Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

While Mikel was waiting for Professor McGonagall to arrive, a report on high-level contaminants in the village was presented to the Ministry of Magic.

Ministry officials had dragged their feet on previous inspections for contamination.

But once the contaminants were discovered, the Ministry of Magic dealt with them quickly.

Not only did they investigate the source of the pollutants, but they also made a nice report on the process of resolving the pollutants.

From this we can see that the efficiency of the Ministry of Magic has never been about finding problems, but about solving them.

The emergence of high-level pollutants also made the Ministry of Magic alert.

"I'm afraid this is not an isolated case. There are many villages that have disappeared for no reason. Perhaps they were affected by high-level pollutants, leading to their extinction."

"There are too many villages that have disappeared in the past few years, but after investigating, they couldn't explain the reason. I suggest that the department send Aurors to investigate again."

The Ministry of Magic reviewed the internal investigator team and found that many of the previous investigation teams were not composed of Aurors. This resulted in the investigation team not daring to go to overly dangerous places during the investigation. They often just tested the energy concentration of that place and left.

In the past, testing energy concentration was basically enough to assess the level of pollutants.

However, in recent years, many high-level pollutants have fallen into the wizarding world, and high-level pollutants are good at hiding energy, which leads to some fish slipping through the net.

A wizard hesitated and said, "But the Auror staff is seriously understaffed right now. Most of them are sent to arrest Death Eaters. There are no extra people to use for investigation."

As soon as this wizard came out, other wizards followed suit: "Yes, didn't we set strict inspection standards before? Why don't we let the wizards strictly follow those standards?"

"No."

One wizard rejected it without a second thought. "The new inspection standards are very good, but many of the search teams are ordinary wizards who cannot handle mid-level or higher contaminants. It would be better to send Aurors directly."

"With the strength of the Aurors, if they encounter low-level or medium-level pollutants, they can solve them all at once. Even if they encounter high-level pollutants, they can still escape from them."

According to the current search standards customized by the Ministry of Magic, once the investigation team encounters intermediate or higher level pollutants, they will basically be unable to escape.

Rather than having them all destroyed, it would be better to use powerful Aurors to solve the problem from the beginning.

"But there is a serious shortage of Aurors right now, unless we recruit more new Aurors. But even so, the training time for new Aurors is tedious and long, and adding more people will not solve the imminent staffing problem."

The issue of recruiting new Aurors involves another plan of the Ministry of Magic, which needs to be discussed at a later meeting.

However, for now, even though Auror training is very difficult, new recruits must be recruited because the Ministry of Magic will face more frequent difficulties in the future than it does now.

Arresting the Death Eaters was intended to solve the internal problems of the wizarding world, but external collisions with the evil world became more frequent, and more and more pollutants came from the evil world.

Just to deal with the effects of these pollutants, the Auror team must be expanded.

Just as these wizards were trying to find a way to solve the unclear information on the pollutant investigation, suddenly a message came from a higher-level official.

[The Death Eater cleanup operation was a great success. Some Aurors were mobilized to deal with the registered pollutants. Aurors restarted recruiting new ones without waiting until the graduates graduate.]

[This recruitment does not restrict wizards working in other departments. Wizards working in the Ministry of Magic or elsewhere can participate in the Auror selection. ]

These two pieces of news are not about discussing with others, but directly determine the future direction of the Ministry of Magic.

The messages were sent down from the superiors, and each one was signed with Dumbledore's name. This was the result of discussions among the top leaders.

There were many wizards in a meeting, and they all received these two messages at the same time, with stern expressions on their faces.

Some wizards had complicated expressions in their eyes as they recalled the past.

The last time the Auror Department was expanded was decades ago.

At that time, Voldemort suddenly appeared, which frightened many wizards in Britain. Everyone in the Ministry of Magic was also in danger, and there was an urgent need to expand the Auror team to protect the Ministry of Magic.

Going back further, it should be possible to trace it back to a hundred years ago, because some wizards discovered the existence of the evil world, so the Auror department was expanded to maintain world safety.

