Chapter 35 – The Dark Forest (1)
"See? Your hair is already back!"
The happy laugh made my spine shiver, and I was questioning my sanity to come and spend the afternoon with Professor Lockhart, but I forced a smile, facing him.
"Yes, Professor, I was lucky you were there."
"Ahaha, don't worry about it, my young friend! Now, it is good that you are here," he clapped as we stood in the abandoned classroom, acting as if it was perfectly normal he was stuffed away here, like some kind of nuisance. "I was tasked to go and gather some dangerous creatures from the forest, you know, for... ingredients!"
"Professor... I am only a first-year student..."
"You will be with me, so you don't have to worry! I will protect you, of course! Aha!"
Yeah... bet. Damn it, I think this was a really, really bad idea! I should not have come at all... But I couldn't back down now.
"And... What are we supposed to collect?" I asked with a sigh, giving up on escaping.
"Spiders."
"No!" I turned around at once, heading towards the door. Spiders? No. No. AND NO! No chance, nope, I am going to go and kiss a basilisk first and use my tongue, too, while doing so!
"Listen!" the classroom's door closed before me, and I turned around to see him holding his wand, and if not for the pathetic look in his eyes, I would have thought I was about to be attacked any time now. "It will be fine! You just need to follow me and learn! Easy!"