Chapter 510 The Ministry of Magic's interference in Hogwarts requires our permission

After leading the freshmen to Helga, Rice said loudly: "Children, you will follow this professor and take a boat across the Black Lake to Hogwarts. A thousand years ago, the four founders of Hogwarts set foot on this fertile land in this way. Now let you come to Hogwarts in the same way, hoping that you can inherit the spirit of the founders, the true spirit."

When Helga heard "true spirit", her expression became strange, as if she was forcing a smile.

After talking to the freshmen, Rice gave Helga a look and walked out of the station.

As an old student, he had to take a night thestral carriage to enter Hogwarts.

When he came to the open space where the carriage was parked, Rice found that he was not too late. Many students were still staying there to call friends and wanted to take a carriage with their friends.

Rice looked around quickly and found Daphne and Astoria. They got on the same car with Pansy, and Rice followed them directly and got on the car behind them.

At this time, Crabbe and Goyle also came over, but the carriage was full.

"You guys go find another carriage." Les said without any emotion.

Crabbe, Goyle: ...

Why do I feel that after a holiday, the friendship between the two sides has faded so much?

The two retreated silently.

The door closed, and the carriage creaked and moved, carrying them to the outside of Hogwarts Castle.

As usual, he came to the hall and found a seat at the long table of Slytherin College. After sitting down, Les noticed that Godric, who arrived at the hall before him, cast an inquiring look at him.

Les shook his head slightly, indicating that Rowena was still missing. As for Helga, as long as Godric was not deaf, he should have heard Helga's name at the station.

After responding to Godric, Les sat in his seat and waited quietly for the start of the sorting ceremony.

As usual, shortly after the freshmen arrived, the ghosts filed out. They seemed to enjoy the emotions that the freshmen exuded when they saw them, and they chose this time to show up, and they could also take a look at the younger generation of their own college.

This is a reserved program at the opening ceremony every year. Most of the old students were very calm, only Les and Godric widened their eyes, because there was a face they were very familiar with mixed in the ghost group.

Rowena Ravenclaw!

They would never make a mistake!

Looking at Rowena with a look of despair, Les and Godric couldn't help laughing.

No wonder Rowena couldn't be found on the train, it turned out that she was a ghost!

Rowena didn't find Les and Godric mixed in the crowd, but she saw Helga leading the freshmen in at a glance.

Now her eyes suddenly lit up.

The ghost body brought her many inconveniences. If Helga was present, the problem would be much simpler. Whether it was to become her own thug or to ask her to help find Salazar and Godric, Helga could help.

The first part of the opening ceremony was not the sorting ceremony, but the singing of the Sorting Hat.

When the Sorting Hat was brought to the front of the teacher's seat by Professor McGonagall, Godric stretched his neck, wanting to see the style of his hat.

This emotion was like the parents who participated in the Parent Open Day and couldn't wait to see their children's performance.

Then the Sorting Hat gave him a job.

At this year's opening ceremony, the Sorting Hat sang a new song. The first half of the lyrics praised the friendship between the four founders and repeated their enrollment philosophy.

Godric was quite happy at first, but when the Sorting Hat sang "The founders turned against each other, disputes continued, and each wanted to monopolize power. There was a time when the school was about to die", the smile on his face disappeared.

Broken hat, what are you singing? !

But after a brief anger, Godric narrowed his eyes and began to think.

The Sorting Hat would not be aimless. Since it issued a warning to all teachers and students on such an important occasion and called for unity, it means that the current situation of Hogwarts is quite bleak, right?

Godric remembered the information he got from Harry and the others on the train.

It seems that a very powerful dark wizard has been resurrected?

Can this also become a major crisis for the school? Godric couldn't figure it out.

If you encounter a dark wizard, shouldn't you just draw your wand or sword to kill him? Why bother so much?

However, he felt that since he happened to catch up with such a thing, he couldn't let the daring dark wizard go. If he and Mr. Voldemort were destined to meet, he would take action to eliminate this disaster for Hogwarts.

After the Sorting Hat sang the song, there was the Sorting Ceremony and a sumptuous dinner.

When various dishes appeared on the golden plate, Godric's eyes lit up directly: tonight's dinner is quite sumptuous!

Without any hesitation, he forked several large pieces of beef onto his plate, then took a lamb chop, a pile of sausages and a whole roast chicken.

Ron was stunned by the pile of plates in front of Godric.

"Can you eat all this?" he couldn't help asking.

Although Hogwarts did not call for a clean plate campaign, it was always a shame to leave a lot of food on the plate, and the young wizards would try to avoid wasting too much food.

"It's not a big deal." Godric responded vaguely while stuffing meat into his mouth.

In the next quarter of an hour, Ron saw what it meant to eat up everything in a flash.

It took Godric only a very short time to eat up the mountain of food he had just taken, and then took the same amount of food to his plate.

He repeated this operation three times, which made Ron think that Godric had cast a traceless expansion spell on his stomach.

After sweeping away the fourth plate of food, Godric wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth with satisfaction, indicating that he was quite satisfied with the meal tonight.

Ron cast a look of awe at him.

"You have a good appetite today!" Ron said in an envious tone. He also hoped to have such a good appetite so that he could eat more of his favorite chicken legs.

"It's okay, I still have some room for dessert - I'm looking forward to this part."

Ron:!

He was shocked by Godric's speech.

Sure enough, after the dessert came, Godric devoured it all in one gulp, completely shocking Ron.

He couldn't understand why Longbottom had become so gluttonous after a summer vacation?

He asked this question in front of Godric.

