Hogwarts: I'm a model wizard

Chapter 823 Stubborn Pointer Lady

The sun is rising, and the bright morning sunlight shines on the Hogwarts castle, waking up the students who are still sleeping in.

In the principal's office on the eighth floor, Kyle, who had not slept all night, put down the quill in his hand and sorted out the thick pile of parchment in front of him.

This was his experience in the past half month, from being forced to accept the task of pretending to be Dumbledore at the beginning of the school year, to deciding to go to France, to Beauxbatons, to meet Professor Victor and chat with him...

As requested by Professor McGonagall, Kyle spent an entire night recalling the times of these actions as accurately as possible to the hour... or even the minute.

Of course, there must be something wrong here. After all, he couldn't check the time before doing everything, but Kyle felt that it didn't have much impact, as long as the most critical nodes could be matched.

While he was writing this, the principals in the portraits were watching behind him, having also been watching all night... except that they didn't need to sleep and were in much better spirits than Kyle.

"Wait a moment, let me look at the seventeenth page of parchment again."

Kyle had just put down his quill when he heard a voice behind him.

She was a witch dressed in medieval style and looked very unfamiliar. Kyle was sure that he had never seen her before.

This is normal. There are quite a few portraits in the principal's office, more than 30 in total. But not every principal is like Armando Dippet and Phineas Black, who like to stay here for a long time...

Almost half of them are usually in portraits elsewhere and only come here when something big happens in Hogwarts.

The current headmaster Dumbledore is trapped in a time loop, which is a big deal.

So after getting the news, they all came over.

This was the first time that Kyle felt that the principal's office was a little crowded... Of course, it wasn't really crowded, after all, they couldn't get out, it was just a feeling.

"What are you daydreaming about? Hurry up." The medieval witch said again, her tone stern, just like Professor McGonagall when she was angry, but more old-fashioned and dogmatic than Professor McGonagall.

And judging from the expressions of the people around her, she is not someone who is easy to get along with.

Kyle didn't say anything and took away the parchment in front of him as she asked.

The content on page 17 was exactly what he had said to Professor Victor in the alchemy classroom on the afternoon of the day he arrived at Beauxbatons.

"Difficulty classification of alchemy...necessary conditions for learning alchemy...alchemy textbooks..."

Although he only read one page, the principal's face had already turned ugly.

"Tell me, what are you asking?" she demanded sharply.

"Nothing, just curious," Kyle said.

"Curious?" The witch narrowed her eyes, obviously not believing Kyle's words.

"Yes, this course is very popular among students in Beauxbatons, so I asked a few more questions." Kyle smiled, "Otherwise, what else could I do?"

"It's better this way." The witch said coldly: "Remember, you are just pretending to be the principal, not the real principal, don't do anything unnecessary."

"Of course not," Kyle said with a smile.

The witch glanced at him.

"I heard that the current headmaster... Albus Dumbledore is very optimistic about you. Perhaps one day, you can really become the headmaster of Hogwarts."

"You're flattering me," Kell said modestly. "Professor Dumbledore is like that to everyone."

"But I must warn you." The witch pursed her lips tightly into a line, "Even if you really become the headmaster, you cannot modify the curriculum of Hogwarts without reason... This is the curriculum set by the greatest witch Rowena Ravenclaw, and no one can change it."

"Ah, you are right." Kyle nodded repeatedly, "The Hogwarts curriculum cannot be changed, there is no doubt about that."

"It's good that you think so." The witch's expression finally became less ugly. She looked around and said, "What are you all doing here? Why don't you go find a solution?"

Several principals ran away immediately, and the rest said nothing, without any intention of refutation. Even Phineas, the most noisy one, calmed down for a rare time at this time and did not say a word the whole time.

"Forget it. I'm going to find Minerva now. In my opinion, she is more suitable to be the headmaster than Dumbledore." After leaving a word, the witch disappeared from the picture frame.

Afterwards, Kyle clearly saw that everyone around him breathed a sigh of relief.

"You scared me." Armando Dippet patted his chest and said to Kyle, "Just now I thought you were going to quarrel with the stubborn Lady Pointer."

"Wait, what's her name?"

