Hogwarts: I Am Such a Model Wizard

Chapter 823 The Stubborn Pointer Mrs.

The sun is rising, and the bright morning sunshine shines on the Hogwarts castle, and at the same time wakes up the students who are still sleeping in.

In the principal's office on the eighth floor, Kyle, who had stayed up all night, put down the quill in his hand and sorted out the thick pile of parchment in front of him.

This is his experience in the last half month, from being forced to accept the task of pretending to be Dumbledore at the beginning of school, to deciding to go to France, to Beauxbatons, to meet Professor Victor and chat with him...

According to Professor McGonagall's request, Kyle spent a whole night recalling the events over and over again, trying to get the time of these actions as accurate as possible to hours...or even minutes.

Of course, there must be something wrong here. After all, it is impossible for him to check the time before doing everything, but Kyle feels that this does not have much impact, as long as the most critical nodes can be matched.

 While he was writing this, the principals in the portrait were watching behind him, and they also watched them all night long...but they didn't need to sleep, and they were in much better spirits than Kyle.

“Wait a minute, let me look at the seventeenth parchment again.”

Kyle just put down his quill when he suddenly heard a voice coming from behind.

That was a witch who was dressed very medieval and looked very strange. Kyle was sure that he had never seen her before.

This is normal. There are not many portraits in the principal's office. There are more than thirty in total, but not every principal likes to stay here for a long time like Armando Dippet and Phineas Black...

Nearly half of them are usually in portraits elsewhere, and will only come here when something big happens at Hogwarts.

The current headmaster Dumbledore is trapped in a time loop, which is a big deal.

 So after getting the news, they all came over.

This is the first time that Kyle feels that the principal's office is a little crowded... Of course, it's not really crowded. After all, they can't come out, it's just a feeling.

"What are you thinking about? Come on." The medieval witch said again, with a stern tone, much like Professor McGonagall when she was angry, but more rigid and dogmatic than Professor McGonagall.

And judging from the expressions of the people around her, she is not someone who gets along easily.

Kyle didn't say anything, and took away the parchment in front of her as she asked.

 The content on page 17 happened to be what he had said to Professor Victor in the alchemy classroom on the afternoon he arrived at Beauxbatons.

 “Difficulty classification of alchemy…Necessary conditions for learning alchemy…Alchemy textbook…”

Although he only read one page of content, the principal's face had already turned ugly.

"Tell me, what do you want to do by asking these questions?" she asked sharply.

 “Nothing, just curious.” Kyle said.

 “Curious?” The witch squinted her eyes, obviously not believing what Kyle said.

"Yes, this course is very popular among students at Beauxbatons, so I asked a few more questions." Kyle smiled, "Otherwise, what purpose would I have?"

"This is best." The witch said coldly: "Remember, you are just pretending to be the principal, not the real principal. Don't do unnecessary things."

“Of course not,” Kyle said with a smile.

The witch glanced at him.

"I heard that the current headmaster... Albus Dumbledore is very optimistic about you. Maybe one day, you can really become the headmaster of Hogwarts."

"You're flattering me," Kyle said modestly, "Professor Dumbledore is like this to everyone."

"But I must warn you." The witch pursed her lips into a tight line, "Even if you really become the principal, you cannot change the curriculum of Hogwarts for no reason... This is the greatest witch Rowena Raven Crowe set the course and no one can change it.”

"Ah, you are right." Kyle nodded repeatedly, "The curriculum of Hogwarts cannot be changed, there is no doubt about it."

"It's good that you think so." The witch's face finally became less ugly. She glanced around, "What are you doing here? Why don't you find a solution!"

Several principals ran away immediately, and the rest remained silent and showed no intention of refuting. Even Phineas, the most noisy one, rarely became quiet at this time, and did not say a word throughout the whole process.

"Forget it, I'm going to find Minerva now. In my opinion, she is more suitable to be the principal than Dumbledore." After the witch left a sentence, she disappeared from the frame.

 Afterwards, Kyle clearly saw that everyone around him breathed a sigh of relief.

“I was shocked.” Armando Dippet patted his chest and said to Kyle, “Just now I thought you were going to quarrel with the stubborn Mrs. Pointer.”

 “Wait, what’s her name?”

"Stubborn Mrs. Pointer." Armando said again: "She is a person who abides by the rules, just like the pointer, she always acts according to the set route and never allows herself or others around her to deviate."

