Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 115

c115 Twelve Apostles of Dawn

Grete obviously underestimated his position in the hearts of these students who had not yet graduated, after Dumbledore had cleared his “wrongs” and turned him into a Hogwarts hero again.

The news that the Dawn Club was recruiting people had only been released for a week, and when he announced the news, he had already made it clear that not many people would be recruited, and they would have to go through difficult tests before they could become a member of the Dawn.

This means that after they have worked hard to prepare and passed the exam, they may still be rejected.

But even with such harsh conditions, the application forms for joining still came in like heavy snow.

In each grade, nearly 90% of the people discussed in their spare time about the Dawn that Grete was still nurturing.

Even the freshmen who had just entered school and were not very clear about the situation, or the graduates who were about to graduate and were ready to enter the society, came to Grete’s office door with hope and stuffed their carefully prepared applications in.

When Grete returned to the office, the number of application forms had completely exceeded his expectations.

He thought that at most there would be dozens or hundreds of them, which would be a big deal, after all, he was still carrying the name of a Hogwarts traitor.

Although Dumbledore had helped him prove it, it was just to stop people from talking.

It was okay to save face, but there must be very few people who really believed it.

Even in the worst case, it is not impossible that except for the freshmen who had just entered the school, everyone else would not believe it.

Moreover, as long as they were in the Triwizard Tournament at that time, they had a clear understanding of the whole thing.

Everyone present at the time had read the Dawn’s promotional page.

In addition, the reactions of the professors afterwards could also indirectly prove the authenticity of this matter.

Therefore, Dumbledore’s move to help Gretel clear his reputation did not achieve the effect they wanted.

But now seeing the pile of application forms in front of him, Gretel curled his lips helplessly.

The enthusiasm of these people really exceeded his expectations.

It was obviously just a simple application form, but many people showed a hundred times more enthusiasm.

A thick stack of personal statements, which was much more serious than their job hunting after graduation.

Originally, the test prepared by Gret was just a simple screening, but now it seems that he needs to take it more seriously.

At least, those who were rejected should have no complaints.

…

After stopping accepting new application forms, Gret rubbed his head and wrote furiously in the office for a week.

All his free time was used to prepare test questions for this group of enthusiastic wizards.

According to the research projects of the Dawn Institute, Gret picked out dozens of projects and listed them in a targeted manner.

The next day after preparing all the test questions, Gret posted the projects on the bulletin board of Hogwarts, and assigned different examination rooms according to different projects.

At the beginning of the weekend exam, they can go to the examination room of the project they are interested in, take the exam, and finally be admitted according to the results.

Of course, many of these projects have not made breakthroughs in the well-prepared Dawn Institute, and even the ideas have not been found.

Grete’s requirements were not high. What he had to do was to see if anyone could come up with some practical ideas in these test questions.

This meant a comprehensive consideration of knowledge system and research talent.

To Grete’s surprise, even with such harsh selection conditions, more than one-third of the people were left.

These people were either academic masters with a complete knowledge system or research talents with bursts of inspiration.

Grete recorded the names of these people and decided that even if these people failed in the final test, he would tell Penelope to absorb them into the Dawn Research Institute after graduation.

But now, he still had to eliminate some of them.

Dawn, like Slughorn’s Slug Club, pursued an elite policy.

Grete wanted to build it into a cutting-edge research institution parallel to Dawn, responsible for tackling research that Dawn’s Research Institute could not break through.

Seven grades and four colleges left hundreds of people after the initial assessment.

It was indeed a bit too much for a club, but people were separated according to the projects they chose, and not many were left in each project in the end.

The most were no more than ten, and the least was only one.

According to the academy, each academy had no more than a few dozen people, and when divided into grades, only a handful of people in each grade could pass the initial assessment.

In this case, Grete chose to use his trump card, magic particles.

After all, according to his prediction, whether it was Dawn or Breaking Dawn, the difficulty that could never be avoided in the research process was the magic particles, a substance that could not be observed at present.

Even the original purpose of Breaking Dawn was to assist Grete in the research of magic particles.

Although these people may not be useful at present, as time goes by, as Grete’s research on magic particles gradually deepens, one day these people will become an indispensable helper in his research.

Therefore, at the last moment when he had to select members, Grete naturally chose the method that was most conducive to his research.

Those who passed the initial test lined up in a long queue according to Grete’s orders.

Then, Grete captured a particle from the air and from himself.

But this time, he did not materialize them with his own will.

When each person who was tested came to Grete, Grete would capture another magic particle belonging to them from their own body.

Then put three particles in front of the person being tested.

Grete did not tell them what to test, but only told them to pay attention to the “things” in their hands when they walked past him.

At the same time, Grete also activated the Legilimency that had been stacked to a high level.

He could guarantee that even if Dumbledore himself or Voldemort was resurrected, his Legilimency level would not be higher than his current Legilimency level.

Through Legilimency, Grete could clearly sense their thoughts.

This could ensure that even if the person being tested did not pay attention to his fleeting thoughts, Grete could clearly record them.

It also eliminated the existence of people who wanted to fill in the numbers and fish in troubled waters.

Because of the limited time, Grete only left everyone with a short observation time of three minutes.

But that was enough, magic particles were not something that could be observed by time.

For those who could vaguely sense the magic particles in Grete’s hand, three minutes was enough.

Of course, Grete did not let those who did not sense it leave.

After all, the unclear way of being eliminated would definitely put a big shit pot on the head of Dawn, which had not yet been fully established.

Of course, Grete would not allow such a thing to happen. A small drop of Felixir per person was enough for them to stay here for a whole day without complaint.

