Chapter 738 Lockhart’s Gift

The huge Hogwarts Great Hall was silent.

Normally, when a new professor meets everyone, everyone will applaud and welcome him.

But now, except for Dumbledore and Danilova, almost no students or professors applauded.

Albus Dumbledore clapped his hands several times, and found that the applause echoed lonely in the silent auditorium, so he put down his hands with great knowledge, and sighed helplessly - he could feel that the sound in the air of the auditorium was The pervasive resistance.

The students stared silently at Dumbledore with their mouths wide open, as if they were too surprised to speak.

Adding two new courses out of thin air is definitely not something to be happy about for most young wizards, especially when the names of these two courses sound a bit ominous. when.

On the other hand, most of the professors on the faculty seats had a cold look on their faces.

There seems to be an invisible dividing line between the old and new professors, clearly dividing them into two worlds.

As formal professors, they had learned about Hogwarts's reforms this year from Dumbledore before the school started, but this did not mean that they had no objections to the principal's decision - in fact, almost all of them had objections. More than half.

"As I just said..."

As if he didn't notice the cold reactions from the teachers and students, Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued with a smile.

"In the next semester, all grades of Hogwarts will add mathematics and physics courses, which will focus on exploring and learning all extremely basic natural philosophy knowledge. Mr. Alexey from Russia will temporarily serve as the main teacher."

"Alexei? From Russia?"

At the long table in Ravenclaw, Luna Lovegood turned her head and looked at the foreign student sitting not far from her with some curiosity, "Danilova, should this new professor?" Could it be an elder in your family?"

"That's my dad!" Danilova replied proudly.

"But, if I remember correctly..."

On the other side of the long table, Hoffa Bach frowned slightly and carefully looked at the middle-aged man standing at the end of the long table in the faculty seat. Unlike most professors, Alexei did not wear wizard clothes. robes, but shirts and jackets.

"According to your previous introduction, your father should be a Muggle, right? How did he become a professor at Hogwarts?"

"I don't know." Danilova replied quietly, looking at her father, her cheeks bulging.

"Anyway - anyway, my dad is super powerful... maybe, my dad can actually do magic!"

Danilova only found out tonight that her father would serve as a professor at Hogwarts.

At this time, like all the little wizards, she was full of curiosity. She wished that the dinner was over immediately, and then rushed to her father to ask for details. After the discussions among her classmates, she even suspected that her father was a hidden identity. wizard.

In her little mind, she imagined a lot of love stories between her father and mother almost instantly.

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Meanwhile, on the faculty bench.

Noticing the curiosity and excitement in his baby daughter's eyes, Alexei couldn't help but have a headache.

In fact, according to the original arrangement, Mr. Vinogradov from the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union and the Steklov Institute of Mathematics should have been the professor of this course - but since Vinogradov After learning that most of the students he was teaching were children with zero foundation in mathematics, he had been lobbying among various institutes to find replacements.

As one of the last Soviet experts to arrive at Hogwarts, deputy director of the Budeker Institute of Nuclear Physics, and Vinogradov's student, Alexei naturally became the best in Vinogradov's eyes. "Replacement Messenger".

Not to mention, the matter of Danilova's enrollment has long been spread among scholars by some loudmouths.

Several factors were stacked together, and Alexey naturally became a teacher at Hogwarts - the first mathematics teacher and the first Muggle staff in the history of Hogwarts - and at the same time, this was also The reason why other professors are so cold.

If it weren't for Dumbledore's persuasion and explanation, most of the professors' faces might be even uglier.

Of course, there is another reason for this, that is, unlike other professors at Hogwarts, Alexei is not a formal professor at Hogwarts. Strictly speaking, he is closer to a temporary worker or a support staff identity of.

Alexey does not have any additional teaching rights other than being able to teach at school.

Even the most basic extra points, Alexei could only record them in a small book, and then submit them to the corresponding deans of each college after class. After class, Professor McGonagall and others would make a judgment and assign them on their behalf. Decision to exercise additional deduction points.

As for professor dormitories, salaries, and formal titles, of course these do not exist...

This is also the bottom line that the British Ministry of Magic and the Hogwarts Board of Directors can accept - and in exchange, Dumbledore also promised not to pursue Peter Pettigrew's confession, and to use his personal reputation to provide all magical families with indispensable information. Guarantee for crime.

After experiencing the seizure of the Lestrange family's treasury, a subtle influence gradually spread.

As time went by, concerns arose among many pure-blood wizarding families with a long history - the authority of the Ministry of Magic had substantively threatened them for the first time, and the once-close relationship between the British Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood wizarding families There is a subtle gap that is not easy to detect, and in this case, the attitudes of Dumbledore and Hogwarts are particularly important.

In addition, another reason for the Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood families to make concessions was the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and the subsequent effects of turmoil such as the "Hogwarts Mortgage Incident" and the "Dark Force Financial Scam".

As a wizard, it would be too bad if you have to rely on goblins to help you calculate even the most basic exchange rate conversions, and you cannot see through some of the simplest and most inferior financial scams. Under such a unified understanding, It is obviously very reasonable and necessary to add a little bit of mathematics knowledge to the daily courses at Hogwarts.

Even if we have to temporarily hire a few Muggle scholars for this purpose...

In the eyes of pure-blood wizards such as Cornelius Fudge and Lucius Malfoy, according to the seven-year academic system of Hogwarts, it will only take seven years at most for someone to be born in the wizarding world who has completely mastered Muggle mathematics. Knowledgeable young wizard.

At that time, Hogwarts will naturally return to the state of being full of wizards again.

These educational reforms today are nothing more than short-term expediency—just a numbers game. How complicated can this be?

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"As for another new course offered this year, language and literature courses."

On the podium located in the center of the school auditorium, Dumbledore did not explain much about mathematics and physics.

After waiting for the sparse applause in the auditorium to calm down, Dumbledore cleared his throat, looked at the students with a smile, glanced meaningfully at Lockhart standing on the faculty seat, and continued with a smile.

"After research by school professors, the Ministry of Magic, and the school board, we have set up special courses for everyone's basic writing skills to improve your reading comprehension, writing, expression, literary appreciation, etc. Here, I am honored I would like to announce to everyone that Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart will be the professor of this course in the coming years."

"As for the teaching materials, you don't have to worry at all. During the first class, Professor Lockhart will give you a batch of carefully selected basic teaching materials suitable for everyone to read and study for free, as well as diaries and appreciation novels—— "

"uh-huh."

Gilderoy Lockhart cleared his throat and winked at Dumbledore expectantly.

After a slight pause, Dumbledore continued with a hint of helplessness on his face.

"By the way, Professor Lockhart decided to give everyone a set of his novels for free as a start-of-term gift - well, it's just under your stool. After today's dinner, you can take it back to your dormitory for collection. "

Following Dumbledore's voice, the students bent down and groped under the chairs.

Under everyone's seat, there were seven brand new Lockhart novels piled up. Each book was lightly wrapped with gift paper, simply tied together with a sky blue ribbon, and stamped on the cover. A delicate bow.

Of course, it would be even better if there was no "After Reading Task Card" attached to it.

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