Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

It was time for get out of class to end, but almost no students were willing to leave the hot competition scene.

Russell did not dampen their interest. He was not an impersonal old-fashioned person. He organized an extra match very considerately and once again won a burst of cheers from all the students.

It wasn't until the house elves in the basement of Hogwarts sent a representative to inform Russell that dinner had been ready for an hour. After he once again emphasized the importance of learning spells well in "Glory of Wizards Unite", It was announced that this open class has ended.

During the whole dinner, all the little wizards were still discussing the competition enthusiastically. Those students who had won the lottery to participate in the competition were beaming and proudly discussing various details of their competition.

The little wizards who did not have the opportunity to participate in the competition and had been spectators all afternoon listened with great interest, waving their knives and forks like magic wands, eager to get themselves involved.

In this wizarding world where entertainment options are extremely scarce, an ordinary wizard duel is attractive enough, let alone a game like "Wizards Union Glory" that is closer to actual combat and emphasizes teamwork and battle strategies.

At the long Gryffindor table, Ron and Harry discussed with great interest the "house-stealing tactic" that Harry completed with George.

"Harry, George told me that you came up with the last tactic, which is so great! Malfoy's expression at the end was as if he had eaten a dead fly."

As he spoke, Ron waved the spoon in his hand, imitating Harry's last magic spell "Expelliarmus" that shattered the base, and the spoon came out and hit Neville on the head.

But Neville didn't notice this at all. He was looking at Seamus with envy, "Seamus, how did you do it? Your blasting spell is so powerful. I can't learn this spell!" "

Seamus put on an enigmatic look, but he was equally at a loss in his heart. He had never learned any blasting spells at all, and he even knew the name of the spell only after Neville told him about it.

Harry was completely excited at this moment, even more excited than Ron.

He had a vague hunch that he seemed to enjoy the pleasure of constantly using magic to defeat enemies one after another more than Quidditch without direct magic confrontation.

Hermione was a little worried about gain and loss.

When it was her turn to compete just now, she was assigned to the middle lane and faced off against a sixth-grade Ravenclaw boy, who had no intention of giving in to her.

Thanks to her age and four more years of learning magic, she used a set of spell combos when they met, and she returned to the base three times in less than 5 minutes.

Hermione is worried that her poor performance in "Glory of Wizards Unite" will lower Principal Russell's impression of her.

You must know that she has never been very good at this kind of magic game. Whether it is Quidditch or wizard chess, she lacks talent in these two areas.

However, there is still a chance!

As long as you study the "Magic Learning: From Beginner to Mastery" that Professor Russell gave you, you will definitely become a powerful wizard.

Then you can kill everyone in the game.

......

No matter what ideas the little wizards hold, Russell's open class has been an unprecedented success.

The young wizards who originally supported Russell to replace Dumbledore were all concentrated in Slytherin, but now more and more young wizards have fully recognized Russell.

Even Harry, a loyal fan of Dumbledore, developed a mentality of "having fun here, not thinking about Dumbledore" after being baptized by the glory of the Wizards' Union.

......

At the same time, in the dark and damp office of the Potions Professor in the Slytherin basement, a slender white hand was holding a quill and writing continuously on the parchment.

[Dumbledore, I promise to help you continue to observe Russell's various actions, especially the new measures in teaching, and new discoveries will soon be made.

Ever since we had that conversation last Saturday, I've started to find Russell's behavior more and more strange.

Although I don't want to say this about my most proud student, I have to admit that he did something that made me shudder.

Russell invented a special teaching method, which he named "Wizards Union Glory". I can't describe this game in too much detail.

But the core of this game (or educational method) is to let the little wizards participating in the competition take out their wands in groups of five, and then start shooting spells.

There are almost no restrictions and can be played one on one, but it seems to encourage group fights and ambush tactics, so I also concluded that this is definitely not a duel method, but an attempt to let the little wizards learn to fight and even kill each other.

What's even more frightening is that Russell adopted a very vague concept in encouraging the little wizards to "kill each other". He used the portkey to teleport away the little wizards who were hit by the curse instead of the little wizards being cursed. hit.

And, soon, they will be "resurrected" and sent over to fight again.

This is undoubtedly Russell's attempt to tell the young wizards that there will be no serious consequences whether they die or kill other wizards.

When I was studying magic, I learned about some myths and stories about Nordic Viking warriors.

The Elysium after death in Norse Gnostic teachings: The warriors who died in battle followed the guidance of the Valkyrie and came to Valhalla.

There, the samurai fought and killed each other during the day, resurrected with full health at night, drank and had fun with other samurai who had killed each other all night long, and repeated the cycle of battle-death-resurrection-drinking the next day.

This goes on until Ragnarok.This is the ideal paradise of the original Vikings.

Only those killed in battle can go to Valhalla after death, and only in Valhalla can dead warriors continue to fight.

In this religious and cultural background, the Vikings regarded death in battle as an honor and death of old age as a humiliation. They followed the command of their leaders and plundered all over Europe, becoming invincible.

I think Russell may be cultivating such wizards for his future chapters.

Don't underestimate him just because this kind of battle is just a game at the moment. Even I was almost attracted and tempted by this terrible game! 】

After writing this, Snape put the letter into an envelope, took out a gorgeous feather from his clothes, and inserted it into the envelope.

After a few seconds, the envelope and the gorgeous feather turned into a ball of fire and disappeared into the humid office.

Snape stared at the place where the fire disappeared and remained silent for a long time. Ever since Dumbledore told him his doubts about Russell, he began to doubt Dumbledore because he trusted Dumbledore so much.

In Russell, many things that seemed to have no flaws at first made him feel more and more wrong.What happened today made him shudder even more.