Chapter 855： School starts

Chapter 855 School starts

 The next morning, the storm stopped. Albert opened the window and took a deep breath. The air outside was particularly fresh. However, the weather still shows no sign of clearing up, with large dark clouds rolling in the sky and heavy rains may fall again at any time.

“Good morning.” George reached out to cover his yawn and greeted Albert, “It looks like it will rain outside.”

"If the heavy rain continues, the lake will flood." Lee Jordan also got up from the bed. They had to go to the auditorium early today to finalize the sixth grade curriculum with Professor McGonagall.

“Sixth grade is great. We have a lot of time to allocate freely.” Fred stretched out happily.

"Don't waste the little time you have at Hogwarts. The most precious thing for you now should be the Hogwarts library. Make good use of the remaining two years and make use of the books in the library. They can provide more inspiration and help for your joke props." After Albert opened a pack of cat food for Tom, he said to the three people who were about to embrace a happy sixth grade life, "If you don't want to be the next Joko’s words.”

 “What does this have to do with Joko?” Fred was puzzled as to why he mentioned Joko so easily.

“Zoko is a typical example of running out of inspiration. He does not have enough knowledge reserves to support him in inventing more joke props, and the result is like that.” Albert closed the window again and motioned for a few people to walk and talk.

“There are still people patronizing Zuko’s shop simply because there is no other store in the British wizarding world to compete with him. If other more interesting joke shops appear, Zuko’s joke shop may be unable to withstand the market impact and close down at any time.”

"I remember you said something similar before, thinking that after our joke shop opens, Joko's joke shop may be squeezed out by us." George agreed with Albert's words, because Joko's shop It has indeed been a long time since we introduced interesting joke props. The loss of freshness and novelty is undoubtedly a very bad thing for a joke shop.

 “Don’t we have you?”

Fred feels that they don’t need to worry about those things at all. Perhaps as Albert said, there is not enough knowledge support in the later stage, which will lead to the stagnation of the development of joke props, but they have Albert.

 After Albert graduated from Hogwarts School, the knowledge reserve in his head was equivalent to a mobile library. What's more, they all know that Albert has the habit of collecting books, and his book reserves can fully support their store.

“By the way, are you planning to set up a radio station?” Lee Jordan suddenly interrupted and asked, “If you want, I can write to Dad and ask him to find a way to help us get radio equipment.”

"There's no rush to do this. Even if we get the equipment, we won't be able to set it up for a while, and we haven't figured out what content to broadcast. We have to plan these things slowly." Albert walked up the stairs into the public In the lounge, he greeted Shanna, who had just come down from the girls’ dormitory, and said to Lee Jordan: “I think you can give our radio station a name first.”

"Gossip little secret?" Lee Jordan said seriously, "If you allow me to spread a little bit of your privacy, I think our radio will definitely become popular very soon."

"Why don't you discuss the color of Snape's underpants on the radio?" Albert gave Lee Jordan a hard look. No one likes to be the subject of gossip.

"This is a good idea, but it will make people lose their appetite. As we all know, Snape may not wash his underwear for several days. Moreover, we don't know what color Snape's underwear is." Lee Jordan's words immediately attracted attention Looking at the disgusted looks from the girls around him, he added: "But we know what color your underwear is."

“Man, I think you’re on the road to death.” Both Fred and George couldn’t help but laugh, reaching out and patting Lee Jordan on the shoulder, with the expression that you were asking for a blessing.

Noticing the expression on Albert's face, Lee Jordan couldn't help but shrink his neck and hurriedly defended: "Many people are very curious about your affairs. Instead of letting them compile some messy gossip news, it's better to let me take it. Come and talk to everyone, everyone will know, and there will be no more messy gossip."

 “Aren’t you afraid of being beaten to death?”

 “Sorry, I was just joking.” Lee Jordan apologized immediately.

"If you really want to be popular, interpret recent events, such as the attacks at the World Cup, why the Ministry of Magic is so bad at responding to emergencies, or the attack on Professor Moody yesterday." Albert Give Lee Jordan a direction.

 “Isn’t this similar to the content in the Defense Guide?”

"Yes, you can talk about these topics together and interpret some recent events. Many wizards are actually very poor at interpreting key information." Albert did not deny this. He was going to let them start the broadcast first. Use this to gain some experience.

