Chapter 531 Godric: Salazar, you said it yourself

Despite his temper, Rice finally opened the door of the dessert shop and invited Godric in.

There's no way, this guy really got the chance.

Les did have a little regret. He regretted forcing Godric into the position of principal, and then putting himself in trouble.

Now he couldn't help but fall into deep thought: Putting aside Helga, could it be that Rowena had already anticipated this day?

If she could even calculate this, then she was truly amazing. It was like she was sitting in the audience seats of the Colosseum.

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

"At this moment? Salazar, are you kidding me?" Godric's mouth was almost grinning from ear to ear. "The appointment letter from the school board has been sent out. Everyone knows that you are about to become the youngest student union president in five hundred years. Even if I withdraw the appointment, White and Arius will do 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, pull out the two old guys hiding in the shadows, and walk to the front of the stage together.

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

There is no other reason. His current condition is still much better than Godric. Although his life is hard, his brother's life is even harder than his!

For this, Rice endured it.

"I'll take the letter." After calming down, Les took the appointment letter as the president of the Student Union from Godric.

In fact, the position of Student Union President is much better than that of Prefect. Because as long as you think about it, you can be crazy and do bad things, just like Dumbledore did when he was the headmaster before, and assign all the tasks to the prefects below.

After thinking this through, Rice suddenly felt that the appointment didn't seem so bad.

"Is there anything else? If not, you can go back." Feeling that Godric was no longer of any use, Rice directly ordered him to leave.

"No, I have something else to talk to you about—" Godric immediately stopped the teacher who wanted to leave, and then informed Les of Cedric's request.

Ok?

Godric's words stirred Rice's memory, reminding him of a conversation between the four of them when Hogwarts was first founded.

It was the seventh anniversary of Hogwarts.

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

As for why the school system at Hogwarts is seven years, the mainstream view in the modern magic world is that seven is the most magical number, but the actual situation is...

Raising students is really expensive!!!

And it becomes more and more expensive as time goes by, especially Potions.

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

This was just the Charms class. Potions was even scarier, and a seventh-year student could spend a whole bag of gold coins just on potion materials in one Potions class.

It's unrealistic to continue teaching them, so we can only let them graduate.

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

"But it's just basic qualities, isn't it?" Rowena said. "In our eyes, they are no different from Scottish shepherds."

"So what? Keep them until they master the field? Rowena, I have to warn you, the school's financial problems are very serious, we can hardly even light a candle-"

"Okay, okay, don't say such depressing things on such a happy day!" Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Helga quickly came out to change the subject, "Godric said that another family agreed to provide funds for Hogwarts yesterday. Our finances will be a little more comfortable next year."

"Indeed, after this group of graduates graduate this year, our reputation will be further enhanced." Godric echoed, "Also, there are many families willing to invest now, such as the Greengrass family, the Black family, the Longbottom family...Should we set up an organization to let people from these families move in? Let them know the school's operations and continue to ask for money from them."

"can."

"Agree."

"It's hard to imagine that this is something you could suggest, Godric."

"Salazar, that's enough!"

After "teasing" Godric, the little quarrel a few minutes ago was forgotten by the four people.

"I have to go to Gaul in a few days. A family called Malfoy asked me to be the witness at their wedding. They really gave me a lot of money." Salazar asked for leave from his old friends.

"Maybe he wants 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 he gave now was just the appearance fee for the wedding.

"Hogwarts will have money one day," Helga said expectantly, "Then we can let the children who have completed seven years of study choose whether to stay in school and continue studying for two more years, no, five more years!"

"You have to pass the exam. Otherwise, if some idiots stay for another five years, I'm afraid I'll live twenty years less." Rowena's cold voice rang out.

The three of them laughed together.

……

"You have become the headmaster of Hogwarts. What is the current financial situation of the school?" Rice broke away from his memories and turned the subject to the economy.

He felt like he was getting younger, but not completely young. How could a young person get lost in the past 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 money as he asked.

Les raised his eyebrows: Huh?

"How much did you ask for?"

“10% more than last year.”

"It's too little." Rice sighed regretfully.

Godric is at his peak now. The four of them showed their power last year, making the evil spirits afraid to set foot on the British Isles, and bringing the Greek gods to the negotiation table. How could the school board have the courage to reject Godric's budget application?

