Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 149 Being a professor?

For five days in a row, Suze and Rocket Raccoon were both active near Hagrid's hut, not leaving the place at all.

Dumbledore seemed to have forgotten the existence of Suze and Rocket. He didn't come over to look at them, nor did he send any message.

Originally, Su Ze thought that Dumbledore was determined to minimize his influence on the world and would let him leave after his energy was accumulated.

But early in the morning of the sixth day, an unexpected person quietly came to Hagrid's Hut.

"Oh! Professor Snape, what a rare guest you are! Please come in."

Hagrid looked down at the serious Snape, and was slightly surprised, but he quickly made way and invited him in. Professor Snape seldom came to Hagrid's hut, except when his potions needed certain materials.

"I'm here to look for those two 'guests'."

Snape did not enter the house, but spoke calmly, putting emphasis on the word "guest".

Hagrid nodded slightly when he heard this.

"They are still asleep. Wait a moment and I will call them."

After saying that, Hagrid was about to turn around and go to the inner room to wake up Suze and Rocket, but before he could take a step, Suze's voice came from inside the house.

"Don't shout, I'm already awake."

Yawning, Su Ze walked out rubbing his eyes sleepily.

"Hagrid, can't you move the chicken coop farther away? They start crowing at half past three."

Originally, Su Ze was the type who slept lightly. The experience of hearing the rooster crowing from three o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the morning made him unable to get a good rest in the past few days.

"Excuse me, maybe I could ask Professor Snape to cast a silencing spell on the chicken coop." Hagrid scratched his messy hair.

"Instead of using a silencing spell, why not use a stunning spell on me before I fall asleep?" Suze sighed, then pulled himself together and walked to the door, looking at Snape. "Professor, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Snape had remained silent since Hagrid and Suze started talking. When Suze took the initiative to come up to him, his expression changed slightly.

Without any unnecessary movements, Professor Snape took out a letter from somewhere and handed it to Su Ze.

"What is this?" Su Ze was a little surprised.

Very few people in this world knew of his existence, and he had no contact with anyone on a regular basis. How could someone write to him?

"Dumbledore asked me to give it to you. Open it and take a look." Professor Snape said lightly.

Su Ze took the letter with doubt and felt even more puzzled.

We are all in Hogwarts, why can't we just say it directly? Why do we have to use such a retro and cumbersome method as writing letters?

Su Ze opened the letter directly and placed it in front of himself.

(Dear Mr. Su:)
(Are you comfortable living at Hagrid's place? Forgive me for not being able to treat you better at that time. I am old and have more concerns.)
(Some things I don’t know where to start.)
(These past few days I have been thinking back to our conversation that day. Perhaps I was really negligent. Without my noticing, Hogwarts was changing little by little.)
(I don’t want to say more about this now.)
(It’s not that I intentionally concealed it, but I couldn’t find out the source and specific circumstances of the matter. Those things were like melted syrup, making my thoughts a little muddy.)
(You should know how important Harry Potter is to the world. I cannot allow such unforeseen danger to happen to him.)
(So ​​after thinking for a long time, I am honored to invite you to be the professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. I hope you can stay and explore the truth with me.)
(.)

As his eyes swept across Dumbledore's extremely long name at the end, Su Ze's originally slightly sleepy brain immediately became alert.

what is this?
Recruitment letter?
Raising his eyebrows slightly, Su Ze knew exactly what the Muggle Studies class was about.

In the wizarding world, many wizards are disdainful of the Muggle world and development. They arrogantly believe that wizards are superior to Muggles, but there are also many wizards who are very curious about the Muggle world.

It was on this basis that Hogwarts established a new discipline, Muggle Studies, which specifically studies the lives and technological development of Muggles from the perspective of wizards.

Unlike the required major subjects such as Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and History of Magic, Muggle Studies is only an elective course, and one that is only offered after the third year.

The professor of this subject who left the deepest impression on me was probably Professor Carity Burbagi, who spent her life promoting the elimination of hostility and discrimination between wizards and Muggles.

However, this poor female professor was captured and tortured by Death Eaters in 1997, and was killed by Voldemort himself with the Killing Curse at a Death Eater meeting at Malfoy Manor.

If I remember correctly, Professor Burbage should have already been working at Hogwarts. Why did Dumbledore suddenly ask me to replace him?

