"Hermione, you...... You okay? ”

As a friend, Harry felt the need to take care of Hermione, who was clearly not in a normal state right now.

"It's fine." Hermione shook her head, the hollowness in her eyes vanished, and she regained a bit of agility, and Harry couldn't help but secretly sigh a sigh of relief when she saw this. Just as she was about to say something more, Hermione slapped the newspaper on the table, pointed to the corner of the fourth page, and said, "I think we should focus on this......"

"What? I haven't seen it yet......" Harry leaned over and read word for word, "the Ministry of Magic staff died...... Is Broderick Bode dead? ”

"Bode? Who's that? Ron asked.

"We've seen him, at St. Mungo, remember?" Hermione whispered, "Neville's parents are in the hospital room, he's been lying and looking at the ceiling. We also saw the potted plant on his bedside table, and thought it was a crab claw orchid, after all, no one would have thought it would be a devil's net......"

"Devil's Net...... Damn, we should be able to recognize it, we've seen it before...... He didn't have to die. Ron said with some annoyance.

"There's no doubt about it, it's a murder, a very clever murder modus operandi." Hermione said.

Harry listened to the conversation between the two of them, but remembered the day he had gone to the Ministry of Magic for trial, and had seen this man when he had descended the elevator to the ninth floor.

"I've seen Bodø, with your dad at the Ministry of Magic, the day I was tried......" Harry said slowly, hearing that Ron thought about it, and immediately exclaimed, "I remember!" I heard my dad mention him at home! ”

"He's a silent man, working in the Department of Mysteries!"

"Department of Mysteries, where is that?" Harry asked.

Hermione rolled her eyes when she heard this, stood up the newspaper to block a few people, and whispered: "The Department of Mysteries is the most mysterious place in the Ministry of Magic, and the people who work there are the Silence People, and the things they study are top secret!" ”

"Remember where Mr. Weasley was attacked?"

"I remember...... It's the Department of Mysteries! Harry suddenly remembered what they had overheard in St. Mungo.

"Yes, obviously, this should be...... The mystery man they did, there was what he wanted...... But what exactly does he want? As she spoke, Hermione suddenly fell into deep thought, her hand unconsciously stroking the pendant on her chest, and she didn't know what she was muttering.

Seeing this, Harry and Ron looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and returned their attention to the food in front of them. They're used to it, and this is how Hermione looks when she thinks about things this semester, and it'll be good if she waits for a while.

Before he could take a few bites, Hagrid walked in through the door, spoke a few words to Dumbledore in the professorship, and left. Seeing this, Harry and Ron hurried over and stopped Hagrid. When I walked in, I realized that the wound on Hagrid's face had not been cleaned last time, and several new wounds had been added.

"Hello." Hagrid wanted to smile, but the wound on his face tugged at him.

"Are you alright?" Harry stepped aside and made a way for a few Hufflepuff students, his face full of concern.

"It's okay, it's good." Hagrid's face looked unnatural, "It's just busy, you know...... Preparing for classes, attending classes, and being retained for inspection......"

"Keep it on probation!"

"yes." Hagrid sighed and said, "That's to be expected, the results of the last investigation weren't very good...... Forget it, I've got something to do, goodbye, Harry, Ron......"

Looking at Hagrid's back as he left, Harry felt that there must be a lot of unsaid things he hadn't said, and it didn't seem like good news.

For the next few days, everyone talked about Ike attacking Azkaban and rescuing a dozen Death Eaters, and all sorts of unreliable speculations came out. It is also said that Ike wants to become the new Dark Lord, which is why he rescued those Death Eaters, and some say that he has seen those people in Hogsmeade, and there is even speculation that they are hiding in the screaming shack, just like Sirius did in the beginning.

The rumors flew up, and people were panicked for a while, especially those who grew up in wizard families. Their older generations and even the last two generations have experienced that dark time, and some have relatives who died at the hands of those who escaped from prison. This kind of news could not be concealed at all, and within a few days everyone knew who had this experience.

Undoubtedly, this made them very painful.

Equally painful are the eaglets, especially Stuart and others, who are in the same grade as Ike, who are completely in the spotlight, and wherever they go, a large group of people will sneak up on them and say something inconsequential. Some say that they are Ike in Hogwarts eyeliner, and some say that they are just lackeys, in short, it is not a good word, but it is very ugly.

In the face of this kind of gaze and discussion, Stewart couldn't help it several times, but he was stopped by Terry and them.

"When I see him again, I'm going to beat him up!"

"Count me in then, even if we might add up, we won't be able to beat him......"

At the thought of this, Stewart's mood could not help but become depressed, and when they looked at them in strange eyes, they could not help but feel some pity in their hearts: these people had no idea what a terrible thing it would be to be as the newspapers said......

Gradually, I don't know when it began, the content of people's discussions changed. Someone collected the Daily Prophet for more than half a year, studied it carefully, and believed that the Ministry of Magic had been lying, and this argument was quickly endorsed by many people and spread throughout the school.

So, why is the Ministry of Magic lying? People quickly reacted, as if what Harry and Dumbledore had been talking about since last year was true—Voldemort was back!

As a result, panic came, and people's hearts became even more panicked. But Stewart's situation is much better, and basically no one looks at them strangely anymore.

Just when everyone thought that life would not get worse, they realized that they were thinking too simply. After abolishing a large number of clubs, associations, societies, visiting professors, and Defence Against the Dark Arts only reading books, Umbridge deprived them of the right to talk freely. Although Education Order No. 26 only prohibits professors from telling students information that is not related to the course they teach, in practice, even talking among students is prohibited.

In just a few days, Umbridge indiscriminately arrested several students who were whispering in the hallway, even if they were only arguing about the non-nutritious question of whether the lamb was better or the beef was better, and they were all locked up. A few days later, there were a few more unlucky ones with bloody arms.

Harry, they had escaped, and Umbridge didn't seem to be paying attention to him lately. Her frequent appearances in the Magical Beasts Protection Class and the Divination Class seem to be weighing which one to fire in order to assert her authority.

"A brilliant young wizard went astray because of a bad education, so much so that this extremely bad incident was caused......" Fudge said in the interview, which undoubtedly emboldened Umbridge and made her even more crazy.