Chapter 305
Knock, knock!
Just when Umbridge was a little embarrassed, the classroom door was knocked.
This also made her feel relieved.
At least she had a little time to breathe.
Otherwise, how should she face that problem?
If they really wrote a joint letter to the Ministry of Magic, asking for the replacement of this cleaner, Fudge would definitely not be able to bear this kind of pressure.
At that time, if the task was not completed, it would still be unlucky for him.
Once he lost this opportunity, it would be impossible to climb up in the future.
"Come in!"
With the obstruction of the Fiendfyre, Umbridge naturally could not open the door.
"Excuse me!"
Accompanied by a click, a tall old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of everyone.
He had sensed it as early as when Ethan used the Fiendfyre spell.
Of course, we don't know what the specific spell was, but the overly strong magic reaction was still sensed by the castle.
This was a rule that Dumbledore specially added after Voldemort's Horcrux diary controlled Ron in the Gryffindor dormitory more than two years ago.
After all, several young wizards were injured at the time, and Percy, the best of Gryffindor, was directly disabled. In order to prevent such accidents from happening in the future, Dumbledore specially added it.
Moreover, the place where the strong magic reaction occurred this time was still in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, which can be said to be a key surveillance target.
Dumbledore, who was afraid of something going on, also rushed over as soon as possible.
Of course, the one used was the Phoenix, the top transportation tool in the wizarding world.
Dumbledore, who arrived outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, found that things were not what he thought.
So he stopped and listened for a while, and only knocked on the door and came in at this moment.
He couldn't really let Ethan drive this woman away.
In Dumbledore's mind, this woman was quite stupid, sarcastic, mean, and had no overall view.
Even if she was his former student, Dumbledore would give such an evaluation.
Although it was annoying to have such a stupid guy in Hogwarts, it might promote the unity of the young wizards, which was a good thing.
You know, the young wizards of the four colleges have been in a competitive relationship for so many years, and the factional differences are quite serious after leaving school.
It is impossible to twist them into a rope.
Even during the period when Voldemort was rampant, this could not be done.
But Umbridge continued to stay in Hogwarts as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, which might facilitate this.
As for Umbridge coming with Fudge's mission, what can this stupid woman do?
If 680 was replaced, it would be bad news for him.
So in order to prevent the situation from escalating further, he had to interrupt Ethan's spell..
"Headmaster, are you here to ask me to leave?"
Looking at Dumbledore who was looming in the firelight, Umbridge said sarcastically.
She obviously didn't understand Dumbledore's thoughts, and thought that Dumbledore came to laugh at her, because both parties were not on the same side.
As an opponent, it is reasonable to see the other party suffer misfortune!
Umbridge herself likes to see others suffer misfortune, especially when she gives it to others.
A new professor was sent away by students in the first class. Isn't this a big joke?
It can be said that it directly set the fastest history of professors being expelled since the establishment of Hogwarts.
Just now, the kid said that he would jointly find Dumbledore and expel him from Hogwarts, and now Dumbledore is here.
If it weren't for this purpose, I would have been a toilet sweeper for the rest of my life.
"No, I'm here to stop an accident."
Under the gaze of all the classmates, Dumbledore naturally couldn't just say that he wasn't here to expel her.
After all, everyone knows what kind of image Umbridge has among the students.
Moreover, as time goes by, more and more people will hate her.
If I decide to keep her in Hogwarts in public, I'm afraid that many little wizards will be resentful of me.
Dumbledore, who already had some little wizards who no longer trusted him because of the confrontation with Fudge this summer, naturally wouldn't do such a stupid thing.
"How do you want to stop it?"
Umbridge smiled disdainfully.
Speaking of stopping the accident, in fact, he was afraid that other little wizards would get hurt!
Then expel the culprit who caused all this and destroy Fudge's purpose.
What kind of riddle man are you playing here!
"Adrian, you put away the Fiendfyre first."
Dumbledore put the flame aside and looked in Ethan's direction.
It's not that he couldn't use the End of All Curses to eliminate the Fiendfyre directly, but this elimination mainly depends on the collision of magic.
If he loses control a little bit and the sparks touch the little wizard, the best result is that the unlucky guy loses part of his limbs.
In order to avoid this consequence, Dumbledore can only let Ethan take it back himself.
For other wizards, it is quite difficult to take back the Fiendfyre, but it is definitely not a problem for Ethan.
As early as more than two years ago in the duel competition, he saw that Ethan's control over the Fiendfyre spell was still higher than 90% of wizards.
"As you wish!"
Ethan shrugged indifferently and snapped his fingers. The Fiendfyre that enveloped the entire classroom disappeared without a trace in a flash.
Ethan sensed it when Dumbledore arrived at the classroom door.
Ethan also felt a little strange about this. Did he come so quickly?
This made Ethan wonder if Dumbledore was the one who had come.Did Blydore install surveillance in the classroom?
But he didn't rush in immediately, so Ethan pretended not to know and continued to play.
"Ravenclaw, five points deducted!"
Seeing that Fiendfyre had disappeared without a trace, Dumbledore announced in public.
This punishment can be said to be quite light.
As for the behavior just now, it is true that Ethan violated the classroom discipline in class, and it is also true that he used dangerous spells, putting his classmates in danger.
Deducting points and being put in confinement are all possible punishments.
If it were a different headmaster, it would not be impossible to make the decision to expel him.
There is also a precedent for this. Newt Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts because he helped his classmates to take the blame.
That Newt's classmate threatened the life of a student because he conducted an experiment related to the ground mink, and this pot was taken by Newt.
The headmaster at that time was not Dumbledore, he was just a professor, so he had no right to interfere with the decisions made by the headmaster.
It also threatened the lives of students, such as the prank played by Sirius and his group on Snape. If James had not helped Snape in the end, Snape would have been torn to pieces by Lupin who turned into a werewolf.
