Chapter 52: Patron saint

　　 Early the next morning, Jon saw a pile of news about Guidro Lockhart in the Daily Prophet.
　　 "The well-known wizard Guidro Lockhart is a fraudster who abuses forgetting spells!" On the front page of the headline, the "Daily Prophet" wrote.
　　 "The International Anti-Dark Magic League announced the cancellation of Lockhart's honorary membership, and the Merlin Jazz Council announced the withdrawal of the three-level medal awarded to Lockhart." This is the second edition of the news.
　　 "The Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge said that law enforcement officers have been dispatched and will arrest Lockhart as soon as possible." On a small crutches in the third edition, Jon saw the portrait of the Minister of Magic.
　　 As Lockhart had expected before, his story spread throughout the campus...
　　 When passing by Gryffindor’s long table, Jon heard Ron Weasley’s loud voice:
　　 "I knew that Guidro Lockhart was a liar!"
　　 "Sure enough, none of what he said is true!" Harry Potter nodded with deep approval.
　　 "But he ran away..." Hermione Granger screamed. Her voice sounded surprised and angry, as if she had been deceived. "The Ministry didn't catch him!"
　　 "Hmph, he can't escape far!" Ron snorted coldly, "My father told me that the law enforcement officers of the Ministry of Magic are very powerful!"
Not only the students of Gryffindor, but the students of Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and even Slytherin are celebrating the departure of Guidro Lockhart... The four colleges have ranked first in the past century. Showed strange agreement on one thing at a time.
　　Lian Professor Snape, who has always been wearing a black robe and unsmiling, put on a festive red jacket today; he looks like a red bat.
　　 Jon did not participate in their celebration or criticism. After reading the newspaper and eating a few pieces of bread for breakfast, he left the restaurant.
　　……
　　 There is no class on Thursday morning. Now that the basilisk is dead, Jon doesn’t need to act cautiously as before.
　　 came to the room on the eighth floor, and Jon found out some books that he got here yesterday.
"Under the Moon Shadow", which describes the habits of werewolves, and "Summon Joy in Your Heart", which describes the dementors and the curse of the patron saint, are both borrowed from the restricted book zone; and Professor Lockhart left him The white booklet.
Jon glanced through the white pamphlet first. The forgetting spell was far more profound and complicated than he thought. It is especially difficult to release it without leaving too many traces... Will bring extremely serious consequences, in fact, because this spell is too dangerous, even in the restricted area of ​​Hogwarts, it is difficult to find a book describing it.
　　 Jon just watched for ten minutes, but his head was a little big, and he had to close it again.
　　 Then, he flipped through another book roughly.
He had already learned a lot about the habits of "Werewolves", and it was not difficult for him to read the book "Under the Moon Shadow"... About an hour later, Jon picked up the last book "Summon Your Heart". happy":
　　 The content described in this book will also be a very difficult challenge for him...
　　 "Guardian Spell" is a very deep defensive magic; when this spell is cast, the magician needs to concentrate and think about the happiest thing in his heart.
The mantra of 　　 is "ExpectoPatronum".
When fully activated, you can summon your own patron saint, and let the patron saint take the attack and counterattack instead of yourself; the patron saint can expel or even destroy dementors and Voldebats (or corpse cloth), and these evils The only natural enemy of creatures.
　　 The release of many spells depends on emotions. There is no doubt that the "Patron saint mantra" is the most dependent on emotions...it requires truly happy memories.
　　 Searching for happy memories in my mind, I really can’t find a lot; but it’s not easy for me to really feel happy memories from the bottom of my heart.
After all, since I came to this world, I am an adult mentally. It is impossible to have the same strong "joy, anger, sorrow, and joy" like a child; and the happy memories of previous lives, many of them have been blurred over time. Unclear.
　　 Jon took a deep breath, he decided to try first.
　　 pulled out his wand, squinted his eyes slightly, and began to recall the memory of "happy" in his mind, and at the same time he whispered in his mouth:
　　 "ExpectoPatronum!"
　　 At this moment, the memory he recalled in his mind was his feelings when he received the acceptance letter from Eton College.
　　 It is a pity that there is almost no change at the tip of the wand, he failed!
　　 Think about it carefully... When I received the admission letter from Eton College, I felt more relieved than simply happy.
　　 "ExpectoPatronum!"
　　 is another release, and there is no change at the tip of the wand... The memory of his choice is that he successfully released the "petrification curse" on mice last summer vacation; that was the first curse he successfully released.
　　 Recall... Magic did not feel too mysterious for him at the time. The petrification curse was not a high-level curse; the feeling at that time was not so happy as expected.
　　 "ExpectoPatronum!"
　　 The third release... The memory of choice is in Ollivander's shop, and he has been approved by the bamboo wand!
　　 still failed!
　　 Recall... My emotions were not really happiness at the beginning, but seemed to be a kind of rejoicing?
　　……
　　 After practicing for almost half of the morning, there was still no strand of silver wire at the top of Jon's wand.
　　 The release of the Guardian God spell, he didn't even control a bit of fur...It was more difficult than he thought.
Jon sat on the floor of the responsive room, tightening his lips, trying hard to search for memories that can be touched with "happiness"... He tried almost all such memories, but he still didn't get "approval" from the patron saint. .
　　 When the time on the watch indicated 12 noon, Jon was a little unwilling to walk out of the responsive house.
　　 I have to say that this morning is another memory of failure.
　　 came to the restaurant, Jon heard Hannah Abbott talking to Wayne Hopkins:
　　 "It's awesome, this is the coolest defense against the Dark Arts class I have ever taken!" Hannah shouted, "I didn't expect..."
　　 But halfway through her words, she was interrupted by Zacharias-Smith:
　　 "Yes, Lockhart ran away, we don't have a teacher in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class... Hannah, who is it?" He leaned in front of Hannah, and the monkey shouted anxiously.
　　 Hannah giggled: "I won't tell you, you'll know then, it's really great!"