The years of welding at Hogwarts

While this greatly reduced the difficulty of wizards casting spells, it also fostered their laziness.

Since magic can be released with hands and mouth, why should I spend so much effort to control my magic power, understand the formation process of a successful magic, and study those extremely obscure basic principles of magic?

A great wizard in the East who participated in the Second Global Wizarding War and shone brilliantly in the Battle of Pinglegrad said it well -

"Study? What a waste of time!"

It is precisely because of the existence of this kind of thinking that the self-contained magic world is becoming more and more backward.

Once upon a time, when the shadow of Gellert Grindelwald loomed over the European and American wizarding world, every Auror in the Ministry of Magic was a highly trained elite wizard who was proficient in a large number of offensive and defensive spells.

In addition to combat, they also need to have in-depth research and mastery of poisons and their corresponding antidotes in potions, Transfiguration and Herbology, camouflage, lurking and infiltration, and must perform well in order to become a formal Auror.

It's not just the Aurors who have to face dangerous dark wizards on the front line, even the clerical positions in the Ministry of Magic have extremely high requirements for the personal abilities of wizards.

And now?

It is rumored that 30% of the employees in the British Ministry of Magic cannot even cast a Shield Charm, and this most common defensive spell is only taught in the fifth-year Defense Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts.

Any Auror from the time of Grindelwald could be put into the current Auror office and be able to fight ten people at once.

This

Wave, this wave belongs to the orthodox Qing Dynasty in the magic world.

……

After temporarily not being able to think of anything else to criticize, Noah finally ended his speech with a sense of unfulfilled desire.

As for Gwen next to her, today was only her first day at Hogwarts.

Having only attended two Charms classes, one Transfiguration class and one Care of Magical Creatures class, she had no say in such matters, so she just listened silently.

"So, Mr. Shafrin, do you have any good ideas?"

"I think we should add an extra adaptation process for these freshmen who have absolutely no magic foundation before they start their formal courses."

Noah raised a finger. "A more accurate term would be enlightenment learning. Preschool education is also a very appropriate description."

Professor McGonagall: ???

Enlightenment education? What the hell?

"Lower the age of new students entering Hogwarts by one year, or change the school system of Hogwarts to eight years."

"In the first year of freshmen's enrollment, they will not receive any formal courses. The only thing we have to do is to teach them to sense, control and make good use of the magic in their bodies."

"If they can learn how to use magic to replace their own eyes, to perceive the magic performed by professors in class, and understand how a magic is created from nothing..."

Although living in a closed-minded wizarding world, the open-minded Professor McGonagall can still roughly understand Noah's thoughts.

Professor McGonagall shook her head. "I will discuss your idea with the other deans, but I personally think that the chances of this proposal being passed are very slim."

"Have you ever thought that many young wizards do not have such outstanding magical talents like you?"

"A course that is too difficult will not only fail to achieve the desired goal, but will have the opposite effect."

Beside her, Gwen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up.

"We can set up a separate elite class for those young wizards with outstanding talents, just like the NEWTs advanced classes for sixth and seventh graders, and offer them more difficult courses."

Although this differential treatment is somewhat unfair to those students with less talent, it can indeed enable those more talented young wizards to grow better.

Professor McGonagall's expression was firm, "Dumbledore would not agree to that."

There was no disappointment on Noah's face, he had already guessed this result.

While this differential treatment brings benefits to talented young wizards, it will also cause rifts between different groups and give rise to a class differentiation similar to the Asan caste system.

That hypocritical old Bee Deng would never want to see this kind of situation happen.

But if we bypass Dumbledore and make a proposal directly to the Board of Directors...

The directors of the school board are all from pure-blood families. Compared with those Muggle wizards, they have more resources in the wizarding world and will definitely be inclined to Noah's proposal.

After all, this will make their position more solid.

They can use various means to get their own children into elite classes so that they can receive a better education without having to mix with those Muggle-born Mudbloods.

As for those peasants who have no connections and no resources, they deserve to be third-class people all their lives.

This is something that will definitely happen if the elite class system is established and not controlled.

That completely deviates from Noah's original intention of selecting elites from among the students.

However, even if we assume that every pure-blood wizard who holds a crucial position in the wizarding world and has a firm say is a selfless saint, the board's approach will still not work.

The Board of Directors seemed to have a great deal of say in Hogwarts, but that was only because the suggestions they made did not conflict with Dumbledore's position, so Dumbledore took a laissez-faire attitude towards their behavior.

If the two sides really cannot reach a consensus, Dumbledore will definitely have the absolute final say.

This is also why the board of directors usually doesn't bother to interfere in the internal affairs of Hogwarts, because it is useless.

Moreover, Noah also did not want to see reliance on third-party forces to intervene in the affairs of Hogwarts. What he wanted was to bring the entire Hogwarts under his own control and make it a training base for Hydra's reserve talents.

In fact, he is already doing this.

Kamar-Taj was created for this purpose.

However, it is still too early to promote this practice to the entire Hogwarts School, or even the entire magical world.

As for cooperating with those pure-blood families who were backward-thinking and self-contained, that was something Noah would not and could not consider.

In that case, he might as well just go straight to Dumbledore and tell him his ill intentions.

Thinking of this, Noah raised his eyebrows slightly.

So, Gellert Grindelwald, when are you gonna die?

Chapter 165 The Gospel of Furikong

Perhaps he realized that these proposals put forward by Noah were impossible to achieve given the current situation of Hogwarts and even the wizarding world.

The Arabian Nights.

So Professor McGonagall wisely chose to change the subject and no longer focused the conversation on further reforms to Hogwarts' education methods.

