Chapter 447? The Banquet Is Over

Chapter 447 The banquet is over

In the Burrow, everyone was still circulating Mike's report card.

This report card can almost be said to be the best result in this year's OWLS exam. Everyone looked at it with expressions of surprise, but after the surprise, they became a little regretful.

Mike's elective courses were really poorly chosen. Ancient Runes was okay, after all, it was a more practical subject in alchemy and translation archeology, but Muggle Studies courses were too useless. Generally speaking, there were only those Only students who want to dawdle will choose this course.

In their view, outstanding students like Mike should take some more useful courses, such as Arithmancy or Care of Magical Creatures.

The former can be used with other subjects to predict the general direction of many things, such as astronomy to predict the weather, while the latter can help Mike, a Muggle-born wizard, have a deeper understanding of the magical extraordinary creatures in the wizarding world.

After discussion, everyone agreed that Mike must have been cheated when he was taking elective courses, so he chose Muggle Studies. In order not to delay the future of Mike, a talented person, Dumbledore even suggested that if Mike was willing If so, he could ask Mike to change elective courses and directly take the NEWT course of Care of Magical Creatures or Arithmetic Divination.

Mike felt very speechless about this.

He originally chose the Muggle Studies class just to fish in the water. If you ask me to change the class now, wouldn't it deprive me of the right to paddle?

With this in mind, Mike immediately began to change the topic.

"Let's talk about this later." Mike said with a smile, "Principal Dumbledore, I heard from Harry that you hired a new Potions professor for us. Can you introduce this professor to us?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's attention immediately shifted from Mike to Dumbledore.

This is not surprising because these people here are either students or parents.

Dumbledore, who was watched by everyone, smiled and shook his head, and said helplessly:

"Many of you here should know the Professor Maury I invited. His name is Horace Slughorn."

Black and others were shocked when they heard this, and Mrs. Weasley even shouted in surprise:

"Merlin! It's Professor Slughorn. I remember, hasn't he retired?"

"Yes, he has retired." Dumbledore said with a smile, "But considering the recent severe situation, I still extended an invitation to him to teach, and he happily agreed."

Dumbledore said and winked at Harry. In fact, only the two of them knew how difficult it was to invite Professor Slughorn.

Ron, Hermione and others on the side looked confused. They had never heard of this name at all.

"Mom, do you know this Horace Slughorn?"

"Of course, he used to be our Potions Professor."

"Then what kind of professor is he, I mean, how does he compare to Snape?"

Listening to Ron's question, Mrs. Weasley was silent for a while, and then slowly said:

"Snape is a genius in potions, but Professor Slughorn should not be worse than him in terms of knowledge mastery and teaching skills. After all, he has been studying this aspect for his whole life, and when it comes to conducting himself in the world, Professor Slughorn is also more gentle, at least he won't target Gryffindor students like Snape did."

Ron's eyes flashed with joy, and he couldn't help but cheer, because he could already foresee how enjoyable their Potions class would be next term.

However, Ron apparently ignored one issue, that is, his Potions OWLS score was only passing. It is estimated that Slughorn would not give him the opportunity to take the NEWT Potions class at all.

"Don't be too happy too early." Seeing that her son was getting carried away, Mrs. Weasley immediately added, "Although Professor Slughorn is better than Snape, he still has one biggest shortcoming. That is vanity and partiality."

"You are right, Morrie!" Black continued, "Professor Slughorn is very vain and likes to associate with celebrities, successful people, and important people. When we were still at Hogwarts, he was He often came to curry favor with me and James, because we are the heirs of the Black family and the Potter family respectively, and we will definitely be important people in the future. In addition, his most valued student at the time was actually Lily, your mother, Harry. You Her mother could be said to be the most outstanding student in Hogwarts at the time. No matter how difficult the spells were, she could always learn them instantly, and she could always get full marks in potions. At that time, Slug Ho En was sure that she would become a great person! But when facing Lupine, he was not so enthusiastic."

Lu Ping raised his eyebrows and said excitedly:

"You call that not so enthusiastic? Merlin's beard, he wouldn't look at me seriously at all at that time. At first, I thought it was because he saw my identity as a werewolf, but then I found out that he didn't want to get rid of you. Everyone except these chosen ones looked down upon me, and then I realized that he looked down on me simply because I was a worthless waste."

The more Lupine talked, the more excited he became, and in the end, even his eyes began to turn red. It was obvious that Professor Slughorn had a great psychological shadow on him.

Seeing that Tonks was unhappy, she first glared at Black, then comforted Lupine and said:

"Remus, in my eyes you are the best."

"Thank you dear."

Looking at the two people who became passionately affectionate again in the blink of an eye, Blake and the others all had helpless expressions on their faces. Only Harry still lowered his head and remained silent, looking autistic.

Mike saw all this, he twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a smile:

"You mean, this Professor Slughorn is a guy who really likes to be a celebrity teacher, right?"

Black and Lupine nodded. Mike summed it up very well. In fact, the reason why Slughorn got close to students who were famous or might become famous in the future was just to get the title of 'famous teacher' in the future. This is to show off your own greatness.

In fact, his behavior was indeed very effective. Professor Slughorn has accumulated a lot of contacts over the years. Today, many celebrities in the wizarding world in China and even Europe maintain good relationships with him. This makes Although his ability is not very good, he has become a benchmark figure in the potion industry.

