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Chapter 62: Being too good will also lead to being eliminated

Human energy is limited, even wizards are no exception.

Ever since the Weasley twins came to Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall had the idea of ​​finding a suitable student to be her assistant.

Her tasks were already very tedious - preparing lessons, marking homework, adjusting the timetables for seven grades, dealing with mistakes made by Gryffindor students, liaising with the Ministry of Magic, auditing and approving the purchase of various materials on campus, reviewing applications from professors, conducting employment surveys for graduates, communicating with other schools and reviewing and re-approving applications for exchange students...

All this work, coupled with the occasional accidents, is not enough for a professor to complete alone, not to mention that she also needs to take care of her teaching duties - and the appearance of the Weasley twins has made accidents a normal occurrence.

But it is not easy to find a suitable assistant. As the deputy headmaster of Hogwarts, publicly recruiting an assistant when Dumbledore has not found one is almost tantamount to accusing the headmaster of not doing his job properly. Moreover, the status of this assistant is really hard to confirm...

Students are better candidates, learn quickly, and are inexpensive. Moreover, after participating in assistant work, the probability of them getting in conflict with other professors is extremely low, and professors will not have too much dissatisfaction.

However, the problem is that it is difficult to find the right candidate - even if a professor is looking for an assistant, he has to examine the character and knowledge. Adding a student to help in Professor McGonagall's office naturally requires more investigation.

Character, personality, ability - none of them can be lacking. Origin is also a problem. The most advocated pure-blood faction is definitely not an option. This will lead some people to mistakenly believe that Hogwarts is biased towards pure-blood wizards...

So even with this idea in mind, Professor McGonagall still asked the Gryffindor prefects to assist in handling some of the documents, but the prefects' help was very limited.

Only fifth-year students can run for prefect, and this year is their crucial OWLS year. As for seventh-year students, not only do they have to take the Newts exam, but they also have to consider work internships - which means that sixth-year students have finally managed to show some promise, but then have to reluctantly let them go...

Therefore, first-year students will definitely be given priority. Even if they are only observed for half a year, the period of use is long enough to prevent experienced people from running away.

Professor McGonagall had found two good candidates for this year's selection. In the initial selection, both of them had top-notch logical ability and writing skills - but Miss Granger, whom she had originally favored, was eliminated after demonstrating her outstanding learning ability.

Because she was too good - this might not sound right, but it was a luxury to ask a student who could make great progress if she focused on the library to spend a lot of time doing office tasks.

As for Andrew, it was different. Professor McGonagall asked other professors and found out that his performance in other subjects was mediocre. Although he occasionally had some highlights, they could only be barely considered excellent. This was not such a luxury.

Moreover, because Andrew was best at and liked Transfiguration the most, Professor McGonagall was fully confident that she could make up for his wasted time - although she didn't like to show off, there was no doubt that her occasional guidance in the office plus a period of practice would definitely be more effective than Andrew spending the whole day in the library.

In addition, a student who is thick-skinned enough to come and ask questions after the first class is also suitable to be an assistant. In addition, the issue of family background is not off-limits, which leaves Andrew with only observation left.

Originally, Professor McGonagall was going to discuss this matter with Andrew after the Christmas holidays, but the mirror happened to appear. After confirming that he would not indulge in some fantasy, Professor McGonagall finally made up her mind to let Andrew work as a part-time assistant while he was at school.

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"I?"

Andrew was a little dumbfounded. "Yes, you will work as an assistant in the office. You will come to my office every day after school to sort out documents for a class period. Currently, you are responsible for reviewing the homework of grades one to three. You need to classify them into different grades to facilitate my review. The school will provide some subsidies for your work, two Galleons per week."

Homework is an approval of students' learning progress, but having someone review it in advance will make this job a lot easier - find out the plagiarized homework, find out the homework with obvious mistakes, find out the excellent homework, and then classify them according to the individual's completion degree.

Even if you are an assistant, it is impossible for you to take on important work all at once. Pre-approval skills, familiarity with the process, and work attitude are all important. Don't be too useful.

And this was one of the important reasons why Andrew was chosen - his theoretical level of Transfiguration had been tested personally by Professor McGonagall.

"Of course, if I can help it."

Andrew agreed as a matter of course, even if he had to pay for it - it looked like a job, but it was an opportunity to go to Professor McGonagall's office every day with a clear conscience.

This is not just empty talk, Professor McGonagall really teaches real things...

"Of course," Professor McGonagall took out a document, her tone not as gentle as before, "You must work hard, I will check your results regularly. In addition, before taking charge of this job, you must sign a confidentiality agreement."

As she spoke, she pushed the document over to him. Andrew picked it up and began to read it carefully.

The document was not complicated, with only a few clauses, and it was not very rigorous, but the beginning of each sentence basically stated that under the guarantee of the magic contract, he could not do anything.

To sum it up, he cannot disclose in any way the documents he sees in Professor McGonagall's office unless he obtains permission from Professor McGonagall herself. The price of violation is expulsion from the school and the matter being reported to the wizarding community, and the school has the right to trace other responsibilities.

"That's right..."

After confirming the terms, Andrew signed his name on the contract very seriously - he said that the confidentiality of Professor McGonagall's office as the vice-chancellor should not be so poor.

"You can come here tomorrow to deal with your homework problems," Professor McGonagall said in a much more gentle tone. "Also, you need to withdraw from the club you are in, because the school does not want to have any misunderstandings with the Ministry of Magic in this regard."

Completely understandable - because it looked like the school was spying on young students trying to join the Ministry, which was very strange.

This is one of the reasons why it took so long to observe Andrew - only after confirming that Andrew did not hang out with those students on a daily basis and liked to hang out in the library, did Professor McGonagall confirm that he just wanted to find a club to hang out in, and was not really determined to join the Ministry of Magic.

"Actually, even if you hadn't told me, I would have taken this opportunity to withdraw. Who would have thought that there would be so many weirdos in a place that should theoretically be the safest place..."

He complained in his heart, then said goodbye to Professor McGonagall and left.

(End of this chapter)