Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 206
"Hermione, are you... all right?"

As a friend, Harry felt that it was necessary for him to care about Hermione, as her current state was obviously abnormal.

"It's okay." Hermione shook her head, the hole in her eyes disappeared, and she regained a bit of agility. Seeing this, Harry couldn't help but secretly let out a sigh of relief.Just about to say something more, 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 leaned over and read it word by word, "The staff of the Ministry of Magic died unexpectedly... Broderick Bird died?"

"Bod? Who's that?" Ron asked.

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

"Devil's net...Damn it, we should be able to recognize it, we've seen it before... He didn't have to die." Ron said a little annoyed.

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

Listening to the two of them talking, Harry recalled the day he went to the Ministry of Magic for interrogation, when he went down the elevator to the ninth floor, he saw this man in his mind.

"I met Bod, with your father at the Ministry of Magic, the day I was on trial..." Harry said slowly, and Ron thought about it, and immediately said in surprise, "I remember! I heard Dad mention it at home." pass him!"

"He's the Reticent Man, working in the Department of Mysteries!"

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

Hermione rolled her eyes when she heard that, stood up the newspaper to block the people, and said in a low voice, "The Department of Mysteries is the most mysterious place in the Ministry of Magic. top secret!"

"Remember where Mr. Weasley was attacked?"

"I remember... the Department of Mysteries!" Harry suddenly remembered, they had overheard at St. Mungo's.

"That's right, obviously, this should be... the Mysterious Man and the others did it, there is what he wants...but what exactly does he want?" As she spoke, Hermione suddenly fell into deep thought, her hands unconscious Caressing the pendant on his chest, he didn't know what he was muttering.

Seeing this, Harry and Ron glanced at each other, shrugged, and turned their attention back to the food in front of them.They're used to it, this is how Hermione thinks this term, just wait a while.

Before taking a few bites, Hagrid came in from the door, went to the professor's chair, said a few words to Dumbledore, and then left.Seeing this, Harry and Ron hurried over and called Hagrid to stop.After walking in, I found that Hagrid had several new wounds on his face before it was completely cleaned up last time.

"How are you guys?" Hagrid wanted to smile, but touched the wound on his face.

"Are you all right?" Harry stepped aside to get out of the way for a few Hufflepuff students, his face full of concern.

"It's fine, it's fine." Hagrid's face looked unnatural, "I'm just very busy, you know...preparing lessons, attending classes, and being retained for inspection..."

"Keep it for observation!"

"Yeah." Hagrid said with a sigh, "It's expected, the results of the last investigation were not very good... Forget it, I still have things to do, goodbye, Harry, Ron... "

Looking at the back of Hagrid leaving, Harry felt that there must be a lot of things he hadn't said, and it didn't seem like good news.

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

The rumors spread, and people panicked for a while, especially those who grew up in wizarding families.Their predecessors or even the last two generations had experienced that dark time, and some had relatives who died at the hands of those escaped Death Eaters.This kind of news couldn't be hidden at all, and within a few days everyone knew who had this kind of experience.

Undoubtedly, this caused them great pain.

It was also painful for the Kitty Eagles, especially Stuart and others who were in the same grade as Ike. They completely became the focus, and wherever they went, a large group of people would secretly look at them and say some irrelevant words.Some said they were Ike's eyeliner at Hogwarts, and some said they were running dogs. In short, it was not a good word, but it was very ugly.

Faced with such gazes and discussions, Stuart couldn't bear it several times, but was stopped by Terry and the others.

"When I see him again, I must beat him hard!"

"Count me in at that time, even if we may add up, we can't beat him..."

Thinking of this, Stuart and the others couldn't help feeling depressed, and looking at those people who looked at them strangely, they couldn't help feeling pity in their hearts: These people didn't know at all that if it was true, as the newspaper said, it would be a disaster. what a terrible thing...

Gradually, I don't know when, the content of people's discussions changed.Someone collected the "Daily Prophet" for more than half a year, studied it carefully, and believed that the Ministry of Magic had been lying. This argument quickly gained the approval of many people and spread throughout the school.

So why would the Ministry of Magic lie?People quickly realized that what Harry and Dumbledore had been talking about since last year was true-Voldemort is back!
As a result, panic came, and people became more panicked.On the contrary, Stuart's situation has improved a lot, and almost no one looks at them with strange eyes anymore.

Just when everyone thought life couldn't get any worse, they realized that they were thinking too simply.After canceling a large number of clubs, associations, societies, visiting professors, Defense Against the Dark Arts can only read books, Umbridge deprived them of the right to talk about things freely.Although the "No. 20 No. [-] Education Order" only prohibits professors from telling students information that has nothing to do with the courses they teach, in fact, even discussions among students are 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 is better, such a non-nutritive issue, they did not let it go. All locked up.A few days later, there were a few more unlucky people with bloody arms.

Harry and the others escaped unharmed, and Umbridge doesn't seem to be paying attention to him recently.With her frequent appearances in Care of Fantastic Beasts and Divination, she seems to be weighing which one to fire to show her authority.

"An outstanding little wizard went astray because of poor education, which caused this extremely bad incident..." The words Fudge said in the interview undoubtedly gave Umbridge confidence, Made her even crazier.

(End of this chapter)