Chapter 985 Dumbledore's Gift
After the opening banquet, Minerva McGonagall, the headmaster, invited several professors to go to the headmaster's office on the eighth floor.
The first is Professor Sashiya, and then the remaining three deans.
Although Slughorn had not received a definite invitation, he was thick-skinned and no one else could drive him away.
"By the way." McGonagall walked to the door and suddenly turned to Kyle and Connor and said, "You two should come along too. As new professors, you should always familiarize yourself with the specific work."
"President, I'm no longer a new professor," Kyle said.
Although there are not many ancient rune courses, only one class per week, it is still there.
"But this is your first time teaching an alchemy class."
"Okay, that makes sense." Kyle immediately turned around and followed.
After the start of this school year, the style of the principal's office changed. Most of the silver items whose uses were unknown were gone, and there were also fewer cabinets, but there was an extra large bookshelf.
In addition to the books, there were also a lot of parchments that were seven or eight feet thick, most of which were professional newspapers and magazines like "Transfiguration Today"...
Overall, this place has become more like a real principal's office.
The only things that remain unchanged are the principals who pretend to sleep.
When Sasia came in, she immediately found the portrait of Dalys Devonte and greeted her familiarly.
"Believe me, it's a good idea to work at Hogwarts after retirement. Anyway, I'm glad that I made this decision." Devonte said with a smile.
She was also a healer at St. Mungo's, and later joined Hogwarts as the headmistress. Their experiences were almost identical.
"I hope so. Now I just hope those students won't be too naughty." Sashiya said softly.
There is also a portrait of Derwent in St. Mungo's, and they are familiar with each other, as well as Phineas Black, Armando Dippet and Dumbledore.
Although their portraits were not in St. Mungo's, they were all familiar with Sassia, and this could be considered a meeting of old friends... Well, at least for Armando and Dumbledore, they were old friends of Sassia.
"Honestly, why couldn't you accept my invitation when I was the headmaster?" Dumbledore sighed, "I have invited you countless times before."
"Because I can see that you don't really want me to be the Potions professor. Perhaps in your opinion, Slughorn is more suitable than me." Sassia said. Then she waved her hand.
"Just kidding, I just happened to have done most of the work, and besides, I couldn't just walk away in a crisis and leave those young healers to face Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
"Someone has to stand in front of St. Mungo's, and I'm willing to be the first."
There was a moment of silence in the principal's office.
Slughorn opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, and Professor Flitwick couldn't help wiping his eyes.
Few people know that St. Mungo's has always been one of the targets of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. The reason why there was peace there was not only because of Dumbledore's secret help, but also because the then Dean Sassia did a lot of things.
"Why do you all have such expressions?" Sassia didn't seem to care about these things at all, and took the initiative to change the subject, "Minerva, is there something you asked us to come here for?"
"Well, I'd like you to be the Head of Gryffindor House...if you don't mind."
Since she became the headmaster, the position of Head of Gryffindor House has been vacant. She had previously served in that capacity part-time, but this also took up a lot of her time.
The title of dean sounds nice, but there are countless things to do every day. These things may not be very important, but they are definitely very tedious.
For example, someone violated school rules and entered the castle's restricted area at night, wandered around the corridors in the early morning, or was so confident in the first grade that he ran to fight a giant alone...
These are the responsibilities of the dean, who will then notify the principal. In other words, as long as a student violates school rules, the dean of the corresponding college needs to handle it.
And Gryffindor...for reasons that everyone understands, Professor McGonagall has become the busiest head of the house.
In comparison, Professor Sprout was the one with the most leisure. Like almost all other professors, he spent plenty of time in the greenhouse every day taking care of those soft and fragile plants.
Everything at Hogwarts has returned to normal this year, and McGonagall is a little overwhelmed as the headmaster of Gryffindor.
In fact, she wanted to transfer the position of dean last school year, but she had not found a suitable candidate.
