Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 855 School starts

  The next morning, the storm stopped. Albert opened the window and took a deep breath. The air outside was exceptionally fresh. However, there is still no sign of the weather clearing up. There are large dark clouds rolling in the sky, and heavy rain may fall again at any time.

   "Good morning." George stretched out his hand to cover his yawn, and greeted Albert, "It looks like it will still rain outside."

   "If the rainstorm continues, there will be floods in the lake." Lee Jordan also got up from the bed, and they had to go to the auditorium early today to finalize the sixth grade schedule with Professor McGonagall.

   "Sixth grade is great, we have a lot of time to allocate freely." Fred stretched happily.

"Don't waste the little time at Hogwarts. The most precious thing for you now is the Hogwarts library. Make good use of the remaining two years and use the books in the library. They can provide more inspiration and help for your joke props.” After Albert opened a bag of cat food to feed Tom, he said to the three who were about to embrace the happy sixth grade life, “If you don’t want to be the next Zoko's words."

   "What does this have to do with Joko?" Fred was puzzled, how could he talk about Joko so well.

   "Zoko is a typical example of exhaustion of inspiration. He doesn't have enough knowledge reserves to support him inventing more joke props, and it turned out like that." Albert closed the window again, motioning for several people to talk while walking.

   "Zoko's shop is still visited by people, entirely because there are no other shops in the British magic world to compete with him. If there are other more interesting joke shops, Zoko's joke shop may not be able to withstand the market impact at any time and close down."

"I remember you said something similar before, thinking that after our joke shop opened, Zuko's joke shop might be overwhelmed by us." George agreed with Albert's words, because Zuko's shop It’s true that it’s been a long time since I launched any interesting joke props, and it’s undoubtedly a very bad thing for a joke shop to lose its sense of freshness and novelty.

   "Don't we have you?"

  Fred felt that they didn't need to worry about those things at all. Perhaps, as Albert said, not having enough knowledge support in the later stage would lead to stagnation in the development of joke props, but they had Albert.

  After Albert graduated from Hogwarts School, the knowledge reserve in his head was equivalent to a moving library. What's more, they all know that Albert has the habit of collecting books, and his book reserves can fully support their shop.

   "By the way, are you going to build a radio broadcast?" Lee Jordan suddenly interjected and asked, "If you want, I can write to Dad and ask him to find a way to help us get radio broadcasting equipment."

"There is no rush in this matter. Even if we get the equipment, we will not be able to set it up for a while, and we haven't figured out what content to broadcast. These things have to be planned slowly." Albert walked down the stairs into the public In the lounge, I greeted Shanna who had just come down from the girls' dormitory, and said to Lee Jordan: "I think you can give our station a name first."

  "Gossip little secret?" Lee Jordan said solemnly, "If you allow me to spread a little bit of your privacy, I think our broadcast will definitely become popular soon."

   "Why don't you discuss the color of Snape's underwear on the radio?" Albert gave Lee Jordan a hard look. No one likes to be the protagonist of gossip news.

"This is a good idea, but it will make people lose their appetite. As we all know, Snape may not wash his underwear for a few days. Moreover, we don't know what color Snape's underwear is." Lee Jordan's words immediately attracted Looking at the disgusted eyes of the girls around, he added: "But we know what color your underwear is."

   "Dude, I think you're on your way to death." Both Fred and George couldn't help laughing, and reached out to pat Lee Jordan on the shoulder with an expression of asking for blessings.

Noticing the expression on Albert's face, Lee Jordan couldn't help shrinking his neck, and hurriedly argued: "A lot of people are very curious about your affairs, so it's better to let me take the Come and chat with everyone, everyone knows, and there will be no more messy gossip."

   "Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death?"

   "Sorry, I was just joking." Lee Jordan immediately apologized.

"If you really want to be popular, you can interpret recent events, such as the attacks at the World Cup, such as why the Ministry of Magic responded to emergencies so poorly, or such as the attack on Professor Moody yesterday." Albert Give Lee Jordan a direction.

   "Isn't this similar to the content in the "Defense Guide"?"

"Yes, you can talk about these topics together and interpret some recent events. Many wizards are actually very poor at interpreting key information." Albert did not deny this, and he was going to let them start the broadcast first. Take this to gain some experience.

