#689 - Unqualified (seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

The people present were slightly surprised by Anduin's words. They hadn't expected that this exercise was not only aimed at the teachers and students of Hogwarts, but even included the Aurors from the Ministry of Magic.

It was only then that everyone realized that in addition to being a professor at Hogwarts and the owner of Silver Flash Trading Company, Anduin was also a training instructor for multiple departments in the Ministry of Magic.

At this moment, Gemma and Percy suddenly realized, no wonder those dark wizards had behaved with such… restraint during the invasion. They hadn't relied on the powerful bodies of the steel constructs to attack, but instead, had stalled for quite a while.

"This isn't our fault!" Tonks hurriedly said after hearing Anduin's question. "When the alert was received, most people were out on field missions. The command first spent a lot of time recalling us trainees before issuing the deployment order."

Anduin nodded upon hearing this, "In other words, there were other losses between receiving the alarm and notifying the Aurors to move out. Recalling and then dispatching is indeed a bit slow. It seems there's room for improvement in the rapid response module."

It was unclear whether he was speaking to everyone or just talking to himself, but Anduin actually started summarizing on the spot, writing and drawing earnestly on the clipboard.

"I understand the slow arrival time," Anduin looked at the trainee Aurors again. "However, you still behaved somewhat amateurishly after arriving at Hogwarts, especially in terms of strategy."

"First of all, you chose to disperse and investigate directly after entering the school grounds, instead of prioritizing contact with the professors to exchange information. This is a very serious mistake. It seems you mixed up the regulations in the tactical manual regarding 'Handling Ungoverned Gathering Areas' and 'Handling Rebellious Gathering Areas.'"

"Secondly, when entering a wizarding gathering area with a large number of innocent people, you prioritized searching for and attacking dark wizards instead of protecting and rescuing the victims. This makes you seem very reckless."

"In addition, when facing invaders with unknown intelligence, you seem to have overestimated your abilities. You rushed into combat without reconnaissance, resulting in two injuries. This really shouldn't have happened."

"You need to know that I specifically adjusted the strength of these steel constructs playing the role of dark wizards. As long as you follow the standards in the 'Tactical Manual' and cooperate with the equipment provided by the command, you can subdue them without injury."

"But what happened? After seeing the dark wizards, you all rushed forward like goblins seeing galleons, without any system or coordination, all acting alone. If it weren't for the protection of the tactical vests, you probably wouldn't be standing here listening to me."

"The only commendable thing in the mission is that Tonks knew to report the information about the dark wizards to the others as soon as she obtained it."

Anduin sighed with some regret and annoyance, "In short, your performance in this operation is—unqualified. Therefore, the promotion of the six trainee Aurors present will be postponed, pending a second assessment in six months."

"Ah???"

Upon hearing Anduin's words, the Aurors immediately wailed. Even Tonks pouted in dissatisfaction. She had been gleefully watching the little wizards make fools of themselves, but now she heard such terrible news.

Although they were dissatisfied, they couldn't find any points to refute Anduin's reasoned arguments, so they could only swallow this bitter pill.

The little wizards present looked at the trainee Aurors with amusement, and were secretly shocked. They hadn't expected Professor Wilson to be so strict when dealing with these admirable Aurors!

What was most speechless was that Anduin could directly decide the promotion of these Aurors. Did this guy have so much power in the Ministry of Magic?

By the way, they had heard before that if senior wizards could pass the final exam of Tactical Training, they could be hired as Aurors with the certificate.

Originally, everyone thought this was just bragging, but judging from the current situation, it might not be groundless!

Thinking of this, many fourth and fifth-year wizards were already considering whether to study Tactical Training hard in the future. Once they passed the final exam of this course, it would be equivalent to directly solving employment, and it would be as the highest-ranking Auror in the Ministry of Magic!

However, Anduin didn't care what everyone present was thinking. He just said in a calm tone, "Next, everyone who was defeated in the dark wizard invasion will go to Hogwarts to retrieve your wands. Students above the fourth grade will follow the arrangements and go to various locations to be responsible for repairing all the damaged buildings inside the castle."

After saying that, Anduin turned his head to look at the professors beside him, "Do you professors have anything to add?"

