Chapter 597 The Brand New Hogwarts

"Is it Professor Flitwick?!"

Hermione exclaimed in surprise. She had always thought that Professor McGonagall was the best candidate to become the new principal, but she didn't expect that the one who really came out on top was their Charms professor.

But she reacted quickly.

The relationship between Professor Flitwick and Mike is very clear to everyone here. It is actually normal for Mike to choose Professor Flitwick to become the principal.

After all, Professor Flitwick is a person that Mike truly trusts, and other people in Hogwarts also have a good impression of Professor Flitwick. It is always better to choose him than someone whom everyone does not know.

But having said that, Hermione still felt unworthy for Professor McGonagall. In her opinion, Professor McGonagall was much better than Professor Flitwick.

For a moment, her eyes became a little downcast as she looked at the desk of the faculty and staff.

At this moment, the short Professor Flitwick jumped down from a special high chair next to the faculty desk with a roll of parchment in his hand, and slowly came to the podium.

The glittering podium was still the Dumbledore-specific version. The height was just right for Dumbledore, who was over 1.8 meters tall, but it was not so friendly to Professor Flitwick.

He looked up at the table and frowned.

At this moment, Filch, who had been hiding in the corner, suddenly ran up holding a wooden box.

This poor Squib looks pretty good now, but the clothes he is wearing are still in tatters.

And the reason why he appears here is entirely because Mike hired him back for Dumbledore's sake.

He respectfully placed the wooden box in front of Professor Flitwick, carefully straightened it and held it steady. After Professor Flitwick stood up and nodded to him to express his gratitude, he ran off the stage excitedly.

Perhaps because he was too excited, Filch's running posture became a little weird and funny, which made everyone in the audience burst into laughter.

"Ahem!"

A loud cough came from the podium, and the students immediately closed their mouths and looked at Professor Flitwick intently.

This is a painful lesson they learned after experiencing several principals last year - don't make trouble when the principal is talking!

Seeing everyone looking at him again, Professor Flitwick nodded with satisfaction, placed the roll of parchment on the podium and spread it out.

The parchment was so long that its hem rolled directly off the podium, and then rolled far away after falling to the ground.

This made the faces of the students in the audience darken.

They could already foresee that what was about to greet them would be a lengthy speech.

However, Flitwick gave them a surprise.

Professor Flitwick frowned at the long piece of parchment, then suddenly flicked his arm and threw out the speech that Benjamin had specially prepared for him.

The audience was still silent, and no one understood what Professor Flitwick was doing. In this dull atmosphere, Professor Flitwick finally spoke:

"Classmates, I, Filius Flitwick, are your new principal! Now, let's eat."

As soon as Professor Flitwick finished speaking, a variety of fragrant delicacies immediately appeared on the long table in front of everyone.

But everyone seemed to be stunned, watching blankly as the short figure slowly walked back to his seat, and sat on the high chair with the help of Hagrid next to him.

"Very good!"

"Long live Professor Flitwick!"

"It's time to change your story! It's Principal Flitwick!"

"Oh yeah!"

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The whirring sound suddenly sounded on the long table of Ravenclaw Academy, and then the speed spread, and finally turned the entire auditorium into a sea of ​​joy!

The professors at the dean's desk were startled. Hagrid seemed to have been so frightened that he bit his tongue, and was now holding his cheek and inhaling heavily.

But soon, the surprise on their faces was replaced by smiles.

Because this was the first time they had seen students so happy since Dumbledore's death.

Professor Flitwick was also smiling, but his smile was slightly bitter.

If possible, he really doesn't want to be the principal.

He doesn't care about power at all, otherwise he wouldn't be a small professor here.

Mike also knew about this, but Mike still insisted on letting Flitwick become the principal.

This made Flitwick extremely angry.

Because this made Flitwick not know how to face Professor McGonagall and other old friends.

In addition, due to the war, the number of high-end professors in Hogwarts has been greatly reduced, which directly caused the workload of other professors to increase dramatically.

Especially Professor Flitwick, although he has become the principal, he still needs to be responsible for the teaching of Charms and the work of the headmaster of Ravenclaw College.

This made Professor Flitwick even think that the reason why Mike asked him to be the principal was just because he wanted to torment him.

Although Mike has promised to find other people as soon as possible to reduce Professor Flitwick's burden, Professor Flitwick will not change his mind until Mike's promise is fulfilled.

Sighing deeply and looking at the joyful students in the audience who were immersed in the food as before, Flitwick finally stopped thinking and concentrated on eating his dinner.

The happy time was always short-lived. After everyone had a round belly, Professor Flitwick finally ordered all the food to be removed.

This alerted the students below, who all turned their attention to the podium.

They knew very well that the closing speeches that followed tonight were coming.

Sure enough, Professor Flitwick stood on the podium again, this time still holding a long piece of parchment in his hand. The students in the audience all smiled when they saw this. They all thought that Professor Flitwick The parchment paper will be thrown away as before.

But this time Flitwick disappointed them. He stretched out his hand to push the eye holder on his nose, and recited the contents of the parchment sonorously in the disappointed eyes of the students.

The speech this time was very long, but it was not the colorful nonsense that the students had expected, but the content of the school rules and the policy changes of Hogwarts this time.

The changes in school rules are actually not big. In order to maintain an authentic Hogwarts, neither Mike nor Flitwick allowed anyone to make major changes to the school rules of Hogwarts, so they removed some of the rules like 'Don't say anything'. Apart from new rules such as Mud Bell's "No Blood Discrimination", the school rules of Hogwarts still maintain their original appearance.

