Chapter 918: Candy Wrapper
At breakfast the next day, there were far more owls than usual, and what happened yesterday in the ancient magic class, whether it was a pure-blood or a half-blood wizard, passed the news of the dispute between Alan and Dumbledore in the ancient magic class.
While there has been some controversy over Alan's letting his students learn the magic of summoning the undead, more attention has been paid to the irreconcilable contradictions that Aren and Dumbledore have at odds.
The English wizards began to worry about the situation rather than be as blindly optimistic as they had been, especially when the news reported that the Death Eaters had attacked the two Muggle villages again before they had been captured.
Death Eater attacks on Muggle villages have been making headlines in various newspapers lately, and the feud between Alan and Dumbledore has been purposefully exposed by some pure-blood families in the media they control.
The media has been very busy lately, and Alan has finished his breakfast and sat in his chair to flip through the various newspapers and publications sent by the owl. "We take it seriously that Professor Alan Harris is acting irresponsibly by teaching the dangerous magic of summoning the undead to young people who are not yet fully mentally mature, and to lure and encourage them to delve into the dark arts...... This is a very immoral and dangerous act......"
"The Hogwarts Board should consider stopping the creation of a curriculum as dangerous as ancient magic that tends to distort the character of students...... Boards should play a supervisory role in removing unqualified professors from the faculty...... Otherwise, Hogwarts would be even more notorious in the world than Durmstrang's - at least the Harris family's old boss, Gatler Grindelwald, would be fired from Durmstrand for his radical research in the dark arts. ”
Alan flipped through the masthead of the publication, saw the surname of the publisher in charge, and knew in his heart that these were those pure-blood families who did not give up, using the news media in their hands to build momentum.
According to the Harris family's intelligence, these people have tried to convince Dumbledore to deal with the Harris pure-blood family after that public conflict, and began to secretly contact and act together, mobilizing their own media to denounce Allen, and lashing out at him for teaching dangerous magic such as the summoning of dark creatures at Hogwarts and the inaction of the Ministry of Magic, in an attempt to pave the way for their subsequent attempts to officially kick themselves out of the school.
Alan tossed the magazines aside, and opened the Daily Prophet, Contrarian, and other publications, all of which refuted the media's arguments from Alan's previous statements and the original purpose of Hogwarts, as well as the school's history, as well as the declining level of magic provided by the Ministry of Magic for graduates after Dumbledore became Headmaster.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere in the wizarding world suddenly became tense because of these media wars, with the threat of the Death Eaters outside, the conflict between the Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood family controlled by Harris, and the infighting between the two saviors, Dumbledore and Alan, all of which led to turmoil in the wizarding world and made ordinary wizards and ordinary wizards start to worry about their safety.
Alan flipped through a few newspapers, stood up and left the auditorium, Draco Malfoy, who had also seen the news, couldn't help but ignore Alan's reminder to him and followed, but as Draco walked to the foyer, Alan was stopped by Bryce Zabini of Slytherin.
At this time, under his condensed brow, his long, slightly slanted brown eyes narrowed slightly guiltily.
"Professor Harris, may I take a few minutes of your precious time?" Zabini whispered.
"Zabini, it's okay, you might as well talk to me directly. Alan led Zabini to an empty classroom on the second floor.
"Professor, I'm sorry I had to quit Harris Camp and Ancient Magic class. Zabini is usually very conceited, and at this time he lowered his head and apologized to Alan.
"It's okay Zabini, I know what you're facing..."Alan patted Zabini on the shoulder, as a pure-blood wizard, Zabini's position now had to be aligned with his own - at least his mother's new object was now on the opposite side of Harris.
"Bryce!, how can you leave at this time?!" Draco flashed out from behind and stopped Zabini.
"Don't blame him, Draco, when you're willing to return to the camp, you're always welcome, your place will be reserved for you. Alan waved Zabini to leave, and then beckoned to Draco without retracting his hand, "Draco, come to me." ”
"Thank you, Professor. Zabini, who had always been a bit arrogant, bowed apologetically to Allen and turned away.
