The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

The most important figure in Link's plan to win over the Hogwarts students is Umbridge.

Because she is the guy that Link intends to set up as the common enemy of everyone.

It's only when Umbridge becomes a villain that Link can do things with half the effort.

And now, Umbridge is doing just fine.

Judging from Link's understanding of his students at the same level, they should all be unable to bear it.

"Professor Umbridge, this is the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. We are all students in the sixth grade. Is it really appropriate for you to teach us this kind of basic, low-level theoretical knowledge?"

As Link expected, not long after Umuriqi's writing on the blackboard appeared, a Gryffindor boy in the front row went straight up.

And this was just the beginning, and then a series of echoes and approvals sprung up in the crowd like mushrooms after rain, and the whole classroom was in a mess.

They didn't do it just to get revenge on Umbridge.

It just doesn't make sense to be outrageous about something as trivial as a speech, and they're not that stupid.

What really drove the students to turn their faces directly was actually Umbridge's poor teaching content.

As students who can apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts course with excellent grades.. Improvement class, pre-class preview is naturally a compulsory course for them.

Therefore, they also have a good understanding of the textbook "Magic Defense Theory" this semester, and they understand that this is a theoretical book that is purely on paper.

Now Umbridge is talking about "new courses mainly based on theory" with them. This clearly shows that Umbridge's teaching in the past few years has been purely theoretical courses with little or no actual combat content.

But the problem is, the Defense Against the Dark Arts... exam has a practical exam.

Let a group of... candidates study pure theory courses for a whole year, and the students will naturally turn their faces.

Link and Emily are watching the show in the back row.

He wondered what Umbridge would do next.

At this stage, the students are the ones who stand on the sidelines. Even if this matter goes to Dumbledore and Fudge, it is Umbridge's fault.

After all, Umbridge's move can be said to have hurt the core interests of the students.

On the podium, Umbridge was still calm and breezy, allowing the students to make noise.

It wasn't until the students got tired of shouting and the noise in the classroom gradually decreased that Umbridge got up and said with a smile:

"Perhaps we have known each other for too short a time, so that you are not very familiar with me. Then, please allow me to introduce myself again."

Umbridge turned and walked towards the blackboard, and louder protests erupted from the crowd—everyone thought that Umbridge was going to give a tirade like last night again.

But she tapped the blackboard again with her wand nonchalantly.

As the powder scattered, the words 'Dolores Jane Umbridge' appeared on the blackboard.

"As you can see, my name is Dolores Jane Umbridge. I am your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year, but at the same time, I am also the Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic, Minister Fudge's last Good men. Do you know what that means?

This means that I now represent the Ministry of Magic. This also means that I can directly influence... the content of the exam, the formulation of the Ministry of Magic's school recruitment guidelines, including the number of places, job content, and job benefits...

And as I said last night and just now, the Ministry of Magic is very dissatisfied with the teaching results of your Defense Against the Dark Arts professors changing every year, so I came here.

I am not your enemy, students, but on the contrary, I am your partner, your opportunity.

Before I came to Hogwarts, I had proposed to Mr. Fudge that starting from this year, the Ministry of Magic would expand the scale of Hogwarts school recruitment, so as to replace the current corrupt and inefficient staff in the Ministry of Magic. And this morning, I finally received an official document from the Ministry of Magic! "

Umbridge took out a letter with the fire stamp of the Ministry of Magic from his pocket and shook it, "In this document, Mr. Fudge officially confirmed that the campus recruitment quotas for Aurors and Strikers this year and next will be based on the original It has been raised by 5 times. At the same time, campus recruitment for the Office of Prohibiting the Misuse of Muggle Items, the Reversal of Occasional Magic Events Team, and the International Magic Trade Standards Association is also open. The initial admission quota is a total of 20 people.

Not only that, in order to let you deepen your understanding of the operation of the Ministry of Magic and familiarize yourself with the content of future work, Mr. Fudge has also established a winter and summer Ministry of Magic experience activity for Hogwarts grades 6 to 7. The quota is tentatively set for each grade At that time, these selected people will directly enter the Ministry of Magic and participate in the work of the Ministry of Magic.

It is worth mentioning that this winter and summer Ministry of Magic experience activity can also be regarded as an assessment for you. Your performance in this activity will be graded by a special person, and the score will affect your application. Interview scores when entering the Ministry of Magic.

I have to say that Minister Fudge is so kind to you that I am a little jealous. You know, I didn't get such a good treatment when I graduated.

However, this also shows that the current Ministry of Magic is in a critical situation and is eager to seek talents. Classmates, you are all the future flowers of the magic world, what awaits you is a brilliant life, your future is promising, you..."

Along with Umbridge's narration, the protests and whispers in the crowd gradually weakened, and finally completely fell silent.

This made the false smile on Umbridge's face a little brighter.

She stood on the podium again and said to the crowd:

"Okay, now, everyone, take out Wilbert Slinka's Theory of Defense Against Magic, turn it to page five, and read 'Chapter 1, Introductory Fundamentals'. Do not Whispering."

There was another commotion in the originally silent crowd.

However, unlike before, this commotion did not expand into a 'riot', but only existed for a short while before dissipating quickly.

Instead, there were the rustling sound of flipping books, and the uniform, emotional chanting.

Link, who saw all this in his eyes, frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy.

Strictly speaking, Umbridge's speech this time still adhered to the style of last night's speech in form - colorful, hypocritical, long and boring.

But this time, the students in the classroom listened more seriously.

This is because in this speech, Umbridge brought up a topic that the students were most concerned about.

Test Scores and Graduation Job Hunting!

