"Do you trust him? Gilderoy Lockhart... Do you think this young man can fool Tom?"

Behind layers of magical protection, Grindelwald glanced at the two individuals performing memory implantation in the distance, turned to look at Erina, who had returned to the Observation Zone, grinned, and asked in a playful, curious whisper.

Undoubtedly, Gilderoy Lockhart was perhaps the most unique wizard in the entire room, in some ways.

Unlike the majority of wizards present, this young best-selling novelist had not voluntarily joined the "Foundation"—Grindelwald still remembered the mischievous pleasure he felt during his first conversation with this young man.

Ideals, glory, power—these things were clearly not as important to Lockhart.

As a Dark Lord who had almost unified the wizarding world, Gellert Grindelwald knew at first glance that this wizard, like most mediocre individuals, was vain and feared death.

Except...

Compared to most people, Gilderoy Lockhart was even more extreme in these aspects.

Whether it was Grindelwald, Scamander, or even the professors at the school, they usually didn't have a favorable expression when facing Gilderoy Lockhart, who was like a narcissistic peacock—even in the original story, Albus Dumbledore invited this "Master of Obliviation Charms" to teach at Hogwarts, only to expose his true nature.

"Respect for death, assessing the situation, these are not flaws..."

Erina shrugged and turned to look at Lockhart, who was talking quietly with Malfoy, and said calmly.

"At least from my perspective, Professor Lockhart is no less promising than Tom Riddle. Everyone has different pursuits, and if he intends to become a Dark Lord, he might be even more dangerous than Voldemort—in fact, whether you simply look down on him or are wary of some of his abilities, perhaps only you yourself know."

Throughout the entire Harry Potter series, Lockhart and Voldemort actually had many wonderful similarities.

For example, both of them were handsome during their school days, both had considerable accomplishments in memory magic, both had a habit of writing, and... they had never been defeated in formal confrontations, all losing to themselves.

The only difference might be that Riddle later lost his nose due to flawed evolution, making it impossible for him to continue pursuing the idol route.

"Me? Wary of him? If you're talking about Voldemort, just talk about Voldemort, don't drag me into it for comparison."

Grindelwald raised an eyebrow, a look of offense appearing on his face.

Beside him, the Headmaster of Hogwarts frowned, thoughtfully observing Gilderoy Lockhart, who was carefully implanting memories into Malfoy with his wand in the distance—perhaps this was the future of the wizarding world, or rather, education?

However, for now, this new teaching method still needed more research and discussion.

If the memory implantation teaching method really worked, then Professor Gilderoy Lockhart might need to brush up on a lot of course knowledge—after all, Lockhart's upper-year courses weren't considered excellent back in school, not to mention that so many years had passed since he graduated from Hogwarts.

Before Dumbledore could figure out a result, the "memory surgery" in the distance had ended.

Gilderoy Lockhart vigorously patted Draco's shoulder, leaving the "D-level member" with a somewhat dazed look to continue digesting and absorbing the memories that had appeared out of thin air in his mind, and turned around with an excited expression to walk towards the others.

"Everything is ready, Miss, even more smoothly than you anticipated."

The young wizard walked over quickly, his violet wizard robes fluttering slightly behind him, smiling animatedly.

"I discussed it with young Malfoy, and on the basis of the script you gave earlier, I made a little bit of optimization and artistic processing, so that even if the Dark Lord is reborn, he won't be able to find anything wrong in a short time—"

"Oh? Optimization and... artistic processing? For example..."

Erina raised an eyebrow, squinting slightly, and asked curiously in a low voice.

According to her original concept for that script, Draco Malfoy, as the "son of a former Death Eater," was ostracized at school, so he secretly stole a notebook left by the Dark Lord from his father, hoping to become the center of attention.

In short, it was actually a Hogwarts version of a "Naruto Uzumaki enters" manga adaptation.

In her opinion, whether it was the plot content, conflict tension, or age level, *Naruto* was quite compatible with Draco Malfoy at this time. If it weren't for the limited time, and considering the potential side effects that might be left in Malfoy's mind afterward, she could even write several months' worth of plot in one go, so that Voldemort could slowly watch his fill.

Therefore, Erina couldn't imagine what Gilderoy Lockhart could possibly change about such a wonderful story.

"Source of Motivation! I added some motivational settings to Draco's memories."

As if guessing the question Erina was currently pondering, Lockhart glanced at the Fairy Queen's unfriendly expression, shivered involuntarily, and without choosing to continue showing off his ideas, quickly explained.

"As a child of a pure-blood family, young Malfoy couldn't possibly suffer too much rejection in Slytherin, and besides, the difficulty and competition of Hogwarts courses don't seem to be that great either. I always feel that these reasons alone are a bit far-fetched—"

"Hmm, and so—"

Erina's expression softened slightly, nodding noncommittally.

In any case, Gilderoy Lockhart was the top novelist in the wizarding world after all, and if it was about the control of written plots, this best-selling author's opinion was not without merit, after all, that's how he made a living before.

"So I added a failed romance! And a year-long bet!"

Gilderoy Lockhart said proudly, his white teeth flashing with a light of utter hopelessness.

