By the time Harry reached the Defense Against Dark Magic classroom, he was feeling rather dazed.
Lockhart had dragged him into posing for dozens of photographs taken by Colin, passively putting him through all sorts of poses. Class had not even begun, but Harry had already lost more than half his enthusiasm for Lockhart.
How capable could someone who loved showing off this much really be?
And when Lockhart handed out a test consisting entirely of questions about himself-including, but not limited to, his hobbies, dreams, and experiences-not just Harry but half the class went blank.
Quite a few students in the class enjoyed Lockhart's books, but everyone read novels for fun. Who actually memorized everything in them?
They could have memorized two pages of History of Magic in that time.
Even the few girls who were devoted Lockhart fans frowned at the test, never mind Harry and the other boys.
Harry's transformation from a fan of Lockhart's books into an opponent had taken less than an hour.
And when Lockhart delightedly announced that two students had achieved full marks, the classroom erupted.
"Who? There's another expert besides Hermione?" Ron looked stunned.
Although Lockhart had not announced the results yet, Harry and Ron both knew Hermione had to be one of them. It was not just because she had earned an Outstanding in every written section of last year's final exams. In both their letters over the holidays and their conversations on the train, Hermione had shown an astonishing familiarity with Lockhart.
Calling her knowledge encyclopedic would not have been an exaggeration.
Harry and Ron could believe that Hermione had scored full marks on that bizarre test. But who was the other one?
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