Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

In the room, the Weasley brothers, Harry and Ron, and others slumped on the sofa, their eyes were straight and their faces darkened, as if they were boring.

The fire in the room was still crackling and burning, and the warm fire had transformed into the warmth of the responsive room in the lounge, making people want to sleep.

Mike sat on the sofa a little further away, playing with a gold Galleon while looking at the few salted fish.

It's been two weeks since Harry was caught for Quidditch training.

Dumbledore has not returned to this day, and the direct consequence of his delayed return is that Umbridge and her Slytherins have become more arrogant.

Especially the students of Slytherin House, many of whom wore green armbands on their arms, symbolizing temporary inspectors, and began to conduct surveillance of other houses throughout Hogwarts.

If anyone is found to dare to violate the slightest school rules, they will swarm them and arrest them in the newly opened courtroom for inhumane punishment.

This is the power that Umbridge has bestowed on them, and Umbridge himself obviously does not have the ability to effectively supervise these enforcers.

As a result, power is out of control.

The Slytherin inspectors began to abuse their power, and sometimes they would just find an excuse to take you to the correctional room just because one of your little actions made them unhappy.

Harry's situation is even worse. As the legendary savior, Harry and his friends are regarded as the key observation objects. They not only have to deal with the increasingly tedious schoolwork but also face the torture of Umbridge every day.

The worst part is that the torment seems to have no end, as the Slytherins are constantly making excuses to keep extending their confinement period, which makes life almost worse for them.

Nowadays, almost everyone in Hogwarts is in danger, and everyone has almost stopped all outdoor activities except for necessary classes and meals, and this is why Harry and the others will appear in the room on demand even during the day.

Because except here, they will be monitored almost all the time in the outside world, and this is the only pure land they have left.

In order to allow the D.A. Army to start classes normally under the spy-like activities of the Slytherins, Hermione invented a simple communication machine, and this is the gold plus that Mike is now playing with. Long.

It has to be said that Hermione and Mike have very similar ideas in some aspects, at least when they want to invent a hidden communicator, the first thing they think of is Jin Galleon.

It's just that Hermione's Golden Galleon communicator is much weaker than Mike's.

Its shape looks exactly like a real gold Galleon, but the texture is not gold, but a cheap alloy.

And there is a circle of numbers on the edge of the coin, and the circle of numbers on the real Golden Galleon is just a number, representing the goblin who made it. But on the counterfeit coin, those numbers would change, revealing the time of the next rally.

When the above time changes, the coin will heat up to alert the user.

This kind of communicator looks like a piece of garbage compared to Masonic gold coins, but it is enough for the current situation.

It turns out that Hermione is gifted at this.

And just as Mike was fiddling with the gold coins,

The gold coin in his hand suddenly exuded a hot breath.

Mike stopped, raised the gold coin and looked at it.

Sure enough, the time above has changed.

The D.A. Army meeting time has been changed from 10:00 tonight to 10:00 the night after.

"Huh! The meeting time has changed." Mike sighed and said, "I remember this is the third postponement this week? It seems that everyone's situation is not easy."

Harry on the sofa didn't even move his eyes, and muttered to himself:

"It's okay to postpone, I'm so tired that I don't want to move at all."

Immediately, the Response Room fell into silence again, and everyone silently watched the flames flickering in the fireplace, as if there was some wonderful show going on there.

After a while, George suddenly shouted, and then Fred, who was next to him, hugged his head in his hands and cried:

"Dumbledore! Why haven't you come back!"

Mike shook his head helplessly. For these two, he was really sympathetic.

They had thought that Umbridge would fire them when he got new powers, but Umbridge apparently felt that it was too cheap for them to do so, so instead of firing them, he was only concerned about the matter. Without mentioning a word, they continued the punishment that Professor McGonagall had made before and put them in confinement.

Of course, after the opening of the new correctional chamber, the Weasley brothers were not as good as they once were, because they were arguably worse than Harry during this time.

As for Dumbledore, Mike guessed that he should be back in the next two days, because now Hogwarts is not only having a hard time for the students, but also for the professors.

Umbridge started censoring professors in Hogwarts like crazy after he got his new powers, and now the censorship is different from the light-hearted censorship before, Umbridge has begun Indicates the way the professors teach.

This made many people, including Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, very dissatisfied, because then the whole Hogwarts was completely Umbridge.

For now, the professors of these main courses can survive because of their high status and strength, but the professors of some other courses are the same.

Professors like Muggle Studies have been cornered by Umbridge.

Umbridge believes that the current Muggle studies classes are too glorified of Muggles, and she strongly demands that the Muggle studies professors revise the lesson plans to smear the image of Muggles in the minds of young wizards.

In the beginning, the Muggle studies professor was struggling, she thought Muggle studies was a rigorous science, and there was nothing wrong with her current teaching (although Mack thinks she's teaching too much now).

But after Umbridge hinted that she would be kicked out of Hogwarts if she didn't, like Trelawney, the Muggle Studies class worked on Umbridge's mind.

In this regard, Mike and other students who applied for Muggle Studies did not respond much, because most of them applied for Muggle Studies for the same purpose as Mike, just to mess around.

So they don't pay any attention to changes in the content of the course - they won't listen anyway.

But just as Mike was thinking, the door to the room was suddenly pulled back.

Hermione walked into the Requirement Room, her little face flushed and gasping for breath, looking like she was running all the way.

