novelraw Chapter 41 School Selection Inspection?
Chapter 41 School Selection Inspection?
In Wayne Mansion, on an ordinary summer evening, Halle sat on the sofa in the main hall, surrounded by family members who were standing or sitting, and two admission notices were placed on the coffee table in front of her.
Of course, the tea and biscuits provided by Grandpa Ah Fu were also placed on the coffee table, but everyone ignored them unintentionally.
Uncle Bruce rushed back from the company on a special trip; Dick and Jason did not join the family meeting because they both had undercover missions, and only sent text messages to Harley's current distress.
Brother Dick said that no matter what choice Halle made, he would support her.
Brother Jason was more straightforward: "I still need to consider? Of course it is a school in Massachusetts! If you dare to go to Scotland, I will ask Bizarro to bring you back!"
To this text message, Uncle Bruce shook his head helplessly, telling Harry not to be afraid, if she really wanted to go to Hogwarts, he would not let Bizarro pick her up.
The lights in the main hall hadn't been turned on yet, and the not-so-strong sunset in Gotham passed through the half-closed curtains of the mansion, and when it shone in, it looked bleak and bleak, drawing the figures to length.
"I...Honestly, I don't know," Harley carefully organized her words. The number of similar family meetings held because of her has become less and less in the past few years. This is a good thing, and it shows that her life is very peaceful. Very safe.
In any case, Harley felt that she had to be honest with her family members in her heart and in front of her eyes. She continued: "I actually... don't want to go so far from home and go to school in England; but I'm thinking, maybe it's my choice to go back. ...um...a mission?"
She tries to avoid using the word "fate".
"In my heart, America, Gotham, and here are already my home."
And the word "task" still makes Ah Fu uncomfortable.
An 11-year-old girl actually said such things... The old butler has been struggling for so many years, doubting whether his decision to tell Harry everything was right.
"No one puts any tasks on you, Harry, you can go to school wherever you want."
"If you want to study in the United States, study in the United States. This is actually what your Uncle Bruce and I want. You are too young, of course you should be closer to home."
"The British wizarding world has been at peace for many years. At least I haven't gotten any clues from Zatanna and Constantine that Voldemort is coming back. Even his former subordinates have mostly given up hope-at least on the surface; only Dumbledore has been Holding on to the notion that he will come back, Zatanna thinks that perhaps your presence in the United States will maintain that delicate balance."
In addition to Zatanna's magical analysis that sounds inscrutable, Bruce also supports the same conclusion from the perspective of politics and crowd psychology-Halley hides in the United States, which can avoid providing evil forces that have been scattered in the United Kingdom. A target to rally around.And with the development of time, these people will grow old and forget.
Although ostrich, this is also a strategy to avoid direct conflict.
Brother Tim's reason was more pragmatic, "According to the current information at hand, you are a very famous kid in the UK, and fame will bring a lot of inconvenience. Think about it, reporting every day like Bruce, all your actions , dressed, put under a microscope and subjected to all sorts of scathing comments."
What Tim didn't say was that because Halle was a girl, the comments would only be meaner than the ones Bruce received.
"I don't understand what's worth discussing," Damian finally concluded. He felt that this topic was extremely boring, and he might as well go back to the Batcave to polish his bat darts. "Isn't it a matter of course to stay in the United States?"
"Actually... I don't want to go to any magic school anymore," Harry wrung his fingers, ruthlessly expressing his true thoughts, "I think it's fine now."
It sounds so cowardly.
At this time, two owls suddenly flew into the living room and landed on the coffee table—the reserved one with a Gordian knot*, it folded its wings, stood upright, and looked at Harry; It is only a little more outlandish, with the Hogwarts school badge hanging, from time to time glance at the tea at the feet, and then at the other owl next to it, as if swinging between the choice of delicious food and maintaining an elegant image.
"I guess they are waiting for your reply." Damian, who was always indifferent, also showed a curious look because of these two magical creatures. "They gave you time to think about it? Is the IQ of owls so high? "
"Maybe it's because it's a magic owl." Tim shrugged and pushed his teacup in front of the owl, trying to help it out of this uncomfortable look.
Everyone fell into silence, and Harry subconsciously wiped the sweat from his palms on his pants—this was one of the behaviors that Grandpa Alfred disapproved of, but she couldn't care less about it now.
