Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 446 The Stolen Stone Arch
Under the cover of a row of willow trees and bushes, Maureen and Sweet were gradually approaching the stone arch. Unfortunately, they couldn't get too close because there were no trees in front of them.

Although the magic restriction here was temporarily lifted by Principal McGonagall, the distance between Mo Lin and the stone arch was still more than 20 meters.

"Not a good decision! Minister."

Maureen vaguely heard Principal McGonagall's slightly angry voice. Through the gaps in the leaves, he saw that Principal McGonagall's mouth had been drawn into a line. Based on Molin's experience of drinking tea with Principal McGonagall several times, he probably could Guess how angry Principal McGonagall was at this time.

"I'm afraid I must insist, Principal, we must find out the origin of this stone arch—" Augustine's attitude was also very firm.

"This is the property of Hogwarts! It does not belong to the Ministry of Magic, and you have no right to take it!"

Professor McGonagall raised her reading glasses, the wrinkles on her skinny face were tense, every wrinkle seemed to contain anger, and she had clearly stated her position.

"There is no information to show that this stone arch belongs to Hogwarts, Headmaster McGonagall, otherwise why did it appear this year?" Augustine said.

"There is no information showing that the stone arches do not belong to Hogwarts. Is it just a coincidence that it appeared in Hogwarts?" Principal McGonagall said coldly.

Augustine fiddled with his wizard hat, and continued: "I hope you can support our work, this matter is very important, we must investigate the matter clearly—"

Professor Francis sarcastically said: "You lost the stone arch of the Department of Mysteries yourself, so you plan to forcefully take away this stone arch from Hogwarts? Your reasons are a bit ridiculous! Don't tell me that the Department of Mysteries in your Ministry of Magic is a place where anyone can go."

"Francis, watch your manner of speaking."

Augustine put the wizard hat back on his head, looking very displeased.

"It's useless to put pressure on us, Minister, and what Professor Francis said is true."

Principal McGonagall said angrily, "I heard that someone broke into the Department of Mysteries the year before last. I thought the Ministry of Magic would step up its vigilance, but I didn't expect people to break into it again and again, and things were stolen every time. Now it's even worse. Even the ancient stone arches were stolen, and instead of looking for the thieves, you are eyeing our Hogwarts property instead?"

"The stone arch of the Ministry of Magic was stolen?"

Maureen was very surprised when he heard this, and only then did he know why the Ministry of Magic came to Hogwarts in such a mobilizing manner. The stone arch hidden in the Department of Mysteries was actually stolen!
Molin didn't even need to think about it, he knew that Payingade must have done this, but the last time Arnock went to the Ministry of Magic to warn Augustine, why did Augustine let the stone arch be stolen by Payingade?

"The thief who broke into the Ministry of Magic is very cunning. We have strengthened the protection of the stone arch last time, but I didn't expect this thief to know the way of guarding the Ministry of Magic." Augustine said with a frown.

The Ministry of Magic has been broken into repeatedly, and his reputation as the Minister of Magic has been greatly affected, so he has to solve this matter.

Augustine continued angrily: "We are investigating this matter, and we think that the stone arches of Hogwarts are exactly the same as the stone arches of the Department of Mysteries, so we plan to borrow the stone arches of Hogwarts to study it."

The stone arches appeared last summer, and the Ministry of Magic knew about it.

"Borrow? That's not what you said just now."

Principal McGonagall's tone was very indifferent. Even if the other party was the Minister of Magic, she would never back down when it came to Hogwarts property.

"I don't want to be borrowed and lost by then." Principal McGonagall said.

"Are you questioning the ability of our Ministry of Magic?" Augustine stood up straight. He was a head taller than Principal McGonagall, and his tone became a little cold.

"The same thing has happened once, you want me not to question it?"

Principal McGonagall didn't back down, her gaze was very sharp, like a dagger, staring directly at Augustine, making Augustine unable to refute.

Augustine calmed down. He was indeed wrong in this matter, and then his tone slowed down a bit, and he said: "This time is different, we only need to study this stone arch, if we can find the connection between the two stone arches, maybe Based on this stone arch, we can find out the whereabouts of another stone arch, and then we can catch the person who stole the stone arch.”

"Then who do you think stole the stone arch of the Ministry of Magic this time? Minister, I remember that you caught Lucas. The so-called Lucas is still in prison. Who else has the ability to steal?" Go through the stone arch?" Professor Francis said indifferently from the side.

All the staff of the Ministry of Magic had weird expressions, as if Professor Francis had poked their tails or something, and those wizards who were casting detection magic on the stone arch still stopped and looked at each other strangely.

"What? Am I wrong?" Professor Francis continued, "I've already told you that the person you arrested may not be Lucas, but all of you Aurors don't investigate clearly, so you just decide He is Lucas, now that Lucas has been arrested, and someone broke into the Ministry of Magic again, this time there must be another suspect, right?"

"Shut up, Francis, you are just a little professor in the school, how dare you talk to us like that!" Nicole looked a little annoyed at the side, "If you don't cooperate, you will not be a professor gone."

"It's useless to threaten me, Nicole! I think the Ministry of Magic has no right to ask who is the professor at Hogwarts."

Professor Francis didn't care about Nicole's anger at all. He looked at Nicole with his usual dead eyes: "Only the principal can decide whether I should be a professor or not. It's none of your business."

"You—" Nicole was furious.

But he couldn't help it, because what Professor Francis said was true.

During Voldemort's reign, the professors at Hogwarts were interfered by the Ministry of Magic, causing Hogwarts to be in a mess. Later, all the conscientious teachers and students of Hogwarts and members of the Order of the Phoenix joined forces to fight against Voldemort and save the world. out of the wizarding world.

Because of that incident, Hogwarts had the right to speak. In order to prevent Hogwarts from being controlled by dark wizards again, and to make the same thing happen again, Hogwarts was separated from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic. Departments exist, there is no need for those pesky school board departments to interfere.

The headmaster had the final say on who would be the professor, and the Ministry of Magic couldn't send its own people to Hogwarts.

As for the position of headmaster, it is elected by all wizards, just like the minister of the Ministry of Magic, they run on merit.Principal McGonagall deservedly became the principal, and has served until today.

Only when people at Hogwarts violated the relevant laws could the Ministry of Magic take care of it. At other times, it only needed to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic when necessary. Even Augustine had no right to dismiss any professor at will, let alone the principal's affairs.

Augustine was silent for a moment, then said slowly: "Francis, haven't you heard of it?"

(End of this chapter)