Ch 761-765

"Malfoy, Gore, Crabbe... what do you want to do this time?"

Before Ivan could reply, Harry stopped in front of Malfoy angrily, questioning.

On the day of Voldemort's resurrection, in the cemetery, Harry clearly saw Lucius standing among the Death Eaters and tried to do something against him, so Harry was very wary of Malfoy and others.

Ron, Hermione, and Ginny on the side also pulled out their wands.

"I'm not here to find you... Potter!" Malfoy glanced at Harry and said arrogantly, but after turning his gaze to Ivan, his expression became a little more complicated.

He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he stopped and said instead. "I'm just passing by, can't I? Get out of the way!"

After speaking, Malfoy took Gore and Crabbe and squeezed past them.

Harry and Ron had been staring at them, seeming to want to find something wrong with the actions of Malfoy and others, and then waved their wands to subdue them.

But unfortunately, until the three of them disappeared, they didn't find a reason to do it.

Ivan vaguely felt that Malfoy looked at him a bit strange, but he didn't care much...

"Okay, leave them alone, let's find a carriage first, sit down and talk..." Seeing that the atmosphere on the court was a little condensed, Ginny hurriedly interrupted.

Ivan nodded, and Harry and the others put away their wands, and hurriedly looked for a seat in the carriage before the train started.

Hermione and Ron did not follow a few people. As the newly appointed prefects, they needed to report to the president of the student union.

Then the prefects have to assume the responsibility of patrolling, lest the naughty ghosts wanton tricks on the train.

After hearing Hermione talk about the duties of the prefect, Ivan became more grateful that he was not selected, otherwise this semester would definitely waste a lot of time on useless things.

But what made Ivan feel a little headache is that when they were looking for an empty carriage, many little wizards in Gryffindor regarded him as the new prefect and enthusiastically came up to congratulate him. Ivan had no choice but to help. Explain one by one...

"Harry, Ivan, come here, there just happens to be a space..." Ginny on the other side turned her head happily after opening the door of a carriage, and said to the two of them.

Ivan and Harry walked over quickly. Because they arrived too late, most of the cars were either full or there was only one seat left, which was not enough for the three of them.

When Ivan arrived at the door, he found that Luna was also in this carriage.

The little witch who hadn't seen for a long time was leaning against the window with a slender wand pinned to her ear, holding a large newspaper in her hand and reading it earnestly. A little sunlight poured down from the sky, and her hair shined brightly golden. of...

"Hi, Ivan!" Luna also heard the noise from the door and turned her head slightly. When she saw Ivan's figure, her face suddenly showed a happy expression.

"Luna, long time no see." Ivan also smiled, and after asking the little witch for instructions, he asked Harry and Ginny to bring their luggage in.

At the same time, the Hogwarts train, which had been parked for a long time, moved slowly, and several people standing in the carriage shook their bodies. After placing their luggage, they hurriedly sat down.

"What are you looking at, Luna?" Ginny looked curiously at the antagonist in the little witch's hand.

The headline page is a moving picture, at a glance you can see a large area of ​​collapsed ruins and a house that is blazing, and a strange black mist is still shrouded in mid-air.

The title reads [Mysterious Man Flees and Turns Down Alley] impressively.

Ginny was taken aback immediately, but after carefully reading the content below, she leaned forward and closed with a smile.

The above report is the riot in Knockout Alley more than a month ago.

The writers of the newspaper believed that the root cause of the riot was that mysterious people led the Death Eaters to attack Knockout Alley, which resulted in the tragic loss of Waterloo for some reason.

And the man behind all this is Dumbledore, who planned an astonishing conspiracy, the purpose of which is to kill Minister of Magic Fudge...

"This is too weird... What does the Mysterious Man do when attacking Knockout Alley? How can this be with Professor Dumbledore?

Wanting to assassinate Minister Fudge has something to do with..."