"No, just follow your arrangements," McGonagall gave Anduin a reproachful look. You've already explained everything, what are you asking us for?

"Okay, then I announce the end of this exercise. Everyone is dismissed," Anduin said casually to everyone, then walked off the podium with his clipboard.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Their experience this noon was like a nightmare. It wasn't until the end that everyone woke up as if from a dream.

The entire Hogwarts was plunged into a brief standstill due to Anduin's sudden exercise, and all afternoon classes were passively postponed.

Everyone was busy with reconstruction work. Harry and the others volunteered to join the restoration work because they wanted to practice casting spells.

Fortunately, Hogwarts was a wizarding school, and magic was a magical ability. The buildings that had been beaten into ruins could be restored to their original state with a few spells. Anduin also handled the irreplaceable precious decorations very carefully, and did not allow the dark wizards to destroy them.

Therefore, by the evening, the entire Hogwarts had returned to its original appearance, as if the previous dark wizard invasion had never happened.

The only thing that puzzled everyone was that Dumbledore hadn't shown his face once during this time, as if he had disappeared directly from the school.

At dinner time, Harry's group of four, Percy, and the twins still appeared in Anduin's office on time. After all, the other party hadn't told them to cancel the evening work from beginning to end.

"Yo, it's you!"

When the door of the Tactical Training office was opened, everyone was surprised to find that it was Tonks, whom they had met in the morning, who greeted them. At this time, she had a head of deep purple hair with a very strange color, and stood slovenly on the inside of the door.

"Why are you here too? Didn't you return to the Ministry of Magic with the main force?" Percy looked at her in confusion. He knew that Tonks was Anduin's apprentice. It wouldn't be surprising to see her here given their relationship, but she was also an Auror. Could it be that she openly went on strike because she failed her promotion?

"No way," Tonks shrugged with a pout. "If my career isn't going well, how can I be in the mood to go to work? So I made up an excuse to the headquarters, saying that I wanted to cooperate with my master to do some tests, and then I stayed. Anyway, those guys in the command won't ask my master for confirmation. They can't wait to stay far away from our terrifying instructor."

When she said the last sentence, Tonks deliberately raised her voice a few decibels, as if she was deliberately saying it for someone to hear.

"Stop being sarcastic, isn't it just that your promotion has been postponed? After all, your performance was indeed very average."

Anduin's voice came leisurely from inside the room, with some blame and some helplessness in his tone. "Let them in quickly, or don't you want to eat?"

"Got it…" Tonks rolled her eyes and opened the door, then jumped to a corner of the office as if she were back in her own home, jumping onto the sofa and sitting down with her legs crossed.

Seeing Tonks behaving so casually, the seven visitors were also quite surprised. It was the first time they had seen someone so relaxed around Anduin. If it were them, they would probably be restrained beyond recognition.

"Wait a moment, we'll go to the ranch after I finish processing this document," Anduin pointed to the sofa over there and motioned for everyone to go over and rest for a while.

At the same time, Anduin said to Tonks with some dissatisfaction, "You clearly subdued that steel construct at noon, why did you have to smash it? Don't you know how much trouble it is to make these constructs?"

"You can't blame me for this. Who knows how much those iron lumps have to be beaten to before they really lose their combat power? What if that thing pretends to be dead again? That bastard Hogwarts likes to do this kind of thing," Tonks wouldn't directly say that she was venting her anger at the time, so she just made an excuse to prevaricate.

"But speaking of which," Tonks paused and looked at Anduin curiously, "Didn't you say that this kind of construct is not very practical? Why did you suddenly make so many of them, and they are obviously much stronger than the batch I saw two years ago."

"That's naturally because the technology has been upgraded," Anduin scrutinized the document in his hand without raising his head. "The previous magic constructs mainly had certain limitations in remote control, which meant that they could only make some simple controls. Recently, I changed another control method, which makes their behavior more anthropomorphic, and also gives the constructs a certain strategic value."

"So…" Hearing this, Tonks glanced at Anduin with an unkind expression, "The main purpose of this so-called 'exercise' you put on today is actually to test those constructs of yours, right? Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"