Chapter 83 Dragon?
Handing over, counting, getting the receipt, and being forced to count the money again, Andrew tried counting money for the first time and felt cramps in his hands.
But unfortunately, those Galleons have nothing to do with him.
"It's really outrageous," Andrew, who was shaking his hands, complained in a low voice after leaving Professor Alice's office, "I never thought in my life, I felt like vomiting when I saw Gallon."
But what surprised Andrew was that Percy didn't answer - he stood back in a daze, looking like he hadn't recovered yet.
"Percy?"
Andrew pressed the question, and Percy finally came back to his senses, "Huh?"
Are you still thinking about those galleons?
Uncertain - Andrew is immune because he is not short of money, Percy is not so lucky. For a student, the temptation of money is much greater than that of working. Andrew has seen too many students who believe that online part-time jobs are defrauded, and he is also aware of the hourly wages of a lot of regular part-time jobs next to schools.
"Why, do you feel distressed when you see such a huge amount of Galleons leaving you?"
He deliberately ignored Percy's expression, "Don't think of that thing as gold, it's just a pile of sand - not to mention the weight, we have to count them one by one."
"I'm just a little emotional," Percy paused for a moment, shook his head and whispered, "I just never thought I could be so close to so many Galleons."
Um?
"How can I put it, even with so much gold, Professor McGonagall can still trust us," he said with a serious tone, "and according to Hagrid, this is just a Hogsmeade Quarterly rent, and these are still a drop in the bucket for the school’s expenses.”
"When I went to help Professor Alice at the beginning of the school year, I saw that rents are not even the bulk of the school's funding sources. The school board raises part of it, graduates donate part, and the largest source is the Ministry of Magic."
so what?
Andrew looked at Percy, wondering what he was feeling.
"You're right, it's just sand. There are many more Galleons than this. The Ministry of Magic mobilizes them as if they were sand - Galleons are not the most expensive."
I just advise you to be more open-minded and not get hung up on the gain and loss of the gold - aren't you being too open-minded?
But how to persuade?
He can't say, hey, the Ministry of Magic actually cares about money, right? Or, as long as there is love or something?
It's nonsense. He could only spread his hands and said, "It's just a little self-comfort. There is nothing so profound in it. We don't even have a few Galleons. It's too far away to think about things beyond Galleons."
Even if he talks about things, it's impossible for Percy to listen to him, a freshman with whom he has a fairly good relationship - the age gap and the lack of status make everything he says becomes airy.
"That's right," Percy looked at Andrew and nodded.
It's unclear whether he decided to hold on or whether he felt Andrew was a dead wood.
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“They handed it over quickly? And then used a self-made tool to help them count? It’s like the two of them were playing?”
After asking roughly about the delivery process and the two people's performance, Professor McGonagall nodded in the office - although one financial transaction was not enough to explain anything, the result was still satisfactory.
Hogwarts has two sets of accounts - one for the school and one for each house.
The former is composed of various aspects of money, while the latter's internal money is basically composed of donations from graduates of the institute and internal allocations from the school.
The money within the courtyard should be used to repair its own common room, experimental funding for senior students in the courtyard, purchase of clothes, brooms and sundries for the team, fees for announcements and notices within the courtyard, awards to outstanding students, funding for activities within the courtyard, etc. .
For example, this year, in order to recruit Harry to the team, she directly used the hospital account to purchase a brand new broomstick.
Professor McGonagall was very satisfied with the performance of the two of them today - seeing that the seventh grade students had graduated, it was time for Percy and the others to help the dean with these financial chores.
After all, the other deans don't have to worry about the school's pile of accounts, so she has no choice but to arrest prefects from generation to generation - as for Andrew, despite being a Ravenclaw student, he signed the agreement and passed the test. You can also get started with this part of the accounts.
As for the female prefects of this year, because their grades are slightly lower, they are still waiting for the owls year to pass. With a little training, next year they can happily work overtime in the office like the current sixth-grade prefects.
Thinking of this, Professor McGonagall felt a little lighter all over her body, and she happily opened the official document - this was the application submitted by Hagrid. …
"You take a look at this application and make a mock response document."
Professor McGonagall placed the document between Andrew and Percy and asked them to try to review it.
'The font is a bit too ugly...the format is...oh my god! ’
He raised his head, glanced at Percy out of the corner of his eye, and found that he had the same "what the hell" expression.
This is normal.
Because the file is very abnormal.
“…They are gentle, beautiful, and get along well with other creatures…
It can improve the defensive strength of the Forbidden Forest..."
This would all look fine, if not for the later mention that this is a dragon.
That's right, dragon.
Although Andrew has not taken a class on the protection of magical creatures, he has no systematic understanding of this creature, and it is impossible to apply the image of dragons in other worlds.
But his theory of transformation seems to be solid in Professor McGonagall's eyes - it is clearly pointed out in those books that dragon's skin has extremely high resistance to magic. It is impossible for ordinary transformation to be effective on dragons, and this kind of behavior will also anger the dragon. These creatures are known for their ferocity.
There is also an unconventional book that points out that being able to transform into flames such as dragon's breath, which is highly corrosive (corrosive in the magical world usually means that it cannot be easily cured by magic), is the threshold for mastery of transfiguration (but this book The book is not well received).
In addition, it was mentioned in the Transfiguration magazine that Andrew was tired of reading when he was studying. The author once used a stone to transform into a sheep to attract a dragon, but the poor stone shrank by half before being spit out...
To sum up, Andrew doesn't even believe in the punctuation marks of this report - a dragon that can be used as a benchmark many times is definitely not a good person.
He glanced at the applicant - but to his surprise, the applicant was not Hagrid, the gamekeeper, but a professor named Kettleburn.
'No matter who it is, it must be rejected...'
Based on this idea, Andrew used his experience of studying for many days.
But Professor McGonagall made no comment.
Another application appeared with much the same tone, this one from Hagrid.
‘Rejected…but the wording needs to be changed a bit. ’
However, after both Andrew and Percy submitted their answers, there was a new application, but with roughly the same content.
The names of Professor Hagrid and Professor Kettleburn appear alternately, but different reports request the same thing - to raise dragons, Hogwarts must raise dragons.
Andrew swore - he had learned all the ways to refuse in writing that he had learned in his life.
Now he feels like vomiting when he sees a dragon, and his head hurts...
"It still needs to be modified - these are the receipts from previous prefects. Take a look at them, then each of you will write a copy and give it to me."
Professor McGonagall nodded and pushed a pile of documents over.
(End of chapter)