Ginny complained, not to mention that the Prophet's Daily had reported on the riots in Knockout Alley long ago. It was just a group of wizards who got drunk during a campfire party and ended up playing magic.

After Harry took a look, he also regarded this as a joke book. If Voldemort was defeated so easily, then Sirius and the others would not have to discuss strategies to deal with Voldemort every day.

When the two murmured secretly, Ivan's voice suddenly rang in the carriage.

"Luna, you'd better send a letter back later, so that Mr. Novgood will pay more attention in the near future, and better hide. If the mysterious person sees this newspaper, he will definitely be very upset..."

Harry and Ginny turned their heads abruptly, and Ivan next to them was looking at the opposite tune with a serious expression, and didn't mean to joke at all.

Even more surprised the two of them, Luna actually thought about Ivan's proposal seriously, and said distressedly. "But where can we go and hide? Dad has to stay in England to write the manuscript. He certainly doesn't want to go too far."

"If there is no other choice, you can temporarily move to Knock Down Alley... There is still safe, and the law and order is also very good." Ivan thought for a while and suggested.

Before he knew his details, Voldemort probably didn't have the guts to come to Knockout Alley again to make trouble, and there were a large number of law enforcement officers patrolling there, and safety could still be guaranteed.

"Knockdown Alley?! Isn't there the place where the dark wizards stay? How could you let Luna's father move there?" Listening to Ivan's words~www.mtlnovel.com~ Ginny couldn't help but yelled .

She remembered that when her mother mentioned that place to her, she told herself never to approach Knockdown Alley. It was said that the most evil wizards lived there, who would abduct people if they didn't pay attention.

No matter how you look at such a place, it has nothing to do with safety.

Harry also nodded in agreement. He had strayed into Knockoff Alley once during the summer vacation of the first grade.

If Ivan hadn't come in time, he would have been taken away by an old witch. Every time he thought of this, he would be very scared.

"That's the old impression from a few years ago, Ginny. In fact, the dark wizards have already reformed, and they are all willing to be good people!" Ivan looked at the two with a sincere expression, affirmative. Said.

"If you sometimes go there for a walk in person, you will be surprised by the changes there..."

After a while, the rickety carriage stopped beside the stone steps of the oak gate, and Ivan stepped out of the carriage and followed the crowd into the castle.

Harry, who was behind him, looked back from time to time, with a worried look on his face.

"What's the matter? Harry?" Ivan noticed Harry's abnormality and asked puzzledly.

"Did you see Hagrid just now? He would come to welcome the new students in previous years." Harry said strangely.

"His course last year was too bad. Maybe it was because there were too many complaints. Principal Dumbledore dismissed him? I saw Professor Grapland at the station just now. She was probably the one who came to work." Luna guessed.

"It's impossible!" Harry glared at Luna, and said with certainty that Professor Dumbledore would not fire Hagrid.

And he thinks Hagrid's course is pretty good, obviously everyone likes him...

"So you plan to raise a few more snails for fun this semester?" Luna asked lightly.

Harry's words suddenly got stuck in his mouth, and the expression on his face became uncertain when he thought of the bad things that happened when Hagrid asked them to raise the snails last school year, and the scene of being chased by a group of snails. ...

Hermione also looked worried. She was very worried that Hagrid would be caught in Azkaban because of privately raising and transforming dangerous creatures...

While talking about Hagrid's anomaly, a few people walked through the hall and stepped into the auditorium.

Hogwarts was brightly lit, and hundreds of candles were floating in the sky, and the bright lights of the stars illuminate the surroundings.

The room was full of four long academies tables, and many of the little wizards who had arrived early had already sat down.

The freshmen at Hogwarts stood neatly beside the high platform waiting for a new round of sorting. Several silver-white ghosts floated around, scaring some timid freshmen.

Ivan simply glanced in the auditorium, and then turned his gaze to the teacher's bench. The golden high-back chair in the center was empty, and Dumbledore was not in his place.

And beside that seat sat a witch wearing a pink cardigan.