Draco snorted coldly at Zabini and reluctantly lowered his hand. Zabini rubbed his forehead, without explaining himself, pushed Draco away who was still in front of him and walked away quickly, Draco waved his hand and flicked the position on his body that Zabini had pushed over, and walked briskly towards Allen.
"Alan, I remember you asked me not to get too close to you, but those idiots who just came to take an ancient magic class quit, but aren't you in a hurry for your camp, they're trying to kick you out of school!" Draco was afraid that Alan would turn the topic aside again, and hurriedly voiced the worry in his heart.
"Draco, don't blame him, it's actually hard enough for Zabini to do this, and many wizards from pure-blood families have dropped out of the training class recently. Although Zabini withdrew from the training camp, he was not willing to go against me. I understand his situation very well, after all, as a member of a pure-blood family, he can't always be a betrayer of the family, a traitor of pureblood. Alan calmly explained to the indignant Draco, "And many of the people who quit are similar to him in their choices, and they are already under a lot of pressure if they don't help each other in this situation." ”
In the Gryffindor common room, Flegg lowered his wand and stopped practicing summoning dark creatures.
Neville, who had been worried, breathed a sigh of relief: "Flleg, I don't think it's a good idea for a skeleton to appear in the common room once you've summoned it... You will be punished. ”
Flegg flicked his wand, "Don't worry Neville, I'm just practicing my wand." ”
"My grandmother didn't allow me to continue my ancient magic class, I didn't go to the practice site once, I practiced secretly in hiding. Neville's hands clasped together, "Headmaster Dumbledore had forbidden you to practice at the school until Professor Harris opened the practice of the Ancient Magic class all day... While you were practicing, he personally came to stop you... I'm really worried that this situation will continue to worsen... My grandmother wrote to me to support Dumbledore, saying that there would be results soon..."
"Alan put that three-eyed crow of shadows on the lab grounds..."Flegg shrugged, "They don't know Alan, he's not a guy who gets angry easily, and there's very little he can't do when I'm in Muggle school, there's definitely a reason why Eren is so tough now, don't forget the Ministry of Magic." ”
"Flleg, they must know what Professor Harris didn't do, but now even Dumbledore is forced to join forces with them... My grandmother said that the other purebloods weren't just trying to get him out of school, they were targeting the Ministry of Magic, which is why she insisted that I support Dumbledore over the other purebloods... She's worried that things are going to get out of hand, and in fact my grandmother liked the Harris family before the Ravenclaw Temple..."Neville was confused and worried, "Fleg, these are not our powers, I just hope things don't get worse and good people don't get hurt anymore." ”
"I'm rooting for Alan!" Flegg said loudly about his friend from his Muggle school days, "he's right to try to improve our strength!"
Neville was startled by his friend's sudden loud declaration, and asked, "Fleg, I remember you have always been more reluctant to the dark arts, and you were also repulsive when you were teaching necromancy that day. ”
"I've just figured it out in the last few days, Neville. "The Death Eaters attack Muggles every day, and I began to complain about why the Ministry of Magic failed to protect everyone, but I figured it out that Neville, the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix, as well as Dumbledore, couldn't protect everyone at all times, it wasn't realistic, and the police in our Muggle world didn't do anything better than them." Eren was right, we'd have to have some of the necessary powers on our own....so I figured if I managed to get some of the undead to guard, I could sneak them home and order them to guard my family. ”
Neville nodded silently, and put his hand in his pocket, which contained a stack of candy wrappers that his mother had given him - Neville's parents were both Aurors and members of the Order of the Phoenix. Shortly after Voldemort's downfall, they were kidnapped by Death Eaters and driven insane by Bellatrix Lestrange with the Mind Curse, and have been housed in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries ever since, while his mother has lost her sanity and does not recognize Neville as her child, but is in a deeper connection that makes her give Neville candy wrappers as gifts when he visits.
Neville had already plastered the candy wrappers his mom had given him all over the room, and now he and his grandmother had gone to visit their parents in the hospital and his grandma had told him to throw them away, and his mom had already plastered them all over the room, but Neville would say yes, and finally quietly put them in his pocket around the corner and took them away.