Belvina's Ambition

Phineas Nigellus Black, the most unpopular headmaster in Hogwarts history.

The students hated Principal Blake, and Principal Blake hated the students too, believing that young people always thought they were absolutely right.

Principal Black had five children: Sirius, Phineas (who was expelled), Arcturus, Belvina, and Signas.

Besides their inherited good looks and wealth, the Black family's ancestral names are also a distinctive feature.

Starting with Phineas's generation, the Black family has three Siriuses, two Arcturuses, two Belvinas, two Signas, two Regulus... with one main focus on tribute.

The protagonist of the conversation that takes place in the principal's office is Belvina Black II, whose grandfather was Arcturus II, the eldest son of Sirius II, and whose maternal grandfather was Boroks, the eldest son of Signas.

That's right, Belvina's parents, Orion and Walbuga, are cousins, and Belvina and her two brothers are the product of consanguineous marriage.

To maintain the purity of their family bloodlines, such inbreeding is commonplace in pure-blood wizarding families, especially the Holy Twenty-Eight Families, and is not considered a big deal at all.

With Phineas's sudden involvement, a mysterious silence fell over Hogwarts' headmaster's office.

Phineas, sporting a goatee, stared intently at Dumbledore. Professor McGonagall's gaze darted back and forth between the two headmasters. The portraits of past headmasters held their breath, while Dumbledore...

Dumbledore suddenly felt guilty; he was avoiding Phineas's gaze, a rare occurrence in his long life, and should be photographed immediately as a memento.

"Yes, Phineas, that's exactly what you think."

After a long while, Dumbledore spoke again, his tone returning to calm, as if his earlier guilty conscience was everyone's illusion.

"How could you do this! It's a terrible insult!" Phineas in the portrait was furious, his goatee twitching. "Bring that unworthy descendant to me right now!"

Phineas was unusually irritable, and the anger in his dark eyes seemed capable of setting his painting frame on fire.

Professor McGonagall sighed. The Black family's prejudice and discrimination against Muggles was so deeply ingrained that even Dumbledore was powerless to change it.

It was precisely in this kind of family environment that Belvina, this oddball, emerged. Professor McGonagall felt a sense of relief and even felt closer to Belvina, whose acting skills were terrible.

Before Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall could express their opinions, the portraits of the past headmasters were already getting restless.

They can watch the show and wait to see this annoying guy Phineas get his comeuppance, but they absolutely will not allow Phineas to speak disrespectfully to the current principal.

"Shut up, Blake!" Euprasia Moore shouted.

"You have no right to criticize the current principal! Shameless, Phineas!" Armando Dipette said.

Unlike the principals who criticized Phineas, Delis de Winter was quite interested in the "unorthodox" Belvina.

This remarkable witch was not only the headmistress of Hogwarts, but also the headmaster of St. Mungo's Asylum of Magic and Injuries, managing everything from her enrollment to her burial with meticulous care.

"I'd love to meet Miss Black," said Delis de Winter. "She's such a good girl. Albus, may I see her? Just for a little while."

As successive headmasters took turns speaking, the outstanding wizards from different eras argued heatedly, turning the headmaster's office into a complete mess, all because of Belvina, a young witch.

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen." Dumbledore raised his hand and pressed down, and the headmasters of all ages finally stopped arguing and returned to their usual quiet demeanor.

However, Phineas was still furious, glaring angrily at Dumbledore; Professor Moore rolled up his sleeves, looking as if he wanted to jump out of the picture frame and fight Phineas.

Having quelled the disputes among successive headmasters, Dumbledore spoke again, saying, "Minerva, if you are referring to Miss Black's lectures, I already know."

It's not easy to keep things from Dumbledore at Hogwarts, especially since Belvina didn't hide anything at all. The contents of the Muggle Studies class had already spread throughout the entire school, and only Slytherin was still in the dark.

"Professor, aren't you worried at all?" Professor McGonagall asked with some concern. "Her views are too radical. I'm a little worried that she will be attacked by anti-Muggle individuals."

Upon hearing this, Phineas in the portrait raised his sparse eyebrows as if to say: Let's see who dares.

Even though he desperately wanted to expel his unworthy descendant Belvina, Phineas still showed his protective side. Before the official expulsion, anyone who dared to touch Belvina was going against the entire Black family.

Moreover, she is now Black's only child. If Signas and Sirius cannot be relied upon, the only way to continue the bloodline is through this youngest daughter.

(Belvina Black: (ˉ▽￣～) Tch~~)

Dumbledore started digging for candy again; I wonder if he has cavities or diabetes.

"To be honest, I can't quite guess what Miss Black is thinking," Dumbledore said slowly. "At the Ministry of Magic, everything she did had a clear purpose, and she almost never did anything that didn't benefit herself."

While seemingly not directly answering Professor McGonagall's question, Dumbledore had actually expressed his concerns. However, his concern wasn't for Belvina's safety, but rather for what Belvina was planning.

Dumbledore picked out another sour pop candy; he seemed to be gradually falling in love with the thrill of it.

"But inspiring students' minds and gradually making them want to change—I don't see how this will benefit her at the moment, unless she wants a revolution."

Change is a good thing, but it can also be terrible; change often means bloodshed and sacrifice.

If Belvina is truly seeking change, what kind of change does she want? Is it merely to change wizards' prejudice and discrimination against Muggles?

Dumbledore fell silent and began to recount everything he knew about Belvina, like a sophisticated instrument deducing all the possibilities.

"You don't mean to say..." Professor McGonagall stopped midway through her sentence; that was too terrible, and she dared not continue the thought.

Dumbledore shook his head, not to deny Professor McGonagall's terrible association, but to indicate his uncertainty. As Dumbledore himself said, he couldn't fathom Belvina's thoughts.

The headmaster of Hogwarts even wondered to himself: Could it be that I'm overthinking things and complicating a simple matter?

If Belvina knew about the conversation that took place in the principal's office, she would laugh her head off, because she had no desire to be some kind of reformer.

Belvina certainly has all sorts of wicked thoughts in her mind, and she hopes that wizarding society can make changes, but that doesn't mean that she herself wants to do it.

Otherwise, she should have tried to join the Department of Law Enforcement and apply to join Wizengamo when she was in the Ministry of Magic, so as to make herself more influential, instead of hiding in the Public Press Office and fighting wits with the media reporters.

The new professor of Muggle Studies simply sowed a seed and then waited for it to take root and sprout.

If this seed grows into a towering tree, she will be overjoyed; if this seed is uprooted, she will only smile and at most sigh in her heart, "What a pity."

As for dragging Dumbledore and Fudge into the mess, that's just killing two birds with one stone—a side effect.

If one had to say that Belvina harbored some ulterior motive, it would be that she was wagging her tail and showing loyalty to Dumbledore, indicating that her stance was perfectly acceptable and that she should not be held accountable during future reckonings.

She can be wildly outrageous when she wants to be, and cowardly to the extreme when she needs to be. That's Belvina Black, a witch with no ambition.

Her ultimate goal in life was to survive until the very end; everyone else could die, but she couldn't.