"Stubborn Lady Pointer." Armando said again: "She is a person who abides by the rules, just like a pointer, always moving along the set route, and never allowing herself or others around her to deviate."

"She is also a crazy admirer of Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw." Phineas beside him added: "Even if Ravenclaw said one day that Hogwarts is round, she would definitely believe it without hesitation and regard it as the truth."

"That's normal," said another headmaster. "Noilild's time was the most difficult time for Hogwarts. With her personality, if it was someone else, Hogwarts might have ceased to exist long ago."

"The most difficult period?" Kyle asked curiously, "Can you tell me more about it?"

"Calculating the time, it was probably about seven centuries ago."

She was silent for a moment and then said, "Affected by the times, black magic was extremely popular at that time. Wizards were crazy about making black magic items with strange powers, and it even became a trend... The infamous Hand of Glory and Crystal Skull are products of that period. You should know these two things."

Kyle nodded.

The Hand of Glory is a withered arm. If you put a candle in the dark, only the person holding it can see the light.

As for the crystal skull... it is an item used for divination and is also the earliest crystal ball. Of course, it is more powerful than the crystal ball and its production method is more cruel. It is something that is expressly prohibited by the Ministry of Magic.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. There were many more dark magic items invented and improved at that time. Under those circumstances, the situation of Hogwarts was extremely difficult. It had to face the double pressure from the dark wizards and the Muggle society."

Another headmaster said: "The dark wizards regard them as heretics and try their best to occupy this place, and then spread their terrible theories to the students.

"Muggles regard them as accomplices of dark wizards and hate them to the extreme. Once they find that there are children around who have awakened magic, they will kill them without hesitation."

Kyle was silent. If that was the case, Hogwarts probably wouldn't be able to recruit many people at that time.

After all, in the wizarding world, pure-blood wizards only account for a small part; most of them are half-blood or wizards from Muggle families.

When they stopped going to school, Hogwarts was really close to closing.

"Fortunately, Rowena Ravenclaw seemed to have guessed that this day would come." The headmaster continued, "So she left a book in the headmaster's office. It contains how Hogwarts should respond when encountering danger."

"So, the headmaster led Hogwarts through the crisis safely based on the contents of the book?" Kyle asked.

"Yes, strictly follow the plan, no mistakes are allowed."

"Although she successfully led Hogwarts through the crisis, she also gradually developed her current personality... She regards everything related to Rowena Ravenclaw as an iron rule."

"That's understandable," Kyle said. "It would be the same for anyone."

"I'm surprised you didn't refute her." Armando said, "I thought you would argue with her."

"Why should I argue?" Kyle smiled, "She's right, I'm not the real principal, what do these things have to do with me.

"Arguing with her is just a waste of time, even if you win. It's useless. Instead, I can feel more at peace if I just go along with what she says."

"So... you really plan to open an alchemy class at Hogwarts?" Phineas raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It's not my plan." Kyle corrected, "I'm not the headmaster, I don't have the authority, it's just an idea." Kyle shook his head and said, "Alchemy is becoming more and more important in other countries, and there are more and more related items. Hogwarts can't fall behind."

“But these all need to be decided by the principal. I just put forward an idea and the specific preliminary preparations. If it is approved, at least we know what to do.

"Why, are you also against the addition of alchemy classes?"

"I don't care," said Phineas. "It doesn't matter to me anyway."

"I think there's nothing wrong with adding a new course." Armando said, "Hogwarts' curriculum has been the same for a thousand years, so it's good to add some changes."

"It's necessary," said another principal who lives here, Delis Devonte. "Don't you see how far Hogwarts has fallen behind in the ranking of international magic schools?

"There are eleven schools and we are ranked tenth. Even Durmstrang, which has no headmaster, ranks higher than us. Aren't you ashamed?"

"It has nothing to do with me." Phineas immediately said, "When I was the headmaster, Hogwarts was still at the top. It's all Armando's fault."

"You're talking nonsense!" Armando Dippet yelled, "It was since you became the headmaster that Hogwarts' ranking has been declining. Are you still trying to shirk responsibility now?"

"I'm so pissed off!" He turned around and took out a huge mace from somewhere.

"Stand still, let's discuss the ranking of schools."

