Chapter 529: An Extraordinary Applicant, Athena

In addition to the badge and two routine notices (notification of the start date and book list), there is also a letter written by the principal to Rice.

As soon as Rice unfolded the third parchment, he felt like something was stabbing his eyes. This was Godric's handwriting. His words were very sharp, and at first glance, they even made his eyes feel stabbed.

In the letter, Godric mentioned that since Rice did not complete enough credits in the fifth grade and did not take the O.W.L.s exam, he could not be promoted to the sixth grade and had to repeat the fifth grade for a year. However, considering his previous excellent performance, Principal Godric still chose to award him the prefect badge.

When Rice saw Godric's letter, his eyes went dark, and he could also feel the meaning between the lines of Godric's words.

Don't want to be a prefect? ​​Don't want to take these childish exams? Then you can show your identity and skip the student stage directly.

Rice will not be fooled by Godric. He knows very well what he will encounter after revealing his identity. Godric will definitely let him be the principal.

By then, Hogwarts will be a "two suns in the sky, two principals co-governing".

Rice would never do such a stupid thing.

Isn't it just repeating a grade and being a prefect? ​​It's not like he hasn't done it before, just grit his teeth and get through it.

Rice put the letter away, and then began to purchase textbooks and materials needed for the new school year.

At the same time, Godric was worried about the personnel changes in the school for the new school year.

In the face of a major change that happens once in a thousand years, many professors in the school chose to resign and go outside the school to shine. Among them is Professor Lupin, who was previously a teacher of Care of Magical Creatures.

As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, he hopes to leave Hogwarts and join the Ministry of Magic to contribute his strength to regional peace.

Fortunately, he submitted a report before leaving, indicating that Rubeus Hagrid, the gamekeeper, key manager and teaching assistant, was capable of taking over his job. Godric agreed to his application, but at the same time he was also a little curious whether Hagrid's burden was too heavy.

Because he also has to supervise the Forbidden Forest!

In Godric's impression, the Forbidden Forest is not a good place. It takes a lot of energy to control it.

Godric feels that he should have a heart-to-heart talk with Hagrid before school starts to see if he is qualified for so many positions.

The second and third personnel changes come from his two old friends. Helga doesn't want to continue teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. After breaking the legendary curse for two consecutive years, she is no longer in the mood to continue teaching.

Rowena doesn't want to be a professor. She wants to be a librarian, but this position has been taken - Godric is a little worried about the safety of Madam Pince.

He has to write a letter to warn Rowena so that she won't do anything for the position.

Severus Snape wants to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, but if he does this, who will teach potions? Salazar? Godric wants to, but Salazar will never accept it.

Looking at the complicated interpersonal relationships and job charts on the table, Godric just feels a headache.

He had the urge to pick up the sword and chop everything in front of him into pieces - fighting is much more comfortable than these jobs.

'Why don't I be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor myself? ' An idea flashed through Godric's mind.

He didn't know whether the current headmaster of Hogwarts still kept the tradition of teaching in person, but the four of them all took up some of the teaching positions in person back then.

'Eh? Why don't Helga fill the hole left by Rowena as the alchemy professor? ' Godric was inspired by his previous idea and quickly arranged the positions of his two old friends.

Helga was the alchemy professor, and Rowena was the administrator of the restricted book area!

'I am simply a genius! ' Godric was happy with his wit.

Of course, the headmaster's work is more than that, he has many other things to do. For example, meeting with the board of directors and asking them for the budget for the next year.

Godric was very happy when he knew that Hogwarts had a mature board of directors, because it meant that Hogwarts had a mature economic system, which was stronger than what they had back then.

At that time, they had to go hunting in the Forbidden Forest to solve the problem of meat sources!

Godric decided to meet with the school directors as soon as possible to get the budget for next year. As for how much money was needed, he felt that it could be increased by about 10% based on the previous year's budget. This was Dumbledore's advice to him. Before he left, he responsibly left himself a headmaster's manual to help him answer some basic questions.

For more complicated questions, Godric could ask the portrait that Dumbledore left on the wall of the headmaster's office.

Just as Godric was about to hold a board meeting, an owl flew into his office and dropped a letter on his desk.

"Interview appointment?" After quickly reading the contents of the letter, Godric locked his eyes on the signature at the end of the letter. The interviewer's name was Sophia Athena.

"Interesting name." Godric smiled and decided to meet with Ms. Sophia.

He acted very quickly. He received the letter in the morning, and met the legendary Ms. Sophia in the Hog's Head Pub in Hogsmeade Village in the afternoon.

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The moment Athena saw the Hog's Head Pub, she didn't want to go in for the interview anymore - this place is too dirty, isn't it? Although she is not a god with mysophobia, such a sloppy place still instinctively aroused her disgust.

The reason is not that this place is unclean, and choosing such a dilapidated place as the interview location obviously cannot convey respect for the applicant.

But there is a saying: since you are here, you are here. What's more, she really wants to get a teaching position at Hogwarts, and she took the initiative to extend an olive branch symbolizing friendship and peace, and get along well with the four legendary wizards.

That's right, Ms. Sophia, who applied for the principal of Hogwarts, is Athena, one of the Olympian gods. The name "Sophia Athena" literally translates to "wise Athena".

With divine power surging, the door of the Hog's Head Bar was pushed open by Athena without personal contact.

She walked slowly into the bar and looked at the location written on the interview invitation letter, and then Athena's eyes fixed: It's that man, she won't be wrong!

The real God of Fire, the initiator of Ragnarok, the founder of Hogwarts-Godric Gryffindor!

