The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 478 The first lesson of school

Everything in front of her eyes made Dolores Umbridge very angry.

She felt that the reason why the students didn't applaud was because Dumbledore, the old beast, instructed Ada, the little beast, to arrange it.The students were intimidated by the two, so they did not dare to applaud.

She believes that Dumbledore is inciting the Ministry of Magic and the students to confront each other and hate each other, so as to achieve the purpose of becoming the Ministry of Magic.

For God's sake, it never occurred to Umbridge that this was a semi-involuntary behavior of the students, out of a bad first impression of her.There was neither Dumbledore's instruction nor Ada's coercion.

At best, Ada's individual behavior affected the Gryffindor collective, and Gryffindor's collective behavior drove Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

It's just that everyone is giving Ada face.

With gratified eyes, Umbridge looked at the Slytherins who were clapping hard.She is very satisfied with Slytherin's performance tonight. She deserves to be a pure blood who is not afraid of power and coercion, and she is trustworthy.

But in fact, few of the Slytherin students knew who Umbridge was, nor did they know the meaning of her speech.They applauded in support simply because Gryffindor "boycotted" her.

It's that simple!It's that pure!
Dumbledore stood up again, and continued to finish his interrupted words, and the atmosphere in the auditorium returned to normal.

After the principal finished his speech and announced the disbandment, there was a clash of tables, chairs and benches.

The somewhat tortuous and discordant Hogwarts opening dinner was over, and the students stood up one after another, preparing to leave the auditorium.They were going back to their common rooms, and they missed the soft beds of their dorms.

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The next morning, Ada left the dormitory early.

Unexpectedly, Fred and George woke up earlier than her, and they were posting notices on the bulletin board in the common room at the moment.

Out of curiosity, Ada walked over to take a look, and the twins held a recruitment notice in their hands.

Previously, many of the twins' products were experimented on themselves, or on Lee Jordan, and now they have finally extended their claws to other students.

"Is there anything that needs to be revised?" Fred asked, "You are the president of the female student union, please give me your opinion!"

Ada was not polite either. She took the quill from George and added two lines at the end of the notice.She wrote:

(Job-seeking qualifications: at least [-] years old and above, with a certain ability to act independently)
(Sorry, all work is at the applicant's own risk and requires a signed waiver.)
"That's it, it's definitely not perfect, but it should be enough to fool people." Ada said, returning the quill to George, "Hurry up and post it, and then go to have breakfast."

The twins posted the revised notice on the most conspicuous position on the bulletin board, took two steps back and took a closer look. The two brothers were very satisfied.

"Ada must be a profiteer if she is in business." Fred said, while speaking, he manually gave Ada a thumbs up.

"You said if she sold it to us someday," George winked at Fred, "would we still count the money for her?"

Under Ada's reproachful eyes, the twins nodded deeply.

After one last look at the notice, the three of them walked out of the common room together and went to the auditorium for breakfast.They came a little early, and there were not many students in the auditorium, so Ada and the twins found an empty seat and sat down.

As the noise in the auditorium became louder, the number of students gradually increased.At this point, Professor McGonagall began handing out timetables along the table.

Professor McGonagall put Ada's timetable in front of her, and tapped twice heavily on Defense Against the Dark Arts.What that means is: try not to mess up this class, and just stay there.

The corner of Ada's mouth turned down instantly, and she looked at Professor McGonagall pitifully. It's a bit difficult!

Even if Idaken stayed put, could Umbridge let her go?

Professor McGonagall is also aware of this situation, so she didn't force Ada to do it, but asked Ada to try not to confront Umbridge head-on.

After all, this is a school, and Umbridge's identity has become a professor.

Professor McGonagall shook his head helplessly, and continued to distribute the timetable, leaving Ada sighing at her timetable.

Then she picked up the twins' schedules.The two brothers' course schedule is empty, which is very enviable.Ada's mood suddenly became as gray and gloomy as the magic ceiling.

She also wants to be so leisurely, and she also wants to enjoy the last year of campus life leisurely.

Fingers focused on Defense Against the Dark Arts, Ada's first class of the school year.Maybe she could figure out a way to save herself from having to take this class again.

After breakfast, Ada left the auditorium with her friends.

On the way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Angelina had been discussing with the twins and Alia about recruiting new Quidditch teams.After the former captain Oliver Wood graduated, the Gryffindor Quidditch team not only lost a serious and responsible captain, but also lost an excellent goalkeeper.This made Angelina a headache for the new captain.

Before they knew it, they walked to the door of the classroom, but Angelina and their discussion still had no results.

