Chapter 285 Back on Track

"It's been a thrilling few months, hasn't it?"

Dumbledore smiled slightly. He looked in good spirits and did not look tired at all. Instead, he seemed to be in control of the situation:

"Severus, thank you for taking care of them. Of course I guess it might be a little boring for young people?"

Snape's face was dark. He finally experienced what it meant to lose more than what you gain.

Ever since I showed off my summer childcare skills in front of Dumbledore——

He became Potter's nanny, responsible for his three meals a day, and even had to smuggle his clothes.

His face became even gloomier when he heard Jian Yu say, "It's as boring as being in prison" and Potter said in unison, "It's not boring at all."

"I don't think Potter would be boring." He made a familiar sarcastic remark in time, exuding a chill. "For him, who is emitting hormones everywhere and has nowhere to place his youth, this must be a reward?"

Harry blinked his innocent green eyes.

Although he wanted to just admit that it was indeed a reward, he felt that doing so might lead to Snape assassinating him.

Only Merlin knew what a happy time he had—

I can stay with Jian Yu, listen to the stories told by the former principals when I'm bored, and chat with my godfather Sirius through the two-way mirror all the time...

When he was tired, he had a nap; when he was hungry, he had a meal. Although the meal was sent by his hated professor Snape, it made him feel inexplicably comfortable that even if you don't like me, you can't get rid of me...

In short, it’s a magical day.

Even Jian Yu couldn't understand why he could treat the boring prison life as if it were a vacation.

Clearly, they both gave away their inheritance, and she was living in misery, while he was joyful and reveling day and night.

Is this the Gryffindor's silly and happy physique?

But it was obvious that Snape understood Harry better than she did. He only needed to glance at his eyes and his movements to know what kind of evil intentions were in Harry.

And when he saw Jian Yu blinking her eyes with obvious confusion, a surge of anger towards Potter surged into his mind.

"Headmaster, I think I have warned you long ago that putting a Potter together with any outstanding student would be a complete disaster."

He angrily slammed a stack of parchment onto the table, and the papers spread out, each with a big "A-" marked on it.

Jian Yu suddenly recognized the stack of parchment - those were the potions homework she had handed in during this period!

But in Snape's eyes at this moment, it was all the result of Potter's corruption of his excellent student Jade Jane. This pile of parchment was like a pile of defense papers contaminated by Potter, emitting a rotten and foul smell:

"Looking at the assignments Miss Jane has submitted in the past few months, I even suspect that only a mentally disturbed patient could write such a masterpiece."

"That's what happens when you put Potter and her together. He uses his teenage hormones to lower the IQ of the entire headmaster's office."

"I think if a troll painted on this parchment, it would come out better than this."

Jian Yu felt a little confused for once.

She thought her Potions homework was pretty good?

No, to be precise, the headmasters' Potions homework is pretty good?

Why is there only a "barely passing" grade?

She looked up at the headmasters on the wall, only to find that many of them who were originally sleeping and snoring had opened their eyes and were glaring at Snape with anger, and many of them had begun to move their wrists and fists.

A wizard picked up a mace, and another witch snatched the two-handed sword from the wizard next to her, looking ready to convince others with reason.

But Snape's next words made them put down their maces and two-handed swords:

"I believe that if it was published eight hundred years ago, it would have been a masterpiece. Let me see what Miss Jane wrote. There are a bunch of extinct plants and magical animals, and plants whose medicinal properties have been reduced to almost zero... I can't believe that her thoughts are still stuck in the past few centuries."

"You'd better explain why the quality of your work has dropped to such an alarming level in just a few months?"

Now Jian Yu finally understood why she always heard about animals and plants she had never heard of while doing her homework!

She thought she was ignorant, perhaps because she had not been out of England much.

But I didn’t expect that they no longer exist in this world and have become the tears of the times!

She once again stared in disbelief at Delys Devonte...Euprasia Moore...Dexter Fusco...and others on the wall.

But I found that their eyes were tightly closed, as if they were sleeping peacefully, only their eyeballs were shaking restlessly under their eyelids.

The main theme is the emperor's new clothes.

But Phineas Black, who had his eyes closed and his ears pricked up, keenly caught the target of Snape's reprimand. Feeling that he had been deceived, and determined to make Jane Yu unlucky, he suddenly opened his eyes and reported to her and a group of principals:

"Let me tell you why. This little girl never did her homework! All the homework was done by these old guys!"

"Why haven't you kicked her out of Hogwarts yet? A little girl with corrupt morals and bad behavior, who deceived the headmaster and copied homework... If I were the headmaster at that time, I would have expelled her ten thousand times!"

Now all the principals who were pretending to be asleep opened their eyes awkwardly, glared at Phineas fiercely, and started to exercise their fists and feet again.

This Blake is so morally corrupt and has such bad character!

He actually did something like telling tales in person!

"Who are you calling a little girl, Blake? You are the old man with corrupt morals and bad character!"

"That's because you didn't live when we were the principal. Otherwise, a Black like you would have been expelled by us tens of thousands of times!"

Then Phineas on the wall screamed like a pig being slaughtered -

A group of principals who witnessed him gossiping in front of others gave him a beating, and eventually the mace and two-handed sword came to him.

Apparently, these principals, who are not only proficient in magic but also have a little knowledge of boxing and kicking, believe that physical attacks can better vent their anger.

"Stop, stop, Dexter! Dalys! Calm down and stop fighting!"

After the verbal mediation failed, Dumbledore swallowed back the words "You can't kill anyone by hitting them like this" and had to turn over the portraits of the headmasters one by one and hang them on the wall.

The principal's office was finally quiet.

