The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Sweet Bear, come downstairs. We have something to talk about here." Mr. Grossman called his daughter down.

Tom found it very interesting. It was the first time that his father called his daughter "honey bear". He mostly heard words like "sweetheart" and "honey bear". This was the first time for sweet bear.

Peggy Grossman inched down the stairs. A black skirt paired with a white shirt looks elegant.

When she reached the table, Mr. Grossman brought her a cup of hot chocolate, her favorite drink. Like a little angel, she sat quietly at the table and sipped hot chocolate from the cup.

After she took several sips, she raised her head and looked at Tom, "You are disturbing my life." Her voice was pleasant, but she could clearly feel that the magic world was unreasonably intruding into her life. , which made her a little dissatisfied.

"Your destiny is decided when you are born. Whether you are born into a magical family or a Muggle family, every child with magical talents will automatically be included in the admissions list of Hogwarts once he is born, without exception. ." Tom said this, but in his heart he remembered the third sentence Professor McGonagall said to him when he saw him, "But you are not on the list." This sentence has always made him worried, but in view of his own His identity is special, so there may be something wrong.

"You're lying." Peggy's face suddenly turned cold. "You're hiding something."

"?" Tom didn't expect that this little girl had quite keen senses.

"I do have something to hide from you, but I will tell your father later, whether you want to join Hogwarts or not." Of course Tom would not say what he really thought just now, but he did have something to pass. Mr. Rothman said alone.

"Okay," Peggy said without further entanglement, "What did you just say mean that I am a born witch?"

Tom felt that she was right to understand this. Every wizard in the magical world was born with talents, regardless of whether their parents were wizards or not. Of course, if parents are wizards, the probability of their children also being wizards is much greater, but it is not absolute. The group of squibs refers to people who were born in wizard families but have no magical talent.

If we must look at it from a scientific perspective, magic talent may be an extremely rare recessive gene, a bit like Mendel's peas, AaBb, long stems and short stems, but hundreds or thousands of times more complicated. It may be that special genes in wizards allow them to secrete a magical amino acid or something like that, allowing them to perform magic.

Of course, these are just scientific fantasies, and magic is a mysterious thing, but maybe it really has something to do with heredity.

After receiving Tom's affirmative reply, Peggy curled her lips and said, "I have heard this kind of words countless times since I was a child..."

"Her teachers said she was a born painter, scientist, actress, etc.," Grossman explained for her daughter.

"A little girl with excellent morals and academics..." Tom realized another reason why Professor McGonagall sent him here.

Peggy seems to have little interest in the magical world, and she doesn't really want to change her life.

"Okay, let's skip the topic of natural witches. What kind of treatment do your students receive after graduation? Going to Hogwarts to study magic will delay my studies."

"Graduates from Hogwarts have a wide range of employment opportunities. Our seniors and seniors are everywhere in the Ministry of Magic and various authoritative fields..." The British wizarding world is still dominated by Hogwarts graduates, although There may be other paths to success for a wizard, but these wizards are generally inferior to Hogwarts graduates.

Children with magical talents born in the British Isles and Ireland will be admitted to Hogwarts. However, the other two magic schools among the three European schools are not so well-educated. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have entrance requirements. Children who are not admitted can only find other ways to learn magic - -Some unknown elementary schools or "private schools" set up by other wizards, etc.

Yes, in addition to the eleven famous magic schools in the world, there are also some small magic schools and educational institutions. Eleven prestigious wizarding schools are registered with the International Confederation of Wizards, while some smaller educational institutions come and go, are difficult to track, are rarely registered with the corresponding government departments, and the quality of their education has to be judged. Not guaranteed.

There are far fewer countries with magic schools than countries without magic schools, so wizards in most countries choose to teach themselves magic at home or take correspondence courses. Such a wizard's status is inherently lower than that of graduates from prestigious schools like Hogwarts.

So in reality, Hogwarts students are roughly equivalent to Harvard graduates in the Muggle world.

"These words sound like the admission criteria of a rubbish school." Peggy seemed to have a further decline in her opinion of the wizarding world. "How much are the salaries of your graduates?"

At this moment, Tom was really grateful to the goblins for their greed. It was also 50 galleons per month. If according to the official optimal exchange rate, the monthly salary of Hogwarts graduates was as high as 250 pounds, then Tom would probably have to move out of Momo. Only theory can persuade people to enroll in school. But it's different when Gringotts intervenes. Our Hogwarts graduates earn half a catty of gold per month!

It sounds a lot better.

Of course, there is a high probability that fresh graduates will not receive a monthly salary of fifty galleons.

Needless to say, the monthly salary of a few hundred grams of gold for this graduate is quite impressive.

Peggy and his father were speechless: Do you think the magic world is okay?

"The key to the magic world is not money, but the ability to truly control your own destiny after learning magic, but the convenience in life, such as..."

Tom poured the last bit of chocolate onto the table and swept it away with a cleaning spell.

"At least you don't have to clean up."

After hearing what Tom said and seeing the magic with her own eyes, Peggy's pupils dilated for a moment.

She was silent for a while.

"Can I really control my own destiny? From now on, I have the final say in my world?"

Tom instinctively felt that something was not right, but he nodded anyway.

"The school has prepared a scholarship for students from Muggle families," Tom took out the small purse, "but it may not be enough. You need to prepare some gold to exchange it - if you don't want to use second-hand textbooks and old As for robes. Gringotts offers students a preferential exchange rate for galleons. Don’t miss this, it’s a student benefit.”

Looking at the silent father and daughter, Tom was not in a hurry, he just looked at them quietly, waiting for their answer.