Chapter 4: Elena and Professor McGonagall

"I mean ......"

Elena's gaze swept over Professor McGonagall, paused on her plaid coat that looked to be at least six or seven years old, and shrugged, "You're right, we're really two worlds. ”

When she was in college in her previous life, Elena minored in a particularly interesting course called socioeconomics.

In class, the middle-aged Mediterranean teacher who seemed a little cynical said something that made Elena feel particularly suitable for the current scene.

"Mystery and the unknown only create distance, not class. ”

Elena pricked up her fingers and said earnestly word by word, "The only thing that can divide human beings, an inherently social creature, into two worlds, is only one in the final analysis - poverty!"

There is no doubt that since the first time humans recognized the existence of magic, the wizarding community that controls supernatural powers does have an advantage far beyond ordinary people in terms of the accumulation of wealth, power, and fame. After all, before the tech explosion, most of the efforts of ordinary people could not be compared to a wizard with a simple wave of his wand.

Tracing back to history, the twenty-eight most famous pure-blood families in the wizarding world are all wealthy families with at least a hundred years of inheritance and prestige and wealth. Such as the Gaunt family, the Longbottom family, the Potter family, etc., all gathered a lot of wealth, power, and fame during that period, relying on their own magical powers.

As a result, the wizarding world and the Muggle world have long been artificially separated, and the reason for this is nothing more than a deliberate increase in the barrier to entry for the arrogant ancient wizards in order to maintain their mystery.

However, with the passage of time, the positions of the two worlds have inadvertently changed.

You know, magic isn't everything. To be more precise, in Elena's view, the positioning of magic is actually to provide convenience, break through the inherent limitations of natural laws, and add to the icing on the cake.

Unfortunately, apparently the vast majority of wizards are not aware of this. The backward workshop-based education system has even put generations of wizards to the test of even the most basic livelihoods.

For example, the Gaunt family, the mother of a certain Voldemort who did not want to be named, was once a wicked rich man, but by the nineties, the family fortune had almost been ruined, and there was no decent property left except for a dilapidated old house.

"Times have changed, Professor McGonagall. ”

Elena shook her head and said softly, "This world is no longer a wizard's stage, and I have no interest in the poor and backward wizarding world you call it. I can't teach what I want to know there. ”

In fact, it was not that there was any great decline in the wizarding world, but that the speed of technological progress in the Muggle world was so terrible under the stimulus of war that the time left for wizards to accept and digest it was too short.

Even though there were a handful of wise adult wizards among them who could see this, they realized it in despair when they began to try to fit into the Muggle world. As people in the wizarding world who had not received any basic education, it was extremely difficult for them to even make a normal life in the Muggle world.

Powerful magical abilities are almost useless in any way other than to make them more successful on their path to becoming robbers or terrorists. Compared to hundreds of years ago, the barriers of the world had been formed again, and Elena had no interest in taking the initiative to go to the leaking ship.

"How dare you say that, poor and backward wizarding world?! You don't know what kind of vast and mysterious world you are facing. ”

As if seriously offended, Professor McGonagall furrowed her brows, her voice began to grow stern, and she retorted quickly without thinking.

"Every adult wizard learns dozens of courses at Hogwarts, including Potions, History of Magic, Astronomy, Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, and so on, but even for seven years, they only scratch the surface of these lessons. Any branch of magic is enough for a wizard to spend a lifetime studying. ”

But what is the value of these courses? If the content of learning is not even a guarantee of basic survival, then no matter how inscrutable it is, is nothing more than empty talk. Elena replied nonchalantly, twitching her silver hair hanging from her shoulders.

"Every graduate of Hogwarts can find a decent job in the wizarding world. Professor McGonagall retorted, a faint anger in her heart.

"If everyone can find a decent job, then what's the point of working hard? You know, the Muggle world's academic credential recognition model is somewhat imperfect, but at least it is an objective manifestation of basic competence. And to me, it doesn't seem that important to me whether the wizarding world works hard or not. ”

Raising her head, Elena glanced at Professor McGonagall with a grim face, pursed her lips, and continued to ask questions without hesitation.

In a way, Elena thinks she knows more about the 'adult society' of the wizarding world than Professor McGonagall. After all, even a top student such as Hermione Granger ended up being just an employee of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and the savior Harry Potter and his little friend Ron directly joined the official violent organization of the wizarding world.

In other words, in fact, the certificates and exams they were worried about during their school years had little effect on their actual work, which made thousands of Muggles who struggled in the abyss of the judicial examination and finally been able to shoulder the judicial and social order.

Professor McGonagall's eyebrows were raised, and the wrinkles on her forehead had been added, her tone had grown cold as she had never seen such a difficult freshman.

