The Admiral of Hogwarts

Through the Admiral Network, Hugo learned that his sister upstairs was having a great time chatting with Veneto and Firefly. So, he took this opportunity to chat with Hood. Although he could obtain such information through the Admiral Network, he felt that face-to-face communication was indispensable.

During the chat, Hugo also understood why Hood had been so successful throughout the operation. First, as ship girls who had obtained a large amount of information from Hugo, they easily applied this information to the operation. Then, they smoothly used these prophetic advantages to seize as much profit as possible and avoid traps.

Secondly, as ship girls with explosive combat power and the ability to understand people's hearts, they found it much easier to handle most things than ordinary humans. Whether it was grasping the weaknesses in the other party's psychology to persuade them with reason, or directly physically eliminating some scum, they could always find the most appropriate solution to the problem.

Finally, although Hugo was not very clear about the operating rules of the entire system, he confirmed that the system could indeed do something to completely reverse fate by using destiny points, such as allowing these pure existences to obtain completely legal identities, and even allowing those who had contact with them to have corresponding memories.

In addition, the system assigned each ship girl an identity related to their time as a warship. For example, Hood's ship name was to commemorate Admiral Samuel Hood of the 18th-century British Navy, so Hood, as a ship girl, naturally had some connection with this family.

According to Hood, one of her current identities is as a member of the Hood family. To Hugo's surprise, this family still exists today and is a hereditary aristocratic viscount family with a high status in England. For example, the Queen's butler is the current Viscount Hood.

Although Hood is now only a member of a branch of this family, this title alone makes it much easier to do many things than for ordinary people. To give a simple example, Hood's ability to buy real estate in this area is related to her current identity as a member of the Hood family. After all, even if ordinary people have money, it is difficult to live in such a community.

"I'm very happy to hear about your achievements," Hugo congratulated sincerely, then he seemed to think of something and asked. "By the way, I saw in the Admiral Network that you recently recruited several wizard subordinates. Can you tell me what's going on?"

The ship girls habitually reported their daily work to Hugo in detail through the Admiral Network every day. Although the speed of this kind of report was very fast through the transmission of consciousness, it only took two or three seconds to receive a ship girl's entire day's report. However, out of trust in the ship girls and the habit of wanting to slack off, he only glanced at it casually. Generally, he would not offer any other opinions on the decisions they made.

After all, in his experience, the ship girls' handling of various events could be said to be perfect. At least in his own experience, it was basically impossible to make any better decisions. The reason why he asked this question today was because he was a little curious as to why wizards who usually disguised themselves as ordinary people would work under Hood.

The laws of the British wizarding world were relatively lenient, and did not prohibit wizards from working and living in the ordinary human world. It was just that most wizards could not accept days when they did not use magic. However, this kind of self-discipline was just a piece of cake for the ship girls.

Previously, Hood had been disguising herself as an ordinary person outside. Even if she had a wand, she would cast spells, but she usually did not use magic in places other than her home, and did not show that she was a wizard in front of ordinary people. So Hugo had always been very curious as to why wizards would come to serve under her command.

"Actually, they are just some really pitiful Muggle-born and half-blood wizards," Hood said, shrugging her shoulders after Hugo asked about this. "And what I'm doing is just trying to provide them with a way to make a living."

Listening to Hood slowly telling the stories of these people, Hugo also understood what was going on. To put it bluntly, this tragedy could be said to be entirely caused by some of the defects in the wizarding world itself.

In the British wizarding world, various pure-blood families occupied most of the resources. At the same time, due to the scale of the British wizarding world, the economic scale of the entire wizarding world and the number of jobs it could accommodate were all very limited.

Under such circumstances, the number of jobs that Hogwarts graduates could freely choose each year was naturally very few. And whether it was the Ministry of Magic or those shops, under such circumstances, they were more inclined to recruit those pure-blood or half-blood wizards whose parents on the wizarding side were related to them.

In this way, only the most outstanding students among the Muggle-born wizards and some half-blood wizards could obtain a job. And the rest would naturally face the problem of unemployment upon graduation.

And it was not easy for these unemployed people to return to the ordinary human world, because to the ordinary human world, they were just people with only an elementary school diploma. At the same time, because they had been studying in the magical world for the past few years, they were completely disconnected from the outside world. Under such circumstances, even if they found employment, they could only find some physical labor to do.

Although adult wizards can use magic outside of school, they still cannot use it in front of Muggles. So for them, the only use of magic might be to make their brick-laying a little easier. It cannot be said that they are having a bad life, after all, the income of manual laborers in England is definitely not low, even higher than some white-collar workers. However, such work is completely disproportionate to the education they have received.

And such a situation would lead to many serious problems. For example, some of those Muggle-born or half-blood wizards who had some ideas and were very daring would embark on the road of illegal crime. At least half of those dark wizards in Knockturn Alley came from such sources.

This was different from what Hugo had previously guessed. He had always thought that most of the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley were pure-bloods, but according to Hood, whether they were dark wizards or white wizards, they had to have enough knowledge accumulation and resource support to achieve success in magic, and pure-blood families could easily accumulate a large amount of wizarding wealth.

So among those criminals who had fallen into Knockturn Alley, in addition to a very small number who were indeed pure-blood wizards whose families had declined, those half-baked half-bloods and Muggle-born wizards who could not survive outside accounted for the majority.

And most of the wizards that Hood was currently taking in were wizards who lived among ordinary people, but there were also two who had spent a year or two in Knockturn Alley after graduation and felt uneasy and ran out to live ordinary lives. But now they only had one identity, and that was Hood's subordinates.

"So what is their current job?" Hugo asked curiously.

"You know I'm now involved in the service industry, like running a series of laundromats and car washes," Hood said, shrugging her shoulders. "Honestly, wizarding spells are much better than non-magical methods when it comes to cleaning. Not only can they clean things more thoroughly, but they also won't damage the original quality of the items. So now the cleaning of those high-end clothes and cars is mainly their responsibility."