Chapter 52 The Mirror of Erised
The Boy Who Lived Harry Potter and his little sidekick, Weasley... Nightwalker was captured.
Early the next morning, all the students knew about it.
Under Professor Snape's crazy persecution, Gryffindor's house points were already low, but now there are very few left overnight, and the hourglass for recording scores is also empty... It looks shabby!
In just two weeks after school started, Harry and Ron immediately became the target of public criticism when they went out for a night outing and were deducted 100 points.
Especially Harry, whose reputation has been reversed in an instant, from Boy Who Lived to arrogant Rule Breaker.
Ron was better. He didn't have much sense of presence by Harry's side on weekdays. Now that something happened, everyone only regarded him as an accomplice and didn't make a lot of accusations.
On the contrary, the twin brothers were very heartbroken. The two of them were the little princes of night tours, and they had never been caught before. I didn't expect the little brother to be so dishonest, and he was arrested the first time he went out.
Most excited was Malfoy, who would often stand at the Slytherin table and describe out loud the scene where Potter and Weasley were caught.
The marks on his face that were scratched by Mrs. Norris seemed to have also turned into medals of merit.
This made Pansy feel bad.
The little girl believed again that Malfoy really had nothing to do with Goyle, and she even asked for some medicine from the school hospital to help him wipe his long-healed wound.
But Malfoy didn't get complacent for long, and Peeves told everyone that he saw Malfoy and Potter kissing that night!
Regarding this matter, the two parties involved remained quite silent and did not open their mouths to refute, which made the students feel that Peeves was not lying.
Potter's night tour is to go on a date with Malfoy!
Pansy was furious, and threw the potion into the trash can again.
Malfoy was very irritable. He also wanted to borrow money from Pansy, collect enough lizard skin wallets, and return them to Rove.
After repaying this little money, he and Rove can talk about uniting to dominate Hogwarts and collect insurance premiums together.
Rove didn't care about Malfoy's restlessness, he had been studying the silverfish in his black leather case.
It's a pity that after the silverfish got into the box, it hid in the book and never came out again.
Rove didn't hear the witch's voice again. He was sure it wasn't an auditory hallucination, but he just couldn't hear it.
In the wizarding world, it's not a good thing to hear voices that others can't hear. The teenager was going home for the holidays and asked Newt to take a look...he was a professional in this area.
The good news is that catching silverfish has completed the system's tasks. Rove has obtained the magic of [Word Devourer], which can devour the words and magic in books, and then convert them into memories and store them in the brain.
This is the real meaning of "eating books".
From now on, Rove can compete with Hermione for memory!
As for the three-headed dog Lu Wei, Rove was going to wash his teeth before quietly putting him back in the restricted area, pretending nothing happened.
Cleaning Lu Wei's teeth is not an easy task. Its teeth are so sharp that they can bite through even a dragonskin glove. Once the wound is bitten out, the toxin will enter the body cautiously, preventing the wound from healing.
In his previous life, Rove learned the story of the toothpick bird in his textbook. It is said that the Nile crocodile would lie on the bank, open its mouth, and let the toothpick bird fly into its mouth to help remove carrion and leeches.
For many years, Rove believed it was true, just as he believed in textbooks about the flying gazelles and lemmings committing suicide by jumping into the sea.
But unfortunately they are all fake.
The wizarding world doesn't have this kind of toothpick bird that picks the teeth of animals, but it does have velvet.
Puffy is a scavenger that eats everything from spiders to meals, but its favorite thing is to use its long tongue to eat wizard's boogers while they are sleeping.
The meat and tartar on the teeth are of course their favorite.
As long as Lu Wei's mouth is blocked and a lot of cattail is put in, the cleaning can be easily completed.
It only took one day to clean up. Rove quietly returned to the restricted area on the fourth floor. He opened the door and walked in.
He just lifted the palm-sized three-headed dog out of his pocket, and suddenly a hand patted him on the shoulder.
Rove was taken aback, and he turned his head to see that Dumbledore was looking at him behind him.
Rove used the Invisibility of Invisible Beast, but he seemed to have nowhere to hide in front of Dumbledore. He asked in surprise, "Professor, can you see me?"
"Of course, but it needs some magical assistance."
Dumbledore lowered his head, staring at the three-headed dog in Rove's hand that was whining at him.
At this moment, countless pictures flashed through Rove's mind, and he really wanted to say that he could explain it.
for example:
This is what I picked up, I thought about throwing it on the side of the road, and the girl wants it...
It's just that this excuse is not very good, Rove decided to skip this embarrassing topic, the boy lifted the back of Lu Wei's neck, grinned and said:
"Professor Dumbledore, you see I gave it a full set of dental care."
"It's indeed a lot cleaner." Dumbledore nodded and said:
"Speaking of dental care, I followed your advice. Not long ago, I went to the Dental Clinic of Granger's family. Mr. Granger helped me fill my teeth, and the effect was really good."
