Science and magic at Hogwarts

Chapter 124 Letters and Daily Study

"As you all know, these two messages are all resolutions of the school board."

Without concealment or any sensational speeches, Old Deng directly announced the final resolution:

"First, Professor Lupine will no longer be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts due to personal reasons."

"Professor Lupine was originally responsible for the courses of the two colleges, and Professor Lockhart will take over later."

After a pause, he continued with a somewhat disappointed tone:
"And the second news is that after this week, I will officially step down as the principal, and Professor McGonagall will take over my position. And I, as the professor of the transformation class, will continue to get along with everyone."

Although most small animals already knew this result in advance.

But when Dumbledore himself announced that he was about to step down, there was still an uproar in the hall.

After all, Dumbledore has been the principal of this magic school since 1943, and it has been nearly 50 years.

Half a century is enough to make him synonymous with Hogwarts.

No matter who it is, as long as Hogwarts is mentioned, the old lion must be the first thing that comes to mind.

It wasn't that the Slytherins hadn't attacked him for decades.

Especially during the war, all kinds of slander and dirty water were poured on Lao Deng without money, but even in the most difficult time, he still stood firm.

People are used to his status as the principal, used to the old guy giving the opening speech and the year-end speech.

However, in less than three months from the end of the last school year to the present, accidents happened one after another, and the old Deng, who was going to be as stable as Mount Tai, was thrown down from the position of principal.

Unfortunately, the Slytherins failed to achieve their goal of driving Dumbledore out of Hogwarts completely.

This was also the reason why not only the Gryffindor board members had bad faces on the day of the school board meeting, but the Slytherin old snakes also had bad faces.

As long as Dumbledore remained at Hogwarts, he could continue to influence the students at the school.

In particular, the successor, McGonagall, is also a loyal follower of Dumbledore.

It can only be said that Slytherin's victory this time is only half the battle.

The purpose of lowering Dumbledore's reputation and making him bear a stain was achieved, but none of the other political demands were successful.

As far as Kyle knew, those old snakes had proposed at the meeting to make their professor the next principal, but they were jointly rejected by the school managers of the other three colleges.

This made Kyle feel a little sorry.

It seems that the plan to promote his own professor needs to continue.

Kyle was thinking about his own thoughts, ignoring the unscrupulous celebration and cheers of the little snakes on the long table.

Looking at the little lion, the news of Dumbledore's abdication obviously made many little guys very sad.

Especially those generations of Gryffindors.

These guys have been bathed in Dumbledore's great stories since they were young, and at this moment, one by one, they are all glaring at the little snakes.

If it wasn't for the sensible classmates around him to stop him, he would absolutely not be able to resist rushing over to fight at this time.

On the contrary, those students from the Muggle world looked a little complicated.

After all, they weren't brainwashed by Dumbledore's stories since they were young, and they haven't been completely blinded by the greatness of Old Deng.

Although he was constantly influenced by his classmates in the past few years, he blindly worshiped his principal.

But the constant accidents these days made them lose confidence in Dumbledore.

The reaction of this part of the little lion is what Kyle hopes to see - Dumbledore no longer symbolizes justice and authority!
After announcing the news, Dumbledore sat down calmly and ate breakfast quietly.

The noise in the auditorium gradually calmed down because of the calmness of the teacher's seat.

Although they were no longer celebrating, the little snakes still didn't settle down, and they kept winking and provoking the little lion on the opposite side.

It is foreseeable that the recent conflict between the two colleges is indispensable.

It wasn't until the owls rushed into the auditorium that they diverted the attention of the small animals.

Couriers are still plentiful today, bringing with them enormous numbers of newspapers.

Newspapers are the only channel for students to understand outside public opinion apart from correspondence with their families.

Kyle received a lot more letters today than in the past.

In addition to the dozen newspapers he ordered, there were six more letters.

Flipping through the newspaper casually, the content on it is somewhat similar.

Most newspapers are condemning Dumbledore's irresponsibility and allowing werewolves to sneak into the school.

But there are still a small number of newspapers that spare no effort to support him.

The papers were convinced that Lupine was being given a professorship at Hogwarts purely as a defense against the possible appearance of Sirius.

