Chapter 43: Professor Binns's Funeral and Departure
Although the wizards living at Hogwarts have seen all kinds of ghosts, it is a completely different experience for them to be taught by a ghost. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Alan was the first wizard to wake up, and everyone else was stupefied by Professor Binns who opened the ghost book.
Alan left the classroom without even having time to report, leaving behind Professor Binns and many of the frightened students behind him - to be precise, Professor Binns didn't even have time to stop Allen from leaving.
In any case, the death of a professor is a major event, and Allen must inform the dean and the president as soon as possible, and since the students are scared silly, he should naturally be held responsibleβand as for the handling of this matter, it is estimated that Professor Binns will continue to act on the subject as before.
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After three days, all teachers and students were suspended.
Dumbledore's reaction was quick, and he announced a day off that night for Professor Binns' funeral - to be honest, Alan was curious about the old professor's feelings about attending his funeral, but he gave up on the plan.
There were many people attending the funeral, and as a professor who had studied the history of magic all his life, Professor Binns had a student body that Dumbledore couldn't match, even if he really didn't teach very well.
His body was found in front of the fire in the faculty lounge, around the time he was dozing off, and then, when he woke up for class, he forgot to bring his body with him.
Professor Binns did not show up at the funeral - it is said that he returned to the classroom where he had been taught today, and then began to ask the ghosts of the colleges where his students were.
The eulogy, read by Dumbledore himself, summarized in detail the old professor's great contribution to Hogwarts, and made everyone who heard it admire this old man for his outstanding contributions.
Until an exclamation exploded in the crowd.
At the end of his speech, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would rehire the old professor who had made a difference, even if he became a ghost.
This unruly behavior caused a strong argument among the crowd, especially the boardroom, but it was eventually settled.
Although Dumbledore's authority has gradually been eroded by time as Voldemort's era has passed, it is still not something that their group can refute at this time.
That's it - Hogwarts has a conscientious ghost professor.
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Professor Binns' death did not have much of an impact on the students' exchange plans, especially if the professor of the history of magic was not replaced.
If anything, it's probably to Allen and his chosen group of exchange students - because the professor who teaches languages is the ghost professor.
The boring language class made Alan extremely complain about why these wizard seniors didn't work hard to invent something like translation or communication, the already boring linguistics and Professor Binns together are a perfect match!
However, the fifty students were trained intensively and even took up part of the evening - this was the first time Alan had a class with a junior wizard in the upper class.
As far as Alan knew, not to mention them, even the three professors were working the language at this time - it was estimated that the students would be able to escape a lot of poisonous tongues, because Alan estimated that Professor Snape's learning content was not up to his superb level of swearing in English.
What made them collapse was that, in addition to the language class, the other teachers also began to frantically instill knowledge - judging from the current posture, they had the intention of filling in all the knowledge to this group of little wizards in the shortest possible time, which made Alan inexplicably think of an important step before roasting duck - cramming.
The days passed, and then, just as Alan was not looking, the heavy study came to a halt - the day of communication came.
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From Hogwarts to Uagadou, even on the smallest map of the world, it is still a long straight line.
The heavy study tasks made Alan have no time to think about it for a while ago, and he even put down the systematic skill training that must be one hour a day.
However, at this moment, he finally had time to think about it.
That's how the hell could they cross the long distance to go to that magical and unknown school.
Phantom shapeshifting?
What are you kidding, even Dumbledore doesn't have such a powerful magic to move people so far, not to mention, the powerful magical enchantment between borders will block all wizards who try to cross it.
Door keys?
How many transfers do you need? How much magic does it take?
Magic carpet?
Let's not talk about whether Hogwarts will use this thing, just how long will it take to fly over it at that slow flight speed?
Thus, Dumbledore's speech passed in Alan's reverie.
This made Alan regret why Dumbledore wasn't the kind of headmaster he had met in his previous life - if he had changed it, he might have read the speech at this point!
Alan had missed a valid message and had to ask Albert next to him - the kind man was the current Hufflepuff prefect.
As he spoke, all the young wizards present let out a scream of surprise.
This made the two people who were talking to raise their heads hurriedly.
What greeted them was a huge stone man, ten meters tall.
But Alan soon realized that he was wrongβnot ten meters, just the height at which it protruded from the ground, and only a head and half of its upper body.
With a shudder of teeth, the leaking rock head and the stout head, which were somewhat small arms in contrast, hit the ground at the same time, and then with the falling sand and cracked ground, a large and indescribable body was pulled out of the ground little by little.
At this time, Albert's voice beside Alan trembled a little: "Oh my God, we had a picnic on that rock the other day! We were joking that there must be a hill down there!"
Obviously, they were wrong, it wasn't a hill, it was a rock giant over there.
However, Alan soon realizes that he is also wrong - it is not a rock giant, but a Hogwarts transporter!
When the giant was completely pulled out, everyone was amazed at its sheer size.
To be honest, the giant's size can even be described as comical - a small, almost lumpy head, disproportionate limbs - arms that are longer than legs, and even the body is occasionally covered with stained mud and sand, and if it were reduced by hundreds of times, it would probably be a stone doll made by a patient with terminal hand cancer.
None of the students laughed at it, however, and even all of them were envious of the exchange students, for the rock giant was now half-kneeling on the ground, arms and open bodies forming a wide stone staircase, and at the end of the staircase a door was open, and from the student's point of view, it was a shrunken Hogwarts Hall.
"Everyone, start your journey, may everything be successful!"
ps: Today's one update, the second chapter has been written for a long time and is not satisfied, and tomorrow it will be supplemented with additional changes - that is to say, tomorrow's four more.