The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 481 Crucial memory

The walls of Hogwarts may be paper, and news of Ada's debate with Umbridge in class spread like wildfire.

Even by Hogwarts standards, the spread was surprisingly fast.In the corridors, in the classrooms, students discussing this can be seen everywhere.

While admiring Umbridge's courage, the students analyzed Ada's words sentence by sentence to find out which of these words were true and which were exaggerations.

At the end of the last school year, Dumbledore announced in front of all the students that Voldemort had returned, a fact that was difficult for the students to accept and believe.Even if Dumbledore announces all the details, it will be difficult to change this situation.

During the summer vacation, the "Daily Prophet" authorized by the Ministry of Magic smeared Dumbledore, whitewashed the peace, and advocated Dumbledore's conspiracy theory.The weakness of public opinion also puts Dumbledore in a disadvantageous situation, which can be called an enemy from both sides.

Umbridge's remarks last night may not have been understood by everyone at the time, but after a night of fermentation, everyone knew that the Ministry of Magic wanted to intervene in the management of Hogwarts and to control the school.

The Ministry of Magic wanted to intervene in the school, and most students felt that it was nothing and it was acceptable.It couldn't be easier than accepting Voldemort's return.

To put it bluntly, no matter how much the Ministry of Magic targets Dumbledore, suppresses him, or smears him, it is a matter between the top and cannot be related to the students.

It is neither the students' turn to speak out nor their turn to point fingers.All the student group can do is to watch and wait for the two sides to decide the winner.

However, when the debate between Ada and Umbridge came out, the students were surprised to find that they couldn't continue to watch, because they were affected by the brainless and large-scale damage of the Ministry of Magic. .

No one wants to silently read and copy texts in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, everyone wants to learn something real, real.

People say that the fire at the city gate brought disaster to the fish in the pond.However, a series of operations by the Ministry of Magic failed to do anything to Dumbledore. The Ministry of Magic failed to set the city gate on fire, but it succeeded in bringing Chi Yu to harm.

When eating at noon, as soon as Ada entered the auditorium, she received the attention of the students.

Ada's remarks in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class may be selfish and exaggerated, but she is indeed speaking from the standpoint of the students and defending the rights and interests of the students.

This is also where Ida is smart. She didn't mention Voldemort, but refuted Umbridge from the perspective of a student.Ada did what the students wanted to do but were afraid to do.

Umbridge did not show up in the auditorium, probably because she hadn't figured out how to face the questioning eyes of the students.But Umbridge's evasion could not solve the problem, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts class would continue.

So in the afternoon, another news came out of Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and Umbridge and Harry Potter got into an argument again.

But this time Umbridge learned a good lesson. She didn't give Harry any more chances to show off. She only said two or three words before shutting him down for a week.

Harry Potter, what a miserable man; Umbridge, what a miserable man... Forget it, let's not talk about it, Mr. Longbottom's Lyford should be angry.

When it was evening, Ada left the Gryffindor common room.Of course she wouldn't go to detention with Harry, she went straight to the eighth floor of the castle and stood in front of the ugly stone statue.

Say the pass code, and the stone statue jumps aside, revealing the stairs hidden behind it.

Climbing up the stairs, before Ada knocked on the door of the principal's office, Dumbledore's voice came from inside.

"You came a little earlier than the appointed time."

Pushing open the door, Ada walked into the principal's office, and Dumbledore just left his seat.

The principal waved his hand, and the door of a cabinet opened, and the Pensieve flew out of the cabinet and landed firmly on a table.

Dumbledore said during the summer vacation that he would give Ada a specific explanation after returning to school.So he asked a student to deliver a message to Ada, asking Ada to come over tonight.

Walking over and looking at the radiant Pensieve, Ada asked, "Professor, do we want to read your memory again tonight?"

Watching Dumbledore's memory is quite an interesting experience, but the fact that there is no fast-forward button makes Ada very uncomfortable.It is soulless to watch a video without being able to fast forward or rewind.

"Yes, that's right. A memory from many years ago." Dumbledore said, of course the headmaster didn't know what Ada was thinking, and even if he knew, he might not understand it.

"How many years ago?" Ada answered without words.

"Fifteen or six years," said Dumbledore, "that is a vital memory."