"Don't worry, I carefully researched and inquired about the situation in the school last year, and according to your 'Harbingers' composition, I added a few competitive relationships between teenage boys—the Dark Lord is not good at emotions, and similar proud wizards usually selectively ignore some of the unreasonable loopholes when facing weak areas."

"Becoming a star student at school as the main line, supplemented by a romance and suppression from friends..."

Erina summarized softly, it seemed that he had grasped and understood those later online novel tropes that she had popularized to this best-selling novelist some time ago quite quickly. It had to be admitted that Lockhart was indeed very talented in this regard.

"That's right, that's right! That's exactly it!"

Gilderoy Lockhart rubbed his hands excitedly, saying with bright eyes.

"Only when there is enough competition and confrontation will a young wizard be forced to seek shortcuts, and under such factors and motivations, young Malfoy's eventual plea for help from the Dark Lord is naturally very reasonable."

"So the content of the bet is me?" Erina continued with a smile.

"Of course, after all, beauty is only worthy of the strong... Wait, I mean of course not!"

Gilderoy Lockhart was about to nod when he suddenly bit his tongue, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

He had been so preoccupied with perfecting the plot that Lockhart had forgotten a very critical issue!

As the "beauty" in "beauty is only worthy of the strong," Erina Kaslana was not some harmless little girl, controlling the future and present, the Third-Generation Dark Lord could even use the previous Dark Lord's Horcruxes as toys.

"Ah, this—Miss, let me explain, Draco also had some input on this—"

"No need to explain, I am very satisfied with your improvisation, it seems that Professor, your learning ability is still quite outstanding."

Glancing at Gilderoy Lockhart, whose face instantly turned pale, Erina smiled and tiptoed, gently patting the wizard on the shoulder, then suddenly turned her head to look at the Headmaster of Hogwarts standing beside her.

"Professor Dumbledore, I think having Professor Lockhart come to Hogwarts to teach may be the biggest gain this year."

"Hmm?" Dumbledore looked warily at the white-haired ball of fluff in front of him, emitting a puzzled nasal sound.

Although he didn't know why Erina suddenly brought this up, judging from the content of their conversation just now, poor Gilderoy Lockhart was clearly going to suffer a bit—but for Dumbledore, this wasn't anything too remarkable.

After all, in his original idea, Gilderoy Lockhart was originally a wizard undergoing "labor reform."

The little ahoge on Erina's head jumped happily, and she raised her finger seriously.

"In the non-magical world, there is an unverified theory that the human brain's ability to process information is actually far higher than the speed at which our five senses can receive information. In the learning process, after some methods, massive amounts of information are input into the brain at ultra-high speed, transformed into dynamic or static forms, and quickly memorized and read in the brain—in short, quantum reading."

"Eh? Quantum... reading?"

Dumbledore was slightly stunned and repeated Erina's words with some confusion.

Thanks to his recent exchanges with those Muggle scholars, the term "Quantum Mechanics," a cutting-edge field of physics in today's non-magical world, was not a completely incomprehensible new word for this centenarian wizard.

Of course, he only understood the term, and was temporarily unable to delve into the complex knowledge behind it.

"That's right, I think Professor Lockhart is the answer the Muggles have been looking for."

Erina smiled and nodded, saying meaningfully in a low voice.

"If you're worried about safety and side effects, why don't we first let Professor Lockhart try to improve himself, for example, learning a few extremely difficult and complex courses within a week—I mean, through self-memory engraving, that is, the efficient learning method known as 'quantum reading' in the Muggle world."

"In other words, Professor Lockhart, you may need to sacrifice some of your rest time to recharge later."

"Let Professor Lockhart act as an educational pilot, trying to quickly imprint knowledge in his own brain using memory magic? That's a good idea, I think this way, at least we can be much more convenient in terms of controllability and testing."

Before Dumbledore could express his opinion, Grindelwald's eyes lit up and he said approvingly.

If Gilderoy Lockhart could really make this unprecedented path work, this young wizard's future potential might really reach a level far surpassing his predecessors—in the wizarding world, knowledge is largely power.

"We can try it first, but I think we can start with..." Dumbledore nodded slightly and said softly.

Anyway, as long as this little girl didn't come to mess with him, or mess with Hogwarts and the other students at the school, then this teaching attempt, which was more beneficial than harmful from any perspective, was naturally something he had no reason to refuse.

As for Gilderoy Lockhart, he had indeed missed too many courses in the past, and if he were to be a formal professor, he would indeed need to make up for them.

"Very good, then it's decided happily like this."

Erina glanced casually at a certain petrified wizard, clapping her hands quite openly.

"Regarding the arrangements for this, do you... have any opinions?"

"Uh, n-no—I miss the Hogwarts campus life very much—"

"That's good, then starting tomorrow, after work, you will go with Professor Aleksey to the Academy City Research Area outside the gates of Hogwarts to study those non-magical courses, and then we will test you with questions every weekend."

Erina nodded contentedly, revealing a smile like a little devil.

"The specific difficulty will be decided after today's experiment, based on Draco's situation."

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Gu Ya~ Wedding photos released lalala~~~

Starting next month, I will turn over a new leaf and be a diligent non-cooing bird!

There are a total of three photos, 801~802, if they don't refresh, they may still be under review gu~ ps: Today's chapter name was strongly requested by the zookeeper~