HP Shavings Wizard

summer vacation.

Alison sank leisurely into the soft sofa and unfolded a newspaper that had been thrown on the sofa before - Merlin! Can't they learn from the Muggles and make some changes, get a mobile phone to push the news tomorrow?

Every day the owls report on time early in the morning. She used to have the leisure to tease and feed the various owls, but now she gets annoyed by the sounds and just perfunctorily gives the owls some copper knuts.

However, this traditional paper media method is indeed more protective of the eyes.

The animated picture on the cover showed a few old wizards. Their expressions were so excited that Alison suspected that their saliva would spurt out of the newspaper in the next second.

"Hogwarts NEWT and OWL exams have a record high score rate! It may be related to the "God-given land"..."

The author interviewed several examiners in charge of the exam.

In the past, the Hogwarts Wizarding Level Examinations were not considered big news; after all, they took place every year.

But this year is obviously different.

The impact of all-round physical improvement is enormous.

After Christmas, the little wizards slowly settled down for half a year and adapted to their previously rapidly growing power, and those effects naturally became apparent.

Whether it was the various spells that required control over magic power, or the written tests and potions, herbs, history of magic, and a variety of elective courses that tested memory, the young wizards mastered them all with ease.

There are more high scores this year than ever before.

Dumbledore was still discussing this with Professor McGonagall when he left Hogwarts.

After all, an O grade in the fifth grade means that you can continue to stay in school and take elective courses.

In previous years, there were not many young wizards in the advanced classes for each sixth grade course, so the professors allowed those who met the requirements from the four colleges to attend the classes together.

But according to the number of outstanding students this year...

Trouble.

It may be necessary to divide classes into two groups like in lower grades.

This is not just one class split into two.

The old principal and vice-principal still have to consider the future.

If this continues, next year, another batch of oversubscribed advanced study classes will have to be added...

The schedules of the Hogwarts professors are not easy to begin with and are basically full. On top of that, I have to take two more of the most demanding senior classes, and I don’t know how to arrange all of these extra classes!

This is a major change that hasn't happened in a thousand years...

Alison turned the page of the newspaper.

The second page is the practical course exam.

After Dumbledore discussed this with the Ministry of Magic, Fudge directly included it as an item in the wizard level examination.

There is no written test.

It all depends on actual combat ability.

Everyone has only been playing the game for less than a year this year, so the assessment will be based on game progress, character level, and character attributes, and a basic score will be given based on these.

Then there are performance points.

You have to fight the small BOSS on the last page of the map.

Regardless of winning or losing, it just depends on the use of spells in actual combat, the timing of releasing skills, and the sensitivity to combat...

This year, the Ministry of Magic is recruiting Aurors and has made an O score in this item a hard requirement.

Because The Daily Prophet is the official mouthpiece of the United Kingdom, they were able to get a few internal photos for publicity.

The typesetter deliberately selected some magnificent battle photos and arranged them neatly in the middle.

The surrounding scenes may be lonely wilderness, pale towers and stone pillars, or gorgeous and eerie churches covered with blood and skull fragments...

Several outstanding senior students calmly dealt with the ferocious monsters.

Some of them were aggressive and fought head-on, while others were agile and light in dodging, with all kinds of magical lights flashing in between...

It is much more generous than the usual wizard duel where "short sticks set off fireworks".

If we ask Muggles to evaluate it, it would probably be that it has a sense of expensive Hollywood special effects from beginning to end.

Those rare serious Aurors who were temporarily pulled in for the test were full of praise, and they felt deeply that the quality of Hogwarts graduates this time was excellent, and that this "God-given land" had enhanced their strength.

Yawning, Alison looked at the plate on the right again.

《Notice from the Ministry of Magic! A new Department of Secret Realms Management has been established! The number of Hogwarts graduates recruited this year may double!》

Closely related to graduation is naturally employment.

Summer vacation is not just a summer vacation, it is also a transition period for some graduates as their youth ends and they begin to become adults and have to find a job. Most people have to work diligently, endure humiliation, and support their families.

The Ministry of Magic...

Emmmmm......

A stable job.

The end of the universe is the civil service exam.

