The years of welding at Hogwarts

The root of all evil in Hogwarts and the originator of military training.

Chapter 242 Warning from Dumbledore

When Noah received the letter from Professor McGonagall, he was confused.

During these ten days, because of the poor performance of a certain little Spider, Noah had to be like a certain Minister of the World Security Council. He had originally retired from the position of Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., but temporarily ran back to take on the responsibilities of Director.

He is already overwhelmed by the numerous tasks within SHIELD, so how can he have the extra energy and attention to pay attention to the turmoil in the wizarding world?

You tell me, how did I, Noah Shafrin, an ordinary second-year wizard, suddenly become an educational consultant at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

Yes, that's right.

The letter Professor McGonagall wrote to him was not just asking him to go back to school to discuss the pleasant torture of Hogwarts students in two months.

She also specially hired Noah as an educational consultant for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Although there has never been such a position in the school before...

That's no big deal.

This position will be available from now on.

Anyway, the salary she gave Noah was a symbolic gold Galleon, and it was an annual salary. Considering the wealth of the Lord of Kamar-Taj, even a copper Knut would not be a big deal.

Noah has no shortage of gold Galleons, and he is not interested in gold Galleons.

As for what this position was used for, Professor McGonagall did not mention it in her letter to Noah.

However, if we start with the term "consultant" itself, Noah's role should be to provide Professor McGonagall with various suggestions on all aspects of Hogwarts.

In other words, the Hogwarts education reform working group, which had previously only existed verbally in Dumbledore's mind, was finally to be officially established.

Just in time, the little spider that had been on strike had returned to her place.

He casually opened the drawer of the desk and threw Professor McGonagall's letter into it. Then, Noah took out a hanging ring from his inside pocket and put it on.

……

A tiny golden spark suddenly burst out from the void in front of the main entrance of Hogwarts Castle.

At a speed almost visible to the naked eye, the golden sparks quickly extended in an arc until they connected from beginning to end to form a rotating space door.

The main entrance to Hogwarts Castle is flanked by stone pillars topped with winged boars.

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Every time he entered or exited the main gate of the castle, Noah would complain about the shabby wall built by the school. Can't such an ancient and famous school with a thousand-year history even afford to build a decent wall?

Even the walls of some government office buildings in poor areas that Noah had seen in his previous life were much more magnificent than this one.

Moreover, Noah had observed it carefully and found not even the slightest trace of defensive magic.

Let's not talk about what role this wall, which is more than one person tall, can play when facing foreign invasion. Just the height of the wall is such that even without magic, one can easily climb over it with just a few running steps.

It can neither defend against foreign enemies nor prevent students from sneaking over the wall to go to Hogsmeade to play, so what is the point of this wall?

Do you define the area where Apparition is prohibited?

It seems that this is really possible. After all, Noah couldn't think of any other functions of this wall.

……

In the principal's office on the eighth floor of the castle, Noah looked at the familiar decoration of the room in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

Although he had thought about forcing Dumbledore to step down before, he didn't expect that Dumbledore would resign from the position of headmaster before he could even do it?

"Noah, I want to hear your opinion."

Professor McGonagall pushed up her square glasses.

"Although Hogwarts' most important responsibility, and also its only responsibility, is to educate its students."

"However, considering the current situation in the wizarding and non-magical worlds, I think it is obviously not enough to just train students to become qualified wizards."

When saying these words, Professor McGonagall looked very serious, and she did not look down on Noah just because he was only twelve years old.

She knew very well that the little wizard in front of her could not be simply judged by his age.

Hearing Professor McGonagall's words, Noah raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.

It seems that the Battle of London ten days ago brought more than just negative effects.

Although that disaster caused both worlds to pay a heavy price, it also successfully created a crack in the closed magical world, allowing wizards to open their eyes and see the ever-changing world before them.

"I agree with you, Professor McGonagall?"

Noah slowly sipped a sip of the honey grapefruit tea brought by the house elf, and then he said slowly, "What do you want to know?"

Even if one is willing to open his eyes and look at the wizards' neighbors, one can see how they have developed in the hundreds of years when the magic world was closed.

However, it is obviously impossible for Professor McGonagall, who has devoted all her heart and soul to education, to have a thorough understanding of the Muggle world in such a short time.

Professor McGonagall stood up silently and took out a shallow stone basin from the black cupboard behind her. The edge of the basin was carved with runes and some other strange symbols.

Although runes are not one of the many ancient scripts that Kamar-Taj mystics must master during their learning process.

But Noah also recognized the runes, or runic characters, which are the characters in Germanic mythology that Odin, the father of the gods, understood after hanging himself upside down on the world tree for nine days and nine nights while pondering the mysteries of the universe.

Asgard was virtually unknown until a certain son of Odin was exiled to New Mexico.

However, Kamar-Taj had dealt with Asgard a long time ago. To be precise, the two god-level bosses, Ancient One and Odin, knew each other.

So, as an orthodox disciple of Kamar-Taj, cross it out, Sorcerer Supreme.

There was nothing strange about Noah recognizing runes.