After all, as a confidant of the notorious Death Eater, Lupine might have worked wonders in defending against an attack.

It is also this part of the newspaper that is still supporting Dumbledore's shaky reputation.

Flipping through the newspaper casually, Kyle quickly finished his breakfast.

Throwing the useless newspapers into the trash can, he walked directly to the library with the packed letters.

Still sitting in his usual seat, Kyle opened the letter and read it.

There are six letters in total, two of which are from the magazine.

These magazines invited Kyle to introduce in detail his conjectures about werewolf transformation and his unique magic in their magazines.

However, because he had already achieved his goal, Kyle directly declined the two invitations by writing a letter.

There is also a letter from a well-known magic research expert in the magic world, hoping to participate in Kyle's research.

Kyle knew this person, he was very talented in magic research, invented a lot of his own unique magic, and also improved some existing magic in the magic world.

I heard that this magic research expert has been hoping to develop a general magic that can restrain all dark magic creatures for several years.

Kyle scoffed at this idea, because it was simply a fantasy and impossible to realize.

Contacting Kyle this time must have taken a fancy to Kyle's method of dealing with Lupin, hoping to be inspired.

Without rushing to reply to the last letter, Kyle turned his attention to the letter below him.

Because he smelled a strong werewolf in these three letters.

The other party didn't intend to hide it at all.

These letters are exactly what Kyle is waiting for.

But beyond his expectation, the content of the first letter was not friendly.

The letter comes from the notorious werewolf Fenrir Greyback.

The content is very simple. This guy with a bad brain used extremely ugly handwriting to threaten Kyle to hand over the means to force the werewolf to transform, otherwise he would attack him.

And claimed that even in the werewolf state, he can still remain calm, so he has no fear of Kyle's usual means of dealing with Lu.

After thinking about it, Kyle wrote back a letter to Greyback, the content was very simple:
"Find a smart person to talk to me, you are stupid, you can't learn!"

Then, opened the other two letters.

As he expected, the two letters came from two different werewolves, and the contents of the letters were basically the same.

They are all trying to verify with him the authenticity of the article he wrote.

As he thought, that article successfully attracted the attention of werewolves.

These two werewolves might just be lone rangers wandering in the wizarding world.

Perhaps, representing two werewolf tribes.

In reply to these two letters, Kyle was much more cautious, and described his conjecture and possible verification methods in detail.

And at the end of the letter, an invitation was sent to the two of them.

Time, one is set on Wednesday night, and the other is set on Thursday night.

And the location was set at the Pig's Head Bar with a lot of people.

Kyle doesn't have many classes today, only the first and second periods in the afternoon, so he can spend the morning in the library.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, it is an extremely painful process to constantly gnaw through the tome and do research.

But in Kyle's view, this is a kind of enjoyment.

Kyle is deeply fascinated by constantly learning new knowledge, solving difficult problems, designing new magic circles, and refining new alchemy items.

While flipping through the unfinished tomes and taking notes from time to time, Kyle became more and more familiar with the magic circle of energy conversion.

From the oldest state to the most advanced drawing method, Kyle can be said to be familiar with it.

He also extracted most of the magic words, combinations and arrangements of the energy conversion that the predecessors had summed up.

These are the experiences accumulated for him by the magic world, and they are the shoulders of giants for him to rely on.

But whether he can realize his vision in the future requires Kyle's own efforts.

It's always hard to feel the passage of time when you're concentrating on research.

When it was almost one o'clock, Kyle was awakened by hunger, glanced around, and chatted with little animals who were still reading.

On the contrary, quite a few young wizards chose to go directly to the library for a nap after lunch.

The warm sunshine in the afternoon lazily shone on these little guys, making them sleep more soundly.

After observing it, I found that nearly two-thirds of those who were still in the library at noon came from the Muggle world.

And the lower the grade, the greater the proportion of young wizards in the Muggle world.

In the senior grades, the ratio can basically be maintained at one to one.

This situation is not difficult to understand.

In the eyes of these little guys who have just entered the wizarding world, those travel notes and autobiographies are simply wonderful fairy tales.

Kyle also walked over like this at the beginning.

Quietly, he walked out of the library and found an empty corner. Kyle called the house elf of the school in a low voice, and asked for some pastries from the elf.

