Ancient Wizards Return to Hogwarts...

Chapter 219 The Admission Standards of the Four Founders

"Look, this is Rowena's admission standard. Even if you're not her daughter, I think you can still become her secret student." After casually offering Helena some advice, Rice stopped chatting with her and turned to leave the seal.

Even after the sealed stone wall closed, Helena remained rooted to the spot, her mind filled with the words Rice had just spoken.

After standing quietly at the entrance to the seal for a while, Helena's emotions gradually calmed down. However, when she turned around, she was startled: Ravenclaw was standing quietly not far away, staring at her.

"Is what Uncle Salazar said true?" Helena couldn't help but ask after a moment of silence.

"Of course, if you don't meet my requirements, I won't allow you into my private classroom. It would be too embarrassing to make an exception for you just because you're my daughter," Ravenclaw said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Helena's spirit became opaque again.

After emerging from the seal, Rice couldn't help but recall a conversation he had with three old friends when the school was first founded, which took place after he had expressed his ideal type of student.

As the Sorting Hat sang during the Sorting Ceremony, brave, generous, and courageous students belong to Gryffindor; Hufflepuff embraces all children with magical talents equally; the clever and intelligent go to Ravenclaw; and as for Slytherin, the Sorting Hat clearly failed to grasp Salazar Slytherin's true intentions...

But what happens after they're admitted to the college?

While the founders would treat everyone equally, it was impossible for them to truly pour the same effort into every young wizard—that would be unfair to the more gifted students.

So they had a special conversation about it.

"Kids these days have it so much easier to learn than we did back then." Looking at the "timetable" that Rowena had arranged, Gryffindor sighed sincerely: they hardly had to pay any price to have world-class wizards handing them carefully selected spells. Even Gryffindor was a little envious of this treatment.

"However, for wizards, seven years of study can only slightly open the door to the magical world. More talented children may only have squeezed in halfway." Salazar believes that seven years of study is actually not enough, and is only equivalent to the level of magical enlightenment.

"Salazar, you're wrong." Ravenclaw had a different view. "For many mediocre people, knocking on the door is enough, since they'll never be able to step through it in their entire lives and catch a glimpse of the true splendor of the magical world."

Helga Hufflepuff frowned at her friend's words: Rowena was good in every way, except that she was too ruthless in some things.

"We can't just let those talented students waste their time outside of school, can we?" she couldn't help but say. "Are we going to have to go through the same hardships we went through back then?"

Ravenclaw wanted to reply, "Why not?" But seeing her old friend's gentle brown eyes, she somehow softened and offered a compromise.

"We can select those students who are worth further development and let them stay on campus to continue their studies after graduation, and also help us teach a few courses."

Rowena's proposal was unanimously approved by the other three founders.

Even someone as gentle as Hufflepuff knows there's no need to confine less gifted students to the school grounds for too long; they can go out and explore the world as soon as possible and experience its wonders.

"However, if a child wants to be nurtured by me, their talent must be exceptionally outstanding." Rowena indicated that she would significantly raise the admission standards, as not just anyone could pursue advanced studies under her tutelage.

"The best proof of talent is, of course, academic performance. Don't even think about becoming my student if you haven't been number one. Besides talent, I also hope he loves reading as much as I do. I'll even pass on my library to him in the future!" Ravenclaw counted on his fingers the personal qualities required for a student to become a student.

Godric paused for a moment; he hadn't considered these things.

If he were to recruit a student to further his studies, what kind of person should he choose? He glanced at Salazar standing beside him and a sudden realization dawned on him: he needed to find someone as resourceful as Salazar to help him manage those overly energetic youngsters in the academy.

"My ideal student is one who is upright, loyal, persevering, honest, and unafraid of hardship—" Hufflepuff has high expectations for the character of his students.

Sarah glanced at her, thinking to herself, "Are you picking students or recruiting knights? If a Muggle who meets your requirements appeared in front of you, would you still accept him as a student?"

As for pursuing advanced studies, one must be from a wizarding family, possess exceptional talent, and ideally be diligent, intelligent, and courageous.

When Salazar announced his admissions criteria, Godric bluntly retorted, "Then you might as well just entrust all the students to your training! Why do you want everything? No way, you can only choose from your own academy!"

He was genuinely worried that Salazar would swindle away some of the best students from his academy.

Salazar smiled and agreed to Godric's restrictions, believing that the best students would only come from his own college.

In just a few words, the Hogwarts curriculum was established by its founders.

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"Royna, you have indeed found an heir who meets your requirements, but unfortunately, she has always lived in your shadow." Rice shook his head, genuinely feeling sorry for Helena and her daughter, Rowena.

After returning to the academy's common room from the underground seal, Rice briefly explained to Daphne where he had just been.

"You should know the ghost's identity, right?" He plopped down in the armchair and asked Daphne, who was sitting opposite him.

Daphne nodded.

That was the ghost of Ravenclaw House. Although she always called herself "Grey," well-informed people knew that she was actually Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter.

Daphne could guess why she had come to see Rice: she wanted Rice to take her to see her mother.

However, she couldn't understand why Rice refused to take her along, since she had met Ms. Ravenclaw before.

"By the way, you can explore this address if you're interested in the future. It's a gift from Helena to you." Rice handed over Helena's "sincere gift" to Daphne.

"The eighth floor of the castle...?" Daphne noted down the address and decided to visit there whenever she had time.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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Here's a picture of a young Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff:

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