Chapter 531 Godric: Salazar, you said it yourself

Losing his temper, Les finally opened the door of the dessert shop and invited Godric in.

There is no way, I really let this guy get the chance.

Les had a hint of regret, regretting that he forced Godric into the position of principal and then tricked himself.

Now he couldn't help but fell into deep thought: Helga aside, could Rowena have anticipated this day in advance?

If she could even calculate this, then she would be really amazing, it would be like sitting in the auditorium of the Colosseum.

After thinking carefully for a moment, he asked tentatively: "Hey, can you withdraw the appointment?"

"At this moment? Salazar, are you kidding!" Godric grinned almost to his ears. "The appointment letter of the school board has been sent out. Everyone knows that you are about to become the president of the five-hundred-year-old school." Even if I withdraw my appointment, White and Arius will try their best to push you to that position."

Les was silent.

For a moment, he wanted to join forces with Godric to overturn the table, dig out the two old guys hiding in the shadows, and step onto the stage together.

But after carefully weighing the pros and cons of doing so, Rice gave up the idea.

Without him, his current state is still much better than Godric's. Although I am having a hard time, my brother is having a harder time than me!

For this reason, Les endured it.

"I'll accept this letter." After calming down, Les took the appointment letter of student union president from Godric.

In fact, the position of student union president is much better than that of prefect. Because as long as you want to be more liberal, you can go crazy and mess around, just like Dumbledore did when he was the principal before, assigning all tasks to the prefects below.

After thinking about this, Rice suddenly felt that this appointment was not so bad.

"Is there anything else? If nothing happens, you can go back." Feeling that Godric was no longer of use, Les directly issued an eviction order.

"No, I still have something to ask you -" Godric immediately stopped the teacher who wanted to leave, and then informed Les of Cedric's request.

Um?

Godric's words stirred Les's memory, reminding him of a conversation between the four of them not long after the founding of Hogwarts.

It was the seventh anniversary of the founding of Hogwarts.

After holding as grand a celebration ceremony as possible, the four of them sent the first graduates of Hogwarts away from the castle. Only a few extremely outstanding students were retained by the four of them as their successors.

As for why Hogwarts’ schooling lasts seven years, the mainstream theory in the modern wizarding world is that seven is the most magical number, but the actual situation is...

Raising students is really expensive! ! !

And the further you go, the more money you will spend, especially potions.

For first grade wizards, they only need to prepare a feather to serve as a teaching aid, but by seventh grade, the teaching aid may be a table or a wild boar.

This is just Charms class. Potions is even more terrifying. A potion class for seventh grade students can cost Salazar an entire bag of gold coins just for potion ingredients.

It is unrealistic to continue teaching and we can only let them graduate.

Anyway, after seven years of hard study, they already have the basic qualities as wizards.

"But it's just basic literacy, isn't it?" Rowena said, "They are not essentially different from Scottish shepherds in our eyes."

"What can we do, keep them until they master the field? Rowena, I want to warn you, the school's financial problem is very serious, we can't even light candles -"

"Okay, okay, don't say such depressing words on this happy day!" Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Helga quickly came out and changed the topic, "Godric said that there was another family member yesterday. By agreeing to provide funding for Hogwarts, our finances will be a little better next year."

"Indeed, after this group of graduates graduate this year, our reputation will be even higher." Godric helped, "And now there are many families willing to invest, such as the Greengrass family, the Black Family, Longbottom family...Should we establish an organization to let people from these families come in? Let them know the operation of the school so that we can continue to ask for money from them.”

"Can."

"Agree."

"I can't believe this is something you could suggest, Godric."

"Salazar, you've had enough!"

After "making fun of" Godric, the four of them had forgotten about the little quarrel a few minutes ago.

"I have to go to Gaul in a few days, and a family named Malfoy invited me to be a witness. They really paid a lot of money." Salazar asked for a leave from his old friends.

"Maybe I want you to be the child's godfather." Godric joked.

"That's another price." Salazar said that he was a legendary wizard, and if he wanted to be his godson, he would have to pay more. The money given now is just the appearance fee for the wedding.

"Hogwarts will be rich one day," Helga said with great expectation. "At that time, we can let the children who have studied for seven years choose whether to stay in school and continue to study for two years, no, five years." Year!"

"You have to pass the exam. Otherwise, if some stupid pig stays for another five years, I may lose twenty years of my life." Rowena's cold voice rang out.

The three of them laughed together.

…

"You have also become the principal of Hogwarts. How is the school's financial situation now?" Les broke away from the memory and turned the topic to the economy.

He felt younger, but not entirely young. How can any young person get lost in memories so easily?

"Very healthy." Godric recalled the scene of asking for money from the school directors two days ago. He felt that the school directors were quite easy to talk to and basically gave him as much as he wanted.

Les raised his eyebrows: Huh?

"How much did you ask for?"

"10% more than last year."

"It's going to be less." Les sighed with regret.

Now is the time when Godric is at his most powerful. The four of them only showed their power last year, making evil spirits afraid to step into the British Isles and bringing the Greek gods to the negotiating table. How could the school board have the guts to reject Godric's budget request?

Asking for only 10% more is too conservative.

"Add another amount!" Rice waved his hand and said that the budget should be increased by 50%. Anyway, the major pure-blood families have been making crazy money recently.

Whether they rent out dolls or take orders from Muggles, they have more financial resources than ever before and make more money.

The wealth accumulated by Muggle society is flowing into the wizarding world.