"Don't worry, Hermione." Mike got up and brought a glass of water for Hermione. "Take a glass of water and speak slowly."

"I have good news for you!"

Hearing that, Ron on the sofa opened one eye, squinted at Hermione, and said:

"I wish you could tell me Umbridge is dead so I don't have to be locked up at night."

Harry and others on the side nodded, this was undoubtedly the greatest good news for them.

Hermione rolled her eyes at them, took a deep breath and said:

"It's Dumbledore! I was helping Professor McGonagall with the lesson plan, and she told me that Dumbledore would be back tomorrow!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they cheered!

...

The next morning, the Great Hall of Hogwarts was packed before breakfast time.

Today is Saturday. At this time, everyone should be enjoying a rare vacation in their own beds, but today everyone spontaneously gathered here.

And there is only one reason that can make everyone so willing to give up the vacation, and that is their headmaster, Dumbledore is finally coming back!

If everyone respected Dumbledore as usual, they wouldn't put up such a big battle to welcome him.

But it is different now. In the past days, everyone had a terrible time under the oppression of Umbridge. Now everyone is eager to see Dumbledore!

This is no exception to the professors, because in the auditorium at the moment, McGonagall and other professors have gathered in the auditorium, looking at the hall with the same expectation as their students.

Umbridge and his Slytherin minions are also in the auditorium at the moment, but their expressions are not very good-looking compared to the expectant eyes of others.

This is understandable. After all, although Umbridge is in full swing now, and there is a lot of power at Hogwarts, if Dumbledore, the real headmaster, returns to school, then Umbridge is likely to lose everything he has now. Along with that, the Slytherins will also lose the privileges they now have, so they are arguably the last thing they want Dumbledore back.

God seemed to hear their inner prayers, and Dumbledore did not appear until nearly noon.

At this time, the people who had been waiting since the morning were a little impatient, and there was an atmosphere of loss in the auditorium.

And Umbridge and Slytherin Academy students had smiles on their faces, and Umbridge even began to smile and talk to the classmates around him.

However, just when everyone thought that Dumbledore might not come back, a flame appeared out of thin air in the auditorium.

The flame appeared in midair like a vulture, and it was constantly expanding and expanding. The bursts of air explosions it made made the surrounding students exclaim, but the professors came when they saw this scene. There was a look of surprise on his face!

Finally, with a loud explosion, the flames exploded completely, and what had been wrapped in flames appeared in front of everyone.

It was a beautiful red bird and an old man with gray hair.

"Dumbledore! Dumbledore is back!"

Ron couldn't help shouting out, and the rest of the auditorium went completely crazy.

Everyone shouted Dumbledore's name loudly like crazy.

Umbridge and the Slytherin students clenched their fists and looked grim, but at the moment they didn't pay attention to them anymore, and everyone's attention was no longer attracted by Dumbledore.

"Oh! You are so enthusiastic." Dumbledore seemed to be taken aback by the scene in front of him. The white beard on his face shook a few times, and then he said, "Thank you, thank you so much!"

People ran towards Dumbledore, everyone told Dumbledore about Umbridge's crimes with one glance at me, but because the voice was too messy, what Dumbledore heard was just a series of noises.

"Okay, I see, now everyone please be quiet!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately closed their mouths, and looked at Dumbledore expectantly with big bright eyes.

And Dumbledore didn't disappoint everyone, he only smiled and said:

"Professor McGonagall has told me everything, and I know everyone's been having a really bad time (Dumbledore glances at Umbridge), it's all my fault, I'm in such a hurry that I didn't explain things Clear. But now that I'm back, some things have to change.

First of all, about the punishment room, I still remember the first order I made when I became the headmaster of Hogwarts was to remove the excessive corporal punishment that exists in Hogwarts. I think students need to be guided, not like taming animals. Use radishes and sticks to make them develop biological instincts. This is a belief that I have always upheld, and it has not changed to this day. Therefore, the punishment room must be closed, there is no doubt about this! "

There was a tsunami of cheers from the crowd, especially from Harry and Ron, who had suffered recently.

"Furthermore, about the clubs, I have to say that some clubs in Hogwarts really don't need to exist. For example, I heard that there is a 'Fart Club', I really don't understand why this club exists. Necessary." Dumbledore joked, "but we must also admit that proper entertainment is necessary, especially for students who are currently in the exam year, so Quidditch must resume!"

Another burst of cheers came, and Franklin and the others even hugged excitedly.

"There is one more thing, and that is about the recent adoption of some students as temporary inspectors by the school to supervise other students. I think this is a helpless move due to lack of manpower, but this behavior will also intensify the bad relationship among classmates. , so I suggest that this measure should also be cancelled." Dumbledore said,

"Finally, there are various measures against professors. I learned that the senior Hogwarts censor fired a professor who had worked hard at Hogwarts for more than ten years on the grounds that the professor of this course did not The ability to teach students, I can't understand this. Because the course she teaches is divination, and as we all know, divination, as a relatively mysterious subject, is not so easy to prove its effect. So I suggest that in order to Being able to let the students who signed up for the divination class have a class is also to give Trelawney a rally and temporarily recall Professor Trelawney."

There were endless cheers from the crowd, and Dumbledore's actions met almost all expectations.

And amid the bursts of cheers, Umbridge shouted with a black face:

"I disagree!"