Chapter 6 This is the worst class of students I have ever led
It wasn't impossible to laugh insolently at this time, but soon Calvin restrained himself. A serious woman walked up to Calvin.
Professor McGonagall pushed her glasses, "I've received a message from Albus, Calvin, or call you Professor Cape?" ”
"You better call me Calvin, I've always been your junior."
"This is the teacher's handbook, which lists your rights and obligations, and here is your class schedule and the list of students." Professor McGonagall handed Calvin two stacks of parchment, "Also, do you need to change your textbook?" ”
"What?" Calvin was somewhat incomprehensible.
"I know you've written some books about Fantastic Beasts, which have been chosen as Ilvermorny's textbooks." Professor McGonagall glanced at him.
"Oh," Calvin thought for a moment, "don't change it for now, Mr. Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a classic, so let's use this book before you find out the level of the little wizard." ”
Professor McGonagall responded cheerfully, "Wise. ”
"If it's all right, then we'll see you at school, Professor McGonagall." Calvin is ready to leave Hogwarts.
"Please wait, Calvin." Professor McGonagall stopped Calvin, who was about to leave, "If it's okay, I suggest you find out what the little wizard is like, prepare for class, and don't make a fool of yourself on the first day of school." ”
Calvin smiled: "Professor McGonagall, you're too worried, I have substitute teaching experience in Beauxbatons and Ilvermorny, but I really don't know what the level of Hogwarts students is now, otherwise you can introduce it to me." ”
Calvin noticed that Professor McGonagall seemed to smile and handed Calvin another stack of parchment, apparently prepared.
Calvin took it and flipped through it, the smile on his face quickly disappearing. "Oh my God, it's so low. Oh, that could be wrong. This should be the foundation. Calvin kept muttering, the expression on his face was very grim, and finally smiled wryly at Professor McGonagall, "Professor, is this true? This is the worst class of students I have ever seen. ”
Professor McGonagall nodded, "The declining quality of students over the years is also one of the reasons for Sylvanus's departure. Charlie Weasley was the only one who chose the Fantastic Beasts improvement class in the last class, and now he keeps dragons in Romania. ”
Calvin felt like he had taken over a mess. He held up the parchment in his hand, "Professor McGonagall, if the results on the parchment are true, then the students of Hogwarts, at least in terms of magical beasts, are far from the students of Beauxbatons and Evermorny. I always thought that Hogwarts was in the middle of the international education rankings only because of Defence Against the Dark Arts, and it seemed that there was more to it than that. ”
Unexpectedly, Professor McGonagall screamed, "What? Only in the lower middle of the international magic school rankings? ”
Calvin blinked confusedly: "Don't you know? ”
"Albus kept telling me to be at the top of the rankings." Professor McGonagall huffed.
"Uh, okay." Calvin felt like he had said something he shouldn't have said, "Professor McGonagall, I want to apply for a classroom. ”
"Classroom?" Professor McGonagall was a little confused, "The Magical Beasts Protection class has always been held at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. ”
"Professor McGonagall, with the current level of young wizards, they urgently need to improve their theoretical knowledge, and rashly getting started with magical beasts may cause early harm to both young wizards and magical beasts." Calvin was slightly speechless about the level of teaching at Hogwarts, "I don't believe that the current students are all good babies and don't do any pranks. ”
McGonagall nodded slightly, "You have a point, Fred and George also took the Magical Beasts Protection class, oh my God, I hope they don't get hurt." Okay, I'll arrange the classroom for you. ”
Calvin quickly quit Professor McGonagall, and he had to prepare for the lesson as soon as possible to find a teaching method that would suit the poor foundation of the Hogwarts students and improve quickly.
He went to the second-hand book store in Diagon Alley and spent a lot of effort digging for old books and notes from the Magical Beasts Conservation class. It wasn't easy, as Professor McGonagall said, the quality of the students in the course was declining very quickly, and Calvin only found three old books full of traces and two notes from top students, one of which turned out to belong to Uncle Newt's son, Theseus Scamander.
The first is the textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", although Calvin is already familiar with it and can memorize it, he still reads it again. Well, the fifty-second edition is still in a strong Newt style.
And the content of the notes of the two scholars is also similar to the textbook, but the content of the book has been expanded, especially the book of Theseus, its information is so detailed, the illustrations are rich, and it can be directly published after simple arrangement, it is difficult not to wonder if Uncle Newt opened a small stove for his son.
In terms of teaching, it is also consistent with the mainstream view: the protection of magical beasts is the mainstay, supplemented by the protection of oneself. In fact, this is Uncle Newt's point of view. In a word, Newt Scamander influenced attitudes towards fantastic beasts throughout the UK.
In fact, Calvin believes that the poor performance of Hogwarts' Magical Beasts protection class is inseparable from Newt - in 1965, at the insistence of the 68-year-old Newt, the Ministry of Magic passed the law "Prohibiting the Feeding of Magical Beasts for Experimental Purposes", so that the young wizard lost the opportunity to learn more about magical beasts, and could only learn something about the protection of magical beasts.
This also led to Calvin being able to leave the magical animals he raised on paper in the form of seals. Calvin believes that Newt's move is completely the ancestor of those animal protection organizations in his previous life.
But Calvin quickly thought of a way to get around this ban – magic painting. This was another excellent skill for Calvin, especially after his trip to the Far East. The biggest gain of Calvin's trip to the Far East was to combine magic painting with European magic painting, and create a unique genre of magic painting.
To put it simply, it is to make the objects painted by magic have the ability to come to reality for a short time, and the ability to seal real objects into the painting.
Calvin decided to replace the experimental Fantastic Beasts with magical drawings created by magic paintings, but this method was only suitable for teaching. And Calvin's own research still uses real magical animals for experiments.
Of course, as the wizarding world says, "If you don't find out, you don't break the law." ”
Calvin took out a piece of parchment and wrote the first sentence on it: replace magical beasts with magic drawings and quickly improve the level of theory.
After the theory class, it's a practical class, and in any case, you still have to follow some rules in the UK, and you can't really do anything like dissecting a unicorn in class. Otherwise, old Newt would have flown to Hogwarts and arrest him with a group of Aurors.
Thinking of this, Calvin couldn't help but sigh. Looks like I'm going to have to take the time to see this great god of the Fantastic Beasts world.