Homecoming from Hogwarts

[As we all know, Hogwarts was founded by four great wizards a thousand years ago.

They are: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

The four great founders came from the most prestigious pure-blood wizard families of that era. These four outstanding young wizards, who should have been conservative about the inheritance of magic, possessed rare broad minds and forward-looking vision.

They realized that the inheritance of magic must be open, and that talented children of Muggle origin must be given the opportunity to glimpse the secrets of magic (Slytherin also held different opinions). Only in this way can magic flourish.

Thus, four founders with a common ideal established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry among the mountains and black waters.

When the school was first established, four founders jointly managed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They taught their lifelong learning to many descendants of wizards who also came from famous families but admired their magic, and they recruited students from the Muggle world.

At the beginning of the school, the four giants charged tuition fees from all students to support the school's operations, but the four founders soon discovered a problem.

The tuition fees collected were not difficult for the descendants of magical families, but many children with magical talents born in the Muggle world were unable to pay the tuition for studying at Hogwarts. In response to this situation, the four great founders waived the tuition fees for those children.

While those children were grateful, they also brought new problems.

The school's discriminatory treatment caused a lot of dissatisfaction in the wizarding community. In that era when bloodline was paramount and teaching Muggles the secrets of magic was criticized, such discriminatory treatment caused the newly established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to suffer heavy criticism.

So, after careful consideration, the four founders decided to waive tuition fees for all children at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and all expenses would be borne by the four founders.

Many years later, the three founders passed away one after another, and Helga Hufflepuff became the first headmaster of Hogwarts.

In order to maintain the operation of the school, Helga Hufflepuff spent all her family's wealth, so that she lived a very difficult life in her later years.

Helga Hufflepuff's successor did not come from a wealthy wizarding family and did not have that much wealth to squander, so he had to re-enable the Hogwarts tuition system.

The tuition system continued to be used for the next two centuries.

This also directly led to the fact that magic education became closed again. Magic was only passed down among pure-blood wizard families and a small number of wealthy Muggle descendants. Muggle-descended wizards who could not form a large scale always found it difficult to integrate into the magic world.

The change came in the third century after the establishment of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

A Muggle-born wizard became the headmaster of Hogwarts. After taking office, the wizard has been actively seeking ways to allow more poor but magically gifted Muggle children to have the opportunity to enjoy magical education.

After careful consideration, the headmaster of Hogwarts sought help from several pure-blood families who were very prestigious in the wizarding world at that time.

He exchanged some of his powers as the headmaster of Hogwarts and Hogwarts's acceptance of leadership for the wealth support of the ancient wizard family.

At this point, the Hogwarts Board of Directors was established. 】

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After reading a long chapter about the "Board of Directors" in the thick "A History of Hogwarts", Harry, Ron and Neville, who were surrounding Hermione in the library, all breathed a sigh of relief.

The three people's gazes intertwined through the flickering candlelight, and each of them noticed the surprise, emotion and touching in each other's eyes.

"I never thought about it."

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As soon as Ron finished speaking, Madam Pince, who was sitting at the door reading a magic book about herbs, snorted coldly and cast a hawk-like sharp look in his direction.

Ron was so frightened that he quickly fell silent and lowered his head.

Hermione's young fingers began to stroke across the dark yellow paper again.

[The members of the board of directors are not fixed. In fact, due to the huge financial expenditure, the original board of directors has been rotated within half a century after the establishment of the board of directors. In order to effectively control the teaching costs, the successors of the board of directors ordered the headmaster of Hogwarts to strictly control the teaching expenses of various magic subjects, and to review the educational materials, and deleted a large number of magic inherited from ancient times, which is powerful but extremely wasteful in the process of learning.]

Hermione let out a small sigh as she read this.

[In the century that followed, the number of Muggle-born wizards in the wizarding world increased at a rapid rate.

This again led to dissatisfaction among the pure-blood wizard families, so the board of directors ordered Hogwarts to control the number of Muggle students admitted, but this was met with strong resistance from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

As a result, the board of directors suspended its financial support to Hogwarts, and Hogwarts responded by no longer recruiting descendants of pure-blood families.

Eventually, the Ministry of Magic intervened in the dispute between the Board of Governors and Hogwarts.

In order to prevent the extreme ideas of some extreme families from affecting the normal teaching of Hogwarts, Hogwarts advocates the expansion of the board of directors from the original six to twelve.

In order to further curb the power of the headmaster, the board of directors obtained the power to appoint and dismiss the headmaster of Hogwarts.

Witnessed by the Ministry of Magic, the two parties signed a contract, under which the Board of Directors had the right to recommend the appointment and dismissal of Hogwarts faculty and staff, as well as the right to appoint and dismiss the principal, while the Board of Directors had to ensure that Hogwarts' financial support would not be cut off. This agreement was supervised by the Ministry of Magic.

Leaving the library and walking in the ancient corridor of the castle, Harry was still a little dazed.

When people mention Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they always talk about its thousand-year history.

But how many people know how many ups and downs Hogwarts has experienced in these thousand years.

It is like a gorgeous flower growing in the cracks of rocks. Its strength inspires respect, but at the same time, its fragility makes people feel uneasy.

"I see--"

Several people walked back home in silence, and Ron suddenly stopped under a burning torch with an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"What did you understand?"

Hermione asked, glancing at Ron.

With Hogwarts facing such a crisis, Hermione couldn't be in a good mood, especially since the school board that created the crisis for the school could be said to be caused to some extent by a little wizard of Muggle descent like her.

"Malfoy——"

Ron opened his eyes wide, his expression revealing an inappropriate excitement.

"Malfoy looks unhappy today. Oh, not only him, but the Slytherins don't look very happy. Do you think they are afraid that if Hogwarts decides to fight back, it will expel all students from pure-blood wizard families as it did in history. Are Malfoy and his gang worried about being expelled from school?"

Hearing this, Harry's green eyes also sparkled with a strange light. What is this called, a blessing in disguise?

Hermione was too lazy to answer this question. Her shaking head and sighing aroused Ron's indignation.

"I must warn you, Ron—"

But before Ron could question the reason for Hermione's expression, Neville, who was amused by him, smiled bitterly and said,
"The Longbottom family and the Weasley family are both ancient wizarding families in the wizarding world. If Hogwarts makes the same decision as in history again, we will be expelled from the school like Malfoy."

(End of this chapter)