Chapter 298 The Sixth Opening Ceremony

Now, Isha's position was occupied by Slughorn. In order to avoid Hermione's revenge, Chen Bin could only sit next to Slughorn with tears in his eyes, while Kate sat next to Hermione.

The students sat down quickly.

After a while, Professor McGonagall brought the freshmen to the hall again and placed a three-legged stool in front of the stage. On the stool was a broken hat, which sang again.

As usual, the lyrics are not written with water words. This year's lyrics are praising Hogwarts for maintaining the educational style of the four founders and uniting to deal with crises.

Now the threat has shrunk to a corner and trembled, but everyone still needs to continue to unite and create a harmonious future.

The sorting ceremony began, and the sorting ceremony that has not changed for a thousand years ended.

Dumbledore introduced Hermione as this year's professor of "Fighting the Dark Arts", and Slughorn as the honorary consultant of extracurricular activities, which is a newly added administrator position for him. This guy came to seek refuge.

Last year, the only extracurricular activities administrator, Anastasia, was the beautiful woman with a head full of muscles, Kate's elder sister from the same clan, who could do almost nothing except manage order. Now an honorary consultant has come to hope to solve administrative problems.

The students knew at the end of last semester that Hermione would take over the position of professor of "Fighting the Dark Arts", so they just applauded politely, and most of them were curious about who the fat old man was?

"It seems that Hermione's popularity is really not good, and she has lost the beauty effect." Chen Bin whispered.

Kate stared at Chen Bin and whispered in the same way: "Is Hermione beautiful?"

o(^｀)o: "Not as good as my wife's finger."

ヾ(▽)ノ: "I'll tell you a secret, I lifted the soundproofing magic."

Σ(дlll): "..."

Hermione heard it, but ignored their fancy ways of showing off their love.

If she took everything seriously with them, she would vomit blood and die within a week.

Chen Bin once privately asked Old Dumbledore why he chose Hermione as the professor of "Defense Against the Dark Arts" instead of Snape, and even changed the name of the course to make her unaffected by the curse?

Old Dumbledore's answer was also very thoughtful, that is, knowing people and assigning them to the right positions.

This is a euphemism, or to put it bluntly, Snape is too big to teach "Defense Against the Dark Arts".

In principle, the professors who teach this subject are the most capable in the whole school, but this is just a legend.

The truth is that "Defense Against the Dark Arts" is an applied subject. Strictly speaking, the academic level is the fifth from the bottom, only slightly better than "Care of Magical Creatures", "Muggle Studies", "History of Magic" and "Flying Class".

For example, flying a civil airliner is very impressive, right? But this is an applied technology. No matter how advanced the technology is, its academic value is not even higher than studying manure composting.

Is it ironic?

After more than a hundred years of hard research, scientists have finally made plant nutrition and fertilizer science a complete scientific system, which has played a decisive role in the development of modern agriculture.

To systematically understand the technology of manure composting from an academic perspective, scholars have a scientific and technological system that has been studied for hundreds of years. That is, scientific composting requires understanding plant nutrition, fertilizer science, chemistry, etc., and there are a lot of experimental and theoretical support.

Let's look at civil aviation pilots. Is this applied technology considered academic? Aircraft maintenance can barely be considered academic, but it is just an aircraft maintenance technology in aerodynamics.

If you understand this metaphor, you should understand that although Chen Bin, Kate and Hermione got full or almost full marks in the N.E.W.T.s exams, they are only small rookies in the academic world and are not qualified to take extremely academic subjects.

What is a subject with high academic content? The subjects controlled by the four deans are super academic subjects. N.E.W.T.s courses only account for a tiny part of the entire subject. If you want to study further, you can only read journals, write papers, read books, and visit academic leaders from various countries.

The second echelon is "Study of Ancient Runes", "Arithmetic Divination", "Astronomy" and "Divination", which are also academic subjects that combine science and engineering with magic.

Yes, "Divination" is also a profound academic subject, even more profound and complex than "Defense Against the Dark Arts".

It's just that this course belongs to the position specially set up by Dumbledore for Trelawney's retirement, and students who really want to become a prophet must have the corresponding bloodline, otherwise Old Dumbledore would not dare to let Chen Bin be a charlatan, and Kate's qualifications are not enough to be the successor.

Therefore, it is not that whoever can fight is the strongest professor. The academic world looks at academic level, but the higher the academic level of the professor, the stronger his real combat power.

