Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

"Hogwarts is the greatest wizard school in the world!" Dean shouted excitedly.

"Hahaha, that's impossible. Repin is the best mage," Soran said in his characteristic way of calling a child a real person. "I have never heard of Howarts."

"That's your problem."

After hearing this, Soran frowned, thinking that this little brat was not simple.

The parents were so angry that they felt that their day might be over.

"Oh? So what do you mean by that is so great about Hogwarts?"

"Well, it has the most powerful wizard headmaster ever, Headmaster Dumbledore!"

"I haven't heard of him. I know all the legendary wizards with names. Who is Dumbledore?"

"Um……"

Dean also realized that although Hogwarts really existed, the characters in it seemed to be fictional characters in the novel.

Who are the powerful people in Hogwarts in Waterdeep?

He tried to recall and said, "And Professor El, the best wizard among the elves."

"Ok?"

Soran was a little surprised that this kid actually knew El. Saint El was no longer active due to his age. Except for those who knew the Mage Guild well, most people didn't know this mage.

And as far as he knew, Old Al probably didn't work at any school, right?

"And Professor Fulin, the best illusionist on the continent. Oh, and you, yes, Master Soran, you are also a professor at Hogwarts, how could you not know?"

Soran was confused.

I'm a professor at Hogwarts?
I don’t know?

He repeatedly confirmed his memory and concluded that there was nothing wrong with his brain. It was most likely that someone was playing a prank and the child believed it.

"Hehe, if I were a professor at Hogwarts, I would send you to whichever college you want to go to!"

……

"So you brought him here?"

In Drogo's office, he looked at the old man and the young boy in front of him, as well as two middle-aged men and women who looked confused.

Judging from the story Soran just told, the missing one is Dean, and the two behind are his parents.

In all likelihood, he was brought here directly by Sauron, and the situation has not yet been figured out.

"That's right, because I said that if I were a professor at Hogwarts, I would help him go to whichever school he wants."

Soran is a man of his word.

"Are you the headmaster of Hogwarts?" Dean's eyes lit up with excitement.

"Um, to be precise, I am an investor in Hogwarts School."

"So do you know Mr. Bibi Every Flavour Beans?"

That was the pseudonym of Drogo, the author of the Harry Potter books.

"I don't know him, I'm not familiar with him, I've never met him, we only contacted each other online." Zhuo Ge denied it immediately.

It was troublesome enough that the vest had been taken off by Fulin.

If more people find out about this, I can’t imagine how the readers will urge for more updates.

"Oh..." Dean seemed a little disappointed, but soon became excited again, "Then can I go to Hogwarts to study?"

"Bao can't."

"what--"

"First of all, you are not old enough. Secondly, you must pass an exam to enter Hogwarts."

"But I promised him." Soran said aside.

"That was your promise, not mine. But there is another choice," Drogo said.

"What choice?"

"First, enter Waterdeep Middle School. In this middle school, you will receive targeted teaching on how to enter Hogwarts. It is definitely the best choice if you want to enter your ideal school. The second batch of exams for the middle school will begin soon."

"I want to sign up!" Dean said hurriedly.

"No, we..." The parents behind wanted to say something with embarrassment, but found that they seemed unable to speak.

The more people who want to come to Waterdeep to study, the better. As long as they can pass the exam, Drogo will welcome them all.

Dean didn't want to go back directly, he also wanted to see the Hogwarts campus in Waterdeep.

However, the visiting project has not been officially launched yet. After the school is officially operational, it is estimated that a certain number of visiting spots will be opened every day, but not too many, so as not to affect the normal learning of internal students.

So Dean can't enter the school to visit now, he can only look from outside, but that's good enough for him.

Their family doesn't lack the money to send back themselves.

After the family left, Drogo and Sauron were the only ones left in the office.

At this time, Soran quietly asked: "When did I become a professor at Hogwarts?"

He found that he had indeed signed a contract to become a professor, but he had no impression of it.

"good question."

Drogo said this while showing a video clip from a dinner party after the Drogo Group's annual meeting.

