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"Although I need to hide everywhere, but...these days, cautious wizards try not to show their faces." Slughorn said, "Dumbledore wants me to teach at the school, but at this time I am working at Hogwarts. It is equivalent to publicly declaring that I support the Order of the Phoenix! I admire those brave people, but I must admit that I am not that kind of warrior." After speaking, the old man spread his hands.

"Coming to teach at the school and not joining the Order of the Phoenix, how could there be so many risks?" Harry looked down upon Slughorn's overly nervous and even cowardly approach. "Most of the teachers were not members of the Order of the Phoenix, and none of them were killed. You know Voldemort is only afraid of Professor Dumbledore, and I can't think of a safer place than Hogwarts Castle .”

Slughorn shuddered at the word Voldemort, then muttered reluctantly. "Yes, there is some truth to what you say. The man who can't even say his name is really afraid of Dumbledore. Since I don't want to be a Death Eater, then they will definitely not think of me as one of them... If you say that I should be safer with Albus, and think of poor Burns, she might be dead if she hadn't been lucky this time. I dare not say that the defenses here are better than the defenses given to her house by the Ministry of Magic. better--"

"Horace," Dumbledore re-entered the room, holding up a Muggle magazine in his hand, "do you mind if I take this? I like sweater knitting patterns very much. Now, Harry, We've been bugging Horace for so long, I think we should go."

Harry stood up, and Slughorn looked disturbed. "Of course, take it, but you won't leave now, will you?"

"Yeah, since you rejected the job, there's no point in us staying here. Well, goodbye." With that said, Dumbledore walked out of the room with Harry without hesitation. "You can really come and see the school if you want, I swear the school has added a lot of safety measures this year."

Just as Harry and the others walked out the door, a shout came from behind, "Okay, I promise."

Turning around, Dumbledore saw Slughorn standing in the doorway of the living room, panting. Seeing Dumbledore staring at himself, Slughorn seemed a little excited: "I must be crazy, but I am willing to go to Hogwarts to be a professor this year. But you must not lessen my treatment, such as giving me extra money. For example, if I want the dormitory of the former vice principal on the second floor—”

"Okay, let's see you on September 1st." Dumbledore waved his hand, and then continued to walk out with Harry. "Nice job, Harry."

"But I didn't do anything. The few words I said just now should not be able to convince such an experienced old man." Harry said with some doubts.

"No, you've done a lot." said Dumbledore as they walked down the hill. "Slughorn is a standard egoist. For example, he always liked to associate with famous, successful, and powerful people. Powerful people bring enough convenience to their lives, and even select those who he thinks will be outstanding in all walks of life in the future to set up a club with himself as the core, let them know each other and establish useful connections , always ends up with some kind of favor, whether it’s a free box of his favorite pineapple preserves, or the chance to recommend a clerk to the Goblin Liaison Office.”

"Then why did you choose him to be a professor at the school?" Harry asked a little puzzled.

"Ah, he's quite competent as a professor," Dumbledore explained. "And even in the most dangerous era of the year, as the head of Slytherin and a member of an ancient pure-blood family.

Not only did he not fall to Voldemort, but he was able to treat students of different bloodlines more equally. That's enough. "

"By the way, you need to remember. Professor Slughorn will want to take you under his wing. You will be a jewel in his collection, Harry: The Boy Who Lived...or, with their recent Call it, 'The Savior.' I suggest you try to be as vigilant as you can, but there's no need to be disgusted because he didn't do it out of malice."

After giving these instructions, Dumbledore asked Harry to put his hand on his arm. As Harry recovers from his Apparating stun. Seeing a crooked silhouette in front of him, it was his second favorite place in the world: The Burrow. But just as he was about to go in, Dumbledore stopped him.

"Harry, there is something I need to tell you." Dumbledore said seriously. "At the end of last semester, I just treated you like a child, which resulted in a series of incidents at the end of the semester. I want to apologize to you at this point."

"But that's mainly because of my recklessness." Speaking of this, Harry also seemed a little agitated. "Lucky luck at the end of last term, otherwise I would have lost two of my friends by now. I've been thinking about it this holiday... look at Mrs Burns, look at Emmeline. St... The next one might be me, right? If it is really my turn, I will fight to the end. People like Ryan who have little to do with this war are willing to fight to the end in the Ministry of Magic, let alone me The reason escaped."

"Well said, he is indeed the son of James and Lily." Professor Dumbledore nodded slowly. "There are some things you can tell your friends and godfather, such as that prophecy." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand to stop Harry who was about to say something.

"You may not want to confess these things, and you may not want your friends to worry about you. But you have to know that they are fighting for the same goal as you, and can even live their lives for this goal. You should give them credit , just like their trust in you."

Seeing Harry nodded in approval, Dumbledore continued: "Also, I think you already know what you are going to face, so I want to give you some special instructions. Of course, in this way, you can't help it." Occlumency class with Professor Snape."

"This is really great, those classes are just—" He stopped at this point, trying not to complain.

"I can understand your thoughts, those lessons are basically useless to you." Dumbledore shook his head helplessly, "Well, Harry, before we break up, there are two more things. One is that you'd better put The invisibility cloak is always with you, even in school. Second, in order to welcome you, the Burrow has received the strictest security protection that the Ministry of Magic can provide. These measures have brought certain benefits to Arthur and Molly. Inconvenience to the extent that all their mail has to be censored by the Ministry before it can be delivered, for example. But they don't mind it at all, they only care about your safety. However, if you risk doing something wrong while living with them, you may I'm so sorry for them."

"I know." Harry nodded.

"That's good, I'll go first, you go in quickly. I wish you a happy summer vacation." Dumbledore said and shook his hand at him, and then Apparated and disappeared in front of him with a snap.

Harry looked at the Burrow at this moment, the lights in the house looked so warm in the dark night. Especially the silhouette of Ginny on the bay window made him couldn't help showing a happy smile on his face.

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