Government jobs and being an insider within the system are very popular no matter where you are, including in the European wizarding world.

Decent, good salary - look at the Weasleys.

Molly was a housewife. Before her older children got jobs, Mr. Weasley's salary was used to support the family's daily expenses.

Head of the Muggle Artifacts Misuse Department.

This is a cold department.

Although Arthur was the supervisor, there were only two people in the entire office - himself and an old wizard named Perkins.

The most common thing they deal with is sewage backflow from Muggle toilets caused by wizard curses...

Uh.

Some jobs in the Ministry of Magic are indeed like this. They sound impressive, but they are actually very strange when you look at them carefully...

But the salary is really high.

Unpopular departments all have salaries that are enough to support a family.

For most wizards, it is more than enough.

As long as you pay enough, I can even clean the toilet!

Those who have good living conditions and have the confidence to despise the environment and boring work of the Ministry of Magic are all the big guys among the big guys. In a sense, they are a little out of touch with this world and will not starve to death - of course, this is not derogatory, it just means that they are not ordinary people.

For example, he resigned from the Ministry of Magic and wrote a letter directly to Professor Dumbledore to change jobs and become Professor McGonagall, the professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts.

He is now a master of Transfiguration.

During his time at school, he was also an outstanding student in Transfiguration and Dumbledore's favorite student!

Another example is Dumbledore, who was appointed Minister of Magic by the Ministry of Magic three times.

Dumbledore must have had plenty of material resources. He was now pursuing spiritual satisfaction and had already begun studying philosophy. His way of speaking was always very puzzling.

If it were Alison, she would probably say she had nothing better to do.

Alison sighed sadly.

Why is the expansion of the Ministry of Magic always related to her?

The enrollment was expanded last year.

Because Alison destroyed Azkaban and absorbed all the Dementors there, the prisoners were drained of their emotional energy and all turned into zombies.

The Ministry of Magic can only expand enrollment during graduation season.

It's the Law Enforcement Department, which looks like a respectable job like an Auror.

It's actually an adjustment.

The recruits were ranked according to their scores. Those who were ranked last but had no problems went to see the new prison gate.

Prison guards are also considered law enforcement officers.

Surprise, not unexpected?

There are house-elves to deliver meals, so all you need to do is make regular inspections and there’s no need to open the doors to let the prisoners out for some fresh air, which saves you thirty years of detour!

The reason for the expansion this year is that the new Secret Realm Management Department needs new people to do the work.

Because the game world requires a high level of force, the requirements for this new department are not low.

But what is foreseeable is that it will definitely be a hot job this year.

The transcripts for the wizarding level exams are simply devaluing.

There are more and more outstanding students, but only a few good jobs. I guess the future will be very competitive.

The newspaper also included an interview with Minister of Magic Fudge regarding future employment pressure and talent selection.

Fudge, as usual, was unable to take responsibility and hemmed and hawed about things like "we'll try our best to solve it" and "the Ministry of Magic expanding its enrollment" and other bullshit.

What a joke! If he had real ability, he wouldn't have to go to Hogwarts to ask Dumbledore for help so often.

The Ministry of Magic's Education Department gave an accurate answer, saying that it would consider increasing the difficulty of future wizard level exams and try to grade young wizards according to their levels.

As for the employment pressure...

No way.

Who can live without pressure?

The pressure during graduation season was quite high, and the Ministry of Magic would also provide career guidance for fifth-year students, helping them plan their advancement direction in advance.

All I can say is that you should study hard and improve yourself while you are in school.

Now that we have that "God-given land", if we work hard, we can change our destiny in the future. It is never too late.

The last side is the Quidditch World Cup that was held earlier.

Apart from the fact that Krum caught the Golden Snitch but Ireland won, which was beyond the fans' expectations, many other things happened at the Quidditch World Cup.

In order to maintain relations and also to curry favor, the Ministry of Magic sent several tickets to the final, thinking that the Dumbledore family might go.

However, the old headmaster gave several tickets to the final, as he knew the outcome and didn't want to watch it in person, to Professor McGonagall, a Quidditch fanatic.

Since Professor Maomao is single, he simply invited a few single colleagues to watch the game happily together.

