At first, they had still used the newly popularized French in an overly refined manner.
After a lengthy exposition of the situation everyone present already knew,
the focus of their discussion finally shifted from being unable to find successors to why young wizards were no longer interested in traditional magic.
This was followed by another lengthy round of complaints about all sorts of grievances from the students under their care.
At last, someone brought up why they did not compare the present with the past and examine what kind of environment young wizards actually faced.
Only then did those present finally realize
that the impact brought by the reformists' new ideas and new culture was enormous.
To say nothing else, even they, as elders, after the French Aurors' long decades of rule,
had grown accustomed to using French instead of their common tongue.
Once they realized this, the room suddenly fell silent.
Then they began noisily discussing, in their common tongue, how to motivate the students.
In order to raise the students' standards quickly,
they passed a resolution without hesitation.
They would lift the age restrictions on learning dangerous magic.
In other words, lower-year students would be allowed to study magic normally reserved for upper-year students.
But that would be unfair to the upper-year students.
They once again began discussing how to teach those upper-year students.
Alchemy... Aside from certain special Dark Arts items, the French Ministry of Magic's alchemical standards, under Nicolas Flamel's care, utterly surpassed Uagadou's.
Astronomy... In this age overflowing with talent, celestial phenomena changed almost every moment. Unless one reached the level of touching the power of fate, one was still merely a pawn in the hands of greater figures.
Transfiguration and its advanced magic...
At that, they were wide awake.
The elders present came from