Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 296 Guiding Lockhart! An unprecedented idea!

"Lockhart, Lockhart! Your fame today seems to be due to your excellent personal development achieved through your various abilities, but in reality, it's like building a castle with a levitation charm, which will easily collapse once the charm is removed!"

Lockhart had signed a contract, making him practically Dudley's subordinate, so Dudley was keen to mentor him.

“Dr. Dursley, what do you mean by that? I know that it's unfair to the victims that I would use other wizards' experiences to write books about my own.”

But I was too scared. I didn't dare to go on a wilderness adventure myself, to face those dangerous, ferocious, and magical creatures. I was even more afraid of losing my fame and being forgotten. So I had to keep deceiving people, keep gathering writing material, keep publishing books, and maintain my popularity and reputation..."

Lockhart was afraid that Dudley would punish him from the perspective of the wizards he had deceived and harmed, so he hurriedly spoke up to defend himself.

"You really didn't understand what I meant."

Dali shook his head and continued to speak frankly, "To deceive and harm others for one's own selfish gain is, no matter how you look at it, doing something wrong, and there's no point in making excuses."

I'm not afraid to tell you, I've done similar things before, and many others have done them, including some professors at Hogwarts and the headmaster.

The only difference is the degree to which they harm others, and their own thoughts and motives are also different.

But ultimately, they are essentially the same.

I stole someone else's magic wand, and you stole someone else's experiences and memories. From the perspective of justice and order, and from the perspective of the victims, we were wrong, we did bad things.

The right and wrong, good and bad have already been determined, and there is no need for discussion.

What I want to discuss with you now is whether the bad thing you did was absolutely necessary, whether it was something you had to do to achieve your goal, and whether you could bear the consequences of doing it without having to worry too much!

You possess excellent forgetting spell skills, good writing and editing abilities, and outstanding social talent. You can quickly build relationships with strangers, gain their favor, and dispel their wariness. You also have a good appearance, with charm and affability at their peak.

You have so many advantages, yet your only goal is to achieve widespread fame safely.

Is this goal too difficult for you to achieve? Why do you have to try to steal the experiences of those excellent wilderness survival wizards?

The Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters under the Ministry of Magic has a Memory Erasure Team, which is specifically responsible for erasing the memories of Muggles involved in incidents related to wizards and magical creatures.

This is a genuine cleanup team; their daily work involves dealing with Muggles, so they won't encounter any danger.

With your talent, wouldn't it be a piece of cake for you to take that job?

You could start as a memory deregistrator, leveraging your social skills to build good relationships with colleagues and superiors, utilizing your writing abilities to produce beautifully written documents for every file you handle, and adding your outstanding appearance and charm...

I believe that, given all these factors, it might be a bit difficult for you to become Minister of Magic at your current age, but becoming a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Magic, such as the Director of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters, would be no problem at all!

In this process, you can still pursue your writing career, drawing inspiration entirely from the magical disasters you've dealt with.

Why must you be the protagonist in your own book? Can't you gain fans and fame by narrating from an observer's perspective?

Even if we take a step back and go ahead with your plan to achieve your goal, and insist on imposing the experiences of many excellent wizards on yourself, is the only way to go that is to use empty talk and a sneak attack with a forgetting spell?

If you can use your social skills and affability to befriend those excellent wizards and extract their experiences, can't you persuade them to sell their experiences to you? Isn't this the same principle as a writer selling authorship and copyright?

Those wizards who are obsessed with wilderness exploration and enjoy fighting dangerous and magical creatures, I wouldn't say they are all short of money, but a considerable number of them are certainly spending money on their hobbies. As long as you get along well, I don't think they would refuse an extra source of income.

After all, not everyone can write those experiences into an internationally renowned bestseller.

Paying for experience and using a magical contract to guarantee confidentiality can achieve the same level of fame as you do now, but it's safer and you don't need to worry so much.

Lockhart listened to Dudley's eloquent analysis and ideas, speechless with astonishment.

These were all paths he had never imagined, and with his abilities, it seemed he could navigate them all.

He suddenly felt a great sense of regret, regretting that he hadn't met Dali sooner, and that he hadn't heard about this employment guidance sooner.

Dudley did not stop talking despite Lockhart's surprise.

He continued, "What I just said proves that obtaining the experiences of excellent wizards and then casting a forgetting spell is not something you need to do to achieve your goal."

Now, I'd like to address a more practical issue.

That is, if you do this kind of thing and choose this path, can you guarantee that you will never leak or expose anything, and can you bear and resolve the consequences after exposure?

The answer is obvious: no!

Upon hearing Dudley's resolute conclusion, Lockhart was startled and filled with fear, becoming completely flustered.

“Dressley’s teaching assistant, I…”

"No need for further words, just listen to me first, and see if it makes sense."

There are no foolproof secrets in this world, let alone the fact that you don't have the guts to kill someone to cover it up, and you keep doing the same thing repeatedly, which makes it even more difficult for you to keep your secret.

Even if your forgetting spell is highly skilled and you can guarantee that no wizard other than me will ever remember the relevant memories;

Even if your communication and ambush skills are perfect, and you can guarantee that you will never fail except for me;

Does this guarantee absolute safety and that secrets will never be leaked?

Every time you publish a new book, a skilled wilderness survival wizard suffers amnesia. Over time, someone will eventually figure out the pattern and discover your flaws.

Don't forget, there aren't many wizards in any country, and the circle of survival wizards is even smaller. Every time you make a move, you're one step closer to being exposed.

Not to mention, you don't know how to use mind control; you rely entirely on the skill of using platitudes to learn about other people's experiences.

What if those wizards you tricked into revealing information forgot to tell you about the other wizards they encountered during their adventures, and then when you write down and publish this experience, those wizards who knew the truth see it...

Guess what will happen? Either those wizards will expose you directly to the newspapers, or they will write letters threatening you and extorting money from you.

Even one or two such incidents can keep you busy, and if it happens too often, you can forget about becoming a celebrity!

Dudley's brief analysis sent Lockhart into a cold sweat.

He used to think he had done something flawless, but now it seems that it was full of loopholes.

I've managed to survive this long unscathed entirely by good luck.

However, Dahlie's analysis did not end there.