"Alastor, how was your day yesterday?"
In the principal's office, Moody and Dumbledore sat on both sides of the table. Between them was a small plate of dessert.
But Mad-Eye obviously had no intention of eating it. While looking at Dumbledore's office with a critical eye, he replied, "It's not bad. It's very suitable for magic modification."
"It would be great."
Dumbledore happily took some preserves for himself, "The school will provide the necessary conveniences as much as possible."
"That's not necessary. I don't like the food delivery and cleaning services of elves. I hope they will no longer come in and out of my room in the future. I will arrange some protective spells later."
"Okay, if you think it's necessary."
Having known each other for decades, Dumbledore knew Moody's character very well, and he would not forcefully arrange this or that for Moody.
"That'll be a big help. I like that remote house very much."
Moody nodded - his office is in the corner of the castle, far away from most classrooms where classes are held. This will reduce the number of students passing by, which is good for the work he is going to do to install the looking glass.
Although there are several ways to cheat the thing, this can already reduce a lot of work.
"Is there anything else you need? I don't think I have much time to stay at school this semester - the school's defense work requires you to pay more attention."
Dumbledore said as he picked up the pickled cherries again, "Are you really not going to have some? They were just delivered yesterday."
"No need, Albus."
Moody shook his head, "What happened to make you so anxious?"
"Lucius's direction brought me a lot of unexpected information. I think it deserves my own trip."
"Why are you so anxious? We agreed to keep an eye on Karkaroff this year."
"I will rush back to watch him before the Triwizard Tournament. After all, the position he is in now is too special, and the prophecy-"
Dumbledore rarely shook his head, "If anyone in Europe can provide him with huge help and give him stronger power to resurrect, it must be Karkaroff - I still can't confirm that he is Did he really betray those people, or did he pretend to deceive all of us."
There was no way around it. When Karkaroff became the principal of Durmstrang, this matter became uncontrollable.
Tom has always been extremely cunning, and it is difficult to confirm whether Karkaroff really betrayed the Death Eaters with all his strength - once Durmstrang fully supported the Dark Lord with the help of Karkaroff, then the strength of Voldemort's men There will be unspeakable growth.
Except for Slytherin, there are only a few people in Hogwarts who are willing to support Voldemort, and Durmstrang itself is a semi-dark magic school that only recruits non-Muggle-born wizards. Once such a school is mobilized...
"Well, I'll keep an eye on it, you're always right, Albus."
Moody nodded, then added as if remembering something, "But there's one thing that's not quite right."
"oh?"
Dumbledore looked at Mad-Eye curiously, and then laughed, "The qualifications are there, Alastor, you have no teaching experience after all."
"Two more years of teaching experience are nothing! I have been teaching new Aurors for more than ten years!"
"That's not the same position after all -" Dumbledore responded with a smile, and then took a small step back, "Otherwise, you can work part-time as the deputy director of the Self-Defense Office, helping to manage students' homework and exam problems."
"An office for three people in total..."
Mad-Eye muttered, but his expression softened a lot - a deputy position is a deputy position, at least compared to his old friends, he is not just being managed.
You can't think that if you didn't serve as the office manager when you were an Auror, and still be managed when you get to Hogwarts, that can be considered progress.
This look was quickly caught by Dumbledore, "So, we have an agreement, Alastor?"
"Okay...after all, the professor does have qualifications for this position, and he still has some real skills in teaching." Moody shook his head and stood up, preparing to end the conversation.
After saying a brief goodbye to Dumbledore, he walked to the door on wooden legs, then turned around and added as if he remembered something.
"You haven't changed after all these years, Albus. Except for children, you only display your entire collection when you meet guests who don't eat sweets."
After saying this, without waiting for Dumbledore to respond, he strode out of the principal's office extremely happily, and then slipped away. Gaden Gaden's voice suddenly resounded throughout the castle.
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"By the way, William, it seems like Mad-Eye is coming to school this year?"
In Hagrid's hut, William and Hagrid were drinking and talking, talking about the school professor.
From Professor Victor, whom no one wanted to play cards with, to Adams, who was recently called the Adventure Master, after gossiping about the summer lives of a circle of professors, the topic naturally turned to this year's new professors.
