Hogwarts: Wizards Supreme - Chapter 338
c337 Variety
Three months have passed since the emergency meeting, and it’s the end of April in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Heinrich’s Shadow Society was operating in the dark, and the magic world temporarily returned to calm, but there was an undercurrent.
In the British magical world, with the steady implementation of new policies, obvious changes have taken place here.
Within Hogwarts, Muggle Studies has been repositioned, making this course as important as Transfiguration, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and it has also become a must-learn course for all students. courses.
Due to the wide range of knowledge involved in this course, the school had to choose a new professor. The current principal, Professor McGonagall, and the members of the school board of directors selected from among Muggle-born wizards, but in the end, no wizard who applied for the job met the requirements.
After all, the current Muggle Studies class is a hodgepodge, and students must be taught basic Muggle knowledge, including the identification and use of daily necessities and electrical appliances, basic laws and regulations, a brief history of the Muggle world, and even Muggle weapons. Identification, etc., is a comprehensive science popularization of the Muggle world.
After passing the O.W.L. exam in fifth grade, students who continue to choose this course will also learn Muggle technological knowledge, such as basic physics, chemistry and biology, etc., to cultivate scientific thinking and develop the ability to comprehensively interact with Muggle society. Talented people.
As a result, the requirements for teaching this course are particularly high, and those wizards who came to Hogwarts at the age of eleven and have been detached from the Muggle world for many years naturally cannot meet the requirements.
Out of frustration, the school chose a real Muggle as the professor of this course. Professor Higgins is the father of a little Ravenclaw witch and a knowledgeable scholar in the Muggle world. He happily accepted this position because he was curious and yearning for the wizarding world.
For the wizarding world and Hogwarts, this is a truly earth-shaking change.
Brian also took the time to come to Hogwarts to attend a Muggle Studies class. The large classroom was equipped with a projector and various electrical appliances from the Muggle world, such as TVs, computers, game consoles, flashlights and electric fans. etc., like a small technology exhibition.
Although Professor Higgins was rejected and ignored by some students, he was not affected at all. Instead, he used a humorous lecture style to stimulate students’ interest to the greatest extent.
After one class, most young wizards had a completely different impression of this Muggle professor. At least for many young wizards who have never had in-depth contact with the Muggle world, the things Professor Higgins showed were really novel and interesting.
This made Brian somewhat gratified. At least the course was successfully set up and took the first step towards opening up.
Compared with the popularization of Muggle common sense in Hogwarts, the popularization in the entire wizarding world has encountered resistance. Even if Andrea Garcia mobilized a large number of influential people to publicize the importance of this matter around the world, which softened many people’s attitudes, it still could not overcome the deep-rooted rejection of Muggles in some people’s hearts.
The staff in the newly established Muggle General Education Office racked their brains to think of how to supervise wizards’ learning. Finally, Arthur Weasley came up with a method and implemented it. He had moved here from the original Office for the Misuse of Muggle Articles, held the position of director, and was enjoying it.
And the method he came up with was to take exams. Every month, the Ministry of Magic will randomly select a few people to take the Muggle general knowledge test, and publish the results of each test in the Daily Prophet. The bottom three wizards will receive certain punishments.
This idea is so effective that even those pure-blood wizards who are extremely anti-Muggle have to grit their teeth and make more efforts. Although the punishment of being at the bottom is not painful, they don’t want wizards all over the country to see that they are at the bottom, not even as good as those guys they have always looked down on, and embarrass the whole country. Not only do they have to study, but they also have to be at the forefront every time…
I don’t know how many wizards have broken their teeth because of this harmful idea, and Mr. Weasley, the proposer of this method, has to be careful every time he goes to get off work to avoid being knocked unconscious and stuffed into the toilet by some wizard who doesn’t like it.
While providing Muggle knowledge education, this office also introduced Muggle newspapers and magazines, which were welcomed by many wizards.
Within the Department of Magical Science Research of the Ministry of Magic, research work is in full swing. After accepting some researchers from the Department of Mysteries, alchemists from the Death Sect, and idle scholars, this department was successfully established.
Facing the various novel creations of Muggles, this group of researchers burst out with great enthusiasm and filled the entire floor with all kinds of strange and weird things.
The combination of magic and science has produced wonderful effects, such as mobile phones that can be charged with magic, cars that drive themselves and never get stuck in traffic jams, pistols and bombs that can be invisible, and missiles that fly automatically to find targets.
Of course, there are also some ridiculous inventions. For example, a TV with legs is running around in the Research Department, and a wizard is chasing it sweating profusely; a trash can that automatically cleans garbage, but once it burps, it will spray garbage everywhere ; Another example is a computer that will turn invisible from time to time. The inventor believes that it can help Muggles get rid of Internet addiction…
At the same time, they are also studying ways to deal with various weapons against Muggles. For example, use the Vanishing Curse to eliminate threats, use the Disillusionment Curse to make yourself invisible, use the Armor Curse to block missiles, use the Flying Curse to interfere with the enemy, or use the Disarming Curse to collect weapons, etc…
Researchers are also working hard to create new spells to deal with Muggles’ endless novel inventions and various new situations. Magic research, which has almost stagnated due to hundreds of years of closed complacency, is once again full of vitality.
At the same time, several new banks have popped up in the past few months, including the Ministry of Magic’s bank and the bank run by Mr. Foley. When the new bank was able to provide interest to wizards, it attracted a large number of customers from Gringotts.
While the goblins of Gringotts were very dissatisfied, facing the Ministry of Magic’s unprecedentedly tough attitude, they had to make changes and join the competition. Although Gringotts still maintains its status as the number one bank for wizards, it no longer has its original monopoly.
The International Confederation of Wizards is even considering introducing a new paper currency to replace coins to better integrate with Muggle society.
These days, Mr. Foley is even busier than Brian. After several months of study, he boldly hired Muggle talents and confidently entered the capital market.
At the same time, he also developed a series of products for the public, such as various self-cleaning clothing, permanent flashlights and light bulbs with fluorescent spells, and alchemy items that can release cleaning spells. There are also products that can change shapes and Various high-end products for high-end customers, such as colorful clothing and handbags with infinite expansion spells.
The company founded by Mr. Foley is making full preparations to seize the market when the wizarding world is fully opened. He has already identified a company headquarters building in the Muggle world. The bank he founded is booming, and he has more funds to participate in investments in the wizarding and Muggle worlds.
Not only Mr. Foley, but all sharp-eyed wizards have noticed this change and are preparing to take advantage of the opportunity to make profits. In particular, the members of the Shadow Club, senior officials of the Ministry of Magic and some ancient and powerful families were the first to know the future development trend, and they were all making their own preparations.
Brian is optimistic about this. After these people have invested their wealth and effort to prepare, even if something unexpected happens, they will continue to push for breaking the confidentiality law. After all, no one can I hope all my investment was wasted.
Fudge is currently negotiating cooperation matters with the Muggle Prime Minister. The successive chaos has plunged the Muggle world into turmoil. The cloud of war is approaching everywhere in the world. Cooperation is an inevitable trend.
The world will enter a new and unknown future.