The Admiral of Hogwarts

The end-of-year banquet was over, and it was time for summer vacation. However, unlike previous years when everyone was filled with excitement at this time, this year everyone felt a lot heavier.

The next morning, Hugo and his Hogwarts classmates waited together in the crowded entrance hall for the carriages to take them to Hogsmeade Station. It was another beautiful and pleasant summer day, and from the entrance hall, they could see the lush lawns and the vibrant forest in the distance.

At the other end of the grounds, Hugo could see Hagrid helping Madame Maxime harness the horses to her carriage. The Beauxbatons carriage was about to depart.

Hagrid said that after Madame Maxime escorted her students back to school, she would set off with him to complete the task left by Dumbledore. Hugo hoped they wouldn't be too disappointed after seeing the real situation this time.

"I wonder how the Durmstrang students will get back," Hermione's voice came from the side. "Do you think they can still sail that ship without Karkaroff?"

"Karkaroff didn't steer," a hoarse, muffled voice said. "He stayed in his cabin, and we did all the work." Krum walked over from behind at this moment.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Krum said, extending his hand to shake Veneto's, "Your strength has earned my friendship. I hope we can keep in touch in the future."

After saying that, he and Veneto exchanged contact information.

"Have you found a new headmaster?" Veneto asked casually after exchanging contact information. Durmstrang's headmaster had been missing for over a week now. Theoretically, it shouldn't be too difficult to choose a temporary headmaster.

Krum shrugged. Clearly, Karkaroff must have used all sorts of legitimate or illegitimate means to maintain his position at the school, so much so that after his sudden disappearance, they couldn't find anyone to temporarily replace him.

But it seemed that this chaotic situation shouldn't last too long. In any case, Durmstrang was one of the three major European schools, and under normal circumstances, it wouldn't be allowed to be without a headmaster for a long time.

Soon, everyone boarded the train back to London. The weather was completely different from when they came to Hogwarts last September. The sky was cloudless. Hugo and his two friends avoided the others and sat in the last compartment at the end of the train.

"We're going to be very busy this summer. Although we have a trump card to completely flip the table, we may need to spend the entire summer working on it to achieve the best results."

After entering, Hermione cast several spells on the compartment door. After confirming it was safe, she began talking about a series of plans for the summer.

"For example, I've poured almost all of my computing power, except for what's necessary for daily life, into the warp drive project. I estimate it will take me half a month into the summer to solve this problem."

"Speaking of warp drives, I want to ask if this project is likely to be delayed," Hugo asked after Hermione finished speaking. He remembered that the two spaceships currently running the Moon-Mars route were supposed to be equipped with this, but they were delayed.

"It should be fine," Veneto said with a serious face. "Previously, we underestimated the difficulty of integrating knowledge from different civilization systems, which led to this series of problems. But now, these problems have been overcome."

"Therefore, according to the current progress of the entire project, we will complete the final testing of the warp drive in a very short time and put it into official operation."

"That's good," Hugo nodded in satisfaction. After all, the current means of transportation can only maintain teleportation between the Earth and Moon at the farthest. If it takes a month to run a trip to Mars, then their interstellar voyage plan simply cannot be rolled out.

The reason for limiting the operation of long-range teleportation arrays is mainly that when the distance exceeds a certain point, the computing power and energy required to increase the teleportation distance increase exponentially.

According to the ship girls' analysis, this may be related to the magic attenuation caused by the ubiquitous cosmic radiation. However, wizards only set up magical teleportation networks on Earth, so they didn't have knowledge in this area.

Compared to figuring out the constantly changing radiation in the universe, using arithmancy techniques to navigate direct space jumps is clearly a more realistic approach.

"In any case, no matter how the magical world's upcoming war unfolds, we just need to constantly strengthen ourselves. When we grow to a certain level, all problems will not be temporary problems."

"Yes, our biggest advantage is that we have an extremely efficient operating system. We won't have as many constraints as our headmaster, nor will there be incompetent people like Fudge," Hermione said with emotion.

After seeing what both Dumbledore's side and the Minister of Magic's side had done since Voldemort's return, she realized that the ship girls' greatest strength was not their powerful combat ability, but their organizational skills that far exceeded those of humans.

Her conclusion was correct. From a certain perspective, the ship girls' social structure was more like the hive structure unique to the Zerg or mechanical races in some science fiction novels, so they naturally had far greater event processing efficiency than most creatures.

"Fudge is indeed incompetent, but the real problem is that he used too many terrible methods to protect his power and position, even completely disregarding the overall situation, knowing that he was incompetent," Hugo shook his head helplessly.

"Our Headmaster Dumbledore's choice to be tolerant was not out of weakness. He hoped to preserve more energy to deal with that person and the Death Eaters, rather than wasting it on meaningless internal friction."

"Unfortunately, Fudge's eyes can only see the little bit of benefit under his feet, and he never bothers to use his brain to look a little further. Not only did he fail to appreciate Headmaster Dumbledore's good intentions, but he also took the overall situation as weakness and pressed on step by step."

Next, none of the three people sitting there spoke. In fact, in the magic world, where power is paramount, Headmaster Dumbledore could completely reorganize the Ministry of Magic by force.

But not to mention how much internal friction would result from doing so, just the inner demon of the previous headmaster would be insurmountable. But then again, if the headmaster did this, he would be the new Dark Lord, and he would not be the respected headmaster he is now.

"So, in the end, we still have to rely on ourselves," Hugo broke the silence after a few minutes. "I hope our next work can proceed smoothly, especially the Mars colony should be developed as soon as possible to prepare for the most dangerous situation."

"You're right, that's what we're doing now," Hermione nodded seriously and said, "As long as the first internally circulating base is built, our next work will be much simpler than it is now."

Speaking of this, she picked up a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean and stuffed it into her mouth, then smiled: "Looks like I'm lucky, it's machine oil flavor!"

Next, the few people chatted about some lighthearted topics. In the afternoon, the train pulled into King's Cross Station. So Hugo and his friends said goodbye to their classmates, dragged their suitcases out of the station, and began their summer vacation.