"What unfortunate news." Dumbledore sighed, and spoke earnestly to the principals who were banging their heads against the wall unhappily, "I understand your desire to help students learn, but telling them the answer directly is too direct. What can they learn? What we want is independent and proactive thinking in the learning process, and a comprehensive grasp of all kinds of knowledge, rather than a definite answer. You have all been principals before, and you should have given more thought to the way children are educated than others..."

He spoke eloquently, reciting long sentences of ten thousand words.

This made all the principals close their eyes again, lie back on their recliners, and plug their ears with their fingers.

Those who become principals have the occupational disease of being a teacher...

Plus, life in the principal's office is too boring, which makes their painting life full of boredom...

This made them unable to hold back for a moment, so they helped the children finish their homework.

Is it necessary to nag about them for so long?

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was Dumbledore, they would have started cursing!

Even Jian Yu couldn't help but use earplugs to listen to himself.

Master, stop reading!

"Although I don't want to blame the past principals of this school." Snape's face was dark, and he seemed to be about to scold but hesitated, "But directly writing homework for students, is this the way of education at Hogwarts when you were principals? Perhaps our school history should be revised."

The term "revise school history" immediately touched the high-voltage line in the hearts of a group of headmasters. They immediately slapped the wall and made dissatisfied voices towards Snape:

"Do you understand the meaning of respecting the elderly and loving the young, and caring for the portraits? How do you talk to your predecessors here, a group of your old principals?"

"Whose teaching method are you insulting, kid? Why don't you reflect on your own teaching method? Potter and that Black have scolded you a thousand times! Everyone knows that you are a dark old bat who only knows how to put pressure on students and deduct marks everywhere in class!"

Hearing such incendiary remarks, Jian Yu immediately saluted Harry.

It was really hard for her to be sure whether the savior could see tomorrow's sun.

And Harry's thoughts were similar to her hero's.

He suddenly felt darkness in front of his eyes.

As happy as he had been before, he was now as terrified.

No one told him before he came that the principals of this wall would report him!

Faced with Snape's lethal death ray, he wanted to run away, but he was nailed to the spot as if he had grown roots.

"Potter and your dog godfather, gossiping behind your back, is this your etiquette?" Snape turned around and was about to expel him from the Potions class. "Since you have so many objections to my teaching methods, I think you don't need to enter my class anymore."

"Uh...uh...I didn't!" Harry tried hard to think of an excuse and he started stuttering.

Dumbledore, the golden mediator who had just mediated the fight between the headmasters, breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Snape and Harry who were on the verge of a fight, and couldn't help feeling tired again.

One of them looked like he wanted to poison Harry right then and there, and the other looked like he wanted to jump off the stairs, dragging Snape's robes with him.

"Ahem, calm down, Severus, Harry, I have something to ask you."

Dumbledore had to speak to break the tension between the two.

"Severus, I want to ask you, how has Harry's brain block technique progressed over such a long time?"

Snape sneered, fully expressing his distrust of Potter's intelligence, and even dragged down Jian Yu:

"That's right. Just as you thought, we shouldn't have any hope for a hormone-tainted Potter's brain. His brain is just like Miss Jane's homework, full of flaws and breakthroughs."

Jian Yu looked at the big "A-" on her homework, and suddenly understood the meaning of Snape's words.

Doesn't that mean you've barely passed?

Dumbledore also pondered for a moment and then smiled.

"That's good, Harry. I've always worried that you were too emotional. When you're overly sensitive, your brain is vulnerable to being invaded."

"This is the best outcome I could have imagined. To be honest, I'm glad I put you with Sirius and Jade before. Positive emotions are slowly healing you. I'm glad that your heart can calm down, Harry."

Snape snorted in disdain. Sometimes he really wanted to apply for a work injury appraisal.

After all, every time he sees a stupid dog dancing in Potter's brain, it causes serious mental pollution to him.

"I have figured out some things during this period..." Dumbledore continued, "I think the frequency of your dreams should have decreased a lot. But if you continue to dream, please tell me in time."

After Harry agreed, Snape grabbed his collar and went out, apparently wanting to have a good chat with him about the topic of "stressed students losing points everywhere".

Only Jian Yu and Dumbledore were left in the huge headmaster's office.

But Dumbledore turned to another topic, with a rare look of confusion on his face, as if he had encountered something he couldn't understand:

"Jade, have you heard from Mr. and Mrs. Flamel recently?"

Jian Yu was stunned for a moment, and an ominous premonition brewed in her heart.

The couple was so obsessed with research that once they started working on technology, they would forget about eating and sleeping and ignore everything around them, even forgetting about the call from her two-way mirror.

Therefore, for a long time, she did not receive any message from the couple.

Could they be...missing?

"I don't think so. Last time we spoke, they said they were going to capture... do research with Muggles?"

Dumbledore sighed imperceptibly:

"Perhaps you have heard the reason why I went to America. Grindelwald kidnapped some Muggles, and as for the Flamels - the place where they were last seen coincided with the location where those Muggles disappeared."

Jian Yu was horrified.

Her technical backbone! A researcher at the academy level!

Just like that, Grindelwald intercepted it!

Kidnapping? ransom? Killing a person?

A series of crime scenes emerged in her mind.

"Have you found out where Grindelwald is?" she asked eagerly. "Are the Flamels still alive?"

But Dumbledore gave a very different answer:

"No, in fact I did not stay in America for long. I realized long ago that if he did not want to see me, he would not be found by me."

"But I think the Flamels are safe. He took them away... maybe for another reason."

Jian Yu felt slightly relieved.

But new questions came to her mind.

"Where have you been during this time?"

"A secret." Dumbledore blinked, but Jian Yu felt that she could smell the breath of impending storm. "You will know after a while."