Hogwarts, a Scholar Becomes a God

The latest website: Theodore Abbott, the young representative of the Abbott family among the twenty-eight pure-blood wizard families in the UK.

This family is well-known for its magical herbal cultivation, and can be regarded as one of the few largest herbal suppliers in the wizarding world. The Prewett family chose to cooperate with the Extraordinary Potion Store opened at 1-38 Diagon Alley last year, so Clark naturally recognized him.

That Mr. Aibo also recognized Clark, and immediately let out a hearty laugh, stepped forward and gave Clark a big hug, "Hahaha, little Clark, you are finally here, we were still talking about you just now What about it?"

Another skinny wizard guessed Clark's identity immediately, knowing that he must have heard the bad things he said outside the door just now, the embarrassment on his face flashed away, and then he stood aside with a sullen face.

Until then, Dumbledore walked in with a smile on his face, and closed the door behind him.

"Okay, our protagonist is here." Dumbledore sat behind the big desk and waved his wand to help Clark and the others conjure up four upholstered chairs. "Now we can continue what we discussed just now."

Combining the content of the quarrel he had just heard, Clark quickly guessed Dumbledore's purpose for calling him here today.

Because of the huge expense of building the dragon farm last semester, he had proposed a solution, which was to use the construction funds as a sponsorship fee in exchange for a Hogwarts school board seat.

Now it seems that after more than a month of wrangling during the holidays, this matter has finally been put on the agenda by the school board. As the initiator of today's meeting, Principal Dumbledore was also the first to speak.

"The establishment of a dragon farm at Hogwarts has been approved by a high number of votes at the school board of directors, and all the procedures for the Ministry of Magic have been applied for. Our preliminary calculation of the construction cost of the dragon farm is 11,000 gold in total. Galleon.

This includes the cost of site cleaning in the Forbidden Forest, the cost of placing magical animals and magical plants, the cost of setting up the dragon farm, the cost of purchasing alchemy materials needed for magic enchantment, labor costs, and the cost of raising fire dragons during the construction of the dragon farm , as well as the operating costs in the early stage after the venue is completed. "

Every time Dumbledore reported an expense, the faces of Theodore Abbott and the skinny wizard twitched. Obviously, such a huge expense made them very painful.

On the contrary, the middle-aged gentleman had a calm expression on his face, as if he was indifferent to the large expenditure. I don't know if he really doesn't care about money, or if his energy-raising skills are advanced enough.

"With the current funds available at Hogwarts,

After deducting this year's maintenance costs for the castle, the salaries of the internal teaching staff, and the living expenses of the students for the entire semester, the remaining amount is less than five thousand gold Galleons.

In addition, a part of the funds need to be reserved as emergency expenses. The funds that can be invested in the construction of the dragon farm are only three thousand gold galleons, and there is a gap of more than seven thousand gold galleons. This is a problem that we urgently need to solve now.

Therefore, as representatives of the school board, what do you think of the proposal to introduce external funds and add a seat to the board of directors? "

Dumbledore just finished speaking, and the skinny wizard immediately complained in a low voice impatiently: "I didn't approve of this before, just building a dragon farm will cost so much money, and it will have to continue in the future." Investing money and not knowing when it will pay off.”

Although his voice was small, but at such a close distance, the few people present were not deaf, so they could naturally hear him clearly.

"He is Darren Burke, the representative of the Burke family on the school board." Theodore Abbott was afraid that Clark would not know the situation, so he whispered in his ear.

When Clark heard this, he immediately understood that the Bork family started out with smuggling, and the smuggling of dragon materials accounted for a large part of their business. It is normal to be a little resistant to the establishment of a dragon farm.

But since this matter has been passed by the high votes of the school board, his complaints are just complaints, and no one cares about him at all.

Seeing that no one in the room spoke and fell into an awkward atmosphere, Theodore Aibo cleared his throat and said, "This dragon farm must be built at any time, and it can't be done without it."

"Think about it, Hogwarts is such a big school with so many students that it doesn't even have its own fire dragon. Dragon staff, this is a great benefit to the dragon breeding industry in the British magic world, as well as the production of potions."

"Then you pay the seven thousand gold Galleons?"

Darren Bock yelled at Theodore Aibo, and Theodore's face suddenly showed an embarrassing expression, "Didn't it be agreed on the board of directors before that the several companies will pay together, and it will only cost 600 gold plus Long."

To be honest, their family couldn't come up with so much working capital for a while. In other words, more than 7,000 Galleons, no matter which family it was, was a wealth that was enough to hurt the bones.

"Six hundred gold Galleons is not much," Darren Bock sneered, "Didn't you hear that this is an initial investment, and you have to get money every year after that, it's a bottomless pit!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his attention to Clark again, "Or, the Prewett family paid for this money? The Bork family has absolutely no objection to the addition of a seat on the board of directors."

Clark glanced at him, but said nothing.

At this time, the middle-aged gentleman who had been silent all this time said: "Darren, let's get over what you said. It's not the business of the Prewett family to build a dragon farm. After the dragon farm is built, our family will can benefit, so we still have to pay for the money we should pay.”

"Besides, the Prewett family was also a member of the school board at the beginning, but they had no choice but to withdraw because of family changes. Now that your family wants to come back, we, uncles, are naturally very welcome."

He looked at Clark, and his voice was unhurried, kind and natural, as if he was really an elder, teaching his younger generation earnestly.

"But! The Prewett family left voluntarily at the beginning, and your family has not paid a cent for the sponsorship fees of Hogwarts for more than ten years. Now that you want to come back, you have to make up for the money that should have been paid over the years. Bar.

Don't say that us uncles bully you, we have discussed it before, and now it's just in time for Jianyang Longchang, your Prewett family is coming, we welcome you, but there is a shortage of funds, Prewett The family gets the big head. As for how much? Then we can discuss it slowly. "

"That makes sense," Theodore Abbott also nodded, and then introduced to Clark: "This is Elijah Yaxley, deputy director of the Department of Prohibition of Abuse of Magic, Ministry of Magic. Principal, the representative of the Yaxley family on the school board."