Chapter 808: Hogwarts Headmaster's Job

Chapter 808: Hogwarts Headmaster's Job

 Chapter 808 The Work of the Headmaster of Hogwarts

“Aurora Sinista wants to replace it with a brand new planet model, with magic storage and automatic calibration functions. The price is about two thousand galleons…”

“Filius Flivi wants to reopen the dueling club for third-year students and above…”

“Severus Snape needs a full set of magic armor and combat puppets, as well as various potion materials totaling two hundred kilograms…”

The next day, when Kyle came to the principal's office leisurely and looked at the ten-inch-high pile of documents on the table, he was stunned.

 He always thought that as long as he survived yesterday's opening party, this task would be a very leisurely job.

  But what happened to these documents that were sent over now.

He is just a fake. He drank Polyjuice Potion and pretended to be Dumbledore. No one told him that he really wanted to be the headmaster.

 There are also these outrageous demands.

He dared to say that the location of Snape's injury must not be on his mouth, otherwise he would not dare to ask for two hundred kilograms of potion ingredients at one time.

That's a potion ingredient, not two hundred kilograms of potatoes.

 Not to mention precious materials such as unicorn horns, aconite, fire dragon egg shells, and fire ash snake eggs, even ordinary consumables such as lion fish bone powder and valerian are not cheap.

　　It costs two hundred kilograms in one breath, how dare he.

 Oh, there is another person who has a bigger mouth than him,

Slughorn

Not only did we need a hundred kilograms of potion materials, but we also applied for fifty sets of automatic mixing crucibles...

Or else the old professor would be considerate of his students. The set of automatic stirring crucibles is thirty-five galleons. His understatement said it was one thousand seven hundred and fifty galleons.

 This amount would take Mr. Weasley more than two years without eating or drinking.

Kyle scrolled down again.

 Hey guys, this is even more outrageous.

 “Sprout is going to build three new greenhouses…”

“Filch proposes thirty-five new school rules…”

“The school hospital wants to purchase the latest potion storage equipment…”

Kyle put the parchment in his hand back on the pile of documents and looked up at Professor McGonagall.

 “These are not for me.”

 Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows but said nothing.

"This is definitely not going to work." Kyle seemed to realize something and said subconsciously: "It's okay to let me pretend to be Professor Dumbledore with Polyjuice Potion, but I'm pretending to be Dumbledore, not the real principal! These things Let’s wait until he comes back.”

"No, you are wrong." Professor McGonagall said calmly: "You can turn out the letter and read it again. It is written very clearly."

letter?

Kyle was slightly startled.

When he was on the train, he only took the hair and Polyjuice Potion, and threw the rest aside. Now that Professor McGonagall said this, he really couldn't remember where he put the letter.

Kyle could only rummage around in his pockets.

 Galleons, skeleton keys, dried meat, owl nuts... He found a lot of small items, but no letter.

　　In the end, Fawkes flew over and threw a piece of parchment in his mouth on the table... which happened to be the letter Dumbledore had written to him.

Kyle quickly picked it up and took a look.

 “Down below, fifth line from the bottom…” Professor McGonagall reminded.

Kyle’s eyes moved downwards,

　　【Everything you need is in another bag. Please use Polyjuice Potion and temporarily take over my duties as Headmaster. 】

　　That's it.

Although Kyle saw it on the train before, he didn’t think much about it at all. In other words, when he saw the polyjuice potion, he ignored the second half of the sentence.

Kyle thought this was normal. Anyone who saw the Polyjuice Potion would think it was pretending to be him.

Also, would any normal person entrust such an important position as principal to a person who just graduated last year?

Kyle can’t think of it anyway.

 It's enough to just pretend to fool you, why should you take it seriously?

"No, I guess he must have written it by hand." Kyle threw the letter on the table and emphasized at the same time: "Professor McGonagall, I just graduated last year. It is too hasty to ask me to handle school affairs. You I definitely don’t agree with that either, right?”

“Actually, I have no objection, otherwise I wouldn’t give these to you.”

Contrary to Kyle's expectation, Professor McGonagall, who has always been serious and serious, actually nodded, "And Dumbledore can't make a mistake."

Kyle's whole body is not feeling well.

 How could she agree?

 Could it be that the Professor McGonagall in front of me was also pretending to be someone who drank Polyjuice Potion?

 Otherwise there is no way to explain why she made such an abnormal decision.

 “Not old enough,” Kyle said.

 “It’s not important.” Professor McGonagall said calmly.

“The school director will definitely not agree.”

 “With Dumbledore’s letter, they will agree.”

 “But I have no experience.”

"It doesn't matter, you can learn. No one is born to be a principal. I believe in your learning ability, which has been verified when you were in school."

 “You don’t have to believe it now.” Kyle cursed in his heart.

"Then I'll just write that I agree." Kyle, who really couldn't find an excuse, was about to act rogue and slapped his hand on the document.

Although he has not finished reading it, he roughly estimates that if he wants to meet all these requirements, he will need at least 50,000 to 60,000 Galleons.

