The Charles Becomes a Wizard

For various reasons, Gilderoy Lockhart is no longer suitable to continue to serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

But it was not easy to find a suitable person to replace him in a short time, so on the morning when Brian Howard officially appeared in front of the teachers and students of the whole school, all the little animals knew that the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts would be temporarily taken over by this acting principal who came out of nowhere before the end of this semester.

I have to say here that although Brian Howard looks calm and old-fashioned, like an orthodox British gentleman, he is actually the most rebellious one in the entire family.

In a family where everyone graduated from Ravenclaw, he was the only one who had never attended Hogwarts.

He graduated from the famous dark magic school Durmstrang.

Brian Howard has graduated for many years. Becoming a professor can solve his urgent problems on the one hand, and help him integrate into this unfamiliar campus more quickly on the other.

Although he himself did not like the life of doing two jobs for one salary, as the current manager of Hogwarts, he had no choice.

However, should we be thankful that the textbooks used in Hogwarts have not changed over the years?

Howard, who had once looked through his brother's textbooks, could easily pick up the knowledge he had learned in the past without much effort.

Then, after giving lessons to animals of different grades, he realized that his previous ideas were a bit too simple.

The seniors are okay, but the level of Defense Against the Dark Arts of the first and second years is simply appalling.

Howard even had some doubts as to whether these children would be able to pass the Ordinary Wizarding Level Examination in the fifth grade if they continued to follow Lockhart's previous teaching method.

However, this is not the most troublesome thing.

Howard knew from the beginning that he would be treated coldly or harassed by some professors and students after he was parachuted in as acting president. Of course, this was understandable.

After all, the previous headmaster was Dumbledore. Over the years, professors and students have become accustomed to living under the protection of the old man who has been the headmaster of Hogwarts for nearly fifty years, and have become accustomed to his way of doing things.

Compared with that old man, I, the acting principal who suddenly appeared, am certainly nothing.

Even if he was not the reason why the school directors decided to remove Dumbledore from his position, he was the one who replaced him at Hogwarts, so it was inevitable that people would be angry with him.

Although it will take some time to get used to the job, the professors are not particularly difficult to get along with. Even Professor Snape, who seems to be the most difficult to deal with, can be communicated with normally. The problem is...

With a "bang", the door of the principal's office was pushed open from the outside.

"Oh, Principal Howard, you have to take care of these little trolls!" shouted Mr. Filch, who was holding the cat.

"Well, Mr. Filch, what did they do again?" Howard pinched his aching eyebrows and sighed helplessly.

"What did you do?!" Filch waved his arms and opened his eyes wide. This action made his already ugly face look even more hideous.

“You should ask what they didn’t do!”

"Those damn trolls covered the corridor on the second floor with slug slime! The first-year kids ate candy from somewhere and it was all over the place! Oh, Merlin's broken shoes, and even the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom was blown to pieces!"

The problem is that since he took office, the students' pranks have continued to escalate, and the main force behind the pranks is of course the Gryffindors who look down on him the most.

For this reason, Mr. Filch, the castle manager, had to drag his clumsy legs back and forth.

The punishments that students received after being caught were only point deduction and confinement. For the little lions whose gems had long since turned into negative numbers, point deduction was not a big deal.

After all, judging from the current situation, no matter how hard they try, their scores will not catch up before the end of the semester, so they might as well just let themselves go. I don't think the newly appointed acting principal would dare to do much to them.

Howard felt particularly calm when he heard that the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom was bombed.

Isn't it just an empty classroom? What's the big deal? The man he admired once blew up half of Durmstrang! Howard said to himself with a serious expression.

However, no matter what I think, I still have to say what I have to say: "Mr. Filch, what do you want me to do?"

"If you ask me, you'd better go back to the punishment mode from decades ago," Filch said with a sinister smile. "If you want to teach those little trolls a lesson, you should hang them up and whip them with a whip dipped in pepper water!"

He muttered, "The punishments at Hogwarts over the years have been too light, and they have no effect on those brats. If you agree, I will take out the things I put away before..."

"I promise that if they try it once, they will never make this mistake again!"

Howard had never thought that Hogwarts, which he thought was warm and childish like a children's playground, had such a wild and unruly period: ...

"Mr. Filch," Howard had to interrupt Filch's fantasy as he saw him getting more and more excited. "I can assure you that the punishment you propose will never happen in Hogwarts."

"At least, not while I'm still the principal."

Seeing that he insisted, Filch muttered something in disappointment, and then said to Howard, "But you must discipline them properly."

"Don't worry." Howard nodded. Under his willful indulgence, the children's pranks had obviously become more and more excessive. If he wanted to take drastic measures to discipline them now, the other professors would probably not have any objections, right?

"If nothing goes wrong, I will give you a satisfactory answer before next Monday. I still have some documents to deal with. If you have nothing else to do..."

"Oh, yes, of course." Filch nodded at him, then pushed the door open and walked out.

Howard casually flipped through the student's homework filled with typos and word order problems, then looked at the pile of homework next to it that he hadn't had time to correct. He felt extremely tired and sighed deeply: "After the Christmas holiday, I'd better find a few assistants."

At least divide up the work of marking assignments, otherwise it's easy to shorten your life if you look at this kind of thing for too long...

......

Just as Charles expected, it wasn't long before Dumbledore's resignation from Hogwarts was overshadowed by another piece of news.

Sirius, who murdered a dozen Muggles, escaped from Azkaban!