More than a hundred people did not actually take Grete too long.

But in just over an hour, everyone was tested.

Grete then revealed the existence of the magic particles in his hand to everyone.

The restraint of the iron will once again pulled off the veil of the magic particles, showing their mysterious form in front of this group of wizards who had never seen the world.

“It turns out that Professor Grete really has something in his hand.” This sentence emerged in the minds of many people.

Grete then breathed a sigh of relief. Who knows, at the beginning, dozens of people were eliminated in a row, and Grete was about to give up this method.

Fortunately, in the end, twelve talents were left for him.

After Grete announced the list of people who had successfully passed the test, the unsuccessful people lined up one by one and happily took their own spiritual potions from Grete.

After everything calmed down and all the unsuccessful people left, Grete officially looked at the first batch of members of Dawn.

Luna Lovegood, the “crazy girl” had silver eyes that were always erratic, but now they were full of exploration and curiosity.

Her passing was not beyond Grete’s expectations, or rather, Grete had thought about it at the beginning of Dawn.

If only one person in Hogwarts passed his assessment, it must be Luna.

The only possibility for this girl to fail was that she was not interested in his Dawn, or was attracted by more interesting things, causing her not to participate at all.

This girl’s spirituality was the only one he had ever seen in his life. When he first observed the magic particles, this girl keenly noticed the changes in him.

The thoughts that Grete had just read from her brain were the same. Although they were erratic and seemed to be floating without a focus, she could really sense the inexplicable fluctuations in Grete’s hands.

And as the observation continued, her thoughts also began to vibrate along with the restlessness of the magic particles.

In addition to Luna, there were several other people that Grete was familiar with.

The one that surprised Grete the most was Neville Longbottom, the fat guy who would lose contact from time to time.

Unlike Luna, he was aware of the existence of magic particles.

When he first walked in front of Grete, he was nervous and wide-eyed, trying to find the invisible “thing” that Grete said.

Of course, he didn’t find it.

Just when Grete thought he had failed, the idea of ​​seeds popped up in his mind.

That was the test paper he chose when he took the first test.

Something strange happened. He thought of the seeds sprouting, blooming and bearing fruit, and then the magic particles in Grete’s hand, which belonged to nature and Neville Longbottom himself, began to resonate strangely with him.

If it weren’t for Grete’s restraint, they would have entered Neville Longbottom’s body like a young swallow returning to its nest.

This was also the biggest surprise Grete got in this final test.

He felt that Mr. Neville Longbottom’s potential might not be underestimated.

For this reason, Grete left a sentence in Neville Longbottom’s mind the moment he was judged to have passed the test.

“Neville, I can help you cure your parents, but you have to produce results.”

Well, when Grete left this sentence, Neville Longbottom’s thoughts about the seeds were instantly swept away.

The magic particles in front of him also fell silent.

In addition, another surprise was Draco Malfoy, who became extremely sad after his parents were imprisoned in Azkaban.

Grete didn’t expect that this always proud pure-blood young master would choose to participate in his Dawn Selection.

Moreover, based on the family strength of the Malfoy family, he must know that he was the culprit who sent his parents to Azkaban.

It was strange that Grete did not feel resentment in his mind. Emptiness was the only thing Grete felt.

It was not the emptiness caused by the brain block technique. Grete could tell it. Besides, in the magic world, no one could use the brain block technique to deceive him, the world’s strongest Legilimency master.

That kind of emptiness was more like the blankness after enlightenment.

Grete didn’t know what happened to Draco Malfoy, but this emptiness also resonated with the magic particles.

So Grete became a little curious about him.

The project Draco Malfoy chose in the initial test was to establish a system to distinguish the magic bloodline of pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle wizards, and find the inevitable connection between them.

This project is also one of the key projects of Dawn. The vision of the end of the project is to let all humans understand the essence of magic and master the ability to cast spells.

The remaining people also have their own characteristics.

The only thing they have in common is that all of them actively or passively caused the magic particles in the hands of Tom Grete to fluctuate.

Whether it belongs to Grete, comes from nature, or comes from themselves, as long as it fluctuates, it will pass the test.

Of course, there are also things that Grete didn’t expect.

For example, the original savior team, Hermione and her two useless sons.

Ron’s failure was not unexpected by Grete.

If he didn’t want to be separated from Harry, he wouldn’t even put the application into Grete’s office.

In the initial test, he gloriously became a small drop of water in the sea, proudly returning to the same front with the masses.

Harry’s failure was extremely unexpected by Grete.

As the destined savior, Harry should be the world’s beloved existence.

I don’t know if it was Grete who took away his light, he narrowly broke through the initial test.

Perhaps, he was on the edge of passing, and it was Grete who rescued him.

When observing magic particles, the thoughts in his brain almost broke Grete’s serious expression.

“Is there anything here?

Grete said yes, so there must be.

It seems that I am too stupid. I’d better think about how to comfort Ron later. After all, he was kicked out in the initial test.

…”

Grete never realized that Harry was such a nagging person.

In one minute, his nagging words were enough to fill several feet of parchment.

If he had this talent when doing homework, he wouldn’t have to worry about not being able to hand it in last night.

Then there is Miss Hermione Granger, the hardworking little genius.

She really worked hard. She was one of the few who got full marks in the questions about basic knowledge in the initial test.

But once the questions involved a breakthrough in research ideas, her answers fell into a rut.

But even so, her final score was also rare and excellent.

Helplessly, dawn requires the kind of talent that comes with sudden inspiration, even if Grete gave her a break and observed for nearly an extra minute.

She still failed to be selected.

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