This is what Ravenclaw looks like.

People have limited energy, even wizards are no exception.

Ever since the Weasley twins came to Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall has had the idea of ​​finding a suitable student to be her assistant.

Her tasks were originally very tedious - preparing lessons, grading homework, adjusting the timetables of seven grades, dealing with the mistakes of Gryffindor students, connecting with the Ministry of Magic, auditing and approving the purchase of various materials on campus, reviewing the applications of professors, conducting employment surveys for graduates, communicating with other schools and reviewing and re-approving applications for exchange students...

These tasks, plus occasional accidents, are not enough for a professor to complete alone without teaching, not to mention that she also needs to take care of teaching tasks - and the appearance of the Weasley twins has made accidents a normal occurrence.

But it is not easy to find a suitable assistant. As the vice-principal of Hogwarts, publicly recruiting an assistant when Dumbledore did not find an assistant is almost equivalent to accusing the principal of not doing serious work, and the status of this assistant is really hard to confirm...

Students are better candidates, they learn quickly, the cost is low, and the probability of getting into trouble with other professors after participating in the assistant work is also extremely low, and the professors will not have too much dissatisfaction.

But, the problem is that it is not easy to find a suitable candidate-even if the professor is looking for an assistant, he must examine the character and knowledge, and Professor McGonagall's office naturally needs to examine more when adding a student to help.

Character, personality, ability-all are indispensable. Background is also a problem. The most advocated pure-blood faction must not be selected, which will lead some people to mistakenly believe that Hogwarts is biased towards pure-blood wizards...

So even with this idea, Professor McGonagall still asked the Gryffindor prefects to assist in handling some of the documents, but the help of the prefects was very limited.

Only fifth-year students can run for prefects, and this year is their crucial owls year. As for seventh-year students, not only do they have to take the Newts exam, but they also have to consider work internships - that is, after the sixth-year students have finally shown some success, they have to reluctantly let them go...

So first-year students are definitely given priority. Even if they are observed for half a year, there is a long enough period of use to prevent experienced people from running away.

When Professor McGonagall was selecting this year, she found two good candidates. In the initial selection, both of them had top-notch logical ability and writing skills - but Miss Granger, who she was more optimistic about, was eliminated after showing her excellent learning ability.

Because she was too good - this doesn't sound right, but it's really a luxury to let a student who can make great progress in the library spend a lot of time dealing with office tasks.

As for Andrew, it's different. Professor McGonagall asked other professors and found that his performance in other subjects was mediocre. He occasionally had some shining points, but he could only barely be considered excellent, which is not so luxurious.

Moreover, because Andrew is best at and likes Transfiguration the most, Professor McGonagall is fully confident that he can make up for the time he wasted. Although she doesn't like to show off, there is no doubt that her occasional guidance in the office plus a period of practice will definitely be more effective than Andrew spending all day in the library.

In addition, a student who is thick-skinned and can come to ask questions after the first class is also suitable for being an assistant. In addition, the issue of origin is not off-limits, which leaves Andrew with only observation.

Originally, Professor McGonagall was going to discuss this matter with Andrew after the Christmas holiday, but the mirror happened to appear. After confirming that he would not indulge in some kind of fantasy, Professor McGonagall finally made up her mind to let Andrew work as a part-time assistant while he was in school.

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"Me?"

Andrew was a little dumbfounded.

"Yes, I will work as an assistant in the office. You will come to my office every day after school to sort out the documents for one class period. Currently, you are responsible for reviewing the homework of grades one to three. You need to classify them into different levels to facilitate my review. The school will provide some subsidies for your work, two Galleons per week."

Homework is an approval of students' learning progress, but having someone to review it in advance will make this job much easier - find out the plagiarized homework, find out the homework with obvious mistakes, find out the excellent homework, and then classify them according to the individual's completion degree.

Even if you are an assistant, it is impossible to do important work all at once. The skill of pre-approving homework is familiar with the process and can show the work attitude. Don't be too useful.

And this is one of the important reasons why Andrew was selected - his theoretical level of Transfiguration has been tested by Professor McGonagall himself.

"Of course, if I can help."

Andrew agreed as a matter of course, even if he paid for it - it looks like a job, but this is a chance to run to Professor McGonagall's office every day with confidence.

This is not a pie-in-the-sky operation. Professor McGonagall really teaches real things...

"Of course," Professor McGonagall took out a document, her tone was not as gentle as before, "You must work hard, I will check your results regularly, and before taking charge of this job, you must sign a confidentiality agreement."

As she spoke, she pushed the document over. Andrew picked up the document and began to read it carefully.

The document was not complicated, with only a few clauses, and it was not very rigorous, but the beginning of each sentence basically said that he could not do anything under the guarantee of the magic contract.

A rough summary is that he cannot leak the documents he saw in Professor McGonagall's office in any way without the permission of Professor McGonagall himself. The penalty for violating the rules is expulsion from the school and reporting the matter within the wizarding world, and the school authorities The right to trace other responsibilities.

'This is right...'

After Andrew confirmed the terms, he signed his name on the contract very seriously - he said that the confidentiality of Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal's office, should not be so poor.

"You can come here tomorrow to deal with homework issues," Professor McGonagall said in a much gentler tone. "In addition, you need to withdraw from the club you are a member of, because the school does not want to cause misunderstandings with the Ministry of Magic in this regard."

That's totally understandable - since it looks like the school is sending people to keep an eye on young students trying to join the Ministry of Magic, which sounds very strange.

This was also one of the reasons why Andrew needed to investigate for so long - it was only after confirming that Andrew did not hang out with those students and liked hanging out in the library that Professor McGonagall confirmed that he just wanted to find a club to hang out in, not Really determined to join the Ministry of Magic.

'Actually, professor, you didn't tell me that I also took this opportunity to quit. Who would have thought that there are so many weird things in a place that should be theoretically the safest...'

He complained in his mind, then said goodbye to Professor McGonagall.