"Oh, if that's the case, then I can probably understand why he still serves as the Potions Professor of Hogwarts at such an old age." Mike said to Harry with a smile, "After all, we have a A savior. Harry, I’m afraid that Professor Slughorn will try his best to curry favor with you after school starts.”

Mike's words shocked Harry slightly.

He is not a fool. When he and Dumbledore went to negotiate with Slughorn's family before, he could see that the other party really wanted to be his teacher, and for this reason he agreed to Dumbledore's appointment at Hogwarts. professor.

But he didn't take it to heart at first, because theoretically every professor at Hogwarts was his teacher. As long as Slughorn arrived at Hogwarts, he would have completed his career. purpose.

But now if things are really like what Mike and the others said just now, then Slughorn will definitely give himself some special treatment when school starts.

For example... I made an exception and allowed myself to take NWET-level potions courses!

Thinking of this, Harry's eyes suddenly brightened, and the previous haze was swept away.

But then, he suddenly remembered a question.

Harry frowned again, looked at the smiling Dumbledore opposite and asked:

"Headmaster Dumbledore, if Slughorn becomes our new Potions Professor, what will happen to Professor Snape?"

As soon as this statement came out, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, especially Ron. This guy had been curious about Snape's whereabouts for a long time.

"Oh? Haha! You don't need to worry about this, Professor Snape has been placed very well." Dumbledore said with a smile, "He will get a long-awaited position, that is, Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts .”

"What? Dumbledore! You actually asked that slug to be Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor!?" Black suddenly roared, "You will kill Harry if you do this! You know that guy was a foodie before. Dead Apostle!"

Black was not the only one who was dissatisfied with this decision. Although the reaction of Lupine and the Weasleys on the side were not as intense as Black's, looking at their frowning expressions, they probably had great opinions on this matter.

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and shook his head:

"Severus is the best choice."

"Are you kidding me? Why can that Sniffles become Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor? Just because he was once a Death Eater and knew a lot of dark magic?" Black's mood became more and more agitated, and he suddenly turned from He stood up on the chair and looked directly at Dumbledore, "No matter what reason you have been using as Snape, that slug, you should know what time it is now, and you should also know what Snape is like. Man! A loser like him may turn to Voldemort again later! I want you to fire Snape directly, do you understand? Dumbledore?"

"No, don't be like this Sirius." Dumbledore said slowly, "You and I should both know very well that Severus will never hurt Harry. After all..."

"Go to hell!"

Before Dumbledore even finished speaking, Sirius Black roared, then picked up the confused Harry and ran out of the restaurant, leaving only confused Ron, Hermione, and Others with less than pleasant expressions.

Today's protagonists were all taken away, so the birthday party naturally couldn't go on. Although Mr. and Mrs. Weasley continued to try their best to maintain a good atmosphere at the scene, the party ended soon after.

Lupine and Tonks left first. They obviously didn't understand Dumbledore's decision, but their gentle personalities prevented them from falling out directly like Black, but they also didn't give Dumbledore, his former boss, any good looks. .

Looking at Dumbledore's slightly stooped back in the sun, Mike felt a little touched in his heart.

He quickened his pace and followed him, and said to the old man:

"Professor Dumbledore, let me see you off."

The old man glanced at Mike in surprise, then smiled and patted Mike on the shoulder, and continued walking outside the house thinking about it.

…

In the Masonic villa area, Mike, wearing only a pair of beach shorts, was lying on a sun lounger by the swimming pool, enjoying his rare leisure time.

There were not many days before the start of school, and almost a week had passed since Harry's birthday party. Although Black strongly opposed Snape's appointment as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, in the end his arm could not twist Dumbledore. thigh.

This was all within Mike's expectation. Dumbledore made a decision that people like Black couldn't resist at all. At best, they could only say a few words of praise.

Shaking his head, Mike smiled, raised the wine glass on the side and took a sip, then breathed a sigh of relief.

‘This is how people live! ’

With this thought, Mike lay back on the sun lounger and put on his sunglasses.

He decided to take a good rest today and not worry about anything.

Unfortunately, not long after Mike lay down, Benjamin came to Mike's villa.

Looking at Mike who was leisurely on the sun lounger, Benjamin suddenly had the urge to hit someone.

During this period of time, I was going through life and death. I was busy with the work assigned by Mike every day, and Mike, the hands-off shopkeeper, was here leisurely enjoying the sunbath?

Benjamin's breathing began to become a little rapid, and his hands that were originally slack were clenched into fists.

But after much hesitation, Benjamin gave up the urge to beat Mike.

You must know that you are no longer a student. Since you graduated from Hogwarts, your social attributes have become that of a social person, and as a social person, you must stay rational!

‘This is a blessing! This is a blessing! …’

Benjamin kept hypnotizing himself deep in his heart, and finally succeeded in changing his expression from full of indignation to full of joy, and then quickly approached Mike.

"Boss, I've already done what you asked me to do."

"Huh?" Mike was a little unhappy at being interrupted from his rest. He lifted up his sunglasses and glanced at Benjamin with a dissatisfied frown before asking slowly, "What did I tell you?"

Hearing this, the veins on Benjamin's forehead suddenly popped out, but he still kept a smile on his face and said:

"It's just a matter of negotiating with the Muggle government. Boss, have you forgotten?"

"Oh! This is what happened. What did they say?"

Looking at Mike who suddenly jumped up from the sun lounger, Benjamin nodded and said:

"The other party's attitude is quite respectful, but they want to arrange for you to meet with the Prime Minister of the Republic of China."

"King versus king?" Mike's lips curled up, "Interesting."