Chapter 529: An Extraordinary Applicant, Athena

In addition to the badge and two routine notices (the start date notice and the book list), there was also a letter handwritten by the principal to Rice.

As soon as Les unfolded the third piece of parchment, he felt as if something had stabbed his eyes. This was Godric's handwriting, and his handwriting was very sharp, and at first glance it even made the eyes feel stabbed.

In the letter, Godric mentioned that since Rice did not complete enough credits in the fifth grade and did not take the OWLs exam, he could not be promoted to the sixth grade and had to repeat the fifth grade for a year. However, considering his previous excellent performance, Principal Godric still chose to award him the prefect badge.

When Les saw Godric's letter, his eyes went dark, but he could also feel the meaning between the lines of Godric's words.

Don't want to be a class leader? Don't want to take these childish exams? Then you can reveal your identity and skip the student stage.

Rice would never be fooled by Godric. He knew very well what would happen if he revealed his identity. Godric would definitely let him be the headmaster.

By then, Hogwarts will be a place where "two suns are in the sky and two headmasters co-govern".

Rice would never do such a stupid thing.

Isn't it just repeating a grade and being a class monitor? It's not like I haven't done it before, I can just grit my teeth and get through it.

Rice put the letter away and began to purchase textbooks and supplies needed for the new school year.

At the same time, Godric was worried about the personnel changes at school in the new school year.

As the great changes that only happen once in a thousand years happened, many professors in the school chose to resign and go out to make contributions. One of the representatives was Professor Lupin, who was the teacher of Care of Magical Creatures.

As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, he hopes to leave Hogwarts and join the Ministry of Magic to contribute to regional peace.

Fortunately, he submitted a report before leaving, indicating that Rubeus Hagrid, the gamekeeper, key manager and teaching assistant, was capable of taking over his job. Godric agreed to his application, but at the same time was also curious whether Hagrid's burden was too heavy.

Because he also has to supervise the forbidden forest!

In Godric's impression, the Forbidden Forest is not a good place, and it takes a lot of energy to control it.

Godric felt that he should have a talk with Hagrid before school started to see if he was up to the task.

The second and third personnel changes came from his two old friends. Helga didn't want to continue teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. After breaking the legendary curse for two consecutive years, she didn't feel like continuing to teach.

Rowena didn't want to be a professor anymore, she wanted to be a librarian, but the position was already taken - Godric was a little worried about the safety of Madam Pince.

He had to write a letter to warn Rowena so that she wouldn't do anything reckless for the position.

Severus Snape wanted to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but if he did that, who would teach Potions? Salazar? Godric wanted to, but Salazar would never accept it.

Looking at the complicated interpersonal relationships and job positions on the table, Godric just felt a headache.

He had the urge to pick up his sword and chop everything in front of him into pieces - fighting was much more comfortable than these jobs.

'How about I be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor myself? ' An idea flashed through Godric's mind.

He didn't know whether the current headmaster of Hogwarts still kept the tradition of teaching in person, but back then the four of them had personally taken on part of the teaching duties.

"Eh? Why don't we let Helga fill the position of alchemy professor left by Rowena?" Godric got inspiration from his previous thought and quickly arranged the positions for his two old friends.

Helga is the professor of alchemy, while Rowena is the administrator of the restricted books area!

"I am a genius!" Godric was happy with his own wit.

Of course, the principal's job is more than that, he has many other things to do, such as meeting with the school board and asking them for the budget for the next year.

Godric was very happy when he learned that Hogwarts had a mature board of directors, because it meant that Hogwarts had a mature economic system, which was stronger than what they had in the past.

At that time, they had to go to the Forbidden Forest to hunt themselves to solve the problem of meat source!

Godric decided to meet with the school directors as soon as possible to get the budget for next year. As for how much money would be needed, he thought it could be increased by about 10% based on the previous year's budget. This was Dumbledore's advice to him. Before he left, he responsibly left himself a headmaster's handbook that could help him answer some basic questions.

For more complex questions, Godric could ask about the portrait of Dumbledore that was left on the wall of the Headmaster's office.

Just as Godric was about to call a school board meeting, an owl flew into his office and dropped a letter on his desk.

"Interview appointment?" After quickly reading the contents of the letter, Godric fixed his eyes on the signature at the end of the letter. The interviewer's name was Sofia Athena.

"Interesting name." Godric smiled and decided to meet this Ms. Sophia.

He acted very quickly. He received the letter in the morning and met the legendary Ms. Sophia in the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade village in the afternoon.

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The moment Athena saw the Hog's Head, she didn't want to go in for the interview anymore - this place is too dirty, isn't it? Although she is not a god with mysophobia, such a sloppy place still instinctively aroused her disgust.

The reason is not that this place is unclean, but choosing such a dilapidated place as the interview location obviously fails to convey respect to the applicant.

But there is a saying: I am here now. Moreover, she really wanted to get a teaching position at Hogwarts, so she took the initiative to extend an olive branch of friendship and peace and establish good relations with the four legendary wizards.

That's right, the lady Sophia who applied for the position of headmaster of Hogwarts is Athena, one of the gods of Olympus. The name "Sophia Athena" literally means "wise Athena".

With the surge of divine power, Athena pushed open the door of the Hog's Head Bar without having to touch it personally.

She walked slowly into the bar and looked towards the place where the interview invitation letter was written. Then Athena's eyes fixed: It was that man, she couldn't be wrong!

The real God of Fire, the initiator of Ragnarok, and the founder of Hogwarts - Godric Gryffindor!

