Chapter Thirty-Eight: I Support All Your Decisions, and I Want You to Take Your Talent Elsewhere (Thank You, Alliance Leader!). )
The new semester will be much busier than Harley had imagined, as she is in the fifth year this year and will be taking her first exam in the wizarding world.
In both the Ordinary Wizard Rank Exam and the Ultimate Wizard Rank Exam, the amount of lessons taken by both 5th and 7th graders is greatly increased.
Seventh-year wizards are a little better, after all, most professors will only accept them in sixth grade. Students with grades of E and O enter their own improvement classes, like Professor Snape, who even only accepts students with grades of O.
Only professors like Professor Trelawney and Hagrid, who do not have a good overall reputation, will be forced to accept students with A's grades into their improvement classes to avoid the embarrassing situation of not being able to recruit people.
And Hogwarts under the leadership of Professor Dumbledore has always implemented happy education, and the results of the vast majority of students who have not studied much for five years naturally can't bear to look at it directly.
The vast majority of students can only get five or six certificates, and a third of them only barely pass and get A's.
Students like the Weasley twins who can get good or even excellent grades in three subjects, if they are not compared with their more perverted brothers, they can be regarded as absolutely good children in other wizarding families.
In this case, most of the sixth graders will only choose three or four courses, and some members of pure-blood families will even only take one or two courses, and they will complete the task with a diploma.
After all, if they can't find a job, they will have to go back to inherit the property of Diagon Alley and Tumbledown Alley.
So even if the number of courses increases dramatically, this pressure is acceptable for 7th graders.
But for fifth-graders who have been in a mess for a long time, a significant increase in the number of courses when they have to take at least nine courses is simply killing many people.
The fifth-graders, who usually stayed in the common room to play wizard chess or pile up crackling cards, are now soaking in droves in the library.
Harley didn't think it had anything to do with her, after all, she wasn't afraid of exams. Besides, even if there is no exam, does the Witch of Disaster still need to find a job?
She thought that all she needed was to attend classes, participate in Quidditch training, and occasionally manage new students as a prefect, but she didn't expect that her actual life was unusually fulfilling.
Although the professors knew about Hallie's magic skills, and everyone except Professor Snape had exempted Harley from her homework, Harley had to at least go to class.
In addition, Hermione insisted on pulling Harley to soak in the library even though she had already learned most of the school knowledge, so Hallie's free time was not as much as she imagined.
With a rare weekend break, the Gryffindor Quidditch squad has started the selection of new players.
Gryffindor's former Quidditch captain and goalkeeper Wood has graduated, and now the team needs a new goalkeeper.
However, Hallie is not optimistic about the selection, after all, a closer look at Gryffindor does not seem to be too good Quidditch seedlings.
As she expected, the tryouts that took place on the weekend of the second week were nothing short of miserable.
Angelina first spent a lot of effort to persuade the first-year lion cub and the students of the other houses to start the selection smoothly.
And the selection process is not about fighting each other's skills, to see who can keep more balls, but who plays less badly.
The selection rules are that the Gryffindor Quidditch team sends a chaser to throw fifteen balls at a fixed point, and the candidate is to block the ball as much as possible.
In Hallie's opinion, this kind of demand couldn't be lower, after all, there is no pursuit of hand shooting on the playing field.
But it turned out that Angelina was right to do so, as the vast majority of students missed more than half of their pitches.
When trying out some of the second- and third-year witches, Harley was able to miss even the simplest straight ball by the goalkeeper, who screamed in surprise and applauded Harley desperately.
This made Hallie feel very helpless, she was here to assist Angelina's new players, not to hold a fan meeting!
Later, some of the little wizards even flew over on broomsticks and staggered over after participating in the auditions, and asked Harley if he could be selected.
Embarrassed, Harley had to smile and say that the young wizards were doing well, very talented Quidditch players, and even future Quidditch stars, and she supported all their decisions.