Godric laughed heartily for a while, and then told Ron that only by eating more can you have great strength and be more courageous in battle. Ron was thoughtful and took another serving of caramel pudding.

Ron decided that he would have to eat more from today.

When the last bit of cake residue disappeared from the plate, Dumbledore stood up and introduced the personnel changes of this school year.

"This year, there are two changes in our teaching team. Let us welcome Professor Grubbly-Plank back, she will temporarily take over the teaching post of Care of Magical Creatures. Then there is Professor Umbridge, the new teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Rice realized that no one could break Voldemort's curse, and now the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is still changed every year.

He raised his eyebrows, sympathizing with the professor who came to fill the gap, and hoped that she would retreat when faced with difficulties, and not have unrealistic fantasies such as teaching for one year and then continuing for another year.

As for lifting the curse, Rice felt that it was not urgent and could be left to Godric in the future.

After introducing the two professors, a polite applause rang out in the auditorium. Dumbledore wanted to explain something else, but his speech was interrupted.

Umbridge stood up from the stool.

Because she was short, not many people noticed that she stood up from the stool. Everyone didn't realize that she was going to say something until she cleared her throat with a cough.

Many students laughed secretly, thinking that this woman didn't know the rules of Hogwarts. How could she interrupt Dumbledore when he was speaking?

Rice frowned, feeling a little unhappy.

Dumbledore is the current headmaster of Hogwarts. Everyone, including the four of them, should respect him. How could Umbridge's interruption of Dumbledore's speech be allowed to happen?

Rice felt that he should stand up and say something, but someone was faster than him.

Godric stood up from the long table and said loudly: "Professor Umbridge, Headmaster Dumbledore hasn't finished speaking yet. Let him finish speaking first and then we will listen to your speech! We won't fall asleep at the table if we delay for a while."

Hearing Godric's bold and straightforward speech, many Gryffindor students laughed out loud, and Umbridge's face flashed a hint of blue.

"Yes, professor, the rules of Hogwarts have always been like this. There is always a first come first served order for speaking. If anyone wants to speak, it will be a mess, right?" Rice supported Godric.

Then he thought for a moment and added, "Since Godric and I both seem to have accidentally interrupted, let's deduct five points from Slytherin and Gryffindor!"

Although Rice gave Slytherin five points right away, no one cared about it: the new semester hasn't started yet, and the colleges haven't started scoring yet, so even if they deducted 50 or 500 points, let alone 5 points, it wouldn't have any impact.

This is a small loophole in the school rules.

Everyone was shocked that Rice actually spoke up for a Gryffindor.

This is Les Lint, why would he do such a thing? Under normal circumstances, shouldn't he watch that Longbottom being blown up by Professor Umbridge?

No one could guess what Les was thinking.

Professor Umbridge in the teacher's seat was also stunned. She wanted to teach the troublemaker a lesson, but Les Lint also spoke, which made her very embarrassed.

This is a person with a background!

After a moment's thought, Umbridge decided to pretend she hadn't heard and avoid the attack for the time being. She quietly sat back in her seat and let Dumbledore continue.

After Dumbledore finished his regular speech, Umbridge stood up.

"I must say, it's great to have the opportunity to return to Hogwarts, and I am so happy to see all these happy little faces of yours!" Umbridge grinned, revealing her fangs. Then her voice became serious, and the smile on her face quickly faded.

"The Ministry of Magic has always believed that educating young wizards is a very important matter. Some of the precious talents you are born with may be fruitless if they are not cultivated and exercised under careful and careful guidance. Unique to the wizarding world Ancient skills must be passed down from generation to generation, otherwise they will be lost. The precious treasure trove of magical knowledge accumulated by our ancestors must be protected, replenished and perfected by those who are fortunate enough to engage in the noble profession of education..."

When Les heard the first half of his speech, he was extremely shocked.

He once thought that Umbridge wanted to re-implement magic fluidity at Hogwarts!

"Innate precious talent", "ancient skills of the magical world", "ancestral treasure trove of precious magical knowledge", this sounds like it refers to the flow and field of magic?

This shocked Les: There was such a talented person in the Ministry of Magic, and he had not noticed it before? This is really a yellow bell ruined and a pearl covered in dust!

Thinking of this, Les was a little happy, because the knowledge of magic flow was not really lost, but had been secretly passed down among several people or families. Until Hogwarts was facing internal and external troubles, people within the Ministry of Magic finally couldn't sit still and wanted to teach this unique secret to the public!

Rice felt that his reasoning was completely correct, and even Umbridge's toad face looked much more pleasing to the eye.

But one thing is that her speech was really long and boring, almost the same as Professor Binns' History of Magic.

"...Old habits will be retained, and this is understandable, while some habits have become obsolete and must be abandoned. Let us continue to move forward and enter a new era of enlightenment, efficiency and reasonableness, and resolutely maintain what should be maintained and improve What needs to be improved and what we should ban should be discarded.”

Umbridge's speech finally came to an end.

Les was a little confused: Why didn't she mention the flow of magic power at all? So isn’t this speech all nonsense?

Of course, he also found the implication in these boring words: the Ministry of Magic decided to intervene in Hogwarts.

This would never be accepted by Rice in normal times, but if Umbridge wanted to implement magic mobility in Hogwarts, Rice would not stop her - she could only teach for one year anyway. It is not impossible for children to take a year to get in touch with truly cutting-edge magic knowledge.

In Rice's eyes, it is not impossible for the Ministry of Magic to intervene in Hogwarts, but it must be done with the approval of their four founders.

Only what the four of them unanimously agree can be implemented in Hogwarts.

If they don't nod, no one can do this.

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