Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

Zhang Xu's transformation into a living panda brought today's tea party to a climax.

It could be seen that the Owen family still had a lot of questions to ask, so he immediately changed back under the excited, surprised and slightly disappointed eyes of the family.

After Zhang Xu sat down on the chair again, Mr. Owen asked: "Mr. Zhang, what do you wizards think of us ordinary people you call Muggles?"

Zhang Xu took a sip of tea, and then said: "On this question, I have no intention of hiding some dark parts of the answer."

"On the whole, the attitude of wizards towards ordinary people is basically very friendly. Many wizards choose ordinary people as their partners in life. The new headmaster of our school, Professor McGonagall, her first love is a The son of an ordinary farmer. It’s just that for some reason, they didn’t get together in the end.”

"However, a small number of wizards will look down on or even discriminate against ordinary people who have no power in their eyes because they have mastered extraordinary power. In school, most of these people are just disrespectful in language. "

"However, generally speaking, the situation is developing for the better. Among the younger generation of wizards, the proportion of ordinary people who can treat ordinary people equally is getting higher and higher."

"And among the current students, the achievements of wizards whose parents are ordinary people are no less than those of wizards from wizard families who have been self-proclaimed for hundreds of years."

Zhang Xu spoke seriously, and Owen's family also listened seriously.He didn't hide from the Owen family that those pure-blood families discriminated against Muggle-born wizards, and described Hogwarts as a white lotus.Because these things cannot be hidden, and there is no need to hide them.

Before he came, he already had a general understanding of the Owen family.Mr. Owen is engaged in financial work, it can be said that he has dealt with nonsense all day long.Mrs. Owen teaches at Liverpool University and knows all about the stories and accidents under the water of the school.Although their understanding of the wizarding world is very unfamiliar, people have something in common, and they can easily tell whether they are telling the truth or lying.

"Well, it seems that discrimination is everywhere." Mr. Owen said with emotion, "big companies discriminate against small companies, and graduates of famous universities discriminate."

Amidst the gentle cough of his wife, Mr. Owen slammed on the brakes.

"If Michael went to Hogwarts, he wouldn't be hurt by those people." Mrs. Owen said with concern.

"It's enough to beat back like a man." Zhang Xu replied.

This answer is obviously in line with Mr. Owen's appetite. When he was young, he coincided with the victory of the Falklands War. Mrs. Thatcher's tough style of tit for tat obviously had a great impact on him.

"What about jobs after graduation?" Mrs. Owen asked. "We know from the books that wizards don't have many jobs after graduation."

To be honest, it's not easy for Zhang Xu to answer this question, because with the current social status of the Owen couple, they might not like those jobs in the magic world.

At this moment, Zhang Xu could only tell the truth.

"To be honest, I have always had reservations about working in the British wizarding world." Zhang Xu curled his lips.

Owen and his wife were surprised when they saw Zhang Xu's appearance, and then frowned slightly.Parents are very concerned about the future of their children.

Zhang Xu continued: "Graduates with excellent grades generally join the Ministry of Magic, which is the department where wizards manage wizards themselves."

"As for other students, let me put it this way, the current British magical society is still in the economic structure dominated by handicrafts before the first industrial revolution. Although this society is changing now, the speed of change is too slow. "

"In my personal opinion, I don't want Michael to live in that kind of lifeless world."

The Owens frowned.

Mrs. Owen said cautiously: "Then it will be difficult for us to agree to Michael's study at Hogwarts. We must be responsible for his future."

Zhang Xu understood Mrs. Owen's caution, because she was afraid of accidentally offending someone Zhang, and then being cast by him all kinds of weird magic.

Michael, who was sitting next to Zhang Xu, couldn't sit still, but he knew that at such a time, his parents' opinions must be taken seriously.

"I can understand your worries." Zhang Xu replied with a smile, "If I also have children, I will also have this idea."

"Mr. Zhang, just now you emphasized that what you said was the magical world, so can I understand that it would be different in the world of our ordinary people?" Accustomed to finding and discovering useful words in the other party's language during negotiations Mr. Owen, who is detail-oriented, immediately discovered something worthy of attention in Zhang Xu's words.

"Yes, some of the people in No. [-] Downing Street are wizards working for the British government." Zhang Xu nodded slightly and replied, "A member of the House of Lords I know is a member of the British royal family. Wizards who have served families for hundreds of years whose ancestors can be found in the history books. Besides that, I also know some wizards from the military and intelligence services."

The three views of the Owen couple have been refreshed, and Zhang Xu also took this opportunity to briefly popularize the history of this aspect to them.It took them a while to accept this fact.

At this time, Zhang Xu asked Mrs. Owen: "Mrs. Owen, I wonder if you have heard of the Prometheus project that the British government recently secretly implemented in the Red Brick University."

Mrs. Owen suddenly looked at Zhang Xu vigilantly. She had only heard about this plan a little bit, and this plan had a certain level of confidentiality. She knew about this plan because her mentor had accidentally mentioned it.The content of this plan is that "Red Brick University" will prepare to accept a group of extremely special students.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Owen suddenly had a flash of light in her mind. Could it be that the "extremely special student" refers to someone like her son? She glanced at her son silently, and then cast a questioning look at Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu met her gaze and nodded silently.

After getting an affirmative answer, Mrs. Owen breathed a sigh of relief.For her who has received higher education, her son will leave the society after only receiving a slightly better education than the five-year middle school, which is intolerable to her.Now that she knows that her son still has the opportunity to continue his higher education, she is finally relieved.

Owen and his son looked at the two people who didn't know what kind of riddle they were playing in a daze, and didn't know what this Mr. Zhang meant by the plan.

Then Mrs. Owen briefly explained the content of the plan to the father and son, and she couldn't explain it in detail, because she knew very little.

Regarding this, Mr. Zhang smiled and said nothing while drinking tea, because he also had some concerns about this plan.Over the past few years, many outstanding graduates from Hogwarts and Beauxbatons have traveled eastward for further studies, which has aroused the attention of the governments of Western Europe.After some deliberation, the governments of various countries have secretly launched their own wizard re-education programs.

As far as Zhang Xu knows, when the British plan was first formulated, relevant government departments quietly visited the vast majority of Muggle-born senior students in Hogwarts during the Christmas holiday last year and this summer vacation, asking for their opinions and suggestions. suggestion.

A few days ago, while Zhang was avoiding Harry's pursuit, Hermione secretly asked him for his opinion on this matter.At the same time she wondered why the government knew about her at Hogwarts.

For the first question, Mr. Zhang was supportive at the time. He always felt that Hermione's intelligence and talents could not be fully utilized by relying on the knowledge learned at Hogwarts. If she could go to a university for systematic education, then better.

As for the second question, the list of students is definitely not in Zhang's handwriting.He was a little pleased with the poaching of the corners of the British magical society.

As for the issue of competing with domestic universities for talents, it is useless to worry about it.The domestic instruction is to sell favors to the British government, and the quality of magic teaching in domestic universities is definitely better than that of British universities that have just started. In addition, the first batch of international students are preparing to graduate and return to the UK. Under their propaganda, they must have a huge competitive advantage.

After a while, Owen and his son were relieved after learning about the British government's movements from Mrs. Owen.