At the same time, Hallie tactfully suggested that they learn from the moves of certain professional Quidditch players and bring their talents to Miami...... Ah no, it's the Quidditch team from other houses.
In the end, the Gryffindor Quidditch team could only choose the tallest man among the shorties, and chose one Ron. At least he made thirteen of Angelina's fifteen spot-set throws.
Although the process is extremely ugly, some balls are still caught with their faces, but you just say whether you catch them or not!
In fact, Gryffindor has another McLagan with better skills, but this McLagan has some problems with his brain, and before the audition, he made a bet with someone to eat a full pound of fox eggs, and then was admitted to the school hospital.
With this kind of brain, Angelina was afraid that he would also have brain cramps before the important game and put himself in the school hospital, so she didn't think about it and directly finalized Ron.
The Weasley twins were naturally very embarrassed by their brother's poor performance. The two patted their chests and promised that they would train Ron to become a true Quidditch master.
Seeing this situation, Angelina was somewhat comforted.
What if the Weasley twins' special training takes effect and they draw a gold card?
Even if it can't be trained, at least Gryffindor can be considered a high offense and low defense, and can exchange points with the opposite side.
Coupled with the fact that other houses have also graduated a number of veteran players, with the captains of Ravenclaw and Slytherin both graduating, the Gryffindor squad looks much better.
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After two weeks in the school hospital, Umbridge finally got out of there.
In fact, she had already recovered, and although the targeted potion provided by Madam Pomfrey was bitter, it had a quick effect, and it only took less than ten seconds to cure this particular curse.
However, Umbridge felt that her performance was too humiliating, for fear that the students would remember her disgraceful appearance.
In order to save his own little dignity, Umbridge lay cheekily in the small hospital for a week, until Madam Pomfrey got impatient and left the place.
When she returned to work, she immediately changed her strategy.
The Hogwarts teacher is not easy to provoke at first glance, after all, the former Potions professors are so good at fighting, and the professors of the Charms and Transfiguration courses must be even more capable of fighting.
And the current Potions Professor Slughorn is his original dean, and more importantly, he has many students and acquaintances in the Ministry of Magic, so he must not be provoked.
Professor Sprout of Herbology was indisputable at first glance, and the little badgers at Hogwarts had always been harmless to humans and animals, so they were ignored by Umbridge early on.
So Umbridge chose to focus on the elective professors, and it just so happened that the tasks from both the old and the new masters could be tried together.
Since the third week, Umbridge has been frequently seen in the classrooms of the five elective courses.
In the Ancient Magic Writing class, Umbridge only showed up once before being driven away.
As soon as she appeared at the door of the classroom that day, she suddenly remembered something urgent and left in a hurry, and has not been to this classroom since.
The students in class watched inexplicably, and Hallie marveled at Professor Barburing's subtlety in her use of psychic magic.
It seems that this old vampire didn't just spend his time at Hogwarts drinking free dragon blood in the Golden Galleons of the School Council.
Her comprehensive strength definitely has the Count of the Blood Clan at the level of the four demigods, that is, the Witch King of the Moon Path.
And the professors of the remaining four elective courses do not have this kind of strength, so naturally they can only meet Umbridge's scrutiny.
In the third week's divination class, as soon as Harley entered the divination classroom, she felt that something was not quite right in the classroom.
Normally, the classroom before class is always dimly lit, the curtains are closed, and only a few candles burn slowly.
Professor Trelawney hides in a corner of the classroom. Of course, this corner in most cases refers to her comfortable recliner.
For this kind of performance, Professor Trelawney always claims that he is actually wandering outside the world, opening the eyes of heaven, and using his "spirituality" to collide with those foreshadowing dreams, so as to obtain prophecy and divination.
The dark environment is so that her soul can connect with the spirit world as much as possible, and she lies there because she wants to keep her body as far away from the floor of the material world as possible, so as not to defile the purity of the heavenly purpose.