"Professor Moody?"
William took a sip of light beer and said, "As he said, he has already arrived. He arrived the night before yesterday. He just stayed at home and was busy tidying up his room."
These words stunned Hagrid, as well as Mad-Eye, who had secretly followed him with the invisibility cloak.
"How is it possible? You came here the night before yesterday, why don't I have any news at all?"
"Because he hasn't been out. These days, he always goes to the kitchen to ask for the elf's food, and never eats in the middle restaurant."
"He just stays in the house like that?"
"That's not true," William spread his hands, "He left school and went to Hogsmeade, and also bought some things from the Pig's Head Bar... Judging from the style, they should be auxiliary materials for strengthening the room."
As soon as William finished speaking, he noticed Hagrid staring at him with an extremely strange look.
"Don't look at me like that. As I said, I plan to do a thorough investigation before school starts this year. He just came too early. I bumped into him at the right time, so I checked his traces—— After all, he left the school through a secret passage, and his behavior was a bit suspicious."
"Take a secret passage?"
Hagrid thought for a while, then drank a small bucket of wine for himself, "I wonder why there is no travel record at the gate."
"She is a former Auror. If I hadn't become more familiar with the castle's secret passages in the past few years, I wouldn't have discovered it."
William spread his hands and said, "Besides, if he didn't go shopping at the Pig's Head Bar, I wouldn't bother to check so carefully - at the Pig's Head Bar, if you catch them all, they will definitely be unjust, but if you catch one and let them go, there will definitely be a lot of fish that slip through the net." "
"That's true...that's where I bought my dragon eggs."
After Hagrid finished speaking, he felt a little shy and held up his glass of wine to cover it up - that was an extremely failed transaction.
"We have them all now, but I guess you won't be able to get a breeding license," William said in a lower voice, "Fifteen hundred galleons each, no guarantee of variety. I remember it was like this at the end of last semester."
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, "But I won't recommend it to you, and they can't sell it to you. At least you don't think about raising it in the next few years. Dumbledore doesn't Will agree."
"I know," Hagrid muttered, "I just miss Norbert a little."
"Don't think about it in the past few years - I will warn them to avoid you," William was a little worried. "When Harry graduates, I will give you a dragon egg, and I will ensure that the procedures are complete!"
"real?"
"Really, I'm going to find connections and make reports."
William nodded, "But if you try to buy it, there won't be any."
Then William almost vomited blood - Hagrid couldn't hold back his strength when he patted his shoulder excitedly. If he hadn't come up with the Iron Armor Charm in time, he might have had to drink healing potion.
After finally convincing Hagrid, who was extremely excited, William breathed a sigh of relief.
Creatures like dragons actually sound more powerful in the magic world, but in fact the harm is still within the controllable range. As long as they are better controlled in the Forbidden Forest, it is not a terrible thing.
This is not nonsense by William himself - according to the procedures of this year's Triwizard Tournament, three dragons will be sent to the school, and raising a less dangerous one for Hagrid is not that scary.
After all, there is everything in the Forbidden Forest. William even saw webs left by terrifying creatures like the Acromantula...
By the way, before the holidays this year, Hagrid applied for a manticore, a manticore of the same level as the dragon, and William gave him a thunderbird of the xxxx level...
As a professor of Care of Magical Creatures, raising dragons is actually not that difficult - in fact, to be honest, as long as Dumbledore nods, raising dragons is not that difficult.
Harry is only in the fourth grade this year and will graduate from the seventh grade. Hagrid will have been a professor for five years by then. He has enough teaching experience and safety awareness. Raising dragons is too normal - the school's magical biology class cannot be continued Creatures like dragons are not involved, right?
That's impossible, because Hagrid, the authority figure, was confused - Dumbledore quickly sent over the book on the Unforgivable Curse in William's second year as professor. When the time limit is up, wouldn't it be easy to apply for the Fire Dragon?
The two talked for a while about what they had and what they didn't have, then they estimated that the time was almost up and walked out the door together.
"Such a heavy rain...you have to let thunderbirds rain..."
