Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

Zhang Xu buried his head in eating breakfast and ignored the two people at the other table who were probably relatives of the Weasley family. ~Sui~Meng~Xiao~ said~щ~suimеng~lā They are not his relatives, so there is no need to go over and say hello.

It was a pleasure to go back and take a nap after having a full breakfast, but Zhang Xu, who had stayed up all night, had just made up for more than two hours of sleep when he was woken up by a sound of tapping on the glass window.

Depressed, Zhang Xu opened the window and let in an owl that delivered a message. He took off the parchment roll from the owl's leg and found that it was a letter with a wax seal from the Ministry of Magic. Opening the letter, the content inside was that the Ministry of Magic was holding a meeting at the Ministry of Magic at three o'clock this afternoon on the selection of the next principal of Hogwarts. 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 book of labels from the room, wrote on it "Always support the principal, and support whoever becomes the principal." After that, he rolled up the note and tied it to the owl's leg, and finally threw the owl out. window.

He had no interest in participating in such a frivolous meeting right now. Before the school board had even spoken out, the Ministry of Magic jumped out impatiently.

However, an hour later, Zhang Xu was woken up by another sound, this time it was the ringtone of his cell phone.

"Where are you?" Scarlet's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"In a dream." Zhang Xu replied vaguely.

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 a meeting for the principal candidate, I've also received the sample letter." Zhang Xu replied while half asleep.

"Then are you going?" Scarlet asked.

"I declined. It's best for me not to get involved in such a thing." Zhang Xu replied.

"Then I won't go either," Scarlet said.

Zhang Xu then said: "I don't have to go, because it's okay if I don't go. But you have to go. Don't you be afraid that the new principal will put on your shoes when the time comes."

"90% of the new principal is McGonagall, what should I be afraid of?" Scarlet asked.

"Teaching fund allocation." Zhang Xu said.

He stayed in the faculty office for three years, and some infighting between professors was still very clear.

In the struggle between Hogwarts faculty, the battle between the deans over house points and the outcome of Quidditch matches is only part of the battle. The most fierce competition is the battle for teaching funds before the start of each academic year. .

Although the financial situation of Hogwarts has been excellent in recent years, and teaching funds have 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, when there was not much money, everyone would consider others while scrambling for it.

However, teaching funding is now several times what it used to be, and professors basically think, "You just need to get a little more than before. Didn't you all get here like this back then? Give me the rest."

In the past, in this war to divide 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 is a purely theoretical class and does not require any equipment or materials. The biggest application item on his funding application, which has not changed a single punctuation mark for who knows how many years, is to use it on rainy days when the light is poor. Candles used for lighting in the classroom.

Therefore, the first application approved by Lao Deng every year was from Professor Binns.

As for Professor Zhang in the past, everyone did not forget the well digger. As long as the items on the application he sent were not too excessive, everyone would accept it.

The competition will become fierce next. Fertilizers and other things used in the Herbology class will have to be spent. In order to improve the level of the students, the Potions class will have to invest more money to purchase higher-grade raw materials. The materials used in the Care of Magical Creatures class will There must be no shortage of feed for the animals that arrived. If the tea used in the divination class did not come from Assam, how could it be so embarrassing to appear in the historic Hogwarts...

Funding is fixed,

If you want to take more for yourself, you have to let others take less.

On the day when the professors discussed the allocation of funds, they had only two things to do: persuade the principal to approve their own application, and persuade the principal to reject other people's applications.

According to someone from Si, it is really lively at that time of year. Especially last year, Snape, who used to receive a large portion of the funding when he taught Potions, was liquidated by other professors after he was reassigned as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Snape closed the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with thick curtains and used it as a basement, so a large number of candles were needed for lighting.

Now other professors caught on to the problem on Snape's grant application form.

Everyone has been taking classes in the classroom upstairs for so many years, and they all know how many candles they will need in one school year. Why would you, Snape, apply for so many candles?

Then the professors gave Snape's application a hard chop.

In fact, Professor Si, like Professor Binns, does not require a lot of funds for purely theoretical courses, but it would not be a good thing if he was stabbed for unreasonable reasons.

After being reminded by Zhang Xu, Si suddenly realized that he really had to go for a run.

"Where are you dreaming now?" Scarlet asked, "I'll go to your place first. I can't stay at the Burrow."

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

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

"Why can't you stay at the Burrow?" Zhang Xu asked with a yawn.

Scarlet didn't answer, but asked: "What did you do last night?"

Zhang Xu was relieved. The members of the Order of the Phoenix in the Burrow must have been intensely discussing the deal he made with Voldemort last night. The incident last night was really exciting for them, especially since it happened after Dumbledore's death. If you have enough imagination, you can write down at least hundreds of thousands of words about this incident.

It was precisely because he needed to calm them down before talking to them about this matter that he delayed going to the Burrow.

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

"The only one I can trust now is you," Scarlet replied, "so I hope you won't hide something from me."

Zhang Xu sighed and said: "I will tell you what I can tell you now. There are some things that cannot be said now. You will know the answer in more than ten years."

Then both people in the room fell into silence.

The book does not go into details.

When the time came to two o'clock in the afternoon, Scarlet turned off the TV, glanced at Zhang Xu who was still curled up in bed catching up on his sleep, picked up the application for suspension of study written by Zhang Xu last night in an envelope on the table, and left. Room.