Chapter 597 A Brand New Hogwarts

"It's Professor Flitwick?!"

Hermione exclaimed in surprise. She had always believed that Professor McGonagall was the best candidate to be the new headmaster, but she didn't expect that the one who really won the first place was their Charms professor.

But she reacted quickly.

Everyone present knew the relationship between Professor Flitwick and Mike. It was normal for Mike to choose Professor Flitwick as the headmaster.

After all, Professor Flitwick was someone Mike truly trusted, and other people in Hogwarts also had a good impression of Professor Flitwick. Choosing him was much better than choosing someone no one knew.

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

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

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

The glittering podium was still the one used by Dumbledore. This 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 podium and couldn't help frowning.

At this time, Filch, who had been hiding in the corner, suddenly trotted up with a wooden box.

The poor Squib looked quite good now, but the clothes he was wearing were still tattered.

The reason why he was here was because Mike rehired him 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 excitedly ran off the stage.

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. The students immediately shut their mouths and looked at Professor Flitwick intently.

This was a painful lesson they had learned after experiencing many headmasters last year - don't make trouble when the headmaster is speaking!

Seeing that everyone was looking at him again, Professor Flitwick nodded with satisfaction and spread out the parchment on the podium.

The parchment was very long, and its hem rolled directly off the podium, fell to the ground and rolled far away.

This made the students in the audience look black.

They could already foresee that what was about to greet them was bound to be a long speech.

However, Flitwick gave them a surprise.

Professor Flitwick frowned at the long parchment, and suddenly threw out the speech that Benjamin had prepared for him.

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

"Students, I, Filius Flitwick, am your new headmaster! Okay, let's eat."

As soon as Professor Flitwick finished speaking, all kinds of delicious food with fragrant aromas immediately appeared on the long table in front of everyone.

But everyone seemed to be stunned, staring blankly at the short figure who slowly walked back to his seat and sat on the high chair with the help of Hagrid.

"Great!"

"Long live Professor Flitwick!"

"It's time to change your words! It's Headmaster Flitwick!"

"Oh yeah!"

...

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

The professors on the long table of faculty and staff were startled, and Hagrid seemed to have bitten his tongue out of fear, and now he was covering his cheeks and taking a deep breath.

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

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

Professor Flitwick was also smiling, but his smile was a little bitter.

If possible, he really didn't want to be the headmaster. He

didn't care about power at all, otherwise he wouldn't stay here to be a small professor.

Mike also knew about this, but Mike still insisted on making Flitwick the headmaster.

This made Flitwick very annoyed.

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 led to a surge in the workload of other professors. Especially

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

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

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

a deep sigh, looking at the students in the audience who were immersed in the food and jubilant as before, Flitwick finally stopped thinking about it and concentrated on eating his dinner.

Happy times are always short. After everyone had eaten their fill, Professor Flitwick finally ordered all the food to be removed.

This made the students below alert and they all cast their eyes to the podium.

They knew very well that the closing speech tonight was coming.

Sure enough, Professor Flitwick stood on the podium again, this time he still held a long piece of parchment in his hand. The students in the audience smiled when they saw this. They all thought that Professor Flitwick would throw the parchment away directly like before. But this time

Flitwick disappointed them. He stretched out his hand to push the glasses on his nose and recited the contents of the parchment in a sonorous and powerful manner under the disappointed eyes of the students.

This time the speech was very long, but it was not the kind of nonsense that the students expected, but the school rules and the content of the policy changes of Hogwarts.

The changes in the school rules were not big. In order to maintain an authentic Hogwarts, neither Mac nor Flitwick allowed anyone to make major changes to the school rules of Hogwarts. Therefore, except for some new rules such as "no mud clock" and "no discrimination based on blood", the school rules of Hogwarts still remained the same.

Of course, although the rules have not changed much, after all, a new headmaster has been replaced.

It is expected that the students will be quiet for a while in the next few months, until they have tested the bottom line of Professor Flitwick's tolerance, and then they will return to their original lawless appearance.

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

for the teaching reform, it is worth talking about.

Mac's improvement of Hogwarts this time is comprehensive. In the past, the source of funds for Hogwarts was the various directors, but now it is different.

Michael directly deprived others of the right to provide funds for Hogwarts. The Ministry of Magic, or the Los Santos Group, became the only source of funds for Hogwarts.

This change made Hogwarts more pure, allowing students to be less affected by capital on campus.

This change is difficult for ordinary people to see. They only know that Hogwarts has cancelled the special carriage for directors on the express train, but they don’t 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 also conducive to the long-term development of Hogwarts.

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

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

For example, the toilets in the school bathrooms have been replaced with the latest models, the equipment in the school kitchen has also been updated, and the dim oil lamps and candles in the student dormitories have been uniformly replaced with bright magic lamps... and so on.

In addition, what makes the lower grade students excited is that the advanced courses at Hogwarts have finally been perfected.

Originally, students who wanted to study courses such as advanced potions and alchemy not only needed excellent grades, but also a rich family background.

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

Now Flitwick promised that all the material costs for all high-level courses will be paid by the Ministry of Magic. This is a gift from Senior Mike Townley to these juniors.

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

However, what these little wizards don’t know is that although Mike gave these people the opportunity to learn advanced 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 increased. If the score is not enough, it can only be a plum to quench thirst.

Secondly, the materials prepared by Mike for the students cannot be wasted at will. Mike and Benjamin and others discussed for a long time, and finally established a strict review system to determine whether the students are 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,

then I'm sorry, you will be expelled.

In this way, this so-called free advanced course has actually become 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 is always better than scholarships, right?

The former makes people feel that there is little hope at first, but the latter makes people excited and think that they can also try it.

As for this mechanism, all professors are very supportive. They also think that those who waste materials wantonly are not qualified to continue studying even if they are talented.

You know, the resources on the earth are almost exhausted now! Every resource is extremely precious!

Finally, Professor Flitwick also announced a more exciting news.

That is the job recommendation system for fresh graduates.

At first hearing this term, the senior students did not have much fluctuation in their hearts.

After all, Hogwarts originally had this system, and the cooperative unit was still a good position like the Ministry of Magic.

But the number of recommended places at Hogwarts every year is too small, which has led to this system becoming a carnival for pure-blood nobles. Ordinary students cannot enjoy these places even if they are very talented.

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

First of all, the number of units that cooperate with Hogwarts to open campus recruitment has greatly increased. It is not limited to public units such as the Ministry of Magic, but also many private enterprises, such as the Los Santos Group and new companies that have sprung up like mushrooms on Diagon Alley.

At the same time, the recommendation method is no longer the professor recommendation system of the past, but an open campus recruitment conference, where 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 the final review of the professors to prevent fraud and other behaviors.

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

Of course, this recommendation system is mainly for half-blood and Muggle-blood wizards. After all, most pure-blood wizards have better jobs to choose from.

In the short term, these pure-blood wizards will still dominate 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 below the stage, Professor Flitwick's mood also became better.

Mike did a good job.

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

This is why, although extremely reluctant, Professor Flitwick finally agreed to Mike's request and became the headmaster of Hogwarts.

Professor Flitwick took a deep breath and snapped his fingers.

The crisp sound attracted everyone's attention.

He smiled and said,

"This is the end of my speech. It's getting late. Now! Everyone go back to bed! Tomorrow morning! Be on time for class!"

"Yes! Principal!" A

deafening cheer resounded throughout the auditorium. Feeling the sincerity of the students, Professor Flitwick smiled knowingly.