Chapter 482: Money and Naming Rights

The Prime Minister almost immediately showed an expression of being moved, and everyone in the Ministry of Magic was still slow and didn't give any reaction, except for Snape, who fell into deep thought in a confusion.

"Very good suggestion, Sir Harry," the Prime Minister clenched his two hands and supported them on the conference room table forcefully. "We will become the pioneers of the magical renaissance era, a brand new Order of Merlin... or call it the Order of Hacker!"

"I haven't inherited the title yet, right?" Harry looked at the Prime Minister with confused eyes and muttered in a low voice.

"Soon, I mean, this proposal alone is worth a life peerage," the Prime Minister waved his fingers with burning eyes. "I will help you initiate the nomination immediately. Our House of Lords is already lacking talents related to the magical field!"

Harry, who was still a bit dizzy, suddenly realized when he heard the House of Lords. Although he didn't know the relationship between a life peerage and the House of Lords at this moment, he knew that the Prime Minister had always wanted to use his reputation to win over a group of wizards to enter the Muggle world to stand for him.

After a brief hesitation, Harry immediately pretended to be humble and said: "No, it's just a proposal. I think it's better to forget it. Prime Minister, I think we can focus more energy on, uh, the detailed preparation of the magical university."

"Wait a moment, you two," Arthur interrupted them. "What exactly do you mean by 'university'?"

Harry suddenly understood why the British Wizarding World didn't have a university—they were completely separated from Muggle society, and no one had thought of this concept at all.

"Simply put, it means that after students graduate from Hogwarts, they can enter a new school to learn more profound magical knowledge," the Prime Minister explained patiently. "Only the most excellent students can go to university, and then most of them can continue to devote themselves to the research of advanced magical theory, and then continue to teach the next batch of students who enter the university after achieving results, so it cycles and constantly promotes our magical progress."

"You mean, university is like the eighth year of Hogwarts, and professors are served by excellent university graduates? What about the first batch of professors?"

"To be precise, undergraduate university is generally a four-year system, which is grades eight to twelve, but all this is in another school and has nothing to do with Hogwarts. As for the first batch of professors, hire the top figures in each discipline in our Wizarding World to serve, perhaps including many Hogwarts professors," the Prime Minister said. "As for the teaching work at Hogwarts, you can hire other excellent graduates from previous years to do it."

"Yes, this will be the final answer to our education reform," Snape's voice, which was like dead water, rippled with excitement after he came back to his senses. "For many years, I have been committed to pouring profound knowledge into the brains of those students, but the fact is that seven years are not enough to explain all the mysteries of Potions, and playful teenagers don't have much desire to settle down and learn—since the Wizarding World is relatively peaceful, I would rather serve as a Potions professor at the university."

"You certainly have this qualification, Mr. Snape," the Minister simply complimented, and then continued to imagine, "As for what the university is called, perhaps it can be called 'Hacker University'!"

Harry still hadn't forgotten Hemin's original intention of wanting to go to university. He hinted at the right time: "Prime Minister, the number of people in the Wizarding World may not be able to support a complete university. Why not put it under the name of Oxford or Jianqiao, as a, uh, Hacker College, how about that?"

He admitted that when he said Hacker College, he felt a bit nauseous.

"Hmm, that's true too," the Prime Minister pondered a little and thought of another benefit of this move. "If other wizards enter the political arena in the future, their academic qualifications will also look much better. It's too hard to hear that they only graduated from middle school."

Arthur looked at their discussion with a smile. At this rate, Harry and Luo En might be the first batch of students to enter the university, and Jin Ni and Eve would be the second batch. He couldn't stop being happy for them when he thought of this.

"... Of course Oxford or Jianqiao may not be willing to invest, we can appropriately take out some Galleons to exchange for pounds. How much money is in the Ministry of Magic's account?"

Arthur stopped smiling instantly.

"Our budget is also very tight, Prime Minister," he swallowed. "We also have to support the research of Glintstone magic. Didn't you also say just now that we need to increase support for this research to use it to counter the Iron Curtain system?"

"Hmm, I did say that, but establishing a college is also used for them to research!"

The Prime Minister and the Minister of Magic started to pull back and forth on this matter. Clearly, Arthur was more willing to truly invest the Ministry of Magic's funds into new magical research, and if the money was taken to build a college, perhaps more than half of it would be spent on the name "Hacker College."

