Luna's Glasses

Unlike Dumbledore and Lupin, who were up to some baffling antics in the Headmaster's Office... ahaha...

The only one up to baffling antics was Dumbledore, not Lupin.

Anyway, unlike the farce in the Headmaster's Office, Kane was genuinely making his way toward the kitchen when he saw Gilderoy Lockhart heading downstairs with packages of all sizes floating behind him.

"Hello, Lockhart. How does it feel now that work's over?" Kane asked from behind him, raising an eyebrow. Before becoming a professor, Lockhart could barely cast a spell properly. Yet after a semester of Dumbledore's personal tutoring, he could already bluff his way through an entire fifth-year Dark Arts course.

That kind of improvement really did take talent.

"Yes, not bad. Once I get back, I can finally publish my new book... a completely original new book!"

Lockhart looked at Kane walking beside him, feeling an inexplicable mixture of emotions.

How should he put it? Although his first interaction with Kane had not exactly been pleasant, and he had spent far more time with Dumbledore throughout the semester, if Lockhart had one friend at Hogwarts who was decent enough not to stab him in the back or secretly look down on him...

It was probably Kane alone... Oh, right. Kane did not secretly look down on him. From the very first moment he learned what a useless fool Lockhart was, he had barely treated him like a person.

But people were strange like that. Even now, Lockhart somehow felt that Kane had a sliver of honesty about him, and that was why he trusted him and considered him a friend.

And because of that friendship, Lockhart decided to tell Kane what he had wanted to say... After all, every writer had the urge to pour their heart out, or they would