Asking for only 10% more is really too conservative.

"Another addition!" Rice waved his hand, indicating that the budget should be increased by 50%. Anyway, the major pure-blood families have been making crazy profits recently.

Whether renting out dolls or taking orders from Muggles, they have more sources of income than ever before and make more money.

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

"Isn't this... not a good idea?" Godric was a picky person and was too shy to raise the price after setting it.

"This money is different from the previous budget items." Rice knew his old friend's problem, so he considerately found a reason for Godric.

"Do you remember Helga's dream? Now is the time to make it come true."

Godric took a breath and said, "You mean..."

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

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

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

For those graduates who think that just knowing how to use the Shield Charm is enough, seven years is more than enough, 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, due to financial problems, they were unable to provide "graduate education", but now they have the conditions to do so.

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

"Yes." Rice nodded. "Not all courses need to offer graduate education. We only offer it in individual courses."

Rice was referring to the science of divination.

There is no need to offer master's and doctoral degrees in divination. A true prophet can make accurate divinations without going to school. If Hogwarts really offers graduate students in divination, it will only produce a group of liars.

On the contrary, potions, alchemy, and defense against the dark arts require graduate education. They even offer top-level courses such as magic flow.

"We can copy the Muggle's homework. Some professors are qualified to offer graduate 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 is released to let students from other magic schools compete.

For example, if Helga opened a magical cooking course, she could recruit three graduate students every year, two from Hogwarts and one from another school. However, students from other schools would have to pass exams and interviews to be admitted.

Godric's eyes became brighter and brighter as he listened to Salazar's words.

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

"It's okay. We can let their graduate students assist them in teaching! Correct homework and so on, or even teach lower grade classes." Rice gave a crooked dragon king smile.

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

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

Salazar, you just said that some professors who can recruit graduate students have quotas for graduate students to allocate, right? Didn't you also say that graduate students can assist professors in doing some work?

Um? Um!

Godric already had a detailed plan and would share it with Helga, Rowena and the others later.

Thinking of this, Godric's eyes became brighter, even 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 the time to realize it!"

"I'm ashamed, ashamed. I just made a small contribution." Rice was also happy that Hogwarts would continue to grow and develop.

Think about it, now that Hogwarts has Godric and others here, it is simply a fatal attraction to the outstanding students from other magic schools outside.

As the first magic school to enroll master's and doctoral students, is there any school that can shake Hogwarts' status as the world's number one magic school?

Those other second-rate magic schools don’t have the qualifications!

If they want to start graduate education, they will have to wait at least ten or twenty years, and only after their students have completed further studies at Hogwarts will they be eligible.

Godric left excitedly.

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

……

"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 that the Muggles had a ready-made system that could be borrowed.

Their past dreams are becoming reality little by little.

"First is alchemy. Rowena, you can recruit a few students to teach them this. Then it's Potions. I feel that Professor Snape can continue to tap his potential and pass on the methods of making those difficult potions. Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts seem to be quite necessary as well. Should we teach them all?" Godric counted on his fingers.

Helga was quite interested, and she also wanted to open a graduate course on automatic doll making, mainly to help her share some of the pressure on orders.

Rowena said that since this was the first time the system was implemented, it would not be advisable to offer too many subjects, so she decided to use alchemy and magic flow as pilot subjects.

"Let's add puppet making. We are short of people for this field." Helga added.

Rowena and Godric nodded repeatedly.

"That's it. After we write a letter to the school directors to get the budget, we can 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's one more thing..."

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

Little-known fact: during some crucial meetings, it’s best not to go to the bathroom alone.

……

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

Take a look at the subjects offered at Hogwarts - alchemy, puppet making and magic flow!

These are all courses that are more valuable than gold!

There is no need to talk about alchemy, the highest level of magic, the pinnacle of this knowledge can turn stone into gold and make people immortal; as for puppet making, 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 secrets of this course, but some magic families who know the inside story are most obsessed with this course, because this is the real path to becoming top wizards.

Want to be a wizard like Gryffindor, Dumbledore, Cedric or the Greengrass sisters? Just learn Magic Flow!

The entire British wizarding community was excited by this news.

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