Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 179 Terrible Facts

  History of Magic is really boring. During the class, the students in the whole classroom were drowsy, and they didn't regain their vitality until the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

   During the period before dinner, Albert was going to write a reply to others. The advantage of maintaining correspondence with those famous wizards is that when discussing and researching a certain field, the experience will increase very quickly, but the price you need to pay is to spend a lot of time and energy writing replies.

   After all, we are all professionals, and apart from simple greetings, most of the contents of the letters are academic issues or opinions on a certain field.

  To be honest, such a letter is much higher than writing a manuscript for an academic journal, but the content is a bit irregular.

   But no one really cares about this issue. For them, it is enough to be able to explain clearly.

  Albert often mentioned some of his own doubts and novel viewpoints in the letter, and the other party would be happy to help answer and discuss if they could.

   Albert was dining alone in the auditorium, Fred and George went to participate in the selection of Quidditch players, and Lee Jordan went to cheer them on and watch the selection process by the way.

  After dinner, Albert went back to the Gryffindor lounge, put his schoolbag back in the library, and then appeared in front of the stone monster at the entrance of the principal's office before seven o'clock in the evening.

   "Mead." Albert said the password to the stone monster.

  The stone monster suddenly came to life, and jumped aside, revealing the gap hidden behind it.

   Albert passed through the gap in the wall and stepped up the spiral stone staircase. The monster blocked the gap again, and the stone staircase began to rise slowly, sending him to a wooden door with a brass knocker.

   "Is this a magic version of the elevator?" Albert couldn't help muttering, took out his pocket watch from his pocket, checked the time, and knocked on the wooden door of Dumbledore's office on time.

  The next moment, the door of the office opened.

   "Good evening, Headmaster." Albert nodded slightly towards Dumbledore.

   "Come in, Mr. Anderson." Dumbledore smiled.

  This was Albert's first visit to the headmaster's office. Inside was a circular room with photos of previous Hogwarts headmasters hanging on the wall. The portraits were all pretending to be asleep.

   Albert is not the only visitor in this office, which is not beyond his expectation.

   Hurtock Dagworth arrived early.

   "Hetok told me that there was some small misunderstanding between you." Dumbledore said to Albert, "He hopes to sit down and chat with you calmly. You don't mind, do you?"

   "Yes, a small misunderstanding." Albert nodded and said, "I also hope that this matter can be resolved smoothly."

   "That's really great." Dumbledore asked happily, "What do you want to drink?"

   "No, no need. After all, he is a master of potions." Albert's tone was very calm, but Dumbledore couldn't help raising his eyebrows, obviously hearing what Albert meant.

  Hettok Dagworth is a master of potions.

  Who knows if he might put something in his drink?

  Example: Veritaserum.

   "Oh, that's a pity." Dumbledore glanced at the silent Hutok, not too optimistic about the outcome of this meeting.

  The relationship between the two parties is no longer unfriendly as Hetok said.

"I went to the Ministry of Magic two days ago." Hattock finally spoke, "I went to talk to the other party about it, but that short, fat, ugly woman just didn't want to admit it, and she didn't want to apologize. "

   "I suddenly lost my hearing just now." Dumbledore pretended that he didn't hear what Hutok said.

   "That's a pity." Albert shrugged his shoulders, but there was no regret in the words on that expressionless face.

   "One hundred, no, five hundred Galleons." Hattock offered his own price, "I really can't do anything about the Ministry of Magic."

   "Why don't you bribe the other party?" Albert asked curiously.

"I'd rather give you this money than that annoying ugly woman." Hetok showed a disgusted expression on his face, obviously he didn't like the woman in his mouth: "One thousand galleons, the gold membership card Pay me back."

   "I see." Albert nodded and said, "10,000 Galleons, I will return the card to you."

   "Ten thousand Galleons, are you crazy? This is a blatant extortion." Hetok's face flushed instantly, and he was almost irritated by Albert's words. He felt that he was sincere enough.

   "Yes, I am indeed blackmailing you now." Albert admitted directly.

  Hertok's heart was filled with this remark, and even Dumbledore couldn't help raising his eyebrows. The two of them never thought that Albert would admit it so simply.

   "Mr. Anderson, how can you be willing to return the gold membership card to Hutok?" Dumbledore interrupted and asked.

"It's very simple, Dagworth solves the trouble he caused, and the director of the Prohibition of Abuse of Magic Office personally apologized to me in a letter." Albert stated his conditions, and stretched his hand to Dumbledore helplessly and said: "I I don’t think I’m asking too much.”

   "That's it?" Dumbledore frowned. He had already noticed that Albert called Hutok's surname directly, and he obviously didn't have any affection for him.

"It's always been, I just need Dagworth to solve the trouble he caused for me, and I will return the gold card to him, no Garen or any thanks." Albert asked back, " Fair enough, isn't it, Headmaster Dumbledore."

"It is indeed like this." Dumbledore admitted that Albert's approach was fine, and he couldn't find any faults at all, because the other party's request was completely reasonable, which made people feel that everything was Hutok deliberately looking for trouble .