She had short curly gray-brown hair, a short and fat body, and a sweet and greasy smile on her face, and she was chatting enthusiastically with Snape.

But Snape obviously didn't want to pay any attention to her, and his face was blunt, and he responded with a match.

After seeing the witch, the surrounding professors all showed slightly uncomfortable expressions.

"Umbridge, she really came." Ivan squinted and muttered to himself.

Hermione followed Ivan's gaze and noticed the disgusting figure.

But what surprised her even more was that at the end of the professor's seat, Hagrid had been seated in another person-Professor Grapland.

Harry took a sigh of relief when he noticed this, and were worried about Hagrid's situation...

"Look, as I thought... he is not suitable for teaching, he must have been fired." Luna said shaking her head.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron glared at her.

Ivan also thought Luna's words were too straightforward, but she didn't say anything to stop it.

Strictly speaking, Luna didn't say anything wrong, but it was a bit out of date.

Because Hagrid's teaching level is indeed very poor, he always likes to bring some huge and hideous "cuties" to class, and tries to make everyone fall in love with them.

As for Hagrid's whereabouts, Ivan felt that it should be the same as the original time and space, and he followed Dumbledore's orders to negotiate with the giant.

After all, Hagrid is not Harry, and has no value targeted by Voldemort and Death Eaters...

After telling her conclusion, Luna seemed unaware that she had caused the anger at all, and she said goodbye to a few people naturally, and walked to the Ravenclaw table alone.

Ivan and the others also hurriedly sat down at the long table in Gryffindor.

Just after they sat down, the sorting hats placed on the stools suddenly moved, split their mouths, and sang loudly.

"A long time ago I was still wearing a new hat. Hogwarts hadn't been built at that time. The four founders of Noble School thought they would never part ways..."

The singing of the Sorting Hat changed from the humor and lightness of the past. It used a deep and magnetic tone to tell the story of the founders of the four major colleges, and used these past events to remind the wizards present to unite and cooperate and abandon the opinions of the college.

After waiting for the sorting hat to stop, there was a burst of warm applause in the auditorium, but there were also some whispers in it.

Many people wondered why it was about to be sorted out, and Principal Dumbledore was not there yet.

Ivan has been staring at every move of every professor in the faculty seat, trying to see something from their response, but the professors probably received the news in advance, and did not express any doubts about it.

Only Umbridge's face showed a very unhappy look. She thought that the principal's absence on such an important occasion was a very dereliction of duty, so she kept questioning Professor McGonagall who was sitting next to her.

Professor McGonagall fooled a few words casually, then walked directly onto the stage to preside over the sorting ceremony.

As McGonagall chanted his name, the freshmen walked up to the high platform nervously, buckled their hats on their heads, and waited nervously for the sorting hat to make a decision.

Every time the hat made a choice, the audience would think of cheers and applause.

When the last student came down from the high platform and took a seat, the door of the auditorium was pushed open heavily.

The creaking sound of pushing the door attracted everyone's attention, and the noisy auditorium fell silent for a while.

The next moment, Dumbledore, dressed in a dark purple robe and wrapped in a scarf, walked in from the door.

Ivan squinted his eyes and fixed his eyes on Dumbledore in front of him. According to his previous speculation, the other party's current state should be very poor.

After all, it's been a whole year since Dumbledore was injured by the black magic on the Horcrux~www.mtlnovel.com~ Even if he was not dead, he should be in a state of serious injury. The fact that the other party's delay in showing up throughout the summer also proved this. a little.

However, under Ivan's perception, the fact is not the case. Dumbledore's state is amazing, his steps are very steady, and even the pressure is stronger than before!

When confronting Voldemort next to the English Village before, he had felt Dumbledore's aura, far less than now.

Dumbledore at that time was like the setting sun, powerful but late, but now it is like the scorching sun at noon, so hot that it makes the heart palpitating...

How is this possible? Did Dumbledore find a way this summer to heal his previous injury?

