Admiral of Hogwarts

"I remember you, Miss Rupp, you are an honor student in Gryffindor." Because Dumbledore sat down to drink tea together, the atmosphere in the living room quickly relaxed. After Mr. Principal drank two cups of tea and tasted several kinds of refreshments made by them, he turned his attention back to the fireflies and said.

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Principal." Firefly, who was sitting there, bowed slightly gracefully, then raised his head and looked at Professor Dumbledore. "By the way, what are you doing here today? Is it related to the petition I sent you before?"

"Yes, that's the letter." Professor Dumbledore nodded and put down the tea cup, then looked into Firefly's eyes seriously and asked. "Can you tell me why you wrote me that petition? Especially since you are still a junior student——"

"Professor Dumbledore is not using any magic now." At the moment Dumbledore asked Firefly, Hood's voice rang in Hugo's mind through the Admiral Network, "The principal is simply asking about Firefly. Things, this is not the same point of view as those fan fictions you remember."

"This is normal. After all, Professor Dumbledore is a white wizard and the principal of Hogwarts. How can he use magic similar to Legilimency when facing his own students? ." Hugo said at this time, "So the fans in my mind can only be used as a reference, but I can't believe them all."

Just as Hugo was communicating with the ship girls through the Admiral Network, the conversation between Firefly and Professor Dumbledore also reached a critical point. After being convinced that the letter was written entirely from Firefly's own idea, Professor Dumbledore began to ask her why she objected to Lockhart's novel becoming a textbook.

"From everyone's replies in the past few days, I found that the most common reason is that this set of books does not conform to Hogwarts' tradition of selecting textbooks." Firefly said in a very logical manner, "But I have reservations about this view. Opinion, after all, tradition may not be entirely good, just like the tradition of corporal punishment of students that has been abolished at Hogwarts."

"It's very good that you think so." After listening to Firefly's analysis of the first reason, Dumbledore nodded in agreement. "It is a good quality not to blindly follow anything when encountering it. After all, as independent people, we need to think for ourselves——"

"Ah, I'm sorry, people always want to educate others when they get older." After a few words, Dumbledore shook his head subconsciously, and then continued, "Since you don't agree with this point of view 100%, then What was the main reason that actually prompted you to mail me the petition?"

"Mainly from two aspects." Firefly looked at the old principal's eyes very seriously and said, "One of them is about the content of these books. At least the parents I asked all think that these so-called textbooks and other textbooks The biggest difference is that they are essentially just some best-selling novels and are not academically suitable for use as textbooks."

"Well, it is indeed a problem." Professor Dumbledore nodded very seriously after hearing this. As a scholar who has been working on the front line of teaching for more than half a century, he can naturally tell the quality of a textbook. Apparently, after receiving the petition, he took the time to look through Lockhart's books and found that these new textbooks were indeed not suitable for learning Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"Lockhart's books are some very good novels, and they also contain some useful knowledge." Professor Dumbledore said very fairly. "But it is indeed not very suitable for classroom teaching - by the way, besides this reason, what is the other reason?"

"Another reason is that the prices of these books are too expensive." Because the Western world is not very taboo about talking about money-related issues, Firefly talked about the second reason carelessly.

"Families like ours or Granger's have relatively good financial conditions and have few children, so they can afford the price of these books. But for other people, this is not the case."

"For example, the employees in the store opened by my sister have children who are attending Hogwarts this year, so after receiving this book list, he asked my sister for an advance of one month's salary. Otherwise, Their family may not even be able to eat next month."

"It's true, Principal Dumbledore." Hood said at this time, "My employee is 30 years old this year. Not long after graduating from Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, he and his A squib lady got married and worked odd jobs in the wizarding world to make a living. She didn't have any savings until she was hired by me."

"But because he worked so short, he didn't have much savings, so if he wanted to buy this set of books, he would have to borrow money from everywhere." A look of pity appeared on Hood's face. "And when I was helping Firefly sort out the letters, I discovered that there are not a few families like this."

"Yes, yes. -" After listening to Firefly and Hood's words, Professor Dumbledore also showed a serious expression on his face. As the greatest white wizard in Britain and even the entire European wizarding world, he naturally knew With the current situation in the wizarding world, I also understand that what Firefly and the others say is true.

But from another perspective, professors in Western schools have very great autonomy. They can independently decide on their own teaching content, the type of teaching materials, and even have absolute decision-making power over school affairs in some schools. Therefore, even the principal Dumbledore would not be able to interfere in the teaching of other professors.

Therefore, Professor Dumbledore seemed a little embarrassed. On the one hand, he also knew that the examples given by Firefly and Hood were true, and they also represented the inner voice of the vast majority of students and their parents.

After all, whether they are purebloods or hemps, rich or poor, parents naturally hope that their children can learn real knowledge in the classroom instead of reading these popular novels.

But on the other hand, as the principal of a school with a long history, he does not want some traditions to change too much, especially the autonomy of professors. Otherwise, he is worried that there will be more factors that will affect all the professors at Hogwarts in the future. For example, the Ministry of Magic may use this as an opportunity to intervene in Hogwarts.

"Sir, I know the importance of academic independence." As beings similar to heroic spirits, ship girls can really read people's hearts through a series of subtle movements, especially when Dumbledore directly addresses the inner problems like he is doing now. The one who hangs on his face. So Hood spoke directly to Mr. Principal. “But I think that in some cases, specific issues should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis——”

But just as Hood started to speak, there was another knock on the door. Veneto stood up immediately to see what was going on.

A few seconds later, Veneto soon brought a man with hair that was styled into delicate, stiff, weird curls and wearing a pair of jeweled glasses. A middle-aged woman wearing a dazzling green robe walked in.