"I don't think my reading ability is much better." Lee Jordan sat down next to Albert, picked up the latest issue of the "Daily Prophet", and quickly found the report on Moody: Magic There was a new disturbance in the department.

Rita Kiester deliberately downplayed the old Auror Moody incident in the article, and turned the finger on Weasley. For this reason, she deliberately changed Arthur Weasley's name to Arnold Weasley. Attached below is a photo of the Weasley family and the house, clearly with malicious intent.

"Mum must be upset, she's always hated that woman Rita Kist." George took the paper and read the article, frowning, "I bet that woman spelled her name wrong on purpose. "

   "But they still read Rita Skeeter's articles, don't they? We have to admit that Rita Skeeter's nonsense technology has contributed to the sales of the Daily Prophet."

"Rita Skeeter is very good at digging out other people's secrets, and then write articles in a way that many people like." Fred took the newspaper and looked at it and said, "Actually, I'm even more curious, Rita Skeeter actually Let you go, I didn't spread your pornographic news everywhere, I think many girls want to know how many boats you set foot on, and how many beautiful girls you got on."

   "Because I talked to her about it and made her shut up." After Albert finished drinking the milk, he started to make himself a ham sandwich.

   "How did you convince her?"

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all found it incredible. A woman like Rita Skeeter obviously couldn't easily compromise.

  "Everyone has weaknesses. She published those articles for nothing but profit. As long as the negotiation is settled, she will naturally shut up obediently."

   "As expected of you, you actually found Rita Skeeter's weakness."

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan were very curious, but they saw that Albert didn't intend to say anything, so they didn't continue to ask, because Albert obviously wouldn't tell them about Rita Skeeter's weakness.

   "Can we talk about house elves?" A voice suddenly came, and Hermione came to Albert's side at some point.

   "About novels?"

"No, I've given up on the novel for the time being. Do you know where the kitchen is? Nick told me that there are hundreds of house-elves being oppressed in Hogwarts." Hermione took a deep breath and tried to organize her speech: "I I want to set up an association to ensure that the house elves get a reasonable wage and a good working environment, and I wonder if you have any good suggestions."

"No one will join your association, except Harry and Ron." Albert was silent for a long time, and reminded: "Your original intention is good, but your actions are heresy in the eyes of other wizards, and no wizard will Support your approach."

"Why?"

   Hermione's eyes widened in disbelief.

"House-elves are slaves in the eyes of wizards, and no master will allow slaves to be equal to them." Albert signaled Hermione not to get excited, and continued to listen to him, "If you want house-elves to have some power, then There is bound to be a war between house elves and wizards, although it is cruel, some things need to be won with blood, but house elves do not have that kind of power, once a war breaks out, their situation will only be worse than it is now."

   "But I just hope that they will be treated well and their rights will be guaranteed." Hermione looked at Albert in shock, unable to understand why such a terrible thing happened.

"Because your direction is wrong, and your idea is too naive." Albert reminded: "Your goal should be to allow house elves to be treated well, so that they can fully integrate into the wizard family and become an important part of the whole family." It is unrealistic and impossible to achieve, rather than guarantee their power, because wizards will not divide their power at all."

   "Nobody likes being a slave," said Hermione tremblingly.

   "They like to be other people's slaves!" Fred reminded, "They like to work and serve wizards. Hermione, I think you should wake up instead of leading the house-elves to strike and fight for their own power."

  Hermione didn't speak, but stared at Albert.

"Yes, no one likes to be a slave." Albert said helplessly: "But thousands of years of slavery have completely changed the house elves. This is not something you can change with a word, not even Dumbledore. .”

"Even if you want to help them, the house elves won't appreciate it, but will hate you even more, and even regard you as an enemy." Albert noticed the confusion on Hermione's face, and sighed softly, "If If you really want to help them, you should guide and call on the wizards to treat them kindly, so that they can become a reliable part of the family, instead of being regarded as slaves, similar to how we treat pets as part of the family, and this requires a person It takes a long time to work on it. If you really want a law to protect house-elves, then you should aim to be the Minister of Magic. Only when you become the Minister of Magic will you have the opportunity to call for good House-elf."

   "Minister of Magic." Hermione stared at Albert with wide eyes.

