The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

"Link!"

Professor McGonagall lowered his voice and called to Link.

She felt that Link's boldness was a bit too much. No matter how easy-going Dumbledore was, he still had a temper after all.

However, Link ignored her at all, still fighting against Dumbledore.

After a long time, Dumbledore suddenly smiled.

He looked at Link cheerfully and said:

"You know what? Link, you just reminded me of Severus, you two are so alike!"

Link didn't speak, and still looked at him so silently.

This made Dumbledore sigh, and then he sat back at the eagle-footed table and said:

"Then talk about it, Link. Let me see what reason you have for me to do this."

Hearing that, the corner of Link's mouth evoked a meaningful smile and said:

"Currently, my mother is approaching 12 Hogwarts trustees, including the Shafik family and the McCrange family, and is trying to replace one or more of them through peaceful negotiation. ."

As soon as Link's voice fell, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall's expressions straightened up.

Especially Professor McGonagall, she pursed her lips so hard that even the original rosy lips lost their blood color.

I can't really blame her for such a big reaction.

Because Hogwarts has only two sources of income, one is the policy support of the Ministry of Magic.

For example, freshmen can buy wands at very low prices.

Another example is that Muggle students can exchange Muggle currency from Gringotts for a certain limit of wizard currency every year when they enroll.

This is actually a special education policy formulated by the Ministry of Magic.

Otherwise what's the use of wizards asking for pounds?

Isn't it fragrant to copy gold directly by copying it into a double spell?

But although the Ministry of Magic can help Hogwarts in these places, it is different in places where real money is needed.

Now it was the turn of the school board to appear.

The Hogwarts Board of Trustees has a total of 12 school trustees, and these school trustees will pay a huge amount of wealth every year to maintain Hogwarts, such as teaching salaries, potions and alchemy and other disciplines. Routine repairs and maintenance of Gwarz Castle and financial assistance for a very small number of poor students.

And because they have seized the economic lifeline of Hogwarts, the school directors have unparalleled control over Hogwarts.

Their children don't just have the right to ride in a dedicated school director's carriage on the Hogwarts Express.

And they also have the right to dismiss any staff member at Hogwarts, including the headmaster.

As for whether the Foley family can intervene in the decision of the school board, Professor McGonagall has no doubts about it.

Because Hogwarts, under the strong pressure of the Ministry of Magic and the previous headmasters, has not developed any institutions that can create economic benefits, such as the 'in-school canteen' and 'in-school canteen'.

This means that investing in Hogwarts is a completely loss-making business for the school directors.

No, to say that business is promoting this investment is completely charitable.

The only thing trustees get out of it is the social status and positive evaluation that comes with being a Hogwarts trustee.

The current twelve school directors are all people who escaped the trial through various means during Voldemort's liquidation period.

And the reason why they became the directors of Hogwarts was just to use this halo to wash away the blackness on them.

But now it has been more than ten years since the fall of Voldemort, and the people who can clean up are almost done.

Like the Malfoy family.

In addition, the money that the school trustees need to give to Hogwarts every year is a huge amount of money, so McGonagall estimates that if the Foley family wants to take over the position of school board members, the original school board members will probably jump for joy!

And once the Foley family became the trustees of Hogwarts, it would be logical to use the power of the school board to force Dumbledore to investigate Draco Malfoy.

For a time, Professor McGonagall had the urge to throw Link out of the window immediately.

In her opinion, this method of coercing people with power and money is too filthy.

However, Dumbledore didn't think so. He felt that with what he knew about Link, the other party couldn't do such a low-end thing.

Sure enough, after a short pause, Link smiled again and said:

"Ah, Professor Dumbledore, you don't know how enthusiastic the trustees are. When they learned that the Foleys wanted to take their place, they immediately said they would go all out on it. Even... they also Can't wait to hand over all the bills between Hogwarts and the school board to my mother. And from that, I've found some really bad behavior."

Having said that, Link looked at Dumbledore, who was slightly straightened, with a blue light flashing in his eyes, and then he took out a piece of parchment from his arms and said:

"For example, in this report from last year, it shows that Divination Professor Sybill Trelawney spent a total of 1,034 gold Galleons and 12 silver Sikes to purchase Huaxia Dahongpao tea and Scotch fire whisky."

"I'm very puzzled, Professor Dumbledore, although there is indeed a tea fortune-telling in the teaching of fortune-telling. But what about fire whisky? I don't seem to have heard of alcohol fortune-telling, right?"

"And according to the data, most students think that divination is optional because they can't predict the future like Professor Trelawney says. The content of divination knowledge. So I am very doubtful that this course is still necessary to continue."

"In addition, there is the purchase price of narcissus root powder in Potions class, I don't understand why an item that sells for 2 Galleons in Diagon Alley shows the unit price of 20 Galleons here.

The salary of some professors has not risen for many years, but the annual output budget of the school board for professors' salary has increased year after year.

and also……"

"enough."

Dumbledore cut off Link's words indifferently.

And Link also obediently closed his mouth.

"The investigation into whether Draco Malfoy is the heir will officially begin tomorrow."

"I'm sorry for forcing you in this way, but please believe me, Professor Dumbledore, I won't let you down." Link put the parchment on Dumbledore's table and said sincerely, " In addition, there will be no reduction in Hogwarts funding for next year. On the contrary, my mother thinks that you are very noble in taking in Mr. Filch and other Squibs! She will further increase her investment in Hogwarts."

After saying that, Link greeted Harry and walked towards the office door.

But just as they were about to leave the office, Dumbledore's hoarse voice came from behind Link.

"Link, I take back what I said earlier about you being like Severus."

Link's footsteps stopped, he turned his head and saw that Dumbledore was looking at him with a smile and said:

"You're so much better than Severus!"

"Thank you for your compliment!"

Link bowed deeply.