Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 597: The New Hogwarts

"Is it Professor Flitwick?!"

Hermione cried out 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 actually won the top spot would be their Charms professor.

But she reacted quickly.

Everyone present was very clear about the relationship between Professor Flitwick and Mike, so it was normal for Mike to choose Professor Flitwick to be the headmaster.

After all, Professor Flitwick is someone Mike truly trusts, and other people in Hogwarts also have a good impression of Professor Flitwick. Choosing him is much better than choosing someone no one knows.

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 faculty and staff with a somewhat depressed look in her eyes.

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

The glittering golden podium was still the version specially used by Dumbledore. The 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 table and couldn't help frowning.

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

The poor squid looks pretty good now, but his clothes are still tattered.

The reason why he appeared here was entirely because Mike re-hired him for Dumbledore's sake.

He placed the wooden box respectfully in front of Professor Flitwick, and carefully adjusted and stabilized it. Only after Professor Flitwick stood on it and nodded to him to express his gratitude did he excitedly run 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.

"Cough cough!"

A loud cough came from the podium. Upon hearing this, the students immediately shut their mouths and looked at Professor Flitwick intently.

This is a painful lesson they learned after experiencing several principals last year - don't make trouble when the principal 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 so long that its hem rolled off the podium, fell to the ground, and rolled a long way.

This made the students in the audience look dark.

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

However, Flitwick had a surprise for them.

Professor Flitwick frowned as he looked at the long piece of parchment. Suddenly, he swung his arm and threw away the speech that Benjamin had specially prepared for him.

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

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

As soon as Professor Flitwick finished speaking, all kinds of delicious food filled with fragrance 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 tune! It's Headmaster Flitwick!"

"Oh yeah!"

……

A whirring sound suddenly rang out at the long table of Ravenclaw College, and then quickly spread out, eventually turning the entire hall into a sea of ​​joy!

The professors at the head faculty table were startled. Hagrid seemed to have bitten his tongue out of fear. He was now covering his cheek and taking deep breaths.

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

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

Professor Flitwick was also smiling, but his smile was slightly bitter.

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

He doesn't care about power at all, otherwise he wouldn't be staying here as a small professor.

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

This annoyed Flitwick greatly.

Because this made Flitwick not know how to face Professor McGonagall and other old friends.

In addition, due to the war, the number of senior professors in Hogwarts has been greatly reduced, which has 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 Charms classes and the work of the Headmaster of Ravenclaw College.

This even made Professor Flitwick feel that the reason why Mike made him the principal was just because he wanted to make trouble for him.

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

Sighing deeply and looking at the students below the stage who were immersed in the food and celebrating as before, Flitwick finally stopped thinking about random things and concentrated on eating his dinner.

Happy times are always short-lived. 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 turned their eyes towards the podium.

They were well aware that the closing remarks were coming later this evening.

As expected, Professor Flitwick stood on the podium again, this time still holding a long piece of parchment in his hand. The students in the audience all 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 pushed the glasses on his nose with his hand and recited the contents of the parchment in a sonorous and sonorous voice amid the disappointed eyes of the students.

This time the speech was long, but it was not the kind of flowery nonsense that the students expected, but a list of school rules and the content of the policy changes of Hogwarts. The changes in the school rules were not big. In order to keep the original Hogwarts, neither Mac nor Flitwick allowed anyone to make major changes to the school rules of Hogwarts, so apart from some new rules such as "no mention of mud bells" and "no discrimination based on bloodline", the school rules of Hogwarts remained the same as before.

Of course, although the rules haven’t changed much, there is a new principal after all.

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

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

As for the educational reform part, it is worth talking about in detail.

Mike's improvements to Hogwarts this time are comprehensive. In the past, Hogwarts' funding came from the various school 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 Corporation, became the only source of funds for Hogwarts.

This change makes Hogwarts purer and allows students to be less influenced by capital on campus.

This change is difficult for ordinary people to notice. 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 has direct power over the life and death of Hogwarts.

This is very important and is beneficial to the long-term development of Hogwarts.

At the same time, because Mike was much more generous than previous school directors, some things in Hogwarts that could not be changed before due to poverty also changed.

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

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

In addition, what excites the lower grade students 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 wealthy family background.

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

And now Flitwick has promised that all material costs for all high-level courses will be paid for by the Ministry of Magic. This is a gift from Senior McTominay to his younger classmates.

As soon as the news was announced, the young wizards in the lower grades cheered, because being able to study more advanced courses meant that they could have better jobs and a better future!
However, what these little wizards didn't know was that although Mike gave them the opportunity to learn high-level knowledge, this opportunity was not as good as they imagined.

The first point is that the admission score for students in high-level courses will be greatly improved. If the score is not enough, you can only hope to get in.

Secondly, the materials that Mike prepared for the students could not 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 were wasting materials.

Every time students apply for new materials, they will be reviewed by professors using this review system. If the review shows that a student is wasting materials.

Then I'm sorry, but you will be fired.

In this way, the so-called free advanced courses have essentially become something similar to a scholarship system.

This is what Mike wanted to see, and the reason why it was not directly established as a scholarship system was for the sake of reputation.

Free higher education sounds better than scholarships, right?

The former makes people feel that there is little hope when they hear it, but the latter makes people excited and think that they can also give it a try.

All the professors strongly support this mechanism. They also feel that those who waste materials recklessly are not qualified to continue studying no matter how talented they are.

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

Finally, Professor Flitwick announced an even more exciting news.

That is the job recommendation system for fresh graduates.

When the senior students first heard this term, they actually didn't feel much excitement.

After all, Hogwarts already had this system, and the cooperating unit was an excellent position like the Ministry of Magic.

However, the number of recommended places at Hogwarts each year is too small, which has led to this system becoming a complete carnival for pure-blood aristocrats. Ordinary students cannot enjoy these places no matter how talented they are.

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

The first is that the number of units cooperating with Hogwarts for campus recruitment has greatly increased. It is not limited to public institutions such as the Ministry of Magic, but also many private enterprises, such as the Los Santos Group and the new companies that are springing up like mushrooms in 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 a final review by professors to prevent any fraud or other behavior.

This excellent system, combined with the recent flourishing development of the wizarding world in Ying Country, means that all graduates will not have to worry about employment issues 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 be the masters of this world, and even Mike cannot change that.

At this point, Flitwick's speech finally came to an end.

Standing on the podium and looking at the excited little faces below the stage, Professor Flitwick's mood also became better.

Mike did a great job indeed.

From his actions, Flitwick felt his sincerity, and also saw that he really wanted to do something for the students and really wanted to run Hogwarts well.

This is also the reason 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 then smiled and said:

"This is the end of my speech. It's getting late, now! Everyone go back to bed! Go to class early tomorrow morning! On time!"

"Yes! Principal!"
A deafening cheer resounded throughout the entire auditorium. Feeling the sincerity of his classmates, Professor Flitwick smiled knowingly.

(End of this chapter)