The expansion hundreds of years ago was a worldwide expansion.

Not only the British Ministry of Magic, but also the Ministry of Magic in other places have increased the recruitment of security personnel.

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"Mikel, how are you feeling? Are you still feeling unwell?"

Professor McGonagall Apparated into a ward at St. Mungo's.

She appeared suddenly, startling Mikel who was still reading a newspaper.

If you want to Apparate to a specific place, you must be there in person and cannot just imagine it.

St. Mungo's set up a formation to repel Apparition, but the power of the formation is not as strong as that of Hogwarts. However, only high-level wizards can break through this blockade.

The fact that Professor McGonagall came here directly proved that she was extremely familiar with St. Mungo's.

Mikel said: "Professor, I am much better now. If I didn't have to go to Hogwarts, I could have left St. Mungo's yesterday."

Mag said, "No hurry, I'll ask about the high-level pollutants."

After Mikel woke up, he was questioned by many wizards from the Ministry of Magic. He was already familiar with this process.

Hearing the professor wanting to understand, he repeated what he had said to those people in the Ministry of Magic.

Professor McGonagall asked more detailed questions than the people sent by the Ministry of Magic.

"You ran out when you realized something was wrong. Did the two Aurors see your actions?"

Mikel nodded. "Yes, because I ran out, the two Aurors followed me out. They had already noticed that the level of pollutants was not right."

McGonagall asked sharply, "You survived, but the two Aurors were turned into a pile of bones. How did you escape?"

Mikkel wanted to say that it was a coincidence that he escaped underground, but facing Professor McGonagall's eyes, he thought about it and revealed some real information:

"I noticed that this pollutant was very powerful above ground, so I decided to escape underground. But underground, I was always subject to various vibrations, and I spent a lot of effort to fight against the squeezing force of the ground."

Mag asked, "That's all?"

Mikel said: "That's all. I hid underground for a few days and didn't dare to stick my head out until I couldn't hold on any longer. Then I came out to check and found out that I was fine."

Mag took out a piece of parchment, and the feather pens floating around it kept jumping and recording something according to the thoughts in his mind.

Mag paused for a moment, as if thinking about something, and continued: "With your magic power, you can't last so many days underground. You have a secret."

Mikel's heart trembled, "Professor, I..." McGonagall shook her head, "I don't want to know your secrets. Everyone has secrets. The key is that some people can't use them well, and some people can't use them well."

"I'm asking you because I want to know whether you used any new magic to fight against the squeezing force from underground?"

Mikel was a little hesitant. His knowledge of the magical world came only from reading the original Harry Potter novel and attending Hogwarts for a few years.

He was not sure whether there was magic like [Power of the Earth] in the magic world.

He originally didn't want to tell this magic, but considering that McGonagall was the headmaster of Gryffindor House, if he wanted to acquire higher knowledge and gain greater benefits in school in the future, he would not be able to avoid the headmaster of his own house.

So he simply described the magic of [Power of the Earth Veins].

When he uttered this magic, he deliberately observed Professor McGonagall's expression.

Mag hadn't changed at all.

This made Mikel a little unsure whether the system was improving the existing magic or creating new ones from scratch.

"Brush brush..."

The automatic quill danced around McGonagall, and soon filled a page of parchment.

Magg shook her wand slightly, and new parchment was automatically placed under the quill, and the quill began to dance lightly again.

[It is suspected that he is carrying a strange item that can replenish magic power, suitable for use in a place without magic. 】

[He created a new kind of underground magic that can be used in underground combat. He is suspected to have a talent for creating spells. The "Power of the Earth Veins" he created can be rated as an excellent spell and is worth promoting. However, it is difficult to use and is temporarily rated as a five-star difficulty. ]

[This student has special talents and may be given relevant creative tasks.]

After McGonagall finished the entire registration process, she gently shook her wand to pause the quill recording.

She put away the quill and parchment, and then said to Mikkel, "Hold my hand tightly, I will take you back to Hogwarts now."

