Hogwarts: I Am Such a Model Wizard

Chapter 810 Luna’s Intuition

This time Snape suddenly came over to give Kyle a wake-up call. He didn't know who Dumbledore had seen before leaving, and what they had talked about.

Snape can come over today, and Slughorn may come over tomorrow for another matter, but he can't guarantee that he can fool him every time.

 In other words, this unknown situation is the biggest test.

Kyle's response is also very simple...run away.

 After Snape left the principal's office, he asked the principal's portrait to help call Professor McGonagall, who had just finished class, and mentioned the matter to her.

"You mean, Severus came to see you? And said something you didn't even know?" Professor McGonagall frowned, looking a little surprised as well.

"He just left not long ago." Kyle said, "To be honest, I have never been so nervous when I took the N.E.W.T exam."

"Dumbledore really rarely mentioned Severus to us, and I can't help you with that." Professor McGonagall thought for a moment and said, "Strange, why didn't he mention this in his letter? "

"That's the crux of the matter." Kyle sighed, "I don't know how many more situations like this there are. If there are more times, it will definitely be exposed."

 “Then what do you think.”

"I can't stay here any longer." Kyle took a deep breath. "As long as they can't find Dumbledore, they will have no chance to expose me."

"No." Professor McGonagall shook her head without hesitation and rejected Kyle's proposal.

"I don't think it has any impact, Professor." Kyle said, "Professor Dumbledore has been away from school before? Everyone must be used to it.

“Besides, I have already appeared at the opening party, so it shouldn’t matter even if I leave school temporarily.”

 Professor McGonagall hesitated and did not refuse immediately as before.

 But after hesitating for a moment, she still shook her head, "No."

"Why?"

"Because you can't disappear forever." Professor McGonagall said, "You-Know-Who and his Death Eaters have been active this year, and you need to show up in school often."

"I can just come back when the time comes." Kyle said, "Didn't Professor Dumbledore do the same thing before?"

"Then how do you get in and out of the school?" Professor McGonagall said, "The students have already started school. If you come to the school again, you can only go through Hogsmeade. There is a mix of good and bad people there. Even if you use the invisibility cloak, there is no guarantee that you can hide it from everyone. .

"A graduated student returning to Hogwarts will inevitably arouse suspicion from others. We should try our best to avoid any situations that may be exposed, unless you use Dumbledore's identity every time."

“It’s easy to say, as long as we don’t go to Hogsmeade.” Kyle laughed.

  The issue that Professor McGonagall was worried about was not a problem at all to him.

 “Not going to Hogsmeade? Then what do you do…”

Before Professor McGonagall finished speaking, she saw Fawkes, who had been perching on a branch, fly over and land on Kyle's shoulder.

"Fawkes?" Professor McGonagall was stunned for a moment, then realized something, "No wonder Dumbledore asked you to pretend to be him."

She has never seen Fawkes be so close to someone other than Dumbledore... This is also a fact recognized by the wizarding world.

Nearly all wizards know that Dumbledore has a phoenix beside him. In a sense, it is also a symbol of his identity. As long as you see the old man with the phoenix, there is no doubt that it is Dumbledore.

 This is something that no one else can imitate, even if you drink Polyjuice Potion.

Before this, she had never understood why Dumbledore was so comfortable letting Kyle pretend to be himself, but now she finally understood.

With Fox's cooperation, Kyle doesn't even need to use polyjuice potion. Even the most common body transformation technique can easily make people believe his identity.

"I have no problem." Professor McGonagall nodded immediately. She glanced at Kyle, "While the effect of Polyjuice Potion is still there, you can show your face again, and then you can leave.

“Next time…Halloween. Anyway, Dumbledore always needs to be there when there is an important banquet in school.”

 “I know.” Kyle nodded.

 After that, he put on a less formal silver-gray robe and followed Professor McGonagall out of the principal's office.

 “What do I need to do?” Kyle asked.

"No need to do anything, just act as usual." Professor McGonagall. "Think about what Dumbledore would do when he was at school. Don't do anything deliberate."

“I can’t think of it. He hasn’t appeared in school at all in recent years. Every time I see him, it’s always in the principal’s office.”

 “Then think about it further, you must have met him when you were in first grade.”

As they talked, the two walked through the place where the gargoyles were, and when passing by the Gryffindor common room, they met a group of students who were going to have lunch.

"Good afternoon, Professor McGonagall, Principal Dumbledore..." Seamus Finnigan, who was walking at the front, said excitedly, "Headmaster, is everything you said before true?"