Although she had prepared herself mentally, she still couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she actually faced Godric Gryffindor, whose strength was no less than that of her father Zeus.

If you anger the Father God, at most you will be reprimanded and given a symbolic punishment. If you anger the person in front of you, you may not be able to leave this dirty tavern alive.

You just have to be careful.

This is the purpose of Athena's visit.

The moment Athena entered the room, Godric locked his eyes on her.

That look was quite oppressive, making Athena's scalp tingle. Fortunately, he only glanced at her and then restrained his edge and greeted her instead.

"Ms. Sophia? Please come over here!"

Athena walked over to the table in front of Godric and sat down across from him at his gesture.

"Sophia Athena, right?" Godric's eyes flashed with a meaningful look, "Why are all of you like this..."

Athena didn't understand the intention behind his words and just nodded silently.

She needs more information before she can respond!

But Godric didn't have any deep meaning. He was just complaining about the habit of these old gang members using aliases after waking up one by one - Rice, White, Arius, and now Sophia!

Damn Loki, you have caused me so much trouble!

"Excuse me, how should I address you? Should I use [she] or [he]?" Godric asked bluntly.

Athena's heart sank, and she immediately said that Hogwarts was a place for "people", so naturally she had to use pronouns that symbolized people.

"Okay, so I'll call you 'Sophia' from now on?"

"Of course." Athena nodded seriously, knowing that Gryffindor was hinting at her that she should abide by her duties at Hogwarts and stand on the standpoint of a human being. Spreading faith in Hogwarts was an absolute taboo.

After figuring out how to address the other party, Godric thought he could get to the point.

"Why do you want to be a teacher at Hogwarts? It's hard work."

Athena opened her mouth slightly, wanting to say what she had prepared before, such as "establishing a bridge of communication between wizards and gods", "improving the relationship between the two sides", "experiencing, understanding, and learning wizard culture", "letting wizards truly understand gods", etc. But when the words came to her lips, she changed her mind.

"I want to maintain a good relationship with you and your friends." She decided to be sincere and speak directly from her heart.

After all, she couldn't hide her little thoughts from the terrifying and respectable existence in front of her, so it would be better for her to speak them out to increase the other party's favor.

After hearing Athena's reply, Godric was a little surprised.

He didn't expect that the high and mighty gods would be willing to humble themselves and deal with them. This might be a good thing.

Athena's frankness did win Godric's favor, and he felt that it was not impossible to give her the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"Okay, that's an interesting reason. But I have to remind you again that this job is really hard and requires a lot of work, and the pay is not much. More importantly, we also need teachers to teach real things."

Godric still wanted this pampered Lord God to think about it carefully. After all, Helga had complained to him before about the workload of the required course professors at Hogwarts, which was really daunting. He didn't know if the goddess in front of him could endure this hardship.

In other words, the person who came to apply for the job was Athena, the "Goddess of Wisdom, War and Arts", whose title sounded very hardworking. If it was Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, Godric would have stood up to see her off.

And he also wanted to ask Athena what she was going to teach. Godric had heard of the legends of old teachers like Quirrell and Lockhart, and had personally experienced Umbridge's teaching, so he couldn't accept that the new professor was a fake.

Although Athena's divinity is very high, what if this is innate? It is impossible for her to answer the students who ask how to defeat the fire dragon by going to the temple to find her for blessings, right?

Athena, however, had a different understanding. She thought Godric was hinting to her that this job might be thankless, and that she might not be able to gain the understanding of other gods, nor would she be able to get closer to the wizards.

But for her, none of this was a big problem, she was ready, and she had the confidence to be friends with wizards - which was very important to her.

With Athena's wisdom, she has already seen the transcendental status of wizards in the future world, so she decided to place a bet early and maintain a good relationship with the wizards.

This will help her survive the next round of disaster.

Nothing in the world is immortal, including gods. The Aesir of Northern Europe have already demonstrated to everyone what the price of clinging to something is.

A hero emerged and brought dusk to the immortal gods.

"Of course no problem, I'm not a god like Aphrodite." Athena responded confidently.

Godric was overjoyed and immediately called the bartender to serve him some wine. After the bartender brought the wine, he took out two cups from his arms and personally poured a full cup of butterbeer for Athena.

Looking at the obvious layer of dirt on the mouth of the glass bottle, Athena's brows twitched fiercely, but she had no room for refusal.

After gritting her teeth and closing her eyes, she drank the butterbeer in the cup and was surprised to find that it tasted quite good.

Next, the two had an in-depth discussion about the teaching plan.

Athena's answer satisfied Godric, and he finally signed a contract with Athena, who then became the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

When the two walked out of the Pig's Head Bar one after the other, it was already sunset outside.

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves was heard on the rather empty Hogsmeade Avenue.

Godric looked towards the source of the sound in surprise, and then saw an incredible sight: a silver-haired female knight wearing a silver-green mask, riding a skeleton unicorn with flaming hooves, appeared at the end of the avenue.

The well-informed Godric recognized that the female knight was riding a nightmare. Under the nightmare's bridle, there were several monster heads still dripping with blood.

The silver-haired witch noticed Godric's presence and immediately turned her horse's head and rushed towards Godric.

"Who is this person?" Godric felt that the figure looked familiar, and he also felt that the scene was familiar.

Athena glanced at him: How should I know?

Soon Godric's doubts were answered.

Nightmare stopped abruptly in front of the two of them, and the female knight jumped off Nightmare's back. She took off the mask, revealing Daphne's face.

"Mr. Gryffindor, long time no see!"

"It's Daphne!" Godric understood where the familiar feeling in his heart came from.

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