Chapter 447 The Banquet is Over

In the Burrow, everyone is still passing around Mike's transcript.

This transcript can almost be said to be the best result in this year's OWLS exam. Everyone showed an expression of amazement after checking it, but after being amazed, they became a little regretful.

Mike's elective courses are really too bad. Ancient Magic is okay, after all, it is a more practical subject in alchemy and translation archaeology, but Muggle Studies is too useless. Generally speaking, only students who want to get by will choose this course.

In their opinion, an outstanding student like Mike should take some more useful courses, such as Arithmancy or Care of Magical Creatures.

The former can be combined with other subjects to predict the general direction of many things, such as predicting the weather with astronomy, while the latter can help Mike, a Muggle-born wizard, to have a deeper understanding of the magical and extraordinary creatures in the wizarding world.

After discussion, everyone agreed that Mike must have been tricked when he chose the elective course, so he chose Muggle Studies. In order not to delay the future of Mike, a talent, Dumbledore even suggested that if Mike wanted, he could let Mike change his elective course and directly take the NEWT course of Care of Magical Creatures or Arithmetic Divination.

Mike felt speechless about this.

He chose Muggle Studies just to slack off. If you ask me to change the course now, wouldn't it deprive me of the right to slack off?

Thinking of this, Mike immediately began to change the subject.

"Let's talk about this later." Mike said with a smile, "Principal Dumbledore, I heard from Harry that you invited a new professor of Potions for us. Can you introduce this professor to us?"

Upon hearing this, the attention of everyone at the scene immediately shifted from Mike to Dumbledore.

This is not surprising, because the people present are either students or parents.

Dumbledore, who was being watched by everyone, smiled and shook his head, saying helplessly:

"The professor I invited, Mori, should be known to many of you here. His name is Horace Slughorn."

Hearing this, Black and others were all shocked, and Mrs. Weasley was even more surprised and shouted:

"Merlin! It's Professor Slughorn. I remember he has retired, right?"

"Yes, he has retired." Dumbledore said with a smile, "But considering the recent severe situation, I still invited him to teach, and he agreed very happily."

Dumbledore also blinked at Harry. In fact, only the two of them knew how difficult it was to invite Professor Slughorn. Ron

and Hermione and others on the side were confused. They had never heard of this name.

"Mom, do you know this Horace Slughorn?"

"Of course, he used to be our Potions professor."

"What kind of professor is he? I mean, how does he compare to Snape?"

Listening to Ron's question, Mrs. Weasley was silent for a while, and then slowly said:

"Snape is a genius in Potions, but Professor Slughorn should not be worse than him in terms of knowledge and teaching level. After all, he has been studying this for a lifetime, and in terms of dealing with people, Professor Slughorn is also more gentle. At least he will not target Gryffindor students like Snape."

Ron's eyes flashed with a glimmer of joy, and he couldn't help cheering, because he could already foresee how pleasant their Potions class would be next semester.

However, Ron obviously overlooked a problem, that is, his Potions OWLS score was just passing, and it was estimated that Slughorn would not give him the opportunity to take the NEWT Potions class at all.

"Don't be happy too soon." Seeing that her son was getting a little carried away, Mrs. Weasley added, "Although Professor Slughorn is better than Snape, he still has a biggest shortcoming, that is, he is vain and very partial."

"You are right, Morrie!" Black continued, "Professor Slughorn is very vain, and likes to associate with celebrities, successful people, and important people. When we were still in Hogwarts, he often came to curry favor with James and me, because we are the heirs of the Black family and the Potter family respectively, and we will definitely be big figures in the future. In addition, the student he valued most at the time was actually Lily, that is, your mother, Harry. Your mother was arguably the most outstanding student in the entire Hogwarts at the time. No matter how difficult the spell was, she would always learn it once, and she would always get full marks in potions. At that time, Slughorn believed that she would definitely become a great figure! But when facing Lupin, he was not so enthusiastic."

Lupin raised his eyebrows and said excitedly:

"You call that not so enthusiastic? Merlin's beard, he didn't even look at me straight at that time. At first I thought he saw through my identity as a werewolf, but later I found that he looked down on everyone except you, the chosen ones, and then I understood that he looked down on me simply because I was a useless waste." The

more Lupin spoke, the more emotional he became. In the end, his eyes even began to turn red. Obviously, Professor Slughorn had caused a great psychological shadow on him.

Seeing this, Tonks was unhappy. She first glared at Black, and then comforted Lupin:

"Remus, in my eyes, you are the best."

"Thank you, dear."

Seeing the two people who became affectionate again in a blink of an eye, Black and others all looked helpless, only Harry still bowed his head and said nothing, looking autistic.

Mike saw all this, and he smiled and said:

"You mean, Professor Slughorn is a guy who likes to be a famous teacher, right?"

Black and Lupin nodded. Mike's summary was very good. In fact, the reason why Slughorn was close to those students who were famous or might be famous in the future was just to get the title of "famous teacher" in the future, so as to highlight his own greatness. In fact,

his behavior was indeed very effective. Over the years, Professor Slughorn has accumulated a lot of connections. Many celebrities in the United Kingdom and even the entire European wizarding world have maintained a good relationship with him. This makes him a benchmark in the potion industry even though he is not very capable.

