Wondering if I should do the third year just to get a chance tomoan about Lupin?
Chapter Ten: The Moanings of An Overgrown Dungeon DwellerLockhart's gone
I can't find him anywhere. I decided that going and scaring him was a better use of my time than trudging around deserted corridors. I went into his office and most of his trunks were packed, all of his pictures (of himself) were put away (thankfully) but he is nowhere. I told McGonagall but she just thinks he has left as soon as possible. He wouldn't leave all his precious pictures, florescent robes and signed books behind though. If he has left though, I could make a massive bonfire and slowly cremate every piece of coloured fabric with Lockhart's name on it.
Dumbledore's backDon't ask me why, because I don't know. I was prowling along the second floor corridor and when I looked up he was striding towards me.
"Ahhhhh Severus. GOOD to see that you are keeping CHECK on ALL the students."
"Headmaster. Has something… happened?" What was I supposed to say? 'What the hell are you doing here, get out of my castle'?
"Fawkes contacted ME and the Chamber has been SEALED. I felt that as HEADMASTER I should BE here." I just stood and gaped at him for a bit. Has Lockhart actually done something worth recognition?
"I must SPEAK with Minerva." I stepped out of the way and then followed him to McGonagall's office. She nearly broke down when she saw him. Dumbledore called the Weasley's down to her office, then about three minutes after they had sat down Potter comes trudging in, covered in slime, dirt and blood with Weasley juniors and Lockhart. Molly Weasley nearly strangled them all when hugging them then Potter told us all how he defeated the Basilisk and killed a memory of Lord Voldemort.
Potter and Weasley have got hundred of millions of points each which means that Slytherin will once again loose the House Cup.
There is one good thing that has come out from all of this though. Apart from the fact of Hogwarts staying open and me getting to teach until the end of time. Lockhart has lost his memory. Dumbledore said
"Why SO modest Gilderoy?" Lockhart actually looked over his shoulder to see who he was talking to. Weasley butted in about a memory charm backfiring.
"There was an accident. Professor Lockhart…"
"I was a Professor? I expect I was hopeless, wasn't I?" I felt like bellowing yes at him then jinxing him with every single spell I could think of all at the same time. Instead I just stood in the corner and nodded. I went with Weasley and Lockhart to the hospital wing. Lockhart kept asking me all these questions about what he does for a living and who his family are. He now thinks he is a dustbin man who lives in a cardboard box outside Honeydukes and his only friend is a pet rat that got eaten by a cat a few months ago. He just stood there and nodded at me. Weasley was just laughing quietly to himself; I don't think he liked Lockhart either.
The Last Great FeastHow come everybody except me is in their pyjamas? Even the teachers are, McGonagall and Dumbledore changed just to 'fit in with the celebrations.' I hope they all die from hypothermia. The exams have been cancelled. Gryffindor have won the House Cup. Hagrid came back from Azkaban. At least Lockhart has been carted off to St. Mungos. I felt slightly sorry from him so I went into his office, got a stack of his miniature photos and that horrible peacock quill and gave them to him as he was being taken down the drive. He can annoy someone else with them now. I smiled as Dumbledore announced the news about Lockhart, most of the Hufflepuff table fell out of the seats they were so surprised when they saw me. It took me a minute to remember the actual sequence of muscle movements for smiling, but I got there eventually.
Last dayEverybody seemed a lot happier this past week. People even tried to talk to me in the staff room and Flitwick made me a cup of coffee. I was so amazed that I didn't say thank you when he gave it to me. I must have seemed extremely rude so I tried to have a conversation with him the next day. Didn't get very far but at least I tried. McGonagall has also attempted to be nice to me. She got Sybill Trelawney to sit next to me in the Great Hall on the last day but I don't know why she bothered. I hate the woman; every time she looks at me she gasps and starts to shake. Apparently I have 'a dark and dangerous past which is only balanced by my dark and dangerous future.' I told her I also have a dark and dangerous present so why doesn't somebody just kill me. She couldn't answer that one; she thought I was just making fun of her. Which I was.
Staff meeting on the lawn"Another year has GONE by. I am HOPING I shall SEE you all NEXT year and I shall advertise for ANOTHER Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher as SOON as I get BACK from Greenland." Who goes to Greenland on holiday? McGonagall is going to Norway skiing. Flitwick to the Amazon jungle. Poppy to a hospital in Africa. The furthest I'm travelling is to chase next-door's cat off my mud flat of a lawn.
