I sat on the wall stack on the astronomy tower, facing the big lake in front of Hogwarts, holding a thick stack of draft paper in my hand.

"What went wrong...well, maybe I should do the math again?"

You know, I'm working on that formula.

In the first three years when I came here, I sorted out a relatively complicated function based on the parameters of the situation punished by the order.The main parameters include the degree of fit between me and the world (the value is also slowly increasing with time); the impact of the events that have occurred on the world, the latter including an impact on the future behavior of all the characters present , secondary influence on absent important figures, and sometimes three influences on absent core figures—and in order to fully digitize these standards, I have to set more than a dozen parameters—for which I have to Always doing the work of a behaviorist, trying to find a way to study the future trajectory of these people...

At the beginning, I was not very proficient in this, and I always made mistakes. At that time, my basic formula was only [-] inches long on paper, but after three years of continuous checking and calculation, my ability in this area has improved significantly. Not long ago I even thought I could be the Hari Seldon of the twentieth century.

"I really want to publish the social behavior prediction model that I have summed up. Then the Muggles will have to give me awards..." I scratched my head and found that I hadn't learned anything about order, but in social behavior Many rules have been summarized in the direction of data-based research.

Well, the problem now is that the third grade basically has a prototype, and the functions that have no major problems—at most, adjust the parameters—have been completely useless since the beginning of school.I mean, totally useless.

The problem now is that after I bring the data in, the results I get are upside down.And when it is verified by the events that have happened, the guidance it gives me is sometimes completely contrary to the established facts.

Since the beginning of school, two important things have happened. One is that Bruce replaced Fleur as Beauxbaton's warrior, and the other is that Barty Crouch Jr. was arrested and imprisoned in advance.The latter may also lead to the bankruptcy of Voldemort's complete resurrection plan, and at the same time help Sirius to be corrected for more than ten years.

And according to my own rather proud prediction model, the occurrence of either of these two things would kill me, but in fact, I had nothing when the first thing happened, which obviously led to more serious problems. The second thing with major consequences only put me out for a month.

There must be something wrong with it.

I have to find out why.

"Vincent?"

Someone knocked on the door and my train of thought was interrupted.It was Harry's voice.I stared at the manuscript paper in my hand and greeted him. "Is there a problem?"

"Oh, that's right." Harry sounded a little anxious. "A classmate in Defense Against the Dark Arts told me today that the teacher of this class has been replaced by Sirius—is that right?"

"About this..." I used a pen to draw out the last two abnormal data, and simply put down the parchment.I shrugged. "Sirius insisted on substituting for Professor Moody."

"He insists on doing it?" said Harry hurriedly, "but the question is, isn't there something wrong with that position? Hermione checked the information in the library, and it's clear that the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher has been there for a long time. The frequency has changed every year, and in recent years, these professors seem to have become more and more miserable..."

"You don't want him teaching here." I came to that conclusion.

"Of course not - but the thing is, he shouldn't be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts." Harry frowned, looking worried.

I stuffed the parchment into my bag and asked him, "Have you tried to convince Sirius?"

"Obviously," Harry spread his hands: "He didn't agree with me on this point, so I came to you..."

"Get to know the situation, um, of course, I have been living at his house," I took out some bread from my schoolbag, "Do you want to eat it?"

"Well, thanks. I've had it," said Harry.

I ate the bread myself for lunch and told him there was nothing to worry about.

"Harry, give Sirius some credit. He's been through a lot."

"But if it's really a curse or something, no amount of power is enough—I mean, look at Professor Moody. By the way, do you know what happened to the real Moody?"

"He's recovering well, I think. But he's getting more paranoid, and Dumbledore and the other professors don't think he's a good fit for an overly complex situation given his current situation—and there's a lot of noise. The Hogwarts of the troubled students was one of those occasions - although he himself insisted 'Teaching these kids with no attack power at all won't make me lose my head or something. I'm not so weak!' '" I imitated Moody's gruff, deeply offended tone.

"Dumbledore and the other professors think?" Harry asked suspiciously, "How do you know what the professors think?"

"Do you know the Order of the Phoenix?" I asked.

"Oh, by the way, the professors were at your house to discuss their plans to deal with Voldemort," said Harry.According to his words, I knew that Dumbledore did not hide Harry, the person concerned, about Voldemort's return.

Moody is temporarily unable to take up the task of teaching at the school, and the replacement candidate becomes Sirius.The latter has been in the limelight in the past few months, intending to attract revenge from some Death Eaters who are ready to move, but in fact no one tried to attack him, and the entire wizarding world seemed to be law-abiding and good citizens. Dead Apostles.

Dumbledore summed up this phenomenon: "Death Eaters who are backed by others will never be so restrained. They will not give up the opportunity to express themselves." In other words, Voldemort hiding in any corner can be cautious, So far, none of his subordinates know that his master, the Dark Lord, is planning a comeback and a comeback.

Sirius was tired of the meaningless bait, and according to the information obtained from Crouch Jr., Harry was obviously missed by Voldemort, and his blood was an indispensable material for Voldemort's restoration.Knowing this as a premise, it would be strange if someone could stop him from guarding Hogwarts when he was innocent.

And at this juncture, it is undoubtedly a good choice to let someone who knows the basics to teach.

"You remember Quirrell, and Lockhart, and there was a professor who limped a leg during his tenure. That position was obviously cursed or something." Harry was clearly dissatisfied with the new teacher candidates Welcome attitude.

"I have no choice. I also tried to persuade him, but," I raised my eyebrows helplessly, "his eloquence is very good, but I was the one who was persuaded in the end."

Harry didn't get a satisfactory answer from me. Obviously he didn't want Sirius to be in such a dangerous position, so he had to try to persuade Sirius many times.Before leaving, I paid attention to his recent situation in accordance with the etiquette. The second competition was less than two weeks later, and I asked him how his preparations were going.

"Oh, no big deal, I'm pretty much done with that golden egg," said Harry.

After Harry left, I was silent for a while.I certainly do not support Sirius being here as a professor of that course.But when everyone agrees that this is a good idea, my objection is of no avail.Everyone's life has a focus, like my current focus of life, which can be said to be studying order and maintaining the basic plot; and members of the Order of the Phoenix, their focus of life is to prevent Voldemort and his forces from rising again.

Even if I were an outsider, I have no right to ask them to abandon their priorities in life to revolve around mine—such as asking Sirius not to venture outside, but to stay at home until next summer when he is destined The day when he lost his life; for example, asking the principal not to try to prevent Voldemort from being reborn, and let him resurrect according to the established track...

I ate my lunch, took out my manuscript paper again, and began to continue the calculation with great effort.

My own center of gravity is order.

While Sirius and the other members of the Order are working their way around their own priorities, what I need to do is not to point fingers and tell them about known dangers (as I said before, there is no shortage of dangerous accidents in the wizarding world), This is putting the cart before the horse.All I can do is do what I have to do to bring order to this mess so I think I will be able to see and deal with the future, which seems like a fog to me and to everyone else.

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