She originally thought Slughorn was a good fit, but he refused on the grounds that he was not a Gryffindor graduate.
She looked at Sassia and asked, "I remember you seem to be a Gryffindor graduate, right?"
"That's right." Sassia nodded, "I am indeed a student in Gryffindor."
"Then it would be most appropriate for you to be the dean."
"Yeah yeah……"
"The principal is right."
While Sasia was still hesitating, other professors around her began to persuade her to agree.
In addition to some reasons that I don't want to talk about, there is also the fact that Sashiya is indeed qualified to be the dean.
"But I don't know what to do," said Sasiya.
Although what she said was true, no one else took it seriously... Would the former headmaster of St. Mungo's be stumped by a dean?
Obviously it is impossible.
"That's okay. I think your teaching assistants, including our new alchemy professor, will be happy to help."
Kyle and Kanna, who were at the outside of the crowd, raised their heads subconsciously, as if they didn't expect that they were involved in this.
Kanna was the first to come to her senses and nodded.
Although she didn't know what a dean should do, since Principal McGonagall said so, she might as well agree to it.
She nodded, and Kyle naturally wouldn't refuse.
I didn't pay any attention to them after that.
This time, Principal McGonagall came here to organize a meeting so that the new Head of Gryffindor could meet everyone.
Another thing is to develop a new course timetable.
This is also the annual process. Last year, because Dumbledore suddenly went back a hundred years, this process was completed in Professor McGonagall's office at the time, so Kyle was not aware of it.
When the new schedule came out, Kyle took a look and found that his alchemy class was scheduled for the last day, whether intentionally or not.
But this also made him feel a little relieved.
If the class really started tomorrow, he might not be able to prepare. It was just right now as he had plenty of time to prepare for the first class.
Headmaster McGonagall said a few more things that needed attention, and the professors prepared to leave.
Kangna is still with Sashiya.
The relationship between them is very similar to that between Kyle and Newt, teacher and student in a sense.
After the two left, Snape followed them out the door, but when he passed Kyle, he suddenly stopped.
"Good luck, Alchemy Professor. I hope you won't be too disappointed when you see the empty classroom."
His voice was drawn out, and contained a hint of sarcasm.
"You must feel honored that you have surpassed Professor Babling."
Kyle curled his lips and said nothing.
Of course he knew what Snape meant, because it was a new course and very few students chose to take the Alchemy class this year, only fifteen students from all grades combined, and sixteen for Ancient Runes.
In other words, the alchemy class directly broke the monopoly of ancient runes for many years and had the honor of becoming the class with the least number of students in Hogwarts.
But Kyle didn't find it strange. As a new course, students above the fourth grade would definitely not sign up for it, so those fifteen people must be third-year students.
But Ancient Runes has five grades, so it's normal that the number of students is more than that of Alchemy.
Seeing that Kyle didn't respond, Snape, feeling a little bored, didn't continue. He shook his head vigorously and strode out the door.
Kyle still didn't move.
It was not until all the professors had left that he looked up at Headmistress McGonagall.
"I know what you want to ask." Headmaster McGonagall smiled. "This is what Dumbledore meant. He seems to want to give you a surprise."
"This isn't really a surprise, it's more like a shock," Kyle complained. "Luckily I guessed it from Hagrid in advance, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to react in time in the hall."
"Maybe this is the effect he wants." The portrait of Armando Dippet said faintly.
No headmaster objected, including Dumbledore's own portrait, who pretended not to have heard anything and just stared at the stone on the ground in a daze.
"Perhaps... that's the case." Headmaster McGonagall stammered, "But as a school director and the main funder of the alchemy classroom, I have no way of rejecting his small decision.
"But I have tried my best to arrange your classes later. Also, since there is only one grade, you only need to attend one class a week. I believe you can handle this little trouble."
"No problem, Principal." Kyle nodded.
He had just read about the alchemy course. The textbook was "Basic Alchemy: From Magic Runes to Symbols" written by Professor Victor.
