The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Hearing his daughter's question, Mr. Granger smacked his lips and said, "Hal has had a good opportunity recently..."

After listening to Mr. Granger's story, Hermione realized that her Uncle Hal had encountered a hurdle in his life. If he could overcome it, he would be extremely rewarded.

Hal Hunter graduated from the Department of Archeology of Oxford University. However, after receiving his doctorate there, he did not accept a teaching position at Oxford University, nor did he go to Cambridge University, which competes with Oxford University for the world's professional ranking of archeology. He returned to Sheffield, Yorkshire, and took a teaching position in archeology at the University of Sheffield.

The Archeology Department of the University of Sheffield cannot be compared with Oxford and Cambridge in the world's professional rankings. It has been ranked in the top ten all year round, which can be said to be quite "foolish".

The top scholars do not necessarily go to the top universities. For example, a genius with an IQ of 187, a PH.D. at the age of 15, a Master of Arts, a Doctor of Philosophy, and a Doctor of Science chooses to stay at Caltech instead of going to Caltech. MIT or Harvard.

The same goes for Hal Hunter, but his reasons are more realistic: schools such as Oxford and Cambridge are unwilling to give lifetime contracts, but the University of Sheffield is.

This involves the teacher system structure of British universities. The British university teacher system has two characteristics: diversity and tenure. Both words are very easy to understand. Diversity is actually "chaos"! Some British universities use the American teaching system, that is, Assistant Professor-Associate Professor-Professor, while some still use the traditional Lecturer system: Lecturer-Senior Lecturer-Associate Professor (Reader)-Professor

Lecturers are divided into two types: A and B. Level B is higher than level A. Hal Hunter started as a level B lecturer.

Of course, in fact, regarding the teaching system, the teaching system in all countries in the world is quite complicated. For example, China is divided into management posts, technical posts and logistics posts. Management posts are official ranks. There are ten levels: stock level (clerk, section member), section level, division level, department level, and ministry level. Among them, section level, division level, department level, and department level. There are two levels each: full-time and deputy; technical positions are teaching assistant (junior), lecturer (intermediate), associate professor (associate senior), and professor (senior). Teaching assistants and lecturers have three levels, associate professors and professors each have four levels, and professor The highest level is the academician level; the logistics positions are divided into five levels: junior, intermediate, senior, technician, and senior technician.

"Lifetime" refers to the tenure system, and only very outstanding scholars may get a lifetime contract. The tenure system in British universities starts with the lecturer, and Hal Hunt has a tenure contract.

Hal Hunter's life was smooth. He graduated with a PhD from Oxford and became a tenured lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He led a research group to guide graduate students and occasionally held classes. Within a few years, he was promoted to senior lecturer with his excellent teaching and research abilities. Now he is an associate professor and his academic achievements are famous at home and abroad.

Originally, at his age, he only needed to stay for a while to be steadily promoted to professor. However, recently, an archeology professor at Xie University was retiring, and a professor's seat was about to be vacated. , which was very attractive to Hal Hunter.

What's more, he found a fragment of it in a pile of ancient Egyptian documents. Hal Hunter studied these clues and found that they lead directly to an ancient city buried in the Sahara Desert, which may be a relic from the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt. To him, this coincidence seemed like God's will, which strengthened his confidence in attacking the professor.

Mr. Granger also showed a look of envy. If he could succeed, he would be a tenured professor under the age of forty-five!

"Anyway, let me see what Hal means first and see if he is willing to take you two with him," Mr. Granger was in a good mood, with a smile on his lips. He decided that if the two little guys were taken to Egypt, he and his wife would go to Paris for vacation and have a sweet world for the two of them.

As for his daughter's safety, Mr. Granger is not worried at all. First, he believes that his old friend is the best adventurer in the world, and second, his daughter and her friend Tom are wizards! What's there to worry about?

After returning to Granger's house, Mrs. Granger was still working at the clinic. Mr. Granger asked his daughter to go upstairs to pack her luggage while he called his friends.

Tom carried the suitcase and followed Hermione up to the second floor. Hermione trotted happily all the way to her bedroom. She opened the bedroom door and motioned for Tom to come in.

Tom hesitated, but Hermione grew impatient.

"Hurry up, will the box not sink when you carry it?" She raised her eyebrows, "Isn't it a little late for Mr. Yoder to start being pretentious now?"

She took Tom into her bedroom. This was the first time that Tom entered Hermione's bedroom. Before, the two of them had only studied together in the study and living room.

He quickly checked out the layout of the bedroom: the house was the same as other houses, very clean, without many decorations, and the overall color tone was not the common pink, but Ravenclaw blue as the keynote. Entering here, there was a sense of The feeling of calming down. Hermione opened the box and took out the contents bit by bit.

"If you're not busy, can you come over and help me clean it up?" Hermione said angrily when she saw Tom hung up, "I can't take these windbreakers, boots, etc. to travel to the desert, right? "She took out the pair of black knee-high boots that she had worn when she and Tom were walking by the Black Lake from the suitcase. The small leather belt near the ankle came out of the small golden button and hung down from the boots. side.

"Also, where are you going?" She tucked the small belt back into the buckle and buckled it. "The Sahara Desert is huge. Also, do you know what you should bring with you?"

Tom helped Hermione take her quilt out of another box. Hermione's question made him feel like he was traveling with friends. Hermione's tone made him feel that he was playing the role of a hands-off shopkeeper during this trip.

"What do you know about Egypt?"

This question stopped Hermione. Although she had read many books, she still had little understanding of this ancient and mysterious country.

“Nasser and the Suez Canal?”

Tom:? !

Hermione's answer surprised Tom very, very much. He thought Hermione would talk about mummies, pyramids, the curse of the Pharaoh, but he didn't expect it to be about Nasser and the canal. Hermione really impressed Tom.

Nasser was the first president of the Republic of Egypt and Egypt's tycoon. He took back the Suez Canal from Britain and France by force, directly tearing off the last fig leaf of the two old empires and leading to the disintegration of the two colonial empires.