The years of welding at Hogwarts

In the principal's office, an old man and a young man sat opposite each other.

Dumbledore looked at the hot breakfast in front of him with an inquiring look on his face.

"what is this?"

He used a table knife to cut a golden fried dough stick, revealing the fluffy white dough inside. The aroma whetted Dumbledore's appetite.

“This is fried dough sticks, an ancient oriental delicacy. You can try it.”

Noah pushed a cup of soy milk with white steam rising from it towards Dumbledore. "When tasting fried dough sticks, you must not miss its best partner."

The kitchen of Hogwarts Castle has more than a hundred house-elves as its backbone. As a foodie, how could Noah miss such a Feng Shui treasure land?

Before entering school, Noah had already conveyed an extremely important mission to Hydra -

Collect any and all oriental food recipes they can find, no matter which of the eight major cuisines, just collect all they can find.

With Hydra's current capabilities, if they were asked to go to the Alliance, which is about to collapse, to get a few nuclear bombs and transport them into the territory of Daying, that might be putting them in a difficult position.

But if it's just some common recipes, then it's easy to do.

During Noah's second night tour, he presented the gift package carefully prepared by the Hydra agents to the house-elves in the kitchen.

It’s just that there is some deviation between the actual situation and Noah’s ideal.

You can't expect a house-elf with little culture, whose ability to read is considered highly educated, to accurately grasp the meaning of the measurement terms on a recipe.

A little, moderate amount...

These vague measurement words almost drove the elves crazy.

So much so that Noah had to personally teach them, and so far the house elves in the kitchen have only mastered some simple

Oriental food recipes.

For example, soy milk, fried dough sticks and steamed dumplings.

　Dumbledore looked at the crispy golden dough in front of him, then looked at Noah who was taking it directly. He threw away the knife and fork in his hand without hesitation and picked up a fried dough stick directly with his hand.

Taking a bite of the fried dough stick and taking a sip of soy milk, feeling the saccharin taste in the soy milk, a look of happiness appeared on the face of the old bee who loved sweets.

Noah calmly picked up the cup of pure natural soy milk without saccharin in front of him and took a sip.

He doesn't want to have high blood sugar at a young age.

Young people should be nicer to their pancreas.

During the meal, Dumbledore said with a smile, "The suggestions you gave me some time ago have worked quite well after trying them for a while."

“You only adopted two of them.”

Noah picked up a soup dumpling, but did not put it to his mouth immediately. "Aren't you going to try to implement monthly exams in Hogwarts?"

"Hogwarts doesn't have that many people."

Dumbledore smacked his lips with a hint of regret, and signaled the house-elf to give him another cup of soy milk with saccharin.

"Just one new course has taken up a lot of Severus and Filius' time."

After swallowing the steamed bun in his mouth, Noah raised a finger and said, "This is not a problem. As long as you are willing to pay some gold galleons, it can be solved."

"Do you mean to expand the teaching staff of Hogwarts? But it is difficult for us to find excellent professors."

Noah looked at Dumbledore in surprise. "Why do you have to set the standard of professors' abilities so high? There is no need for that."

"Don't you think that it is a waste of the abilities of several senior professors at the dean's level to teach lower-level courses?"

Take Potions for example. Hogwarts students learn very little in their first two years.

Faced with this group of potion novices who were not even entry-level apprentices, the only things Snape could teach them were basically low-level potions such as scabies treatment potion, amnesia potion, and swelling-reducing potion.

With the students' knowledge, even if Snape wanted to teach them some advanced potions, he couldn't do it.

Students will spend a lot of their time in Potions class repeatedly practicing brewing these low-level potions in order to improve their potion-brewing skills.

Such simple teaching, even if a senior student with better Potions grades replaces Snape, can achieve the expected teaching goals well.

Just reading from a script.

Can’t you even read a PPT properly?

I can only say that you are a complete jerk. It is better not to mislead others here.

It would be a complete waste of Snape's time and talents to have him teach these younger students.

A Potions master of Snape's caliber could at least be a master's or doctoral supervisor in a university, or at least a full professor at an undergraduate level. So what's the point of teaching elementary school students like he is now?

The same is true for Charms.

From the time the first-year students entered school until Halloween, they did not learn a single spell. Every class was spent practicing the wand-waving gestures and spell pronunciations.

As long as you are not dumb or paralyzed, your mouth can open and speak clearly, your arms can wave the wand, and who doesn't know how to gesture and pronounce the spells?

For such a simple teaching task that even a non-magic Squib like Argus Filch could do, why did they actually use a former duelling champion like Professor Flitwick?

This is not nonsense.

There is no such thing as wasting manpower.

In the past thousand years, no Hogwarts headmaster has realized this problem. The thinking of these people in the wizarding world is so rigid and closed-minded.

I am so sad, the laws of our ancestors cannot be changed!

If it has changed, can it still be called Da Ying?

After listening to Noah's story, Dumbledore's pair of blue eyes became brighter.

"Your suggestion is indeed very good."

He sighed quietly, "We have indeed been in a blind spot in thinking before."

After eating and drinking, Noah picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth slowly.

"We can divide professors into three levels of titles according to their ability levels: junior professor, mid-level professor and senior professor."

“Junior professors can only teach first and second year students, while mid-level professors teach third and fourth year students.”

Although enlightenment education is very important for a magic apprentice, Noah feels that with the pitiful educational level of the magic world and when the overall educational environment is not well developed, it is not realistic to focus on enlightenment education first.