   "Sometimes, problems can't be solved with reason." Hetok said angrily.

   "I know, so I didn't reason with you. I'm threatening you now." When Albert said the threat, it was as if he was telling someone what to eat today.

   "Mr. Anderson..." Dumbledore knew that this was the only way to go. Unless Hutok fulfilled the not-too-excessive request, he would never get that gold membership card back.

"I know what you mean, Professor Dumbledore, unfortunately, I don't see the slightest sincerity in Dagworth." Albert's voice was very calm, and it was because of his calm that Hutok felt Deep anxiety, "In my opinion, face is given to each other. If Dagworth doesn't give me face, you still expect me to give him face?"

  Dumbledore was very surprised. To be honest, he had a good impression of Albert, but he never thought that the young boy in front of him would have such a tough side.

   "As I said, I have already gone to the director of the Prohibited Misuse of Magic Office, but she disagrees, and there is nothing I can do." Hetok gradually calmed down.

   "Then use a special method." Albert said.

   "Special way?" repeated Hattok.

"If the director of the Prohibition of Misuse of Magic Office is still unwilling to apologize for the mistakes, just let the new director apologize." Albert said calmly, "You can go to the Daily Prophet to publish an apology paper, and all the mistakes Push it to the head of the Prohibited Misuse of Magic Office. Anyway, this matter itself is the fault of the Ministry of Magic, and it is also the fault of the Director of the Prohibited Misuse of Magic Office. If you don't know how to use this matter well, I can give You recommend a reporter, she is very good at this kind of thing, as long as you are willing to pay a little Galleon as a fee."

   Not only Hutok's eyes widened, but even Dumbledore looked at Albert in surprise.

   "Don't look at me like that, I'm just telling the truth." Albert shrugged. "Of course, I don't want staff from the Ministry of Magic to appear near my house afterwards. To be honest, I have never doubted the behavior of those people from the Ministry of Magic."

  Hetok suddenly felt chills all over his body.

  The boy in front of him was just telling the truth. However, the fact that he said in such a calm tone made Hetok feel very bad.

  He even felt that if he used a strong method, maybe the other party had already thought of how to deal with him.

   Like he said, it is true.

   Horrible truth.

"I know what to do." Hetok was silent for a long time, nodded and said: "Although I can't understand why you want that **** letter of apology, I think you will soon receive a letter from the Ministry of Magic prohibiting the abuse of magic." A personal letter of apology from the head of the office."

   "You want to know why I want it?" Albert squinted his eyes at Hutok, and then looked sideways at Dumbledore.

  The latter seemed very interested.

  Hetok also nodded.

   "This incident is not my fault, why should I endure such a result? Why should I have to pay for the mistakes of the Ministry of Magic?" Albert asked back.

  Hetok opened his mouth, but did not speak.

"If you made a mistake, just apologize to me obediently. This is already the cheapest and most peaceful solution." Albert raised the corners of his mouth contemptuously, "My family told me since I was a child that when others are unwilling to use peaceful If you want to solve the problem in the same way, then you don’t have to be polite, just go up and punch the other party, until he is willing to solve the problem peacefully on his own initiative.”

  Whether it was Dumbledore or Huttock, the expressions on their faces froze.

  Of course, they don't think there is a problem with Albert's tutor, after all, he is still willing to solve the problem peacefully first.

   It's just that this kind of thing happened to Hetok, which really gave him a headache. He found that he was the unlucky guy whose face was covered with fists.

"Why don't you want Galleons? A thousand Galleons is a lot of money for anyone?" After Hetok was relieved, he was not in a hurry to leave, and sat down with Albert chat.

  As Albert said, if you give me face, I will also give you face.

   "Knowledge is the greatest wealth of human beings." Albert said without thinking.

  Hetok was stunned for a moment, but he heard the other party continue, "This means that knowledge is equal to wealth. As long as you have enough knowledge and find the right way, you can quickly turn it into wealth."

  Hetok was speechless. Although he felt that this statement was far-fetched, he knew that he was persuaded by the other party.

  Albert is an expert in runes, which means that what he said is actually his confidence in himself.

"Now I understand why Brod is optimistic about you. His vision of seeing people is indeed beyond my reach." Hetok said with emotion, and stretched out his hand towards Albert: "I will soon deal with this matter." It will be resolved, if you are interested in potions or have any questions, you can write to me."

   "If there is, I will write to you, Mr. Dagworth." Albert nodded.

"If you don't like the Ministry of Magic, you can solve it yourself. I believe that with your talent, you can become the Minister of Magic within thirty years at the latest." Before leaving, Hetok suddenly turned around and said: " Brod's circle is wider than you can imagine."

   "I'm not interested in that stuff."

   "That's a pity!" Hutok disappeared into the fireplace.

   "It seems that this matter has been perfectly resolved." Dumbledore looked at Albert with a smile, "I think Felius will be very disappointed that you didn't go to Ravenclaw."

   "Except for Slytherin College, the rest of the colleges are suitable for me." After Albert finished speaking, he turned and left.

  (end of this chapter)