400. Campus life without Field

It's been a new school year at Hogwarts, and there's a lot of change in the castle, first of all, the Sorting Hat has made up a new song, well, it doesn't count. There were a lot fewer students who reported at the beginning of the school year, except for the Diggory brothers and many Slytherin students, most of whose parents were identified as Death Eaters, including Malfoy.

Then, instead of showing up at the opening dinner, Professor Grapeland sat in his place, and they later learned from Mr. Weasley that Hagrid had been assigned by Dumbledore to help out in the Ministry of Magic.

The new Minister of Magic, Mr. Diggory, was instrumental in bringing about a decree to woo other magical races, and Hagrid, because of his giant blood, accepted to cooperate with representatives of the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control to find the giant tribe and then woo them.

Again, naturally the choice of this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Dumbledore invited Sirius Black to take this position, Harry and his party already knew about it when they were on vacation, and everyone was excited and couldn't sleep.

Finally, this year, there are two more positions in the Hogwarts teaching staff, one is the Ministry of Magic's Special Security Advisor, Lady Dolores Umbridge, and the other is a short, fat old woman who also likes to wear pink frilled skirts. According to the Weasley twins, this is an official assigned by the new minister, and it is said that Umbridge is the most powerful supporter of the former minister Fudge, and is the deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic, but after the new minister came to power, she lost power and was demoted to Hogwarts as a nominal security consultant, and her daily job is to walk around to see if there are any loopholes in the castle's defensive spells.

The other position was a special liaison for the Ministry of Magic, which was held by Ron's brother, Percy Weasley, much to everyone's surprise. However, after listening to Sirius, everyone learned that Percy was actually acting as a liaison between the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix.

Although the new minister, Mr. Diggory and Dumbledore, had a big disagreement in dealing with Voldemort, after a deep discussion between the two, they reached a series of agreements, and both sides felt that they could deal with the possible terrorist attacks after Voldemort, and Percy was the liaison that both sides could trust.

Well, in Harry's opinion, this year's Hogwarts study life should be a little calmer than usual.

In fact, although they heard daily reports of Death Eaters attacking Muggles and half-blood wizards on the news on Magic TV, as well as news of casualties in the War between the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters, there was still a quiet life in Hogwarts Castle.

The classes in the new school year are much more intense than before, and when the .ls exams are taken, the professors will leave a lot of homework after each class, which makes the students very distressed.

Of course, there are also things that everyone is happy about, for example, Defence Against the Dark Arts class is one of them, the new professor Sirius Black is handsome and chic, funny and humorous, and is also a recognized hero in the wizarding world in the first two years, and is deeply loved by female students, it is said that Sirius has been ranked second in the selection of the most handsome Defence Against the Dark Arts professors in the school (the first is Professor Lockhart).

Of course, not everyone at Hogwarts liked Sirius Black, for example, the Slytherin students and their headmaster, Professor Snape, who resisted him the most. The feud between Blake and Snape can be traced back to their school days, and now that they meet again at Hogwarts, natural conflict is inevitable.

As a result, there were many more conflicts between the Gryffindor and Slytherin students, and in the end, Professor Black simply announced the re-establishment of the Duel Club, and changed most of the Defence Against the Dark Arts classes to practical classes, each student needed to master a large number of dueling skills, and included them in the exam items. If there is a conflict between the students, he allows the two sides to resolve it in a duel in the presence of the professor.

This decision was widely supported by the students, and none of Professor Snape nor the Slytherin students objected, and the atmosphere of actual combat in Hogwarts grew stronger.

Because the duel requires the presence of the professor, the safety is basically guaranteed, and the current situation in the outside world is chaotic, so Dumbledore and the heads of the various colleges are also supportive. Of course, there are those who oppose it, such as Madam Pomfrey, who has been complaining that the school infirmary has no time to spare. Then there was the security advisor, Lady Dolores Umbridge, who had a big fight with Dumbledore in the Headmaster's office in a high-pitched voice, saying that it was her job as a security advisor to keep every student at Hogwarts safe, and that the dueling club should be stopped immediately, and that Defense Against the Dark Arts classes were only theoretical, and that the students did not need wands. She even recommended herself to be the teacher of the Defence Against the Dark Arts class and told Blake to get out.

According to Sirius Black, Dumbledore was so amused by her that day, and in the end, Umbridge, who became more and more angry, went directly to the London Ministry of Magic to report the 'chaos' situation at Hogwarts to Minister Diggory. But the next day he came back in disgrace, and he didn't say a word since.

"Dad wrote to me that Umbridge rushed into the Ministry of Magic high-level meeting room that day, interrupted Minister Diggory's speech, and made Mr. Minister so angry that he slapped the table in front of the directors of the departments. And then he said to her, 'Do you know what your current position is?' Security Consultant, do you know what a consultant is? Consultant, Consultant, just ask if you can take care of it, and shut up and don't ask if you can't.' ”

Ron spoke vividly about the contents of Mr. Weasley's letter as if he were there, making Harry and the others laugh.

After that, Umbridge stopped for a long time, but in the end, Dumbledore became a good old man and asked her to cooperate with Blake to train the students in Defence Against the Dark Arts, because the situation in the outside world was already very uneasy at this time, and the Ministry of Magic's order to win over the magical race was not fully implemented. Hagrid and Madame Maxime failed to win over the giants, both were injured and rescued, and the giants completely fell to Voldemort.

In addition, the practice of distributing wolf poison potions to the werewolves had little effect, and Voldemort's loyal subordinate, Fenrir Greyback, was the leader of the werewolves, and he summoned most of the werewolves to Voldemort's command.

Thankfully, Azkaban's Dementors were still under the control of the Ministry, and when Voldemort led the Death Eaters to attack Azkaban, they not only did not let go of the imprisoned Death Eaters, but even gave the Death Eaters who tried to escape a kiss, and insisted on reaching the Ministry of Magic's reinforcements. There were losses on both sides in this battle, but relatively speaking, the Death Eaters were a little involved, and the imprisoned Death Eaters did not rescue a few, and many died to save people. In this battle, the Ministry of Magic's Einsatzgruppen made its debut for the first time, and the effect was shocking, compared to the wizards who were used to fighting alone, the advance and retreat were orderly, and the tacit understanding of the Einsatzgruppen to deal with the rabble of the Death Eaters was naturally an overwhelming advantage.

The outside world has disturbed, but it has not disturbed the campus life of the little wizards in Hogwarts, and after being taught a lesson, Umbridge can only cooperate with Dumbledore's arrangement to teach the young wizards Defence Against the Dark Arts, but I have to say that she can be the deputy minister of magic, Umbridge's strength is still there, in addition to being good at breaking curses, she is also very proficient in the Patronus Charm, in the first class, she summoned a big flower cat with all vanilla white and everyone was impressed by her.