Perhaps he saw what Su Ze was thinking, Snape remained calm and spoke lightly.

"Professor Bubbage has taken a half-year leave due to some personal matters. Originally, there was no Muggle Studies class this semester, but Dumbledore wanted you to take over temporarily."

"Let me be a professor?" Su Ze pointed at himself with a strange expression.

Although I know that Dumbledore's move was to give me a legitimate identity to stay in Hogwarts, it's still a bit strange to let myself be a teacher to a group of wizards.
"Where is Headmaster Dumbledore now?"

"He has to leave Hogwarts for a while and won't be back in the short term." Snape looked at Suze with a critical look. Although Dumbledore seemed to believe the Oriental man in front of him, he didn't trust him at all. "Did he say where he was going?" Suze asked again.

Hearing this, Snape paused, as if hesitating whether to tell the guy in front of him about Dumbledore's whereabouts.

After a moment's silence, Snape slowly uttered a place name.

"Austria."

"He went abroad." Su Ze thought that Dumbledore would at most take a trip to the Ministry of Magic, but he didn't know that this old bee went directly abroad.

I just don't know what there is in Austria that is worth his trip at this time.

"So what have you thought about? If you agree to take over as the professor of Muggle Studies during Professor Bubbage's leave, please sign your name here."

As he spoke, Snape reached out, took out another piece of paper with gold edges from the letter, unfolded it and placed it in Su Ze's hand.

Su Ze lowered his head and saw a contract for Hogwarts to recruit professors. The contract was very exquisite, and even the words on it were written in gold.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Ze took out the pen from his notebook. When the tip of the pen just touched the signature, Su Ze suddenly stopped.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ze quickly signed his name on the contract and handed it directly to Snape in front of him.

After taking the contract, Snape glanced through it briefly. When his eyes saw the name written by Suze, his eyelids twitched unconsciously.

"Kaia Black?"

"This is my other name, and Rocket can testify for me." Su Ze smiled slightly without explaining too much.

In the magical world of Harry Potter, the magic here is not only weird but also very difficult. Voldemort can directly curse a position through magic. Perhaps some powerful wizards can even curse themselves directly by name.

When you are out, you give yourself an identity. Su Ze doesn't mind creating a small account based on the original one. Anyway, other heroes in the Marvel Universe call themselves by this name.

"You really picked a 'good' name." Professor Snape's face was a little gloomy.

After saying that, he turned around and walked away without paying any attention to Suze and Hagrid behind him.

After walking a few meters, he stopped again and spoke without turning his head.

"Your class is next week, so prepare your teaching materials in advance. Hagrid can help you if you need anything. Now you are free to move around."

After saying this, Snape continued walking forward.

Watching Professor Snape's figure gradually walking away, Hagrid withdrew his gaze and looked down at Su Ze beside him.

"Congratulations, Su. Not everyone has the honor of being invited by Dumbledore to be a professor at Hogwarts. However, your name is a bit..."

"I know what the Black family stands for, Hagrid." Suze patted Hagrid's arm and said, "Don't worry, it's just a name."

Although it was different from his original idea, since Dumbledore chose to believe in him, he could move freely in Hogwarts with the help of his professional identity as a professor.

Perhaps this was also Dumbledore's plan. Apparently he concealed a lot of things in the last conversation. Now it seemed that the other party wanted him to investigate it personally.

Su Ze secretly suppressed these thoughts for the time being. He knew that the most important thing for him now was to prepare the teaching materials for class.

Su Ze had never been a teacher in his previous life, so he was quite good at telling jokes to the audience on stage, but he had no knowledge of giving lectures to students on the podium.

But there is one more thing that is more important than the textbook.

Su Ze turned to look at Hagrid and spoke.

"Hagrid, do you know where I should get a wand?"

"Wand?"

Hagrid stared at Suze with a strange look. He didn't know why Suze, as a wizard, didn't have a wand, but he still answered truthfully.

"Most wizards go to Ollivander's Wand Shop to buy wands. Their family has a history of thousands of years and is one of the best in the world."

Of course Suze knew who Ollivander was, but he was not sure whether he could activate the wand without wizard blood.

So after thinking for a moment, Su Ze suddenly thought of something and asked seriously.

"Hagrid, what do you think would be the process if I wanted to turn my hammer into a wand?"

(End of this chapter)