"Albus, why did you call us here?" After the deans of the four major colleges walked into the principal's office one after another, the leader, Professor McGonagall, asked Dumbledore, who was reading a letter.
"Ah, you are here, let's take a look!" Hearing Professor McGonagall's question, Dumbledore handed the letter in his hand to her.
Professor McGonagall took it doubtfully, but when she saw the stamp on the envelope, the color changed instantly.
"What? Does the Ministry of Magic want to reach into the school again?" Seeing Professor McGonagall's expression, Snape on the side couldn't help but frowned and asked.
"No, no, this is a letter from the church!" McGonagall shook her head, denying Snape's guess.
What? church? church?
After hearing Mag's words, several professors couldn't help but look at each other.
The church and the wizarding world have always been on good terms with each other, so why did they suddenly receive a letter?
"What did the letter say?" Snape frowned even more.
"The Ministry of Doctrine of the Church wants to have academic exchanges with Hogwarts and send the deputy head of the Knights of the Doctrine of the Faith to teach..." After reading the letter, Professor McGonagall said something that shocked everyone present. Very sad news.
Are you kidding me? Although the history of the Middle Ages, which was a catastrophe for wizards, was not actually the fault of the church—in fact, most of the witch-hunting tragedies were caused by local nobles in the name of the church.
But it was indeed because of that movement that the wizarding world established the Wizarding International Statute of Secrecy in the 17th century, officially withdrawing from the stage of history and completely isolated from the world of ordinary people.
So although the two sides are not enemies, it is pure nonsense to say that they have a good relationship.
There is even very little communication between them.
The best way for both parties to get along is to stay together until death.
But now, the church actually wants to have academic exchanges with Hogwarts and send people to teach?
This matter is not meaningless. Although the two forces have never interacted with each other, the church actually has its own wizard inheritance.
It's just that unlike the wizards in the wizarding world, the wizards of the church believe that the power of magic comes from the gift of God, and the two sides have differences on the source of magic.
Of course, with the passage of time, this difference is no longer a big contradiction.
So if the two sides can really start academic exchanges, it won't be a bad thing for Hogwarts.
But the premise is that there is no conspiracy here.
"There must be special purposes, but let's just say conspiracy. The church has no reason to target Hogwarts, and I still have a certain understanding of those old guys in the church." Regarding the professors' doubts, , Dumbledore shook his head.
Although the wizarding world has no connection with the church, Dumbledore, the greatest wizard of our time, still has certain contacts with the church's senior leaders.
There was also occasional collaboration in dealing with some extraordinary things in Europe.
So he knew very well that the church could not do anything excessive to Hogwarts, unless the church wanted to make the entire wizarding world an enemy.
"What did the Ministry of Magic say?" Snape asked. This matter seemed to be just an exchange between the Ministry of Doctrine and Hogwarts, but as the first formal exchange between the two forces in hundreds of years, its representatives The significance is also very important, and it is impossible for the Ministry of Magic not to know about it.
"What Fudge means is that he neither approves nor disapproves!" Dumbledore said with a sigh.
"Humph, as expected of Fudge, what a person who disagrees or disagrees!" Snape couldn't help but sneer after hearing Dumbledore's answer.
The so-called disapproval or disapproval actually means that if something goes wrong, you, Hogwarts, are responsible for it. But if this exchange is a complete success, the relationship between the church and the wizarding world will officially break the ice... Haha, Snape believes that the other party will be the first. Someone who jumps out to take credit.
This style of behavior is very consistent with the character of the Minister of Magic.
"What do you think of this matter?" Dumbledore did not go into depth on this topic, but asked the deans again for their opinions.
Professors Sprout and Flitwick both shook their heads.
Snape didn't speak either.
After all, from an academic point of view, this kind of thing is not a bad thing, and they naturally have no reason to object.
As for whether the deputy head of a church's Knights of the Doctrine of the Faith was qualified to teach at Hogwarts, they did not express much doubt.
The name of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith may be unfamiliar to those who do not know the Vatican.
But if you mention its predecessor, the Inquisition, it is a famous one.
It was only because of the stigma attached to the Inquisition in the Middle Ages and in modern times that it was changed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in modern times.
However, only the name has changed, but its functions and powers have continued without any change.
What also hasn't changed is the power it controls - magic.
Yes, in this magical world, the Inquisition is the department of the church that has always wielded extraordinary power. Its internal members are basically powerful wizards.
This is also the reason why the Inquisition has had great authority within the church since its establishment.
Because they are extraordinary beings.
The Knights of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the strongest armed force directly under it.
Its status is equivalent to the Executive Department of the British Ministry of Magic, and members of the Knights are equivalent to Aurors.
Therefore, the deputy leader of the Knights is at least at the level of Auror supervisor.
Such a person is obviously qualified to serve as a professor at Hogwarts.
"I don't object, I just don't know what kind of person the deputy leader is!" Professor McGonagall said.
"Actually... you all know this person!" Hearing McGonagall's words, Dumbledore showed a trace of hesitation on his face.
"We all know each other?" A trace of confusion flashed across the faces of several deans. Do they know any church members? How come they don't know.
"John Capet!" Then Dumbledore said a name.
"That child nine years ago?" Upon hearing this name, the faces of several deans also became strange.
That's right, among the deans, the owner of this name can indeed only be called a child, because the other person is only twenty years old, and everyone present, except Snape, can be regarded as the other person's grandparents.
The youngest Snape is already thirty-one years old, a generation older than the other person.
And they all knew this child as Dumbledore said.
Because nine years ago, the other party became famous throughout the UK.
Yes, all over Britain, not just the wizarding world.
Here is a piece of trivia, that is, in the past few hundred years, it was not only the wizarding world that had a bad relationship with the church, but also the British government.
As early as 1529, when King Henry VIII carried out the religious reform, Britain had severed diplomatic relations with the church. For more than 450 years, diplomatic relations were not re-established.
It was not until Pope John Paul II visited the UK in 1982 that the two sides formally re-established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.
It was in that year that an eleven-year-old British boy was appreciated by the Pope during the papal visit and was specially allowed to study at the Gregorian University, a theological school directly under the church in Rome.
This caused quite a stir throughout Britain at the time.
The deans knew about this child because it was the same year that he was supposed to be admitted to Hogwarts.
In other words, this John Capet should have been a student of Hogwarts.
But when given the choice between the two, the other party chose the church.
This is an extremely rare situation in the history of Hogwarts where a student who was admitted did not enter the college.
But now, such a child has become a high-level executive of another big force, and he has to come to Hogwarts to exchange and serve...
Several deans must have been somewhat unhappy in their hearts, and even began to regret agreeing too quickly.
Fortunately, none of them are the kind of people with narrow ideas, so they are not going to object to this matter again just because of this little bit of unpleasantness.
