366. You can be interested in that location
"No, you can't do that."
Grim voices echoed through the hall, and the young wizards watched in amazement, as Professor Trelawney of the Divination class stood in the middle of the foyer, her glasses crooked on either side of her ears, and her clothes disheveled, with two large chests beside her, one standing upside down, as if thrown down the stairs.
Maybe it shouldn't be like it was thrown down the stairs.
There is no doubt that Umbridge did it.
The pink toad walked down the stairs in a girlish posture and looked at Professor Trelawney with a smile, but this smile was not so friendly in the eyes of the professor of divination.
It can even be said to be a demonic smile.
"You can't fire me!" Professor Trelawney choked up in a trembling voice, her eyes red and bloodshot, "I'm in. I've been here for sixteen years! Exactly sixteen years! Hogwarts is me. My home! ”
"Your former home, to be exact."
Umbridge still kept smirking: "You have not passed the censorship of the Ministry of Magic, and we cannot tolerate a liar being the teacher of a divination class." ”
"You've been fired, but I'm a merciful person, I can give you an hour, please don't embarrass us, otherwise we can only take coercive measures."
As her words fell, the two expressionless Aurors behind her each stepped forward.
Although most of the young wizards didn't like Professor Trelawney, and even the other professors didn't like her chattering personality, it was inevitable to see her being chased away by Umbridge and feeling a little sad.
"Sybil!"
Professor McGonagall stepped out of the crowd, and the assertive Transfiguration professor ignored Umbridge's warning eyes and stepped forward to help Professor Trelawney to his feet.
hugged her and comforted her softly: "It's okay, no one will drive you away." ”
"No one? Professor McGonagall, I think I heard you right. ”
Umbridge looked at Professor McGonagall coldly and said in a resentful voice, "So who approved it?" I've got Minister Fudge here."
"It's me."
Dumbledore stepped out of the crowd and looked at Umbridge.
"It turned out to be Professor Dumbledore" Umbridge was not afraid to see the person coming: "You came just in time, we will deal with unqualified professors now, according to the latest regulations of the Ministry of Magic's education order, I have the qualifications of professors, and I can dismiss unqualified professors."
"The latest regulations from the Ministry of Magic didn't make it through the school board."
Dumbledore directly interrupted Umbridge's tirade: "So now these rules are not in effect and I am the headmaster of Hogwarts, and the power to appoint and dismiss professors is only the headmaster's. ”
Umbridge looked at Dumbledore resentfully, and said cruelly: "Don't worry, rest assured, it will be passed soon, and then the position of headmaster will also be dismissed." ”
"Then you'll wait until that day comes first."
Dumbledore didn't pay any attention to Umbridge's gaze, he turned to Professor McGonagall and said, "Minerva, I need to trouble you to take Sybil back to rest." ”
Under Umbridge's vicious gaze, Professor McGonagall helped Professor Trelawney upstairs.
That night, inside the principal's office.
"Are you just going to let that pink toad go on like this?"
Dudley teases Fawkes with a bag of magical beast rations.
With more and more magical beasts raised, his 'cooking skills' are becoming more and more exquisite, and Fawkes, as a phoenix, can't do without the rations he makes.
"Didn't you do anything too?"
"Professor, I'm just a kid, what can I do?"
Dudley winked at him.
Dumbledore looked at the 'kid' who was a cut above his boss and like a hill with a speechless expression.
"It was Connelly who misunderstood, I didn't want that position, I didn't have any interest in power."
Dumbledore sighed, his tone rather helpless.
"Professor, sometimes it's not a good idea to escape."
Dudley shook his head, put a whole bag of 'rations' in Fawkes's nest, and found a place to sit down, "It's not that you're really interested, it's whether Fudge thinks you're interested. ”
"I think you can actually be interested in that location."
Dumbledore reflexively shook his head, and was about to speak, but Dudley took the lead.
"Senior Tom has regained his body, and his mana is gradually recovering towards its peak state. He was accompanied by a large number of Death Eaters. ”
"You can ascend to the position of Minister of Magic, and lead the Aurors against him."
"It's a big deal to settle the matter of Senior Tom and then resign."
"Don't you really think about it?"
Dudley looked at Dumbledore earnestly.
If Dumbledore could become Minister of Magic, it would be much easier to deal with Undulating Earthdemons.
Dumbledore paused, but shook his head.
What happened back then made him really not want to touch power anymore, but what Dudley said was not unreasonable.
"Dudley, I have another way, don't worry."
"You don't mean the organization you secretly formed. Order of the Phoenix? To be honest, I'm not bullish on them. ”
Dudley said mercilessly.
"Please don't say that, they were the main force against the Death Eaters more than a decade ago."
"As you said, that was more than ten years ago, as far as I know. Most of the elite members of this group have died fighting the Death Eaters, like my poor little aunt and brother-in-law, like the rest of Neville's parents, who have been baptized for so long. How many are left to be reused? ”
Dudley shook his head, the Order of the Phoenix may have been the main force in the fight against the Death Eaters, now
"I've heard you're including all the thieves."
Dumbledore immediately said with a straight face, "Mundungus Fletch is a trustworthy wizard. ”
"That's what you said about Peter Pettigrew, right?"
Dumbledore:.
Peter was one of the first members of the Order of the Phoenix, and he was ostensibly more reliable than Mundungus Fletsch, though it turned out to be unreliable.
As for Mundungus Fletsch, the same is true for him, although he did not go directly to Voldemort like Peter, but in the original books, this guy almost never did a reliable thing, because he rushed to dispose of the stolen crucible and Harry was attacked by the Dementors without protection, stole the pendant box (Horcrux) that Regulus exchanged for his life and sold it, and escaped before escaping and indirectly killing Moody
On the surface of the piles and piles, it is better to have this person than not.
It's not Dudley who hacks him, it's that this thing is really useless.
Worse than useless.
Pig teammates are sometimes more terrifying than god opponents.
(End of chapter)