"I'm very interested."
Dumbledore adjusted his spectacles and stuffed another piece of dessert into his mouth. He looked like he was all ears.
"Tell me, Jon."
"Alright."
Jon straightened his back and sat up straighter in his chair before he said, "That's right.
He said, "In the last academic year, I suggested Professor Sprout to set up a club in Hufflepuff Academy. You know about this, right?"
Dumbledore nodded.
"Many of the students in this club don't have outstanding learning talent. They barely managed to keep up with the school's teaching progress with the help of the members of the club. However, from another perspective, these students have their own strengths."
"Strengths?" Dumbledore smiled. "Of course. Every student who can become a Wizard has their own strengths."
"No, I'm not talking about those strengths."
Jon shook his head and retorted.
"I'm talking about the common strengths of all of them."
Common strengths?
Wasn't that the characteristic of Hufflepuff Academy?
Dumbledore used to be a teacher in Hogwarts, so he was very clear about the style of the entire Hufflepuff Academy. There were indeed many righteous and kind Wizards in this academy, and they were not inferior to Gryffindor's bravery. There were even dozens of Wizards who had made great achievements. However, if there was a common characteristic of all the students in this academy, it would be …
"Yes, that's right. Just like what you think, the strength of Hufflepuff Academy's students is that they are ordinary."
"Ordinary?"
Dumbledore didn't understand. He wasn't discriminating against those ordinary students. As a qualified teacher, he wouldn't discriminate against any students. However, to say that being ordinary was an advantage?
He probably couldn't agree.
Perhaps, like his ancestor, the Legendary Witch Hufflepuff, Jon saw a different benefit. Dumbledore had only seen a few people in the Hufflepuff family, so he couldn't understand the brain circuits of the people in the Hufflepuff family.
"Tell me in detail."
"I would like to ask you a question. You have so many books here, and even many storybooks. When you read the stories, do you notice the characters that appear in the scenes described by the author but are not mentioned by the author?"
What kind of role was this? Dumbledore seriously thought about it and shook his head. "No, I've never noticed the existence of these people."
"Next question, do you know who Scully is?"
Dumbledore: "…"
He really couldn't remember at the moment, but he seemed to have heard this name from somewhere. Where did it come from …?
Seeing Dumbledore start to recall, Jon knew that Dumbledore didn't remember Scully.
"He's a normal student at Hufflepuff. He's my roommate."
"Oh, I know now."
Dumbledore felt that he seemed to have guessed what Jon wanted to say, but he didn't know whether his guess was right or not. "What do you want to say when you mention this student?"
"I'm just giving an example, Professor."
Jon said slowly, "In fact, our normal Wizard's brain is limited. We can't completely pay attention to who is around us, so when something happens, we can't remember who is around us. And these people we can't remember are the people we usually don't pay attention to. This is the advantage I'm talking about."
"So, it's the advantage of being normal?" Dumbledore instantly understood what Jon wanted to say. "You want your friends in the club to help you protect Harry? With all due respect, Jon, this is not a good choice.
What we need is to keep this matter as a secret as possible. If too many people come in, how can we keep it a secret? "
"I never said that I was going to tell everyone about this."
Jon blinked and looked at Dumbledore with clear and harmless eyes.
"Didn't I say before? I want to write a novel with Mr. Potter as the protagonist, but I don't have enough material. I can't just make it up, right?
So I ask my friends in the club to help me if they are willing. Let them take full advantage of their strengths and observe Harry's daily behavior instead of me. I will provide them with remuneration, which I will pay with my own money. Not only will I support the Wizard currency, but I can even use the equivalent Muggle currency to pay. You don't have to worry about money.
Then my friends will face a problem, because if Harry knows that I'm observing him, then he will become nervous and his usual behavior will be unnatural. This kind of plot will not seem realistic enough, right?
So the observers will have to keep this a secret. When necessary, it is necessary to use oaths to bind them.
My idea is to select a few reliable students from the society and let them appear beside Mr. Porter in normal situations. This way, I will have his daily material and I will be able to protect him. If something big happens, I believe you will also pay attention to Mr. Porter, right? "Zhang Heng nodded. He was a little surprised. He was a little surprised." Mr. Porter, you know.
"From what you're saying, you want me to help you record Potter's performance when something big happens?"
Dumbledore asked with a smile. It seemed like a peaceful question.
Jon did not think that Dumbledore had any other intentions. Even if he did, he would not take it seriously.
Since he had already said so, was he going to ask him to take it back?
Besides, this was a good plan to begin with.
"Yes. He frankly admitted his intentions. "After all, you're the one who initiated this plan. You know best what can be said and what can't. Besides, Ranke, isn't he helping Ms. Rowling with the proofreading?"
This was not a threat. It was just a normal negotiation.
Jon laid out the pros and cons on the table and took all the investment into himself. He did not believe that Dumbledore would not be tempted by such an offer.
"But you must have other plans that you haven't said."
Dumbledore thought about it carefully and found that Jon's plan was really the best one at the moment. There were not many loopholes.
He was just saying so. He did not intend to ask Jon to reveal his plan. After all, there would not be any problems.
"There are no problems with this plan. I agree. We will do as you say. Do you have any other questions?"
"No. I have no other questions for the time being after these two things are settled."
Jon said with a smile.
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