Snape likes "Defense Against the Dark Arts", just like a chemistry teacher wants to teach karate, completely out of personal interest.

That's it. Chen Bin was in a trance while Dumbledore was giving a short speech.

Next, Dumbledore announced happily that the international exchange student program would start registration on October 1st. Interested seventh-year students should pay attention to the details on the bulletin board.

All the national defense students last year have returned. They have long learned to use the professional tactics of the new Auror equipment. In addition, the European joint defense system has been established, and there is also an international Auror organization.

Therefore, since there are still a lot of empty rooms in the command center next to the new teaching building, Dumbledore suggested that seventh-year students from all countries can also freely register as exchange students, and the dormitory is the dormitory of the command center.

Other magic departments also think this is a good way to communicate, and have notified local magic schools to cooperate.

As time went by, the global wizarding community joined the exchange student program, including Asian and South American students. Hogwarts, which initiated the student exchange, has not yet selected a list of exchange students.

Dumbledore did not have the habit of giving long speeches. He said that Filch had updated the list of prohibited items, then mentioned the selection time for Quidditch players, and then started the opening dinner directly.

"Alas, Hermione has become a professor too." Ron forked a sausage into his mouth, with a look of melancholy on his face.

Harry saw that his friend was serious, and said puzzledly: "I don't see you miss Hermione much on weekdays."

"I'm lamenting about this year's homework." Ron swallowed the food in his mouth and sighed: "Last year we could refer to her answers, and our grades improved significantly. But now it's not possible."

Harry then remembered that after joining the Auror training, he did not need to continue doing those boring homework. Sirius, Dumbledore and Sister Isa taught him step by step, and explained the principles of magic and practical skills in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

However, the reason why Ron made such rapid progress last year was that he understood the answers to Hermione's homework.

"Right, you haven't told me the results of the O.W.L.s." Harry asked curiously.

"Uh, haha." Ron said a little embarrassedly: "O in Charms, E in Transfiguration, Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts, A in Herbology, and P in the rest."

"No way? He also failed Care of Magical Creatures?" Harry said in surprise: "Won't Hagrid be angry?"

"He doesn't know yet." Ron chuckled twice and quickly changed the subject.

Dinner ended in a relaxed atmosphere.

Just as Ron was about to lead the first-year students to leave, Professor McGonagall stopped him, and Harry had to follow the rest of the students back to the Gryffindor Common Room.

On the other hand, Chen Bin came to the principal's office, wrote down the Indian intelligence sent by the Friar Administration, and left before Dumbledore finished reading it, otherwise he might be forced to talk to the old man until dawn.

Harry sat in the armchair and waited for a while, and finally saw Ron come back.

"Your face is so red, you must have encountered something good?" Harry handed Ron a bottle of juice. There were also snacks and drinks prepared by Isha for him in the suitcase.

"Harry, I don't know how to tell you this..." Ron sat in the armchair next to him, his expression became awkward.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Who are we talking about?"

Ron saw that Harry's expression was not fake, and said with a nervous voice: "I stole your captain position."

"Pah--" Harry clenched his fists, and his knuckles made a frightening sound.

"I'm sorry, I know you should be the captain this year." Ron held his head in a defensive posture and said timidly: "But Professor McGonagall told me that I performed very well as a goalkeeper last year, and the players in this position can see the overall situation. Angelina recommended me to Professor McGonagall before graduation, saying that I am very similar to Wood."

"Alas, Ron, why do you think I will be angry with you?" Harry spread his hands and said helplessly: "You did a really great job last year, and you attended more training than me. Sister Isha told me a long time ago that there are gains and losses. This year I became the Head Boy and had to undergo Auror special training every day. How could I have time to manage the team?"

"Are you really not jealous?" Ron asked nervously.

"Really not." Harry smiled.

"Then, if you have time, can you give me some advice on training the team?" Ron asked weakly.

(╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻: "Get as far away from me as possible! Come on! Take out my 40-meter-long sword, I'm going to chop this shameless bitch!"

The two laughed and joked for a while, and soon went upstairs to sleep.

However, Ron slept like a dead pig, but Harry stared out the window with bright eyes. There was no jealousy, it was impossible not to be jealous in this life.

He knew that no matter whether it was the prophecy book or the dark version of the prophecy Kate said, he would become the captain of the Gryffindor team in the sixth grade, so now he really felt that his friend had taken away the honor that originally belonged to him.