They were all very basic content, and Kyle could talk about them without even looking at the textbook. But he was worried about something else.
"Headmaster, is Professor Dumbledore back?"
"How is that possible?" Mag waved his hand and took out a letter from the drawer. "What he just said was what he wrote in the letter in advance."
"Has the letter...always been in the principal's office?"
"No." McGonagall shook her head, "To be honest, I just received this letter a week ago. It was sent to Hogwarts together with a huge brass furnace.
"Something like a rotary furnace."
"Material conversion furnace." Kyle stood up suddenly.
This is what he was worried about just now. The textbooks are easy to explain and the content to be taught is simple. The only thing to pay attention to in the alchemy class is the material conversion furnace.
This kind of thing is especially indispensable for young wizards who have almost no knowledge of magic runes.
To be honest, he had hesitated many times. There were very few students at Hogwarts who chose ancient runes. Would they really choose alchemy?
After all, the magic runes required for alchemy are more complicated and cumbersome.
But now Dumbledore has made the choice for him and even delivered the converter.
"Yes, that's the name." Mag said, "I'm sorry, I don't know much about alchemy, and I've never heard of using a brass furnace to make magic items."
"Most people haven't heard of it." Kyle smiled. "This thing can replace magic runes and greatly reduce the difficulty for beginners."
"Excuse me, Principal, can I ask where it is?" Kyle asked impatiently.
"On the third floor, in the corridor near the stairs... Never mind, I'll take you there."
The two left the principal's office and came to an empty classroom on the third floor.
This was previously where Lockhart took his Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but now it and the classroom next door have become Alchemy classes.
After the middle wall was demolished, this became the largest classroom in Hogwarts.
The brass stove is placed on the left side of the classroom.
Kyle opened the door and walked in.
"how do you feel?"
"Exactly the same."
"what?"
"Oh, it's exactly the same as the one I saw at Beauxbatons."
"In fact, this was sent from Beauxbatons."
Headmaster McGonagall couldn't help but think of the scene when she received this thing.
Five huge divine horses fell from the sky, and when they landed they even created a huge deep pit on the ground.
Only Beauxbatons unique divine rune horse can deliver such a heavy item.
"Beauxbatons..." Kyle was stunned.
He had always thought that this matter conversion furnace was made by Dumbledore himself, but now it seemed that he had it custom-made by someone.
"Headmaster, is there anything else mentioned in Professor Dumbledore's letter?"
"No." McGonagall took out the parchment from her pocket and opened it.
There was very little content on it, just a request to keep it confidential so that Kyle could have a surprise.
Kyle looked at the envelope again. It only had an address on it, and he couldn't tell if it was written recently.
"Any questions?"
"No." Kyle came back to his senses and shook his head.
In any case, Dumbledore helped him solve the most troublesome problem. With this matter conversion furnace, it would be much more convenient for him to attend classes.
Kyle walked around the stove for a while, touching and looking around, and didn't leave until after curfew.
It was unknown when Principal McGonagall had left, and Kyle was the only one left in the dark corridor.
As he walked out of the castle, he was thinking about how he was going to take the alchemy class.
The furnace sent by Dumbledore can help solve the problem of runes, but students in the alchemy class cannot use the furnace all the time, so learning runes is essential.
The same is true in Beauxbatons, where only lower grade students can use the furnace, as a transitional period for them to learn runes.
But at Hogwarts... notoriously few students choose to learn ancient runes.
Kyle walked along the grounds towards his cabin. Looking at the castle in the moonlight, he suddenly thought of the Hogwarts map he had made.
Maybe he could go to Hogsmeade and ask Fred and George for help.
The biggest difference between alchemy and ancient runes is that those alchemical items are really valuable.
Compared to the test scores and an unnecessary certificate, the golden Galleons seemed to be more attractive and could provide more motivation for the little wizard to study.