"I feel that my interpretation ability is not much better." Lee Jordan sat down next to Albert, picked up the latest issue of the "Daily Prophet", and quickly found the report about Moody: Magic There is new trouble in the department.

Rita Kister deliberately downplayed the incident of old Auror Moody in the article and turned the finger on Weasley. For this reason, she deliberately changed Arthur Weasley's name to Arnold Weasley, and also wrote in the newspaper Attached below is a photo of the Weasley family and their house, clearly up to no good.

"Mom must be very unhappy. She has always hated that woman Rita Kister." George took the newspaper, frowned after reading the article, and said, "I dare say that woman must have spelled her name wrong on purpose. "

“But they still read Rita Skeeter’s articles, don’t they? We have to admit that Rita Skeeter’s **** skills contributed to the Daily Prophet’s sales.”

"Rita Skeeter is very good at digging out other people's secrets and then writing them into articles in a way that many people like." Fred took the newspaper and looked at it and said, "Actually, I'm more curious. Rita Skeeter actually I’ll let you go and don’t spread your **** news everywhere. I think many girls want to know how many times you’ve been involved with several beautiful girls.”

"Because I talked to her about it and shut her up." After Albert drank the milk, he began to make himself a ham sandwich.

 “How did you convince her?”

Fred, George and Lee Jordan all found it incredible that a woman like Rita Skeeter could not easily compromise.

"Everyone has weaknesses. She published those articles just for profit. As long as the negotiation is settled, she will naturally shut up."

“As expected of you, you actually found Rita Skeeter’s weakness.”

Fred, George and Lee Jordan were all curious, but seeing that Albert had no intention of telling them, they did not continue to ask, because Albert obviously would not tell them about Rita Skeeter's weaknesses.

"Can we talk about house elves?" A voice suddenly spoke up, and Hermione came to Albert's side at some point.

 “Something about the novel?”

"No, I've given up on the novel for now. Do you know where the kitchen is? Nick told me that there are hundreds of house elves in Hogwarts who are oppressed." Hermione took a deep breath and tried to organize her words: "I I want to set up an association to ensure that house elves receive reasonable wages and a good working environment. I wonder if you have any good suggestions."

"No one will join your association, except Harry and Ron." Albert was silent for a long time and reminded: "Your original intention is good, but your approach is heresy in the eyes of other wizards. No wizard will I support what you are doing.”

"Why?"

Hermione's eyes widened in disbelief.

"House elves are slaves in the eyes of wizards, and no master will allow slaves to be equal to them." Albert motioned Hermione not to get excited and continue to listen to him, "If you want to let house elves have some power, then There will inevitably be a war between house elves and wizards. Although it is cruel, some things require blood to win, but house elves do not have that kind of power. Once a war breaks out, their situation will only be worse than now."

"But I just hope that they can be treated well and that their rights can be guaranteed." Hermione looked at Albert in shock, unable to understand why such a terrible thing happened.

"Because you are going in the wrong direction and your ideas are too naive." Albert reminded: "Your goal should be to allow house elves to be treated well, so that they can be fully integrated into the wizarding family and become an important part of the entire family. members instead of guaranteeing their power, which is very unrealistic and impossible to achieve, because wizards will not separate their powers at all."

 “No one likes being a slave,” Hermione said shakily.

"They like to be other people's slaves!" Fred reminded, "They like to work and serve wizards. Hermione, I think you should wake up and not lead the house elves to go on strike to fight for their own power."

 Hermione said nothing, but stared at Albert.

"Yes, no one likes to be a slave." Albert said helplessly: "But thousands of years of slavery have completely changed the house elves. This is not something you can change with a word, not even Dumbledore can change it. .”

"Even if you want to help them, the house elves will not appreciate it. Instead, they will hate you even more and even regard you as an enemy." Albert noticed the confusion on Hermione's face and sighed softly, "If If you really want to help them, you should guide and call on wizards to treat them well and make them a reliable part of the family instead of treating them as slaves, similar to how we treat pets as part of the family, and this requires a person It takes a long time to work hard. If you really want to create a protective law for house elves, then you should aim to become the Minister of Magic. Only when you become the Minister of Magic can you have such an opportunity to appeal to everyone for kindness. House elf.”