"Isn't this... not good?" Godric was a fastidious person with a thin skin. He was embarrassed to raise the price after setting the price.

"This money is different from the previous budget items." Les knew the problem of his old friend, so he thoughtfully found a reason for Godric.

"Do you remember Helga's dream? Now it's time to make it happen."

Godric took a breath: "You mean..."

"Yes, extend the schooling period!" Les said something that made Godric's hair stand on end with excitement.

"I have studied the Muggle academic system, and I found that they have two stages of study after college that are worth our reference - one is called 'Master', and the other is 'Doctor'. We should also learn from it."

In Rice's eyes, the seven-year education at Hogwarts is actually a bit inadequate.

For those graduates who think they can use the Iron Armor Charm, seven years is more than enough time, but for outstanding students like Cedric, Astoria, and Hermione, seven years is too short. .

They graduated before they even learned the truly profound magic.

In the past, they were unable to provide "graduate education" due to financial problems, but now they have the conditions to do so.

"Master, PhD?" Godric felt like he had learned a new term.

"Yes." Les nodded. "Not all courses require graduate education. We can only offer it in certain courses."

Rice was referring to the science of divination.

There is no need to obtain a master's or doctorate degree in divination. A true prophet can make accurate divination without going to school. If Hogwarts really opened a postgraduate program in Divination, it would only cultivate a group of liars.

On the contrary, potions, alchemy, and Defense Against the Dark Arts require postgraduate education. It even goes so far as to establish the absolutely top-notch knowledge of magic fluidity.

"We can copy Muggle homework. Individual professors are qualified to offer postgraduate education. They have several fixed quotas every year. Some of these quotas can be used to recruit their favorite Hogwarts students, and the other part can be released to other students. Students from other magic schools compete.

For example, if Helga opens a magic cooking course, she can recruit three graduate students every year, two from Hogwarts and one from another school. However, students from other schools must pass exams and interviews to get in. "

Listening to Salazar's words, Godric's eyes became brighter and brighter.

Now there is one last question: Will professors who teach graduate students have too much work pressure?

"It's okay. They can let their graduate students assist them in teaching! They can correct homework and other things, and they can even take over classes for lower grades." Les gave a crooked smile.

"Oh?" When Godric heard this, an idea flashed in his mind.

He stroked his beard thoughtfully, and after a brief race with his thoughts, he finally caught the flash of inspiration.

Salazar, you just said that certain professors who can recruit graduate students have graduate student quotas that can be allocated, right? Did you also say that you can let graduate assistant professors do some work?

Um? Um!

Godric already had a careful plan, and he would share it with Helga and Rowena later.

Thinking of this, Godric's eyes became brighter and brighter, as if there were two flames burning in them.

"Salazar, your suggestion is really great!!!" Godric said excitedly, "This was our dream back then! We finally have time to realize it!"

"Ashamed, ashamed, I just made a small and insignificant contribution." Rice was also happy because Hogwarts was going to further develop and grow.

Think about it, with Godric and the others now in Hogwarts, its attraction to outstanding students from magic schools outside is simply fatal.

As the first magic school to offer admissions for master's and doctoral degrees, can any other school be able to shake Hogwarts' status as the world's number one magic school?

How can those other no-name magic schools have this qualification!

If they want to start postgraduate education, they have to wait at least ten or twenty years until their students are qualified to study here at Hogwarts.

Godric left excitedly.

After discussing this system with Rowena and the others, it can be officially put on the stage, and Cedric can stay in Hogwarts and become Helga's graduate student.

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"Salazar's idea is great, but which courses can be offered to graduate students?" After listening to Salazar's suggestion, Helga and Rowena agreed that this was a very good idea, and there is a ready-made system in Muggles, which can be borrowed.

Their past dreams are becoming a reality bit by bit.

"First is alchemy, Rowena, you can recruit a few students to teach them this; then it is potion science, I feel that Professor Snape can continue to squeeze his potential and pass on the production methods of those difficult potions; Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts seem to be quite necessary, should they all be offered?" Godric counted on his fingers.

Helga was quite interested, and she also wanted to open a graduate course in the production of automatic dolls. Mainly to help her share some of the pressure on orders.

Rowena said that since it was the first time to implement this system, it was not appropriate to offer too many subjects, so she would start with alchemy and magic flow as a pilot.

"Let's add puppet making, because we are short of people for this subject." Helga added.

Rowena and Godric nodded repeatedly.

"That's it. We can write a letter to the school directors to get the budget and then inform the Ministry of Magic of our plan. The Ministry of Magic will help us contact the Daily Prophet." Godric quickly arranged what to do next.

"By the way, there is one more thing..."

A few minutes later, a burst of "hehehe" laughter came from the principal's office of Hogwarts.

Little-known fact: in some critical meetings, you'd better not go to the toilet alone.

...

Several owls flew out of Hogwarts Castle and spread this explosive news, and then the British wizarding world was boiling.

Look at the subjects offered by Hogwarts - alchemy, puppet making and magic flow!

All of them are more precious than gold!

Needless to say, alchemy is the top magic. The pinnacle of this knowledge can turn stone into gold and make people immortal. Puppet making, now there is no difference between being able to make automatic combat puppets and being able to print money. As for the flow of magic power, ordinary wizards do not know the secret of this course, but some magic families who know the inside story are most obsessed with this course, because it is the real way to become a top wizard.

Want to become a wizard like Gryffindor, Dumbledore, Cedric or the Greengrass sisters? Just learn the flow of magic power!

The entire British magic world was excited because of this news.

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