According to the latest statement that Ludo reported just yesterday, Fudge is on the verge of stepping down, and many decrees will be rejected.

Even now, the pure-blood families who secretly follow Voldemort are still supporting Fudge and trying to help him stabilize the current situation.

But the edifice will collapse unstoppably, and Fudge will be completely removed from the Ministry of Magic in half a year at most, and may even disappear physically.

After all, the madness of this period of time has made him offend a lot of neutral purebloods, and these people are not good stubble.

Unless Fudge is willing to give up his rights now, he may be able to get a position as an advisor with no real power in the Ministry of Magic, and save a dog's life to live out his old age.

However, Fudge must not be willing to accept this miserable reality, he is greedy for power, so he is against Dumbledore.

Now let him give up his rights...... Then you might as well kill him.

The presence of the pink toad in Hogwarts was the last struggle Fudge could make in his current few spheres of power.

Based on the information provided by Ludo, Rita, and Dobby, Fudge probably maintained his original goal and wanted to directly attack Dumbledore's reputation.

Since it doesn't work to fabricate black material in newspapers, then artificially induce Dumbledore to create black material and make Professor Dumbledore stigmatize himself.

Fudge first learned from Lucius Sr. and Draco Jr. that the Hogwarts professors did not follow the syllabus set by the Wizarding Examinations Authority in their classes.

For the Transfiguration and Herbology courses, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout will probably also refer to the progress required by the syllabus.

In courses like Potions and Divination, professors have always thrown the syllabus aside and progressed as he pleased.

As for the Defence Against the Dark Arts course...... There was no syllabus at all, and even the Wizarding Examination Authority had almost given up on the subject.

After all, if you change a professor every year, no matter how good the syllabus is, it's useless.

And Fudge found clues and opportunities in this phenomenon.

He wants to ask the Wizarding Examination Authority to revise the syllabus so that the exam lessons on the syllabus are no longer offensive and practical, but rather more theoretical.

In Fudge's vision, the Hogwarts professors probably wouldn't pay so much attention to the syllabus, or would still not follow the syllabus and continue to teach the class the way it was supposed to.

This would allow him to manipulate himself politically and find a way to distort the facts into Dumbledore's attempt to create an army of all teenage wizards and overthrow the Ministry of Magic, thereby completely stigmatizing it.

It sounded outrageous, but given Fudge's low IQ, he felt it was really worth a try.

But the members of the Wizarding Examination Authority naturally rejected his unreasonable demands.

Among them, Geselda Marchiban and Tilubeth Ogden, who are also senior members of the Wizengamot, became more and more indignant because of Fudge's attitude and behavior, and hastened the passage of the impeachment proposal for Fudge.

After this method failed, and added fuel to the fire of his own downfall, Fudge had no choice but to settle for the next best thing.

Umbridge was promoted to Senior Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Magic and Senior Investigator at Hogwarts.

Umbridge's raison d'être is also simple, after all, Professor Dumbledore himself admits that among the last Defence Against the Dark Arts professors, Quirrell is the Dark Wizard who wants to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Lockhart is the Dark Wizard who wants to inherit the Slytherin legacy, and Lupin is a werewolf.

This is a complete proof that Dumbledore had problems in choosing professors, and the Ministry of Magic is obligated to re-vet professors to ensure that Hogwarts professors are on the line.

That being said, but looking at Umbridge's groveling face to Professor Dumbledore, Harley couldn't believe she was Fudge's lackey.

Harley became intrigued to find out what was going on.

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Harley was still quietly arranging tasks for Rita and Ludo when the doors to the auditorium opened.

The first-year students were led into the auditorium by Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall still held the familiar shabby stool in her hand, the old Sorting Hat still unwashed and dusty.

The sound of communication in the auditorium gradually faded as the first-year students lined up at the faculty's desk, facing their classmates from other grades.

All the teachers and students held their breath and waited quietly, and then the crack next to the brim of the hat opened like a mouth and began to sing loudly.

This year, the Sorting Hat's singing is as old-fashioned as ever, but the lyrics have changed dramatically.

In the past, it was all about depicting the differences between the four schools, frantically praising Gryffindors, occasionally complimenting Ravenclaw and Hufflepuffs, and disparaging Slytherins with a hint of provocation.

It's understandable, who let the former owner of the Sorting Hat be Gryffindor.

The sinister and cunning Slytherin is already its annual repertoire, and even the Slytherins are used to it.

Anyway, it's a spiritual comfort, after all, only the most powerful villain will be targeted by everyone.

But this year, the Sorting Hat has gone against its own personality for the first time, and it has actually begun to praise Slytherin!

Something is wrong, something is really wrong! Even the little wizards could see that something was wrong!

However, by the end of the song, everyone understands why the Sorting Hat praised Slytherin.

It turned out that it was meant to be a warning to everyone in the following songs, asking everyone to unite.

It can only be said that the Sorting Hat is for the safety of Hogwarts...... Put yourself to the best of your fun!

It's just too much sacrifice!

After the singing and sorting were over, Professor Dumbledore raised his hand and summoned a large number of delicacies that had long since been in the kitchen.

During the dinner, Hermione also asks Nick if the Sorting Hat has ever warned like this in Hogwarts' history.

"Of course I did." Nick struggled to recall,

"Whenever the Sorting Hat thinks Hogwarts is in great danger, it warns."

"And the content of the warning is always the same, and I hope that everyone will unite and maintain internal stability."

"When was the first time it gave a warning?" Hermione asked.

"Let me think about it......" Nick spun in circles in the air, weighing his head,

"I remember during the last wizarding war in British magic, the Sorting Hat would give a warning at the beginning of each school year."

"Further on...... Even further back is the reign of Principal Phineas Black. ”

"At that time, the Sorting Hat gave a very harsh warning, but no one remembers why it was exactly, and there is no record in the school history."

"Anyway, Principal Phineas is highly skilled in magic and calmed down the crisis at that time."

Hermione nodded thoughtfully, and Harley suddenly remembered something,

"Sir Nicholas, did the Sorting Hat warn the Dark Wizard Grindelwald during his voyage across Europe?"

"Not really," Nick scratched the hair on his head that didn't exist.

"But this is normal, after all, Grindelwald has been on the European continent and has not entered the wizarding world of Great Britain."

"So the wizards of the wizarding world of Great Britain have no fear of Grindelwald's generation of Dark Lords, at most they are just a little curious."

"At that time, people didn't know why Grindelwald didn't dare to set foot in the UK."

"And someone came to ask Professor Dumbledore to make a move, and Professor Dumbledore also successfully defeated Grindelwald before everyone reacted, Grindelwald was afraid of Professor Dumbledore."

After getting the information she wanted, Harley nodded in satisfaction.

Oh, Grindelwald is really afraid of Professor Dumbledore.

Thinking about what he saw and heard during the holidays, it seems that the relationship between the two is indeed worth scrutinizing.

And I really didn't guess wrong, sure enough, the witch's vision is still very accurate!

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…… (End of chapter)