Ivan was stunned and looked at Dumbledore carefully. Only then did I find that the opponent's right hand was still hidden in the sleeve. He could not see it at all, and he could not confirm the opponent's state...

But Dumbledore is still alive anyway, and alive well...

This made Ivan somewhat relieved.

Seeing Dumbledore coming in from the door, Umbridge, who was sitting on the teacher's bench, suddenly felt his eyes light up, and his whole body became excited, and he quickly stood up and greeted him.

"Principal Dumbledore! I need to remind you that according to Hogwarts school rules, the principal should be there before the sorting ceremony..." Umbridge cleared his throat and said in a strange tone.

However, Dumbledore didn't mean to stop as if he hadn't seen her, and he walked straight past. The faintly radiating pressure directly blocked Umbridge's subsequent words.

Umbridge just opened his mouth and stood there blankly, his face turned blue and purple.

At this time, Dumbledore had already walked to the stage, looked at the little wizards below the stage, and said with a smile. "Although I am a little late, I still want to say...Welcome! Welcome all freshmen to Hogwarts!"

After the voice fell, there was an exceptionally warm applause in the auditorium.

The figure of Dumbledore had not been seen at the opening ceremony before, and the senior students were a little worried, but now they are finally relieved.

When the applause weakened, Dumbledore continued to speak. "Maybe the long journey has left you hungry, but before enjoying a rich lunch, I still need to say a few words!"

"This year, our faculty has two changes. First of all, I am very happy that Professor Grapland will continue to come back to teach. She will be responsible for teaching you the magical animal protection class."

While talking, Dumbledore turned his gaze to the teacher's bench, Grapland stood up, smiled and gestured to the crowd, and there was another round of applause from the audience.

Harry wanted to speak and wanted to inquire about Hagrid's whereabouts, but was held back by Hermione.

Immediately afterwards, Dumbledore looked at Umbridge, who was still standing stupidly on the long table aisle. "In addition, there is a new face this year. The Defense Against the Dark Arts class will be taught by Umbridge..."

"Ahem..." Umbridge coughed slightly, interrupting Dumbledore's words, his face slightly distorted, and said with a smirk. "Thank you principal, but I would rather be able to introduce myself personally!"

Dumbledore remained silent, as if tacitly acquiescing to Umbridge's rhetoric.

Umbridge also regained some self-confidence, no longer a calm face, barely showing the iconic sweet smile, and twitched to everyone.

"I must say, it's great to be able to go back to Hogwarts again! As soon as I see you, I think of the days I went to school at Hogwarts."

"I also stood here more than forty years ago, wearing a sorting hat with excitement and joy and becoming a Hogwarts student..."

Umbridge eloquently recalled the past when he was young, trying to get closer to the little wizards, but unfortunately the effect was little.

No one wants to understand how she succeeded in becoming a superior by studying hard and making small reports more than 40 years ago, and she has no interest in those outdated rules and regulations.

Everyone in the audience was drowsy, and Harry was clutching his hungry stomach, thinking about when to have dinner, and then lay down in bed for a good night's sleep.

"Can't you wait until the dinner is over?" Ron sighed and muttered to himself, obviously he used to have a banquet first and then speak, I don't know why this school year is different.

"...In the future, let us continue to move forward and enter a new era of enlightenment, efficiency and sensibility, resolutely maintain what should be maintained, improve what needs to be perfected, and abandon those we should forbid..." Umbridge said fully. More than forty minutes.

The first half recalled her honors as a student, and the second half emphasized that Hogwarts will make certain changes under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic in the future and improve the existing school regulations.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbridge, your speech is very enlightening." Dumbledore waited for Umbridge to finish before he walked back to the stage and said.

"As for now, everyone can enjoy today's dinner."

Dumbledore raised his left hand and waved his magic wand. Large pieces of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam, and a pot of pumpkin juice appeared on the long table of the four colleges.