In the classroom, Umbridge was already sitting behind the podium, still wearing the girly pink cardigan from last night.

The students sitting below were all silent and lifeless.

When the class bell rang, Umbridge said, "Good morning, students!"

There were sparse answers in the classroom, which made Umbridge very dissatisfied.She expects students to respond with "Good morning, Professor Umbridge".

But the students in this classroom are all in the seventh grade. They don't like such a rigid way of answering, and they don't want to sit with their hands behind their backs.

So Umbridge and the students got into a stalemate.She could only hear "Good morning, Professor Umbridge" in twos and threes, and more people were still lazy and dealt with it casually.

After repeating this several times, someone finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "We are already in the seventh grade. When will we start class?"

Umbridge said sharply, "It should have been 'Professor Umbridge, when do we start', that would be correct. Hogwarts education seems to have made you forget a lot of things to obey. "

"When do we start classes, Professor Umbridge?" said the student gloomily.

"Of course after you all say 'Good morning, Professor Umbridge' neatly," said Umbridge, "Good morning, students!"

"Good morning, Professor Umbridge." The students replied in unison.

At this time, at least 5 minutes had passed since the bell rang for class.

"That's right," said Umbridge in a whining voice. "It's not too difficult, is it? Put away your wand, please, and get out your quill."

Now the students are even more depressed, this is only the first class of the school, Umbridge is going to come like this, it's too early!

The students put away their wands helplessly, and took out their quills and ink.

In Defense Against the Dark Arts, after Foley had done the emotional reading aloud, and Lockhart had done the melodrama, the students wanted to see what Umbridge could come up with.

While students were not allowed to use wands, Umbridge produced her ridiculously short wand.After making gestures and scribbling, two lines of words appeared on the blackboard:
Defense Against the Dark Arts
back to basics
Umbridge criticized the Defense Against the Dark Arts course at Hogwarts, with teachers constantly changing, fragmented and intermittent.Indirectly, what Dumbledore said was useless.

Then Umbridge changed the subject and started to praise the Ministry of Magic and Fudge.Said that she would teach in accordance with the curriculum standards approved by the Ministry of Magic, centered on theory.

The room grew even more lifeless, and everyone felt vaguely that they were taking Binns' History of Magic instead of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

The lesson was still going on, and Umbridge hadn't asked anyone to read the text aloud, but she went even further than that, making everyone read the text silently, and making everyone copy the text.

Defense Against the Dark Arts turned into a self-study in an instant. There was no sound of teachers lecturing in the classroom, only the sound of flipping through books and the rustling of copying.

Umbridge looked at everyone with satisfaction, and then she looked at Ada among the students, trying to find fault.

But Umbridge was disappointed, Ada just sat there reading a book obediently, without any room to make use of it.

After a few more minutes, the boring content successfully made the students sleepy, and the tragedy was comparable to the History of Magic classroom at the same time.

At this time, a Ravenclaw student raised his hand straightly, he couldn't stand this way of teaching.

"Dear, do you have any questions about the content of this chapter?" Umbridge asked amiably.

The Ravenclaw student stood up and asked, "Professor Umbridge, are we going to continue this class forever? Silent reading, copying, I mean, don't you teach us something?"

The students in the classroom all looked at the Ravenclaw, and they agreed with the little eagle's statement.

Then everyone looked at Ada again, wondering why her class was so quiet.Even Fred and George didn't quite understand this point. The brothers thought that Ida must be holding back something bad.

"Oh, dear, I don't understand why your bright little brain would let you ask such stupid questions!" Umbridge said fussily, "The knowledge is in that book, which is the Ministry of Magic Education Handpicked by experts. All you need to do is keep the above knowledge firmly in mind.”

There were voices of discussion in the classroom, and they were very dissatisfied with the explanation given by Umbridge.

Classes are all about reading and copying books, so what else should the professor do?Don't even need the classroom, let's all go to the library to learn by ourselves!

"Silence!" Umbridge said, "This is a decision made by the Ministry of Magic. Do you think you are wiser than education experts, or do you want to resist the will of the Ministry of Magic?"

Silence, the students who were chattering just now immediately quieted down.Against the will of the Ministry of Magic, is it so serious?
The students were powerless to change Umbridge and what she called the Ministry of Magic's decision, but they were not reconciled to the status quo.They were already in seventh grade and about to take the Ultimate Wizarding Level exam, how could this work!

So the students looked at Ada who was still reading, and pinned their hopes on the female student council president and Defense Against the Dark Arts professor killer.

With a "snap", Ada closed the "Magic Defense Theory" forcefully in her hand, and raised her right hand high.

(End of this chapter)