But Sirius was not expelled.
The judgment of all this was still decided by Dumbledore.
Obviously, Dumbledore's current punishment is the lightest.
Umbridge, as the person involved, was trembling all over. Just deducting five points is enough?
If the person involved was not Ethan, she would have directly fired at Dumbledore.
Afterwards, she would have gone out to expose all this, saying that Hogwarts teachers and students colluded to suppress the new professor.
But Umbridge, who didn't want the curse of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to come true directly on her, decided to endure it.
"Professor Dumbledore, I don't think Ethan did anything wrong."
Faced with Dumbledore's deduction of points, Harry didn't understand the twists and turns in it, and immediately stood up to refute.
Just now, he wanted to stand up and fire at Umbridge several times, but he still held back. Umbridge didn't point at him when he raised his hand.
Until Ethan stood up, Harry was quite excited.
"And me, Professor Dumbledore, I just stood up directly without raising my hand."
"I also think Ethan did nothing wrong, Professor Dumbledore!"
The students in the classroom stood up one after another and talked about it.
Looking at this scene in the classroom, Dumbledore felt his scalp tingling.
How annoying is Umbridge! (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
That's why they reacted like this, but that's how they united.
"In that case, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin will each be deducted five points."
This kind of behavior cannot be tolerated, otherwise it will disrupt the class in the future, and the class will not be able to be taught.
Faced with the deduction of points for all the colleges, the young wizards looked at each other and said nothing more.
From Dumbledore's attitude, it is obvious that he insisted on his decision.
Besides, five points were deducted, isn't it the same as no deduction?
"Professor Dumbledore, you should have arrived for a while!"
"You heard what I said. I think Umbridge is not suitable to be a professor at Hogwarts. What do you think!"
Here, here, I say it.
Umbridge also looked at Dumbledore.
"Professor Dolores Umbridge became the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor through normal application. If you think she is unqualified and want to replace her, then a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor will be needed, otherwise this course will not be able to proceed."
Dumbledore hesitated for a long time before giving such an answer.
After all, he could not say openly that he did not want to replace Umbridge as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
Umbridge looked at Dumbledore in surprise.
What a trick. []
If I continue to say this, I will have to go back to the Ministry of Magic to continue sweeping toilets.
Now, if there is no replacement for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, I will not be able to get off the stage.
As we all know, it is difficult to recruit people for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts. Does that mean I am safe?
Ethan's mouth twitched when he heard it. Normal application?
Can you tell me the application requirements?
Just a person is enough, right!
"Professor Snape can be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor!"
"We all know that the subject he wants to teach the most is Defense Against the Dark Arts instead of Potions. He taught the class a few years ago and I think he teaches well."
"As long as we can recruit a professor of Potions, we can replace Professor Snape!"
The young wizards also agreed with Ethan's statement and nodded their heads.
Although taking Snape's class is a mental torture, it is a class that you have to go through, and it is not unacceptable to replace Potions with Defense Against the Dark Arts.
On the contrary, Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was quite good. Even if it was not as good as Lupin, it was better than other professors.
Besides, it is no secret that Snape is the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Maybe he will change after he gets what he wants.
"It is not easy to find a qualified potion master, and now Hogwarts has already started. Compared with recruiting professors now, I hope you can solve this contradiction with Professor Dolores Umbridge."
But Ethan obviously does not agree with what Dumbledore said, that there is enough level to teach students potions.Professors don't need to be so top-notch. Even if they are seventh-year students, they don't need to learn anything.
Recruiting a pharmacist of similar level is not a problem at all. After all, the potion class has not been cursed by Voldemort, and many people still want to eat this iron rice bowl.
"So do you think we shouldn't use magic in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class?"
Now, everyone looked at Dumbledore.
Being looked at like this, Dumbledore felt a little scalp tingling. The last time he faced such a difficult problem, it was Grindelwald who raised it.
Why are the questions of this kid so sharp?
"I think you can use magic in class, but you need to let Professor Umbridge understand this."
Dumbledore also threw this question out directly, but he still had to make this position clear first.
Anyway, as long as Umbridge can continue to stay in Hogwarts as a villain, it's fine.
"Ahem, you can use magic in class. This is my problem. I will correct it."
Umbridge, who was being watched by everyone, also faced everyone with a frank face and deeply reflected on her mistakes.
There was no way. Compared with returning to the Ministry of Magic to be a cleaner for life, Umbridge felt that it was nothing to be wronged.
As long as she could regain Fudge's trust, everything would be worth it.
Although the teaching content had to be changed, the plan could still be carried out.
If she didn't admit her mistake now, wouldn't she have to duel with Ethan, and that would be the end of everything.
In this regard, Umbridge would rather fight with Dumbledore than with Ethan.
Dumbledore wouldn't kill anyone, but Ethan was different. She also heard about the Ministry of Magic cleaning up the scene at the Quidditch World Cup when she was a cleaner.
There were dozens of people who were beaten into pulp by the magic dragon and electrocuted into charcoal.
As for those who were burned by the dragon's flames, they were all turned into ash, so there was no need to clean them up.
If he fought with Ethan, it would not be called proving himself, but going to die.
But, why did Dumbledore?
Based on this performance, it was obvious that he was giving himself a way out!
Having worked in the Ministry of Magic for so long and experienced the intrigues in the workplace, he could still see that he didn't want to drive him away.
As for the classmates in the classroom, they looked at Umbridge with some disappointment.
Obviously, this scene was not the result they wanted to see. He was so awesome at the beginning of the class, why did he give in?
Persevere to the end. Fight with Ethan!
Even if he can't be beaten to death directly, it's better to go to the hospital.
"I won't disturb you guys from class."
Dumbledore felt that everything was fine and didn't plan to stay any longer, otherwise he didn't know what Ethan would ask him.
"Close the door and continue the class!"
Umbridge forced a smile.