 He didn't believe that Professor McGonagall would let him do whatever he wanted.

"This is a good thing, if you can convince the school director to pay." Professor McGonagall raised her eyelids slightly, "Oh, by the way, in this case, I will also send an application later.

“I’ve always felt that the animals needed for the Transfiguration class are too small and not difficult enough. I want to buy something bigger, but I haven’t been able to do it before because of the cost. But now...it should be the same as me.”

 Looking at Professor McGonagall's indifferent expression, Kyle scratched his hair a little irritably.

Tens of thousands of galleons, it's strange that the school director can agree to it. Even Dumbledore's face would not allow them to pay so much money, let alone him.

"Okay, okay." Kyle sighed, "What did Professor Dumbledore do before."

 “What do you mean?” Professor McGonagall asked.

 “Just deal with these problems.” Kyle muttered softly.

"So, you are going to do it his way?" Professor McGonagall glanced at Kyle.

“Otherwise, what should I do?” Kyle lay down on the back of the chair and muttered in a low voice: “I can obviously sleep at home, but you guys insist on dragging me over and using text traps to deceive me. What can I do?”

　　At this point, Kyle sighed silently, "Since you want to pretend to be Dumbledore, you must also handle the work according to his habits, so that your secret will not be exposed."

 “That’s good if you think so.” Professor McGonagall nodded.

"So how does Professor Dumbledore usually deal with these problems." Kyle turned over the parchment on the table again, "Are there so many every day? I have always thought that the principal of Hogwarts is a very leisurely job. "

"Of course not, this is the backlog before the holidays." Professor McGonagall thought for a while and said, "He had already left school at that time, and it must have been three months now."

“Three months is so much?” Kyle sat up again.

According to the number of parchments on the table, on average there is only one piece every two or three days. If this is the case, it is not unacceptable.

Kyle rummaged through the drawer on Dumbledore's desk and found a golden-red quill... As expected of the wealthy Dumbledore, he even used a phoenix feather for his quill.

But now it has changed owners.

“What should I do now, agree or reject.” Kyle found another bottle of ink, opened it and put it on the table.

"Are you sure you are following Dumbledore's method?" Professor McGonagall asked again, seeming to be sure of something.

 “Of course,” Kyle said.

 “That’s good.” Professor McGonagall nodded.

Then, under Kyle's incredible eyes, she picked up the thick pile of parchment on the table, threw them all into the fireplace, and then waved her wand, and the fireplace immediately ignited. flame.

 The firelight illuminated half of Kyle's face. "Is this how Dumbledore handled it?" He didn't react, "Is it so simple and crude?"

"No, this is how I handle it." Professor McGonagall said, "As the chief wizard of the International Federation of Wizards, Dumbledore always leaves time for more important things, so starting from a long time ago, I have always been responsible for completing some of the school affairs on his behalf.”

“But he is no longer the chief magician.” Kyle said. "He was even expelled from the International Confederation of Wizards."

"That happened recently." Professor McGonagall said, "And after that, he was busy looking for clues related to the mysterious man, and he also didn't have much free time.

"I believe you should also know that since two or three years ago, he rarely stays in school."

 “It seems, that’s indeed the case.” Kyle said after thinking for a while.

Especially last year, Dumbledore only appeared in the school a handful of times. In most cases, Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal, was in charge.

"You are right about one thing." Seeing that the parchment in the fireplace was almost burned, Professor McGonagall waved her hand to extinguish the flames.

"If we just talk about being the headmaster of Hogwarts, it is indeed a very leisurely job."

　　When he said this, Kyle clearly felt a bit of helplessness in Professor McGonagall's tone.

　　Doing double work with one salary means that Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore have a good relationship.

“I thought I would finally be a little more relaxed this year.” Professor McGonagall looked at Kyle with some kind of expectation in her eyes.

It is foreseeable that this year's Quidditch will definitely be more exciting than previous years. If Kyle can help share the work that belongs to the principal, then she will be able to free up time to focus on the team and the game.

Perhaps she can also help train the team.

Professor McGonagall has several Quidditch game tactics in her mind, all of which she came up with while watching the game. However, she has too many things to do, and she has never been able to find time to study them in depth.

 This year is a good opportunity, just think of it as a rare moment of relaxation before the war.

As for Kyle's ability, Professor McGonagall is not worried. It can be seen from how he handles the work of the Ministry of Magic that he is not ignorant about it and does a good job.

For example, the dementor bounty plan he made during last year's holiday was perfect.

So many dementors were eliminated in just one month. This was simply impossible before.

 The Ministry of Magic only paid for one Auror position.

 No, it can’t even be said to be a contribution.

 Lupine is a wizard with excellent abilities in all aspects, and he is more than qualified to serve as an Auror. Looking at it this way, the Ministry of Magic not only paid nothing, but also gained a talent.

There is also Sirius. Although he is the one who pays, the Black family is not short of money. What he cares about is that his friends can live in the sun.

 A larger part of the reason must be because of friendship, and a small part, Professor McGonagall guessed, was that Sirius wanted to make up for something.

