Chapter 145 - New Room (1/2)

Harry knew that Dumbledore would try to find him as soon as he saw the memory.

After all, despite his good nature, Dumbledore was a bit of a control freak and would probably want to hide all the dark secrets in Hogwarts from being revealed to other people.

For example, if he uploaded one of the memories in which the purebloods are discriminating against muggleborns or if he uploaded a memory in which Snape is taking points from Gryffindor for the smallest of reason then that could paint a very bad picture of Hogwarts in the parents' minds.

So it was likely that the old man would want to have a talk with him which was why he had gone to his first History of Magic class where the old man would easily be able to find him.

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”You're giving me a new room?” he asked with some surprise once the old man came and took him out in order to talk with him.

”Yes. You heard that right my boy. You're being given your own separate room some distance away from the Ravenclaw house.” Dumbledore said with a smile.

”Why?” he asked. It was not like he needed a new room because he never really stayed in his old one.

This seemed like a move that Dumbledore made in order to keep him contained in a single place so that he would be easier to find and easier to control.

”There were often cases in the past where the heads of the ancient families died for one reason or another and their children had to take control of their family headship while studying in Hogwarts because of political reasons.” Dumbledore explained.

”As you already know, when a person takes the headship of their house, they also need to start taking care of all the ȧssets that belong to that house. And taking care of ȧssets usually meant dealing with lots and lots of paperwork.”

”But how do you deal with your school homework and all that paperwork while constantly being badgered by their roommates.”

”Keeping this in mind, the Hogwarts Headmasters of the past created a few single person rooms outside every house which could only be used by these young heads of houses.” Dumbledore said.

”But I'm not a head of house.” He countered.

”Perhaps not yet my boy. But you're now the President of the largest company in Magical Britain and I'm sure that the amount of work you need to do in order in your position must not be any lower than the work done by a head of house.” Dumbledore said ”Keeping this in mind, me and my staff members decided to give you this special privilege in order to show you our support.”

Or so Dumbledore said but he could tell that this was just a ploy to control him.

Otherwise just like the first year, he would just take over the abandoned rooms and start living in them instead.

Plus, Dumbledore had given him this 'privilege' in a way that he couldn't even refuse.

Not if he wanted to increase the friction between the them by a large amount.

”I accept.” He finally said and Dumbledore's smile turned wider before he dropped the bomb on the old man.

”And I would also like to ask your permission to send the memories of the classes taught in the school and send it to the no magical parents in order to alleviate their concerns about their children's education.”

Dumbledore's expression almost faltered at that and he could understand why the old man would hesitate in giving his permission.

After all, teachers like Binns and Snape didn't really make the best of impressions.

Thankfully, there was no Quirrelmort this year so at least the 1st years won't have to deal with a stuttering mess for a teacher.