Chapter 663 - Yet Again?! Ⅴ (1/2)
Noticing Sato's silence, and rather impatient at this point, Mrs. Bly in a forced tone of voice said, ”You have yet to voice your opinion, Sato. What do you have to say on the subject?” The board members turn their heads towards the solemn wizard including Lucius Malfoy.
”A great warrior of my land, Miyamoto Musashi once said, 'Observation and perception are two separate things; the eye that observes is stronger, the eye that perceives is weak,” Izuki Sato soberly said with a slightly accented voice. ”If we see only the surface then Mrs. Bly exerts beyond her means to ensure perfection, but if we see past, we see that Mrs. Bly has muddled the waters until not even the depths of the river can be seen.”
Izuki Sato paused as he raised his gaze to meet the board members. ”I say that it is far better to see the depth of the river than not to see through the murky river waters at all.”
”There we have at,” Lucius Malfoy said with a smug expression. ”All those in favor of the immediate removal of Mrs. Bly from the Board, please raise your hands?”
Instantly all hands go up as all board members jump on deck except for Mrs. Bly, and Garrick Arnold. ”It is a majority vote against two,” Lucius announced with a cold smile of personal satisfaction. ”We thank Mrs. Bly for her many years of service, but you are dismissed from your post effective immediately with all rights revoked in correlation to the board. We bid you, the widow, Mrs. Bly, a good evening and a fond farewell.” Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click #!-%E2%85%B4_52027805831058445 for visiting.
Mrs. Bly shakes with fury and narrows her eyes dangerously. ”You will all live to regret this, mark my words,” she viciously threatened, before grabbing her cloak from her seat and storming out of the chamber. The door loudly slams shut behind her leaving the board members staring at each other in surprise.
Who would have ever thought the well-composed witch could ever comport herself in such a manner?! They must have been wrong about her character all these years. And like Sato had said, they were not truly seeing that which was before them, but merely looking.
After a brief momentary lapse of silence, Lucius interrupts the board members' contemplations and says, ”Well, now that has been taken care of, we should discuss the appointment of a new board member in Mrs. Bly's place. I would like to appoint Secundus Wilkes to the position.”
”It would seem that the Chairman has been planning this for some time,” Garrick Arnold darkly grumbled but quiets down at not seeing any of the board members protest at the nomination.
”Secundus Wilkes, you say?” Leif Amundsen muttered out loud. ”Yes, a pureblood, but more of a moderate. And though his firstborn son, S.R. Wilkes was caught up in all the treacherous fiasco-.” He paused and sent Chairman Malfoy an assessing glance.
Lucius caught Leif Amundsen's glance as his icy, blue eyes remain calm as he says, ”Secundus Wilkes was much as a victim as my own father was of his son's duplicity. And for that same reason alone, he will work all the harder for it.” (That and it would redeem the Wilkes family honor and allow them to rejoin polite wizarding society again. Which in other words meant that they would Lucius Malfoy a favor to be called in at any time. He wasn't that charitable.)
Leif Amundsen slowly nods his head as Maxwell Zheng says, ”If that is indeed the case, Secundus will be an excellent addition to the board. He is a member of the 28 sacred families, and more importantly a true friend of the Potion Master Damocles Belby. It will be an excellent political move as well and gain the board far more sponsors and parents in our favor.”
The board members chime in agreement one by one until Lucius calls for a vote. The vote is unanimous, and says, ”As such, Secundus Wilkes will formally be instated as a board member at our next meeting. Now moving onto the next pressing piece of business, I am certain that we all received this morning's letter stating that Professor Zephyros has mid-term abandoned his post of Divination from the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore.”
There is a grimace on several faces as Lucius Malfoy's upper lip curls up with a bit of a sneer. ”Considering that the term has already begun, it will be very difficult to find a replacement. Might I suggest that the archaic class be removed from the Hogwarts curriculum as it does not seem to serve any purpose to the students beyond a waste of their time?”