Chapter 43 Ousted, Vindicated, and the News Goes Public!

After formulating the study plan, Albus Dumbledore quickly stepped into the role and started teaching.

The course content covered all aspects of spell theory, spell pronunciation, wand - waving gestures, and the intention of casting spells. Starting from the most basic knowledge and gradually delving deeper, combined with practical exercises, he taught with great dedication.

Albus Dumbledore did have some achievements in magic teaching.

After all, before becoming the headmaster, he had been a professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts for many years.

This greatly reduced the learning difficulty for the five students. Everyone listened very carefully, all for their dreams and to become stronger.

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Teaching at the Dursleys' house was a continuous process. During this period, Albus Dumbledore also had to manage his time and handle many important matters according to Dudley's plan.

On August 5th.

Minister Cornelius Fudge, who was under house arrest due to embezzlement charges, wanted to contact his confidants to stir up trouble and regain his power.

He was deliberately let go by the Aurors led by Kingsley Shacklebolt and then followed the clues. The Aurors caught them all at once.

Minister Cornelius Fudge's situation was hopeless, and the pure-blood families that had supported him abandoned him.

The trial process accelerated significantly.

On August 6th.

Albus Dumbledore personally added a large number of protective spells to the Dursleys' house. He also cast the Fidelius Charm on the master bedroom where the Dursleys slept, and set Dudley as the Secret-Keeper.

When necessary, the protection range of this Fidelius Charm could expand to the entire Dursleys' house building.

In addition, in the master bedroom protected by the Fidelius Charm, Albus Dumbledore specially had someone install a special teleportation fireplace.

This fireplace used a fixed - route secret passage. Entering and tossing a handful of Floo powder, without specifying a destination, one could directly reach a hidden guest room in the Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade.

Albus Dumbledore had already made arrangements with his younger brother, Aberforth Dumbledore, who was the owner of the Hog's Head Inn.

Although their relationship had become very strained because of their accidentally killed sister, when it came to matters of right and wrong and helping others, they could still maintain friendly communication.

On August 8th.

The Wizengamot officially opened the trial of Minister Cornelius Fudge's corruption case. Albus Dumbledore, the chief wizard of the Wizengamot, presided over the trial in person.

In the face of detailed and conclusive evidence, Cornelius Fudge had no way to deny it and could only plead guilty.

He was removed from his position as Minister of Magic on the spot and would never be rehired.

After the trial result was announced, Cornelius Fudge had an emotional breakdown and publicly scolded Judge Albus Dumbledore in court.

With a defeated cry of 'Albus Dumbledore, you indeed wanted to take away my power!', Fudge stepped down from his position with great reluctance.

Fudge's confidant subordinates were also demoted or dismissed according to the situation.

Dolores Umbridge, a short and chubby witch who loved to wear pink clothes and was also obsessed with power, had all her positions stripped. She became the lowest - level clerk in the Ministry of Magic, responsible for registering wand information for guests entering and leaving the Ministry of Magic.

After the trial ended on that day, Albus Dumbledore proposed that Kingsley Shacklebolt, a senior Auror of the Ministry of Magic, succeed Fudge and become the next Minister of Magic.

Forty percent of the upper-class wizards in the wizarding world who came to serve on the jury immediately expressed their agreement, thirty percent did not give their opinions immediately, and thirty percent said they needed to deliberate on a few more candidates before voting.

August 9th.

Dumbledore called another Wizengamot meeting. The meeting's themes were to rehear a campus miscarriage of justice that took place forty-nine years ago and to announce the earth-shattering news that Voldemort was not dead and had returned to commit crimes once more.

Thanks to Dumbledore's strong appeal, all the upper-class wizards in the British wizarding world gathered to witness it.

Hagrid immediately extracted a silvery-white memory thread from his mind and put it into a large Pensieve.

By reproducing the memory images in the Pensieve, the wizards present could vividly see the terrifying scene that occurred in the Gringotts underground vaults on July 31st, as if they were on the scene themselves.

Voldemort slowly approached Hagrid and Harry, confessing to Hagrid that he had framed him at the start.

Nearly ten years had passed. Seeing that fearsome face again, even though it was on the back of someone else's head, still made the wizards present extremely terrified and hold their breath.

Dumbledore seized the opportunity. Using Voldemort's confession in this memory, along with the victim testimony filmed and recorded recently by the ghost Myrtle at Hogwarts - that is, what Myrtle saw before she died were a pair of terrifying bright yellow vertical pupils, not the eight eyes of an Acromantula - he completely cleared Hagrid of his injustice and restored Hagrid's innocence.

Hagrid would receive a compensation fund provided by the Ministry of Magic and the Wizengamot, and his right to use a wand and perform magic was restored.

Then, Dumbledore showed the memory of himself striking Voldemort's main soul with Finite Incantatem. The injured main soul of Voldemort fled using a Portkey made from Quirrell's turban.

With this, he announced some good news and some bad news to the wizarding world.

The bad news was that Voldemort had returned, and the wizards needed to be vigilant.

The good news was that Voldemort was now extremely weak and needed to inhabit the body of another living being to survive.

If any wizard discovered Voldemort's whereabouts, they should immediately inform the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore.

At the meeting, Dumbledore specifically warned those members of pure-blood families who had once been Death Eaters not to try to help Voldemort, otherwise they would have to bear consequences that they simply couldn't bear.

These 'fence-sitters' who always sided with the stronger party naturally wouldn't jump out and seek death when Dumbledore was in power. They all gave verbal assurances.

But what these people were really thinking in their hearts and what actions they planned to take behind the scenes remained unknown.

Dumbledore wasn't born a Legilimency master. He couldn't openly use Legilimency to read minds in front of hundreds of wizards. He couldn't afford to lose face like that.

But Dumbledore didn't need to read these people's thoughts to guess what they were up to.

He already had a perfect plan of action. No matter what mischievous ideas these people had, they would behave themselves in a few days.

August 10th.

The the newspapers made the content of yesterday's meeting public, and the entire British wizarding world was plunged into shock and mild panic.

The international wizarding world was also shaken.

Meanwhile, the students in the magic class at the the Dursleys' house achieved phased learning results

Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia each learned two simple spells.

In addition, Dumbledore asked his friend, Nicolas Flamel, an alchemy master who had lived for over six hundred years, for two precious anti-spell robes and gave them to the Dursleys.

These two anti-spell robes were rated B-rank by the System. They had extremely strong resistance against ordinary offensive spells. Of course, they couldn't withstand the Killing Spell.

This was yet another layer of protection for the safety of the Dursleys.

In order to recharge the maternal love protection magic on Harry, the Dursleys couldn't move abroad. They needed to maintain the concept of home at Number 4 Privet Drive. Obviously, if only Dudley and Harry were left, it couldn't be called a 'home'.

So, in order to ensure the safety of his parents to the greatest extent possible, Dudley put forward several requests to Dumbledore, in addition to the already implemented Fidelius Charm protection and personal anti-spell robes.

He also asked Dumbledore to assign two house-elves to the Dursleys' house so that they could quickly return to Number 4 Privet Drive in case of an accident when the Dursleys were out.