Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

Russell listened with great interest to the gossip stories told by Ms. Gray that happened more than 1000 years ago. At the same time, he revealed that the crown had not left Hogwarts but was hidden in a secret room in exchange for information. Then he left. went.

About 3 minutes later, Russell walked to the door of his office and saw a familiar figure in the distance - his study committee member and assistant Hermione Granger, and her two good friends beside him, haha Leigh and Ron.

"Professor Russell, we have a new situation report, about the successor of Slytherin!"

Hermione did not say hello politely as usual, but couldn't wait to report the situation: "Principal, we received news that the heir of Slytherin still has not left Hogwarts, and is still brewing other terrible conspiracies. "

"The descendant of Slytherin has not left Hogwarts, and is still brewing other conspiracies." Russell couldn't help but recall the fact that Slytherin called himself the descendant of Slytherin, and subconsciously asked with a guilty conscience. Said: "How do you know?"

The three people looked at each other, but in the end they didn't speak.

Russell pressed his temples hard. The exchange with the ghost of Slytherin and Ms. Gray just now made him feel as if his brain was rusty even after drinking Felixir and a large amount of refreshing potion.

Fortunately, maybe because Hermione and the others trusted Russell too much, the three of them didn't have much suspicion that Russell might have other purposes.

Russell continued to rub his temples and said, "Come to my office and I will help you keep it secret."

In Russell's office, after Russell repeatedly asked and promised to keep it secret, the trio still revealed the source of the news - Dobby, the house elf of the Malfoy family.

After learning that they were not hinted by Dumbledore or other professors to give him a reminder, Russell smiled reassuringly and assured them that he had found the heir of Slytherin who was behind the scenes and that everything was under control. Then they were sent out.

"Illidan, I need to sleep for a while, help me decline all visitors." After saying that, Russell fell on the bed in the bedroom.

His clothes automatically changed into the most comfortable and close-fitting pajamas. The velvet quilt gently covered his body. The comfortable warm wind continued to blow gently around him. Magic made life more convenient.

When Russell woke up again, he looked up and looked out the window. It was already afternoon.

Recalling the morning when Hermione and others mentioned that the house elf Dobby had snitched on them, Russell thought about it a little more deeply and decided that it was not a big deal.

As a house elf, Dobby should not be able to listen to other people's orders before he regains his freedom. Being able to temporarily disobey his master's orders and come to Hogwarts to inform Harry should be the limit of what he can do.

And the most he knew was about Tom Riddle's diary. It was unlikely that he knew about the Slytherin ghost. Russell should not be at any risk of being exposed.

In addition, Russell also remembered that Dobby, the house elf, seemed to have successfully escaped from the Malfoy family and regained his freedom in this year's plot.

It has to be said that this is completely an anomaly among the house elves. A normal house elf should be as reliable and loyal as Russell's Illidan.

However, this is also because the Malfoy family oppressed Dobby too hard, but Dobby still showed his kind, brave and repaying nature.

Russell was ready to find an opportunity to help Dobby. As a helper, Russell would never have too many house elves like Dobby. Russell had already experienced too much how good house elves are from Illidan. too much.

"Illidan, bring some food." Russell was wearing pajamas on the table, feasting on the delicacies made by the house elves while listening to Illidan reporting on the visitors during this time.

"Mr. Russell, Professor McGonagall came to you just now. She asked you about the Defense Against the Dark Arts course. Will it be changed to a self-study class after the professor was injured like last year? Or do you have other arrangements?"

Lockhart is injured, what about the Defense Against the Dark Arts course?

This was not a problem at all for Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall has extremely rich experience in dealing with problems in this regard. After all, since Voldemort cursed the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, there has been no Any professor can hold this position for a full academic year.

Therefore, Professor McGonagall has to deal with this problem once a year, and the way to deal with this problem is usually to directly let the young wizards go to self-study, which was the case when Russell was in school.

Russell once thought that this might be a conspiracy by Voldemort, whose purpose was to weaken the combat capabilities of most wizards in the magical world and turn them into useless lambs, so that he could rule the entire magical world.

If this is the case, then Voldemort's conspiracy seems to be quite successful. According to Russell's observation, the combat capabilities of most wizards in the magical world are reaching a limit that is increasingly declining.

In the last era, most of the wizards of the era of Ron and Harry's parents were good at Defense Against the Dark Arts, and at least they could use the Disarming Curse and the Armor Curse without any problems.

And now, most Hogwarts graduates can't even use the basic armor spell. This is definitely a failure of education.

Thinking of this, Russell felt that he needed to make use of the free Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

"You can ask Professor McGonagall to come over after class. I have something to tell her about the upcoming Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

About half an hour later, Russell sat in his seat with satisfaction and discussed his plan with Professor McGonagall.

"Professor McGonagall, I think it is irresponsible to allow young wizards to study on their own when a professor at Hogwarts is injured." Russell said very seriously.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said, "But if we invite someone else to temporarily serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a suitable candidate."

Russell said righteously: "In this case, we can only let me, the principal, replace the injured Professor Lockhart and teach the remaining lessons to the young wizards."

For a moment, Professor McGonagall suddenly felt that she was so moved that she was about to shed tears. After working as the vice-principal of Hogwarts for so many years, this was the first time she had seen such a responsible principal - almost like Dumbledore. Lido is the complete opposite.