"She is also a crazy admirer of Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw." Phineas next to him added: "Even if one day Ravenclaw says Hogwarts is round, she will definitely not hesitate. Believe it and accept it as truth.”

"This is normal." Another principal said, "The period when Noelird was in can be said to be the most difficult time in Hogwarts. That is, with her character, if it were another person, maybe Hogwarts would be the most difficult time." Ci has long since ceased to exist.”

“The most difficult period?” Kyle asked curiously, “Can you tell us more about it?”

“Calculating the time, it was probably seven centuries ago.”

She was silent for a moment and then said: "Affected by the times, black magic was extremely popular at that time. Wizards were crazy about making black magic items with strange abilities. It has even become a trend...the infamous Hand of Glory and The crystal skull is a product of that period, you should know these two things. "

Kyle nodded.

Hand of glory is a dry arm. A candle is inserted in a dark environment. Only the person holding it can see the light.

As for the crystal skull... it is an item used for divination, and it is also the earliest crystal ball. Of course, it is more useful than the crystal ball, and the production method is more cruel. It is something that is expressly prohibited by the Ministry of Magic.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. At that time, more dark magic items were invented and improved. Under that situation, Hogwarts was in an extremely difficult situation. It had to face the dual pressures from dark wizards and Muggle society. pressure."

Another principal said: "The dark wizards regard them as heretics, try their best to capture this place, and then preach their terrible theories to the students.

“Muggles regard them as accomplices of dark wizards and hate them with all their heart. Once they discover that there are children around who have awakened to magic, they will kill them without hesitation.”

Kyle was silent. If that were the case, Hogwarts probably wouldn't be able to recruit many people at that time.

 After all, in the magical world, pure-blood wizards only account for a small part, and most of them are mixed-race or wizards from Muggle families.

When they stop going to school, Hogwarts is really not far away from closing.

"Fortunately, Rowena Ravenclaw seemed to have guessed that such a day would come." The principal continued: "So she left a book in the principal's office, which contained information about dangers in Hogwarts. How to deal with it later.”

“So, the principal led Hogwarts through the crisis safely based on the content in the book?” Kyle asked.

“Yes, strictly follow the plan, no mistakes are allowed.”

"Although she successfully led Hogwarts through the crisis, she also gradually developed the character she has now... taking everything related to Rowena Ravenclaw as an iron rule."

"It's understandable." Kyle said, "This kind of thing is the same for anyone." "What surprised me is that you didn't refute her." Armando said, "I thought you would argue with her. "

"Why should I fight?" Kyle smiled, "She's right, I'm not the real principal, what do these things have to do with me.

“Arguing with her, even if you win, is just a waste of time and of no use. On the contrary, following her words will make you feel better.”

“So...you really plan to open an alchemy class at Hogwarts?” Phineas asked, raising his eyebrows.

"It's not my intention." Kyle corrected: "I'm not the principal. I don't have the power. I can only say it's an idea." Kyle shook his head and said, "Alchemy is becoming more and more important in other countries now, and related items are also There are more and more, and Hogwarts can’t be too far behind.”

“But these all need to be decided by the principal. I just put forward an idea and specific preliminary preparations. If it is passed, at least we will know what to do.

“Why, are you also opposed to adding a new alchemy class?”

"I don't care," Phineas said. "It doesn't matter to me anyway."

“I think there is nothing wrong with adding a new class.” Armando said, “The curriculum of Hogwarts has been going on for a thousand years, so it would be good to add some changes.”

“It should be said that it is very necessary.” Another principal who is resident here, Delise Derwent, said, “You don’t even look at how far behind Hogwarts is in the ranking of international magic schools.

“Among the eleven schools, we are ranked tenth. Even Durmstrang, which has no principal, is ranked higher than us. Don’t you feel ashamed?”

"It has nothing to do with me." Phineas immediately said, "When I was the principal, Hogwarts was still ranked among the best. It's all Armando's fault."

“You fart!” Armando Dippet shouted: “It’s been since you became the principal that Hogwarts’ ranking has been declining. Now you actually want to shirk your responsibility?”

 “I’m so angry!” He turned around and took out a huge ‘mace’ from nowhere.

“You stand there and don’t move. Let’s have a serious discussion about the ranking of schools.”

"Stop...no, stop, don't come over here, I'm warning you not to come over here..." Phineas ran away, his skillful movements making the principals who saw this scene for the first time were dumbfounded.

