At night, when Harry Potter in the foster care center fell asleep with a smile on his face, there was a knock on the door of John's house.
"Professor Dumbledore?" John's face was full of surprise when he opened the door, but what he was thinking in his mind was that he was indeed here.
He had already expected Dumbledore's visit.
After all, it was the church that took away Harry Potter, destroying Dumbledore's arrangements for Harry.
John, who has the closest relationship with the church and the magic world, and who wants to enter Hogwarts during this critical period, naturally became the first suspect.
"Mr. Capet seems surprised by my visit?" Dumbledore asked, squinting his eyes and observing John's expression.
"Oh, of course. After all, I just met Professor McGonagall yesterday, and I didn't expect you to come today. Has Hogwarts already made arrangements for me to teach?" In terms of John's age, even if he adds his previous life, he is still No match for the old fox Dumbledore.
But in terms of speaking to people and speaking to ghosts, John thinks he is pretty good.
He really wasn't worried about what the other party could see from his expression.
As for whether the other party can use Legilimency?
Haha, John said you can give it a try.
In fact, Dumbledore really couldn't see any flaws in John's expression, so he couldn't accuse John directly and could only go along with what he said.
"There are indeed new arrangements. What does Mr. Capet think of History of Magic?" Dumbledore said.
"History of Magic?" This was really beyond John's expectation.
There are 14 courses in Hogwarts.
Required courses include Potions, History of Magic, Astronomy, Herbology, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration.
There are only two compulsory courses, which are flight lessons (only available to first-year students) and Apparition training classes (must be 17 years or older).
There are five elective courses, including Divination, Arithmetic Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Rune Studies and Muggle Studies.
What John wants is to be a professor of a required course.
But this is actually difficult.
Because the professors of the required courses rarely change.
In particular, the four subjects of Potions, Herbalism, Charms and Transfiguration are taught by four deans respectively, so it is impossible to change them.
And History of Magic and Astronomy are also difficult.
The professor of the former is an old ghost who has lived for who knows how many centuries. John is not qualified to compare with him. In the latter, John is not proficient.
So what he could make up his mind before was the defense against dark arts.
But he didn't expect that Hogwarts would still decide on Quirrell a few months earlier than the plot.
But there was nothing he could do about it. After all, Quirrell was a professor at Hogwarts, so his advantage would definitely be greater.
So yesterday, although he proposed to Professor McGonagall that he wanted to be a professor of compulsory courses, he had actually made preparations to accept the position of professor of elective courses.
What I didn't expect was that the other party actually freed up a subject called History of Magic.
"Yes, History of Magic. Although Professor Binns has made long-term contributions to the education of Hogwarts, in recent years more and more students have reported that his teaching methods are too old-school and single-minded, so we decided Make an attempt to make some slight changes to this course. You will be the History of Magic professor for the first to third years, while Professor Binns will continue to teach the upper grades." Dumbledore explained, "What do you think? "
"Of course there is no problem!" Faced with this appointment, John couldn't be more satisfied. If he remembered correctly, Cedric, the oldest on the task list, is in the third grade this year.
So this appointment just gave him everyone on the to-do list except those who were not yet old enough to start school.
As for whether John is qualified to be a professor in this subject, there is no need to question - the learning materials for church wizards also include related books published by the wizarding world, and the original teaching method of Professor Binns was nothing more than a script.
So as long as he prepared a little for the course, John would have no pressure at all to take this course.
It can be said that this is Hogwarts' care for him, an outsider.
"So, does Professor Capet have any requirements for a textbook on the history of magic?" Seeing that John had no objection, Dumbledore asked in a routine manner, and directly changed his name to John.
"No, I think the textbooks that Professor Binns chose before are very good!" John didn't really go to school to teach - that's not right. It should be said that the content he really wanted to teach was not history, so it didn't matter at all. What textbook, naturally there is no need to make trouble for yourself.
"Then when will Professor Capet have time to go to Hogwarts in advance, so that Professor McGonagall can arrange the corresponding entry matters for you!" Dumbledore nodded and asked.
"I basically have time!" John replied.
"What about the day after tomorrow?" Dumbledore thought for a moment and asked.
"no problem!"
"Speaking of which, Professor Capet should know something about the catastrophe in the wizarding world eleven years ago, right?" After saying "Business," Dumbledore began to beat John's drum again.
"The professor is talking about Voldemort?" John said the title directly.
This made Dumbledore look at John a little surprised.
After all, there are not many people in the entire magic world who dare to say this title directly.
In order not to cause panic, the righteous wizard called him the mysterious man.
Ordinary wizards fear him and call him He Who Must Not Be Named.
His followers call him the Dark Lord.
Generally speaking, those who directly call out Voldemort are those who are not afraid of the other party and are not followers of the other party.
"That's right!" Dumbledore nodded.
"Of course, although I was still a child at the time, I had been in the church for so many years and knew a lot about what happened back then. Why did the professor ask this?" John asked knowingly.
"Then do you know Harry Potter?" Dumbledore continued to ask.
"I know something about the child who was said to have killed Voldemort and was regarded as the savior by many people... Haha, I'm sorry, Professor, but I do think this is quite ridiculous! A baby killed a powerful dark wizard? That's not as good as that. It makes me feel more believable that the child is the Son of God!" John said with a sneer.
"...Oh? Then what do you think of what happened back then? The fact is that only that child was left alive at the scene!" John's disdain for Harry Potter's title of savior did not make Dumbledore angry, but rather touched. asked unexpectedly.
"Yes, the child may indeed be the only one alive at the scene, but not before that!" John said bluntly.
"What do you mean?" Dumbledore narrowed his eyes.
"The child's mother... No one knows how powerful a mother can be when she is trying to protect her child... So rather than saying that the child killed Voldemort, I believe it was the great mother who was trying to protect her child..." His own child, only to die together with Voldemort!" John said half-truthfully.
And this John's fabricated speculation also made Dumbledore feel troubled.