"I... haven't thought about it yet."
Uncle Bruce stroked his chin and looked into the owl's steel blue eyes, calm and deliberate.A few minutes later, he fetched two sheets of paper.
"I'll reply for you, we need more information."
He finished writing two letters slowly, and hung them on the feet of the two school owls respectively—the Ilvermorny one looked at Harry with a faint look, and flew away immediately; and the Hogwarts owl Only, he pecked the feathers on the side of his neck, took a piece of biscuit in his mouth, and took off.
As a result, the principals of the two major schools of magic in the United Kingdom and the United States—Albus Dumbledore and Agilbert Fontana*—received replies on behalf of Harry Potter regarding the admission notice.
There was no clear answer about admission in the reply, but they all proposed that the guardian's special representative should inspect the two schools - from the teaching level to the accommodation conditions, and then to the safety of the campus environment.
In fact, this is not the first time the two schools have received such a request in their hundreds of years of history-there are always parents who love their children.
But this is the first time they need to take it seriously...
Because the signature of the letter is - Batman.
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The two headmasters responded very quickly. Ilvermorny's owl arrived first due to the advantage of distance, while Hogwarts' owl was only one day late despite the ocean gap.
("The owl must be a relay, otherwise it would not be so fast." Brother Tim has already begun to analyze and conceive the postal system of the wizarding world.)
The headmaster of Ilvermorny, Agilbert Fontana, spoke strictly and politely.He first thanked Bruce for his reply, expressing his understanding of the guardian's concerns, but in the end he tactfully rejected Bruce's request - telling him that there was no precedent for a "No-Maj" to check the campus, although this "No-Maj" It is Batman who is also well-known in the American wizarding world.He also said that until the repeal of the Rappaport law in 1965, they would not admit children from No-Maj families due to strict confidentiality concerns.But he could assure Batman that Ilvermorny is the best magic school in North America in all aspects, and he attached a detailed school history book and some magical photos about the campus environment.
Although Bruce was a little disappointed by this answer (mainly because he couldn't collect more information about this hidden magical society), he couldn't find any faults for the time being.
The headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, whom Bruce had had a brief contact with, was much more decisive.
He expressed a warm welcome to "Batman" and offered to send a teacher to the United States to pick them up.
This casual attitude surprised even Bruce.
"No, we've got planes," was Bruce's reply to Dumbledore's suggestion, "and I'll take any men I need, and Harry."
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The "manpower" that Bruce mentioned was beyond Harry's expectation, it was actually Superman and Wonder Woman...
seriously?Harry covered his face, almost wanting to bury himself.
She felt that she was like those children of local tyrants who made trouble for no reason, doing something special willfully.
"Parents send their children to a strange boarding school, there is no reason not to investigate it." Uncle Bruce - who should be called Batman now, is flying a Batplane, wearing a full uniform, and using a hoarse and low electronic voice to answer the question. Harry in the driver said.
Oh, what about Superman and Wonder Woman, you ask?
They can fly...
This trip back to the wizarding world of England... She was very worried about whether she would be in the newspapers.
"Our trip is highly confidential," Bruce replied in response to Harry's concerns, "Dumbledore assured me."
According to the agreement, Bruce and his party landed somewhere in the Scottish Highlands, where two Hogwarts teachers had already been waiting.
One is Professor McGonagall that Bruce met when Harley was 8 years old; the other is dark, with the hooked nose exposed between the shoulder-length hair curtains as the most prominent feature of the entire face.
Bruce jumped out of the plane first, turned around and hugged Harry from the co-pilot.
From the corner of his eyes, he noticed that the teacher in pitch black shook slightly after seeing the girl appear.
No amount of movement could escape Batman's eyes. He squinted his eyes, tightened the arm that originally planned to put Harry down, ignored her nudge, and bound the girl with his iron arm in uniform armor. on the chest.
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*Gordian Knot (GordianKnot) is a knot that is extremely difficult to untie.
The Gordian Knot later became the symbol of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.There is a Gordian knot pattern in the center of the stone floor of the school castle foyer, where first-year students stand waiting for sorting.The school robes worn by students at Ilvermorny are also fastened with golden Gordian knots (from pottermore)
*According to Pottermore, Agilbert Fontana was the principal in 2016. I couldn’t find it before except for the establishment of the school. Let him make a guest appearance here~