The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 477 Umbridge's Dismissal
The foyer of the castle was red with torchlight, and echoed with the footsteps of the students.Across the stone-paved floor, Ada walked to the two doors leading to the auditorium on the right.

Fortunately, this year Ada was not stopped by Professor McGonagall at the entrance of the auditorium.

The hall was filled with four long college tables, and above it was a starless, black ceiling, identical to the sky outside seen through the high windows.

The students chatted happily, exchanging news from the summer vacation, shouting hello to friends from other colleges, and examining each other's new hairstyles and clothes.Everything looks the same as before.

As she was walking, Ada stopped suddenly and looked at the teacher's seat in surprise.

Her abnormal behavior naturally attracted the attention of others, and George, who was behind her, asked, "What's the matter? Why don't you find a place to sit down first?"

"Umbridge," Ada said desperately, "Dolores Umbridge."

Lee Jordan also came up, and he asked, "Who? Haven't you heard of such a number one person at Hogwarts?"

"It won't be that old Ministry toad you said before!" said Fred.He remembered that Ada had mentioned such a person, and that was the first time he knew that Ada hated a person so much.

"Toad?" Alia said curiously. "Are you talking about Lyfe of Longbottom?"

"No, Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic, I call her the 'Pink Old Toad'." Ada raised her head in the direction of the teacher's bench, signaling to everyone whether she looked like her or not.

I saw a strange woman sitting on the teacher's bench, short and fat, with short taupe hair with a big pink bow, and a pink cardigan that made her eyes even hotter.

"What a beautiful cardigan!" Fred smirked. "It goes so well with her bow!"

"Don't you feel a little heartache when you say that?" Angelina said. "When I go back at night, I throw away all my pink things. I don't think I will ever like pink again in my life."

Love the house and Wu, hate the rest of Xu.

Because of Umbridge's girly pink dress, there is another girl who is disappointed in pink.

"Me too, it's the first time I know that wearing pink is so contrived." Alia said, and then she looked at Ada, "You should have thrown it away long ago? I feel so sorry for every one I spent on pink." Copper Knut!"

"Fortunately, I have almost no pink clothes in my wardrobe," Ada said.She doesn't like pink, as she said herself, pink is too delicate.

Instead of buying a pink dress, it is better to buy a forget-me-not-like blue.

At the front of the long table in Gryffindor, Ada and the others found a few empty seats and sat down.On one side of them are the junior students from the same college, and on the other side are Katie and her classmates.

"It looks so much alike! It's more Leffe than Leffe." Lee Jordan sighed, "But what is she doing at school? Spying on Dumbledore for the Ministry of Magic?"

Several people were silent for a while.At this juncture, the purpose of Umbridge's presence at school is self-evident.It doesn't take a brain to know what Fudge is planning.

Ada sighed and said very sadly: "I'm afraid the situation is worse than that. I think "Magic Defense Theory" should be the textbook of choice for this..."

The students in the auditorium were all chatting with each other, and no one noticed the girlish old hag on the teacher's bench, and no one noticed that a group of senior students fell down on the long Gryffindor table.

After a while, the door to the hall opened, and a long line of first-years, who looked terrified, entered the auditorium led by Professor McGonagall.Professor McGonagall was holding a three-legged stool with the old Sorting Hat on it.

The hum of conversation in the auditorium gradually died down.First-year students lined up in front of the teacher's table, facing students from other grades.Professor McGonagall carefully placed the stool in front of them, then stepped back.

Looking at the students stumbling around on the long table in Gryffindor, Professor McGonagall pursed his lips, a little annoyed.

However, when the Sorting Hat held its annual concert, the little lions of Gryffindor reluctantly left the table and sat upright.

By this time most of the Gryffindors knew who Umbridge was.Maybe the little lions still know how nasty Umbridge is, and they don't know how bad Defense Against the Dark Arts will be this school year...

But everyone knows one thing - the eldest sister is very upset when she looks at Umbridge, the kind she hates!

The last time Big Sister hated a teacher so much was when Gilderoy Lockhart was around.

The students applauded, and the concert of the Sorting Hat came to a successful conclusion.The students of the four colleges were all whispering to each other, whispering about the new song of the Sorting Hat this time.

"...Our Hogwarts is in danger, and enemies outside the school are stalking us. We must be united within, or everything will fall apart from within..."

It wasn't until Professor McGonagall stared at those whispering classmates with stern eyes that the discussion in the auditorium stopped abruptly.Professor McGonagall looked down at the parchment in his hand and called out the first name aloud.