 Because of his decision more than ten years ago, their small team fell apart overnight.

One betrayed everyone, two were killed by Voldemort, and he himself was imprisoned in Azkaban. In the end, only Lupine was left alone, living in confusion and pain without knowing the truth for more than ten years.

 Sirius needed to do something to give himself some comfort.

There is also Lupin, who finally found a formal, respectable job.

The wizard who helped capture the dementors also received a large sum of money.

 The whole thing turned out to be very satisfactory to everyone involved.

The professors also talked about this when they were chatting together before. Everyone agreed that this was the most correct decision made by the Ministry of Magic in recent years.

But few people know that the initiator of this matter was Kyle, and he worked out all the details alone, and he had not even graduated at the time.

 This is enough to prove his ability.

The Ministry of Magic has the courage to let a student who has not graduated yet serve as a senior assistant to the minister with real power. Why can't they do it at Hogwarts?

Of course, the premise of all this is that Kyle himself is willing.

"Well... I really want to help you." Kyle tilted his head slightly, "But you also know that I am not Dumbledore, I am just here to help make a guest appearance. If I make any decision, everyone will feel that something is wrong and suspicious. It would be bad to question the authenticity of Dumbledore’s identity.”

 “What do you want to say?” Professor McGonagall’s heart sank.

"Just...how about if you work harder and we follow the original process?" Kyle said cautiously.

The encouragement in Professor McGonagall's eyes just now almost hit him in the head. Of course Kyle knew what she meant.

 But the problem is, he really doesn’t want to take this job,

The reason why I agreed to serve in the Ministry of Magic was because the Minister at the time was Fudge. He could do whatever he wanted. If something went wrong in making a decision, he could directly put all the blame on Fudge.

But not in Hogwarts. This is a school. Every decision he makes may affect the students. Kyle definitely doesn't want to take on this responsibility... at least it's too early yet.

“Then why were you not afraid of arousing others’ suspicion at the opening banquet yesterday?” Professor McGonagall sat opposite Kyle and stared into his eyes.

 “To be honest, I regretted it this morning.”

Kyle shook his head, "Maybe it was because I was nervous. I didn't think about it at all at the time. I just said it as soon as my mind got hot.

“It’s enough to do this once. If it happens more often, it will definitely arouse others’ suspicion.”

“You really don’t want to familiarize yourself with the principal’s work in advance?”

 Professor McGonagall stared at Kyle for a while and asked reluctantly: "This is a rare opportunity."

“I think the most important thing now is to let everyone believe that Professor Dumbledore is still there, and it doesn’t matter if the school matters are put aside for now.” Kyle said,

"Okay, I understand." Professor McGonagall stood up. "Then let's follow what happened last year."

"Thank you for your hard work, Professor." Kyle trotted around the table and diligently escorted Professor McGonagall out of the principal's office.

When the oak door was closed again, a sneer suddenly came from behind.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

"Principal Black, what do you mean?" Kyle didn't even need to think about it, and looked directly at the portrait of Phineas Black.

"How silly." Phineas sat on a stone, crossing his legs leisurely, "What does that guy Dumbledore think of Hogwarts? He actually thought of having Polyjuice Potion pretend to be himself.

 “That’s fine if that’s the case, but his eyes, tsk tsk…”

 Are you scolding yourself?

 “Ha!” Kyle raised his eyebrows slightly.

He is still too kind. When he was at No. 12 Grimmauld Place that day, he should have taken down Phineas's portrait and made a perch for Fox.

"Don't say that, I think Albus's decision is okay." Principal Armando Dippet also opened his eyes, "The most important thing now is to stabilize everyone's emotions."

"yes."

 “That’s right.”

 “This is good.”

 The portraits of several other principals also nodded.

"A bunch of idiots." Seeing that no one supported him, Phineas snorted coldly, "You don't even think about what you would do if this matter was exposed. Dumbledore is stupid, and you are even stupider than him."

"As long as we don't say anything, we won't be exposed." A big-nosed wizard silently moved his position from his own portrait to next to Phineas's portrait. "But you are right to remind us. I think we should Eliminate one unstable factor first.”

"What do you mean?" Phineas stood up.

“It’s simple, we need to remind someone to keep their mouth shut.”

 “Damn it, go back to your own portrait!”

"Don't worry, I will go back when I finish my work." The big-nosed wizard waved his hand.

It seems to have sent out some kind of signal.

 Just for a moment, no matter what the other principals were doing, the next second they all rushed towards Phineas as if they had been rehearsed.

 He had no time to run and was surrounded.

 Then followed by punches and kicks.

 A slender witch did not squeeze in, so she walked directly into the portrait of a knight, snatched his sword and ran away.

Then the sword became a rare commodity and was robbed by the principals.

Kyle watched this scene and touched his chin.

Although he doesn't understand magic portraits, he thinks they are connected with alchemy. If that's the case, he can study it and see if he can draw some toys for the principals to entertain themselves.

Small toys such as maces or mountain axes are quite good.

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 (End of this chapter)