A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 5: Final
In the principal's office, silence was restored again.
After a long time, Dumbledore seemed to come to his senses, he had already made a decision.
Dumbledore considered his words carefully, "Sorry, Felix, Professor Bubaji has no intention of retiring..."
Felix showed a disappointed expression.
"However," Dumbledore said quickly, "it can be seen that you are very good at ancient runes."
"Yes, Headmaster." Felix thought of something, suppressed the glimmer of hope rising in his heart, and stared at Dumbledore.
The old man on the opposite side didn't try to be tricky, and directly expressed his thoughts, "I hope you will teach ancient runes, I wonder if you would like to?"
"Of course I am willing!" Felix blurted out, and then his speech slowed down: "Yes, I am willing. But, Professor Babling..."
"Ah, Bathcida," Dumbledore mumbled, seemingly sighing, before explaining, "She has served Hogwarts for more than fifty years, and she has been wishing to take a sabbatical for the past few years. Time to see the changes in the world.”
"Take a vacation for a while? You mean to let me take over the ancient runes temporarily? Is it a school year? Or a semester?" Felix frowned slightly, this was not what he wanted.
The collection of books at Hogwarts is too rich, and becoming a professor at the school will bring many conveniences. What he wants is not a year or a half, at least five or ten years, right?
Dumbledore was amused, his silver hair trembled, and he pointed out solemnly, "Felix, Professor Babling is not a pure wizard, she has a magical blood, which makes—— She sees time differently than we do."
Other bloodlines? Felix recalled the appearance of Professor Babling, it seemed that he hadn't changed from the time he entered school to the time he graduated...
Is she a mixed race? Mixed with other humanoid races?
This is possible. There are many such existences in the magic world. The most common hybrids are the hybrids of humans and giants, Veela, dwarves, and fairies. As far as he knew, there was more than one in the school.
Before he could come up with a result, he heard Dumbledore continue: "In Professor Babling's opinion, it's normal to take a vacation of ten or twenty years. In fact, she told me When complaining about not having a vacation, I once recommended several names to replace her, including you, Felix."
It dawned on Felix that he had a good relationship with this professor. Although he couldn't choose ancient runes in grades 6 and 7, he kept asking her for advice in his subsequent self-study, even after graduation. through letters.
It can be said that besides Dumbledore, the professor who still keeps in touch with him after graduation is Professor Babling.
Professor Dumbledore said: "Your arrival will make Professor Babling very happy. She has accumulated a lot of wishes to fulfill over the years, and she is almost full of a piece of parchment."
When Felix saw such a good thing, of course he nodded in agreement.
Walking out of the principal's office, Felix let out a long sigh of relief. Although the interview process had some twists and turns, in the end, the result was good. I finally returned to this place.
The center of the British wizarding world - Hogwarts. This time, as a professor.
After calming down, he returned to Professor McGonagall's office, just in time to see the scene where a phoenix patron saint disappeared. It seemed that Dumbledore had already informed Professor McGonagall of the result through the patron saint. .
Sure enough, Professor McGonagall raised his glasses, "I have received a message from Dumbledore, Felix, no, I should call you Professor Happe now."
"You can still call me Felix, I will always be your student."
Professor McGonagall snorted slightly, "Professor Snape may not be happy."
Felix scratched his head, he was very angry with Snape back then. But McGonagall quickly skipped this topic. She waved her wand, and flew out a dozen pieces of parchment from the big cabinet in the office. character.
"These are your class schedule, student list, obligations and rights, purchases, and things I personally think you will need. Of course, the most urgent question is, do your textbooks need to be changed?"
"Textbook?" Felix was a little puzzled.
"That's right, teaching materials." McGonagall repeated, "Many professors have their own teaching philosophy, and Hogwarts encourages this in principle, so they can decide their own teaching methods, theory and practice. The ratio, of course, also includes the selection of teaching materials.”
Mag glanced at him, "I know you also wrote a book on ancient runes."
Felix understood. After thinking about it for a while, he still decided not to make any changes. "Professor Babling's textbooks are very good, and I benefited a lot from them when I was in school."
"Okay." Professor McGonagall seemed noncommittal to his move, but Felix heard her mutter something softly again, the voice was too small for him to hear clearly, but it seemed to involve another professor.
"It would be great if... the professor is like this..."
It's not easy for Felix to ask. As a new professor, he doesn't want to cause trouble before he officially joins the job.
As a Slytherin, he has a strong sense of purpose in doing things.
After a long while, Professor McGonagall raised his head, looked at the motionless Felix, and said, "Professor Haipu, you can go. We will mail you a formal letter of appointment and the time of entry. It will be attached."
Felix smiled, "Professor McGonagall, I still want to make more preparations. You know, although I have made some achievements in the field of magic, I am still very young after all, and I have no relevant teaching experience , on this point, you have rich experience, and I really need your guidance."
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Felix noticed that Professor McGonagall seemed to be smiling. Of course, the corners of his mouth may be twitching. I heard that people with a straight face all the year round are prone to facial paralysis.
Felix's head was filled with incoherent thoughts.
"Felix, you are always so polite." Mag seemed to be emotional, but stopped the work at hand with a face, "What do you want to know?"
"I want to look at the student information first, such as academic performance, the number of people in different grades in each college, and some outstanding or famous little wizards. It would be better if there were everyone's evaluation."
Professor McGonagall took a look at him and waved his wand silently. The door of the big cabinet cracked open, and parchment scrolls flew out from inside. Felix quickly took out his wand and waved it lightly. A quill on the table It turned into a long table~IndoMTL.com~Professor McGonagall understood and stacked the parchments on the long table, "Great transfiguration."
"I can't live without your teaching." Felix said modestly.
"I remember your first three grades, and your evaluation of Transfiguration is not high."
Felix was a little embarrassed. At that time, he was busy convincing the little snakes in the seventh grade, and he didn't have enough time to practice spells every day. If he had time to spend on Transfiguration, it was almost enough.
It was also later that he picked up Transfiguration.
Professor McGonagall didn't dwell on his grades, because she was well aware of Felix's situation at the time. To be honest, she had always complained about using the sorting hat for sorting. For a long time, she believed that the Felix is assigned to Gryffindor.
Just to that reckless, ahem, brave spirit, who would believe it if it wasn't Gryffindor!
Even among the little lions, he is the most reckless one!
"These are the materials you want, but there are no comments. Regarding some outstanding young wizards, I can only stand on my own ground and say the names of some Gryffindor colleges."
"That's useful too." Felix didn't pick.
"Oliver Wood, Percy Weasley in sixth year, Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson in fourth year, Hermione Granger in second year," and McGonagall He pursed his lips, "Of course there are also the Weasley twins, Fred and George, my God, if they spend half of their prank energy on studying..."
"Is that all? I remember that the famous Harry Potter also enrolled. Isn't he in Gryffindor?" Felix was a little curious. In his past and present lives, this name was like a thunderbolt.
"Harry..." It was obvious that this name made her even more entangled.