"Euan Abercrombie."

It was a little boy with a frightened look, and he had a pair of surprisingly big ears.He was sorted into Gryffindor by the Sorting Hat, and immediately the noise made by the lion cubs resounded in the Great Hall.

The sorting ceremony continued, and slowly, the long team of first-year freshmen shortened a little bit.

With Rose Zeller sorted into Hufflepuff, Professor McGonagall strode away with her hat and stool.At this time, Dumbledore stood up, without saying a word of nonsense, and directly announced the start of eating.

The five long tables were suddenly filled with large pieces of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam, and pots of pumpkin juice, and the long tables groaned because they were overwhelmed.

The appreciative laughter and warm applause in the auditorium stopped instantly, and then the sound of knives and forks clashing resounded through the auditorium.

It's just that the atmosphere on the long table in Gryffindor is a bit different, and the atmosphere of cooking is not strong.Presumably only Ron Weasley and first-year students can eat without worry.

The little lions looked at Ida at the same long table for a while, and at Umbridge at the teacher's table for a while, everything without saying a word.

The students were all full and full, and the sound of the auditorium gradually became noisy, when Dumbledore stood up again.

The talking stopped immediately, and everyone turned to the headmaster.Dumbledore emphasized a few school rules as in previous years, such as not being able to go to the Forbidden Forest, not being allowed to cast spells in the hallway between classes, and so on.

"This year, we have two changes in our teaching staff. We are delighted to welcome back Professor Graplan, who will teach you Care of Fantastic Creatures. We are equally pleased to introduce Professor Umbridge, our Defense Against the Dark Arts New teacher."

Once again, Ida's crow's mouth was unfortunate enough to say that the Ministry of Magic not only designated the teaching materials for Defense Against the Dark Arts, but even sent a teacher over.

If the Ministry of Magic can decide to change the headmaster, it is estimated that Umbridge will be the new headmaster directly.

Just as Dumbledore continued to speak, Umbridge stood up and interrupted the Headmaster.Dumbledore had never been interrupted by a new teacher before.

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

Her voice was high and shrill, breathy, like a little girl's voice.She said: "Well, I must say, it's great to be back at Hogwarts! It's great to see all these happy little faces looking up at me!"

But in fact, none of the faces of the students are happy, and no one likes to be regarded as a five-year-old child.

Although the students were looking at Umbridge, many of them secretly laughed in their hearts: this woman obviously didn't understand the rules of Hogwarts.

Umbridge's clatter continued, and she spoke in a very bureaucratic tone, as if this was not the Hogwarts Great Hall but the Ministry of Magic.

From the position of the Ministry of Magic, she first praised Hogwarts, and then said that the current school needs to be "revised", "maintain what should be maintained, improve what needs to be improved, and get rid of what we should prohibit." ".

Her entire speech had only one gist: The Ministry of Magic is unhappy with Hogwarts, so they're going to get involved in Hogwarts.

As for the dissatisfaction, is there any other reason besides Dumbledore?

The auditorium was very quiet, and it looked as if everyone was listening to Umbridge.But in fact, apart from a few students, only the administrator, Filch, listened carefully to her speech every word.

Umbridge sat down.Dumbledore began to clap, the other teachers followed suit, and the students habitually wanted to follow suit.

At the long table in Gryffindor, Ada didn't intend to applaud at all, she sat quietly like an outsider.

Ada didn't applaud, and the people around her didn't applaud either; Ada and the people around her didn't move, and the other Gryffindors also stopped their movements.

The cubs all sat there as if they didn't know that Umbridge's speech was over.

Gryffindor's strangeness naturally cannot escape the eyes of the other three colleges.

Although it is not clear why the lion cubs "grouply boycotted" Umbridge, the students of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff followed suit, and they stopped clapping like Gryffindor.

Slytherins also don't know why, but this does not prevent some of them from choosing to support Umbridge, after all, the enemy of an enemy is a friend.

So there was such a weird scene in the auditorium, five long tables including the teacher's seat, only the Slytherin students and teachers were applauding.

The remaining Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws remained silent, as if they were all disconnected collectively.

Many people are seeing Umbridge for the first time tonight, but her persona, her tirade, her interruption of the headmaster's speech are all very unpleasant, and it is difficult for people to accept her immediately.

Umbridge on the teacher's table was enraged by the scene before her, and she wanted to write a letter to her beloved minister, this Hogwarts is simply lawless!
(End of this chapter)