Chapter 1307 The Spider's Network

Slughorn seems to have a strong obsession with teaching and beckoning outstanding wizards.

"Xu Langxing is a very talented boy. He and your father are best friends in school. They are always inseparable. They are the two best students in that class." He said, "The Black family Everyone is in our house, but he ended up in Gryffindor, what a pity, his brother Regulus is in our house, if only both of them were with me."

Slughorn spoke with the tone of an avid collector who has lost an auction to a rival, clearly lost in memory, staring at the opposite wall, turning lazily in place so that the whole The back is heated evenly.

"Of course, there were still a lot of good students in that class. As I said before, your mother was the brightest student I had ever taught. She was Muggle-born. I couldn't believe it when I found out. I thought, if she is so good, she must be a purebred."

"Alvin and Hermione are also Muggle-born," said Harry, "the two of them are the best students in the whole year."

"Well, yes, sometimes it happens that Muggle-born students outperform purebred students." Slughorn said, taking another quick look at Ivan and Hermione, " It's weird, isn't it?"

"Not surprising." Harry replied coldly.

"Horrible prejudice," whispered Hermione, with a hint of determination in her voice.

"Professor, don't you also support the ridiculous theory of pure blood supremacy?" Ivan asked.

Slughorn was the last Head of Slytherin House, who taught Voldemort and most of the Death Eaters.

Perhaps, like them, he was a pure-blood admirer.

Paranoid, old-fashioned, stubborn, believes that pure-blood wizards should be above everyone else.

"What?"

"I don't think whether a student can learn magic well has nothing to do with his birth, but depends on whether he works hard." Aiwen continued, "Perhaps in ancient times, pure-blood wizards would inherit the power of their blood, monopolize the knowledge of magic, and be more powerful than Ma. Wizards born in melons should be powerful, but now that power is exhausted and all knowledge is shared, look at those pure-blood wizard families, what is left besides the heavy burden? The magic world should break the monopoly of pure-blood wizards, into a new era."

The reactions of Ivan, Harry, and Hermione surprised Slughorn a little.

"My God, don't you think I'm biased!" he said. "No, no, no! I'm not a pure-blood supporter."

"Your attitude makes me doubt it." Ivan said, looking back at the corridor, "Maybe we should leave."

"Wait, don't go, this is a misunderstanding, I have no prejudice against Muggle-born wizards at all, and Albus can prove it for me." Slughorn said, "By the way, Harry, I Didn't I just say that your mother was one of my favorite students in my life? There is also Dirk Cresswell, who is one level below her, and is now the director of the Goblin Liaison Office. He is also a Muggle-born , a student with high qualifications and a good relationship with me, he still often reveals to me valuable inside information in Gringotts. Aiwen, I know the details of what happened to you in Egypt from him."

Without waiting for Ivan and the others to answer, he jumped up with a smug smile on his face.

Slughorn waved his hand and pointed to the many shiny frames on the chest of drawers, each of which contained a moving figure.

"Look at this, these are my ex-students, these are signed photographs, I carry them with me wherever I go. You'll see Barnabas Guffey, editor of the Daily Prophet, oh, Now editor of the Hogwarts Gazette of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he's always interested in my opinion on current events. And Ambrosio Froome from the Honeydukes Candy Shop, who every year on my birthday, He's going to send me a gift basket because I introduced him to Ciceron Hakis that got him his first job! And the back, if you crane your necks, you can see, It was Gwenog Jones, captain of the Holyhead Harpies, and people used to wonder why I got on so well with the Harpies, that I could get free tickets if I wanted to, and ..."

At this point, he seemed to be in high spirits, and he wanted to introduce everyone in the photo to them.

Looking at these wizards who hold important positions or are very well-known, and listening to Slughorn describe their relationship with him, one can clearly feel the influence of this old wizard. He is like a spider, weaving a whole world. Zhang invisible big net.

Moreover, Slughorn seems happy to show off these relationships.

"Are these people your students?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, they are all my best students. Of course, there are many others, I have taught more students than that, but this wall is too small, I have to put their photos away, You should really see, when I celebrated my birthday last year, they gave enough presents to fill this room."

"It sounds really good." Ivan said, but he didn't doubt that Slughorn had such influence.

He is also the oldest professor, unlike Dumbledore, he will deliberately make friends with his students.

Well, outstanding students, and invite them to join the club he organizes.

"Do any of these people know where to find you, and can send you something?" Harry asked, unable to help but wonder, given the gift baskets full of candy, Quidditch tickets, and asking for his opinion and advice. How could the Death Eaters not be able to track down Slughorn if those people could find Slughorn?

Harry's question made the smile off Slughorn's face as suddenly as the blood on the wall.

"Of course not," he said, looking down, in low spirits. "I haven't been in touch with anyone for a year."

For a moment, he looked a little uneasy, then shrugged.

"However... these days, cautious wizards try not to show their faces. Dumbledore is also right, and I know what he is bringing the three of you tonight, but serving at Hogwarts at this time is tantamount to Declaring publicly that I support the Order of the Phoenix! As much as I believe their bravery is admirable, I'm not a person who likes mortality very much."

"You don't have to join the Order of the Phoenix to teach at Hogwarts." Harry said, unable to hold back a hint of sarcasm, "Most of the teachers at the school were not members of the Order of the Phoenix, and none of them were killed. "

"Yes, Hogwarts is not the Order of the Phoenix," Hermione added.

"Unless you count Quirrell, of course, but he deserves it, because he's working for Voldemort."

"On the contrary, Hogwarts is now the safest place in the world. If you read the newspapers on time every day, you will know that Voldemort's return has made a lot of noise. In the past few months, there have been frequent There are attacks and people are dying every day." Ivan said, "These are all planned by Voldemort behind the scenes, don't you want to know why?"

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