"As for senior professors like the four deans, they should be guiding senior students who are about to take OWLs and NEWTs."

"This is the only way to maximize the personal abilities of each professor, rather than wasting them on meaningless things."

Dumbledore looked at Noah, who was talking incessantly, with approval.

“At the same time, in addition to assessing students’ learning status, we also need to introduce assessments for professors.”

“The academic performance of the class you teach can be used as a direct indicator of your teaching ability.

In addition to direct response, academic research cannot be neglected.”

“The quantity and quality of papers produced can be used as an important indicator to judge the academic level of professors.”

"For example, if you want to become a senior professor of Transfiguration, you must have published a few articles in the highest academic journal in the field of Transfiguration, Transfiguration Today, right?"

The corners of Dumbledore's mouth began to twitch habitually.

If this standard is used, then at least two-thirds of the professors teaching elective courses at Hogwarts would be kicked to the bottom team of junior professors.

“We can also introduce a system of rewards and penalties.”

There was an evil curve at the corner of Noah's mouth.

"If a professor fails to meet teaching expectations for several consecutive years and his students' performance is not satisfactory, his title can be downgraded."

"When the job title can no longer be lowered, we can dismiss him and stop employing him. After all, we don't need incompetent mediocre people to drag down the teaching quality of Hogwarts."

Dumbledore's old face twitched even more violently.

"Professors' salaries are directly linked to their titles, and they can be given performance rewards if their students perform well."

After talking a lot, Noah closed his mouth with a feeling of being unsatisfied.

"Professor, this is all I can think of for now."

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Dumbledore tried to steer the topic in another direction with an awkward smile on his face.

"Your suggestion is good, but our most important task now is to free the deans from teaching lower-grade students..."

If Noah continues to do this, the teaching quality of Hogwarts will definitely rise to an unprecedented level.

but……

With all the rotten fish and scum on the Hogwarts faculty and staff, I'm afraid half of the professors will be fired.

Where can he find so many people to fill the gap?

Chapter 87 Dumbledore's Chicken Stolen

"The problem of insufficient manpower is easily solved, as long as you are willing to pay a few insignificant gold galleons."

With wizards having a much longer lifespan than Muggles, as long as they don't take the initiative to try some dangerous magical experiments, it is not a problem for them to live to 200 years old without any illness or disaster.

The problem brought about by such a long lifespan is the serious aging of the population and the extremely high degree of social involution.

Even a hundred-year-old wizard like Dumbledore still insisted on staying as the headmaster of Hogwarts and not retiring. Other wizards could naturally hold on to a stable job forever if they wanted to.

The magical world is such a small place, and the old guys are occupying the positions and refusing to let go. Where can young people get job opportunities?

Therefore, many students who graduate from Hogwarts face the dilemma of being unemployed after graduation.

In addition, pure-blood families firmly control most of the resources in the wizarding world, and many students find it difficult to find a decent job even if they have excellent abilities because of their Muggle origins.

These people are Noah's ideal workforce.

Noah didn't need them to have rich teaching experience, as long as they didn't return to the professor everything they learned in Hogwarts.

In such a situation, as long as Dumbledore was willing to pay some insignificant gold Galleons, these outstanding students of Muggle origin would naturally come forward to apply.

It's so hard to find a job, it's good enough to have one.

Not to mention that the recruiting company is Hogwarts.

It is the only magic school in the UK. All wizards in the British wizarding world come from here. The network of contacts is terrifyingly broad, and the alumni association is the entire wizarding world.

While having a semi-official background, the leader is Dumbledore, a big man who holds multiple positions including President of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot Society.

Where can I find such a powerful and authoritative recruitment agency?

Even if you pass the exam and become a civil servant in the Ministry of Magic, it may not be more popular than becoming a professor at Hogwarts.

So Noah was not afraid at all that Dumbledore would not be able to recruit anyone.

Except for the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

For other positions, even if Dumbledore didn't pay them a penny and only promised to provide them with food and accommodation, Noah believed that those job seekers would still come to his door crying and shouting to apply.

Do you understand the value of the Hogwarts name?

Even though its world ranking has dropped to seventh, in the eyes of all British wizards, Hogwarts is still the best magic school in the world.

Listening to Noah's well-reasoned analysis, Dumbledore's forehead was sweating even more heavily.

What kind of devils are the young people today?

Has the society outside evolved to such a point that an old man like him cannot understand it?

Dumbledore raised his arm and wiped his forehead with his sleeve, forcing out a somewhat stiff smile, "Isn't a salary of twenty gold Galleons a month a little too low..."

Noah looked at Dumbledore with a hint of disdain in his eyes, "That's the probationary salary."

"Hogwarts' education funding doesn't come from the wind. It is normal and necessary to set a probation period for these recruited professors."

"If the students he teaches during this one-year probation period do not perform well, we can simply dismiss him. After all, our goal is to improve the quality of teaching, not to allow some unscrupulous people to mess around.

Join our teaching staff and wait for death."

Although he felt something was not right, Dumbledore nodded and said, "That makes sense."

Then he reacted, "But what does this have to do with salary?"

Noah smiled smugly at Dumbledore's question.

"If a professor is capable enough to pass the assessment and stay, he or she will not mind the low salary in the first year."

"Because after they become full-time professors, they will be able to get a stable job as a Hogwarts professor, and their subsequent salary level will be the same as other professors."

"As Hogwarts provides them with three meals a day and accommodation, they will be able to live well even if they are not paid during the probation period."