It was the look in the eyes of the students below that made Umbridge so angry. They were hoping I would die!
Chapter 306
When the bell rang, the little wizards excitedly talked about what happened in class while packing up their textbooks.
Although they didn't get to the point of kicking Umbridge out of Hogwarts, it was a good thing that she compromised.
And Umbridge ran out with her textbooks in her arms and a sullen face the moment the bell rang.
This class was a disaster for her.
When we had dinner in the hall, everyone knew what happened in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the fifth grade today, and the speed of the spread was also incredibly fast.
When Ethan came to the Ravenclaw long table for dinner, people around him were whispering about it.
"Did you hear that in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class this afternoon, the cleaner from the Ministry of Magic was scolded by Ethan and cried. He apologized in front of the whole class..."
"Don't talk nonsense. The cleaner was beaten. I heard that the Fiendfyre Curse was used..."
"Really? How come I heard that the headmaster~ came running over..."
"I have first-hand information. Listen to me..."
Interestingly, those people who were whispering to each other didn't seem to care whether he would hear their discussions.
As if they wanted someone to hear them on purpose, they looked up at the long table of faculty and staff from time to time, which made Umbridge run away without finishing her meal.
Obviously, their goal was achieved.
"Ethan, after dinner, the headmaster will wait for you in his office. Password: Cream Puff."
Hearing this, Ethan looked up with some confusion and looked at Professor McGonagall who came to deliver the message.
Generally, Dumbledore would not ask people to go to his office unless there was something going on.
Ethan remembered that he had only been there twice, once in the first year, because Ethan had beaten several senior Slytherin students and sent them to the school infirmary, and he went there because he was going to be punished.
The second time was because of the wizard mailbox, and Nico asked him to find Dumbledore.
What is it now?
Hasn't he already deducted points for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class?
"I don't know what's going on either!"
Faced with Ethan's puzzled eyes, Professor McGonagall's face also flashed a trace of confusion.
Originally, she received Dumbledore's order to come and pass on the message, and her first reaction was to talk to Ethan because of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon.
As for what happened in the afternoon, the students had spread the word among themselves, so she naturally knew about it.
To be honest, she also disagreed with Ethan's use of dark magic such as the Fiery Curse in class, even if it was to attack Umbridge.
But considering the situation at the time and the purpose of Umbridge's coming to Hogwarts, it was not unacceptable.
If it were me, I would probably do the same as Dumbledore, deducting points and giving a warning.
Since Dumbledore deducted points in the afternoon, thenAccording to Professor McGonagall's understanding of Dumbledore over the years, this matter is over.
He would not pursue responsibility afterwards.
But apart from what happened in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, Professor McGonagall could not think of any other reason why Dumbledore would ask Ethan to go to his office.
"Well, I know. I'll go to the principal's office after dinner."
Since Professor McGonagall didn't know, Ethan didn't think too much about it. He would know later.
"I won't disturb you for dinner."
The message was conveyed clearly, and Professor McGonagall didn't plan to stay any longer. She immediately returned to the long staff table.
But when Ethan looked at the long staff table, Dumbledore happened to look over and winked at him.
This made Ethan shudder at the time.
If it were someone else, Ethan would not have reacted like this.
But Dumbledore, this is an old glass, and he can't stand him doing this.
Immediately, Ethan lowered his head and continued to eat dinner.
"Ethan, is it okay to go to the principal's office later?"
When Professor McGonagall walked away, Qiu Zhang, who was sitting next to him, looked at Ethan with some worry.
Not only her, but many little wizards around who heard Professor McGonagall's words also looked at Ethan.
In the minds of most people, going to the principal's office means that there is nothing good, otherwise it can be announced now.
"No problem."
Ethan waved his hand and continued to eat dinner. With Dumbledore's temperament, there is no need to worry too much.
Although he has many problems, he is quite tolerant of his students.
When Ethan finished dinner, Dumbledore was no longer visible on the head of the faculty and staff table.
After greeting Qiu Zhang and others, Ethan walked towards the stairs.
"Cream puff!"
On the eighth floor, in front of a huge stone beast, Ethan shouted the command that Professor McGonagall had just said.
After the stone statue split into two halves, a spiral staircase was revealed, and Ethan walked up skillfully.
At the end of the stairs, the door of the principal's office was open.
"Come and sit down!"
Seeing Ethan coming, Dumbledore immediately waved his hand.
In front of him was a cup of steaming black tea, and there was also a cup opposite.
After sitting down opposite Dumbledore, Ethan also took a long look at the principal's office.
It was no different from the past, a bookshelf full of forbidden books taken by Dumbledore from the forbidden area, photos of past principals disguised as ordinary portraits, and the phoenix Fawkes standing on the bird stand combing his feathers.
"This is the black tea sent by Ms. Maxime. Try it. It's very good!"
Take a sip of the black tea and Dumbledore said quite happily.
Hagrid brought it when he came back from France not long ago.
WhenOf course, this was prepared by Madam Maxime. If Hagrid had come, he would definitely have brought wine.
Ethan also took a sip and it was sweet.
Dumbledore, how much sugar did you add!
Just after dinner, you drank tea with so much sugar. Are you really not afraid of diabetes?
This made Ethan wonder if the wizarding world has any special medicine for diabetes.
Otherwise, considering the amount of desserts Dumbledore eats every day, he also adds a lot of sugar to his tea. It is really outrageous that he has not developed diabetes after maintaining such a diet for many years.
"How is it?"
After watching Ethan drink it, Dumbledore asked with some expectation.
"Not bad, but too sweet."
Ethan also told the truth.
"I'll add less sugar to you next time."
Dumbledore took another sip and said with a smile.
As for not adding sugar, sorry, in Dumbledore's eyes, black tea without sugar has no soul.
"Did you ask me?"
Seeing that Dumbledore had no intention of speaking, Ethan could only ask himself.
