Chapter 440: ? End of the banquet

In the Burrow, everyone is still circulating Mike's report card.
This transcript can almost be said to be the best result in this OWLS exam. After checking it, everyone showed a surprised expression, but after the amazement, it became a little regretful.
Mike’s elective courses are really bad. It’s okay to say that the ancient magic writing is a more practical subject in alchemy and translation and archaeology, but Muggle studies is too useless. Generally speaking, there are only those Students who want to mess around will choose this course.
In their opinion, outstanding students like Mike should take some more useful courses, such as arithmetic divination or magical creature protection.
The former can be used with other subjects to predict the general direction of many things, such as weather forecasting with astronomy, while the latter can help Mike, a Muggle-born wizard, have a deeper understanding of the magical and extraordinary creatures in the wizarding world.
After discussion, everyone agreed that Mike must have been cheated when he was taking elective courses, so he chose Muggle Studies. In order not to delay the future of Mike, Dumbledore even suggested that if Mike was willing If so, he can ask Mike to change the elective courses and directly accept the courses of protecting magical creatures or arithmetic and divination.
In this regard, Mike felt very speechless.
He originally chose Muggle Studies for the purpose of paddling and fishing. Now that you ask me to change the class, doesn't it deprive me of the right to paddle?
Thinking of this, Mike immediately changed the subject.
"I'll talk about this later." Mike said with a grin. "President Dumbledore, I heard Harry say that you have hired a new potions professor for us. Can you introduce him to us?"
The attention of everyone at the scene immediately shifted from Mike to Dumbledore.
This is not surprising, because these people here are either students or parents.
And Dumbledore, who was being watched by everyone, smiled and shook his head, and said helplessly:
"The professor I invited, Murray, should know many people present here. His name is Horace Slughorn."
Hearing that Black and others were all surprised, Mrs. Weasley was even more surprised and shouted:
"Merlin! It turned out to be Professor Slughorn, don't I remember he has retired?"
"Yes, he has retired." Dumbledore said with a smile, "but considering the severe situation these days, I still gave him an invitation to teach, and he agreed very well."
Speaking of Dumbledore, he blinked at Harry. In fact, only the two of them knew how difficult it was to invite Professor Slughorn.
Ron, Hermione and the others on the side looked dumbfounded, they had never heard the name.
"Mom, do you know this Horace Slughorn?"
"Of course, he used to be our potions professor."
"Then what kind of professor is he, I mean, how is he compared to Snape?"
Listening to Ron's questioning, Mrs. Weasley was silent for a while, and then slowly said:
"Snape is a genius in potions, but Professor Slughorn should not be inferior to him in terms of knowledge and teaching level. After all, he has been studying this for a lifetime, and when it comes to being a man, Professor Slughorn is also more gentle, at least he will not target Gryffindor students like Snape."
A gleam of joy flashed in Ron's eyes, and he couldn't help but cheer, because he could already foresee how happy their potions class would be next semester.
It's just that Ron apparently overlooked a problem, that is, his potions OWLS score is only passing. It is estimated that Slughorn will not give him a chance to take potions class at all.
"Don't be happy too early." Seeing her son a little overwhelmed, Mrs. Weasley immediately added, "Although Professor Slughorn is better than Snape, he has one of the biggest shortcomings. That is the love of vanity and the very partiality."
"You're right, Morrie!" Black went on. "Professor Slughorn is very vain, and he likes to associate with celebrities, successful people, and important people. He was there when we were at Hogwarts. I often come to cheat me and James, because we are the heirs of the Black family and the Potter family, and we will definitely be big shots in the future. In addition, the student he most valued at the time was actually Lily, your mother, Harry. You Her mother was arguably the best student at Hogwarts at the time. No matter how difficult the spell, she always learned it. She always got full marks in potions. Slugho En believed that she must be a great man! But when facing Lupin, he was not so enthusiastic."
Lupin raised his brows and said excitedly:
"Just call it less enthusiastic? Merlin's beard, he didn't even look at me with his straight eyes at the time. At first I thought he was because he saw my identity as a werewolf, but then I found out that he was facing away from you. I realized that everyone outside of these talented people looked contemptuous. He looked down on me simply because I was a waste of no use value."
The more Lu Ping said, the more emotional he became. In the end, even his eyes began to turn red. Obviously, the psychological shadow that Professor Slughorn had caused him was great.
Seeing that Tonks was unhappy, she first gave Black a look, then comforted Lupin:
"Remus, you are the best in my eyes."
"Thank you dear."
Looking at the two people who became affectionate again in a blink of an eye, Blake and the others all looked helpless, only Harry still bowed his head in silence and looked autistic.
Mike saw all this in his eyes, he twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile:
"You mean, this Professor Slughorn is a guy who likes being a celebrity teacher, right?"
Blake and Lupin nodded one after another. Mike summed it up very well. In fact, Slughorn got close to those famous students or students who might be famous in the future only to get the title of "famous teacher" in the future. This came to set off my own greatness.
In fact, his behavior is indeed very effective. Professor Slughorn has accumulated a lot of contacts over the years. Nowadays, many celebrities in the country and the wizarding world of Europe maintain good relations with him. This makes Although he is not very capable, he has become a benchmark in the potions industry.