The little wizards who had been hungry for a whole night refreshed and took up knives and forks to feast on.

Ivan also cut a small piece of steak into his mouth and ate it.

Harry and Ron were eating while talking about the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

They had seen Umbridge several times before, so they had no hope for this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts class. They only hoped that Umbridge would not be worse than Lockhart's.

"This matter is probably not as simple as you think... Did you understand what Umbridge said just now? Don't forget, she was an investigator from the Ministry of Magic..." Hermione temporarily put down her knife and fork. , Looked at the two of them, and said very seriously.

"Did she say anything just now? That sounds like nonsense, I'm almost falling asleep..." Ron yawned and took a sip of ice lemon juice to suppress his sleepiness.

"Sometimes there are some important things hidden in nonsense!" Hermione said seriously, but Harry and Ron both had blank expressions.

Hermione sighed and explained. "Umbridge is standing here~www.mtlnovel.com~ This shows that the Ministry of Magic wants to interfere with Hogwarts and weaken Professor Dumbledore's influence in the school! The "Daily Prophet" in the first two months You should have seen it all, that's an omen."

Harry and Ron were very angry when Hermione brought up those reports.

In the past two months, the "Daily Prophet" has been the ultimate discredit for Dumbledore. While denying Voldemort's resurrection on a daily basis, it spent more than a dozen pages trying to prove that Dumbledore was suffering from Alzheimer's.

One of the articles mentioned that Dumbledore would habitually say some crazy things at the opening ceremony, such as the famous "idiot! Cry nose! Residue! Screw!".

In addition, Dumbledore also abused his power to add points indiscriminately to favor the students.

He once added more than 500 points to Gryffindor Academy in just over ten minutes, but turned a blind eye to certain special students' violations. As a result, Slytherin, who was supposed to win the Academy Cup, missed him and severely hit the rest of the academy. Enthusiasm.

According to people familiar with the matter, Dumbledore also believes in Harry Potter's dreams, and believes that the mysterious man who once harmed the magical world is lurking in the dark waiting for an opportunity, ready to fight him at any time.

Ivan looked at Hermione's "Daily Prophet" collection piece by piece. These reports directly described Dumbledore as an old child who was old and frail and stubborn with his own temperament.

The last report also wrote.

[He is too old. We can't expect a 100-year-old wizard to stay sensible at all times. It is extremely dangerous for such an unconscious person to continue to serve as Headmaster of Hogwarts.

For the sake of the next generation, what we should do the most is to let this once legendary wizard stay at home and recuperate...]

"Well, when you read a story book, it's quite interesting..." Ivan put the newspaper down and said, vomiting.

"This is not the time to make a joke, Ivan! There are also many reports about you..." Hermione glared at him dissatisfied.

"Well, are you there?" Ivan opened the newspaper again and looked at it.

Under Hermione's guidance, Ivan quickly found news about herself on another page of the Daily Prophet.

The above really didn't say anything good, describing him as an arrogant and quirky genius. In order to be popular, Dumbledore was concealed from Dumbledore, and Harry and Harry concocted the resurrection of the mysterious man.

There is even a report alluding that he was born in Knock Down Alley and formed a gang in school to become the next mysterious person.

"This is too...trick" Ivan's mouth twitched involuntarily, and said very speechlessly.

Needless to say, the Ministry of Magic must have put pressure on the Daily Prophet, or the editor who wrote the article would have no guts to make such a mess.

That means Dumbledore's mentality is good. If you switch to Voldemort, the entire newspaper will be slaughtered for you.

Thinking of this, Ivan felt a little headache. Although he read these news as a joke, some wizards might really believe it after a long time.

The most important thing is that Ivan will not find a solution for a while.

Don't look at him holding Rita Skeeter's handle, but the other party is just an editor of the Daily Prophet, who can't decide what to do. Even if he is willing to write some articles that are beneficial to him, he may not be able to pass the review.