Otherwise, he would not be here to accompany an old man to drink tea.
Ethan was not interested in this.
"Dolores Umbridge, I know she was sent by Fudge of the Ministry of Magic, and she has their own purpose. Everyone hates her, but I hope you can stop targeting her in the future."
Dumbledore put down the teacup, and his face showed a serious look.
After leaving the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Dumbledore also reviewed it.
It seemed to be resolved at the time, but as long as Umbridge still wanted to complete Fudge's task, she would definitely not really go to class like a real Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
Fudge would also put pressure on her.
At that time, it is inevitable that the conflict will break out again.
I can't be the fire chief every time!
So we have to solve the problem from the source.
As for other students who go against Umbridge, it doesn't matter.
They don't have Ethan's influence, and they can't call on most of the students.
After all, the strength and potential shown by Ethan will not only be considered by the students of the school, but also by the parents behind them. But what about other students?
That's why Dumbledore called Ethan to the principal's office.
"I didn't target her!"
"It was Umbridge who announced in class that magic was not allowed in her class. This is obviously targeting us, Hogwarts, we are a magic school."
Ethan will definitely not take the blame for Umbridge. In class, he was not the first to confront Umbridge.
It's just that Dumbledore is doing something wrong.
I thought I was called here for some reason, but it turned out to be about Umbridge.
"Of course I know it's her problem, but laterI hope you can keep silent while she is teaching."
"You should be able to see that Umbridge is actually quite afraid of you. She dare not embarrass you."
When he said this, Dumbledore was a little helpless.
With his life experience, just by looking at the look Umbridge gave Ethan, he knew that she was afraid of Ethan.
But for himself, there was no fear in Umbridge's eyes. He was such a failure as the headmaster. He was not as intimidating as a student.
However, after persisting for so long, Dumbledore had no intention of changing his life creed.
"Why is this? Umbridge's teaching like this is not a good thing for Hogwarts! "
Ethan frowned and looked at Dumbledore.
This old guy is like this no matter who he talks to. He doesn't say it clearly and always likes to keep it in his heart.
It's the same in the original book. No matter how much Umbridge made trouble in Hogwarts, Dumbledore didn't come out to manage it.
After testing Dumbledore's bottom line, Umbridge's behavior became more and more presumptuous, until she became an investigator, and then issued one educational order after another.
In the end, it affected other classes. (To read the violent novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
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Harry and others had to organize D.A. and learn magic in private.
This D.A. is also called Dumbledore's Army.
It's ridiculous to say that although the name of the organization is Dumbledore's Army, Albus Dumbledore himself did not participate in any activities of the organization. I have never participated in the establishment of the Order of the Phoenix.
Wait, this is what Dumbledore expects, right?
You know, the so-called Dumbledore Army was disbanded after Umbridge stepped down, but in the final battle with Voldemort, all members participated.
This is like a youth version of the Order of the Phoenix, but the area of students involved is larger than that of the Order of the Phoenix. After all, only Gryffindor and a small number of Hufflepuffs participated in the Order of the Phoenix.
But now without Hermione's help, can Harry form it?
The plot is also a little different from the original. Even if Ethan doesn't intervene, Dumbledore's Army can't be formed.
Dumbledore, watching Ethan's face change twice, really wanted to use Legilimency to see what Ethan was thinking, but he still held back and gave his own explanation:
"It's not a good thing, but it's not that bad either. "
"It is Umbridge's unreasonable teaching philosophy that can unite students, just like what happened in class today."
"She does not allow students to use magic in class, which is a kind of oppression, so there will naturally be resistance. In this process, although they lose the right to learn magic in class, they also gain friendship and strengthen the connection between students. Isn't this a good thing!"
Dumbledore sees this very clearly., because the war with Grindelwald was like this.
Ethan finally understood, it was almost the same as what he had just thought.
It was just to unite the little wizards below, as for the so-called Dumbledore Army, it was an unexpected product.
Now Dumbledore wanted to use Umbridge to divert the conflicts among the students in Hogwarts.
This is the same as the international problems. Of course, when there are irreconcilable conflicts within, an external vent is needed.
"I understand!"
Since Dumbledore said so, he could only give him this face.
"That's good, do you want to have some snacks? I have new products from Honeydukes Candy Store here."
Dumbledore smiled and was about to open his drawer.
"Wait, we just had dinner!"
"Also, we can't drive Umbridge away. We have to face that face several times a week. It's disgusting. I need compensation."
"Compensation?"
Dumbledore's hand stopped as he was about to open the drawer, and his smile froze on his face.
"Compensation!"
Ethan nodded seriously.
"What compensation do you want?"[]
Dumbledore was also thinking about what he had that was worth Ethan's attention.
As for gold galleons, he had some, but it didn't seem to be much!
As for collections, apart from those from Hogwarts, he didn't have much of his own.
"Phoenix tail feathers and tears."
Fawkes, who was standing on the bird stand, was furious when he heard this. He stared at Ethan with a pair of sharp eyes, and then disappeared in the office in a burst of fire.
"This..."
Dumbledore also looked back at this scene, and then looked at Ethan, not knowing what to say.
He remembered that he had given Ethan a phoenix tail feather before, and later he wanted to ask for phoenix tears himself.
"Is it okay?"
Phoenix tears and tail feathers are one of the main materials for making purification potions, and Ethan can get the others.
But as for the phoenix, even if Ethan has an international organization dedicated to poaching magical animals, he can't find any trace of the phoenix.
The only ones he knows are Fawkes and a Quidditch team mascot named Sparks.
But these two are not easy to get.
As for the wild population, the phoenix's apparition means that they are destined to be difficult to find.
If you want to get them, you still have to go from Dumbledore.
Although Ethan doesn't need the purification potion now, who could have expected to encounter this kind of potion that can remove any negative state one day!
