"Oh? Dudley, do you know such people?" Dumbledore was quite surprised. "Are they wizards or Muggles?"
Dudley glanced at the somewhat excited Dumbledore and calmly replied, "No, I don't know any of them."
"Ah?!"
Dumbledore was stunned. If he didn't know any of them, then what's the deal? Isn't this just making fun of him?
Dudley saw the subtext behind the old man's expression and didn't beat around the bush. He continued,
"Just because you don't know them now doesn't mean you won't in the future. You can totally send someone to look for them!
Don't count on the few thousand wizards in the British wizarding community. But do you know how many Muggles there are in Britain nowadays?
More than fifty-seven million and four hundred thousand!
Among so many people, can't you pick out dozens or even hundreds of professional talents who are kind, brave, experienced, knowledgeable, and wise?"
"Dozens or hundreds of people?!" Dumbledore was shocked again. "Do you need to find so many people to give Professor Binns extra lessons?"
"Professor Binns is a ghost. Of course, he doesn't need so many teachers. But there are other professors at Hogwarts besides Professor Binns!
We need to find excellent, fair, objective, and insightful history experts for Professor Binns. They can teach him how to correctly use historical facts and guide students to learn from history and form correct ideological understandings.
We need to find experts proficient in genetic biology to help you professors break the shackles of the pure-blood supremacy ideology theoretically. Then you can transform the students' understanding of bloodlines and gradually eliminate bloodline discrimination in the school.
We need to find experts proficient in sociology, social psychology, child psychology, and educational psychology.
Teach you what a positive and healthy society should look like, how to influence students' perceptions from a psychological perspective, how to better reach students' hearts, and how to guide students to better accept your teaching materials.
Rather than the sleep - inducing education like Professor Binns, the dogmatic spoon - feeding education like the previous Professor Flitwick, or the simple suppression education like Snape!
The suppression - style education shouldn't be used the way Snape did. This educational approach should be used moderately and is more suitable for those extremely conceited and arrogant kids who look down on everything.
If you're like Snape, regardless of the students' personalities, just using verbal insults and minor physical punishments to stimulate students to learn, it's easy to make some students feel inferior and withdrawn and never be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.
Well, I've digressed a bit.
In short, we need to find good helpers in the Muggle community who can help us promote ideological and educational reforms. First, arm your minds, and then let you professors transform the students at Hogwarts."
After listening to Dudley's words, Dumbledore fell into deep thought. After a moment, he hesitated and said,
"Dudley, I understand what you mean. But there are some detailed issues..."
"If there are problems, then let's think of solutions together." Seeing Dumbledore's hesitation, Dudley directly urged him.
"Then I'll just say it."
Dumbledore quickened his speaking pace a little. "Bringing Muggles into Hogwarts directly violates the Statute of Secrecy. Even if I guarantee it and can get through the Ministry of Magic, it's inevitable to cause public opinion issues in the wizarding world.
With so many people, it's impossible to completely cover up the news."
"I can use Peter Pettigrew's blood and some other materials to make amulets to counter the Muggle - Repelling Charm.
When the right Muggle talents are brought in, give one to each of them and let them carry it with them. Just claim that they are Squibs who grew up in the Muggle world!"
Dudley, well - prepared, nailed the first question right away.
"How many new courses will be opened at Hogwarts, and who will be the professors? Will they be selected from these Muggle talents or will we recruit other outstanding wizards?" Dumbledore asked again.
"Excluding the courses I'm planning to offer, you just need to open one new course. Call it 'The Great Wizards Awareness Enhancement Course'. It sounds like a real attention - grabber. Make it a compulsory course, and you'll be the professor!"
Without hesitation, Dudley quickly answered the second question.
"Me?!"
Dumbledore couldn't help but let out an exclamation. As the headmaster for many years, he hadn't taught a class for ages, and his long - term tendency to be lazy had turned into a mental habit.
"Why are you so surprised, Dumbledore? Don't forget, this is an important course that concerns the ideological cognition of Hogwarts students and even the future wizarding world. In a sense, it's more important than any other course.
Are you really okay with letting someone else teach this important course?
Are you sure others can convince the Hogwarts students when they teach this course? Especially those pure - blood descendants in Slytherin House and the hot - heads in Gryffindor.
You should learn all the knowledge and skills from those Muggle talents. Then, teach them to the Hogwarts students according to your own understanding.
You can select the best from those Muggle talents and let them be the teaching assistants for this course, the history of magic, and the Muggle Studies course.
You have to take the lead in changing the ideological climate of the wizarding world! After learning the new ideas, Professor Binns and Professor Charity Burbage of the Muggle Studies course can assist you."
Dudley fully expressed his thoughts, making Dumbledore fall into deep thought again.
"Dudley, can't you teach this new course? It seems that you've got a good grasp of all that Muggle knowledge and ideas. If you teach, we wouldn't have to look for so many..."
After thinking for a while, Dumbledore actually wanted to shift the burden onto Dudley's shoulders.
Dudley couldn't stand it any longer. Before the old man could finish speaking, he raised his voice and interrupted him forcefully:
"Are you crazy? I'm only an eleven - year - old kid!
Besides, although I've dabbled in all that knowledge, if you let me teach, aren't you afraid that the future wizarding world will be full of lawless outlaws?
In this world, many things are easier said than done. I know my limitations.
I can talk big and give my opinions, but my personality and way of thinking aren't suitable for the decent ideological education cause.
In my free time, teaching spells and alchemy to students with good character, guiding them to give full play to their inborn endowments and develop new spells is all I can do.
My idea is that you lead the professors to positively guide and educate the students, while I'll play the tough guy to give reverse motivation and spur the students on.
We'll work in opposite ways with a clear division of labor, jointly implementing the educational reform at Hogwarts.
This ideological reform is just the first step. After largely eliminating the Bloodline discrimination and the rivalry between the houses in Hogwarts, we'll then improve the overall strength of Hogwarts students, so as to innovate the inheritance in the wizarding world and bring glory!"