Instead, he forced the topic to a point that all students were reluctant to mention when facing the teacher.

"How's your progress with Animagus studies?"

Touching the back of his head, Noah laughed awkwardly, "I have no idea what human body deformation is right now."

Although it was a bit unfair to say this about the special treatment Professor McGonagall gave him and Gwen during Christmas, Noah really had no idea what Animagus was.

His understanding of the world is more inclined to the materialistic perspective of Muggles, rather than the extreme idealism of wizards.

Therefore, when faced with such an idealistic magic as Transfiguration, except for the transformation of inanimate objects that they were exposed to at the beginning, such as the transformation of matches into silver needles, his learning speed was completely inconsistent with the talent he had previously displayed.

He had no idea how to convert human cells into the body cells of another animal.

Professor McGonagall sighed.

"Perhaps you should put your energy back into Transfiguration. You are the most talented student in Transfiguration I have ever seen."

It can be seen that Professor McGonagall is obviously not very satisfied with some of Noah's actions.

For example, being obsessed with making staffs.

During the Christmas holidays, she saw with her own eyes that Noah, a young wizard with an incredible imagination, had come up with all kinds of tricks by himself, including the sound generator hanging on Fawkes' neck and the outrageous war hammer given to Longbottom...

Apparently, she thought that Noah would encounter this kind of problem mainly because of playing Genshin Impact.

Phew, it’s mainly because of distraction.

No matter how talented a wizard is, if he is unwilling to calm down and focus on studying a certain subject, how can he effectively improve in this subject?

This time, it's Professor McGonagall's home court.

She first asked a group of silent little spiders nearby about how she had mastered Transfiguration, and then cited the learning progress of Fawkes, who was not even a wizard, as an example.

Then she began to preach to Noah.

When Noah came out of the older cat girl's office, he was still frightened.

He was never going to talk to Professor McGonagall about anything related to study again.

Standing in the corridor outside the Transfiguration Office on the second floor, Noah's thoughts began to wander uncontrollably, "Speaking of which..."

"What's wrong?" Gwen glanced at him.

"Does lizard serum count as a form of cross-species transformation?"

Noah, with his imagination opening up, looked at Gwen in front of him with sparkling eyes, "Can you make lizard serum?"

"Don't let your imagination run wild. Even if I could, I wouldn't make that thing for you."

It was one thing to join Hydra and cooperate with Hydra researchers to study the spider serum in her body, but it was another thing to take the initiative to make the lizard serum and give it to Noah.

Who knows if this evil Shaforin kid, who rarely speaks the truth, will use this excuse to trick the lizard serum into his hands and then hand it over to Hydra's people for mass production?

Gwen didn't want to wake up one day and see the whole Hogwarts filled with lizard people.

"Well, I don't need it anyway."

Noah spread his hands. He was very self-aware of Spider-Man's distrust and did not intend to make any excuses.

He came up with a better idea -

When you are in doubt, just go to Snape.

When Professor McGonagall can't provide a clear solution to her dilemma, why not ask the magical bat hiding underground?

However, before that, he had one more thing to do.

As soon as he stepped out of Professor McGonagall's office, Noah turned around and knocked on Professor McGonagall's door again.

"Noah? Is there anything else you want?"

Looking up at the older cat girl in front of him, Noah showed an innocent smile.

"I want to borrow a book called "Powerful Potion" from the restricted section. Can you give me a slip?"

……

Seeing Noah easily getting a note from Professor McGonagall that many senior students found difficult to obtain, Gwen's face looked a little strange for some reason.

Perhaps the scene before me is somewhat familiar——

Two months ago, she was deceived by a little boy's fake innocent smile and fell into his trap. She unknowingly stepped into the enemy's lair and drank the water given to her by the enemy.

Then he was brought down.

Locked in a dark room for a whole month!

One month!

If it weren't for the fact that that terrifying leader of the magic world was suspected to be involved with Dr. Lizard, posing a huge threat to the peace of the magic world, Noah wouldn't even have remembered that there might be someone like her imprisoned in Hydra's base!

Ignoring Gwen, who was sulking alone for some unknown reason, Noah turned straight into the dull and quiet library.

When he handed the note given to him by Professor McGonagall to the librarian, Madam Pince, the vulture guard who valued books more than life,

Wei looked at Noah back and forth with a gaze that was as if he was investigating three generations of his ancestors.

"Ma'am, what's the problem?"

"Powerful Potion? This is not something a first-year student like you can get access to."

She held a highly skeptical attitude and tried hard to examine the approval slip in Noah's hand, hoping to find some signs of fraud on it, but ultimately failed.

"Also, you can just call me Madam Pince."

She grabbed the approval slip from Noah's hand and held it up to the light, just like she was verifying the authenticity of a banknote, except for holding it under the purple light.

"Just Pince? Like, Adele..."

Facing Madam Pince's cold gaze, Noah, who was playing a joke, lowered his voice gradually, "Or, Aristotle? Drake? Bono? Um?"

Madam Pince didn't even look at him again and walked straight into the restricted book area that was blocked by layers of magic.

A few minutes later, she came to Noah with a thick book that seemed to be moldy, and handed the book to him reluctantly.

Without leaving the library, Noah directly spread out the thick tome in the study area of ​​the library, and quickly found the part about Polyjuice Potion following the instructions in the catalog.

According to the records in the book, the polyjuice potion can transform a person into any other person, as long as the hair or other body tissues of the transformed object are added to the prepared potion.

But it cannot transform a person into an animal, nor can it shapeshift non-humans or semi-humans.