Hogwarts, the hall at the entrance with torchlight flickering; Footsteps echoed in the hall as the students walked through the marked stone floor to the second door on the right, which led to the main hall and the place where the opening ceremony was held.

In the main hall, four long tables glittered under a starless black ceiling, just as they saw the night sky through the high windows. Candles floated in mid-air along the long tables, illuminating the silvery ghosts that dotted the halls, and the students chatted excitedly, exchanging news about the summer vacation, shouting hello to friends from other houses, and commenting on new hairstyles and robes. Again, Harry noticed that people were leaning their heads together and whispering as he passed; He grinded his teeth and tried his best to show that he neither noticed nor minded.

Luna, who was riding with them, said goodbye to them at the Ravenclaw table, Harry still liked the new friend he met on the train, she didn't worship Guris like the average Ravenclaw girl, and their magazine seemed to agree with him, always claiming that Voldemort was back. When they arrived at the Gryffindor table, Ginny was greeted by her fourth-year classmates cheering and sat down among them, and Harry discovered for the first time that Ginny was also quite popular among the girls; Harry, Ron, and Hermione found their seats in the middle of the table near the headless Nick. Headless Nick was the ghost of Gryffindor, along with Lavender and Parvati, the former stopping his words when he saw Harry coming, and the latter glaring at him with disdain, making Harry sure they had just stopped talking to him.

He had something more important to worry about, though: Harry crossed over the students' heads and carefully searched the teacher's seat against the wall at the other end of the hall. He was looking for Dumbledore, and what Guris said, he felt that Dumbledore should give him an explanation.

The first thing Harry saw was Dumbledore, sitting in the middle of the long table in a high-backed golden chair, wearing a purple robe embellished with silver stars and a matching hat, but if it was Harry's delusion, he seemed to see his hands shrink. Then he noticed that Dumbledore's head was tilted toward a woman sitting next to him, who was talking into his ear. Harry thought she looked like a frog, and she crouched in a chair with short, curly mouse-like chestnut hair and a horrible pink Alice bow on top of her hair to match the pink cardigan she wore over her robe. Then she turned her face slightly and sucked at the goblet in front of her, Harry was shocked by her appearance, a pale, frog-like face, and a pair of prominent, droopy eyes.

"Ahh It's the woman from the Ministry of Magic! Harry suddenly screamed.

"What's wrong?" Ron asked.

"She was at my hearing, and she was working for Fudge!" Harry whispered that he had used magic to get rid of Dementor attacks during the holidays, and was summoned to a hearing by the Ministry of Magic, and was almost sent to Azkaban.

"She works for Fudge!" Hermione frowned and repeated, "So what the hell is she doing here?" "While she doesn't like Harry and them right now, she doesn't have a good impression of the people at the Ministry of Magic.

"I don't know ......"

Hermione glanced at the faculty chair again, her eyes getting smaller.

"No," she muttered to herself, "......probably not."

Harry didn't hear Hermione, as the Sorting Hat was already singing.

"I was new when I was old, Hogwarts had just opened, the founder of the noble school, though it had never been separated:

Coming together for a common goal, they share exactly the same ideals・・・・・・"

The Sorting Hat's song was long, but Harry could still hear it, to the effect that danger was coming and everyone should be together.

Of course, Harry was not the only one who heard this meaning, many students talked about it, and their eyes turned to Harry and Mo Wen, when he graduated last year, Dumbledore also announced the return of Voldemort, but at that time everyone was immersed in the joy of Gurris's victory, no one believed him, only the headmaster favored Harry, but now the headmaster has mentioned the relevant matter again, plus something did happen to the Ministry of Magic during the holidays, some people began to doubt it.

Mo Wen didn't seem to notice this, but talked and laughed with Cho Zhang to himself, he was busy with the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters during the holidays, and he never saw each other, and he really wanted to be a real girlfriend now.

"Ahem, okay," Dumbledore began to speak, "now that we've had another big feast, I want you to focus, we're now doing a general notice of opening, and we've had a change in our teachers this year. I am pleased to introduce Ms. Umbridge, who will be our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. ”

There was a polite but utterly inferential cheer in the hall, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged a mild look at each other, Dumbledore's relationship with the Ministry of Magic wasn't good right now.