"Based on the results of the students' examinations, we will award O.W.Ls certificates, as well as higher N.E.W.TS certificates. At the same time, what students learn at Hogwarts is not independent, it will carry on throughout a wizard's life, and is far more important than Muggle lessons. ”

Sensing Professor McGonagall's displeasure, Elena, who had already made up her mind not to go to Hogwarts, shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "But that doesn't change the fact that the same person, at the same cost of time and effort, can get a better deal in the Muggle world." ”

As she spoke, the girl looked at the clock beside the bed, the conversation had been going on for nearly a quarter of an hour, and while she was confident that she would defeat Professor McGonagall's arguments from all angles, it didn't mean that she was interested in analyzing the evils of the wizarding world with an old wizard at the level of a grandmother.

Elena decided to make a big move and quickly end this pointless debate.

Before Professor McGonagall could retort again, Elena raised her palms and preemptively interrupted, "Well, we won't discuss the usefulness of these lessons for now. Dear Professor McGonagall, may I ask if there are really so many students who are teaching what you teach that can fully grasp it? Or may I ask another question......

Elena pointed her finger at the ornate chair beneath Professor McGonagall and raised an eyebrow, "How many graduates have been able to accurately reproduce your transfiguration magic, and how many have actually achieved your expected teaching goals?"

"How many wizards are there in your so-called wizarding world who can really be called capable? In the face of a muggle armed with a dagger at close range, how many wizards can guarantee that they will be easily subdued?"

“......”

Professor McGonagall opened her mouth and fell into an awkward silence, she could say a random number, but her long-standing habit had made her not accustomed to lying - the wizarding world was not that powerful, otherwise the panic caused by Voldemort and the Death Eaters a dozen years ago would not be so great.

Elena was not surprised by Professor McGonagall's silence.

You know, like Harry and Ron, who usually don't study textbooks in advance, don't listen carefully in class, and rely mainly on good students with average grades who even guess for their exams, you can imagine how bad most of the students at Hogwarts are, and if it is inferred from this, those little wizards who are not even as good as Harry Potter will probably not have the ability to go after graduation.

And even so, Hogwarts is already one of the top schools in the entire wizarding world, so the level of education in the entire wizarding world can be imagined. Even the children who came out of the most remote mountain primary schools in China in the past world are estimated to be better than these people.

However, in the face of the silent Professor McGonagall, Elena does not intend to let it go, she intends to let all the talk of magic end today, so that the trajectory of her life can return to the path of happy urban rebirth business warfare.

"Over the years, how many of the students you've taught are now paid more than you? To put it more bluntly, most of them are now starving next month if they accidentally encounter some disaster and cannot go to work. Even if you buy yourself and your children a few new clothes with good workmanship at the end of the year, you can already live a comfortable life, right?"

Professor McGonagall's snort grew heavier, and her lips pursed like a thin line. Among her former students, the only one who has the most generous life is Lucius Malfoy, but his generosity mainly comes from the savings of the Malfoy family, and it really has little to do with his personal efforts.

"So you've ruined your students. Because of your backward, narrow-minded, closed-minded, irresponsible teaching methods, and the magical world that you pride yourself in.

The most ridiculous thing is that the generations in which you are still enjoying destroying the infinite possibilities of your students. ”

Elena straightened up, tilted her head, stared directly at Professor McGonagall without fear, and raised her voice to speak loudly.

"You are just a group of poor and backward terrorists who are immersed in the false illusion constructed by magic, and do not dare to look up at the outside world. ”

"I, Elena Kaslana, will never set foot in your inexplicable world. ”

"You!"

Professor McGonagall stood up suddenly, her chest rising and falling violently like a bellows, her eyes stabbing angrily at the little silver-haired girl in front of her like a sharp sword, and she opened her mouth as if to refute something, but in the end she made no sound.

Looking at Professor McGonagall's wand clenched tightly in her right hand on the verge of rage, Elena swallowed silently - didn't that seem to be overdoing it?

Glancing at the pale, thoughtful Benitez behind her, Elena gritted her teeth, opened her hands in front of Benitez, and continued to speak hard.

"Are you finally ready to do it, forget it or dig into it? Come, let me see what the last pride of the great wizard looks like. ”

"Hmph. Remember what you said, we'll meet again. ”

Professor McGonagall let out a heavy nasal voice and took a deep breath, trying to suppress the fire in her chest.

Then she took a deep look at Elena, put away her wand, grabbed the lady's top hat on the table, and strode away without saying a word, not even asking why Elena knew the spells of the wizarding world.

- She was afraid that if she continued to talk to this angry little girl, her emotions would be completely out of control.

"So, you're really a professor, but you're from the wizarding world?"

At this time, Benitez, who had been watching from the sidelines just now, finally reluctantly cleared his mind, looked at Professor McGonagall's back, and subconsciously opened his mouth to help.

"Since you've finally come over, why don't you sit down and drink a bowl of hot soup before leaving?"

No wizard will eat an owl!"

Professor McGonagall roared in anger from outside the door, and Miss McGonagall, who was so well-rounded, finally burst into a foul mouth and slammed the door slammed shut.

Elena spread her hands innocently and shrugged her shoulders.

"But that's a Scottish round-faced fat chicken. ”

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(Meng Meng Da Youmeng wants to eat, ask for recommendation vote support, huh, more than 3,700 words of the big chapter!)