"It's fine." Rove smiled awkwardly.
"I said I was a professor at Hogwarts, and Mr. Granger gave me a lot of mouthwash."
"Really? Then I'll go see the dentist next time." Rove grinned.
He said that he was a good friend of Hermione, and he didn't know what Mr. Granger would give him, and he was looking forward to it.
"Speaking of Miss Granger..." Dumbledore suddenly remembered something, and he took out a letter from his pocket:
"She wrote me a lot of complaint letters, and this is my reply to her, Rove, help me forward it to her."
"Oh, I will." Rove put away the letter and put it in his pocket.
"Walk with me?"
With his hands behind his back, the old man was the first to walk outside. Rove had no choice but to put Lu Wei on the ground, then closed the door, and followed him out.
Walking in the empty corridor, Dumbledore chatted: "Do you have any thoughts? About Miss Granger's complaint?"
"Thoughts?" Rove was a little puzzled.
"Yes, regarding the suggestions and opinions on teaching at Hogwarts, I read that Miss Granger said in her letter that you are also very dissatisfied. You have said more than once that you want to transfer to Ilvermorny."
"..." Hermione is such a brat, it's no wonder she had to let me read the complaint letter, you're doomed!
Rove coughed and said:
"There are indeed some problems with the current teaching staff at Hogwarts."
"I propose to introduce a bottom-up elimination system and revise the academic evaluation mechanism for professors, so that even professors who have already obtained positions are subject to annual review."
"If you get 1-2 points in any of the several assessments, if you don't improve, you will be fired within a year."
"For young teachers, it is best to learn from Muggles and come to a '3+3' promotion or leave. That is to say, a three-year appointment period. If you are not promoted to a professor after the end of the two appointment periods, the school will no longer be a professor. Renew."
"There is also the output of papers, which is an important criterion for young teachers to be promoted to professors. Why do they have to publish a few articles in top journals?
You can't spend all day eating and waiting to die..."
"If we work hard for a few years, our school's ranking in the next education evaluation will definitely rise significantly."
Rove thought for a while and said humbly, "Professor, I can only think of these small suggestions for the time being."
"..."
Are these proposals still small? Education reform is not as thorough as you!
"Rove, you can write down your thoughts and send them to the Department of Education of the Ministry of Magic. They may refer to them." Dumbledore pondered for a moment, then said softly:
"I do have some ideas. Not long ago, Professor Snape talked to me about restarting some activities that have been suspended for many years, such as the School of Magic Potions Tournament and the Triwizard Tournament."
"That's not bad, communication can improve." Rove said.
When the two of them came to the end of the corridor, Rove asked knowingly, "Professor, what are you doing here?"
Dumbledore didn't say 'he's here to catch Rove', but said calmly: "I'll send a mirror into the restricted area."
"Mirror?"
Dumbledore walked towards the end room, and Rove followed him in, and saw a large mirror standing in the room:
The height reaches the ceiling, and the gorgeous golden mirror frame is supported by two claw-shaped feet.
On the top is engraved a line:
Eris Stella Ohruait Ubi Kafruait On Voorhees.
"Do you know what this is?" Dumbledore asked, approaching the mirror.
"Mirror of Erised, you can see what your heart desires." Rove observed the mirror and said, "I heard my grandfather mention it."
"And what did you see, child?"
Rove faced the mirror. He stared at the mirror for a long time before softly saying:
"A child who waited for an owl."
Dumbledore looked at Rove in surprise. He thought the boy would see many magical creatures tamed.
"Magic...Professor, what I long for is magic." Rove smiled.
"The owl sent an admission notice to learn magic, but unfortunately I'm in Albania, so I haven't received it yet."
Dumbledore was silent for a long time, with his arm on the boy's shoulder, he said softly:
"Rove, if you need books from the restricted area in the future, you can write to me and I'll get them for you, but don't randomly appear in the restricted area like that night, you know?"
"Sorry, Professor." Rove said in a low voice, "I shouldn't have taken them out for a night tour, and even entered the restricted area."
"You don't have to apologize, there's nothing wrong with going out at night occasionally, I used to go out at night when I was young." The old man exhorted:
"But don't go to dangerous places, and don't go to the restricted area to learn magic books by yourself, you know?"
Rove nodded.
"Also, Professor McGonagall is very angry when she knows that you took Granger and Miss Swinton on a night out."
Dumbledore blinked and said: "Of course, I didn't tell her, and I don't know who said it, it might be Professor Snape.
Anyway, she is very angry, you'd better be careful recently, don't provoke her. "
"..."
After the boy left, Dumbledore stood alone in front of the mirror, and a white-haired old man appeared in the mirror, sitting on the dusty steps, looking at him with a smile.
"I have great expectations for Newt's grandson, a child who desires magic like you, and has a very high talent. I will guide him well."
Dumbledore closed his eyes, reached out and touched the mirror lightly, he murmured:
"I won't make him another you, Gellert."
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