Chapter 387 Rescue Team

"Ahem," Xie Lin coughed a few times, a guilty look flashing across his face, "I admit that I didn't do a very good job with Eleanor, but you don't have to treat me as a stud, okay? Not every good-looking girl who has had an intersection with me will be included in my harem."

"Tsk tsk, harem... this word is well used..." Daphne said with a smile.

"Alright, alright... I surrender," Xie Lingping raised his hands in surrender and said, "Hermione and I are absolutely innocent friends. She did express her affection for me, but I rejected her. In fact, she is one of Dumbledore's most valued people. She is the one he chose as the most intelligent person for Harry's salvation team. She will definitely enter the core power of the Order of the Phoenix in the future. There will be constant conflicts between our positions."

"Speaking of this, I have never been able to figure it out," Daphne said seriously, putting away her playful attitude. "Dumbledore formed the Order of the Phoenix for the purpose of defeating the Dark Lord. Why did Dumbledore choose Granger?"

As mentioned before, although the Order of the Phoenix is ​​not known to the general public, its existence is not top secret, and any force with a certain level of intelligence capabilities will know about the Order of the Phoenix.

"Dumbledore, humph..." Sherin said with a hint of disdain, "He once declined the position of Minister of Magic. On the surface, he has no attachment to power, but in fact, as the only headmaster of the magic school in Great Britain, he possesses another kind of invisible power..."

"You're talking about..." Daphne said.

"Because of some things that happened in his youth, he was afraid of controlling power, but his political ideas were constantly influencing the young wizards who were studying under his management. Think about it carefully. Over the years, Slytherin House has been isolated and excluded by other houses. Did Dumbledore have a share of the credit for this?"

Daphne and Astoria immediately recalled what the fifth-year prefect who was in charge of giving a speech to the Slytherin freshmen said when they first entered school. Whether it was Gemma Farley who gave a speech to Daphne, or Irina Selwyn who gave a speech to Astoria, although both of them are no longer in Hogwarts, their dissatisfied tones and expressions at that time are still vivid in their minds.

"You may have heard some rumors about Slytherin House, that we are all into the Dark Arts and only associate with wizards from prominent families or something like that..."

"We are supposed to be the coolest and most powerful house in this school. Because we insist on fighting for victory, and because we value the honor and tradition of Slytherin. But this ambition to win is regarded by other houses as ill-intentioned ambition..."

"We are not evil. We are like the symbol of Slytherin - the snake: sleek, powerful, but always misunderstood. This is simply the hatred and fear of the weak towards the strong..."

There are more, which I will not elaborate on here. Even Murray, who was from Ravenclaw, had heard Penelope Clearwater, the then prefect, say all kinds of bad things about Slytherin during the freshman speech, not to mention those little wizards from Gryffindor, who could not say a single good word about Slytherin.

Everything was just as Gemma had said at the time. Slytherin and Gryffindor were the two most powerful houses in the school. Gryffindor's ambitions were no less than Slytherin's. Over the past few centuries, both houses had produced bullies and playboys. Why did public opinion become that what was just a mischievous prank in Gryffindor became a psychopathic dark magic experiment in Slytherin?
This is not Schelling's nonsense. Take Snape's era for example. When Snape was studying the Fuchs Curse, it was regarded by everyone as a dark act of studying black magic. But when James used it on Snape, it became a fun prank.

You can say that this was a spontaneous act by the students, but the entire school atmosphere was out of control to this extent. As the administrator with the highest authority, doesn't Dumbledore have any responsibility at all?

At the very least, Dumbledore shouldn't have let James become the student union president, otherwise wouldn't that be a disguised encouragement for the various colleges to use the dark magic invented by Slytherin to bully Slytherin students? Well, now that I think about it, Dumbledore might have done it on purpose.

At that time, Voldemort was recruiting followers and the war was about to begin. Compared to Snape, who had no power or background, it was certainly more important to win the support of the Potter family, whose grandfather was a senior member of the Wizengamot. Everything was for the greater good, wasn't it?
Xie Lin looked at the expressions of the girls and knew that they understood what he meant, so he continued: "Dumbledore is a principled man. He has his own ideals in his heart, but he prefers to achieve his ideals by influencing the next generation of young wizards. The Savior Trio is exactly the one he carefully selected, one pure-blood, one half-blood, and one Muggle-born..."

"Everyone can see his obvious intentions..." Sherin said, "Although Ron is a pure-blood, his family is a pure-blood traitor. Even after his grandfather, Setimus Weasley, married Cedrella Black, his grandmother was expelled from the Black family..."

"Harry is a half-blood, but he grew up in the Muggle world. Under Dumbledore's arrangement, he was completely cut off from the wizarding world. His knowledge of the wizarding world came from the first two wizards he met - Hagrid and Ron. My brother Draco once extended a hand of friendship to Harry before school started but was rejected. Later, under Ron's influence, he entered Gryffindor according to Dumbledore's plan... Many of his cognitions and concepts about the wizarding world were actually influenced by Ron without him realizing it..."

"As for Hermione, although she was born in a Muggle family, she has already formed a fixed understanding of the wizarding world through a lot of reading. She is also hungry for magical knowledge and can make up for the lack of knowledge of the other two in the trio. Of course, she herself was raised with Muggle education and influenced by Muggle thinking, which can also ensure to a large extent that Harry will grow up in the direction that Dumbledore wants."

"Although the Saviours were born to defeat Voldemort," Sherin's face gradually turned cold, and he said calmly and frankly, "But judging from their views on wizards and Muggles, we can tell that they have perfectly inherited Dumbledore's ideas and are the next leaders of the wizarding world chosen by Dumbledore..."

"So, Dumbledore founded the Order of the Phoenix," Schelling concluded, "and it was never just to defeat Voldemort..." (End of this chapter)