Hagrid looked at the endless rain and shook his head.
"There's nothing I can do about it, the courses require it - if anyone can find out that Yu has been mixed with magic potion, I will definitely give his academy ten points."
William commented cheerfully, and then used the Bubble Curse and the Iron Armor Curse to prevent the rain.
'wrong…'
He heard a murmur in the rain—not the sound of rain hitting the earth.
While joking with Hagrid, he made an excuse to check the potions in the yard, doing a simple search with his peripheral vision.
Found nothing - nowhere did the rain get weird.
'He is a master...'
He pulled out his wand, and then used it to control the rest of the lids to open slowly. He quickly pointed his left hand at the ground and made a few gestures in the direction where the sound was coming from.
The next moment, the rain rolled up directly from the place that sounded wrong to him, trying to build a cage made of water.
At the same time, the wand in William's right hand gave up control of the container lid and pointed directly there.
But found nothing.
But William didn't hesitate at all. The wand was pointed firmly at the other side, and the rain rolled up quickly, and then was calmed down by another wand.
Mad-Eye stood there, pointing his wand at William, with a not-so-good expression on his face.
"If Hogwarts hadn't had anti-Apparition..."
He was a little unconvinced - he could have left without a sound under the invisibility cloak. This one he had just made less than half a year ago, and it worked very well. After apparating away, the other party would feel suspicious.
But it doesn't work anymore. You can eliminate the sound by moving it, but you can't use magic to make the rain fall naturally.
"That's right, but Professor Moody, why are you here?"
"Look what my new colleagues are doing."
Moody had no embarrassment at all about being caught following him—he followed the smell of the potion and found it, but as soon as he got to the window, he heard his new colleague following him.
This is what he does. From graduation to retirement and then to re-employment, only the people he follows are wary, and he has never been shy.
Regarding this situation, William could only lament and let go of it - he obviously didn't have the consciousness to be caught following someone, so how could he still use morality to attack him?
"There are so many magic potions - they are all manifestation potions. Are you going to mix them in the rain and test them?"
From a distance, Mad-Eye glanced at the potion in the barrel and made a quick judgment.
"Quiz at the beginning of the school year to see how alert they are."
William opened his eyes and told lies.
"That makes sense,"
Moody nodded, walked forward quickly, and looked at the potion. "The quality is very good. It is very safe to use with rainwater..."
Before he finished speaking, a large ball of potion flew out and poured directly towards William.
Subconsciously, the original Iron Armor Curse and Bubble Head Curse quickly thickened and even became opaque, and the potion under Moody's body also rushed up, trying to cover Moody's body.
But unfortunately, it is also blocked.
William and Mad-Eye fell into silence at the same time - what happened? Why are you reacting so loudly?
"Test each other."
Moody spoke first and stretched out his arm to let the potion flow over his arm, but his whole body did not change at all.
William stopped protecting his left hand and also soaked it with the potion.
The two self-defense professors looked relieved at the same time, causing Hagrid to look at them blankly.
"What are you doing so stupidly? The rain is getting heavier and heavier. It's time to take protection."
"oh."
The two of them answered almost at the same time, the wands in their hands relaxed, and then they stuffed them back together.
"Get it up to the sky, and then use Thunderbird to assist the magic potion to make the whole school teachers and students get wet?"
"Yes, that's the theory."
"Great idea," Mad-Eye nodded, "How does Dumbledore detect it?"
? ? ?
William was stunned - now, a trace of frustration really creeped up.
"How could Dumbledore..."
Hagrid scratched his head, "I didn't even check!"
Hybrid giants cannot be imitated by potions, so a lot of experiments are needed before there is any hope of success...
"Anyway, now we have to let her fly, she's a great girl."
Hagrid said as he led the way towards the Forbidden Forest.
"Well, you're right."
Moody checked, it's time to prepare gifts for the new students.
William shrugged his shoulders for a rare moment, then used his wand to lift the potion, and followed Hagrid with protection.
"I'm going too, I have to keep the falling rain safe."
Moody followed up with a wooden leg. He had to ensure the safety of such a big event.