With a casual glance, Noah roughly recognized the meaning of the above runes, all of which were related to "memory" and "thought".

But he didn't need to identify it carefully, because he recognized this thing -

Noah turned his eyes away from the stone basin and looked up at Professor McGonagall. "Penney Basin."

"Yes, Noah, the Pensieve, an alchemical tool used by wizards to preserve thoughts and memories."

A strange silver substance was preserved in the shallow stone basin. It was difficult to determine whether it was liquid or gas because it was constantly changing its shape and rotating and moving.

Sometimes it creates ripples like the wind blowing across the water, and sometimes it disperses like clouds...

It is like light turning into liquid, or like wind condensing into solid, making it difficult to judge.

Looking at the silver substance floating in the meditation basin in front of her, a trace of sadness passed through Professor McGonagall's brow.

"Just after Albus announced his resignation as the headmaster of Hogwarts, I received a message from his Patronus."

She frowned. "This memory in the Pensieve is what he left for me. No, to be more precise, it is what he left for the entire wizarding world..."

"A paragraph of what?"

Professor McGonagall's expression was particularly serious. "Warning."

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Noah only felt that he was falling rapidly in a cold and dark substance, with no foothold under his feet, as if it was an endless void.

Just like empty.

Fortunately, this feeling soon stopped, and when the feeling of groundedness reached his brain through his nerves, Noah found himself in a circular stand.

The enclosed stone dome gave people an eerie feeling, as if this was an underground tomb.

And that's exactly what happened.

Although Noah himself had never visited this place in person, he was not unfamiliar with it.

Père Lachaise Cemetery.

The surrounding stands were densely packed with wizards in various costumes, all of whom had a fanatical expression on their faces.

Their eyes were focused on the figure in the circular area below.

She was wearing a black double-breasted tweed coat, a shirt and handmade vest in the same color, silver buttons, and long riding boots. She was dressed so exquisitely that she looked like a fashion icon from the fashion capital of Paris.

The white hair that stood up, the iconic heterochromatic eyes, and the face that was still as handsome as ever despite being a little old...

Gellert Grindelwald.

"My brothers, my sisters, my friends..."

Hearing this familiar opening remark, from an angle that Professor McGonagall couldn't see, the corners of Noah's mouth twitched slightly.

He said that when they held the first meeting of the Kamar-Taj Academic Exchange Conference, his opening remarks were so fluent that they seemed to be engraved in his DNA.

It turns out there is a genetic factor involved.

“Some people say that I hate No-Maj…”

Grindelwald's voice sounded a little deep.

"Muggles, people who can't cast spells..."

At this point, he shook his head slightly, "No, I don't hate them, not at all."

"Because I don't fight for hate."

Grindelwald's deep and magnetic voice seemed to possess some kind of magic, attracting his listeners and fanatics and driving their emotions.

"In my opinion, Muggles are not a minority, but something else; not worthless, but something else."

“They should not be treated arbitrarily but should be treated differently.”

Pacing back and forth in the center of the circular venue, looking at the expressions on the faces of the audience, Grindelwald raised his eyebrows slightly and raised his arm to draw an arc at his side.

"Magic blooms only in a few rare souls..."

While Grindelwald was giving his speech, Professor McGonagall was secretly observing Noah's reaction.

Regarding Noah's life experience, since being nominated by Dumbledore to become the headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall is no longer like before. Almost all important things are kept in the dark by Dumbledore and Snape, two bastards who are in cahoots with each other.

Dumbledore's Patronus did not just tell Professor McGonagall that there was a message from him in the Pensieve.

There are other more important things that Professor McGonagall didn't know before, such as Noah Shafrin's true life experience and the prophecy about the fate of Harry and Voldemort...

The memories of these trivial matters had long been extracted by Dumbledore and placed in the Pensieve, and Professor McGonagall had already looked through them all.

It’s better not to watch.

After Professor McGonagall read all the memories that Dumbledore left in the Pensieve, she really wanted to rush to the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade and capture Aberforth, the old bee's younger brother.

You are amazing!

You are noble!

Old Bee, do you usually hide so many things from me?

It's all thanks to me that I have worked diligently for the Order of the Phoenix and Hogwarts for so many years, and invested countless efforts and energy in it.

I'm also the Deputy Headmaster of Hogwarts!

And Snape, who was just a double agent who switched from the Death Eaters to the enemy side, is now just the headmaster of Slytherin House.

Besides, who can guarantee that the secrets Dumbledore is revealing now are all the secrets he has buried in his heart for so many years.

Or is this just the tip of the iceberg?

Then again...

Why should Aberforth Dumbledore be arrested for the things that Albus Dumbledore committed?

Because that damn old bee can’t find anyone right now.

If there is no plan to capture Albus and beat him up, then just capture his brother and beat him up first, and then use Aberforth's life to threaten Dumbledore to show up.

Of course, given Professor McGonagall's understanding of the relationship between the two brothers, Dumbledore would most likely only:

"As if! Open the champagne!"

Grindelwald's speech was still going on, and an elegant lady with a strong French style in her every move brought a skull to Grindelwald.

"It's time for me to show you the future as I see it."