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Chapter 86 Alchemy?
"No, this time the story needs to include the spirit of perseverance."

After confirming that Peeves had escaped, Andrew, who had originally guessed that the students would give up, decided to tell them in a new story that persistence is victory.

It is difficult to localize the spirit of Yugong moving mountains, but you can let Dumbledore get to know a grade student in the book, and then tell the student that no matter how thick the book is, if you read ten pages a day, that would be three hundred pages a month, and three thousand pages a year, you can finish any thick book.

It’s not that he just wants to watch the fun - but Peeves’s behavior really makes people curious about what the final state will be.

If the final form really appeared and suppressed Hogwarts for three days, it would be worth it - after all, according to the historical records of Hogwarts, Peeves in that final form only filled the school hospital.

Of course, this idea made him deserve to be put in solitary confinement, and Andrew was even prepared to be hospitalized by mistake - he was only a freshman after all.

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"It seems that the school has no intention of managing Peeves' affairs."

Since Professor McGonagall had gone to class, Andrew, who had been processing most of the documents, decided to take a break. He put down his quill and started communicating with Percy next to him.

"Well, that's the thing. I guess it's impossible to stop it before the end of the semester."

Percy nodded and paused what he was doing. "Look, it's been a long time since the Christmas holidays - the school still hasn't found a suitable Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

"You mean, the school told us to study on our own while we were dealing with Peeves?"

Andrew's mouth opened wide - is this possible?

This needs to be done in another place, it's a clear fraud of funds.

"There's nothing I can do. Over the years, there are basically no wizards willing to apply for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Even Professor Quirrell was transferred from another subject. He is my fifth Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

Percy sighed and shook his head, "We're all used to learning on our own - this class is probably really cursed."

"Really five?"

"Hmm..." Percy nodded, "I can lend you my notes after owls year to copy. If you want to get good grades, you'll probably have to study on your own. By the way, don't bring up this topic outside the office. It's not a good topic."

"That's great," Andrew nodded, "I'm sure I won't say anything."

It's hard to say for sure about this kind of thing. Even if Professor McGonagall is very magnanimous, she shouldn't spread such gossip.

He was quite surprised that Percy was willing to lend him his notes - many students actually take their notes very seriously and are not very sharing. Of course, the main reason is that many people don't take good care of other people's things and would really dare to lose or damage them.

"Don't worry, it's definitely worth it."

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Before Andrew could react, Percy pushed the half-finished document in front of him over to him and said, "Help me finish it. I have something to do today."

No, the weekends don't count the group visits. During the five days of classes, we probably have two days where we can work on documents together at the same time. Are you just going to leave me alone in the office?

Andrew wanted to roll his eyes, but considering that Defense Against the Dark Arts was now a self-study class, he held back.

"It was a serious mistake to expose him. It's a broken jar, no need to pretend..."

He placed Percy's pile on top of his own and began to work overtime on it.

This pile of documents are all applications for the second half of the semester, and it doesn’t matter who handles them.

Professor McGonagall has set a limit - those who meet the requirements will be handled according to the rules and regulations, and those who are not sure will be left to her. After the processing, Professor McGonagall will take a general look at the documents and then deal with them, which can greatly reduce Professor McGonagall's workload. The three deans have the greatest authority - basically they can get anything up to the upper limit.

Then there are the professors. Your teaching demands will be met as long as they are not excessive, but there will be less inclination towards research.

The professors also had to deal with the course content and class time - this was a bit troublesome. For example, the brooms for the flying class had been updated many times, but Professor McGonagall kept withholding them, and then used the brooms retired from various colleges to make up for it (Andrew felt like he had said something he shouldn't have said).

For example, the Care of Magical Creatures course, which was used as teaching material, basically received rejections - this part will not be dealt with by Andrew, but Percy has already picked it out and dealt with it (it was premeditated from the beginning, and it was most likely a date - Andrew complained).

There is also a balancing act - if you take more here, you will have less elsewhere, and vice versa.

This led to the emergence of an extremely buggy character - Professor Snape.

He had hardly asked for any funding. He had projects, but he didn't ask for any support either - according to Professor McGonagall's rules, Slytherin gained a lot of privileges thanks to the concessions made by its head of house in other areas.

More time allotted to the court, more points earned without being targeted, more autonomous lockdown content…

"Potions really make money..."

Andrew thought about it for a moment and knew the reason behind this person's confidence - the school's clubs were at the bottom of the application list because they had no output, and the potion group led by Professor Snape basically only reported it and raised all the money by themselves...

What protected them from doing so was the huge profits from potions - Andrew had learned a little about the prices of finished potions, and was very impressed by the high profits of this stuff.

The same couldn't be said for Transfiguration - although Professor McGonagall must have kept the files and not shown them, Andrew believed that the higher-ups were just asking for money.

The same goes for spells courses, except for potions - even those for students to practice with can recoup some of the cost, not to mention those excellent works that can be appraised and then become a profitable tool.

"Potions and herbs..."

Andrew wrote something on a blank piece of paper, then smiled and crossed it out.

Meaningless.

It would be better to finish it quickly, write some manuscripts, and then go back to the lounge to practice spells with them - thanks to the ghost, there is a strong atmosphere for learning spells in the academy, and Andrew has learned a lot of small evil spells for free.

"Hey, what is this?"

Andrew picked up the next report - the amount on it was staggering.

He glanced at the title of the subject and then checked the criteria given by Professor McGonagall.

“It doesn’t match…”

"alchemy?"

"The lion is asking for too much? Or did the professor miss it?"

After checking the time, Andrew put it aside and prepared to let Professor McGonagall deal with it herself.

"I'll go to the basement and finish the work first, and then ask around tomorrow - this number is too big..."

He quickly finished the rest of his work, sorted the forms, closed the office door, and walked towards the basement.

(End of this chapter)