The two of them apparated directly to the village of Hogsmeade next to Hogwarts College, looking for a deserted place to change their clothes.
"Boss, are we going to Hogwarts now?"
"We can't apparate in, so I asked Professor Dumbledore to come out to pick us up. After all, a new visiting professor has taken office. Let him welcome us as the principal and give us an alibi, right?"
Zhang Ziyu said it was easy, and Lu Ping looked like it was true. The boss is a professional in this business, and he has already thought of the alibi, awesome!
He moved his fingertips, and a cute and innocent panda patron saint appeared on his hand.
"Go and inform Professor Dumbledore."
The panda patron saint nodded, then turned into a stream of light and ran towards Hogwarts from the sky.
"Let's go, first go to Duke Bee's shop to buy him some candies as a gift, and then wait for the professor to come over."
Less than ten minutes after the Patronus left, Zhang Ziyu and the two had just bought candies, and Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had already apparated into Hogsmeade and were waiting for them at the entrance of the village.
"Here, professor, this is a gift for you."
Zhang Ziyu handed the bag with candy in his hand to Dumbledore. Dumbledore took it with a smile, looked at it curiously and said, "Thank you, it would be better if there were piles of cockroaches."
Zhang Ziyu rolled his eyes and said, "Who in the world would eat candy that looks like a cockroach? Professor McGonagall, would you?"
Professor McGonagall shook her head with a smile and said, "I don't like sweets. This is the first time we meet. Hello, Mr. Zhang Ziyu."
"Hello Professor McGonagall, I didn't expect you to come here with Professor Dumbledore. I didn't make any preparations. I'm giving this charmed ring to you. I hope you don't mind."
"Charmed ring?"
Professor McGonagall took the ring, looked surprised, and said, "Is it that magical creation that has been popular recently?"
"Yes, but it is not a white ring that casts a spell, but a magic ring with a solidified armor charm. It can be cast once without magic power. If it is blessed with magic power, it can be broken and continue to be activated for a period of time."
After all, it is a defensive spell, so it cannot be triggered all the time. If the ring is not damaged after it is broken, it will enter the charging and repair stage, which is the hard period.
"Sir, this gift is too precious."
The market price of the magic ring is about 300 gold galleons, and the defensive magic ring Zhang Ziyu does not refine much, so the price is more expensive, about 500 gold galleons.
Although Professor McGonagall had a small amount of savings as the vice-principal, she easily loosened the Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 Flying Broomstick.
In the previous life, someone estimated the price of this broomstick Nimbus 2000 to be between one thousand gold galleons and two thousand galleons. Zhang Ziyu even asked about the price when he was working as a streetwalker in Diagon Alley.
The external price is 1,100 gold galleons, which is about the same as the estimated price, so Professor McGonagall is really rich.
However, if you have money, you have money, but three hundred gold galleons is still a lot. At least a large part of the Auror monthly salary ranges from several hundred gold galleons.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a precious gift.
Dumbledore's bag of sweets next door only cost five silver sire.
Dumbledore:?
"It's okay, I made it myself anyway, and the profit is very high."
Zhang Ziyu didn't really care, but Professor McGonagall was a bit confused. This was actually made by you, and it was done so directly. This is business.
Originally, she was still wondering why Dumbledore asked her to come out to greet a new visiting professor. When she saw Zhang Ziyu, she even wondered if this handsome young man had not graduated from a magic school.
But now it seems that he is indeed a difficult genius and a powerful alchemy wizard.
"Minerva, please accept it, Mr. Zhang is a truly rich man."
Dumbledore was half-joking, he also knew that these rings were nothing to Zhang Ziyu.
As for being able to give gifts, it was naturally Minerva who got Zhang Ziyu's approval.
In other words, a professor like Minerva who is dedicated to teaching, strict but also caring for students should not be annoying to many people.
"Mr. Zhang, why don't we go to Hogwarts first and then have a good talk?"
"Okay, Professor, please lead the way."
The four of them returned to Hogwarts from Hogsmeade Village and went directly to Dumbledore's principal's office.
The Hogwarts Principal's office is located in the highest attic of the entire college. It is not big or small in size and is filled with many magical items. Most of them were acquired by Dumbledore after he became the principal.
Quite interesting.
In addition to his personal belongings, the most conspicuous ones are the magical portraits of past Hogwarts principals hanging on the wall and the Sorting Hat on the bookcase.
The portraits are infused with part of the memories of past principals and their ways of thinking, and they all appear to be lifelike. Some are napping, while others are watching Zhang Ziyu and his group with curious expressions.
Regarding the portraits, Zhang Ziyu didn't recognize a few people and wasn't very interested.
After all, they are just alchemical creations, not real creatures. Otherwise, we can try to contain them... secretly.
In addition to commemorating the memory, the portrait's greater role is to serve as the current principal's adviser and eyeliner, checking the dynamics of the students in the entire Hogwarts.
Although it is not surveillance like video surveillance, but the information is transmitted through every Hogwarts internal portrait, it is almost the same.
"Do you need some black tea? Mr. Zhang and Rams?"
"No"
Zhang Ziyu shook his head and asked curiously: "Professor, where did Fox go?"
Dumbledore remained calm and said, "I don't know, maybe he went out to play."
Professor McGonagall was a little confused. Didn't she ask Fox to inform her just now? Why was she not here?
Zhang Ziyu sneered secretly, the old man is so bad, you must have let him hide.
"Let's get down to business. Professor, it's okay for you to let me be a professor, but what classes do you want to teach? Are there any requirements?"
Dumbledore asked tentatively: "What do you think of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?"
Zhang Ziyu learned from Zhang Ziyu that there was Voldemort's main soul behind Quirrell's head. Dumbledore was so worried that his hair fell out in handfuls, but it happened that it was not easy to deal with Voldemort's main soul at this time.
Although he looked down on the immortality of dark magic like Horcruxes, it was really not that easy for him to deal with it. If Voldemort accidentally transferred the Horcruxes or carved more Horcruxes, it would be even more difficult to handle.
Zhang Ziyu's face was full of black lines and he said: "Professor, we have no grudges, right?"
Sometimes the most dangerous people at Hogwarts are not the students, but the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. In recent years, they either resigned early or were injured accidentally. After Harry Potter started school, the accident rate skyrocketed.
"Ahem"
Dumbledore was a little embarrassed and said: "It's just a rumor that Tom cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. It's just a curse at most. It's easy to have accidents, but it should have no effect on you."
I don’t know who spread the rumor that Voldemort cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and whoever takes the class will be unlucky.
Dumbledore also carefully screened it and found that there was indeed no trace of black magic. It can only be said that it was really unlucky and quite mysterious.
And according to his observation, it seems that it is just some ordinary accidents. So far, few people have been really injured. And for a wizard, aren't injuries like that not common?
Complaints are complaints, Zhang Ziyu only knows that this thing is the power outside the box - that is, Aunt Luo Lin's fault.
After all, it is a story that takes place in a school. Every year, a different teacher is used to drive the plot. It is easier to write and does not require too much brainpower.
However, who knows what it will turn into in the real world.
"Forget it, I'm afraid of trouble. How about alchemy? You don't have this course anyway, so it just fills the gap."
Dumbledore thought for a while and said, "But alchemy requires extremely high magical attainments, and I'm afraid it won't be easy for students to master it."
"Just teach basic enchantment. Do you still want to teach some advanced alchemy?"
Dumbledore laughed dumbly and said, "I think too much, so I will call you Professor Zhang from now on."