The afternoon class is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Kyle, who knew Lockhart's details, was not in a hurry at all.

After enjoying the cakes and drinking a cup of tea without haste, he walked towards the classroom.

Almost stepping on the spot, Kyle arrived in the classroom, and Lockhart followed behind him.

This session was Lockhart, the liar, giving Kyle their first Defense Against the Dark Arts session of their year.

Since the last accident, this guy has cleverly changed the way of teaching, turning the classroom into a stage play.

Although those who were jealous of his handsomeness, or simply hated him, made extreme complaints about this method.

But the fans of Lockhart in the Snake Academy are still full of expectations for this class.

"This will be a meeting with a legend!"

These are the original words of those little snakes, and the expressions on their faces are wonderful when they say it.

Looking at those little snakes with shining eyes, Kyle could only look at Lockhart who was following with pity.

I hope that after his character design is shattered, he won't be tossed too badly by the heirs of nobles in the wizarding world who are neither short of money nor lack of connections.

He went straight to the end and sat down, took out the tome borrowed from the library and read it by himself.

Neither Lockhart's questionnaires during his first class, nor the ridiculous stage play that followed, could distract him.

The students around him didn't wonder what Kyle did, because in the Charms class, Kyle often studied things he was interested in on his own, as he does now.

I have to admit that Lockhart's character design is really successful.

Even after watching a two-hour stage play, the little snake who liked him didn't complain at all.

Even scrambling to justify this form of class.

It is believed that Lockhart chose this method in order to impart knowledge to the students more vividly.

Such remarks made Kyle's teeth ache...

A group of little snakes surrounded Lockhart and walked out of the classroom. Kyle waited until the gang of rambunctious guys had finished before packing up.

Instead of going back to the library, Kyle stuffed the books and notes into the box, saw that no one was around, cast the Disillusionment spell, and slipped out of the castle.

There are still many things to do in the old house. Since there are not many classes today, Kyle chose to sneak back directly.

The secret passage behind the Whomping Willow is still so low and narrow.

This made Kyle have to consider whether it should be a priority to expand this secret passage after drawing the magic circle.

After all, in the next year, or even a few years, Kyle will rely on this secret way to leave school.

Always bowing down like this is really a kind of torture.

Soon, the Shrieking Shack arrives.

"Hey, Blake, you're still here. I didn't see you when I came back yesterday, and I was worried that you wouldn't come back~"

Kyle looked at the big black dog in the room with some surprise, and greeted him warmly.

On the other hand, the black dog's face was full of egg pain, as if he was saying, why is it you again!
That's right, the big black dog is none other than Sirius Black.

In order to avoid this troublesome kid, Sirius went to sleep elsewhere yesterday.

Originally, I thought that even the naughtiest little wizard would not run off campus for two consecutive days, so I returned to the Screaming Shack with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, just after returning, he was blocked by Kyle.

Especially the Blake in Kyle's mouth made him a little frightened.

With a growl of impatience, Sirius tried to frighten Kyle off with a ferocious look.

It's a pity, Kyle is an emperor!

"I understand, I understand, Blake, you have been hurt by other humans, but you don't have to be afraid of me, you see, I'm just passing by."

"By the way, I specially asked the house elf to prepare a barbecue, just to see if I can meet you, I didn't expect to be lucky~"

While speaking, Kyle took out the fragrant barbecue from the box, which was even a little warm.

Together with the tray, Kyle put the barbecue on the ground, and happily chatted with Sirius:

"Blake, you big guy looks like you have a big appetite. I specially asked the elves to prepare a barbecue for two. You will definitely be full~"

After speaking, with a happy mood, Kyle turned around and walked outside the door.

This is to make room for the big black dog.

Kyle knew that this kind of dog who had been hurt by humans was full of vigilance towards humans.

If Kyle hadn't left, Black wouldn't have had that roast.

Sure enough, watching Kyle leave cleanly, Sirius slowly moved to the side of the barbecue.

After a violent twist, it changed from a black dog to a human.

Taking out his wand, Sirius cautiously checked it with his magic, and then couldn't wait to eat it!
　next chapter eleven o'clock

　　
　
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