When meeting familiar students, some professors still remember to chat with them.

Meanwhile, in the topmost box, the highest point in the stadium, facing the golden goalposts, while Harry was chatting with the trembling house-elf Winky, Professor McGonagall keenly felt the presence of a living person in the empty seat.

Although it was a bit strange to say this, she did feel it - Transfiguration was mostly related to dead and living things, plus her perception ability had improved in the past year...

The perceptive Professor Cat successfully discovered the empty space under the invisibility cloak. It was Barty Crouch Jr., the Death Eater who was brought back from Azkaban by Barty Crouch Sr. by replacing his dying wife with his son more than a decade ago.

According to gossip magazines and tabloids, Fudge was so scared that he screamed on the spot.

In full view of the public, old Barty Crouch took off his hat/official hat and watched his son being recaptured - perhaps he could be considered lucky, as he escaped Alison's Azkaban purge last year, and if he was recaptured he would die of old age in a normal prison.

The dead of the British are not dead...

This is the World Cup, and foreign departments such as the Department of International Magical Cooperation and the Department of Magical Sports and Entertainment are watching!

It's really embarrassing abroad.

After this little episode, we still have to continue watching the game; the World Cup is the highlight.

When the team's mascots appeared and the Irish leprechauns scattered gold coins, Professor Flitwick, who was half-leprechaun, could only smile and sigh as he watched the wizards picking up the coins in a panic. He explained to the children who were also picking up money next to him that these coins were almost the same in feel and appearance as Galleons, but would disappear after a few hours.

The goblins themselves are experts in casting Galleons, so they can easily tell whether metal utensils are made by goblins. These short-waisted gold coins certainly cannot deceive their eyes.

Professor Flitwick also has this sensitivity that comes from his blood.

Then, apparently, when Ludo Bagman, the Head of the Department of Magical Sports and Games, tried to make money from betting on football matches by paying the winners with vanishing leprechaun coins, Professor Flitwick recognised the counterfeit coins and exposed his plan.

Several professors, including Professor McGonagall, angrily taught Bagman a lesson - not because they were also involved in gambling, but because Bagman had cheated underage wizards like the Weasley twins out of their money to realize their dreams of opening a shop.

Professor McGonagall did not approve of gambling, and she even gave the twins a glare.

But as the dean, he couldn't just watch these lovely kids from his own academy get defrauded of their money - at least the principal had to be returned!

It would be fine if she didn't meet me, but if she did, she would definitely take care of it!

Of course, these random, personal bits and pieces will not be written in the Daily Prophet.

This was the complaint Professor McGonagall wrote to Dumbledore after she experienced the disastrous Quidditch World Cup.

However, despite so many things, she still praised the wonderful game and the unexpected turn of events in her letter, and thanked Dumbledore for giving the ticket to her - Alison could even imagine Professor Cat's rosy face at that time.

After reading it out of boredom, he closed the newspaper and threw it casually on the soft chair next to him.

Alison was alone at home this morning.

Bathilda goes to play with her old friends - it seems that upgrading the game world can also cure Alzheimer's disease?

In short, Grindelwald helped Bathilda level up several times, guided her aunt from beginning to end in choosing a wizard, and put more energy into her. Bathilda gradually became more energetic, and her cloudy eyes became brighter. The dazed expression that often appeared on her face in the past disappeared.

In recent times, the old witch has been maintaining the energy and passion she had when she first recovered.

She quickly dug out the dusty dessert recipes from the corners that she had not turned to since she became forgetful due to Alzheimer's disease. She was busy making desserts every day to share with relatives and friends, and she would usually chat with them for a long time when she visited her friends' homes.

And the two old fathers, Dumbledore and Grindelwald...

They went to visit the graves.

Dumbledore now makes it a habit to visit the graves a month or so in advance, to prevent Aberforth from running into Grindelwald - that would be a total disaster!

The black tombstone, the traces of water that melted after freezing that led to the growth of plants, and the mossy granite stones all needed to be cleaned carefully.

Alison still can't figure out why her father suddenly asked her to stay home to do her summer homework and didn't plan to take her to visit the graves.

Although she didn't really want to go, she spent most of her time staring at other tombstones and daydreaming...