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It turned out that all of today's events were, to put it bluntly, a play by Lucius.
The purpose is to brush up his daughter's qualifications.
Why his daughter has extraordinary wisdom, maybe she got the method from Lucius and recited it in the original text?
Lucius watched the changes in the faces of several people, and he, who only knew superficially about Legilimency, had already guessed what these people were thinking.
That's exactly what he wanted.
Treating Cassandra as his puppet, it will only be these people themselves who will be unlucky in the end.
"Come on, child."
Lucius patted Cassandra on the shoulder, and pushed Cassandra to the position he had just placed in a gesture that seemed to be pushing.
"If you want to ask anything, just ask my daughter."
After speaking, he pushed his daughter on the seat of the school manager, and pushed the brooch in front of Cassandra.
This scene caused the nine school managers to show varying degrees of unhappiness.
The status of school director is not a fake responsibility, but it is also an honor.
After all, there are only a few large and influential organizations in the British wizarding world.
Even officials from the Ministry of Magic have to show enough respect when they meet the Hogwarts school trustees.
Now that Cassandra wants to become one of them, isn't this lowering their status?
But now, they can't show it, they can only endure it.
"child."
The old school manager knocked on the table: "Can you tell us now, do you have any valuable wisdom?"
"Wait a minute."
But Lucius stopped again: "What about the opinions of the rest of you, will you elect my daughter as the school director?"
"I need to know your attitude."
Lucius' words were met with glaring looks from several people.
They really wanted to just slam the door and leave this embarrassing and entangled school board meeting.
But they couldn't, because the next Hogwarts attack could happen at any moment.
In the end, under the persuasion of the old school manager, several school managers could only nod.
"I also have to make sure that you won't go back on your word..."
Lucius' words directly made the two wizards take out their wands.
This is just so infuriating!
They should just resign and not be the school directors, right?
"Father, I trust them."
Cassandra turned to look at Lucius: "Everyone is the greatest and most outstanding person in the British wizarding world, how could they deceive my child?"
Cassandra's words received surprised looks from the school managers.
Seeing the innocent smile on the corner of Cassandra's mouth, most of the anger in their hearts disappeared.
A child is a child after all, without the vicious heart of an adult like Lucius.
"That might be, we Slytherins never mind lying."
Little Avery complained grimly, but another school manager retorted: "You are Slytherin, we are not."
There are twelve school managers, exactly three from each of the four colleges, which is also the usual practice in the distribution of school managers.
If Cassandra wants to become the school manager, she can only succeed Lucius, otherwise she will face a stronger backlash.
The words of this school manager lifted the spirits of the remaining eight school managers.
Although they didn't make a guarantee that they would never go back on their promises, the current meeting has even tied the honor of the academy.
Those who have already achieved fame will naturally care more about their reputation than ordinary people.
"Well, boy, how about we hear your wisdom?"
Cassandra exhaled lightly: "Gentlemen, the biggest problem at Hogwarts right now is not being able to find the basilisk, right?"
The principals nodded.
Cassandra had won them over before, so they were more patient than they had been with Lucius.
"Then we can definitely mobilize the power of the entire wizarding world to go to Hogwarts to find the basilisk."
These words made several school managers dumbfounded.
The school manager who was born in Quidditch directly said: "There are too many people with ulterior motives in the wizarding world, and they cannot all enter the school."
"But we have Dumbledore, right? He is enough to distinguish who is reliable and who is not."
Cassandra moved out of Dumbledore, instantly leaving the school director speechless.
The rest of the school directors looked at each other in blank dismay at first, and then showed sudden expressions.
Dumbledore couldn't catch the basilisk by himself, wouldn't it be enough to ask more people to help?
"But... Hogwarts still needs normal teaching."
"Yes, we can't disturb the students' studies too much."
"And a large-scale search of Hogwarts may affect the reputation of Hogwarts."
Several school managers tried to raise objections, but compared to the credit for catching the basilisk, these issues were not worth mentioning at all.
"Does fame still exist in Hogwarts now?"
"Or if a few more students die, Hogwarts will become even more famous."
Lucius and Avery Jr. complained continuously, making the faces of the remaining school managers go black, but they had to admit that the time was right for the two of them.
The Daily Prophet has been reporting it for a week. It is estimated that only the illiterate wizards do not know that there is a basilisk in Hogwarts.
"As for the concerns of several gentlemen that students will be affected by this, I think it is easy to solve."
"Actually, I think this is the most important thing to do."
Cassandra's words attracted everyone's attention.
The old school manager rubbed his temples, and began to pay attention to the girl in front of him: "Please continue, Miss Malfoy."
"Why can't Hogwarts be suspended?"
"No, Hogwarts can't be suspended...wait, suspend?"
Noticing the difference between the two words, the old school manager asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by suspension?"
"We have more than two months of summer vacation."
"Why can't we suspend school for a month, gather the power of the entire wizarding world to eradicate this basilisk, and then resume classes?"
"As long as the holiday of this semester is postponed by one month, it's enough. There's nothing difficult to understand, right?"
The old headmaster opened his mouth slowly, and the rest of the school directors suddenly realized.
Why didn't they think of such a simple thing?
In fact, this is not to blame these school managers.
Hogwarts is a boarding school, and the students stay in Hogwarts except for the holidays, and they don't even think about returning to their families halfway.
Naturally, there will be fewer cases where classes are temporarily suspended due to various natural and man-made disasters, and students are asked to go back to their respective homes.
In addition, the school managers still want to subconsciously protect the face of Hogwarts, and solve the problem quietly without affecting the order of Hogwarts at all.
Now, they had abandoned chances and just wanted to get rid of the basilisk quickly.
Cassandra gave a very practical solution, and the most important thing is that it doesn't require Hogwarts to spend any more.
"Isn't that too simple?"
The school manager who studied music looked at Cassandra with some dissatisfaction.
If this is the only way to add a little girl director to the school board, wouldn't it seem that they are too stupid.
"Look, children of the Malfoy family, I just say that the people in the three houses are very hypocritical."
Little Avery pulled away the hatred in an instant, and made the other school managers never talk about the previous agreement.
Anyway, the top priority is to solve the basilisk, and the rest can be discussed slowly.
"Luna is my friend."
Who knew that Cassandra hadn't finished speaking: "I am willing to use part of my personal wealth to reward this basilisk. It can be used to pay people who can subdue the basilisk."
"No, kid, we old guys get together..."
The burly school manager wants to refuse, how can they take a child's pocket money?
As a result, what Cassandra took out made several people dazzle.
A total of one thousand galleons made the burly school manager take back his words.
A thousand gold Galleons is not much in their eyes, and each of the school managers can afford it alone.
But with so much cash at hand, it can only be said that he is a child of a pure-blooded family.
The pocket money is more than the cash in their hands.
"Then I'll take my leave."
Several school managers hadn't recovered from the shock of Jin Gallon, and Cassandra had already got up to say goodbye to several people.
"I hope there will be no more basilisks in Hogwarts, and the person who released the basilisks will be punished sooner."
After finishing speaking, he bowed to several people, then took his father's wrist and walked out.
"Cassandra, you haven't got the trustee pin on yet."
Lucius reminded his daughter tactfully, but her daughter quickened her pace, as if she didn't care about the position of the school manager.
This scene made the nine school managers see it in their eyes and remember it in their hearts.