It will be a bit late to look for materials when it is needed, not to mention that it will take half a year to brew.
It is better to prepare in advance.
"Okay!"
"I have three here, that's all, tears will be waiting for Fox to come backCome here, I will give it to you then."
Although the Phoenix tail feathers and tears are very valuable outside, they are not very precious to Dumbledore.
These tail feathers were shed when Fawkes was about to be reborn, and then collected by Dumbledore.
In addition to this, there are also the ashes of rebirth, which Dumbledore also collected..
Chapter 307
It is October, the first weekend, and it is the long-awaited Hogwarts Day.
Unlike the cold and rainy days some time ago, today's weather is particularly sunny, although there is still a little wind.
Coming to the hall for breakfast, the little wizards gathered in groups of three or two to talk about something, unlike in the past when they were all sick.
After this month, the fifth-year little wizards can be said to be exhausted, and today they can finally relax.
Just like the first day, after a new class, the professors will put some pressure on the class and use more than fifteen minutes to emphasize the importance of O.W.L.s exams to the whole class.
For example, these exams may affect your future for many years to come!
If you haven't seriously considered your career, you should think about it now.
In order to ensure that you all perform at your level, I'm afraid we all have to work harder than before!
Without serious study, practice and application, you will not be able to pass the O.W.L.s exams.
The little wizards are so tired of hearing these words.
Along with this comes a huge amount of homework for each subject.
The first four years can be said to be a classic happy education, with few courses and little learning pressure. There is also plenty of time to play wizard chess and Quidditch. This year, there is a big reversal.
What Fred and George said was that many little wizards collapsed under the pressure every year. This is really not nonsense.
In this month alone, Ethan has seen several people who lost control of their emotions, but they are mainly concentrated in Hufflepuff.
After breakfast, the little wizards above the third grade began to line up in front of Filch's "One Two Seven". He had to check their names against the long list, which listed the students whose parents or guardians allowed them to visit Hogsmeade Village.
Ethan, Cassandra and others also gathered there.
When it was Ethan's turn, Filch just passed by.
But Ethan found that when Filch passed by some students, he obviously sniffed hard, as if he wanted to smell something from them.
Since it had nothing to do with Ethan, he didn't pay attention to it.
After Filch finished his inspection, everyone boarded the Thestrals and headed for Hogsmeade.
With such a short distance, with the strength of the Thestrals, it didn't take long to reach the destination.
"Where are we going first?"
Ethan asked casually after getting off the carriage.
Anyway, I basically spent the whole day with them in Hogsmeade, so I didn't need to buy anything here.
"The Writer's Quill Shop!"
Hermione said without hesitation.
"Where are you going?"
Ethan was a little confused.Turning to look at Hermione.
When they came here in the past, they would first go to places like the "Fengya Brand Wizard Clothing Store" to see if there were any new products recently, or if there were any popular styles from other countries.
When they were in the second grade, because of Lockhart's wizard duel competition and the Quidditch World Cup later, they all made a lot of money and had no shortage of money, so they went in to buy things.
"We are different from you. We have to do homework for every subject. Now we have to buy ink and quills."
There are really too many homeworks recently. The ink brought before school started is almost used up, and several quills are broken.
When she came to Hogsmeade today, Hermione wanted to replenish it.
As for Ethan, because of his good grades, the things taught in class were basically useless to him, so Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick exempted Ethan from his homework. In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Umbridge also assigned some tricky homework, but in order to avoid Ethan, she exempted Ethan directly.
Not only that, Hermione also knew that Ethan didn't do the remaining homework well at all. He used the quill pen he invented a few years ago to directly copy his roommate's homework.
The quill pen would also make some changes in it, which also led to Ethan being the most leisurely one in the fifth grade.
Although she was very disgusted with this behavior, Hermione thought about Ethan's grades and didn't have the courage to say anything.
After all, a person who copied homework every day had better test scores than you, and the teacher liked him more. What courage do you have to preach to him and let him study hard?
"Okay, let's go to Wenrenju Feather Pen Shop first."
Ethan can go anywhere anyway.
This shop is right next to the main road in the village, and the location is quite good.
When Ethan and others arrived, there was a witch welcoming guests at the door, and several little wizards had already arrived inside.
After entering, Cassandra, Hermione, and Qiu Zhang all went straight to the stationery area, where there were some ordinary inks, feather pens, parchment, etc.
In addition to ordinary stationery, there are naturally some high-end goods for collection or for the rich.
Ethan and Luna went there.
"Ethan, what do you think of this?"
Luna asked with great interest while holding a bottle of ink, as if she had found something very interesting.
Ethan took the bottle of ink and looked at it carefully.
"Invisible ink, suitable for writing diaries, do you want it?"
"Yes!"
Luna nodded vigorously.
Ethan also put it away directly.
This invisible ink is not a high-end product, and a simple manifestation spell can break it.
But it is enough for my own use.
By the way, Ethan can also go back and study it and make a more advanced one
Or the other way around, it is normal ink when used, but after a certain period of time, the ink will be invisible and cannot be restored. In this case, it is probably the style that Fred and George like.
Imagine that fifth or seventh grade students who stay up until midnight to finish their homework, and when they turn it in the next day, it is all gone. How devastated they will be!
"Ethan, this one suits you very well."
Soon Luna came to Ethan again with an extremely gorgeous feather pen, and pretended to insert it into Ethan's chest pocket.
But this feather pen is pink.
Is it really a tough guy with a flirty pink?
Ethan felt that he was still a little overwhelmed and quickly refused.
"How about this one?"
After putting the pink feather pen back, Luna picked up another lime green feather pen and inserted it directly into her hair.
Lime green is a color between green and yellow. It has a bright green tone, while retaining the warmth and vitality of yellow. It is quite popular.
But, Luna, are you sure you are not hinting at something?
"Not bad!"
