Zhang Xu buried his head in his breakfast, ignoring the two people at the other table, who were presumably relatives of the Weasleys. ~Sui~Dream~Small~Say~щ~Suimеng~lāThey are not their relatives, so they don't need to go over to say hello.

It was a very happy thing to go back to sleep after eating breakfast, but Zhang Xu, who had been working all night, had just made up for more than two hours of sleep when he was woken up by the sound of knocking on the glass window.

A depressed Zhang Xu opened the window and let in an owl delivering a letter. He removed the parchment scroll from the owl's leg, and found it to be a letter with the Ministry of Magic's wax seal. When I opened the letter, the content inside was that the Ministry of Magic held a meeting at the Ministry of Magic at three o'clock this afternoon on the selection of the next headmaster of Hogwarts, and the Ministry of Magic invited Zhang Xu to attend as one of the student representatives.

Zhang Xu, who was angry when he got up, took a label in the room, wrote on it "Always support the principal, whoever is the principal supports whom", rolled the note and tied it to the owl's legs, and finally threw the owl out of the window.

He wasn't interested in participating in such a ridiculous meeting right now, and before the school board could say anything, the Ministry of Magic jumped out impatiently.

However, an hour later, Zhang Xu was woken up by a sound again, this time the ringtone of his mobile phone.

"Where are you?" Scarlett's voice came from the other end of the line.

"In a dream." Zhang Xu replied in a daze.

The person on the other end of the phone ignored Zhang Xu's answer and continued: "The Ministry of Magic just sent me a letter. ”

"If it's for the president's meeting, I've received a sample letter." Zhang Xu replied half-asleep.

"Are you going or not?" Scarlett asked.

"I pushed it off, and I'd better not get involved in such a thing." Zhang Xu replied.

"Then I'm not going either." Scarlett said.

Zhang Xu then said: "I can not go, because it's okay if I don't go." But you have to go, you're not afraid that the new headmaster will put on your shoes. ”

"Ninety percent of the new headmaster is McGonagall, what am I afraid of?" Scarlett asked.

"Allocation of Teaching Funds." Zhang Xu said.

He had been in the faculty office for three years, and some of the secret battles between the professors were still clear.

The battle between Hogwarts faculty is only part of the battle between the Headmasters over house points and Quidditch matches, and the most competitive is the battle for funding before the start of each school year.

Although Hogwarts' financial situation has been very good in recent years, and teaching funding has increased year by year, this does not mean that professors will not compete. On the contrary, increased funding has made competition among professors more intense.

In the past, there was not much money, and everyone would consider others in addition to scrambling.

However, now that the teaching funds are several times higher than before, the professors' thinking is basically "you just get a little more than before, you didn't all come here like this back then, give me the rest".

In the past, in this war to divide the teaching funds, there were two people who did not have to worry about this matter, one was Professor Binns and the other was Professor Zhang.

Professor Binns's History of Magic class was purely theoretical, using no equipment or materials, and the biggest item on his grant application, which had not changed a single punctuation mark for many years, was a candle used to light the classroom on a rainy day when the light was bad.

So in the past, Professor Binns was the first application that Deng approved every year.

As for the former Professor Zhang, everyone did not forget to dig wells, as long as the items on the application he sent were not too excessive, everyone would admit it.

And then the competition is fierce, the fertilizer and other things used in the herbal medicine class have to spend money, the Potions class has to invest more money in purchasing more advanced raw materials in order to improve the level of the students, the feed of the animals used in the protection of magical beasts class cannot be less, and the tea used in the divination class is not from Assamem, how can it be embarrassing to appear in the historic Hogwarts......

The funding is fixed, and if you want to get more for yourself, you have to let others take less.

On the day the professors discussed the allocation of funds, there were only two things to do: to convince the president to approve their own applications, and to persuade the president to reject other people's applications.

According to someone else, that time of year is really lively. Especially last year, Snape, who used to be able to get a large part of the funding for teaching Potions, was liquidated by other professors after he became a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

Snape used the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom behind the thick curtains in the basement, so plenty of candles were needed for lighting.

Now the other professors caught up on Snape's funding application.

Everyone has been in the classroom upstairs for so many years, and you know how many candles you need in a school year, why do you Snape apply so much.

Then the professors slashed Snape's application together.

In fact, Professor Si, like Professor Binns, does not require much money for a pure theory course, but it would not be too good if someone stabbed him for a false reason.

was reminded by Zhang Xu like this, and Si suddenly realized that he really had to go for a run.

"Where are you dreaming now?" Scarlet asked, "I'll go over to you first, the Burrow won't be able to stay." ”

Zhang Xu reported the name, location and room number of the hotel where he was located.

Less than five minutes after hanging up the phone, Scarlet appeared in Zhang Xu's room.

"Why can't you stay over there?" Zhang Xu asked with a yawn.

Instead of answering, Scarlet asked, "What did you do last night?" ”

Zhang Xu was relieved, the members of the Order of the Phoenix in the Burrow must be discussing his deal with Voldemort last night. That incident last night was too exciting for them, especially since it happened after Dumbledore's death, and if they were big enough, they could at least have a hundred thousand words.

It was precisely because he needed to calm them down before he could talk to them that he didn't go to the Burrow for a long time.

Zhang Xu looked at Scarlet and asked, "Do you believe me?" ”

"The only thing I can trust now is you," replied Scarlett, "so I hope there are things you don't hide from me." ”

Zhang Xu sighed and said, "What I can tell you now, I will naturally tell you, and you will know the answer to some things that you can't say now in more than ten years." ”

The next two people in the room fell silent.

The book is not too much to say.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Scarlet turned off the TV, glanced at Zhang Xu, who was still curled up in the quilt to make up for sleep, picked up the application for suspension written by Zhang Xu last night in an envelope on the table, and left the room.