Chapter 765 Umbridge

Seeing Dumbledore walking in from the door, Umbridge, who was sitting on the teacher's bench, suddenly felt her eyes light up, and her whole body became excited, and she quickly stood up to greet him.

"Principal Dumbledore! I need to remind you that according to Hogwarts school rules, the principal should be present before the sorting ceremony..." Umbridge cleared her throat and said in a strange accent.

However, Dumbledore didn't seem to see her, and had no intention of stopping. He walked straight past, and the vague pressure that emanated directly blocked Umbridge's subsequent words.

Umbridge just stood there with her mouth open, her face turning blue and purple.

At this time, Dumbledore had already walked to the stage, looked at the little wizards under the stage, and said with a smile. "Although I'm a little late, I still want to say...welcome! Welcome all freshmen to Hogwarts!"

After the words fell, the auditorium burst into particularly warm applause.

Dumbledore had never been seen at the opening ceremony before, and the senior students were a little anxious, but now they finally felt at ease.

When the applause subsided, Dumbledore continued to speak. "Perhaps the long journey has made you hungry, but before enjoying a rich lunch, I need to say a few words!"

"This year, we have two changes in our teaching team. First of all, I am very happy that Professor Graplan can continue to teach. She will be responsible for teaching your Care of Magical Creatures class."

As he spoke, Dumbledore turned his attention to the teacher's chair. Professor Graplan stood up and gestured to everyone with a smile. There was another burst of applause from the audience.

Harry was hesitant to ask about Hagrid's whereabouts, but was stopped by Hermione.

Then, Dumbledore looked at Umbridge, who was still standing stupidly in the aisle of the long table. "In addition, there is a new face this year, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class will be taught by Umbridge..."

"Ahem..." Umbridge coughed twice, interrupting Dumbledore's words, her face twisted slightly, and she said with a smirk. "Thank you, principal, but I would rather introduce myself in person!"

Dumbledore remained silent, seemingly acquiescing to Umbridge's words.

Umbridge also regained some confidence, no longer had a sullen face, she barely showed her iconic sweet smile, and said to everyone coyly.

"I must say, it's great to be back at Hogwarts! As soon as I see you, it reminds me of my days at Hogwarts."

"More than forty years ago, I stood here, filled with excitement and joy, putting on the Sorting Hat and becoming a Hogwarts student..."

Umbridge talked eloquently about the past events of her youth, trying to get closer to the young wizards, but unfortunately, the effect was very little.

No one wants to know how she succeeded in becoming a prefect more than forty years ago by studying hard and making small reports, and she has little interest in those outdated rules and regulations.

Everyone in the audience felt drowsy after hearing this, but Harry was clutching his hungry belly, thinking about when he could have dinner, and then lie on the bed and have a good sleep.

"Can't we wait until after dinner to talk?" Ron sighed and muttered to himself. In the past, he usually started the banquet first and then spoke later, but he didn't know why this school year was different.

"... Let us continue to move 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..." Umbridge said it all More than forty minutes.

The first half recalls the honors she achieved during her student days, while the second half emphasizes that Hogwarts will make certain changes in the future under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic and improve the existing school rules.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbridge, your speech was very enlightening." Dumbledore waited for Umbridge to finish speaking, then walked back to the stage and said.

"As for now, everyone can enjoy tonight's dinner."

Dumbledore raised his left hand and waved his wand, and large pieces of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam and jugs of pumpkin juice appeared on the long tables of the four colleges.

The little wizards, who had been hungry all night, felt refreshed and picked up their knives and forks to eat.

Ivan also cut off a small piece of steak and stuffed it into his mouth to eat.

While Harry and Ron were eating, they were talking about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

They had met Umbridge several times before, so they had no hope for this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class. They only hoped that Umbridge would not do worse than Lockhart.

"I'm afraid this matter is not as simple as you think... Did you understand what Umbridge said just now? Don't forget, she was an investigator from the Ministry of Magic..." Hermione temporarily put down the knife and fork in her hand. , looked at the two people and said very seriously.

"Did she say something just now? That sounds like nonsense. I almost fell asleep..." Ron yawned and drank a sip of ice lemon juice to suppress his sleepiness.

"Sometimes there are important things hidden in nonsense!" Hermione said seriously, but Harry and Ron both had blank expressions.

Hermione sighed and explained. "Umbridge is standing here. This shows that the Ministry of Magic wants to interfere with Hogwarts and weaken Professor Dumbledore's influence in the school! You should have read the "Daily Prophet" in the past two months. , that’s a sign.”

Harry and Ron were very angry when Hermione mentioned those reports.

In the past two months, the Daily Prophet has been extremely smearing against Dumbledore. While denying Voldemort's resurrection on a daily basis, it spent more than a dozen pages trying to prove that Dumbledore suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

One of the articles mentioned that Dumbledore would habitually say some crazy things at the opening ceremony, such as the famous phrase "Idiot! Cry! Residue! Screw it!".

In addition, Dumbledore also abused his power to give points indiscriminately and favor students.

He once added more than 500 points to Gryffindor House in just over ten minutes, but turned a blind eye to the violations of certain special students, causing Slytherin, who was supposed to win the House Cup, to miss out, which severely dealt a blow to the other houses. of positivity.

According to people familiar with the matter, Dumbledore also believed in Harry Potter's dreams and believed that the mysterious man who once endangered the wizarding world was lurking in the dark, waiting for opportunities, ready to fight him at any time.