In the end, relying on the home-court advantage, the Prime Minister didn't get a single Galleon and was politely sent away. He was still a bit dejected. Clearly, it was unlikely that the cabinet would fund his establishment of a magical university.

Harry began to think about who paid for Miskatonic. He vaguely suspected that it might be Tang Nade—he was truly stupid and rich, unlike Lucius, who only spent money that was beneficial to himself.

Thinking of this, Harry had already secretly decided that if there was really no turning point, he would try to persuade Sirius to use the money earned from canned dog food to invest in building this college, and only need Hacker to help open up the relationship with the university.

Hacker's actions on another matter were unimaginably fast. He couldn't wait to use Harry to introduce a group of wizard politicians, so almost on the day he went back, he immediately drafted a plan to nominate Harry Potter as a life peer to fill the vacancy of talents in the magical field in the House of Lords, and used the cover of the Statute of Secrecy to skip many routine approval processes, and sent the sweet to the Queen's desk before afternoon tea the next day.

However, the House of Lords was not really in urgent need of talents related to the magical field, so the royal family's interpretation of this document had some deviations.

On Thursday, Harry rarely received a letter from the old baronet—he used to use Muggle mail to deliver to the collection point on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, but this time, he didn't know how he got an owl.

"... The royal family intends to introduce you to Princess Sarah, and it would be best if you could get married. After I told them about Zhang Qiu, they aimed at Luo En again, so you might have to take Luo En back this weekend. And, after they discussed with the cabinet, they are prepared to invest in building the Royal Carian College in Jianqiao for higher magical education. They seem to regard this as a kind of transaction. From this, I guess that whether the marriage is successful or not may be related to whether you can successfully obtain the life peerage title and enter the House of Lords—judge for yourself how it will develop."

Harry sat on the sofa in the common room and finished reading this letter. Luo En was reading a Muggle novel that had just been published opposite him. He didn't know how to tell Luo En for a while, just took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and pondered the ins and outs of this matter.

Just then, a hand pulled the loose paper roll from his hand, and then unfolded it to read.

"You want to enter the House of Lords?" Eve's voice was an octave lower than usual. "Is there any need for this?"

"I don't want to enter at all, it's all Hacker messing around," Harry said with dissatisfaction. "But if the royal family is willing to support the college, that's what I value more. Now it's a matter of proportion, how to reply and express our attitude, so that we can just not enter the House of Lords, and not mess up the college matter..."

"Simple, you announce that Luo En and I are engaged," Eve suggested triumphantly.

Luo En clearly heard it, but he didn't speak out against it, and didn't even move his eyes away from the novel.

"No, I don't think things are that simple," Harry keenly discovered the problem. "I suspect they are aiming at Super-Wizard power, so I'm a bit worried about Hemin: her parents are ordinary dentists in the Muggle world, I'm afraid they can't withstand the pressure of the royal family."

"Regarding this point," Harry pressed his temples with both hands, resisting the pressure and saying his thoughts, "I am considering letting Luo En and Hemin pretend to be in a relationship, and use the Wizarding World as a whole to resist the pressure of the Muggle royal family."

This time, Luo En expressed opposition instead. He slammed the book on the table and said with some dissatisfaction: "What's the need? We can also support Hemin as ordinary friends! And, the more this is the case, the more it reflects the unity of the Wizarding World."

From this change in attitude, Eve showed a triumphant smile, while Harry explained helplessly: "No, the way of pretending to be in a relationship expresses a tactful refusal, and if Hemin refuses bluntly, and we support her forcefully, it will undoubtedly annoy the royal family. Once they discover Hemin is taking the A-Level exam, perhaps they will retaliate and withdraw funds from Carian College, which is not the situation I want to see."

Eve sat down beside him, and Luo En also put a bookmark in the book. They seemed to want to discuss this matter seriously.

"I think, if you don't want to exert force from our side," Harry muttered, "the top priority is to figure out the situation of this Princess Sarah, and formulate strategies in a targeted manner. By the way, learn about the situation of other young men of appropriate age, so that if they aim at Hemin again, we won't have nowhere to exert force."

"Actually, what if we help say Hemin likes girls?" Eve suggested. "Didn't it appear in the newspaper during the Triwizard Tournament before?"

"Then Princess Sarah can use it again," Harry rolled his eyes and rejected this stupid suggestion. ===== CHAPTER 483 =====