After receiving this evaluation, Luna happily pulled Ethan to continue shopping, and the feather pen was directly inserted into her head without taking it off.
Ethan could tell at a glance that this feather pen was made of the feather of the evil bird.
This material is widely used in potions.
It's just that now it is made into a feather pen, and the price is more than twice as expensive as what Ethan saw in the potion store.
Not only the evil bird, Ethan also saw feather pens made of feathers of magical animals such as the soundless bird and the divination bird, but unfortunately there was no phoenix.
In the Wenrenju Feather Pen Shop, Ethan and others did not stay for long.
After all, this stationery store is not very big.
When Ethan and Luna paid for the selected quills and inks and went out, Hermione and others were already waiting outside.
Next to the quill shop in the literati residence is the Zonko joke shop, where Ethan saw Fred, George and Lee Jordan.
They were standing at the door of the Zonko joke shop talking about something.
Today, Fred is not going on a date with Angelina?
Ethan remembered that George had spent Hogsmeade Day alone in recent years.
Seeing Ethan coming out of the quill shop in the literati residence, Fred took the lead in saying hello.
"Ethan, I just mentioned you."
Ethan asked curiously:
"What about me?"
George spread his hands and said helplessly:
"It would be great if you were in our grade."
"By the way, how about we go for a drink now?"
"Now?"
Going to drink early in the morning, until they were adults, now they don't need to sneak to buy alcohol in the pub, but they are notDrunkard bar.
"Of course, or do you want to go shopping with some beautiful ladies now?"
"Fred and the others must have something to tell me, go shopping by yourself, and if you have any questions, you can send me a message using the wizard mailbox."
Ethan made the decision immediately. (To read the exciting novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
After saying goodbye to Cassandra and the others, Ethan came to Fred and the others.
"Where are we going?"
"Pig's Head Bar!"
Following Fred and the others, we turned into a small road next to it, and there was a small bar at the intersection.
The tattered wooden sign hung on the rusty bracket on the door, with a picture of a chopped wild boar's head on it, and blood stains soaked through the white cloth wrapped around it.
As he approached, the sign creaked in the wind.
Ethan had been to this bar before, when he first came to Hogsmeade Village.
Want to see the legendary Hog's Head Inn opened by Dumbledore's brother0...
After satisfying his curiosity, Ethan never went there again.
Unexpectedly, he was brought here again by Fred and others today.
Completely different from the Three Broomsticks, the Hog's Head Inn has only a small, dark, and very dirty room, which exudes a strong smell of sheep.
There is thick dirt on several bay windows, and light can hardly penetrate. Some candles are lit on the rough wooden table.
The ground looks muddy at first glance, but when you step on it, you will find that it is actually a stone floor, but it is covered with dirt for centuries, which gives people such an illusion.
It seems to be even dirtier than before.
In addition to Ethan and his friends, there are several other guests here. []
It was their attire that was quite different. For example, the guy at the bar had his entire head wrapped in dirty grey bandages, but he could still pour one cup after another of something smoking and flaming through a gap in the bandage on his mouth.
Two hooded figures sat at a table by the window, and a witch sat in a dark corner by the fireplace, with a thick black scarf hanging down to her feet.
Seeing that there were customers coming, the bar owner Aberforth also came over from the back door, mumbling to Ethan and the others.
"What do you want?"
"Four bottles of butter beer."
Hearing this, Aberforth bent down and took out four dusty and dirty bottles from under the counter and placed them heavily on the bar.
"Eight Sickles."
Fred handed over the silver coin, and after Aberforth took the money, he put it into an old wooden cash box, and the drawer slid open automatically and swallowed the money.
Carrying the dirty bottle, Ethan and others found a table in the corner and sat down.
This is why Ethan no longer comes to the Hog's Head.
It's okay if the environment is not good, but there are stains on the bottle, how can you drink it?
Do you have to bring your own wine glass when you come to the bar?
After sitting down, Lee Jordan unscrewed the rusty cap of his bottle of butter beer and took a big sip.
And Ethan dug into his dragon skin pocket and took out a bottle of amber wine.
This was the gift Ethan brought when he went to Delacour's house to pick up Fleur during the summer vacation. At that time, he asked Lucius Malfoy to prepare it, but he prepared a little more.
Usually, Ethan rarely drinks, but now it comes in handy.
Then Transfiguration brought a silver wine glass and condensed a few ice cubes in the wine glass, and then poured the amber wine into it.
The wine glass came from Transfiguration, but the ice cubes were not. They were condensed by Freezing.
Even though Ethan's Transfiguration points are full now, the basic rules of Transfiguration still need to be followed.
Unlike the wizarding world who likes fire whiskey, Ethan prefers to add some ice cubes.
Fred looked at the glass in Ethan's hand, then looked at the dusty and dirty bottle of butter beer in his hand, and immediately pushed it aside with disgust.
"Give me a glass!"
"There's still 5.3 for me!"
"Can I say I want it too?"
Seeing this, Ethan could only give one to each person.
Aberforth at the counter looked at this scene with wide eyes, looking at several people unkindly, his chest was also violently heaving, as if he was quite angry.
"Hey, kid, you are not allowed to bring your own drinks here!"
If this is the case, will he still do business?
After taking a sip, Ethan looked towards the counter and said:
"We ordered drinks, right? If we don't drink your butter beer later, it will be returned to your hands. You will still make a profit."
Aberforth was so angry that his beard blew up, but he still held back.
It was a heresy, but he couldn't kick them out...
"Do you have anything to say?"
After sending the boss away, Ethan asked about the business.
"It's nothing big, I just want to hear your opinion, where should we open our joke store next year?"
"Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley?"
They didn't worry about the funding at all, but they hadn't decided where to open the store.
Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade are both good locations.
The former only does business during the summer and Christmas holidays. When Hogwarts opens, there is basically no business.
The business of Hogsmeade Village is better on Hogsmeade Day. On weekdays, there are some owls delivering goods, but not many.
