Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

Zhang Xu immersed himself in his breakfast, ignoring the two people at the other table who were probably relatives of the Weasley family.They are not their relatives, so there is no need to go to say hello.

Going back to sleep after a full breakfast is a very happy thing, but Zhang Xu, who had been up all night, had just caught up on more than two hours of sleep when he was woken up by the sound of knocking on the glass window.

Depressed, Zhang Xu opened the window and let in a messenger owl.He removed the scroll of parchment from the owl's leg and found it to be a letter bearing the wax seal of the Ministry of Magic.Opening the letter, the content was that the Ministry of Magic held a meeting at the Ministry of Magic at three o'clock this afternoon on the candidate for the next headmaster of Hogwarts. The Ministry of Magic invited Zhang Xu to attend as one of the student representatives.

Annoyed at getting up, Zhang Xu took a label in the room, wrote on it "Always support the principal, whoever becomes the principal supports whom", rolled up the note and tied it to the owl's leg, and finally threw the owl out of the room. window.

He is not interested in participating in this kind of wrangling meeting now. Before the school board can make a sound, the Ministry of Magic jumped out impatiently.

However, an hour later, Zhang Xu was awakened by another sound, this time it was the ringtone of the mobile phone.

"Where are you?" Scarlet's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"In a dream." Zhang Xu replied in a daze.

The person on the other end of the phone ignored Zhang Xu's answer and continued, "The Ministry of Magic just sent me a letter."

"If the meeting was held for the principal candidate, I also received the sample letter." Zhang Xu replied half asleep.

"Then are you going?" Scarlet asked.

"I turned it down. I'd better not get involved in such a thing." Zhang Xu replied.

"Then I won't go either," Scarlet said.

Zhang Xu went on to say: "I don't have to go, because it's fine if I don't go. But you have to go, you are not afraid that the new principal will wear shoes for you."

"Ninety percent of the new headmaster is McGonagall, what am I afraid of?" Scarlet asked.

"The distribution of teaching funds." Zhang Xu said.

He spent three years in the faculty office, and some infighting among the professors was still clear.

Among the struggles among the Hogwarts faculty, the struggles between the deans over house points and the victory of Quidditch competitions are only a part, but the most competitive is the battle for teaching funds before the beginning of each academic year. .

Although the financial situation of Hogwarts has been very good in the past few years, and the teaching funds have increased year by year, this does not mean that the professors will not compete.On the contrary, the increase in funding has made the competition among professors more intense.

In the past, there was not much money, and everyone would consider others when they were fighting for it.

However, teaching funds are now several times higher than before, and the professors basically think "you can get a little more than before. That's not all you got here back then, just give me the rest."

In the past, in this war of dividing up teaching funds, there were two people who did not have to worry about this matter. One was Professor Binns and the other was Professor Zhang.

Professor Binns's History of Magic class is a purely theoretical class, and doesn't use any equipment or materials. The biggest application item on his funding application, which has not changed a single punctuation mark for many years, is to be in the rainy day when the light is not good. Candles for lighting in the classroom.

So in the past, Lao Deng approved the first application every year.

Professor Binns.

As for the former Professor Zhang, everyone did not forget the well digger. As long as the items on the application form he sent were not too excessive, everyone would recognize him.

And the next competition will be fierce. Fertilizers and other things used in herbal medicine class have to spend money. In order to improve the level of students in potion class, more money has to be invested in purchasing more advanced raw materials. There must be no shortage of feed for the animals. If the tea used in the divination class does not come from Assam, how dare it appear in the historic Hogwarts

The funding is fixed, and if you want to get more for yourself, you have to let others get less.

On the day when the professors discuss the allocation of funds, there are only two things to do: persuade the principal to approve their own application, and persuade the principal to reject other applications.

According to someone from Si, that time of year is really lively.Especially last year, Snape, who used to get a large part of the funding when he taught Potions, was liquidated by other professors after he changed to the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Snape used the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom as the basement with thick curtains drawn, so a lot of candles were needed for lighting.

Now the other professors caught the question on Snape's grant application.

Everyone has been taking classes in the classrooms upstairs for so many years, and they know how many candles they need for a school year. Why do you, Snape, apply for so many.

Then the professors collectively slashed at Snape's application.

In fact, Professor Si, like Professor Binns, does not need a lot of funds for pure theory courses, but it will not be too good if someone gets hacked for unwarranted reasons.

After being reminded by Zhang Xu, Si suddenly realized that he really had to take a trip.

"Where are you dreaming now?" Scarlet asked, "I'll go to your side first, the Burrow can't stay anymore."

Zhang Xu reported the name, location and room number of the hotel he was staying in.

Less than 5 minutes after hanging up the phone, Scarlet appeared in Zhang Xu's room.

"Why can't we stay at the Burrow?" Zhang Xu asked, yawning.

Scarlet didn't answer, but asked, "What did you do last night?"

Zhang Xu was relieved. The members of the Order of the Phoenix in the Burrow must be discussing his deal with Voldemort last night.The incident last night was really exciting for them, especially since it happened after Dumbledore's death. If the brain is big enough, this incident can at least draw 10,000+ words.

It was precisely because he needed to let them calm down before he could talk to them, that's why he didn't go to the Burrow for so long.

Zhang Xu looked at Scarlet and asked, "Do you believe me?"

"The only one I can trust now is you," Scarlet replied, "so I hope you don't hide some things from me."

Zhang Xu sighed, and said: "I will tell you what I can tell you now, and you will know the answer to some things that you can't tell now after ten years."

Then the two people in the room fell into silence.

The book does not go into details.

When it was two o'clock in the afternoon, Scarlet turned off the TV, glanced at Zhang Xu who was still catching up on sleep under the covers, picked up the application for suspension of school written by Zhang Xu last night in an envelope on the table, and left Room.