 “Minister of Magic.” Hermione looked at Albert with wide eyes.

"Yes, I know it's difficult." Albert nodded: "That's why I suggest you write a book and subtly guide people to be kind to house elves through books."

"Thank you, I will seriously consider your proposal." Hermione left disappointed.

 After Hermione walked away, Fred muttered under his breath: "I thought she was a smart girl."

“Hermione is just a little naive and takes things for granted.” Albert shook his head.

“Do you think Hermione can become Minister of Magic?”

"It's hard to say. If the environment of the Ministry of Magic does not change, she may not have any chance." Albert said softly: "But who knows what will happen in the future?"

 “You know!” George said with a smile, “If you want.”

 “That’s right.” Albert also laughed.

 Just after breakfast, I saw Professor McGonagall coming over to distribute the course schedule. She needs to determine the N.E.W.Ts courses selected by sixth grade students to ensure that their O.W.Ls scores meet the minimum requirements of professors.

"Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Herbology, Potions, Arithmetic Divination and Ancient Runes." Professor McGonagall repeated the course Albert had chosen, picked up the wand and tapped on the course schedule. When she handed the filled-in class schedule to Albert, she suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "I remember your birthday is in September."

“Yes, are you going to give me a birthday gift on September 21st?” Albert said jokingly.

“So do you plan to participate in this year’s Triwizard Tournament?” Professor McGonagall lowered her voice.

"I do plan to sign up." Albert nodded and said: "For a Gryffindor student, such an interesting competition cannot be missed."

 “The Triwizard Tournament is more dangerous than you think, if you’ve seen it…”

“You are referring to the incident in 1792 when a cockatrice monster got out of control and all three principals were injured in the competition?”

"The Triwizard Tournament is still very dangerous for you. If you want to participate, you should prepare your mind to face the challenge." Professor McGonagall frowned and reminded.

"In my opinion, cockatrice monsters are not too dangerous creatures. Even if we need to face fire dragons in this Triwizard Tournament, I am confident that I can defeat them." Albert was still confident.

 Professor McGonagall opened her mouth slightly, turned and left. Although she felt that Albert was a little overconfident, but considering his heroic deeds, there was really no one in Hogwarts who was more suitable to be a warrior than him.

“In this Triwizard Tournament, the warriors need to face the fire dragon?” Lee Jordan felt that he had guessed it right.

"Fire dragons are difficult to deal with, especially their scales. Most magic doesn't work. How do you plan to defeat them?" Fred and George were both curious about how Albert planned to defeat the fire dragon. Charlie was studying dragons and they compared Most people understand how terrifying fire dragons can be.

“Fire dragons also have weaknesses, and it’s not difficult to deal with them based on their weaknesses.”

 “What is the weakness of the fire dragon?”

“Eyelids, so it only takes an eye disease spell to damage them.” Albert shrugged.

“That means you have to deal with a crazy fire dragon,” muttered Lee Jordan. “That feels crazy.”

“There is a Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, and I suddenly looked forward to what Professor Moody would teach us.” George noticed someone coming over and changed the topic.

"Probably how to attack the dark wizard. After all, he is an Auror and is very familiar with this matter." Albert took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.

 “But you didn’t mean...”

"That doesn't matter, does it?" Albert packed his things and stood up: "There is an ancient magic text class in the morning, I have to go."

"Albert's words always confuse people." Fred looked at Albert's leaving back and said to the two people around him.

"I think he actually guessed everything, he just didn't tell us." George smiled and waved Fred away: "Let's go, we should go do our own thing. Albert knows everything else. When the time comes, we will Just follow him."

 “Where are you going?” Li Qiaodan was a little confused. Why didn’t any of these people speak human words?

"Of course we are going to study our gadgets!" George said matter-of-factly: "You forgot, Albert asked us to hurry up."

"If you want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, you must be prepared in advance." Fred and George said in unison: "After all, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared."

 After saying that, the two of them returned to the common room arm in arm. They plan to move everything from the dormitory to the laboratory in the Room of Requirement.

 After all, it’s obviously not a good idea to have those in your dorm room.

"I agree with what Albert said, but can't you wait for me?" Lee Jordan finished the food on the plate in two bites and hurriedly chased after him.

  Revised.

　　

 (End of this chapter)