The Admiral of Hogwarts

It must be said that movies still need to consider their audience. For example, in the Harry Potter movie series that Hugo watched in his previous life, Umbridge was definitely beautified in order not to affect the audience's appetite.

The real Umbridge had a pale, toad-like face and a pair of droopy, bulging eyes, making people feel extremely uncomfortable after seeing her.

Her voice was high and shrill, with a breathy quality, like a little girl's voice, which made her even more disgusting. And the way she treated all the students like five-year-olds aroused the disgust of all the students, but she didn't care at all and began to recite a speech in a rigid tone.

"The Ministry of Magic has always believed that educating young wizards is a very important matter. Some of your inherent precious talents may come to naught if they are not nurtured and trained under careful guidance."

"The ancient skills unique to the magical world must be passed down from generation to generation, otherwise they will disappear. The precious treasure trove of magical knowledge accumulated by our ancestors must be protected, supplemented, and perfected by those who are fortunate enough to engage in the noble profession of education."

At this point, Professor Umbridge paused and bowed slightly to the other teachers, but none of them returned the bow to her. Professor McGonagall's eyebrows were furrowed, while Flitwick leaned back in his chair with a thoughtful expression.

"The previous headmasters of Hogwarts have all innovated while shouldering the important task of managing this prestigious school, which is perfectly appropriate, because without progress, there will be stagnation and decay."

"However, at the same time, the practice of progress for the sake of progress should never be encouraged. Our traditions have been tempered over thousands of years and often do not need clumsy corrections. A balance must be struck, between the old and the new, between the permanent and the changing, between tradition and innovation—"

This kind of uninformative talk quickly made everyone lose interest, and the young wizards' attention began to wander. Compared to the silence when talking to Professor Dumbledore, the hall now seemed a bit noisy.

The older students in Ravenclaw frowned when they heard this sentence: "The practice of progress for the sake of progress should never be encouraged," because there was an obvious problem with it.

According to Umbridge's theory, all new attempts can be regarded as progress for the sake of progress, and according to her, the determination of these things is now determined by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Magic, that is, herself.

As everyone knows, whether in magic or non-magic, academic issues must follow objective rules and are not subject to human will.

But from Umbridge's declaration now, it is clear that the Ministry of Magic plans to fully intervene in Hogwarts, and even directly interfere in the most core part of Hogwarts.

After all, Hogwarts is not just a school, but also the center of magical academia in the entire United Kingdom. In this case, the Ministry of Magic's intervention in academic research means that the other party wants to completely control this school.

Especially for Ravenclaw students, being interfered with in academic research is a very bad thing, which means that a large group of guys who don't understand this field at all will point fingers at the real researchers.

"—Let us move forward continuously, entering a new era of enlightenment, efficiency, and rationality, resolutely maintaining what should be maintained, improving what needs to be improved, and abandoning what we should prohibit."

More than ten minutes later, the long and boring speech finally ended. Dumbledore clapped politely, and the other teachers followed suit with a few claps. Most of the students were daydreaming, and only a few people followed along with the applause.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbridge, your speech was very enlightening." Dumbledore stood up at this time, bowed slightly to Umbridge, and then continued what he was saying before. "Well, as I just said, the Quidditch tryouts will be held—"

"It was indeed very enlightening." Hermione closed her eyes, reviewed several segments of the previous speech using the Tidu network, and said, "Giving such a speech at this time, it can almost be regarded as the Ministry of Magic's declaration of war on Hogwarts."

"This is normal, after all, Fudge was able to become the Minister of Magic not because he is a fool, but because he focused all his cleverness on this kind of trumped-up political struggle." Hugo nodded.

"And for our Minister of Magic, Hogwarts in Dumbledore's hands is a seriously unstable factor, a base that can continuously train followers for Dumbledore, so it must be rectified."

"He's really crazy—" Hermione muttered in shock, "The situation is so tense now, and he's still thinking about internal strife. Isn't he afraid that the entire Ministry of Magic will be occupied by the mysterious man?"

"He's really not afraid of this." Hugo looked at the chatting classmates around him and lowered his voice. "The reason why Fudge was able to become the Minister of Magic after the mysterious man died last time was largely because he was relatively incompetent."

"Why has incompetence become the standard for choosing the Minister of Magic?" Hermione frowned. This answer did exceed her expectations, because it was completely unreasonable.

"Back then, the rise of the mysterious man was not just his own idea or the ideas of one or two people. The real power came from a group of pure-blood wizarding families who wanted to take back their past privileges." Hugo explained to his sister.

"It's just that this group of pure-blood wizarding families completely screwed up. The biggest difference between the magical world and the ordinary world is that individual combat power is so strong that it can really influence the entire situation."

"And the pure-blood families didn't expect that the half-blood mysterious man would actually be able to beat a bunch of pure-blood families in terms of strength. What they didn't expect was that just when they couldn't beat him and were preparing to temporarily act like dogs and slowly find a way to undermine the mysterious man, the mysterious man actually died in Harry's hands."

Spending about a month with Sirius at Grimmauld Place this summer, the biggest gain for Hugo was a series of records from the Black family about the rise of Voldemort back then.

Perhaps to outsiders, these records are far less important than the Black family's unique magic, but to Hugo, these records that can reveal how Voldemort rose are the most important.

At least from these records, he finally understood why Voldemort would habitually torture and even kill his Death Eaters, giving people the feeling of being capricious and even somewhat crazy:

Because Voldemort, who was able to rise from a half-blood orphan to become the Dark Lord, was definitely not stupid, so he would naturally discover the tricks that those pure-blood wizards were doing behind his back.

But for Voldemort, who was himself a half-blood, he chose the banner of the so-called Slytherin heir and pure bloodline, so it was naturally impossible to win over Muggle-born wizards and half-blood wizards who were biased towards Muggles.

Then, with only the power of these pure-blood families as followers, Voldemort could only choose to suppress these pure-blood families through various cruel means.

And this is also an important reason why Snape was trusted. Besides being a technician, Snape was also one of the few Death Eaters who didn't have much contact with pure-blood families.