Chapter 114: The Twelve Apostles of Dawn
Gretel obviously underestimated the status of himself who had been cleared of his grievances by Dumbledore and re-transformed into a Hogwarts hero in the hearts of this group of students who had not yet graduated.
The news of the Daybreak Club's recruitment was released for a week, and when he announced the news, he had already made it clear that there would not be too many people recruited, and he would have to go through a difficult test before he could become a member of Daybreak.
This also means that after they have worked hard to prepare and passed the exam, they may also be brushed off.
But even with such harsh conditions, the application forms for joining are still pouring in like heavy snow.
In each grade, nearly ninety percent of the people discuss things in their spare time are the dawn of Gretel's gestation.
Even freshmen who have just entered the school and are not very clear about the situation, or graduates who are about to graduate and are ready to go out into society, come to Gretel's office door full of hope and stuff their carefully prepared application into it.
By the time Gretel returned to the office, the number of entries had completely exceeded his expectations.
He thought that a few tens or hundreds of copies would be a big deal at most, after all, he still had the name of a Hogwarts traitor on his back.
Although Dumbledore had already proved it for him, it was just a mouthful.
It's okay to get by on face, and there must be very few people who really believe it.
Even in the worst-case scenario, it is not impossible that everyone else, except for the freshmen who have just entered the school, will not believe it.
And, as long as anyone who was in the Triwizard Tournament at the time, they all had a clear understanding of the whole thing.
The leaflet of Dawn was read through by everyone present at the time.
Also, the reaction of the professors afterwards can also prove the truth of this matter.
Therefore, Dumbledore's move to help Gretel clear his reputation simply did not achieve the effect they wanted.
But now seeing the mountain of application forms in front of him, Glitter pursed the corners of his lips helplessly.
The enthusiasm of these people was really beyond his expectations.
It's just a simple application form, but many people are a hundred times more enthusiastic.
A thick pile of personal explanations is much more serious than their state of graduating and looking for a job.
Originally, the test that Gretel had prepared was just a simple screening, but now it seems that he needs to take it more seriously.
At the very least, let those who have been brushed off have no complaints.
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After stopping receiving new application submissions, Gretel rubbed her head and spent a week in her office.
All his free time is spent preparing quizzes for this group of passionate wizards.
According to the research projects of the Dawning Research Institute, Glitter singled out dozens of projects and listed them in a targeted manner.
The day after all the questions were ready, Gretel posted the items on the Hogwarts bulletin board, and assigned different exam rooms according to the different items.
At the beginning of the weekend exams, they can go to the exam room of their respective programs of interest, take the exams, and finally select the best candidates according to their results.
Of course, many of these projects have not been broken through in the well-stocked Dawning Research Institute, and they have not even found ideas.
Gretel's requirements are not high, what he has to do is to see if anyone can answer some practical ideas in these questions.
This means a combination of knowledge and research talent.
To Gray's surprise, even with such harsh selection conditions, more than a third of them remained.
These people are either scholars with a well-organized knowledge system, or they may be researchers who have exploded in inspiration.
Gretel recorded the names of the group and decided that even if they failed in the final test, he would tell Penelope to absorb them into the Dawn's institute after graduation.
But now, he still has to brush off some of the people.
Daybreak, like Slughorn's Slug Club, pursues an elite policy.
Glitter wants to make it a cutting-edge research institute parallel to Dawning, and is responsible for tackling research that Dawning's research institute cannot break through.
Seven grades and four colleges, after the initial assessment, hundreds remained.
It's a bit of a lot for a club, but apart according to the project they choose, and in the end there's not much left in each project.
The most is only a dozen, and the least is only one.
According to the college, there are only dozens of students in each college, and then divided into grades, and only a handful of people can pass the initial assessment in each grade.
In this case, Glitter chose to sacrifice his killer weapon, magic particles.
After all, according to his prediction, whether it is the dawn or the dawn in the future, in the process of research, the difficulty that can never be avoided is the magic particles, a substance that cannot be observed at present.
In fact, the original purpose of Daybreak was to assist Glitter in his research on magic particles.
Although these people may not be useful at the moment, as time goes on, as Gretel's research on magic particles deepens, one day, these people will become an indispensable aid in his research.
Therefore, when it came to the final moment when he had to sift through the members, Glitter naturally chose the method that was most beneficial to his own research.
Those who passed the initial test lined up in a long line according to Gretel's orders.
Immediately, Glitter captured a particle from the air and from himself.
But this time, he didn't manifest them with his own will.
When each person tested comes to Gretel, Gretel captures a magic particle of their own from themselves.
Then place the three particles in front of the person being tested.
Glitter didn't tell them what they were going to test, only told them to observe the 'things' in their hands as they walked past him.
At the same time, Glitter also activated the Dementor Mind that had been piled up to a high level.
He could guarantee that even if Dumbledore himself or Voldemort were resurrected, they would not be as high as his current level of dementorship.
Through the telekinesis, Glitter could clearly sense the fluctuations of their thoughts.
This ensures that even if the subject doesn't notice his fleeting thoughts, Gretel will be able to record them clearly.
It also puts an end to the existence of people who want to fill up the number and fish in troubled waters.
Because of the limited time, Gretel left everyone with only three minutes of observation time.
But that's enough, magic particles aren't something that time can observe.
For someone who could vaguely detect the magic particles in Gretel's hand, three minutes was more than enough.
Of course, there was no one who sensed it, and Gretel didn't just let them go.
After all, the unclear way of losing the election will definitely put a big basin on the head of Dawn, which has not yet been fully established.
Of course, Glitter wouldn't allow this to happen, and a small drop of elixir per person would be enough for them to stay here all day without complaint.