Although she had prepared herself mentally, she could not help but feel a little nervous when she faced Godric Gryffindor, whose strength was no less than that of the Father God Zeus.

If she angered the Father God, she would at most be reprimanded and given a symbolic punishment. If she angered the person in front of her, she might not be able to leave this dirty tavern alive.

She must be careful.

This was the purpose of Athena's trip.

As soon as Athena entered the door, Godric locked his eyes on her.

That look was quite oppressive, making Athena's scalp numb. Fortunately, he only took a glance and then restrained his edge, and greeted her instead.

"Is it Ms. Sophia? Please come over!"

Athena walked to the table in front of Godric, and then sat opposite him at his signal.

"Sophia Athena, right?" Godric's eyes flashed with a meaningful look, "Why are all of you like this..."

Athena didn't understand the intention behind his words, and just nodded silently.

She needed more information before she could respond!

But Godric didn't have any deep meaning, he was just complaining about the habit of these old gang members using aliases after waking up one by one - Rice, White, Arius, and now there is another Sophia!

Damn Loki, you have made me suffer!

"Excuse me, how should I call you, should I use [she] or [him]?" Godric asked directly.

Athena's heart sank, and she immediately said that Hogwarts is the land of "people", so naturally she should use pronouns that symbolize people.

"Okay, then I will call you 'Sophia' from now on?"

"Of course." Athena nodded seriously, knowing that Gryffindor was hinting to her that she should abide by her duties in Hogwarts and stand on the standpoint of [people]. It is an absolute taboo to spread faith in Hogwarts.

After clarifying how to address the other party, Godric thought he could get to the point.

"Why do you want to be a teacher in Hogwarts? This is a hard job."

Athena opened her mouth slightly, and wanted to say the words she had prepared before, such as "establishing a bridge of communication between wizards and gods", "improving the relationship between the two sides", "experiencing, understanding, and learning wizard culture", and "letting wizards truly understand gods". But when the words came to her lips, she changed her mind.

"I want to maintain a good relationship with you and your friends." She decided to be sincere and speak her mind directly.

After all, her little thoughts could not be hidden from the terrible and respectable existence in front of her, so it was better to say it out herself to increase the other party's favorability.

After hearing Athena's reply, Godric was a little surprised.

He didn't expect that the high and mighty gods would be willing to lower themselves to deal with them, which might be a good thing.

Athena's frankness did win Godric's favor. He felt that it was not impossible to give her the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"Well, this reason is quite interesting. But I have to remind you again that the workload of this job is really heavy, very hard, and the income is not much. More importantly, we also need teachers to teach some real things."

Godric still wanted this pampered main god to think about it carefully. After all, Helga had complained to him before about the workload of the professors of the required courses at Hogwarts, which was really numbing. He didn't know if the goddess in front of him could bear this hardship.

In other words, the one who came to apply for the job was Athena, the "Goddess of Wisdom, War and Art", whose title sounded very hardworking. If it was Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, who came, Godric would have stood up to see her off.

And he also wanted to ask Athena what she was going to teach. Godric had heard of the legends of old teachers like Quirrell and Lockhart, and had personally experienced Umbridge's teaching. He couldn't accept that the new professor was a fake.

Although Athena's divine status was very high, what if it was innate? It's impossible that when a student asked how to defeat a dragon, she would answer that they should go to the temple to find her for blessings, right?

Athena had a different understanding. She thought Godric was hinting that this job might be thankless, and she might not be able to gain the understanding of other gods, nor might she be able to get closer to wizards.

But for her, all these were not a big problem. She was ready, and she was confident that she could become a friend of wizards - this was very important to her.

With Athena's wisdom, she had seen the transcendent status of wizards in the future world, so she decided to bet early and maintain a good relationship with wizards.

This will help her survive the next round of catastrophe.

Nothing in the world is immortal, including gods. The Aesir of Northern Europe has demonstrated to everyone what the price of clinging to something will be.

A hero came into being and brought dusk to the immortal gods.

"Of course, I'm not a god like Aphrodite." Athena responded confidently.

Godric was overjoyed and immediately called the bartender to serve him wine. After the bartender brought the wine, he took out two cups from his arms and personally filled a cup of butter beer for Athena.

Looking at the conspicuous layer of dirt on the mouth of the glass bottle, Athena's brows trembled twice, but she had no room to refuse.

Gritting her teeth, closing her eyes, and drinking the butter beer in the cup, Athena was surprised to find that the wine tasted good.

Next, the two talked in depth about the teaching plan.

Athena's answer satisfied Godric quite a bit. Finally, he signed a contract with Athena, and Athena naturally became the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

When the two walked out of the Hog's Head Pub one after the other, it was already sunset outside.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horse hooves on the rather empty Hogsmeade Avenue.

Godric looked at the source of the sound in surprise, and then saw an incredible scene: a silver-haired female knight with a silver-green mask, riding a skeleton unicorn with four hooves flaming, just appeared at the end of the avenue.

Godric, who was well-informed, recognized that the female knight was riding a nightmare. Under the bridle of the nightmare, there were several monster heads dripping with blood.

The silver-haired witch noticed Godric's presence, and she immediately turned her horse's head and rushed towards Godric.

"Who is this person?" Godric only felt that the figure was a little familiar, and he also felt a sense of déjà vu in this scene.

Athena glanced at him: How do I know?

Soon Godric's doubts were answered.

Nightmare stopped in front of the two of them, and the female knight jumped off Nightmare's back. She took off the mask and revealed Daphne's face.

"Mr. Gryffindor, long time no see!"

'It's Daphne! ' Godric understood where the familiar feeling in his heart came from.

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