Hogwarts Homecoming

[As we all know, Hogwarts was co-founded by four great wizards thousands of years ago.

They are: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

The four great founders each came from the most famous pure-blood wizard family of that era. The four outstanding young wizards who should have a conservative attitude towards the inheritance of magic rarely have a broad mind and forward vision.

They realize that the inheritance of magic must be open, and gifted children of Muggle origin must be given the opportunity to have a glimpse of the mysteries of magic (Slytherin also has a different view), so that magic can flourish forever.

As a result, the four founders with a common philosophy established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry among the mountains and black waters.

When the school was first established, the four founders jointly managed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They taught what they had learned throughout their lives to the many descendants of wizards who were also well-born but admired their magic, and recruited students from the Muggle world.

At the beginning of the school, the four giants charged tuition fees from all students to support the school's operations, but soon the four founders discovered a problem.

The tuition fees charged are not difficult for descendants of magical families, but many children with magical talents and born in the Muggle world are unable to pay the tuition fees at Hogwarts. In response to this situation, the four great founders exempted and exempted those children from the Muggle world. Child's tuition fees.

While those children were grateful, they also brought new problems.

The school's differential treatment caused a lot of dissatisfaction in the wizarding community. In that era when blood was considered paramount and teaching magical secrets to Muggles was criticized, such differential treatment caused the original Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to be criticized.

Therefore, after careful consideration by the four founders, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry decided to waive the tuition fees for all children, and all expenses would be borne by the four founders.

Years later, the three founders passed away one after another, and Helga Hufflepuff became the first principal of Hogwarts.

In order to keep the school running, Helga Hufflepuff spent all her wealth, so that she lived in great poverty in her later years.

The successor of Helga Hufflepuff was not from a wealthy magical family and did not have so much wealth to squander, so he had to re-enable the Hogwarts tuition system.

The tuition system continued to be used for the next two centuries.

This also directly caused magic education to become closed again. Magic was only passed down among pure-blood wizard families and a small number of wealthy Muggle descendants. It was always difficult for wizards of Muggle descendants who could not form a large scale to integrate into the magical world.

Changes occurred in the third century after the establishment of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

A Muggle-born wizard became the headmaster of Hogwarts, and after taking office, the wizard has been actively seeking ways to provide more poor but magically gifted Muggle children with the opportunity to enjoy magical education.

After careful consideration, the headmaster of Hogwarts sought help from several pure-blood families that were well-known in the wizarding world at that time.

He gave up some of his powers as the Headmaster of Hogwarts and accepted leadership of Hogwarts in exchange for the financial support of the ancient wizarding family.

At this point, the Hogwarts School Board was established. 】

call!

After reading a long chapter about the 'School Board' in the heavy "Hogwarts: A History of the School", Harry, Ron and Neville, who were surrounding Hermione in the library, all let out a sigh of relief. .

The three people's eyes intertwined through the flickering candlelight, and each noticed the surprise, emotion and emotion in the other's eyes.

"I never thought about it."

snort!

As soon as Ron's words came out of his mouth, Mrs. Pince, who was sitting at the door reading a magic book about herbal medicine, snorted coldly and cast a sharp hawk-like gaze towards her.

Ron was so frightened that he quickly silenced and lowered his head.

And Hermione's green fingers began to scratch across the dark yellow paper again.

[The members of the school board are not fixed. In fact, due to the huge expenditure of funds, the original members of the school board have all been rotated in the half century since the establishment of the school board.

In order to effectively control teaching costs, the successors of the school board of directors ordered the principal of Hogwarts to strictly control the teaching expenditures of various magical subjects, and reviewed the educational textbooks, deleting a large number of those passed down from ancient times. Although powerful, but in the process of practice A huge waste of magic]

Hermione sighed slightly as she read this.

[In the next century, the number of Muggle-born wizards in the magical world increased at a rapid rate.

This once again caused dissatisfaction among the pure-blood wizarding family, so the school board ordered Hogwarts to control the number of Muggle students enrolled, but this met with firm resistance from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

As a result, the school board suspended funding for Hogwarts. Hogwarts responded by no longer recruiting pure-blood family descendants.

Finally, the Ministry of Magic intervened in the school board's dispute at Hogwarts.

In order to prevent the extreme ideas of some extreme families from affecting normal teaching at Hogwarts, Hogwarts advocates the expansion of the school board from the original six to 12.

In order to further curb the principal's power, the school board obtained the power to appoint and remove the principal of Hogwarts.

Witnessed by the Ministry of Magic, the two parties signed a contract. The school board has the right to recommend the appointment and removal of Hogwarts staff and the power to appoint and remove the principal. The school board must ensure that the financial support of Hogwarts is not exceeded. will be severed, this agreement is overseen by the Ministry of Magic. 】

Leaving the library and walking in the ancient corridor of the castle, Harry was still a little dazed.

When people mention Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they always talk about its thousand-year history.

How many people know how many ups and downs Hogwarts has experienced in these thousand years.

It is like a gorgeous flower growing in the cracks of the rocks. Its strength makes people respect it, but at the same time, its fragility makes people palpitate.

"I understand--"

Several people walked back in silence, and Ron suddenly stopped under a burning torch, showing an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"What do you understand?"

Hermione asked Ron with a sidelong glance.

Hogwarts suffered such a crisis, Hermione couldn't be in a good mood, especially, the school board that created the crisis for the school could be said to be caused by a little wizard of Muggle descent like her.

"Malfoy--"

Ron opened his eyes wide, his expression revealed an inappropriate excitement,

"Malfoy looks unhappy today. Oh, not only him, the Slytherins don't look very happy. Do you think they are afraid that if Hogwarts decides to fight back, it will be ready to expel all students from pure-blood wizard families as in history. Are Malfoy and his gang worried that they will be expelled from school?"

Hearing this, Harry's green eyes also flashed with a strange light. What is this called, a blessing in disguise?

Hermione was too lazy to answer this question. Her shaking head and sighing made Ron angry.

"I must remind you, Ron--"

But before Ron questioned the reason for Hermione's expression, Neville, who was amused by him, smiled bitterly and said,

"The Longbottom family and the Weasley family are both ancient wizard families in the magic world. If Hogwarts makes a decision like in history again, we will be expelled from school like Malfoy"