v2 Chapter 15： Open the door to a new world

"Little sweet bear, go downstairs, there is something to talk about here." Mr. Grossman called his daughter down.

Tom thought it was very interesting. It was the first time that he saw his father call his daughter "honeybear". What he heard more was "sweetheart", "honeybear" and so on. This was the first time for sweet bear.

Peggy Grossman came down the stairs little by little. A black skirt with a white blouse looks classy.

When she was at the table, Mr. Grossman brought her a cup of hot chocolate, her favorite drink. She sat quietly at the table like a little angel, sipping hot chocolate from a cup.

After she took a few sips, she raised her head and looked at Tom, "You are disturbing my life." Her voice was very nice, but it was obvious that the magic world had entered her life unreasonably. , which made her a little dissatisfied.

"Your fate is decided when you are born, whether from a magical family or a Muggle family, every child born with a magical talent will be automatically included in the Hogwarts admissions list, without exception. ." Tom said so, but he remembered the third sentence Professor McGonagall said to himself when he saw him, "but you are not on the list", which has always made him brooding, but considering his own The status is special, so there might be something wrong somewhere.

"You're lying." Peggy's face suddenly turned cold, "What are you hiding?"

"?" Tom didn't expect the little girl to feel quite keen.

"I do have something to hide from you, but I'll tell your father later, whether you want to join Hogwarts or not." Of course Tom wouldn't say what he really thought just now, but he did have something to talk to. Mr Rothman said alone.

"Okay," Peggy didn't bother about this anymore, "What did you mean just now that I'm a born witch?"

Tom thinks that she understands it right. Every wizard in the wizarding world is born with a gift, no matter whether his parents are wizards or not. Of course, the probability that the parents are wizards and the children are wizards is much higher, but it is not absolute. The Squib group refers to people who were born in a wizarding family but have no magical talent.

From a scientific point of view, magical talent may be an extremely rare recessive gene, a bit like Mendel's peas, AaBb, long stems and short stems, but hundreds of times more complicated. It may be a special gene in the wizard's body that allows them to secrete a magical amino acid or something to perform magic.

Of course, this is all just scientific madness. Magic is a mysterious thing, but maybe it really has something to do with heredity.

After Peggy got Tom's affirmative answer, she pouted, "I've heard this kind of thing countless times since I was a child..."

"Her teachers said she was a born painter, scientist, actress, etc." Grossman explained for her daughter.

"Little girl with excellent character..." Tom realized another reason why Professor McGonagall sent him here.

Peggy seems to have little interest in the magic world, and she doesn't really want to change her life.

"Okay, let's skip the topic of born witches. What kind of treatment do your students get after graduation? Going to Hogwarts to study magic will delay my study."

"Hogwarts graduates have a wide range of employment opportunities. The Ministry of Magic and various authoritative fields are full of our seniors and seniors..." The British wizarding world is still dominated by Hogwarts graduates, although A wizard may have other paths to success, but these wizards are generally inferior to Hogwarts graduates.

Children born in the British Isles and Ireland with the gift of magic will be admitted to Hogwarts. However, the other two magic schools in the three elite schools in Europe are not so pedagogical and indifferent. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have entry barriers, and those children who are not admitted can only seek other ways to learn magic— - Some little-known elementary schools or "private schools" run by other wizards, etc.

Yes, in addition to eleven famous magic schools in the world, there are also some small magic schools and educational institutions. Eleven prestigious schools of magic are registered with the International Confederation of Wizards, while some smaller educational institutions come and go, are difficult to track, rarely register with the appropriate government departments, and the quality of their education must be Not guaranteed.

There are far fewer countries with magic schools than countries without magic schools, so wizards in most countries choose to teach magic at home or choose correspondence courses. Such wizards are naturally inferior to graduates from prestigious schools like Hogwarts.

So in fact, Hogwarts students are probably equivalent to Harvard graduates in the Muggle world.

"This technique sounds like the admissions caliber of a junk school," Peggy seemed to have a further decline in his perception of the magic world, "What's the salary of your graduates?"

At this moment Tom is really grateful for the greed of the goblins. It is also 50 Galleons per month. If according to the optimal exchange rate given by the official, the monthly salary of Hogwarts graduates is as high as 250 pounds, then Tom is afraid that he will have to move out of the silent theory to persuade people to enroll. But it's different if Gringotts intervenes. Our Hogwarts graduates earn half a catty of gold a month!

It sounds a lot more pleasing to the ear.

Of course, there is a high probability that fresh graduates will not be able to get a monthly salary of fifty gallons.

Not to mention, the graduate's monthly salary of several hundred grams of gold is still very impactful.

Peggy and his dad were speechless: Do you think the magic world seems to be okay?

"The key to the magic world is not money, but the ability to truly control one's own destiny after learning magic, but the convenience in life, such as..."

Tom poured the last bit of chocolate on the table, and a cleaning spell cleaned it up.

"At least you don't have to clean up."

Hearing Tom say this and seeing magic with his own eyes, Peggy's pupils dilated for a moment.

She was silent for a while.

"Can you really control your own destiny? From now on, I have the final say in my world?"

Tom instinctively felt that something was not right, but nodded anyway.

"The school has prepared a bursary for Muggle-born students," Tom took out the small purse, "but it may not be enough, you need to prepare some gold to exchange - if you don't want to use second-hand textbooks and wear In the case of robes. Gringotts has a preferential exchange rate for students to exchange Galleons. Don't miss this, this is a student benefit."

Looking at the silent father and daughter, Tom was not in a hurry, just looked at them quietly, waiting for their answers.