 Are they...all so lively now?

But for Delis Derwent, it was no longer strange. She continued to look at Kyle and said: "Your idea is good, but it is not easy to implement."

“You mean that Principal Noelilde will object?”

"It's not important." Dai Lisi shook her head, "We past principals only have the right to make suggestions, not decisions. As long as the current principal agrees, no matter how much she objects, it will be useless. At most, she will never come again. Of course, this It has no impact either. The difficulty I mentioned is a different situation.”

“For example, funding issues.” She continued: “I also wanted to add a new healing course. After all, Hogwarts only has herbal medicine and potions, but these are not enough to become a qualified healer.

“If there is a therapy course, students who want to be therapists can enter St. Mungo’s directly after graduation, which will save a lot of time.”

"That's good," Kyle said. "I remember Madam Pomfrey thinking the same thing."

"But the school doesn't have enough start-up funds." Dai Lisi sighed, "The cost of opening a new course is far more than you think. The school directors have long been accustomed to the status quo, and they don't really want to Spend a lot of extra galleons to do something that in their opinion has no benefit to them at all.”

“In addition, the cost of learning alchemy is more than that of a healer, and it is definitely more difficult.”

 “I know this.” Kyle nodded.

In alchemy, dragon scales and dragon blood are common materials, and the frequency of use is similar to that of **** root and fish bone powder in potions. With Beauxbatons' financial resources, he has to go to the Fire Dragon Sanctuary to buy the remnants that others don't want. Defective goods.

 But this is easy to solve. Just lower the standard a little. If you can’t afford the fire dragon, use materials with the blood of the fire dragon. Or changing alchemical items into magic items...things like those they sold when they were in school are actually within this category.

But these are just plans. Whether they can be used will have to wait until Dumbledore comes back.

If this operation to rescue Dumbledore fails, it will be useless no matter how well planned it is.

Kyle rearranged the messed up parchment and asked the principals to call Professor McGonagall, who was about to go to class.

Soon, the door to the principal's office was pushed open, and Professor McGonagall walked in quickly.

 “This is what you asked for.” Kyle handed the parchment to her.

Even though class was about to start in ten minutes, Professor McGonagall carefully looked through the parchment and tried to remember every detail.

Kyle didn’t bother and just watched from the side.

 “What are you going to do next?” she asked suddenly after a few minutes.

“Just wait in school.” Kyle thought for a while and said, “Wait until Nico fixes the time turner.”

 “I think you might as well do something else.”

Professor McGonagall raised her head and looked at him with a deep look, "Everything in school is as usual now, and Dumbledore doesn't need to show up often. You can leave and do what you like...for example, you said on the Hogwarts Express Well, I slept until noon."

"ah?"

Kyle didn't expect Professor McGonagall to say this, "But didn't you still want me to stay in the school and act like Professor Dumbledore at any time to deal with emergencies that may arise?"

 “That was just an idea before, but it is no longer needed.”

Professor McGonagall said calmly, "Dumbledore is often away from school. This is normal, and if you stay here, it will increase the possibility of exposure.

"Go back, or go somewhere else to play and relax... I recommend you to go to Germany. The academic atmosphere there is very good. It is completely different from the UK and very unique. Quidditch is also popular in Germany. You can always play in various places. It’s a great place to see a lot of great games.”

"is that so?"

Kyle whispered: "But, why do I feel that you don't want me to stay in school and are driving me out on purpose?"

"Now that you've found out... I do have this idea." Professor McGonagall nodded simply and admitted, "It says that Nicolas Flamel will send the repaired time turner to Hogwarts, so Doing it will also prevent you from taking unauthorized actions.”

"Is it possible that Nico didn't send the time turner to the school, but to me." Kyle said.

 “Then I’ll go to where he lives and wait.”

Professor McGonagall said calmly, "Yes, there is no doubt that I know Mr. Nicoléme, and I went to his manor in Devon when I was young. Although that was decades ago, I Know how to meet him."

 “What about the Transfiguration class here at school?”

 “I will find a suitable person to replace me in advance. It will not be difficult.”

"I must remind you again, Kyle." Professor McGonagall said with a serious expression, "Rescuing Dumbledore is the responsibility of us professors, not you. There is absolutely no need for you to take risks because of this matter."

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 (End of this chapter)