Chapter 309 Helga: I Have Decided to Use Black Magic on the Students

In the end, he quietly raised Professor White's salary by five Galleons.

Although the increase may not seem like much, it is 5% in proportion, which means an extra income of 60 Galleons a year. Hufflepuff is still very satisfied.

Dumbledore paid the price for his mouth. But think about it from another perspective. It only takes less than 2,000 Galleons to hire a founder-level person to do your work for a year. This is really cost-effective. If an organization like the Order has a way, they will sell their pots and irons to hire a person for 50 years.

In other words, Dumbledore should be happy to be able to pay this money. How many people want to spend money but have no way to do it!

After solving Professor White's request, Dumbledore began to seriously think about the content of the prophecy.

The first half of the prophecy is still quite gratifying: Voldemort is currently in a desperate situation where he is deserted by his friends and relatives, but the content after that is very bad: he seems to be coming back, and this time he will be more powerful.

Dumbledore was mentally prepared for Voldemort's comeback, so the focus of the entire prophecy was on the change in Voldemort's identity and the rope that pulled him in the prophecy, which might be hinting at something.

With his intelligence, Dumbledore only needed a little thought to understand that as of this moment, Voldemort had most likely escaped, but he had also paid a price for it - he became a "puppet" of another organization.

It might be an exaggeration to say that he was a puppet, but it was still appropriate to fall from a "boss" to a "worker".

Thinking about it this way, the content of the prophecy was that an organization with ulterior motives had resurrected or attempted to resurrect Voldemort, and then was ready to use him to achieve something unspeakable.

Dumbledore remembered the organization called the Order of the Secret Order that he had met before.

He frowned: This feeling is really terrible. I thought the enemy was only Voldemort, but now it seems that Voldemort is just the beginning, and his time is running out.

Dumbledore couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency in his heart.

Helga, who was standing aside, keenly noticed Dumbledore's mood changes, so she took the opportunity to propose further lifting of the ban on the teaching content of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Helga had long been dissatisfied with the current Defense Against the Dark Arts - students had never seen dark magic, so how could they defend against it? Students had no idea about dark magic, so how could they defend against it?

So she thought that if you want to defend against dark magic, you'd better understand dark magic, better than the dark wizards on the opposite side.

Unfortunately, the mainstream thinking of the contemporary magic world had some small conflicts with her ideas, which made it difficult for her to carry out her work. But Dumbledore's change of mentality at this moment gave her an opportunity.

At this moment, after being persuaded by Professor White, a small loophole appeared in Dumbledore's psychological defense line.

He began to seriously examine Professor White's suggestions, and then found that this might be the best way: while he still had a few years, he would cultivate a "golden generation" that was capable of standing on his own to face the next challenge starting with Voldemort. And with him there, he could also control Professor White's teaching content well so that she would not go too far.

So he agreed to Professor White's application and agreed to relax the control of Defense Against the Dark Arts. However, for most dark spells, he still only allowed White to teach theory and did not allow students to practice actual spellcasting - otherwise it would be teaching dark magic on a large scale.

Hufflepuff blinked: "Then can I use dark magic on students?"

A question mark slowly appeared on Dumbledore's forehead: Professor White, do you want to listen to what you are saying? !

Seeing that there seemed to be some misunderstanding, Helga hurriedly explained to Dumbledore that she just wanted to let the students see what dark magic looked like, and she would definitely not hurt them, let alone abuse dark magic for fun in the name of class.

Dumbledore felt that what she said made sense, so he allowed her to do so without hurting the students' body and mind.

After getting Dumbledore's permission, Helga's mouth corners drew a smile: This is really, great!

After all the serious things came to an end, Hufflepuff began to observe the principal's office, and then she saw the phoenix squatting on the sycamore branch behind the door.

"It's called Fawkes, and it's my friend." Dumbledore introduced his phoenix to her.

"It's a very rare magical animal. I didn't expect you to be recognized by the phoenix." Helga was amazed.

Almost no wizards can tame a powerful magical animal like the phoenix. Or when they use the word "tame", they will never be able to tame a phoenix. Only if you truly regard the phoenix as your friend and partner, there is a slight chance of gaining the recognition of the phoenix.

Dumbledore did not respond, but it was not difficult to see from the spark of joy in his eyes that he was indeed happy about it.

Helga took two steps towards Fawkes, and the golden-red bird that had been sleeping with its head buried in its wings suddenly woke up and stared at her with burning eyes.

Dumbledore smiled and said, "It seems that you haven't established trust with it yet. Your situation is still good. Fawkes will chirp loudly whenever he sees Mr. Ollivander."

Wand maker Ollivander only uses three kinds of magical materials to make the wand core. Unicorn tail hair and dragon heart nerve are easy to deal with, but phoenix tail feathers can only be "purchased" from Dumbledore, and Fawkes has had many conflicts with him because of this.

Looking at the phoenix in front of her, Helga inexplicably thought of her old friend Salazar.

His method of immortality is similar to the phoenix's nirvana, but the time period is too long.

"Is the phoenix after nirvana the original phoenix or a new phoenix that carries the memory of the previous phoenix?" She couldn't help asking.

Dumbledore thought about this question seriously, and then told Helga that he believed that Fox was still Fox after nirvana.

"As long as the previous memories and emotions are inherited, it is the same phoenix. I think the core of humans and creatures is the soul, and the carrier of the soul is not so important, and the soul is made up of pieces of memories."

Helga agreed with Dumbledore's words.

Before leaving the principal's office, she looked at the portraits left by the past principals again, and there was no one she knew.

This is normal. Not every principal will choose to leave a portrait, especially during the period when the school was just founded. Many successors chose to do the same as the founders, leaving no portraits or statues. The so-called portraits and statues of the founders that exist in Hogwarts are all made by later generations based on their legendary appearances, which are far from their real appearances.

"Have you seen your headmaster?"

"I said, I didn't go to school at Hogwarts." Helga left the headmaster's office after leaving this sentence.

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