The portrait of Principal Black began to curse, and soon the other portraits couldn't stand it anymore and started to refute him. A hot-tempered principal rushed into his frame and started to wrestle with him.

Dumbledore ignored the portrait. His expression was as if he was reminiscing about the past. "Mr. Hep does have some ideas."

"In my opinion, that is a declaration of war by Muggle wizards against purebloods. His ambitions are greater than you think. He is the next Dark Lord."

Dumbledore's expression became solemn: "This is a serious accusation! Severus."

"You always trust others so easily, Dumbledore." Snape snorted coldly, "Maybe he won't start a war. I know him. He is afraid of trouble."

"But as you said, he has great potential. If you ask me who can catch up with you and that person in this century, it is only him. By then, countless people will be willing to be his wings, observing his every expression, studying his every word..."

He said sarcastically: "History always repeats itself. Maybe this time, those stupid lions will follow him."

"What will they call him? Maybe, the White King?"

"Severus, I never knew that you had such a deep prejudice against him." Dumbledore was very surprised.

"Huh! Like I said, I know him better than you think. I taught him for seven years!"

Dumbledore kept weighing the pros and cons in his mind, and decided to speak his mind: "I did hesitate for a long time. I saw the shadow of another person in him. Both came from a Muggle orphanage, both are Slytherins, both are excellent, both pursue power..."

"But they are different."

"Voldemort used magic to intimidate his companions, while he gathered his companions to fight against the thugs who bullied them. He still keeps in touch with some people in the orphanage."

"Voldemort was keen on power. While at school, he formed a team with himself as the core - that was the prototype of the Death Eaters. Felix, on the other hand, disdained power. As you said, he hated trouble. Perhaps it can be summarized this way: he didn't want to spend too much time on things he was not interested in, and power was one of them."

"Voldemort was very good and polite at school. He had a good relationship with every professor. Felix only spent his energy on the subjects he was interested in. As far as I know, he never passed the History of Magic, Divination, Astronomy, and Flying classes! Although his spell grades broke the record of all time."

"Voldemort was crazy about power. For this reason, he did not hesitate to study the dark arts in depth while in school. He was very talented in this area. Before graduation, his attainments in the dark arts exceeded the efforts of some dark wizards in their lifetime." "

And Felix..." Dumbledore hesitated for a rare moment, "I have to admit that he also studied the dark arts, right in the Shrieking Shack. But before I could think of a proper way to dissuade him, he gave up on his own."

Snape listened in fascination. The headmaster had checked the kid thoroughly!

He didn't even know a lot of past events.

Dumbledore concluded: "He still has many advantages, such as valuing friendship, rejecting power, being focused, and calm and careful."

Snape opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but finally held back. Then he showed a mocking smile, but this time his mockery was directed at the headmaster: "You are still so 'concerned' about your students! Why not tell me more about his experience in the three years since graduation? When he traveled around the world, you didn't hide in the bushes and peek, did you?"

"Severus, don't be so mean to an old man." Dumbledore showed a sad expression, but the next second, his words made Snape stunned, "But I did visit several of his colleagues in the Muggle world, and they had an unexpectedly high opinion of Mr. Hep, and I confirmed that there was no trace of magic."

Looking at Snape's open-mouthed expression, Dumbledore blinked, "Severus, you don't think I'm really confused, do you? Would you let him be a professor at Hogwarts without understanding him?"

...

When Snape came out of the headmaster's office, he admitted that he was somewhat convinced. The kid didn't seem that bad.

Even though he had threatened himself before - with the deepest secret in his heart.

But when he walked into the auditorium and saw Felix waving his wand and turning a big snake from the ceiling, and in the mouth of the big snake was a figure he saw every day in the mirror, he almost exploded! He

was wrong!

Felix Hepp was a bastard!

...

Felix didn't know about the conversation just now in the principal's office, and he was even given the title of "White Devil" by someone. Are you kidding? Is he that free?

He was completing his own tasks step by step. During this period, the professors of Hogwarts returned one after another, and Felix also went up to greet them one by one.

On the importance of connections.

Until a special person appeared, he was a very handsome wizard, wearing an emerald green robe similar to his color, with light and smooth hair and white teeth.

Which Slytherin is this? Why don't I have any impression?

Felix wanted to observe for a while, but soon, the wizard came to him, "Felix Hep! I've heard of you for a long time, and I've been looking forward to meeting you."

"Who are you?" Felix always felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember.

The wizard seemed to have heard something unbelievable. He opened his mouth wide, and the whole person seemed to be petrified for two seconds, and then he quickly recovered his smile and talked freely: "Felix, you must be busy studying Muggles and don't pay much attention to the wizarding world. It doesn't matter! I can reintroduce myself. Believe me, you deserve this honor."

Felix: "...Please."

"I," the wizard blinked, "Gilderoy Lockhart, Third Class Medal of the Order of Merlin, Honorary Member of the Anti-Dark Magic League, and five-time winner of the Most Charming Smile Award from Wizard Weekly - but I won't talk about that. I didn't drive away the female ghost of Wanlun with a smile!"

Gilderoy Lockhart?

Felix remembered that he had read his biography, and it was a pretty good adventure. Experienced and resourceful. But this person seems to be a little too proud of himself. He is used to telling half of the story and hiding the other half when writing books, and never reveals the key points!

Felix became interested and thought about how to get some useful information out of him.

"So it's Mr. Lockhart. I've read your book, it's quite good, and your experience is so fascinating..." Felix said flattering words. In less than three minutes, he became a close friend of the new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

At the same time, he secretly admired his courage. The Dark Lord's curse, he didn't care at all?

He knew how powerful this course was. Although Hogwarts was always short of professors, he didn't dare to think about this job.

It's true that people with great skills are bold!

However, judging from his experience in the book, Lockhart is indeed an extremely perceptive and talented wizard who always escapes danger!

It seems that he needs to pay more attention. What does this professor like?

Felix fell into deep thought.