 “Where do you mean?”

"It's Quidditch. If we win the championship, can we really get two hundred points?" Seamus rubbed his hands, "And that gold medal, how is it selected? Is it an internal recommendation within the team? Or is it everyone? Vote together.”

“First of all, you will definitely get two hundred points, provided you can win the championship.” Kyle said with a smile, “As for the second question, you will know when the time comes.”

 “Can’t you tell us in advance?”

“Always keep some sense of mystery.” Kyle blinked, “Okay, let’s go have lunch quickly. Today we have black pepper fried pork chops.”

"Okay..." Although Simo was not very satisfied with this answer, he still left out of respect for the principal.

"Actually, I also want to know? How is this standard set?" After they left, Professor McGonagall looked at Kyle, "At first I thought it was based on the score, but if I think about it carefully, if that's the case, the Seeker The advantage is too great and unfair to other team members.”

 “Then just do what Seamus said and vote.” Kyle said casually.

“But in this way, students with good popularity will have an advantage.” Professor McGonagall said, “And the uncertainty in voting is too great. At that time, it is very likely that there will be a situation where the competition does not contribute much but gets a lot of votes.

“This can be considered the first Quidditch gold medal in Hogwarts, and it is very likely to be the last one. I think it is better to only look at strength and not consider any other factors.”

 “I think so too,” Kyle said.

 “What do you think?”

 “What do I think?” Kyle continued walking forward, “I have no idea.”

 Professor McGonagall paused, "Did you not consider anything when making this suggestion?"

"No." Kyle nodded matter-of-factly, "Didn't I say that yesterday? I suddenly came up with this idea when my head got hot. How could I think everything through in such a short period of time?"

"What will we do after that?" Professor McGonagall's voice suddenly became louder. "Two hundred points is easy to say, but when the competition is over, what standards will we use to award gold medals?"

“It’s none of my business.” Kyle spread his hands, “I’m just a substitute, and I’ll just fool around for a while. It’s impossible for me to be a substitute for a whole school year.

"Dumbledore will definitely come back by then, so let him worry about it."

 Professor McGonagall felt her temples pounding.

She always thought that what Kyle said yesterday was just talk, but she didn't expect it to be true. He really made that decision without thinking about anything.

The same goes for Dumbledore, who disappeared without saying a word, leaving the entire school mess on her.

I thought Kyle would be able to help a little bit when he came, but it turned out that he went too far and helped a lot...

 How come these two of them are so virtuous?

Professor McGonagall couldn't help but rub her forehead. Taking one salary to do the work of three people, not to mention professors, even ghosts couldn't be squeezed like this.

 Looking at Kyle in front of her, her years of experience as a professor almost suppressed the anger in her heart.

 She wanted to hit someone. And now Kyle is acting like Dumbledore. If he takes action, it will be equivalent to beating two people at once, which is a sure profit.

More importantly, Kyle’s identity is different from Dumbledore’s, making it easier to beat him up.

 This has nothing to do with strength.

 Because Kyle is her student, and Kyle’s parents are also her students. Even if he is really beaten, Kyle will not fight back.

This is like Professor Marchib scolding Dumbledore. Even if he is the principal and the greatest white wizard in the wizarding world, he can only stand still and hand him a cup of tea.

This is really a rare opportunity, would you like to...

“Professor McGonagall, Headmaster Dumbledore…”

 A voice suddenly came from behind, bringing her back to her senses.

“Miss Granger,” said Professor McGonagall, “What are you doing here?”

"Getting ready for lunch," Hermione said. "I'm sorry, Professor, but I'd like to know how you're thinking about what I asked you earlier."

"I have no objection. You can give me the paper at any time." Professor McGonagall said, "But Miss Granger, I must remind you that "Transfiguration Today" has its own criteria for judging the quality of the paper. My opinion is only Can serve as a reference.

“And their cycle is very long. You can only get the Most Potential Newcomer Award when you are a student, but you are now in seventh grade.”

"It doesn't matter, I just want to give it a try." Hermione said, "As long as I can pass, I will be satisfied. If I can't win the Most Potential Newcomer Award... Although it's a bit regretful, there is nothing I can do about it. After all, I accumulated a lot of experience last year. Knowledge is not enough.”

"It's just a possibility, but not necessarily." Professor McGonagall said, "School has just started. If everything goes well, there will be no problem."

"H...Miss Granger, do you want to contribute to "Transfiguration Today"?" Kyle asked from the side.

