(23) Placement of graduates
"Dear teachers, I'm glad you all came to this biannual roundtable!"
The Round Table is not a meeting of the Knights of the Round Table, but the most important meeting of Hogwarts every term, in the Teachers' Hall, the Ball Hall.
In this meeting, Dumbledore will explain the events that need to be carried out this semester and require the cooperation of these teachers.
Dumbledore liked to name events and buildings after the shape and color of the objects, and the interior of the Sphere Hall was a semi-circular stone brick hall with no modern architectural features.
The European-style stone columns are distributed within the rotunda, and the entire building is made of rock and solid wood.
In the very center of the Dome Hall, in addition to a large carpet of crimson with gold patterns, a large round table stands out, and around the round table there are papal chairs that seem to be distributed without money.
It is from this table that the name of the round table comes from, and the rest of the time the meetings that require the presence of all the teachers are in this medieval building.
The roundtable was not a news broadcast with a serious expression, at least Dumbledore, who sat in the main center of the room, yawned and took a few bites of apples to moisten his throat.
Dumbledore needed enough sleep like ordinary people, but he didn't fall asleep until seven o'clock in the morning to prepare for the welcome banquet last night, and he got up early in the evening to prepare for the main content of the meeting.
"I want to say that this enrollment is probably our largest enrollment, lasting about six days in total, and the number of new students is expected to reach 700 to 800, which is more than the number of students enrolled in the previous two years!"
At the large round table sat all the teachers from the original Harry Potter books: Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, Horace Slughorn, Rubeus Hagrid, Wilmina Grapland, Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, Rolanda Hodge, Gilderoy Lockhart, Apollion Pringer and others.
At present, Hogwarts only has six courses: Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, Charms, Flying Lessons, and Defence Against the Dark Arts, because there are more and more students, and one course may require one or several teachers.
"First of all, there will be a group of students graduating this semester, and there are three paths for them to choose after graduation.
First, they choose to start a business in the outside world, and they must abide by the laws of the outside world when they go to the outside world, and at the same time abide by the school rules I have set. Their indiscriminate use of magic has caused damage to innocent people's lives and property, and I will remove their magic for a period of time, or even for life.
Second, my Diagon Alley will become a medium between the outside world and Hogwarts, and our Hogwarts items will all pass through the Cauldron and Diagon Alley, which will be hidden behind the Cauldron Bar, and the houses in Diagon Alley will be rented to graduates who are reluctant to go to the outside world but are reluctant to the wizarding world.
Thirdly, I will build a village located in a cluster of lakes this semester, named Hogsmeade Village, which may only have a few buildings at the beginning, to give a home to graduates who are willing to stay here!
Graduates who remain here have families, including parents and underage siblings, the doors of Hogwarts are open for them with restrictions, and their families can choose to live at Hogwarts.
Residents of Hogsmeade Village can work in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, serve Hogwarts food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and they can also grow their own vegetable gardens, raise poultry, livestock, and grow inferior herbs, which can be sold to Diagon Alley.
Diagon Alley businesses can be sold to businesses opened by graduates from outside the country, creating a return flow that is only beneficial to our students. Except for the graduates of the wizarding world and Diagon Alley who work for me, I don't interfere with how graduates from the outside world price goods. ”
Most of this meeting was just Deng Liduo's words and instructions, and they listened and acted accordingly.
Because Dumbledore's powers are different from ordinary headmasters, these teachers are strictly the product of Dumbledore's summoning in the system.
The reason why Dumbledore didn't make an independent decision was because he wanted to listen to the opinions of these teachers and remove the dregs and extract the essence.
"Headmaster Dumbledore, I hope you'd think about Muggles entering the wizarding world. Now that you've built the world of magic, it's supposed to be someone who learns magic and can learn it. If no magically blooded people enter here and start a family here, we can't guarantee that Hogsmeade Village will be different from the outside world by then! ”
Although these teachers are relatively loyal and have original thoughts and memories, they come from the world of Harry Potter after all, where mages and ordinary people are even divided into two poles.
So when they heard that Dumbledore not only wanted to let the Hotswagger graduates return to the outside world, but also wanted some Muggle parents to enter the Hotswagger as well, some teachers did not want to put forward other ideas.
"There is a high chance that people with magical bloodlines have parents who have magical blood, but their magical talents have not been stimulated, and they have always lived like ordinary people.
Seventy to eighty percent of our students' parents are people with magical ancestry, so that people with magic are guaranteed to be mainstream in our village.
If we only leave the graduates and do not let the parents of the graduates enter the magical world, it is equivalent to continuing to divide the graduates and their parents who live here from the two worlds. Some of the graduates are just 18 years old and are not yet capable of taking care of a family on their own. In this way, even if they are reluctant to be here, they may not want to be separated from their families, and it will be a question of whether to leave or stay at that time. ”
It is acceptable to be separated from your closest parents, brothers, and sisters for a while, but if you don't see your parents and relatives often, these graduates will not be comfortable living here.
Deng Liduo, who was reborn into this world, experienced it first-hand, and even after seven years of traveling here, he often missed his parents and relatives. So when some teachers put forward different opinions, Deng Liduo also refuted them with reasonable evidence.
Some things stick to the original old concepts and are destined to be gradually surpassed and eliminated, such as the Qing Dynasty, which closed off the country. For Hogwarts to develop rapidly, some unwritten rules must be broken, and some vices must be strangled in the cradle.
"I agree with Headmaster Dumbledore's decision, Mr. Snape, some of our students have to enter the Muggle world, and a small part of the Muggles have entered our world."
"Even if the parents of the graduates are not invited, there is a certain chance that the children of the graduates will be squibs, and we will not be able to kick the children of the graduates out of Hogsmeade Village. So we can only maintain that more than half of the people in Hogsmeade are people with magical talents. ”
Seeing Dumbledore's insistence, many teachers turned to support Dumbledore, not just because Dumbledore had a monopoly on all power at Hogwarts.
On the contrary, putting aside all preconceptions and thinking about it carefully, Dunlido allowed the graduate's family to enter Hogwarts, which also had more advantages than disadvantages, and it was a big deal to give the graduate's Muggle parents or Squib children some rules.