More than a hundred people, in fact, did not take too long of Gretel's time.
By the beginning of an hour, everyone had been tested.
Only then did Glitter reveal the existence of the magic particles in his hand to everyone.
The restraint of the iron will once again ripped off the veil of magic particles, revealing its mysterious form in front of this group of wizards who had never seen the world.
"Turns out Professor Gretel really has something in his hands." Many people have such a sentence in their heads.
Gretel breathed a sigh of relief, who knows, at the beginning, dozens of people were eliminated in a row, and Glitter was about to give up this method.
Fortunately, in the end, he was left with twelve talents.
After Gretel announced the list of those who had successfully passed the test, the unsuccessful ones lined up one by one and happily took their own elixir from Gretel.
After everything calmed down and all the losers left, Glitter officially took a look at the first members of Dawn.
Luna Lovegood, the 'mad girl's silver eyes, have always been wandering, but now they are full of inquiry and curiosity.
Her passage was not unexpected by Gretel, or rather, at the beginning of Dawn's establishment, Gretel thought about it.
If only one person at Hogwarts passed his assessment, then it must be Luna.
The only chance that the girl would not be selected was that she was not interested in his dawn, or that she was distracted by something more interesting, so she did not come at all.
This girl's spirituality was the only one he had ever seen in his life, and when he first observed the magic particles, this girl was keenly aware of the changes in him.
The same is true of the thoughts that Gretel had just read from her brain, although it was fluttering, as if there was no point of focus, but she could really detect the inexplicable fluctuations in Gretel's hand.
And as the observation continued, her thoughts fluctuated with the restlessness of the magic particles.
In addition to Luna, there are several other people that Gretel is familiar with.
One of the things that surprised Gretel the most was Neville Longbottom, the little fat man who would be disconnected from time to time.
He wasn't like Luna, who was aware of the presence of magic particles.
When he first walked up to Gretel, his eyes widened with a nervous look on his face, trying to find what Gretel called the invisible 'thing'.
Of course, he didn't find it.
Just when Glitter thought he had failed, the idea of a seed popped into his head.
That was the exam paper he chose for his first test.
Strange things happened, he thought of the seeds germinating and blossoming, and then the magic particles in Gretel's hands that belonged to nature, as well as to Neville Longbottom himself, began to resonate strangely with him.
If it weren't for Gretel's mind, they would have broken into Neville Longbottom's body like a swallow returning to its nest.
This was the biggest surprise that Glitter had in this final test.
He felt that Mr. Neville Longbottom's potential might not be to be underestimated.
To that end, the moment Neville Longbottom was judged to have passed the test, Gretel left a message in his mind.
"Neville, I can help you heal your parents, but you have to do something."
Well, when Gretel left these words, Neville Longbottom's thoughts about seeds were instantly swept away.
The magic particles in front of him also fell silent.
In addition, another surprise was Draco Malfoy, who became extremely sad after his parents were imprisoned in Azkaban.
Glitter didn't expect that this pure-blooded young master, who had always been proud, would choose to participate in his dawn selection.
And, based on the strength of the Malfoy family, he must have known that he was the culprit who sent his parents to Azkaban.
It's strange that Gretel doesn't feel resentment in his mind, emptiness is the only thing Gretel feels.
It's not the emptiness caused by the Occlumency, Glitter can tell it, besides, now in the wizarding world, there is really no one who can use the Occlumency technique to fool him as the world's strongest Regent Mind Master.
That kind of emptiness is more like a blank space after a great enlightenment.
Glitter didn't know what was going on with Draco Malfoy, but this emptiness also resonated with the magic particles.
So Gretel became a little curious about him.
The project chosen by Draco Malfoy in the initial test was to establish a system for distinguishing pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle wizard magical bloodlines, and to find out the inevitable connection between them.
This project is also one of the key projects of Dawn, and the end of the project is to make all humans understand the nature of magic and master the ability to cast spells.
The rest of the people also have their own characteristics.
The only thing they have in common is that the magic particles in Tangret's hands, whether active or passive, are all active.
Whether it belongs to Gretel, or from nature, or from themselves, as long as it fluctuates, it is considered to have passed the assessment.
Of course, there were also unexpected ones.
Like the original Savior Squad, Hermione and her two useless sons.
Ron's defeat was not what Gretel expected.
If he hadn't wanted to be separated from Harry, he wouldn't have even stuffed the application into Gretel's office.
In the initial test, he gloriously became a small drop of water from hundreds of rivers into the sea, and proudly returned to the same front with the masses.
Harry's defeat was extremely unexpected by Gretel.
As the destined savior, Harry should be the beloved being of the world.
I don't know if it was taken away by Gretel, he narrowly broke through the initial test.
Perhaps, he was on the verge of passing, and it was Gretel who fished him back.
When observing the magic particles, the thoughts in his brain almost ruined Gretel's serious expression.
"Is there something here?
Gretel said yes, then there must be.
It seems that I am too stupid, and I should think about how to comfort Ron for a while, after all, he was kicked out of the game in the first test
……”
Gretel had never realized that Harry was such a chattering being.
In a minute, his babbling was enough to fill several feet of parchment.
If he also has this talent when he is doing his homework, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to turn it in last night.
And then there's the little front tooth, Miss Hermione Granger, the hard-working little genius.
She worked really hard, and she got a rare perfect score on the basics of the first test.
But once the question involves a breakthrough in research ideas, her answer falls into the trap of a bit.
But even so, her final score is rare and excellent.
Helplessly, Dawn Break, what she needs is the kind of talent that comes to her with sudden inspiration, even if Glitter gives her water and observes it for nearly a minute.
She still had no choice but to lose.
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