Seeing Dumbledore walking in from outside the door, Umbridge who was sitting in the teacher's seat suddenly felt his eyes light up, and the whole person became excited, and hurriedly stood up to meet him.

"Headmaster Dumbledore! I need to remind you that according to Hogwarts rules, the Headmaster should be present before the sorting ceremony......" Umbridge cleared her throat and said in a strange tone.

However, Dumbledore didn't seem to see her, he didn't mean to stop at all, and walked straight to the side, and the faint oppressive force directly blocked Umbridge's subsequent words.

Umbridge just stood there with her mouth open, her face blue and purple.

At this time, Dumbledore had already walked to the stage, looked at the little wizards in the audience, and said with a smile. "I'm a little late, but I'm still going to say it...... Welcome! Welcome to Hogwarts! ”

After the words fell, the auditorium erupted in extraordinarily warm applause.

Dumbledore had not been seen at the opening ceremony before, and the senior students were a little apprehensive, but now they were finally relieved.

Waiting until the applause was a little weaker before Dumbledore continued. "Maybe you've been hungry after a long journey, but I need to say a few words before I get to a good lunch!"

"This year, we have made two changes to our teaching staff. First of all, I'm glad that Professor Grapeland is back in charge, and she'll be teaching you a lesson on the protection of magical beasts. ”

As he spoke, Dumbledore turned his gaze to the teacher's seat, and the Graplanite stood up, smiling and signaling to the crowd, and the audience burst into applause again.

Harry tried to ask about Hagrid's whereabouts, but Hermione stopped him.

Dumbledore then looked at Umbridge, who was still standing in the aisle of the long table. "Plus, there's a new face this year, and Defence Against the Dark Arts class will be taught by Umbridge......"

"Ahem...... Umbridge interrupted Dumbledore's words with a slight twist on his face, and said with a smirk. Thank you, Principal, but I'd rather introduce myself in person! ”

Dumbledore was silent, seemingly acquiescing to Umbridge's words.

Umbridge also regained some confidence, no longer kept a calm face, barely showed that trademark sweet smile, and said to everyone in a wry.

"I must say, it's great to be back at Hogwarts! When I saw you, I was reminded of my days at Hogwarts. ”

"I stood here more than forty years ago, and it was with excitement and joy that I put on my Sorting Hat and became a Hogwarts student......"

Umbridge reminisces about his youth and tries to get closer to the young wizards, but unfortunately with little success.

No one wants to know how she succeeded in becoming a superior more than 40 years ago by studying hard and making small reports, and she has little interest in the old rules and regulations.

The crowd listened drowsily, and Harry clutched his hungry stomach, wondering when he would be able to have dinner, and then lay down in bed and get a good night's sleep.

"Can't you wait until you're done eating?" Ron sighed and muttered to himself, obviously in the past, the banquet was held first and then spoken, and he didn't know why this school year was a little different.

“…… Let's move forward into a new era of enlightenment, efficiency, and reasonableness, and resolutely maintain what should be maintained, what needs to be perfected, and what we should forbidden......" Umbridge spoke for more than forty minutes.

The first half reminisces about the honors she achieved as a student, and the second half emphasizes that Hogwarts will make certain changes under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic in the future, and improve the existing school rules.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbridge, for your very enlightening remarks." Dumbledore waited for Umbridge to finish before he stepped back onto the stage and spoke.

"For now, everyone can enjoy today's dinner."

Dumbledore raised his left hand and waved his wand, and chunks of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam, and pots of pumpkin juice appeared on the long tables of the four houses.

The little wizards, who had been hungry all night, were in good spirits and picked up their knives and forks to eat.

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

Harry and Ron ate as they talked about the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

They'd seen Umbridge a few times before, so they didn't have much hope for this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and they only hoped that Umbridge wouldn't be worse than Lockhart did.

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think...... Did you understand what Umbridge said? Don't forget, she was an investigator for the Ministry of Magic......" Hermione put down her knife and fork for a moment, looked at the two of them, and said very seriously.

"Did she just say something? That sounds like, I'm almost asleep......" Ron yawned and took a long sip of iced lemon juice to put his sleepiness down.

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

Hermione sighed and explained. "Umbridge is standing here, which means that the Ministry of Magic wants to interfere with Hogwarts and weaken Professor Dumbledore's influence in the school! You should have read the first two months of the Daily Prophet, and that is an omen. ”

Hearing Hermione mention those reports, Harry and Ron were very angry.

In the past two months, the Daily Prophet has been the ultimate smear against Dumbledore, and while denying Voldemort's resurrection on a daily basis, it has spent more than a dozen pages trying to prove that Dumbledore is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

In one of the articles, it was mentioned that Dumbledore would habitually say crazy things at the opening ceremony, such as the famous "Stupid! Cry! Residue! Wring! ”。

In addition, Dumbledore also abused his power to add points indiscriminately and favored students.

He had added more than 500 points to Gryffindor House in just over ten minutes, but turned a blind eye to some special student violations, causing Slytherin, who should have won the House Cup, to miss out on him, and seriously discouraged the rest of the houses.

According to people familiar with the matter, Dumbledore also believed in Harry Potter's dreams, and believed that the mysterious people who once endangered the wizarding world were lurking in the shadows, ready to fight him.