"Oh, if that's the case, then I can probably understand why he would be the potions professor at Hogwarts at such an old age." Mike said to Harry with a smile, "After all, we have one Savior. Harry, I'm afraid this Professor Slughorn will try to flatter you after school starts."
Mike's words gave Harry a slight shock.
He wasn’t a fool either. When he negotiated with Slughorn’s house with Dumbledore before, he saw that he wanted to be his own teacher very much, and for this reason he agreed to Dumbledore’s job at Hogwarts. professor.
But at first he did not take this matter to heart, because theoretically every professor at Hogwarts is considered his own teacher, and Slughorn will complete him as long as he arrives at Hogwarts. The purpose of it.
It's just that if things are really as Mike and the others just said, then Slughorn will definitely give himself some special treatment when school starts.
For example... let yourself accept the level of potions course!
Thinking of this, Harry's eyes suddenly brightened, and the previous haze disappeared.
Just after that, he suddenly remembered a question.
Harry frowned again, looking at Dumbledore who was smiling and asking:
"President Dumbledore, if Slughorn becomes our new potions professor, what will Professor Snape do?"
As soon as he said this, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, especially Ron, who had been curious about Snape's whereabouts for a long time.
"Oh? Haha! Don't worry about this, Professor Snape has been placed very well." Dumbledore said with a smile, "He will get a long-awaited position, that is, Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. ."
"What? Dumbledore! You let that slug be a professor of Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts class!?" Black suddenly roared, "You will kill Harry if you do this! You know that guy was a eater before. Dead man!"
Black is not the only person who is dissatisfied with this decision. Although Lupin and Weasley's reaction is not as intense as Black, they should also have a great opinion on the matter with their frowning.
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and shook his head:
"Severus is the best candidate."
"What are you kidding? Why can that snot channel become Harry's defense against the Dark Arts professor? Just because he was a Death Eater, he knows a lot of dark magic?" He stood up on his chair and looked directly at Dumbledore. "No matter what reason you have been with the new Snape slug before, you should know what period it is now and what Snape is like. Man! He might fall back on Voldemort afterwards! I want you to expel Snape directly, understand? Dumbledore?"
"No, don't be like Sirius." Dumbledore said slowly. "You and I should know very well that Severus will never hurt Harry. After all..."
"Go to hell!"
Before Dumbledore could even finish his words, Sirius Black roared, and then he pulled up a bewildered Harry and ran out of the restaurant, leaving only Ron and Hermione with a bewildered face, and Other people with unpleasant expressions.
Today's protagonists were all pulled away, and the birthday party naturally couldn't go on. Although the Weasleys were still trying their best to maintain a good atmosphere on the scene, the banquet ended soon after.
Lupin and Tonks were the first to leave. They obviously didn’t understand Dumbledore’s decision, but their gentle personality prevented them from turning around like Blake, but they did not show Dumbledore’s former boss any good face. .
Seeing Dumbledore's slightly rickety figure in the sun, Mike's heart moved a little.
He quickened his pace and followed up, and said to the old man:
"Professor Dumbledore, let me see you off."
The old man glanced at Mike unexpectedly, then smiled and patted Mike on the shoulder, continuing to think about walking outside the house.
...
In the Masonic villa area, Mike, who only wears a pair of beach pants, is lying on a sun lounger by the swimming pool, enjoying his rare leisure time.
It’s been a few days since the start of school. It’s been almost a week since Harry’s birthday party. Although Blake strongly opposed Snape’s appointment as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, in the end his arm could not be twisted by Dumbledore. thigh.
This was all in Mike's expectation, and Dumbledore's decision Blake could not resist at all, and at best he could only say a few words.
Shaking his head, Mike smiled and took a sip from the wine glass on the side, which was a long sigh of relief.
‘This is how people live! ’
Thinking about this, Mike lay back on the sun lounger and put on sunglasses.
He decided to take a good rest today and leave nothing to do.
Unfortunately, not long after Mike lay down, Benjamin came to Mike's villa.
Looking at Mike on the sun lounger, Benjamin suddenly felt an urge to hit someone.
I was born and dying during this period of time, and the work arranged for Mike every day went in the wind and rain, and I was very busy, but Mike, the shopkeeper, was here to enjoy the sun leisurely?
Benjamin's breathing began to become a little quick, and his loose hands were clenched into fists.
But after hesitating, Benjamin gave up the urge to beat Mike.
You must know that you are not a student anymore. Since you graduated from Hogwarts, your social attributes have become a social man, and a social man must remain rational!
‘This is a blessing! This is a blessing! ...’
Benjamin kept hypnotizing himself deep in his heart~EbookFREE.me~ and finally succeeded in transforming his expression from full of indignation to full of spring breeze, and then quickly approached Mike.
"Boss, I have done everything you told me."
"En?" Mike, who was interrupted to rest, was a little upset. He lifted up his sunglasses and looked at Benjamin with a frown of dissatisfaction. Then he asked slowly, "What did I explain to you?"
Hearing that the blue veins on Benjamin's forehead suddenly violently violently, but he still kept a smile on his face and said:
"It's about negotiating with Muggle Zf, boss, have you forgotten?"
"Oh! It's this, what did they say over there?"
Looking at Mike who jumped up from the sun lounger, Benjamin nodded and said:
"The other party's attitude is fairly respectful, but they want to arrange for you to meet with Prime Minister Yi Guo."
"Is the king against the king?" Mike's mouth twitched, "interesting."