“Yes, Headmaster,” Hermione said, “Everyone says this is the most authoritative Transfiguration magazine, and I want to give it a try.”

“You are already ahead of most students if you have this idea. No matter whether you can succeed or not, it will help you in the future.”

 “I think so too,” said Professor McGonagall.

"Well, come with me." She said to Hermione, "I have a few books here that should be helpful to you."

 After saying that, she turned around and took Hermione towards her office. At the same time, she said to Kyle: "Pay attention to the time."

Kyle responded.

He knew that Professor McGonagall meant that he should pay attention to the timing of taking the Polyjuice Potion and not change it back in public, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

Kyle will certainly not forget this.

 After Professor McGonagall took Hermione away, he walked toward the auditorium alone.

Since you want to show up, you must find a place with a lot of people. It is lunch time now, and nowhere is there more people than the auditorium.

He didn't meet any other students along the way. When he reached the second floor, he was blocked by a person.

 It couldn’t be said that she was squatting at the corner of the stairs, which happened to be the direction leading to the auditorium.

“Miss Lovegood,” Kyle said in a greeting tone to other students, “What are you looking at?”

 “Hook glass.”

“Where is it?” Kyle looked directly in front of her. There were only floor tiles and a group of small bugs attracted by the cookie crumbs.

“They were scared away. They were still there just now.” Luna stood up, the cork pendant on her ear shaking.

"Hello, Kyle." She greeted: "Why are you back at Hogwarts?"

"You...you got it wrong, I am the principal." Kyle said.

"Really? That's really congratulations to you." Luna said happily.

 “I...well, how did you see it?”

"Because I know you, isn't it weird?" Luna said with a smile.

 She was still the same as before, wearing strange ornaments and gaudy glasses.

Kyle had to admit that there were always some unexplainable people or things appearing in the magical world, such as Tonks's natural disguisemagus, and then Luna.

 She is considered a natural Legilimency?

 No, not like that.

His Occlumency is not said to be the most perfect, but it is still relatively successful. Even Dumbledore and Voldemort should not be able to see through his thoughts.

  Cat Leopard is also a natural legilimens, but its ability is still restrained by Occlumency.

As for Luna, she recognized her identity at a glance without any doubt. This was not something Legilimency could do.

After thinking about it, Kyle could only tentatively attribute it to an extraordinary intuition.

 Simply put... Whoever I think you should be, then you must be who you are. She doesn't believe what she sees with her eyes, she only believes in the first thought that pops up in her heart.

This ability is even more unreasonable than a natural Legilimency, because it is not affected by any external factors, no matter how well it is disguised, it is useless.

 …

"Kyle, how does it feel to be the principal?" Luna asked curiously: "Compared with the students."

“It’s just so-so, not great, not as comfortable as a student.” Kyle said, “But Luna, can you do me a favor?”

 “Okay.” Luna said, without any hesitation or even asking what the business was, she agreed.

"Don't worry, it's not a big deal." Kyle said, "That's it. If you saw me in school, can you not tell others?"

"Why should I tell others?" Luna asked, raising her head, as if Kyle had asked a stupid question.

"Well..." Kyle was speechless for a moment. He felt that he couldn't keep up with Luna's thoughts.

"Okay, I agreed, Kyle didn't come to Hogwarts." Luna said calmly, "Well, goodbye, Principal Dumbledore... But I have to say, you are really not as good-looking as you were before."

Luna continued to shake the corks from her ears and skipped away from the second floor.

Kyle stood there, watching her run to the first floor, turn into the auditorium and disappear.

Magic is like this, it can always bring people all kinds of unexpected surprises or scares.

Kyle estimated that even if Tonks turned into a person who had no resemblance to her at all, Luna would see through it at a glance.

Kyle felt a little lucky.

 Fortunately, this person is Luna... Of course, it is only Luna.

Although this kind of extraordinary intuition is very unreasonable and not magical, it will not have this effect if it appears in another person.

For example, Hermione, when she doubts something, the first thing she thinks of is not to believe it, but to think about whether it is logical. If the facts she sees are contrary to her intuition, she will subconsciously deny her intuition.

Take the matter of pretending to be Dumbledore as an example.

The first time Luna saw herself, she decided that she was fake. Even if everyone and the facts told her that the person in front of her was Dumbledore, she still didn't believe it.

If it were Hermione, Professor McGonagall would be able to clear him from suspicion with just one sentence.

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 (End of this chapter)