The competitive pressure is similar. Hogsmeade Village and Diagon Alley both have a joke goods store. They don't care much about this. They believe that their products will be the most popular.
But they haven't decided where to open the store yet. There are pros and cons in both. .
Chapter 308
"If you don't know how to choose, then Diagon Alley!"
There is no other way. There are only so many wizards in Great Britain. It is just a small society. It is quite convenient for wizards to travel to each other. Whether it is Apparition or using Floo powder in the fireplace, it can be said that they can reach their destination in an instant.
In this case, opening two stores is a complete waste.
Even if it is a store jointly owned by Ethan and the Walley family, the things sold in it can be said to be unique in the wizarding world, but there is only one store in Great Britain.
Compared to the wizard village of Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley is a commercial street with a larger flow of people. It is just that Hogsmeade is backed by Hogwarts, which has a certain geographical advantage.
Not to mention, every year, students of Hogwarts have to go to Diagon Alley once, which is only the minimum. In fact, many young wizards often go to Diagon Alley during holidays.
In summary, Diagon Alley has more advantages.
Moreover, Fred and George can only make some prank products, such as the quick-acting skipping candy series, automatic inkjet quill pen, and boxing telescope.
But in the original book, they also have alchemical products such as anti-curse gloves. Unlike prank products, this is a serious protective magic prop. The effect is that when someone wants to cast a curse on you, stare at his eyes and the curse will be rebounded. The Ministry of Magic has purchased a lot of them in their store.
As their horizons continue to expand, Fred and George will not only focus on prank products. Products such as anti-curse gloves will only increase.
Considering this aspect, Diagon Alley is much more suitable than Hogsmeade Village.
Faced with this answer, Fred took a sip of whiskey and confirmed it without hesitation:
"Okay, then Diagon Alley."
Seeing Fred confirm it so readily, Ethan wondered if he meant that Hogsmeade Village also had the same effect.
"By the way, I have another suggestion for you."
"You can add some students as your friends and let them be your middlemen. Give them some benefits. Even after you graduate, you won't have to worry about not finding people."
"The middlemen will directly pass the information to you. Finally, you only need to use owls to ship after receiving the message."
In fact, all the shops in Hogsmeade are like this now, but there is no middleman. If you need anything, you can directly let the owls send the message, give the gold galleons to the owls, and then they can bring the goods back.
As for Diagon Alley, due to the distance, the round-trip time is much longer than Hogsmeade.
But as long as Fred and his products are popular enough, they have agents in Hogwarts, and they have small promotional activities from time to time, they can definitely grab the delivery business.
The only thing to worry about is that many prank products are banned in Hogwarts.Especially Filch.
As their agent, he will definitely be targeted by Filch. It is hard to say whether he can withstand the pressure at that time. After all, not everyone is the twins.
"We will prepare when we get back!"
Fred and George looked at each other and said excitedly.
A long time ago, Fred and George would resell some of these things, all of which were purchased at Zonko's joke shop, just making a small profit, usually a few copper knuts.
If it is expensive, they might as well use owls to visit the joke shop and buy it themselves.
The little money they made was basically used by them to develop their own products.
But after cooperating with Ethan, they made much more than the difference.
After having enough funds and researching their own products, they stopped this unlucky behavior of reselling and specialized in selling their own products.
Now we can pass on this glorious act. After all, except for the two brothers, no one else in Hogwarts can research these products even if they are interested. They can only buy them outside.
This kind of product is still very popular in Gryffindor, otherwise the two of them would not be able to earn the initial capital to develop products through this business.
Those rich pure-blood nobles look down on it, but some half-bloods and Muggle wizards, I believe they don't mind making this money.
After contacting the candidates, you only need to prepare a few more owls. Anyway, they only consume two handfuls of nuts and a handful of dried meat for hundreds of kilometers!
The more the two brothers thought about it, the more they felt that this model was feasible.
"By the way, you said before that it would be great if you were in our grade. What does that mean?"
Ethan still remembered this. When they met just now, they were talking about themselves.
"It's Umbridge again. Forget it, she's a bummer!"
George raised his glass and said unhappily.
Because of Ethan, Umbridge was a little restrained when teaching the fifth grade.
But the other grades were getting more and more excessive, especially after she saw that Dumbledore seemed to be deliberately indulging her.
This made the days of the other grades quite difficult.
Among them, the Gryffindor students of each grade were the focus of Umbridge's attention.
Who made Umbridge and Fudge believe that many young wizards in Hogwarts, especially those in Gryffindor College, were the secret army trained by Dumbledore, that is, the reserve of the Order of the Phoenix.
Next, they casually talked about the recent topics of Hogwarts. After finishing three bottles of 700 ml of whiskey and Ethan's stock was gone, they left the Hog's Head.
When they were brought to the street, a breeze blew outside. Fred, George, and Lee Jordan immediately staggered to the wall and vomited.
Ethan's face did not change.
Although Ethan rarely drinks, he doesn't know his limit in terms of alcohol tolerance.
The specific reason should be related to the magic blood of the fire dragon version, and then it was sublimated again.
In this wizard world, after the fire dragon cubs hatch, they are usually fed with brandy and chicken blood.
It can be said that the fire dragon drinks wine as milk. What do you think of the alcohol tolerance of such a creature?
Now Ethan is in this situation. The alcohol is basically decomposed directly after entering the stomach, and there is no possibility of getting drunk.
After several people vomited, Ethan turned around and entered the Pig's Head Bar and asked for three alcohol decomposition drugs.
Otherwise, if they were sent back like this, they would definitely be punished.
After dealing with them, Ethan also found Cassandra and her group according to the wizard's mailbox, and did not stop until it was time to return to school.
On the second day in Hogsmeade, everyone was back to their sickly state.
