Magical Studies at Hogwarts

"Hermione, are you... okay?"

As a friend, Harry felt that he needed to care about Hermione. Her current state was obviously abnormal.

"It's okay." Hermione shook her head, the emptiness in her eyes disappeared, and she regained some of her agility. Seeing this, Harry couldn't help but secretly let out a sigh of relief.Just as she was about to say something else, Hermione slapped the newspaper on the table, pointed to the corner of the fourth page and said, "I think we should focus on this..."

"What? I haven't seen it yet..." Harry came closer and read word by word, "The Ministry of Magic employee died violently... Broderick Bird died?"

"Balde? Who is that?" Ron asked.

"We met him at St. Mungo's, remember?" Hermione whispered, "The ward where Neville's parents were, he kept lying looking at the ceiling. We also saw the plant on his bedside table and thought It's a crab claw orchid. After all, no one would have thought it could be a devil's net..."

"Devil's Net... Damn it, we should be able to recognize him. We've seen him before... He didn't have to die." Ron said with some annoyance.

"There is no doubt that this was murder, a very clever murder," said Hermione.

As Harry listened to the conversation between the two, he remembered the day he went to the Ministry of Magic for trial. He had seen this man when he went down the elevator to the ninth floor.

"I met Bode, with your father at the Ministry of Magic, the day I was tried..." Harry said slowly. After hearing this, Ron thought for a moment and immediately exclaimed, "I remember! I listened to my father at home. Get over him!"

"He's a silent man and works in the Department of Mysteries!"

"Department of Mysteries, where is that?" Harry asked.

Hermione rolled her eyes when she heard this, stood up the newspaper to block a few people, and whispered: "The Department of Mysteries is the most mysterious place in the Ministry of Magic. The people who work there are the Silent People, and everything they study is Top secret!"

"Remember where Mr. Weasley was attacked?"

"I remember... it was the Department of Mysteries!" Harry suddenly remembered that they overheard it at St. Mungo's.

"Yes, obviously, this should be... done by the mysterious man. There is something he wants there... but what exactly does he want?" As she spoke, Hermione suddenly fell into deep thought, her hands unconscious. He was stroking the pendant on his chest and muttering something unknown.

Seeing this, Harry and Ron looked at each other, shrugged, and returned their attention to the food in front of them.They were used to it. Hermione was like this when she was thinking about things this semester. It would just take a while.

Before taking a few bites, Hagrid walked in from the door, went to the professor's chair, spoke a few words to Dumbledore, and then left.Seeing this, Harry and Ron ran over and called Hagrid.When I walked in, I discovered that several new wounds had been added to Hagrid's face before they were completely healed.

"Hello." Hagrid wanted to smile, but it hurt the wound on his face.

"Are you okay?" Harry stepped aside to let a few Hufflepuff students get out of the way, his face full of worry. ???.

"It's okay, very good." Hagrid's face looked unnatural, "It's just that he's very busy, you know... preparing lessons, attending classes, and he was also kept on probation..."

"Keep it for inspection!"

"Yes." Hagrid sighed and said, "This is to be expected. The results of the last investigation were not very good... Forget it, I still have things to do. Goodbye, Harry, Ron... "

Watching Hagrid leave, Harry felt that there must be a lot of things he hadn't said yet, and it wasn't like good news.

In the next few days, everyone was talking about Ike's attack on Azkaban and the rescue of a dozen Death Eaters, and all kinds of unreliable speculations came out.He also said that Ike wanted to become the new generation of Dark Lord, so he rescued those Death Eaters. Others said that he had seen those people in Hogsmeade, and even speculated that they were hiding in the Shrieking Shack, and Same as Sirius back then.

Rumors spread, and people were panicked for a while, especially those who grew up in wizarding families.Their previous generation and even the previous two generations had experienced that dark time, and some had relatives who died at the hands of the Death Eaters who escaped from prison.There was no way to hide this kind of news, and within a few days everyone knew who had had this experience.

No doubt this was very painful for them.

Equally painful are the Little Eagles, especially Stewart and others who are in the same grade as Ike. They have become the center of attention. Wherever they go, a large group of people will secretly look at them and say some irrelevant things.Some said they were Ike's spies at Hogwarts, while others said they were lackeys. In short, they were not good words, but they were all very unpleasant.

Faced with such looks and comments, Stewart could not hold back several times, but Terry and the others stopped him every time.

"I'm going to give him a good beating when I see him again!"

"When the time comes, count me alone. Even if we put together we can't beat him..."

Thinking of this, Stuart and the others couldn't help but feel depressed. Looking at the people who looked at them with strange eyes, they couldn't help but feel pity in their hearts: These people had no idea that if it was really as what the newspaper said, it would be like this. What a terrible thing...

Gradually, I don’t know when, the content of people’s discussions changed.Someone collected the Daily Prophet over the past six months and studied it carefully. They believed that the Ministry of Magic had been lying. This argument was quickly endorsed by many people and spread throughout the school.

So why did the Ministry of Magic lie?People quickly realized that what Harry and Dumbledore had been saying since last year was true - Voldemort was back!

As a result, panic set in and people became even more panicked.On the other hand, Stuart's situation has improved a lot, and almost no one looks at them strangely anymore.

Just when everyone thought things couldn't get worse, they discovered that they had thought too simply.After canceling a large number of clubs, associations, societies, inspecting professors, and only reading books on Defense Against the Dark Arts, Umbridge deprived them of their right to talk freely about things.Although "Education Order No. 20" only prohibits professors from telling students information that is irrelevant to the courses they teach, in fact, even discussion among students is prohibited.

In just a few days, Umbridge indiscriminately arrested several students who were whispering in the corridor, even if they were just arguing about whether mutton or beef was more delicious, such a nutritious issue, she did not let them go. All were imprisoned.A few days later, there were a few more unlucky guys with bloody arms.

Harry and the others escaped unscathed, as Umbridge didn't seem to be paying attention to him recently.She appears frequently in Care of Magical Creatures and Divination classes, seemingly weighing which one to expel to demonstrate her authority.

"An outstanding little wizard went astray due to poor education, causing this incident with extremely negative consequences..." What Fudge said in the interview undoubtedly gave Umbridge confidence. Making her even crazier.