Dumbledore continued, "The House Quidditch preliminaries will take place—"

He paused, looking at Professor Umbridge quizzically. The woman was not much taller than she was sitting, and for a moment no one knew why Dumbledore had stopped, but then Professor Umbridge cleared her throat and said, "Yes, yes," and it became clear that she had already stood up to give a speech.

Dumbledore just glanced back, then sat down and looked at Professor Umbridge intently, as if he had seen something interesting. Other teachers couldn't hide their surprise. Professor Snape's eyebrows had been obscured by bangs, and Professor McGonagall's mouth had changed to the thinnest Harry had ever seen. No new teacher had ever interrupted Professor Dundedo before. Many students are giggling; This woman clearly didn't know what to do at Hogwarts.

"Thank you, Headmaster," Professor Umbridge said with a smirk, "for my welcome." ”

Her voice was high-pitched again, rapid and girlish, and Harry couldn't explain a strong sense of disgust; All Harry knew was his disgust with her: from her stupid voice to her fluffy pink cardigan. She coughed again and continued.

"Well, I must say it's nice to be back at Hogwarts! ・・・・・・ I'm eager to get to know each of you and I'm sure we'll be good friends! ・・・・・・ Ministry of Magic has always believed that it is important to educate young wizards and witches. The precious gifts that accompanied your birth would be wiped out if not carefully educated and known・・・・・・ successive Headmasters of Hogwarts brought something new to the task of managing this historic school. That's a matter of course, because without progress it will stagnate and rot. However, the interest in progress for the sake of progress must stop, and our traditions of struggle and testing are often perfect. Then it's a balance between the old and the new, the eternal and the changing, the traditional and the innovative......"

Umbridge's speech was long and uninteresting, and Harry gradually lost interest. The students put their heads together, whispering and laughing. At the Ravenclaw table, Cho was chatting with her friends. A few seats away from Autumn, Luna pulled out her magazine. But then Harry was surprised to find that Guris was listening intently, and then talking to someone behind him.

"That idiot Fudge really got his hands dirty, did he think he could finish Dumbledore at Hogwarts? And he also sent the woman Umbridge, who was of no use except for that mocking face that could pull hatred, and didn't Fudge think that his prestige among the students was not low enough? Mo Wen said to little Snicker, there are many pure-bloods in Ravenclaw, little Snicker is one of the descendants of the family standing behind him, after the start of school, Mo Wen's freedom has also been greatly affected, he needs the help of these little guys.

Shimic nodded, "We didn't expect Fudge to do anything at first, he was going to step down sooner or later, now it's just a matter of letting him use some spare heat to find trouble with Dumbledore, after all, he prepared a year in advance, and he has a lot of advantages over Voldemort." ”

Mo Wen looked at Dumbledore's hand in his sleeve and muttered, "Soon it won't, but Umbridge is a good move, and now she has more influence on Dumbledore, and when the news of Voldemort comes out, what she does will make Dumbledore's prestige rise and make the students more united, which is very similar to our goal." ”

"Your Highness," Shimik said hesitantly, "you are currently in the school with limited mobility, our plan-"

"It's good to keep it as it is, neither Dumbledore nor Voldemort fully trust me, Dumbledore still has Snape's mad dog, he is now listening to the information of the two of us, I can't do some things that are too out of line, and Voldemort has never trusted anyone, although I know that he is planning to seize the prophecy orb, but he has not revealed the specific content at all."

Mo Wen concluded: "So it's good to keep the status quo now, it's not that they didn't notice our existence, they just didn't pay attention to us, and we shouldn't take the initiative to jump out." ”

Shimic nodded and glanced at Guris in admiration, he was also a student, he was a year older than Guris, but the other party did things that he would never have been able to do, and even played Voldemort and Dumbledore in applause at the same time.

"・・・・・・・ improve what needs to be perfected, and revise what we find in practice to be prohibited." Finally, Umbridge ended his speech. She sat down. Dumbledore began to applaud. The whole faculty clapped along with Dumbledore, but Harry saw a few of the teachers stop after only a symbolic slap or two. A few students applauded, but most of them didn't notice the end of the speech and didn't even listen to a few words. By the time they were about to start applauding, Dumbledore had already stood up again.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbrij, for your enlightening speech," Dumbledore said, bending over. "Now listen to me, the Quidditch preliminaries will take place......"