Most of the elders of the Mages Guild are here.

While playing Drogo's magical drinking game, finger-guessing, he guzzled the ethanol liquid mixture.

[Drunk state] Balance decreases, intelligence decreases, and courage increases significantly.

In the video, Soran stood on a barrel and spoke passionately: "These mage academies are simply useless. It is impossible for them to train a genius like me!"

"That's right, that's right, well done, Soran."

Drogo said.

"If I were to teach a student, Invincible, I would tell you this, Invincible!"

"Oh, I thought so too. If I gave you a platform to teach students, you would definitely beat up other schools!"

"Yes, we will definitely beat up other schools..."

Image ends.

"That's it, anyway," Drogo said. "You did it yourself."

Soran scratched his shiny bald head in frustration.

"But I am the honorary president of Repin University. I don't have time to be a professor."

Drogo was well aware of Sauron's situation. If he was really busy, he wouldn't have the leisure to wear a leather jacket and a mask and act as a superhero in the Two Towers.

"You are just a figurehead, just a figurehead, to increase the reputation of Hogwarts. However, I strongly suggest that you become a real professor. Hogwarts will implement a brand new teacher-student system."

"What do you mean? What new system do teachers and students have?"

In Soran's opinion, teaching apprentices is always a chore.

In Felin's traditional mage training process, apprentices only do simple chores, similar to the work of servants, while students have a status similar to that of successors.

Traditional masters are usually very cautious when accepting students, and they are responsible for the students for life, which is a bit like a teacher for life.

The establishment of a magic school that offers public classes is already a great progress.

But in Drogo's opinion, it was still not advanced enough.

"You know the mentor system at the research institute, right?" Drogo asked.

"I know about it. It seems that a mentor is responsible for leading a group of students and taking them to participate in some projects until they graduate." Soran didn't know much about the institute. "Then why can't mages learn from this system? A professor recruits a group of mage graduate students, just like apprentices do odd jobs in the mage tower. Mage graduate students, under the guidance of the professor, do more advanced odd jobs."

Then, Zhuo Ge began to talk about what vertical projects are and what horizontal projects are.

What kind of graduate student wants to have holidays? Do you want to stop graduating and work as a laborer in the laboratory like 007?

What's the point of using the title of professor to take jobs worth thousands of gold coins outside, and then being grateful if a few silver coins are given to the researchers who actually do the work.

But in the end, you still have to guide and help graduate students write a substantial paper and help them graduate well, so that you are still a good mentor...

As Soran listened, his eyes widened and several wrinkles appeared on his forehead.

"But, can such a student be trusted?"

The implication is that the mages who used to help the master with his research are now strongly bound to the master and have a magical contract that is almost impossible to break.

If we recruit graduate students every year, the cost of advanced magic contracts will be too high and we cannot afford it.

Even Drogo only signed contracts with important people.

Without contractual constraints, are these graduate students who have only worked together for a few years worthy of trust to conduct important experiments?

"Of course, you are a community of interests. The students get 30% of the profits, and you get 97%. But you can't just ignore the 30% and they also need this learning opportunity. You can think of it as a business group."

"Business group?"

"Yes, the professor is the boss of the business group."

After all, it is not uncommon for graduate students to call their supervisors "boss".

"And the students are your employees. If you run the tutor group as a business group, everything will make sense. The only difference is that the business group relies mainly on salary, while the tutors rely on graduation conditions."

Soran looked as if he was beginning to understand everything.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "So, being a professor is almost pure profit for me."

"almost."

"Will I be looked down upon by my peers?"

Soran, a good wizard who cares a lot about his reputation.

"It doesn't matter. I'll take the blame." Drogo didn't mind having one or two more pieces of dark history. "Besides, it won't be long before your colleagues join you."

The original plan was to persuade these nominal wizard professors to embrace the graduate education system after Hogwarts opened.

But since Sauron came to me today, it would be a good idea to start with him.

Soran struggled for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a reliable idea.

Under his wise and capable leadership, and with the help of a group of outstanding graduate students, a lot of results will surely be achieved.