   "Yes, I know it's difficult." Albert nodded and said, "That's why I suggest you write a book to subtly guide people to treat house elves well."

   "Thank you, I will seriously consider your proposal." Hermione left disappointed.

   After Hermione walked away, Fred muttered under his breath, "I thought she was a smart girl."

   "Hermione is just a little naive, and she takes it for granted." Albert shook his head.

   "Do you think Hermione can become the Minister of Magic?"

   "It's hard to say, if the environment of the Ministry of Magic doesn't change, she probably won't have any chance." Albert said softly, "But who knows what will happen in the future?"

   "You know!" George laughed, "if you want."

   "That's right." Albert also laughed.

  Just after breakfast, I saw Professor McGonagall coming to distribute the schedule. She needs to identify the N.E.W.Ts enhancement courses that the sixth graders choose to ensure that their O.W.Ls scores meet the minimum requirements of the professors.

"Spells, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Herbalism, Potions, Arithmetic Divination, and Ancient Runes." Professor McGonagall repeated the courses chosen by Albert, picked up the wand and tapped on the curriculum, in When handing over the completed schedule to Albert, she suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "I remember your birthday is in September."

   "Yes, September 21st, are you going to give me a birthday present?" Albert said jokingly.

   "Then do you plan to participate in this year's Triwizard Tournament?" Professor McGonagall lowered his voice.

   "I do intend to sign up." Albert nodded and said, "For a Gryffindor student, such an interesting competition is naturally not to be missed."

   "The Triwizard Tournament is more dangerous than you think, if you've seen it..."

   "You mean that in the competition in 1792, a monster with a chicken body and a snake tail was out of control, causing all three principals to be injured?"

   "The Triwizard Tournament is still very dangerous for you. If you want to participate, you should face the challenge with a positive attitude." Professor McGonagall reminded with a frown.

   "In my opinion, chicken-bodied snake-tailed monsters are not too dangerous creatures. Even if I need to face fire dragons this time in the Triwizard Tournament, I have the confidence to defeat them." Albert was still very confident.

  Professor McGonagall opened his mouth slightly, turned and left. Although she felt that Albert was a little overconfident, but thinking of his brave deeds, there was indeed no one in Hogwarts who was more suitable to be a warrior than him.

   "In this Triwizard Tournament, the warriors need to face the fire dragon?" Lee Jordan felt that he had guessed right.

"Fire dragons are hard to deal with, especially their scales. Most magic doesn't work. How do you plan to defeat them?" Fred and George were curious about how Albert planned to defeat fire dragons. Charlie was studying dragons, and they compared Most people know the horror of dragons.

   "Fire dragons also have weaknesses, and it's not difficult to deal with them according to their weaknesses."

   "What is the weakness of the fire dragon?"

   "Eyelids, so it only takes an eye disease spell to hurt them." Albert shrugged.

   "That means you have to deal with a crazy dragon," Lee Jordan muttered. "It feels crazy."

   "There is a Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, and I suddenly look forward to what Professor Moody will teach us." George noticed that someone was coming, and changed the subject.

   "Probably how to fight the dark wizard. After all, he is an Auror and is very familiar with this aspect." Albert took out his pocket watch to check the time.

   "But didn't you say..."

   "That doesn't matter, does it?" Albert packed up his things and stood up: "There is an ancient magic text class in the morning, I have to go."

   "Albert's words always confuse people." Fred looked at Albert's leaving back and said to the two people around him.

"I think he actually guessed everything, but he just didn't tell us." George smiled and beckoned Fred to leave: "Let's go, we should go to our own business, Albert knows other things well, when the time comes we Just hang out with him."

   "Where are you going?" Li Qiaodan was a little confused. Why don't these people speak human words?

   "Of course we are going to study our gadgets!" George said as a matter of course: "You forgot, Albert told us to hurry up."

   "If you want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, you must make preparations in advance." Fred and George said in unison: "After all, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared."

   After finishing speaking, the two returned to the common room with their shoulders crossed. They are going to move everything from the dorm to the lab in the Room of Requirement.

   After all, fiddling with those in a dorm room is obviously not a good idea.

   "I agree with what Albert said, but can't you wait for me?" Lee Jordan finished eating the food on the plate in two or three bites, and hurriedly chased after him.

   Revised.

  (end of this chapter)