abroad, so Dumbledore paid attention to him.
Once he started to pay attention to these things, more and more related deeds would spread. The teachers at Hogwarts even thought that they might have misjudged Lohat at the beginning. This was because he worked hard to eliminate all kinds of dangers and dark creatures in distant places, all of which proved his extraordinary courage and tenacity.
But Dumbledore knew very well what kind of person Lohat was, and he happened to establish the Phoenix Society at this time, so he tried to investigate Lohat. He did not know the Wizard by chance, nor did he know the truth by accident. These things were all thanks to the investigation of the Phoenix Society and Dumbledore's experience and reasoning.
However, when the person in charge of investigating Lohat passed away because of Voldemort's evil deeds, Lohat's investigation report was completely put in Dumbledore's bookshelf to collect dust. No one wanted to know that Lohat deceived accomplished wizards and witches to reveal their greatest deeds and then erased their memories. Perhaps the reporters of the Prophet Daily liked it, but Dumbledore did not.
However, Lohat did not disappear from Dumbledore's world, because every time he returned to England, he would immediately write a book about the heroic deeds of others.
— "Lohat's books are very popular in the magic world, and he even prepared a peacock pen just to sign the book."
Such gossip was never missed by the students. Dumbledore could often hear fresh gossip about Lohat from the students, and because of these so-called "deeds", Lohat received many awards.
He was invited to become an honorary member of the Black Magic Defense League, and at the same time, he had successfully concealed his deceit in the magic world.
However, because there was no follow-up investigation, Dumbledore did not know that Lohat had another identity. Because Lohat had lived enough of the life of a celebrity, he even disguised his identity and went to Muggle's special department to become a consultant.
If he knew this, Dumbledore might have a whole new level of respect for him.
But even if he knew these inside stories, Dumbledore did not think that Lohat was a bad Wizard.
He had never been a bad Wizard, but he was too lazy and vain. At least he had never killed people because of his own desires. It had to be said that this standard of judgment only proved that Lohat was not too bad, and there was no way to hide his personality problems.
At the same time, Dumbledore also knew about Lohat's research on memory magic.
Dumbledore had a good description of this in the information he had. Inferring from the past, Dumbledore felt that Lohat was very likely to have perfected this complex magic system, so after finding those great and brave Wizards and Witches, he could successfully modify their memories and steal their heroic achievements.
These analysis reports of Lohat's handwriting had dried up, but this did not prevent Dumbledore from reading them. At the same time, he also pulled out a newspaper from the bookshelf, which was an interview with Lohat — because he was about to release a new book.
The introduction was also very interesting.
"... In the ten years after graduation, Lohat, with his series of autobiographical books, became a best-selling author, and a world-class reputation as a master of defense against black magic. He even received the third-class medal of the Sir Merlin Order and became an honorary member of the Anti-Black Magic Alliance.
His beauty — although he claimed that "after the days of fighting werewolves and banshees, after the bloody battles of life and death, after the bloody hand-to-hand combat, has faded away" — won the "Wizard Weekly" Most Charming Smile Award five times. "
When Dumbledore saw this, he chuckled softly. He did not know why, but he suddenly felt that there was a certain reason why Jon wanted to learn from Lohat. He was not only good at memory magic, but also showed his talent because of it.
Moreover, Lohat's character seemed to be very suitable for his requirements.
Such a character that liked to perform, perhaps he could perfectly fulfill his requirements, and at the same time, this was also beneficial to Lohat.
So the principal sat back in his seat and began to write the letter.
The matter of writing a letter to Lohat must be very serious, and at the same time, he must be prepared that Lohat would use this letter as a topic of conversation. Although Dumbledore did not care about this kind of thing, he needed to guard against Lohat using this matter to hype up his new book.
Therefore, this letter could not directly express his intention to have Lockhart come to Hogwarts as a teacher. He needed to do some ambiguous "language processing" before he could bring Lockhart to Hogwarts and discuss this matter face to face.
— — Even if he could not persuade Jon, he could take advantage of the time when he was in school to help. After all, this candidate was recommended to him by Jon. Doing things from beginning to end was a good quality that a student should have.
When it came to writing a letter, Dumbledore was very experienced. He very quickly drafted the words and draft, and then began to write the main body of the letter.
The undead bird Fawkes flew in from the window and landed on the bird rack. She picked up a small biscuit and swallowed it into her stomach. Then, she landed on Dumbledore's shoulder and rubbed her beak against Dumbledore's face.
"Okay, okay, I got it."
Dumbledore put down the pen, and the letter automatically folded into the envelope, then was handed to Fawkes by Dumbledore.
"Go, you know where he is."
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