"Stop... No, stop, don't come over here, I'm warning you not to come over here..." Phineas ran away with such skillful movements that dumbfounded the principals who were seeing this scene for the first time.

Now they are...all so lively?

But for Dai Lisi Devonte, this was nothing new. She continued to look at Kyle and said, "Your idea is good, but it's not easy to implement."

"You mean to say that Principal Neulild will object?"

"It's not important." Dai Lisi shook her head. "We former principals only have the right to make suggestions, not the right to decide. As long as the current principal agrees, her opposition will be useless. At most, she will never come again. Of course, this will also have no impact. The difficulties I mentioned are for another situation."

"For example, funding issues." She continued, "I also wanted to add a new healing course. After all, Hogwarts only has herbs and potions, but just learning these is far from enough to become a qualified healer.

"If there is a healing class, students who want to be healers can go directly to St. Mungo's after graduation, which can save a lot of time."

"That's good," Kell said. "I remember Madam Pomfrey having the same thought."

"But the school doesn't have enough start-up funds." Dai Lisi sighed, "The cost of opening a new course is much more than you think. The school directors have long been content with the status quo. They don't really want to spend an extra large sum of Galleons to do something that they think will not benefit them at all."

"Besides, the cost of learning alchemy is much higher than that of a healer, and it is definitely more difficult."

"I know that." Kyle nodded.

In alchemy, dragon scales and dragon blood are common materials, and their frequency of use is almost the same as ginger root and fish bone powder in potions. With the financial resources of Beauxbatons, they have to go to the Dragon Sanctuary to purchase the defective products that others don't want.

But this is easy to solve, just lower the standard a little bit, if you can't afford fire dragons, use materials with fire dragon bloodline. Or change alchemical items into magic items... like the things they sold in school, they are actually in this category.

However, these are just plans. Whether they can be used or not will have to wait until Dumbledore returns.

If the operation to rescue Dumbledore failed, no matter how good the plan was, it would be useless.

Kyle sorted out the scattered parchments and asked the headmasters to call Professor McGonagall, who was about to go to class.

Soon, the door of the headmaster's office was pushed open and Professor McGonagall walked in quickly.

"Here's what you asked for." Kyle handed her the parchment.

Although the class was about ten minutes away, Professor McGonagall carefully looked through the parchment and tried to remember every detail.

Kyle didn't interrupt and just watched from the side.

"What are you going to do next?" she suddenly asked after a few minutes.

"Just wait in the school." Kyle thought for a moment and said, "Wait until Nico fixes the time-turner."

"I think you might as well go do something else."

Professor McGonagall raised her head and looked at him deeply. "Everything is normal at school now, and Dumbledore doesn't need to show up often. You can leave and do what you like... For example, as you said on the Hogwarts Express, take a nap until noon."

"what?"

Kyle didn't expect Professor McGonagall to say this. "But didn't you want me to stay in school and be ready to deal with any emergencies as Professor Dumbledore?"

"That was just an old thought, but it's no longer necessary now."

Professor McGonagall said calmly, "It's normal that Dumbledore is often not in school, and if you stay here, it will increase the possibility of being exposed.

"Go back, or go somewhere else to relax... I recommend you go to Germany. The academic atmosphere there is very good, completely different from the UK. It is very unique. Quidditch is also popular in Germany. You can always see many exciting games in various places."

"Is that right?"

Kyle whispered, "But why do I feel like you don't want me to stay in school and are deliberately driving me out?"

"Now that you've discovered this... I do have this idea." Professor McGonagall nodded decisively and admitted it. "It says here that Nicolas Flamel will deliver the repaired Time Converter to Hogwarts. This will also prevent you from acting on your own."

"Is it possible that Nico didn't send the time turner to the school, but to me?" Kyle said.

"Then I'll go to where he lives and wait."

Professor McGonagall said calmly, "Yes, there is no doubt that I know Mr. Nicolas Flamel, and I have been to his estate in Devonshire when I was young. Although that was decades ago, I know how to meet him."

"What about the Transfiguration class here at school?"

"I will find a suitable person to replace me in advance, which is not difficult."

"I must remind you again, Kyle." Professor McGonagall said with a serious expression, "Rescuing Dumbledore is the responsibility of us professors, not yours. There is absolutely no need for you to take risks for this matter."

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