When the time comes, the president will take turns, so it might not be a bad idea to go to his house this year!
"Since you, Drogo, have sincerely invited me, I cannot refuse."

"Why are you pretending? It's obvious that you really want to do it." Drogo ruthlessly exposed Sauron.

"Hahaha……"

Soran laughed awkwardly to ease the embarrassment.

"Let's go, let's go. Contact me when school reopens."

He was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and asked with a bit of confusion: "What I think may not be right, and what I said may be a little vulgar, but I still want to ask."

"What?"

"If the work of graduate students is the same as what you said, then what is the difference between them and cattle and horses?"

Soran asked a very profound question sincerely.

"Uh, the name is different."

Drogo answered honestly.

Although graduate students are often teased for doing drudgery, they are certainly not really doing drudgery.

Students educated through graduate education may not be as good as successor-level mages under the traditional master-apprentice system, but they have absolute advantages in quantity and efficiency, which does not affect the elites among them from achieving higher achievements.

In Feilin, graduate students should still be very prestigious, having both ability and social status.

As for when graduate students become real slaves.

That was, of course, the day when graduate students flooded the country…

Hogwarts became famous faster than Drogo had expected, and before the first novel in the series was finished, someone had already set it as a target.

Drogo checked online and found that the news about the existence of Hogwarts School was only spread among the readers.

The number of visits to the school’s official website is not very high.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is expected to be completed this week. It is only a novel of more than 200,000 words. Drogo has slowed down the update speed, waiting for the popularity to increase.

After the first part is finished, Drogo plans to wait for a while before starting the second part, Chamber of Secrets.

During this period, the publication of the first physical book will be arranged.

In fact, the influence of physical books in Feilin is not much higher than that of online literature.

The reason is simple: the literacy rate has not yet increased.

There is no such thing as volume sales for physical books nowadays; the only way is to make them high-quality.

So Drogo does not plan to use cheap paper to print the physical books of Harry Potter.

Make it into a fine product, and make it into a collectible level product.

The paper quality, printing quality, illustrations and everything else are all top-notch, and the cover is made to look like the magic book in the novel, and several versions are made.

Especially Hagrid's book that bites.

Oh, Drogo loved that idea so much.

It’s a pity that it hasn’t appeared in the first part, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll design it first.

In short, after the production is completed, a book sold to fans will earn at least dozens of silver coins.

This is an exaggerated price. A few dozen silver coins are enough for a poor family in a small place to spend a year's living expenses.

Fortunately, Felin's books are somewhat of a luxury item, and a few silver coins are a common price, so it is not too exaggerated if the collection quality increases several times.

Are you a fan? How can you show your fan status if you don’t pay several times the premium?

As for what is truly available to the general public, it is the recording of audio books that began together with physical books.

There is no threshold to listening to books.

As well as preparing to shoot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Drogo does not plan to shoot the Harry Potter series himself, he will leave it to the studio as they are now very skilled at it.

The only problem was the actors. We had to find young actors, and the schedule was very tight, so we had to shoot one film after another.

Otherwise, given the speed at which children grow, if it is delayed a little longer, it will not match the image.

It is not a good idea to use Transfiguration to maintain a whole shooting cycle on a person who is still in the growth stage.

Drogo returned to the host computer. He decided to finish writing the rest of the first part today, and then send it out slowly so that he could take a few days off.

Just as Drogo was typing quickly on the keyboard, cheers from the crowd suddenly came from outside.

what happened?
Drogo walked to the window curiously and saw that the celebrating crowd outside was gathering more and more. They had happy smiles on their faces and sang songs of victory.

Is today a special holiday?
Drogo had the impression that today was not a holiday. He would not miss any holiday because every holiday was a good opportunity to find an excuse to sell things.

After listening for a while, I finally understood.

Just now, the country of Villian announced a ceasefire.

They said it was a ceasefire, but countless people who were watching the war agreed that they had lost.

The hymns people sang were to praise the victory of the Augustan city-state. (End of this chapter)