Chapter 271: Les: Hufflepuff Is a Good Choice for Experiments

Seeing Helga's insistence, Rice stopped stopping her and just told her that if she really didn't have a chance, she should sneak out of the castle and find a place to "hide".

Helga: I don't know where to start complaining. A few months ago, she was one of the founders of Hogwarts, but now she has to look at other people's faces even when she goes to work at the school.

Rice knew what Helga was thinking just by looking at her face, so she said in a joking tone: "As long as you reveal your true identity, Dumbledore will definitely step down, after all, it is the legendary wizard Helga Hufflepuff!"

Helga glanced at him.

"If there is such a day, I will expose your and Rowena's vests first, and directly achieve the co-governance of the four houses in one step." She said coldly. Since the old venomous snake and the old raven have no intention of revealing their identities, she will not disclose them either, so as not to make it too embarrassing in the end.

This is the herd mentality.

"Don't worry, there will probably be a vacancy next year, and you can try to teach students Defense Against the Dark Arts." Rice said confidently.

Hufflepuff: Huh?

When Rice told Hufflepuff that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship at Hogwarts was "cursed", Hufflepuff was speechless: Salazar, how old are you, and you still believe this? A wizard of your level actually believes in such things? Did the mind become younger after the body became younger?

She looked at Rice carefully and felt that her guess made sense. The state of the body does affect the mental state of a person.

After thinking this through, Helga nodded perfunctorily and put on an attitude of "ah, right, right, right".

Rice was not in a hurry. Anyway, Helga would believe in the existence of the "curse" in a few years - he didn't believe it at first, but after investigating the experiences of the previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors in the past ten years, he felt that Voldemort might have really invented a magical curse.

Curses are one of the categories of spells. They can be as small as giving people hives or as big as causing people to die on the spot after touching the medium. However, most of these curses are directed at a specific person or attached to a real object.

Voldemort's curse has nothing to do with either. He neither cursed a specific person nor attached his curse to a specific object - he cursed the abstract concept of "the person who becomes the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts", and the medium is the teaching position of "Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts".

This is very counterintuitive and very un-magical.

Sometimes Les wondered, if another course was defined as "Defense Against the Dark Arts", or the original Defense Against the Dark Arts was renamed, would the curse be transferred? For example, if the headmaster of Hogwarts renamed "Defense Against the Dark Arts" to "Self-Defense", would the professor of "Self-Defense" still be cursed?

Thinking of this, he had a flash of inspiration and decided to instigate Hufflepuff to do an experiment.

"Helga--" Les swallowed his words when they came to his lips--he had a more wonderful idea: Helga Hufflepuff's strength was strong enough, could she resist this "curse"?

He originally wanted Hufflepuff to find Dumbledore to change the name of this course after becoming the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but now he changed his mind and decided to let Hufflepuff try to break this rule that has lasted for more than ten years.

Let's see whether the old friend's life is hard or Voldemort's curse is hard!

If Helga knew that Les was thinking about this kind of thing, she would definitely throw him out of the window and then bury him in the sand.

But Les was also helpless: the best candidate for this experiment is Godric, but now he can't be contacted!

"What's the matter?" Hufflepuff was a little surprised when he saw that Salazar stopped talking after calling his name.

"You need to spend more time preparing. In the past thousand years, the content of magic teaching has changed a lot." Les changed his words.

Hearing this, Helga laughed: Who is she, what has she not seen? Among the four founders, she has invested more energy in teaching. She feels that she really does not need to make any preparations, and can be directly taken to the classroom to teach now.

"In the current magic world, no one knows the flow of magic power anymore - no one teaches, no one learns, and it is lost just like that."

Hufflepuff: "Ah?!"

She was shocked beyond words: How come little wizards a thousand years later don't even learn the flow of magic power?

"This subject has been eliminated, and modern wizards have really found a very good lower-level replacement." Les briefly introduced the development of spells to Helga.

Helga was silent: spells are so convenient, it is not unreasonable that the flow of magic power is lost. But if you don't understand the flow of magic power, it is really a fantasy to want to comprehend the domain. And wizards without domains can only be regarded as second-rate wizards after all - so the upper limit of wizards in the magic world now is second-rate?

Anyway, after learning that the students didn't even understand the flow of magic power, her thoughts began to waver. She felt that she really needed to prepare her lessons well and find out what the current schools were teaching.

Hufflepuff had no intention of going against the trend and comprehensively developing magic teaching. In her mind, there must be a reason why a subject has been lost.

And she believed that the old serpent and the old raven must have found their own solution - she didn't believe that these two people were still helpless with such a simple matter two years after waking up.

"Your two little apprentices must know how to flow magic, right?" Hufflepuff asked tentatively.

"Of course." Rice couldn't help but show off his students in front of his old friend.

Hufflepuff selectively ignored the second half of his words and only listened to the key points: Rice would let those students with good enough talents learn how to flow magic.

This is indeed a good way. The disadvantage of magic flow is that it is too difficult, and the advantage is that the upper limit is extremely high. Letting a few geniuses study this subject is indeed a great solution, but...

Helga glanced at Rice. How does he judge whether a child's talent is "good enough"? There is no crystal ball in the magic world that can show the talent of children by putting their hands up.

Are those two children blessed by their last names?

Hufflepuff felt that she had to find her own way - she couldn't be like Salazar.

However, such a crystal ball may not be impossible to make. Helga felt that her inner inspiration was bursting like a spring. She decided to study how to make the crystal ball she needed when she returned to school.

"Would you like a cup?" Les did not continue to extend their conversation on business, but poured a cup of coffee for Helga.

"Thank you."

In the aroma of coffee, the topic gradually turned to daily chat.

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