Of course, although the rules haven't changed much, there is a new principal after all.

It is expected that the students will live in peace for a while in the next few months, until they test Professor Flitwick's tolerance limit, and then they will return to their original lawless appearance.

In other words, it is foreseeable that the children will become more and more naughty in the future. After all, compared to Professor McGonagall, Flitwick is too kind.

As for the educational reform part, it is worth talking about.

Mike's improvements to Hogwarts this time are comprehensive. In the past, Hogwarts' funding source came from various school directors, but now it is different.

Mike directly deprived others of their right to fund Hogwarts. The Ministry of Magic, or rather the Los Santos Corporation, became the only source of funding for Hogwarts.

This change makes Hogwarts more pure, allowing students to be as little affected by capital as possible on campus.

This change is difficult for ordinary people to see. They only know that Hogwarts has canceled the special carriage for school directors on the express train, but they do not know that this means that the Ministry of Magic directly has the power of life and death over Hogwarts.

This is very important and is beneficial to the long-term development of Hogwarts.

At the same time, because Mike is far more generous than the previous school directors, some things in Hogwarts that could not be changed due to poverty have also changed.

The floo network fireplace that appeared on Station Nine and Three-Quarters is just one of the inconspicuous changes. There are countless changes like this in Hogwarts Castle.

For example, the toilets in the school bathroom were replaced with the latest models, the equipment in the school kitchen was also updated, and the dim oil lamps and candles in the student dormitories were replaced with bright magic lamps... and so on.

In addition, what excites the younger students is that now Hogwarts' advanced courses have finally been completed.

It turns out that students who want to study courses such as advanced potions and alchemy not only need excellent grades, but also a rich family background.

Because the materials provided by the school are far from enough to support you in a lot of practice.

And now Flitwick promises that all materials for all high-level courses will be paid for by the Ministry of Magic. This is a gift from Senior Mike Townley to these juniors.

As soon as this news was announced, the young wizards in the lower grades immediately cheered, because being able to learn more advanced courses means that they can have better jobs and a better future!

But what these little wizards don't know is that although Mike has given these people the opportunity to learn high-level knowledge, this opportunity is not as good as they imagined.

The first point is that the admission score for students in high-level courses will be greatly improved. If the score is not enough, then you can only wait for the plum blossom to quench your thirst.

Secondly, the materials that Mike prepared for the students could not be wasted at will. Mike, Benjamin and others discussed for a long time and finally established a strict audit system to judge whether students were wasting materials.

Every time students apply for new materials, they need to be reviewed by professors using this review system. If the review shows that some students are wasting materials.

Sorry then, expulsion is waiting for you.

In this way, this so-called free higher education course essentially becomes something similar to a scholarship system.

This is what Mike wants to see, and the reason why it is not directly established as a scholarship system is for the sake of reputation.

Free higher education sounds better than scholarships, right?

The former makes people feel hopeless when they hear it, but the latter makes people feel energetic and think that they can give it a try.

All the professors strongly agree with this mechanism. They all feel that those who wantonly waste materials are not qualified to continue learning no matter how talented they are.

You know, the resources on the earth are now close to exhaustion! Every resource is extremely valuable!

Finally, Professor Flitwick announced an even more exciting news.

That is the job recommendation system for fresh graduates.

When they first heard this term, the senior students actually didn’t have much excitement in their hearts.

After all, Hogwarts already has this system, and the cooperative unit is still an excellent position like the Ministry of Magic.

However, Hogwarts has too few recommended places every year, which makes this system a carnival for pure-blood nobles. Ordinary students cannot enjoy these places no matter how talented they are.

After Professor Flitwick continued to explain, everyone realized that this recommendation system was completely different from the original one.

The first is that the number of units that cooperate with Hogwarts to open school admissions has greatly increased. It is not limited to public units such as the Ministry of Magic, but also many private companies, such as the Los Santos Group and the companies that are springing up in Diagon Alley. New business.

At the same time, the recommendation method is no longer the professor recommendation system in the past, but an open campus recruitment meeting, and students can submit their transcripts to those units on their own.

After being notified that they have passed the test, students still need to go through final review by professors to prevent fraud and other behaviors.

This excellent system combined with the recent booming development of the wizarding world in China, it can be said that in the next few years, all graduates will not have to worry about employment issues.

Of course, this recommendation system is mainly for mixed-blood and Muggle-blood wizards. After all, most pure-blood wizards have better job choices.

In a short period of time, these pure-blood wizards will still be the masters of this world, and even Mike cannot change this.

At this point, Flitwick's speech finally ended.

Standing on the podium, looking at the excited little faces in the audience, Professor Flitwick's mood became better.

Mike did a great job indeed.

From his behavior, Flitwick could feel his sincerity and see that he really wanted to do something for the students and really wanted to run Hogwarts well.

This is why, even though he was extremely reluctant, Professor Flitwick finally agreed to Mike's request and became the principal of Hogwarts.

Taking a deep breath, Professor Flitwick snapped his fingers.

This crisp sound attracted everyone's attention.

Then he smiled and said:

"This ends my speech. It's getting late, now! Everyone, please go back to bed! Early tomorrow morning! Class on time!"

"Yes! Principal!"*n

The deafening cheers resounded throughout the entire auditorium. Feeling the sincerity of the students, Professor Flitwick also smiled knowingly.