But with the exception of some die-hard fans of Professor Trelawney, everyone else agrees that Professor Trelawney is just sleeping.
After all, the snoring is out, and when the student calls you, he says that he is not snoring...... It's not convincing, is it?
But today, for the first time, Professor Trelawney stood on the floor of the material world, and even walked around from time to time, with a constipated expression on his face.
The necklace of emeralds and agate around her neck and wrist collided constantly, making the sound of pebbles clattering.
The curtains had already been drawn, and the afternoon sun shone in, dispelling the damp in the room called "spiritual perception".
Harley was still surprised by Professor Trelawney's unusual behavior, when Susan, who had climbed up to the attic together, stabbed her in the side.
Oh, it was Umbridge sitting at the back table listening to the class, and that's fine.
Hallie blinked, strode away, and deliberately chose to sit very close to Umbridge.
Umbridge was a little surprised to see Harley sitting next to her, but chose to smile shyly and friendly.
This made it really difficult for Susan, who walked with Hallie, to withstand it, but she still couldn't bear to have Hallie's strongest thigh in the class, so she could only reluctantly sit down, and try not to look at Umbridge.
"Good afternoon, Ms. Umbridge." Harley didn't deliberately avoid it, and even took the initiative to greet her.
Although it is a standard face control, Harley is used to seeing strange and extraordinary creatures, so she can be kind to the ugliness of the toad.
"Good afternoon, Miss Potter."
Umbridge was visibly surprised by Hallie's greeting to her, but the smile on her face grew sweeter.
Seeing that Umbridge couldn't even hide her eyes very well, the corners of Hallie's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a demonic smile.
"Ms. Umbridge, there are still a few minutes left until class time, may I ask you some questions?"
"Huh? Well...... Of course. ”
The smile on the corner of Hallie's mouth was even bigger,
"Lady Umbridge, what do you think of the recent newspapers in the wizarding world? Can you comment as a senior deputy minister for the Ministry of Magic? ”
Harley deliberately accentuated the phrase "Senior Deputy Minister of Magic", and her face was full of curiosity.
The smile on Umbridge's face froze and almost burst into a foul mouth.
What do I think, you ask? I think***! Deliberately finding fault, isn't it?
Recently, the traffic of "The Prophet Daily" has been directly full.
First of all, Rita relied on the exclusive interview rights with Hallie, and wrote a series of articles such as "100 Little Details of Harry Potter Killing Voldemort You Didn't Know" and "One Man Penetrates the International Wizarding Duel Contest - Why Harley Potter is a God", which were serialized in newspapers.
Although there were some places in which Harley herself didn't know that she was so delicate at that time, it didn't prevent Rita from advocating wildly.
Although the other reporters were not able to eat the biggest traffic, the struggle within the wizarding world was also wonderful.
The Wizengamot recently launched a second impeachment campaign against Fudge, and this time, the pure-blood families have done much less to protect him.
It is expected that around Easter, Fudge may be completely ousted.
Naturally, the reporters would not let go of this kind of big news, and once again set off a feast of partition in the newspapers.
In the case of public opinion in this kind of newspaper, what can Umbridge, the well-known Fudge Party, think?
She had already embraced her new thighs, but the reputation of the new thighs was too bad to say, so Umbridge couldn't abandon Fudge yet.
Isn't Harley's problem now to make her ugly?
"Well, Miss Potter, I don't have any particular opinion about the recent newspapers." Umbridge organizes the language,
"Hmm...... It is...... I think so...... cough cough cough ......"
The bell rang in time to cure Umbridge, who was coughing, and she quickly sat upright, and just as she wanted to speak, she realized that Harley had turned her head.
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(Thank you to the leader of the "Amblowe" boss!) )
(ps. In the two wizard level exams, as long as you get an A, you can get a certificate.) Percy, Bill, and Barty Crouch Jr., who got twelve certificates in Pi, are not all O's, but have subjects of A. (End of chapter)