And don't even think about negotiations. Last time I became Dumbledore and said he was going to run for Minister of Magic, but he let go of these people's pigeons and made the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet angry enough. Now the newspaper scolds so harshly. There is no sense of revenge.

"The news of Voldemort's resurrection clearly has so many people to testify! How could they do this..." Harry bit a piece of shortbread fiercely, as if it were Fudge.

"Because for Minister Fudge, we are all Professor Dumbledore's people, and what we said may come from his instructions, so it cannot be used as evidence..." Hermione took out a thick book and continued vowing.

"And Minister Fudge has no choice. He can only believe that the mysterious man is dead, otherwise he will end up as the Minister of Magic."

Ivan looked at Hermione's "From a clerk to a minister of magic-how a wizard goes to the peak of power", feeling a bit complicated. He gave this book to Hermione only temporarily, but he didn't expect her to be true. Have a good look.

As Hermione said, Fudge didn't completely disbelieve in Voldemort's resurrection, but the current situation did not allow him to believe it.

After all, Fudge chose to stand on the side of the conservatives and won the support of many people. Now he can only walk to the dark, otherwise it would be equivalent to denying everything he did, which would shake the foundation of Fudge's ruling.

Among other things, if the messy things he had done before were exposed, angry wizards would blast him off the stage for the first time, and perhaps he would be liquidated in disrepute.

For a politician like Fudge, his own interests are the first thing. If he can't become a minister, then what good is the development of the magical world?

So even if there was a Dementor riot, Dwarf's escape from prison, Fudge would prefer to believe that all of this was Dumbledore's conspiracy.

After dinner, Dumbledore quickly got up and announced the disbandment of the teachers and students of the school. The sound of a collision of tables, chairs and benches soon sounded around.

"I'm going to show the freshmen in the first grade, you should go back first." Hermione picked up the book in her arms and greeted the freshmen in Gryffindor to come and gather.

Ron on the side kept fiddling with the prefect badge hung on his chest, took a few deep breaths, and looked a little nervous.

After Ivan said hello to the two of them, he took Harry back to the Gryffindor lounge with him.

Pushing open the door of the bedroom, Seamus and Neville were already inside, and they seemed to be talking about something.

Neville said happily when they saw the two coming in. "Harry, Ivan, you just came here, we were talking about you just now."

"What are you talking about?" Harry asked curiously.

"Harry, where did you go the night you received the award last semester?" Seamus hesitated.

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago? Peter Pettigrew disguised himself as Sirius with the compound decoction and took me to Voldemort, and then Ivan and the others rescued me." Harry was a little impatient. Said, and then suddenly realized something.

"Wait...you don't believe us?"

"Of course...Of course I would like to believe you." Seamus looked at Ivan, said slyly, and then continued desperately.

"But my mother thinks that Professor Dumbledore is not in good spirits. She doesn't believe that the mysterious person is still alive and thinks you are lying... If it weren't for my insistence, she wouldn't plan to let me come to school.

"Professor Dumbledore is mentally unhealthy? Is she crazy? Why would she think that?" Harry was shaking with anger~www.mtlnovel.com~After Voldemort's resurrection, the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet did nothing, adding to the chaos. , Only Dumbledore chose to stand up and expose the truth, but was slandered as old and confused and mentally abnormal. He really couldn't swallow this breath.

"Okay, stop arguing." Ivan interrupted the argument between the two, looked at Seamus, and said. "You are fifteen years old, Seamus, you should have your own judgment. You were there when the riots occurred on the day of the game. Think about it."

"Don't forget, no one in the first grade wanted to believe what you said, even if they were true." Ivan patted Seamus on the shoulder.

"So I'm not mistaken, you really rode a dragon flying in the forbidden forest that day?" Seamus's face flushed red. He told many people this story, but they all regarded this incident as one. joke.

"How else do you think I defeated Professor Chino?" Ivan shrugged and said with a smile. "Sometimes the truth is only in the hands of a few people."