69novels Chapter 578 Employment Guidance
Chapter 578 Employment Guidance
Chapter 578 Employment Guidance
For most people, the Easter holiday isn't really a holiday.
Because at this time, almost no student can lie carefree on the grass outside and enjoy the slightly cool spring breeze.
There's too much homework. Because exams are approaching, the professors have assigned enough homework to last them the entire vacation.
So whether it's first grade or seventh grade, most of the time is spent in the library, and they don't come out until evening.
This is especially true in fifth grade.
Siren spends all her time either doing homework or on her way to the library to do homework. She can only squeeze out a little time to make wands before going to bed at night.
It wasn't until the holiday was almost over that Xilun finally managed to turn all twenty-nine of the shells of the blasting snails into magic wands.
It has to be said, the Blasttail Snail is truly perfect for crafting wands. Of the twenty-nine wands, twenty have the simple and direct characteristic of increasing spell power—they're practically ideal for combat! But there's one thing—
Xiren glanced at the wand in his hand.
[Struck Willow, Blast-tailed Snail Carapace, 12 2/3 inches]
[Status: Perfect]
[Characteristic: Regardless of cost: Spell effect +35%, but the user will suffer an equal backlash.]
If you only look at the first half, this wand is definitely one of Siron's proudest creations, but it has a fatal flaw.
Simply put, this wand will reflect the increased damage back to the user. While it might not be a case of "hurting the enemy a thousand while losing eight hundred of your own," it will certainly cause at least three hundred damage.
Moreover, it's unclear whether there's a problem with this batch of Bombtails, but out of the twenty wands suitable for combat, nineteen of them have this issue.
So, there's only one wand that can be considered a normal one.
[Yew wood, 13-inch burr shell]
[Status: Perfect]
[Special Feature: Has a 5% chance to cause a spread effect, attacking everyone within a certain range.]
Strictly speaking, this wand isn't exactly normal. Although it looks powerful and can turn single-target spells into area-of-effect spells, the probability is too low. It takes twenty spells to trigger a single spread effect.
For most wizards, twenty spells would be enough to decide the outcome of a battle, unless it is in a large-scale war and a powerful wizard like Dumbledore wielding it, in which case it might not be able to play a real role.
Fortunately, it doesn't have any negative effects, so thinking about it that way, it's not unacceptable.
On the morning of the last day of the holiday, Xilun walked out of the dormitory yawning.
At this time of day, many people would have been doing their homework in the common room, but today everyone was hunched over their desks, making a lot of noise.
"Sirlen, why are you only waking up now?" Harry waved and asked from the crowd.
"I went to bed too late last night," Xilen said, rubbing his face. "I didn't fall asleep until almost midnight."
"No wonder you didn't know," Ron said, pointing to the bulletin board. "Look over there."
A large sheet of parchment was posted on the bulletin board.
Siren initially thought that Umbridge had issued some strange educational decree, but upon closer inspection, he realized he was wrong; it contained something else entirely.
[Employment Guidance]
During the first week of the summer semester, all fifth-year students must meet with their dean to discuss their post-graduation employment intentions. The meeting times for each student are shown in the table below.
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The table next to them, surrounded by people, was covered with pamphlets, leaflets, and notices about the duties of wizards.
"Career guidance? Could there be a mistake?" Dean Thomas frowned. "We're only in fifth grade, we're a long way from graduation. These should be for seventh graders, right?"
"No, it's fifth grade," Ron explained. "I heard Percy mention it before; it's to set goals so that sixth graders can choose more targeted enrichment classes."
"I know that too. My grandma even reminded me of it," Neville said. "If you want to be an Auror, you have to choose Charms, Transfiguration, and Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"If you want to work at St. Mungo's, you'll need to work on potions and herbs."
"Ha, I promise I will never choose the advanced Potions class," Ron said quietly.
Harry, who was standing nearby, nodded in agreement.
Ever since he learned that he could choose his own courses again in sixth grade, Harry had been looking forward to the end of fifth grade.
He was truly fed up with Snape's sarcastic remarks during class.
"Speaking of which, you probably don't need this, Celen," Fred and George said with a smile as they walked over from a short distance away. "I bet they didn't put your name down."
"Too bad, you guessed wrong."
Sylvanas looked down and realized that he was to go to Professor McGonagall's office at 3:30 p.m. on Monday.
"Olivanders is providing career guidance?" George couldn't help but laugh out loud. "That's a complete waste of time."
"Not necessarily," Siron said. "Perhaps someone doesn't want me to take over the wand shop. In that case, it's necessary to learn more about other responsibilities."
"So what do you want to do?" Fred asked curiously. "I mean, if you don't take over the wand shop."
"Staying at Hogwarts might be a good choice," Siron said after thinking for a moment. "Professor McGonagall will become Headmistress someday, and my Transfiguration is pretty good; I could take over her position then."
"Then we'll have to call you Professor Ollivander?" Fred exclaimed dramatically.
"Why can't it be Dean Ollivander?" Siren raised an eyebrow.
"Then let's just call you Principal."
"It's not impossible," Sirren pondered for a moment. "After all, Dumbledore was once a professor of Transfiguration."
Everyone laughed, but after the laughter subsided, they immediately resumed reading the employment information that was placed there.
In a sense, these brochures are more important than O.W.L. test scores.
Hermione, in particular, looked like she was trying to memorize everything in the booklet.
Of all the people, only Siron seemed to be doing nothing; he was chatting with the Weasley brothers next to him.
"Speaking of which, haven't you guys been doing anything lately?"
"You noticed?"
"Of course, this holiday has been unusually quiet," Celen said. "Didn't you guys say you were going to accept Umbridge's challenge? This isn't like you guys at all."
"Because we asked ourselves, what's the point of ruining our leisure time?" Fred continued. "Our answer was: it's pointless."
"But don't worry, we'll be on the right track soon," George said confidently, seemingly well-prepared.
However, the Weasley brothers, who have completely disregarded the N.E.W.T. exams, would probably be the only ones in Hogwarts who would consider the Easter holiday a leisure time.