Chapter 554 A Little Bit of Muggle Knowledge
After afternoon tea, in the office of Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge.
Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic, Amelia Bones, Director of the Legal Enforcement Department, Cuthbert Mockridge, Director of the Goblin Liaison Office, John, Deputy Director of the Auror Office Delis and other officials from the Ministry of Magic who were trusted by Fudge gathered together and chatted casually about what had happened in the wizarding world recently.
In the past month, not only the situation in the non-magical world has been changing, but also various rumors in the magical world are flying all over the sky. Last week, Gringotts had already made preparations for the Ministry of Magic in response to the upcoming run. A warning was issued.
On the other hand, the rumors of the mysterious man's return also gave Cornelius Fudge a headache. In fact, the most powerful response was that Albus Dumbledore could stand on the stage and help the Ministry of Magic stabilize public opinion. However, due to The mortgage conspiracy that Hogwarts was involved in half a year ago has made Dumbledore reluctant to speak in public recently.
If it weren't for the teaching reform for the next school year at Hogwarts, Cornelius Fudge even suspected that Dumbledore was planning to completely cut off all contact with the outside world during this period, stay away from all disturbances in the non-magical and magical worlds, and concentrate on his work. Stay in the peaceful Hogwarts Castle and teach those lively little ones.
"Introduce some non-magical basic subject content into the Hogwarts curriculum as a minor and pre-requisite basic course for some magic courses, and at the same time apply for the establishment of a faculty and staff family area in the Hogsmeade village surrounding Hogwarts to solve the problem The daily accommodation, living and other needs of faculty and staff hired from the non-magical world..."
Cornelius Fudge tapped his thick fingers on his desk, held the application letter sent by Dumbledore, read it again, looked around at the cronies in the office, and asked thoughtfully road.
"What do you think Professor Albus Dumbledore wants to do..."
"Obviously, Professor Dumbledore has always had a special concern for young wizards who are Muggles or have Muggle ancestry. This educational reform is obviously a signal aimed at the current situation of the wizarding world. He wants to further expand mixed-race Wizard-to-Mudblood proportions—just like he had been secretly doing before, but this time in a different way.”
Dolores Umbridge put down the tea cup in her hand and replied in a sharp voice. A slightly permeating fake smile appeared on her pale and drooping face. She carefully observed Fudge's expression and took it easy. The ground continued.
"I will not comment on Professor Dumbledore's ideas for the time being, but purely from this point of view, after thinking about it carefully these days, I feel that it is not completely unacceptable. I just need to reconsider the pros and cons. ."
In fact, as descendants of pure-blood wizarding families, the philosophy of most wizards in the Ministry of Magic is inclined to the "blood theory". Therefore, as soon as he received Dumbledore's follow-up application, Cornelius Fudge The others directly chose to put the delay policy on hold for the time being... This delay lasted for more than three months, from Christmas to now.
However, now that Cornelius Fudge has brought up the matter again, it shows that his attitude has changed again.
As Cornelius Fudge's closest deputy, Umbridge is naturally the most keenly aware of Fudge's thoughts. Contacting the previous days and what Fudge had said before, Umbridge quickly understood the issue that the Minister of Magic was hesitating about. .
"The courses at Hogwarts have always been gradually added through historical accumulation. The sudden addition of new courses is a huge test for both the wizarding world and the school... According to the current situation, it is bound to occupy Most of Professor Dumbledore's energy leaves him no time to pay attention to various problems that occur in the magical world..."
Umbridge said slowly, while glancing at Cornelius Fudge who nodded slowly, raising the corners of her mouth slightly.
"It is true that we don't know much about some courses in the non-magical world, but Professor Dumbledore has provided a detailed teaching improvement report some time ago, regarding the relationship between most of the introduced teaching content and existing magic courses. After explaining it, Minister Fudge and I both felt that it made sense."
Different from the previous general and rough communications, a week ago, Albus Dumbledore wrote a long letter, detailing the teaching reforms he planned to carry out in the future and the subjects involved.
Of course, the most important thing is that Dumbledore implicitly stated in the letter that if the Ministry of Magic can support his education reform plan, then he can also cooperate with the Ministry of Magic to carry out a series of education reforms before devoting himself to teaching in the new year. A series of efforts to appease public opinion, this kind of communication attitude has never been seen in previous discussions.
Faced with Dumbledore's proactive change, Cornelius Fudge could no longer put it on hold no matter how reluctant he was.
Not to mention, Dumbledore's transformation is exactly the stabilizer he and the Ministry of Magic need most at this time.
Of course, this kind of secret exchange of favors is not suitable to be put on the table. They need a more reasonable reason to convince other officials of the Ministry of Magic who represent the interests of the majority of pure-blood wizards and the original concepts of the magical world.
What makes Umbridge and Fudge happy is that Professor Dumbledore has already found this reason - or in other words, from beginning to end, Albus Dumbledore stood as an educator. Thinking about his identity, this undoubtedly makes the current Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, feel more at ease.
"Details of the new education reform. Do Muggles have any knowledge they need to learn magic?"
Amelia Bones, Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement, frowned and looked at Umbridge in confusion.
Umbridge glanced at Cornelius Fudge and saw the wizard nodding. He smiled and took out his wand and tapped it lightly on the blank table. Common subject names and a few text explanations appeared on it. above.
"According to Professor Dumbledore's idea, it is not about adding a new core course as we imagined before, but more about the common knowledge minor that is unified to address the omissions of various magical families in preschool education. A little bit of superficial Muggle knowledge, mainly for magical learning."
"For example, this mathematics course is just about learning some digital symbols and simple numerical calculations. This is also a supplementary teaching plan proposed in response to the problems that students have in astronomy classes, arithmetic divination and other courses."
"Another example of this chemistry class is actually to teach students what wood is, what steel is, what stone is, and how to use glassware correctly... Mainly because before this, there were potions classes and transfiguration classes. We have indeed encountered many problems. For example, the professor asked to conjure a bronze button, but some students did not know what bronze looked like; or they were clumsy and caused a lot of unnecessary trouble in the Potions class..."
"Oh, and this physics class is actually just a superficial knowledge of how to boil water..."
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third chapter! (Oh my god!!!)
There may only be three updates today~because I was delayed for a while due to some things during the day~
There is still one chapter that I may not be able to finish in time, so I will post it first~