"Oh, if that's the case, then I can probably understand why he is still the professor of potions at Hogwarts at such an old age." Mike said to Harry with a smile, "After all, our class has a savior. Harry, I'm afraid that after school starts, this Professor Slughorn will try his best to curry favor with you."

Mike's words shocked Harry slightly.

He was not a fool. When he went with Dumbledore to negotiate with Slughorn's family, he saw that the other party wanted to be his teacher very much, and for this reason, he agreed to let Dumbledore go to Hogwarts as a professor.

But at first, he didn't take it to heart, because theoretically every professor at Hogwarts was considered his teacher, and Slughorn would have achieved his goal as long as he arrived at Hogwarts.

But now, if things are really as Mike and the others said just now, then Slughorn will definitely give him some special treatment when school starts.

For example... making an exception to let him take the NWET-level potion course!

Thinking of this, Harry's eyes suddenly brightened, and the previous haze was swept away.

But then, he suddenly remembered a question.

Harry frowned again, and asked Dumbledore, who was smiling,

"Principal Dumbledore, if Slughorn becomes our new Potions professor, what about Professor Snape?"

As soon as this was said, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, especially Ron, who had been curious about Snape's whereabouts for a long time.

"Oh? Haha! You don't have to worry about this. Professor Snape has been placed very well." Dumbledore said with a smile, "He will get a long-awaited position, that is, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

"What? Dumbledore! You actually let that slug be Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor!?" Black suddenly roared, "You will kill Harry by doing this! You know, that guy was a Death Eater before!"

Black was not the only one who was dissatisfied with this decision. Lupin and the Weasleys on the side did not react as strongly as Black, but judging from their frowning and silent appearance, they should also have great opinions on this matter.

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and shook his head:

"Severus is the best candidate."

"What are you kidding? Why can that snotty guy become Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor? Just because he used to be a Death Eater and knows a lot of dark magic?" Black was getting more and more agitated. He stood up from his chair and looked at Dumbledore. "No matter what your reasons were for always appointing that snotty Snape, you should know what period it is now, and you should know what kind of person Snape is! He is a fence-sitter who may turn to Voldemort again later! I want you to fire Snape directly, do you understand? Dumbledore?"

"No, don't be like that, Sirius." Dumbledore said slowly, "You and I should know that Severus will never hurt Harry. After all..."

"Go to hell!"

Before Dumbledore even finished his words, Sirius Black roared, then pulled the confused Harry and ran out of the restaurant, leaving only Ron and Hermione, who were also confused, and other people with unhappy expressions.

Today's protagonists were all taken away, so the birthday party naturally could not go on. Although the Weasleys were still trying their best to maintain a good atmosphere at the scene, the party ended soon after.

Lupin and Tonks left first. They obviously did not understand Dumbledore's decision, but their gentle personalities made them not turn their faces directly like Black, but they did not give Dumbledore, their former boss, any good face.

Looking at Dumbledore's slightly hunched back in the sun, Mike's heart was touched.

He quickened his pace and followed, saying to the old man:

"Professor Dumbledore, I'll take you."

The old man looked at Mike unexpectedly, then smiled and patted Mike on the shoulder, and continued to walk outside the house.

...

In the Masonic villa area, Mike, wearing only a pair of beach pants, was lying on a sun lounger by the swimming pool, enjoying his rare leisure time.

There were not many days left before the start of school, and Harry's birthday party had been almost a week. Although Black strongly opposed Snape's appointment as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, in the end, he was still no match for Dumbledore.

This was all within Mike's expectations. Black and his people could not resist Dumbledore's decision at all, and at best they could only say a few words.

Shaking his head, Mike smiled and raised the wine glass beside him and took a sip, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

'This is the life of a human being! '

Thinking of this, Mike lay back on the sun lounger and put on sunglasses.

He decided to have a good rest today and not care about anything.

Unfortunately, not long after Mike lay down, Benjamin came to Mike's villa.

Looking at Mike, who was leisurely on the sun lounger, Benjamin suddenly had the urge to hit someone.

I have been through life and death recently, working in the wind and rain every day for the work assigned by Mike, and I am very busy, while Mike, the boss who doesn't care about anything, is here enjoying the sunbathing leisurely?

Benjamin's breathing began to become a little rapid, and his originally relaxed hands clenched into fists.

But after hesitating again and again, Benjamin gave up the urge to beat Mike.

You have to know that I am not a student now. Since I graduated from Hogwarts, my social attributes have become social people, and social people must remain rational!

'This is a blessing! This is a blessing! ...'

Benjamin kept hypnotizing himself in his heart, and finally successfully transformed his expression from full of indignation to a cheerful face, and then he quickly approached Mike.

"Boss, I have done what you asked me to do."

"Huh?" Mike was a little unhappy that his rest was disturbed. He lifted up his sunglasses, frowned at Benjamin with some dissatisfaction, and then slowly asked, "What did I ask you to do?"

Hearing this, the veins on Benjamin's forehead suddenly bulged, but he still kept a smile on his face and said,

"It's about the negotiations with the Muggle government. Have you forgotten, boss?"

"Oh! It's this matter. What did they say?"

Looking at Mike who jumped up from the sun lounger, Benjamin nodded and said,

"The other party's attitude is quite respectful, but they want to arrange a meeting between you and the Prime Minister of Ying Country."

"King against king?" Mike's mouth curled up, "Interesting."