After speaking, the headmaster put his wand on his temple, and then gently pulled out wisps of silvery memories as thin as spider silk.Then put these memories stained on the wand into the Pensieve.

That memory swirled and floated in the Pensieve, and the ancient runes engraved on the side of the Pensieve shone dimly, and Dumbledore and Ada disappeared in the principal's office in an instant.

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The darkness in front of her eyes dissipated, and Ada suddenly found herself standing in Hogsmeade village. It was a cold and damp night.

"Let's go, I'm going in." said Dumbledore beside him.

Following Dumbledore's gaze, Ada saw him with a shorter beard, and the headmaster in his memory was pushing open the door of the Pig's Head Bar.Dumbledore and Ada immediately followed into the Hog's Head Bar, and then went upstairs to a small room.

When passing by the owner of the Pig's Head Bar, Ada sighed: "Professor, I really think you look a little like this owner."

"Of course," replied Dumbledore. "He's my brother, Aberforth. But he's not what we're going to do tonight."

Ada didn't ask any further, she looked at Dumbledore beside her, and then at Dumbledore in her memory.Although it was not the first time she was in such a scene, Ada still found it weird.

After a while, the small room was opened, and Aberforth walked in with a woman.

To Ada's surprise, she knew the woman who walked in, not only did she know her, but she also took her class!Sybill Trelawney, a professor of divination at Hogwarts, is a charlatan who Ada thinks is coming to the school to eat and drink.

"I came to interview Sybil, although I really wanted to cancel the course of divination." Dumbledore beside him explained, "But Sybil is a very famous and talented prophet. Granddaughter, I think it's polite to see her."

Cassandra Trelawney, Ida still knows the prophet's name.But because Cassandra lived too long ago, Ada didn't know whether she was really so magical or was deified by later generations.

The Pensieve didn't fast forward or rewind, and naturally it didn't pause, so it wouldn't stop because of Ada's distraction.The memories are still playing, and so is Sybill Trelawney's interview.

The Trelawney in my memory did not perform well, she failed to show her talent for prophecy, and her quack tricks failed to fool Dumbledore.

Dumbledore, with a slightly shorter white beard, politely rejected Trelawney. The headmaster comforted her a few words before leaving the room.Sybill Trelawney sat with her hands wrapped tightly in her shawl, her shoulders trembling slightly with sobs.

Ada looked suspiciously at Dumbledore beside her, she didn't understand.Since the headmaster had already rejected Trelawney, why did Trelawney still become a professor of divination?

Dumbledore didn't say anything, the principal just asked Ada to continue watching.With doubts, Ada looked back at that memory.

Just when Dumbledore in his memory was about to leave the room, a sudden change occurred.

Sybill Trelawney's feeble cries stopped suddenly, and she stood up abruptly.Because of the large range of movements, she knocked down the tables and chairs around her.

Dumbledore in his memory heard the strange noise behind him, turned around and looked at Trelawney who stood up.

Sybill Trelawney stood erect, her eyes glazed over, her mouth open.Then, her lifeless eyes began to roll, as if she was about to fall ill.

She said in a low, hoarse voice:

"The man who has the power to overcome the Dark Lord draws near...born of the family that has resisted him three times, born at the end of July...the Dark Lord will mark him his rival, but he will have The power to know...one of them must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live, only one shall survive...the one who has the power to defeat the Dark Lord will be born at the end of July..."

prophecy!Prophecy about Voldemort and Harry Potter!

The screen turned black again, Dumbledore and Ada returned to the principal's office, and the past principals in the portraits on the wall began to sleep soundly again.

Ada propped her hands on the table where the Pensieve was placed, and did not speak for a long time.The amount of information tonight is really too much, she needs to slow down and calm herself down.

After a long time, Ada asked out the doubts in her heart.For some reason, her voice was light and fluttering, with a hint of tremor.

"Professor, there were no guests in the bar that night, and only you and Trelawney were present...No, Aberforth is also here...Then how did Tom Riddle know this prophecy?"

"There were indeed only three people who knew the prophecy at the time, but Sybil was not among the three. Although Sybil was the one who made the prophecy."

Dumbledore said slowly.

(End of this chapter)