Chapter 435 Listening to your words is like Zhuang Zhou bringing about purification!

Just listen to Dumbledore say loudly: "Okay, since we are digesting another extremely rich meal, I ask everyone to be quiet for a while and listen to me talk about the precautions for the new semester as usual."

"The first-year students should know that students are not allowed to enter the forbidden forest in the hunting grounds... Some of our senior students should also know this by now."

"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has asked me, and he tells me this is the four hundred and twenty-sixth time, to remind you all that magic is not allowed in the corridors between classes, among many other rules. It's on that long list, taped to Mr. Filch's office door."

"This year we have two changes to our teaching staff. We are delighted to welcome back Professor Grupplan, who will be teaching your Care of Magical Creatures course. We are equally pleased to introduce Professor Umbridge, our Defense Against the Dark Arts course New professor.”

Dumbledore introduced the two new professors beside him to the young wizards below.

When Dumbledore spoke of Professor Grubbly-Plan, many young wizards who had attended her Care of Magical Creatures class applauded her enthusiastically, even Irina was no exception.

However, when Dumbledore introduced Umbridge, a new teacher whom the young wizards did not know, the applause in the auditorium was much smaller, and those sparse applause was mostly out of politeness rather than enthusiasm.

Dumbledore continued: "The selection for the House Quidditch team will be..."

But before he could finish speaking, he suddenly stopped talking and looked at Umbridge beside him with a questioning look.

Since Umbridge was not much taller when she stood up than when she was sitting, no one could understand why Dumbledore suddenly stopped talking.

"Ahem..."

Umbridge cleared her throat, and the young wizards realized that she had stood up and was about to give a speech.

Dumbledore just looked at her calmly. He sat down and looked like he was expecting her to speak.

The other professors frowned unabashedly and interrupted the Hogwarts principal's speech. This was the first time in Hogwarts Castle!

"Thank you, Headmaster," Umbridge said with a smirk, "Thank you for such a warm welcome."

Umbridge's voice was high, high-pitched, and breathy, like a little girl's voice.

"Damn it, damn it!"

At the Slytherin table, Linn felt goosebumps rise all over his body when he heard Umbridge's voice.

If the timing hadn't been right, he would have wanted to pull out his wand and cast a few Cruciatus Curses on this disgusting pink toad to vent his anger.

Umbridge grinned and said with a smirk, "Well, I must say, it's great to be back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! It's great to see these cheerful little faces looking up at me. ! I eagerly hope to get to know you all soon, I believe we will become very good friends!"

As Umbridge said this, she cleared her throat vigorously.

However, when she continued to speak, some of the breathiness in her voice was no longer audible, and she became much more serious, and her words were dry, as if she was carrying a script.

"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 or they will be lost. The precious treasury 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."

At this point, Umbridge stopped talking and bowed slightly to the other professors, but none of these professors, who had a bad first impression of the Ministry of Magic and Umbridge, returned her bow.

Professor McGonagall's brows knitted together tightly, and she looked at Umbridge with a bit of disgust.

"The successive principals of Hogwarts have all innovated when shouldering the important task of managing this famous historical school. This is completely appropriate, because if there is no progress, it will stagnate and decline. However, at the same time, progress for the sake of progress This practice should never be encouraged. Our traditions have been tempered for thousands of times and often do not need clumsy revisions. A balance must be achieved between the old and the new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation. between……"

Umbridge said in a boring tone, and many of the little wizards below began to fall asleep.

Next to Irina, Hermione frowned tightly.

Although there was not a shred of truth in Umbridge's words, Hermione still came to the conclusion from these words that the Ministry of Magic was interfering with the operation of Hogwarts!

“…Because some changes have achieved good results, while other changes will be found to be poor decisions in due course. At the same time, some old habits will be retained, which is understandable, and some habits have become obsolete. , must be abandoned. Let us keep moving forward and enter a new era of enlightenment, efficiency and reasonableness, resolutely maintain what should be maintained, improve what needs to be improved, and abandon what we should prohibit."

After saying this, Umbridge finally sat down.

This made many little wizards below breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, both Linn and Irina were speechless.

Unexpectedly, the person who takes nonsense literature to the extreme in the wizarding world is actually Umbridge, the pink toad!

Maintain what should be maintained, improve what needs to be improved, and discard what should be prohibited...

Listen, what are these words? !

Listening to your words, I am like Zhuang Zhou bringing about purification!

However, neither Dumbledore nor Lynn wanted to stop Umbridge from showing off her power here.

After all, if you want the wizards in Hogwarts Castle to be united like a rope, you must create an enemy that they hate enough and want to fight against.

Just like in the modern history of the East, the original situation of continuous civil war and warlord fighting finally ended under the invasion of powerful foreign enemies, forming a unified front.

Perhaps there are many contradictions and conflicts among the young wizards in Hogwarts Castle, but these are all fights among themselves. Only in front of a common enemy can they form a united situation and drive that common enemy out of Hogwarts. Castle!

Just like during the tenure of Principal Phineas Nigellus Black, who was known as the most unpopular principal, the four major colleges could be said to be unprecedentedly united. Even the little snakes of Slytherin abandoned their original plans. prejudice. (End of chapter)