Cloud-Reversal Charm

A look at the list of past Ministers for Magic and their résumés made it clear: the largest number had risen from the position of head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Ironclad facts proved the bright prospects of this path.

However, with the rise of Voldemort and the Death Eaters, the casualty rate of Aurors had made this career route somewhat uncertain.

If he had truly been aiming to fight the Death Eaters, that would have been one thing—dying for a worthy cause would have been no regret... But Bellows was clearly not seeking employment for such noble and righteous reasons.

Thus, aside from freelancers who operated independently in the field, positions such as curse-breakers were careers better suited to his particular strengths.

"You could also try teaching through correspondence for a couple of years, of course. That would require your final grades to be good enough."

Manus pointed Bellows toward a new path: correspondence institutions.

Generally speaking, correspondence education was a second choice for wizards who lived extremely far from the nearest magical school. Not every country had a magical school; Albania did not.

There were also specialized correspondence institutions created for those who did not care for a magical school's educational philosophy or resources and preferred their children to receive a specially tailored education.

But those were not worth considering. Such cases were rare in Britain as well. Hogwarts' four houses basically covered every philosophy, and its curriculum included nearly every ability most wizards would need.

Returning to ordinary correspondence institutions, capable wizards often had more promising or more ideal career paths, so the quality of teaching staff at correspondence schools generally was not especially high.

In places like Albania, teachers at mainstream correspondence institutions might not even have earned an A—Acceptable—on their O.W.L.s at Hogwarts.