Everyday Players at Hogwarts..

Chapter 287 Molly Weasley's Letter

Rita Skeeter’s choice of parents of sophomores as her entry point was a very smart one.

Because, most of the books on the Hogwarts first-year student's reading list will be used in the second year, or even the seventh year. In fact, the only book that second-year students need is "Standard Spells (Level 2)".

It can be said that the second year of school is the time when parents of Hogwarts students do not need to worry about textbook expenses.

Like Bathilda Bagshot's A History of Magic, a book purchased for one academic year, no one would have thought that it would be used as a textbook in the History of Magic class for seven academic years.

The same is true of Adalbert Waffling's Theory of Magic, which is useful in all classes except those where wands are not required.

The same is true for Phyllida Spohr's "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi", with the only difference being that in the sixth grade, an additional book "The Complete Book of Carnivorous Trees" will be added as a textbook for the herbal class.

Newt Scamander's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is also to be used until graduation. It is actually not officially used until the third grade, but the reason why it is purchased in advance is that it is more or less mentioned in other classes.

For example, the Potions class requires the organs of magical creatures as potion materials.

Ditto for Quentin Trimble's Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense, for Defense Against the Dark Arts classes.

Potions is undoubtedly the course that uses the most books. In addition to Arsene Jiger's "Magical Pharmacy and Potion", which will be used until the fifth grade, "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" is also an indispensable textbook.

For Transfiguration classes, both first and second graders will use Emery Sweekey's Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.

That's why Ryan marveled at the accuracy of Rita Skeeter's insertion points. As a new professor, especially one who has no fame himself, adding new books as teaching materials will undoubtedly be criticized by parents.

Like in the original timeline, even a top star like Gilderoy Lockhart, requiring all students to buy his 7 books, caused some bad reactions.

For example, the Weasley family even went to Gringotts to withdraw money due to unexpected expenses.

You know, although they spend money lavishly, they never leave any spare money.

With five children still attending Hogwarts, this meant they needed to buy an extra 5 Gilderoy Lockhart books.

You know, these books are not cheap.

Even Molly Weasley, Gilderoy Lockhart's die-hard fan, couldn't help but complain.

In fact, new professors, such as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who changes every year, usually add additional books as teaching materials.

This is also why, even though this course was cursed, it was still popular before Quirrell's death.

To make money, a little risk is nothing.

Qi Luo didn't do this because he was too honest and he wasn't trying to make money.

Lockhart actually did the same thing as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor a long time ago, except that he was just too ugly.

Lupin didn't do that, and thought the worst of him, probably because he was a werewolf and couldn't find a bookseller to cooperate with.

On the bright side, it was because he had been poor before and wanted to save money for his students.

Mad-Eye Moody and Crouch Jr. believed that textbooks were useless, so they naturally did not purchase new ones.

Dolores Jane Umbridge, the most unpopular Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, chose the book "Magical Defense Theory" as the new textbook.

On the one hand, it can make money, and on the other hand, it can tame the unruly people in the eyes of the Ministry of Magic.

The author of this book, Wilbert Slinka, is a pacifist who advocates a passive approach to conflict and opposes the use of aggressive spells, even for defensive purposes.

His book is closer to the non-resistance policy of a famous figure in the Muggle world.

As for Snape, when he was the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, he chose the book "Encounter with the Faceless Monster". He did not do it for money, but just thought that students needed to see something truly dangerous. Amycus, the Death Eater, was the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in the seventh grade of the original world line.

His classroom became a place to punish students and teach dangerous black magic.

No new books are needed.

Looking at all the professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts in the past, except for the abnormal ones, they all chose new books as their teaching materials.

So Ryan was not surprised by Voldemort's choice of new book.

It is logical to choose a book as a textbook that is more in line with your teaching philosophy.

However, Ryan had recently learned about Voldemort's ignorance of Muggle knowledge from the conversation between the young version of Voldemort and Dumbledore.

But now, in just less than a month, a book "Magic in the Muggle World" was born, and it is also a textbook for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

If you just want to talk about the Muggle world, Hogwarts also has corresponding Muggle Studies classes.

That means the content must be very complicated. You know, the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic has even issued a notice for this.

Although they quickly cowered under Voldemort's iron fist, it did not mean that they did not value the contents of Voldemort's new book.

That book must contain something that subverts the existing wizarding worldview. It must contain content about space, rockets, and the moon landing.

"What exactly is in that book? Wait! I can't 'think' about it. I have to keep it fresh!" Thinking of this, Ryan didn't want to wait any longer. He pulled Penelope and Kate and walked quickly towards today's final stop - Flourish and Blotts.

"Ryan, who is the parent of that unknown student?" Kate, who was not interested in the book written by Voldemort himself, asked about the gossip.

She knew that news about Ryan was always inexplicably widespread, and Ryan would know it no matter what.

Even if you ask Ryan what Dumbledore ate yesterday, Ryan will know.

Not to mention this unknown person.

"Molly Weasley." Ryan had a weird smile on his face. When Kate asked this question, he had just 'thought' about the answer.

"But?"

"Molly Weasley is on Dumbledore's side?"

"And it's just one book. Even if there are five people in their family, they can just buy five more books." Kate looked puzzled.

"Gilderoy Lockhart."

"Even though he was in prison, Molly Weasley, a fan, still subconsciously had a slight hostility towards this unknown professor who, in her eyes, had taken over her idol position."

"In fact, she wouldn't have written a letter anyway, because that unknown professor seemed to have a good relationship with Dumbledore."

"But Sirius brought her a piece of news that angered her. The so-called new teaching materials were rushed out within a month."

"This is why." Ryan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

After all, Molly Weasley was a traditional wizarding parent who expected her children to work at the Ministry of Magic.

The issue of education is Molly Weasley's Achilles' heel.

(End of this chapter)