Harry Potter: Who cares about belated motherly love?

At this point, the trust in Dumbledore, which had been gradually disappearing because of Harry's incident, completely collapsed among the staff with children.

Led by Severus Prince, Hogwarts held an emergency meeting that day and passed an emergency motion, unanimously deciding to remove the headmaster from his post.

The professors who had previously been part of Dumbledore's faction did not offer any defense.

The situation was completely out of control, so Professor McGonagall temporarily served as acting headmaster in place of the headmaster who was detained and unable to move.

Then, more facts were revealed.

Professor McGonagall pointed out that as the headmaster, Dumbledore should be able to identify dangerous objects, and he may have known about Aragog's existence but ignored it.

There was an uproar at the scene.

Aragog had already invaded the school building, so they strengthened the surrounding barrier. Although the defense inside the school was relatively weak, it at least ensured that Aragog would not escape.

Hogsmeade village was completely blocked off and all residents were evacuated. The related resettlement work made us even busier.

The Ministry of Magic sent a large number of staff, making the already very busy work even more arduous.

Under such circumstances, the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, which was originally supposed to support other departments, was entirely devoted to the affairs of Hogwarts, resulting in a serious shortage of staff within the Ministry of Magic.

Soon after, further shocking facts were revealed.

Due to the shortage of staff, an older wizard who came to help testified that Hagrid was expelled for bringing Aragog to the school, which further exacerbated the chaos.

Dumbledore may have known about this for a long time, but chose to conceal it.

"Why hire someone like that as a guard? And he's clearly not repentant at all."

The employees complained.

The work was already very busy due to the Black incident, and now many staff members were sent to St. Mungo's Hospital because of Hagrid.

In addition, all the staff of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures were transferred to Hogwarts, making it impossible for us to ask them for help. Instead, we became the target of their assistance and were completely short of staff.

Just as we were complaining and waiting for further notice from Hogwarts, an even more confusing situation occurred.

There was a presence that stopped the staff from starting the cleanup from the outside of the barrier.

That's Myrtle and the other Hogwarts ghosts.

Shockingly, Myrtle revealed that she died because Hagrid brought Aragog with him, which alerted the cherubim, causing her to die when she made eye contact with the cherubim in the school.

It is said that there was a man named Tom who could speak snake language. He would come to the cherubim from time to time. The cherubim were usually asleep, but they would respond to Tom's call.

And because Hagrid brought dangerous spiders, the Cherubim decided to patrol the campus, so they started from the basement where he lived. They made eye contact with Myrtle in the girls' bathroom with an entrance, resulting in her death.

When we learn that the girls’ room where Myrtle haunts is actually the entrance and exit of the Cherubim, all the parents with daughters panic.

me too.

Although the toilet was not used frequently due to the presence of Myrtle, it was not unused.

Why didn't Hogwarts just seal up that toilet and continue letting the children use it?

However, I want to thank Myrtle. If I meet her in the future, I must thank her. Her death saved countless girls who might have encountered the basilisk.

It is said that after Myrtle's death, she witnessed Tom's conversation with the Cherubim, and learned that the Cherubim wanted to continue patrolling because he still sensed the presence of dangerous objects in the school, but eventually, under Myrtle's persuasion, he reluctantly fell asleep again.

Although she could not speak snake language, she could feel that the cherubim still fell asleep reluctantly after being persuaded.

The other ghosts all agreed with this statement.

By the way, it is said that the Cherubim were left behind by Slytherin to protect Hogwarts.

Other ghosts confirmed this.

When asked why they hadn't told us such an important thing before, they simply replied: "Because you didn't ask." All the wizards present were devastated.

However, even Peeves was unusually cooperative at this critical moment and refrained from any disruption or mischief.

Peeves also said:

"I like to play pranks on students, but if it interferes with your work, the children won't come to school! Clean these things up!"

As a result, all the ghosts agreed that the dangerous items in the school must be cleared as soon as possible, because if it was delayed too long, the cherubim might wake up again.

The ancient ghosts also expressed their agreement.

However, this would not be enough manpower.

As a result, the Ministry of Magic urgently summoned external experts on dangerous creatures.

At the same time, the Ministry of Magic's Ward Management Department, staff from the Department of Mysteries, and external experts who were proficient in ancient wards were also urgently summoned.

Meanwhile, we, the rank-and-file staff, began preparing the required paperwork.

Professor McGonagall, acting headmaster, speculated that the reason why the cherubim were not recognized as a dangerous object might be because they had been incorporated into the campus as part of the guardian force since the founding of Hogwarts.

Experts mostly agree with this speculation, but how to deal with it remains an issue that urgently needs to be discussed.

However, since a large number of descendants of Aragog have invaded the school, experts point out that the cherubim may have awakened and the current cleanup work may lead to a head-on conflict with the cherubim.

In order to prevent more giant spiders from invading, they decided to set up a barrier around the school building and strictly control the entry and exit of the school. While maintaining the circular barrier, they temporarily put aside the chaotic school and prioritized cleaning up the forest.

As a result, the Ministry of Magic urgently launched an operation to find wizards who could speak Parseltongue.

It was said that there was a famous snake whisperer in Greece, but he was traveling and the Ministry staff had to run around looking for him.

A large number of expert staff from the Department of International Magical Cooperation, the Department of Transport, and the Department of Animal Science were mobilized, working day and night, and their workload increased sharply.

Due to the need to travel to various countries, the number of declaration documents has also increased significantly.

At the same time, the Ministry of Magic is short-staffed and our workload is increasing day by day.

Although it was difficult to find the Snake Tongue at first, he was eventually discovered in Japan, in the Far East.

It is said that he was visiting a shrine to worship the snake god and finally decided to send a group of snake-speaking Onmyoji he met in Japan to help.

Due to the need to cooperate with the Onmyoji of Japan, the Department of International Magical Cooperation and the Department of Magical Transport began negotiations, and the workload of us staff members increased again.

Originally, the unjust case of Sirius Black and the suspected corruption of Dumbledore had already made the Ministry of Magic very busy, and Hogwarts was in chaos.

Now, since there were obviously not enough people to clean up Aragog, all the stupid staff who had not yet woken up and tried to defend Dumbledore were also sent to Hogwarts.

Then, they finally understood Dumbledore's mistake.

Most people only wake up at this time.

Fortunately, the Weasley and Malfoy families began to put things right, but things were far from over.