Chapter 492: The Headmaster's Life
With a lazy yawn, Jon Hart climbed out of bed in the headmaster's office cubicle.
Slowly, he got up, and then opened a black cabinet next to him that shone with a bright silver light—in the cabinet was a shallow stone basin with strange carvings and mysterious letters and symbols.
The silver light came from the contents of the basin, like a liquid and a gas, bright silver in color, but it was constantly flowing, spreading out and swirling softly like a cloud.
Jon grabbed the elderberry wand that lay beside the stone basin and touched it lightly at his temple. Silver-white flocculents slowly emerged from his sun**, and looked exactly like those in the stone basin.
After expertly guiding the silver-white flocculent into the stone basin, he casually reassured the elderberry wand beside the stone basin, then stretched and sat down on the headmaster's desk.
No doubt he also saw the Daily Prophet on the table.
"Fawkes!" he asked aloud, "did you pay this time?"
Just a day earlier, Jon Hart had received a complaint letter from the editorial board of the Daily Prophet, claiming that they had been sending newspapers to the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts for three days in a row, but had not received postage or newspaper fees, and that the owls had been terrified every time. The editorial office also threatened to stop supplying newspapers to the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts if the behavior was repeated.
Jon was a little confused at first, but it was only after being reminded by several headmasters on the portrait that he realized that it was actually the phoenix who had just been resurrected for a few days.
In desperation, he could only coerce and lure him for a while, and he didn't know what the effect was.
There was an unpleasant cry from the golden perch, and it looked like Fawkes hadn't fully woken up.
"She just paid for it. An old headmaster with silver sideburns on the portrait muttered, "Although this time...... The poor owl might have been scared even worse......"
"Just pay for it!" Jon nodded, not hearing the old headmaster's whisper.
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Picking up the Daily Prophet, Jon began to flip through it from front to back.
Glancing at the front page of "The Mystery Man is Gone", Jon's gaze froze for half a second at Rufus-Scrimgeur's lion-like portrait before continuing to flip through the ......
...... The title of the second edition is "Thousands of Wizards Take to the Streets to Celebrate and Toast to the Defeat of the "Mystery Man"......
...... The third edition, "The Magical Congress of the United States lodges a strong protest that the recent celebrations of wizards in England may seriously violate the International Wizarding Secrecy Act......
...... Fourth edition, "Owls Flying Around in Broad Daylight, Meteor Showers Are Widespread in the UK, Celebrations Need to Be Done in Moderation......
Jon flipped through the pages, getting faster and faster.
It wasn't until he turned to the tenth edition and saw the article "In Memory of Albus Dumbledore" by Mr. Ephias Dogo, a veteran member of the Order of the Phoenix, that he stopped his movements and patiently read the article completely.
"The Ministry of Magic is still the familiar Ministry of Magic. Jon muttered softly, in a somewhat mocking tone, "The Daily Prophet is also the familiar Daily Prophet!"
I continued to scroll quickly, until I turned to the entertainment page, and saw Rita Skeeter's "Joke or Careerist,—— The Boy Who Never Died, and the Headmaster of Hogwarts".
Jon suddenly had a certain character, he straightened his back, and began to read carefully:
"Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reported that with the 'escape' of the mysterious man, the venerable Mr. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, also passed away...... While we lament the impermanence of life, just a few days ago at Mr. Dumbledore's funeral, a strange event occurred at Hogwarts.
With Dumbledore's death, the position of Headmaster of Hogwarts was temporarily vacant, and it was customary for an experienced wizard to take over the position. It could be Ms. Minerva McGonagall, who has been Vice-Chancellor for decades, or the esteemed Mr. Filius Flitwick. But then the reality played a joke on us, or in the eyes of most people, there was a little prank.
Maybe you remember Jon Hart, a somewhat talented, mediocre-looking but ambitious boy. He was also one of the participants in the Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts more than two years ago...... At that time, he had already made full use of those talents of his talents, deceived the Goblet of Fire, and satisfied his ambition to get ahead.
At the same time, at the end of the Triwizard Tournament, the ambitious young man disguised himself as a death and returned to Hogwarts as the "Boy Who Didn't Die" when the "Mystery Man" was about to fall......
Of course, there is no problem with all of the above. Jon Hart certainly has his wildlings, but he doesn't do anyone else any harm. But it would be a mistake to say that he also used his little talent to deceive the late Albus Dumbledore into seeking the position of Headmaster of Hogwarts......
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...... There is reason to believe that a man like Jon Hart, who was able to become the "new Headmaster" of Hogwarts, used many illegal means.
We are also looking forward to the Ministry of Magic's rigorous investigation into the Hogwarts accident. ”
Jon only looked at the beginning and the end, and the bunch of dense small words in the middle, he jumped and watched-
However, he has not yet been allowed to express any thoughts on this. The male and female principals behind him have exploded one by one.
"Slander!
"This stupid newspaper, this vicious woman!"
"She doesn't have any respect for Hogwarts at all!"
......
"Calm down, everyone, calm down!" Jon had to patiently comfort the old-timers one by one, "It's just a little bug that can't make any waves, you don't need to take it to heart......"
After the old headmasters had calmed down, Jon continued to ask, "Is there any plan for today?"
"At nine o'clock this morning, you need to go to Azkaban, Jon ......" Principal Chris Evra replied, "there's going to be a Death Eater interrogation." ”
"Okay. Jon nodded.
At nine o'clock in the morning, there is still an hour and a half before now, and there is still time for me to have breakfast.
Throwing the Daily Prophet into the fireplace, Jon picked up a statue in the shape of a house-elf from the table on the other side and tapped it gently.
On the desk in front of him, a whole set of clean silver cutlery immediately appeared.
And, of course, there are all kinds of meals that fill the table:
Lamb chops, bratwurst and steak, baked potatoes, potato chips, Yorkshire pudding...... There are also a variety of desserts such as apple pies, syrup cakes, chocolate muffins, fried jam doughnuts, and jam pudding.
He picked up a tissue and gently wiped his hands while taking a sip of pumpkin juice.
Jon straightened up, and picked up his knife and fork—
The life of the Headmaster of Hogwarts is so unpretentious.
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