Not only did she imply that, as the senior deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic, she has the right to bet on questions and even modify... the content of the exam.

He also publicly stated that he has won a large number of jobs related to the Ministry of Magic for everyone this year and next. Of course, there are also Ministry of Magic experience activities during the winter and summer vacations.

The most important thing is that she put the quota card very cleverly.

The number of students in Hogwarts is actually not that many. On average, there are hundreds of students in each grade, which is already a very outrageous number.

Excluding some bastards with little ability, there are only seventy or eighty students in grades 6 to 7 who are eligible to participate in the expanded Ministry of Magic school recruitment.

Well, it happened to be more than ten or twenty more than the number of people in Umbridge's winter and summer vacation experience activities.

It's a beautiful hand.

But anyone who has ideas about the benefits above must face a situation of 'competition for jobs' right now.

What are the criteria for judging this competition?

Does that need to be said?

Naturally it is Umbridge's subjective judgment!

Link shook his head.

He now finally understands why a large number of senior students in grades 6 to 7 who had the best combat effectiveness did not join when Harry established Dumbledore's Army in the original book.

It turned out that Umbridge had already given enough benefits and set up a clever mechanism.

In this way, the senior students will naturally obey Umbridge driven by their own interests.

"Students, this is the end of our class today. Of course, please don't forget the homework I assigned, which will be handed in in the last class. Now, after class, I look forward to meeting you again."

The first period of the sixth year at Hogwarts... Defense Against the Dark Arts class ended with Umbridge's announcement.

Throughout the class, except for the initial disturbance, almost all the students were extremely obedient and serious.

Even after Umbridge announced that the get out of class was over, many students were very attentive to get close to Umbridge, and they didn't see the impatience and disgust they had at the beginning.

This is the power of interest.

But Umbridge naturally wouldn't give these students any good looks, and sent them away very perfunctorily.

After drawing such a big pie and setting up a perfect competition mechanism, she no longer needs to show any kindness to these students.

Link just leaned back in the chair expressionlessly, gently stroking the ebony wand in his hand.

This is a habit he has had after entering into a state of deep thinking. After so many years, the ebony wand has now been covered with a nice coating.

"Link..."

Emily held Link's hand with some concern.

With her ingenuity, she obviously saw through Umbridge's plot.

This is actually not difficult, and many people in the classroom can see it.

The real difficulty is how to break the game.

What Umbridge is using is a conspiracy that exploits human desires, even if you see through it, it's useless.

Link turned his head and looked, just about to say something, a warm breath mixed with the faint scent of daisies approached.

It's Umbridge.

With a smile on her face, she had already stood in front of Link and Emily before she knew it.

Umbridge is definitely the focus of attention of the students in the classroom at the moment, and her actions even brought many students to pay attention.

Link didn't get up, he was still sitting firmly in his seat, looking at each other coldly.

As the mastermind behind the almost removal of Fudge, Link had long considered the possibility that Umbridge might target him after he came to Hogwarts, and use him to make an example of others.

Link is not afraid of this. With his current strength and status, it is too easy for Umbridge and even Fudge to disappear from this world without a sound.

Link even had some expectations that Umbridge would do some drastic things to him, such as putting him in confinement, punishing him for copying some rules and regulations.

In this way, he could directly attack Umbridge.

Of course, the senior students in grades 6 and 7 will not react too much to this at present, but those students in the lower grades are different.

Using such a conflict, Link can win over a large number of lower graders.

It's a pity that Umbridge doesn't seem to be as impulsive as Link imagined.

Now that she appeared in front of Link and Emily, instead of acting aggressively, she saluted very respectfully:

"Good afternoon, my dear Mr. Foley, and Miss Victoria."

Hearing this, Link frowned and said with a sneer:

"Dolores Umbridge, I remember you, you should be Cornelius Fudge's secretary, right? The current senior deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic, well, this position sounds very good, but the specific matters in charge It still seems to be—running errands for the Minister of Magic to sort out materials."

As soon as Link said this, the faces of many students who were peeking at the situation here changed.

Of course they could read Link's words.

Its core meaning is that although Umbridge just said nice words, it is very likely that he was just drawing cakes, and he himself does not have the power to truly realize those cakes.

This is also Link's tentative counterattack against Umbridge.

It's just that the smile on Umbridge's face didn't change at all. She didn't seem to care about the questioning eyes of the other students, and continued to bend down and respectfully say to Link:

"You still remember me? It's my honor!

The last time I saw you was at Harry Potter's trial, your speech was really deafening, and I was deeply shocked. I don’t know if I can have the honor to invite you and your wife to my newly furnished office to enjoy afternoon tea time. I have prepared the best black tea and all kinds of refreshments using South American pumpkin as raw materials. I believe... "

"I don't have time to have afternoon tea with you."

Link interrupted mercilessly.

The smile on Umbridge's face froze for a moment, but immediately returned to normal in the next moment, and he saluted respectfully again:

"If that's the case, then I'll take my leave first. If you need anything, Mr. Foley can contact me. I'll be there anytime."

When Umbridge said this, his voice was very soft, especially the last paragraph, and even used a soundproof spell, so that only the three of them heard the specific content.

After saying that, Umbridge left the classroom with a smile.

Only the students in one classroom were looking at Link with dull or envious eyes, talking a lot.

In the past, everyone ate, drank and slept together, and Link himself was relatively low-key and didn't like to brag like Draco, so many people still didn't understand the strength of Link's family background.

But now with Umbridge as a reference object is different.

At this moment, in the eyes of many people, Link, who can be treated like this by Umbridge, has become a radiant existence!