The Admiral of Hogwarts

Although Hugo thought that Madam Maxime should have a way to get himself and Hagrid out of danger smoothly, due to his previous concerns about changing the plot, Hugo felt that he should have the ship girls help keep an eye on things during the summer vacation.

After all, in the original text, although Hagrid and the others were attacked by Death Eaters and giants, they still managed to retreat from the dangerous area by their own strength. Hugo didn't want the changes he made to make the situation worse.

Fortunately, with space stations being put into operation one after another, Hugo and the ship girls' reconnaissance accuracy and precision on the ground are getting higher and higher, and they can provide real-time support.

Considering that Hagrid and the others couldn't use magic to travel in the original text, it's not impossible to track them all the way during the summer vacation and drop support in an emergency.

After chatting with Hagrid for a while, Hugo and the others left Hagrid's hut to go to lunch. As a result, they happened to see Harry and the Weasley siblings walking towards them.

It seemed that before the holiday, Harry also wanted to chat with Hagrid and learn some specific information about the outside world from Hagrid.

That afternoon, when Hugo and the others walked into the Great Hall, they found that the house emblems of the winning house that usually decorated the Great Hall at the end-of-term banquet were gone, and the entire hall was replaced with the Hogwarts school badge and decorated with the emblems and colors of the four houses.

Although someone died in the Triwizard Tournament this year, just like in the original text, but because the time of this person's death was a long time ago and he was not a Hogwarts student, the Great Hall would not be decorated as it was originally.

After all, accidents in the history of the Triwizard Tournament are not uncommon, and even in the early competitions, people died every time, so everyone was mentally prepared.

After the banquet started, Dumbledore first announced the winner of this year's House Cup. Ravenclaw House, because of its own advantages and the fact that Veneto won the Triwizard Tournament, won the House Cup by a large margin over Slytherin, which ranked second.

After hearing this news, the Ravenclaw students raised their glasses to celebrate their victory. After everyone finished celebrating, Professor Dumbledore gently tapped his glass.

"Another year has ended," Dumbledore said, looking at everyone, "But at the same time, I must solemnly tell you again that the dark age may be coming soon."

After thinking it over, Dumbledore decided to temporarily conceal the news of Voldemort's return in public, and only tell this fact to reliable people such as members of the Order of the Phoenix. For the public, he used the vague slogan of the coming of darkness.

The reason for doing this is because after discussing it with everyone, he realized that the enterprise was right, that is, after the cruel war more than ten years ago, and the precious peace afterwards, everyone was a little allergic to war.

At the same time, judging from Voldemort's current approach, the other party will hide for a short time to slowly expand his strength, and then wait until he feels confident that he can win before attacking.

Combining the above two reasons, people including Headmaster Dumbledore realized that announcing the news of Voldemort's return at this time would be very difficult, and Voldemort's shrinking would gradually consume people's patience and Dumbledore's confidence.

This is the core reason why Headmaster Dumbledore finally chose to give up announcing this information, because he realized that announcing the information of Voldemort's return now is not as effective as he imagined.

Although the news that Voldemort is back is indeed more stimulating than the current coming of darkness, the problem is that it will only have the opposite effect if the Ministry of Magic as a whole does not cooperate.

After the headmaster's voice fell, there was a whisper in the hall, but it quickly fell silent. This was not the first time Dumbledore had announced this news.

He had said such things on many occasions before. But because this was the first time they had heard Dumbledore announce this news so solemnly on such an occasion, everyone gathered together to discuss it.

Most people were skeptical of what Headmaster Dumbledore said. Although everyone was habitually willing to believe what Headmaster Dumbledore said, the news he brought was too shocking.

"The Ministry of Magic doesn't want me to tell you this," Dumbledore ignored the whispers below, "Some students and their parents may be shocked by my actions—"

"This may be because they cannot believe that the peace of more than ten years has completely ended, or because they think I should not tell you this, after all, you are still young."

"However, I believe that telling the truth is always better than lying. If we try to hide this news, then we may suffer greater harm if we are caught off guard."

At this time, every face in the hall was turned towards Dumbledore, almost all of them written with shock. Because the students here were all born and raised in the era of peace, it was naturally difficult to accept the news that war might break out.

"The purpose of the Triwizard Tournament is to enhance and promote mutual understanding in the wizarding world. In view of what is happening now—in view of the danger of war breaking out that we are now facing—this connection is more important than ever before," Dumbledore said again.

Dumbledore looked at Madam Maxime and Hagrid, looked at Fleur Delacour and her Beauxbatons classmates, and looked at Viktor Krum and the Durmstrang students by the Slytherin table.

Krum looked very nervous, and even showed a little fear, as if he thought Dumbledore would say some harsh words.

"Every guest in this hall," Dumbledore looked at everyone, his gaze lingering on the Durmstrang students. "

Anyone who is willing to come back is welcome at any time. I will say it again to you all—in view of the fact that this war is likely not to be simply limited to the United Kingdom, its scale is likely to exceed everyone's expectations. We are only strong if we are united. If we are divided, we will be vulnerable."

"In war, you cannot protect yourself by hiding everywhere. We can only fight to the end by showing the same unbreakable friendship and trust. As long as we have the same goal and open our hearts, differences in habits and languages will not be an obstacle."

"I believe—I really hope I am wrong—I believe we will all face dark and difficult times. But please remember that as long as we keep hope in our hearts, we will eventually achieve the final victory."

It seems that although Professor Dumbledore did not say the news of Voldemort's return after weighing the pros and cons, he still described a relatively dark future for everyone in a very serious tone and vaguely hinted at the fact of Voldemort's return, hoping to arouse everyone's vigilance.

"This reminds me of the speech 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches' given by Churchill in June 1940 after the end of the Dunkirk evacuation."

Just as everyone was applauding, Belfast's voice suddenly rang in Hugo's mind through the admiral network.

"The current British wizarding world is indeed very similar to Britain back then. I hope that the future development will also develop in a good direction like it did back then."