In the days that followed, word spread throughout the school that Hagrid was being investigated.

To Harry's indignation, few people expressed unease about it, and in fact, some, especially Malfoy, seemed extremely happy about it.

As for the Ministry of Magic staff who died at St. Mongo's Hospital, Harry, Ron, Verlin, and Hermione seemed to be the only ones who knew and cared.

Now there is only one topic in the hallway: ten escaped Death Eaters, whose stories have been spread throughout the school by those who have read the newspapers. Rumor has it that some of them have settled in Hogsmeade Village, hiding in the Screaming Shack and preparing to attack Hogwarts, just as Sirius Black once did.

I have to admit that the Ministry of Magic once again smeared Sirius, escaped from prison, deceived the Wizengamot, made people guilty, and helped the Death Eaters escape from prison......

It literally made Harry blow up his lungs.

Those students from magical families were as scared as they were when they heard the names of these Death Eaters. The crimes committed by those men during Voldemort's Reign of Terror are cited as legends.

Some of the students at Hogwarts had a relationship with the victims, and now they are pointed at when they walk down the hallway: Susan. Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousin had all died at the hands of one of the Death Eaters, told Harry tragically while teaching biology to Sputlaw, saying that now she knew how Harry felt: "I don't know how you can take it—it's horrible!"

She said frankly, adding so much dragon dung to her saplings that she writhed with them and squeaked uncomfortably.

Indeed, Harry had been the target of muttering and pointing in the hallways again these days, but he noticed that the voices seemed slightly different than before.

It sounded curious rather than hostile, and on one or two occasions he even overheard some conversations, expressing dissatisfaction with the Daily Prophet's vague remarks about how and why the Ten Death Eaters had escaped.

In their confusion and fear, these doubts seem to be illustrated by another class of explanation: the one that Harry and Dumbledore have been holding on to for the past year.

It's not just the attitudes of the students that have changed. Two or three teachers also began to talk in a whispered and nervous manner in the hallway, and quickly stopped talking when they saw the students approaching.

"They obviously can't talk freely in the teacher's room," Hermione whispered one day when Harry, Ron, Verlin, and Hermione saw Professor McGonagall, and Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout gathered outside the spells classroom. "Umbridge is there. ”

"Maybe they know something new?" Ron said, turning his head to look at the three teachers.

"Even if there were, we wouldn't know, would we?" said Harry angrily.

"Relax, brother, even I don't know the situation, I didn't lie to you, Umbridge is much stronger than I thought. Fan Lin said helplessly.

Since Azkaban's escape, the Aurors have almost surrounded Hogwarts, which has made it really difficult to get the word out.

"What time is it after Decree So-and-So?" Harry said, referring to the notice that appeared on the school bulletin board the day after Azkaban's escape: "The order of the High Hogwarts Investigator is that teachers are forbidden to provide students with any information that is not related to the content of the teaching, and the above is Education Decree 26"

This latest law is a joke among students. Lee Jordan pointed out to Umbridge. According to the new ordinance, she can't prevent Fred and George from playing with explosive fireworks in the back of the classroom.

"Explosive pyrotechnics have nothing to do with Defence Against the Dark Arts, Professor! it has nothing to do with what you're teaching!" When Harry saw Lee again, he was bleeding heavily from the back of his hand.

Harry recommended him the Yellow Essence and an alternative tool made by Van Lin, a layer of simulated skins......

Harry thought that Azkaban's escape might give Umbridge a little restrain herself, and that she might be upset by the disaster that had taken place under the nose of her beloved Fudge.

However, the only consequence seems to be that she is more fanatical in her efforts to keep all aspects of life at Hogwarts under her control. She seems to have decided that there will be a dismissal soon, the only question being who will go first, Professor Trawney or Hagrid.

Now every prophecy lesson and magical beast protection lesson has been controlled by Umbridge and her notebook. She lurked by the fire in the misty tower room, interrupting Professor Trawney's increasingly excited conversation with questions about the most difficult astronography, insisting that she knew what the students were answering before they could answer them, and asking her to show off her talents with crystal balls, tea leaves, and ancient aragonite.

Harry thought Professor Trawney was about to collapse under pressure. A few times he saw her in the hallway—unusual for she was always in her room in the tower—talking to herself rudely, her hands and looking to the side in fright, with the smell of Sydney.

If Harry didn't have to worry about Hagrid, he would have been sorry for her - if one of them was going to lose their job, there was only one choice for Harry to stay.

Unfortunately, Harry found that Hagrid was not much better off than Trawney. Although he seems to have taken Hermione's advice and stopped showing them animals that were more intimidating than the snails, his courage seemed to have run out since Christmas.

During class, Hagrid seemed distraught, even a little nervous, lost his thoughts in class, answered all the questions incorrectly, and always looked at Umbridge with anxiety. He was also estranged from Harry, and forbade them to visit him after dark.

"If she catches you, we're all done. Hagrid said weakly, not wanting to do anything that would jeopardize his work, including the fact that they ran to his cabin at night.

For Harry, Umbridge was robbing him of everything he had in his good life at Hogwarts: going to Hagrid's hut, collecting letters from Sirius, his firebolts, and Quidditch. The only action he could take as revenge was with Van Lin - the members.

Harry was happy to see everyone, even Zacharias. Smith, after hearing the news of the Death Eater's escape, trained harder, but no one improved as much as Neville. The news of the escape of the murderer who attacked his parents causes a strange, even somewhat alarming, change in him.

He never spoke to them of the meeting at the San Mongo hospital, and they were as silent as he was. Nor did he mention the prison break of Bellatrix and her accomplices.

In fact, he rarely spoke at the meeting, but he practiced the defensive techniques that Van Lin had taught more desperately.

His chubby face was distorted from his preoccupation, and he worked harder than anyone else in the room. He had progressed so fast that when Harry taught a protective spell—a spell that bounced some small magic back into the user, only Hermione could master it faster than Neville.

In fact, Van Lin felt that Harry should go all out to learn Occlumency, as Neville had shown in meeting D, so not only in private lessons, but also in training, Van Lin also trained Harry.

However, the meeting between Harry and Snape was still very bad and fruitless. On the contrary, Harry felt that he was regressing with each of his studies.

Before Harry studied Occlumency, his scars only hurt occasionally, usually at night, or in his mind flashing back to images of Voldemort and reminiscing about past experiences.