Hogwarts has set up a large defensive magic array to prohibit any type of apparition. Even though McGonagall is a professor at the school, she has no privileges.
The best she could do was take him as far as Hogsmeade, and even she herself had to stay in Hogsmeade village and take special transportation to the school.

Professor McGonagall was quite serious, and Mickle didn't dare to communicate with her much.

Mikel felt annoyed. Why couldn't he be as shameless as Harry and Ron?
After arriving at Hogwarts, not only Mikel but also McGonagall was interrogated by the wizards on duty and patrol.

Mag passed the security check first. She did not enter the school immediately but stood there.

Mikel was brought into the campus only after he passed the security check.

Entering the first floor of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall said: "Because of the Death Eater invasion in Hogsmeade Village, the surrounding areas are under martial law.

Even in the school, there are many wizards patrolling. If it is not necessary, do not go out at night, lest the patrolling wizards think you have ulterior motives. In serious cases, you will be arrested and interrogated by the Ministry of Magic. I don't want to go to the Ministry of Magic to get you out."

Mikael nodded seriously, he was not like the Weasley twins who liked to commit crimes at the top.

The stricter the school was, the more the twins liked to use invisibility spells and go out for night walks.

The twins are quite capable in school, and even if they encounter danger, they are able to resolve it.

If they don't have the ability, they can still turn danger into safety.

But he is different.

Once his experience points are used up by the system, it is difficult to gain them back, so he has to use them wisely every time.

Mikkel thought for a moment and asked, "Professor, can I go to the library to read during the day? I want to preview the content for next semester in advance, and also read some extra magic practice books to increase my knowledge of magic."

As a professor, McGonagall is happy to see every student make progress.

"Of course you can, but it's limited to reading. There are also wizards patrolling the library. If you do something strange, you will be taken away by the wizards for questioning."

Mag thought it was great that Mikel had such a good attitude towards learning, and took the initiative to ask: "Do you have a list of books you want to read? If not, I can recommend some suitable ones for you to study."

Mikkel nodded quickly: "I would like the professor to recommend some magic books. I want to learn some, but I don't know where to start."

……

While everyone was studying hard, Draco also entered a new stage of the heir course.

Ever since the last battle with his father Lucius, Lucius thought that his practical skills were good enough for him to move on to the next stage of learning to specifically hone his combat skills.

There are two types of fighting skills: one is the skills used in polite fighting with others, and the other is fighting in life-and-death crisis.

Draco first came into contact with fighting skills. At first, he thought these skills were very useful and some of the methods of relieving force were very clever.

Moreover, his fighting skills also took into account close combat. He learned how to use a magic wand to cast spells while fighting.

He guaranteed that if he fought his father Lucius again, he would not be defeated as quickly as he did last time.

The only thing that bothered him was his magic reserve, and judging from his skills alone, he should be able to match his father's.

But Draco's inflated confidence was quickly extinguished by the life-and-death battle.

My father also served as my instructor in honing my skills in this area.

Every time, he was on the verge of death under his father's torture, and had to take the special healing potion made by his family at night to recover.

After about ten days of training, my father finally showed mercy and said, "You can move on to the next new training."

This puzzled Draco. "But father, I have many skills that I haven't honed yet. I can't use them smoothly, and my body often can't react."

Lucius nodded and said, "I have taught you almost all the fighting skills. If there are any new skills, you can only hone them through actual combat."

"As for the problem you mentioned, it's because your body can't keep up with your mind, so you feel out of coordination. To solve this problem, it's very simple, just keep practicing and turn those skills into your instincts."

“But—” Lucius paused and said meaningfully: “There has never been anyone in our family with a physique like yours.

If your body has become so special because you practiced the family kung fu given by Lin Xia, I suggest you seek help from Lin Xia.

She should have a family method of training the body. If you learn her method, the help you get should be no less than the inheritance passed down by the family to you."

The bloodline of the Eastern Warlocks is not to be underestimated, even by a noble family like the Malf family. (End of this chapter)