After playing all day yesterday, they had to rush their homework today. Little wizards could be seen rushing their homework everywhere, in the common room, the auditorium, and under the big tree by the lake.
Two days of rest passed quickly, and another round of high-pressure courses began on Monday.
In the morning, the owl delivered the package as usual.
After Ethan took it, he didn't have time to look through it.
But there were bursts of exclamations from Gryffindor.
Terry on the side couldn't sit still. After finishing his breakfast in a few bites, he hurried over.
How could he be missing from such a lively scene?
Soon the whole auditorium was lively, and many little wizards looked up at the pink figure on the head of the faculty desk.
Unlike the time before when she was too ashamed to show her face, Umbridge now sat at the long table of faculty and staff with a proud look on her face.
Ethan had just finished breakfast, and Terry, who had run to the Gryffindor table to eat melon, also came back.
"Ethan, you can't guess what happened?"
Terry looked at Ethan and the others mysteriously.
"Is it related to Umbridge?"
You only need to look at the reactions of the people in the hall to know what the source of the commotion just now was.
Terry lost interest in an instant. Talking to someone who is too smart is a bummer, and he doesn't know how to respond at all.
"It's boring, just read the newspaper!"
Hearing this, Ethan opened the Daily Prophet directly. What happened that Umbridge was in the newspaper?
No wonder she was so proud.
As a result, when he opened the newspaper, the first thing he saw was a large photo of Umbridge, who was smiling and winking at Ethan.
Caught off guard, Ethan almost vomited out the breakfast he had just eaten.
After all, early in the morning, just after breakfast, a greasy middle-aged fat woman winked at you, how could you bear it?
Ethan was not prepared at all, although he knew it long ago.In the wizarding world, the people in the photos are the kind that move, but who would have thought that Umbridge would be on the front page?
I thought there was just a report about her.
"Why didn't you remind me?"
Ethan seriously suspected that Terry did it on purpose.
"Don't you know it's about Umbridge?"
Terry's face remained unchanged, and he said as a matter of course.
You know who it's about, do you need me to remind you?
Terry's tone revealed this meaning.
For this dumb loss, Ethan could only swallow it himself.
Continue to look at the newspaper, I saw a few bold headlines on it:
Ministry of Magic Seeks Education Reform
Dolores Umbridge Appointed First Senior Inquisitor
This position finally appeared.
A few days ago, Ethan saw in the newspaper that Fudge was trying to do something when he saw that the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts was a werewolf Remus Lupin, the professor of Care of Magical Creatures was half-half half-giant Rubeus Hagrid, and the Death Eater disguised as former Auror Mad-Eye Moody lurking in Hogwarts for a year without being discovered.
But he didn't expect that Umbridge would be put on the stage as in the original book. (To read the novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
These things had a great impact on Dumbledore.
Hagrid, a half-giant, was born to be discriminated against, not to mention that Hagrid didn't even graduate from Hogwarts. Some wizard parents had already had opinions on this, especially those pure-blood nobles.
Although Professor Flitwick is also a half-blood, he had already made a name for himself before he became the professor of Charms.
The champion of the dueling competition, this title is quite famous.
Those parents naturally won't say much, but Hagrid has nothing but black spots on his body.
As for the werewolf, this is unacceptable.
Whether it is transformed or not, once scratched or bitten by a werewolf, there will be irreversible and bad consequences.
As a result, werewolves can't find jobs in the wizarding world.
No one is willing to hire a werewolf, but Dumbledore dares to let him go to Hogwarts as a professor and come into contact with underage wizards who are relatively low in strength and vigilance. Not many parents can accept this.
Or, if Lupin had exposed his werewolf identity, he would not have been able to go to school in Hogwarts.
As for Fudge knowing Lupin's werewolf identity, Ethan was not surprised. After all, Lupin followed the rules and went to the Werewolf Office. Ordinary wizards did not have the authority to know, but as the Minister of Magic, it was definitely not in this category.
Finally, Barty Crouch Jr. disguised himself as Moody and taught at Hogwarts for a year. This was a black mark that Dumbledore could not wash away.
When these three knives appeared, they appeared in the newspapers at the time. AlbusDumbledore is no longer able to take on the responsibility of managing the famous school Hogwarts.
Looking down, in addition to some nonsense, you also emphasized that Umbridge will have the right to review the rights of her faculty colleagues.
No wonder everyone reacted like this. []
Umbridge is already annoying enough, and now with such power, who knows what she will do.
Ethan even foresaw that the day when Umbridge's so-called education order was issued would be a real disaster.
Is this what Dumbledore wants?
Thinking of this, Ethan looked at the head of the faculty table. Dumbledore was still his usual appearance, and he didn't seem to mind the criticism of him in the newspapers and the power Umbridge had obtained.
"Ethan, what have you been doing recently..."
"What do you think Dumbledore said when he asked me to go to the principal's office that day?"
Ethan interrupted Michael's words and put the blame on Dumbledore. Besides, the blame was originally Dumbledore's, so he should bear it.
Since Ethan had received the benefits, he would not reveal what Dumbledore said that day, but what they think is not up to Ethan, right!
The Ravenclaw classmates around him were silent. Everyone knew that on that day, Ethan was notified by Professor McGonagall to go to the principal's office.
Sure enough, there was nothing good about going to the principal's office.
It's just that why Ethan was so bad in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class later, and he didn't find fault with Umbridge at all.
Looking at their expressions, Ethan knew that they must have imagined a lot.
Immediately, without saying anything more, he put away the newspaper and prepared to go to class.
Today is Monday, and Professor Spencer will have a hypnosis class later.
I just wonder if Umbridge will use her power to review other professors now.
However, reviewing Professor Spencer, a ghost, won't have much effect!
As a ghost, he doesn't seem to need such a job, or he is still a professor now, which is a kind of oppression from Hogwarts. After all, he doesn't need to be paid a ghost salary. .