The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

"Link!"

Professor McGonagall lowered her voice and called to Link.

She felt that Link was a little too bold. No matter how easy-going Dumbledore was, he still had a temper after all.

However, Link ignored her at all and continued to confront Dumbledore.

After a long time, Dumbledore suddenly smiled.

He looked at Link happily and said:

"You know? Link, the way you looked just now reminds me of Severus. You two are so similar!"

Link didn't speak, still looking at him silently.

This made Dumbledore sigh, and then he sat back behind the eagle-legged table and said:

"Then tell me, Link. Let me see what reason you have for asking me to do this."

Hearing this, Link's lips curved into a meaningful smile and he said:

"Currently, my mother is contacting the 12 Hogwarts school directors, including the Shafiq family and the McClanchy family, and is trying to replace one or more of them through peaceful negotiations. .”

As soon as Link finished speaking, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall's expressions became serious.

Especially Professor McGonagall, she pursed her lips tightly, so hard that the red lips lost their color.

You can't really blame her for having such a big reaction.

Because Hogwarts actually has only two sources of income. One is the policy support of the Ministry of Magic.

For example, freshmen can buy wands at very low prices.

Another example is that Muggle students can exchange Muggle currency for a certain limit of wizarding currency from Gringotts every year when they enroll.

This is actually a special student aid policy formulated by the Ministry of Magic.

Otherwise, what use would the wizard have for the pound?

Isn’t it nice if people just use the Dual Copying Spell to copy gold?

But although the Ministry of Magic can help Hogwarts in these places, it is different where real money is needed.

At this time, it is the turn of the school board to appear.

There are a total of 12 school directors on the Hogwarts School Board. These school directors will spend a huge amount of wealth every year to maintain Hogwarts, such as professors' salaries, loss of materials, potions and alchemy and other subjects, and horticulture. Routine repair and maintenance of Gwarts Castle and financial assistance for a very small number of extremely poor students.

And because they have seized the economic lifeline of Hogwarts, the school directors have unparalleled control over Hogwarts.

Their children not only have the right to ride in the special Governor's Car on the Hogwarts Express.

And they also have the right to fire any employee at Hogwarts, including the principal.

As for whether the Foley family can intervene in the school board's decisions, Professor McGonagall has no doubts about it.

Because Hogwarts, under the pressure of the Ministry of Magic and successive principals, has not developed institutions that can create economic benefits, such as 'on-campus canteens' and 'on-campus paid canteens'.

This means that investing in Hogwarts is a completely loss-making business for the school directors.

No, saying business is all about promoting this investment, this is completely charity.

The only thing the governors can gain from this is the social status and positive comments that come with being a governor of Hogwarts.

The current twelve school directors are all people who escaped trial through various means during Voldemort's liquidation period.

And the reason why they became the trustees of Hogwarts was just to use this halo to wash away the blackness on their bodies.

But now more than ten years have passed since the fall of Voldemort. Those who can be cleared have almost done so, and the remaining people will probably not be cleared no matter how hard they are cleared.

Such as the Malfoy family.

In addition, the money that the school directors need to give to Hogwarts every year is really a huge sum of money, so McGonagall estimates that if the Foley family wants to take over the position of school directors, the original school directors will probably jump with joy!

Once the Foley family became the trustees of Hogwarts, it would be logical to use the power of the school board to force Dumbledore to investigate Draco Malfoy.

For a moment, Professor McGonagall had the urge to throw Link out of the window.

In her opinion, this method of using power and money to oppress others is really dirty.

However, Dumbledore didn't think so. He felt that based on his understanding of Link, he couldn't do such a low-end thing.

Sure enough, after a short pause, Link smiled again and said:

"Ah, Professor Dumbledore, you don't know how enthusiastic those school directors are. After they learned that the Foley family intended to replace their positions, they immediately stated that they would fully promote this matter. Even... they even... I couldn't wait to hand over all the bills between Hogwarts and the school board to my mother. From there, I discovered some very bad behavior."

Having said this, Link looked at Dumbledore who straightened his body slightly, a blue light flashed in his eyes, and then he took out a piece of parchment from his arms and read:

"For example, this report from last year shows that Divination Professor Sybill Trelawney spent a total of 1034 gold galleons and 12 silver sycolas to purchase Chinese Dahongpao tea and Scotch fire whiskey throughout the year."

"I'm very confused, Professor Dumbledore, although tea divination does exist in the teaching of divination. But what about fire whiskey? I don't seem to have heard of alcohol divination, right?"

"And according to the data, most students think that divination is a dispensable course, because they cannot predict the future like Professor Trelawney said. There is no one who can use it after graduation. The content of divination knowledge. So I very much doubt whether there is any need to continue this course."

"In addition, there is also the purchase price of Narcissus Root Powder in Potions. I don't understand why a unit price of 2 gold galleons is displayed here in Diagon Alley for 20 gold galleons a piece.

There are also some professors whose salaries have not increased for many years, but the school board’s annual output budget for professors’ salaries has been rising year after year.

and also……"

"enough."

Dumbledore interrupted Link with a cold tone.

And Link obediently shut his mouth.

"The investigation into whether Draco Malfoy is the heir will officially begin tomorrow."

"I'm sorry to force you in this way, but please believe me, Professor Dumbledore, I will not let you down." Link placed the parchment on Dumbledore's desk and said sincerely, " In addition, Hogwarts’ funding will not be cut in any way next year. On the contrary, my mother thinks your behavior of taking in Mr. Filch and other squibs is very noble! She will further increase her investment in Hogwarts.”

After saying this, Link greeted Harry and walked towards the office door.

And just as they were about to walk out of the office, Dumbledore's hoarse voice came from behind Link again.

"Link, I take back what I said before about you being like Severus."

Link's footsteps stopped. He turned around and saw Dumbledore looking at him with a smile and saying:

"You're much better than Severus!"

"Thank you for your compliment!"

Link bowed deeply.