In the end, under Selwyn's "persuasion," the village's young werewolves who were single and had no family all left with that lunatic Death Eater.
Selwyn was like a water ghost in a river, treating the village's werewolves as the substitutes who would die in his place.
Well... Selwyn had "cashed out" the credibility he had spent a lifetime building.
What happened next was simple.
The young werewolves who went out to "take care of business" couldn't keep their mouths shut, and soon the news was all over town. Even Lupin had heard about it.
Lupin had wanted to stop Selwyn from making one mistake after another, but Selwyn hadn't appreciated his efforts in the slightest.
After viewing all his memories, Lockhart withdrew his consciousness from Selwyn's mind. The instant he opened his eyes, he turned to Scrimgeour beside him.
"You-Know-Who is about to return!"
"?!"
Scrimgeour immediately grabbed his wand in an instinctive stress response. It took him several seconds to register what Lockhart had just said.
"Who did you say was about to return?"
"You-Know-Who. Don't you know who You-Know-Who is?" Lockhart had spent a long time considering it inside Selwyn's mind before finally deciding to claim the spotlight himself.
He would warn the entire Ministry of Magic that Voldemort was about to return.
The last person to gain publicity off Voldemort had been Harry Potter, who had been a nobody at birth. After Voldemort's death, Harry had inherited all that attention and shot straight to the top of the wizarding world's celebrity rankings.
Today, Lockhart intended to attract the greatest wave of attention in the wizarding world by predicting Voldemort's return.
Even while working at the Ministry of Magic, the celebrated author Gilderoy Lockhart remained deeply concerned for the entire wizarding community, always keeping it close to his