The years of welding at Hogwarts

The whispers in the hall instantly turned into a louder noise. Most of the pure-blood or half-blood wizards looked incredulous and stared at Professor McGonagall, hoping to hear a reversal of news from her.

But Professor McGonagall did not do as they wished.

"The disaster in London, from beginning to end, the culprit used only a simple weather spell."

"A wizard's power is limited after all. Even a weather spell that is large enough to cover a city cannot cause such a disaster."

"But if it is combined with a Muggle potion that can transform humans into lizardmen, it will be completely different."

In the auditorium, except for the first-year students who had just entered Hogwarts and still looked confused, the other students who had participated in the Battle of London all had serious and solemn expressions.

Professor McGonagall sighed slowly, "We wizards have been arrogant towards our neighbors who have been living beside us for a long time. This situation has lasted for too long."

"We can no longer afford to continue to choose to turn a blind eye to our neighbors as we have done today."

Having said this, Professor McGonagall paused and silently observed the changing expressions on the students' faces. She did not continue speaking until the noisy sound in the hall gradually died down and the entire hall returned to silence.

"Only by understanding them and learning from them can we better hide ourselves and protect ourselves."

"So!" Professor McGonagall's voice suddenly rose a few degrees. "It is necessary for Hogwarts' curriculum to make some adaptive changes for this purpose. The changes in Muggle Studies are prepared for this purpose."

"In the new school year, Muggle Studies will be changed from an elective course to a compulsory course for the entire grade. Professor James Barnes will serve as the professor of Muggle Studies."

Professor McGonagall had laid so much groundwork beforehand, only to finally announce the course change. This sudden change made the students in the audience look at each other in bewilderment.

What the hell?

You said all that just to tell us that Muggle Studies has become a compulsory course?

If you only listen to the first half of what Professor McGonagall said, people who don't know would think that this is another large-scale missionary site, the purpose of which is to instill the witch party's old tricks into students who are still gradually establishing their worldview -

There is a huge difference between wizards and Muggles. The existence of Muggles threatens the safety of the magical world. Wizards are far superior to Muggles in terms of life level. Muggles are born to be ruled by wizards...

Grindelwald's theory does have a fatal attraction to the pure-blood wizards in the magical world.

Unfortunately, due to the arrogance of the wizards, they have missed the best time to implement this theory.

In the era before mushroom bombs were invented, wizards only needed to use the Disillusionment Charm to find out the whereabouts of the leaders of powerful countries in advance, use Apparition to sneak in silently and control them with the Imperius Curse, and they could easily take control of the entire Muggle world.

Muggles have no effective means to counter the mysterious wizards. They may not even be able to notice that the heads of their own countries are being controlled.

The wizards' spatial teleportation and mind control are a dimensionality reduction attack by the Singer civilization on humans compared to Muggles who are still using gunpowder to propel solid projectiles to kill their enemies.

This is what Grindelwald thought, and this is what he did.

Simply because they could not accept the slight pain that must be paid for change, the conservative forces in the wizarding world, led by Dumbledore, stood against Grindelwald.

The wizarding war, which spread across the globe, lasted until 1945, when the Muggles' first mushroom bomb was successfully detonated at the Alamogordo Proving Ground in America.

On August 8 and August 6 of the same year, two more mushroom bombs appeared on Xiaori...

The two mushroom bombs that exploded in the home of Chicken, who was living a relatively good life, made Grindelwald realize that the wizard had missed the best opportunity.

That's why he ended this war with dejection, which no longer had any meaning and would only result in mutual losses for the wizarding world.

Although Muggles still have no effective countermeasures against the wizards' mysterious methods of space teleportation and mind control with their current level of technology.

But they already have the ability to take the whole world with them on the road.

So, Grindelwald's theory no longer works.

Grindelwald saw this very clearly. With his far-sighted vision that was far ahead of his time and his profound wisdom that was beyond compare, it was impossible for him not to think of how changes should be made in order to allow the wizarding world to better survive.

That is to actively integrate into the Muggle community.

But some of the most fanatical believers in his Witch Party, some of the best among them, might be able to see this as clearly as Grindelwald, but they would never be willing to believe it.

The concept that wizards were born to be superior to Muggles had been deeply rooted in their minds through years of fighting.

At the same time, this strong belief is also the source of motivation that supports them to fight for the future of the magic world.

The stronger the belief, the more difficult it is to change the idea.

When the correct way out for the wizarding world diverges from the path they are taking, they are unlikely to take the initiative to correct their own practices. Instead, they will only become more convinced that their own practices are absolutely correct.

The deviation between the ultimate goal and the current path is only a temporary fallacy. As long as they stick to their approach, the situation will gradually improve.

Even though the saints were united under Gellert Grindelwald's extremely powerful personal charisma to fight for the greater good of the wizarding world, faced with such a situation, Grindelwald was powerless to change the minds of his fanatical followers.

Therefore, he could only choose to imprison himself in the tower of Nurmengard and watch coldly as the Witch Party, a huge force that he had built with his own hands, fell apart.

Chapter 285: The First Mock Military Training Camp at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

What exactly has changed in Muggle Studies is a question that will have to be explored by the students of Hogwarts themselves.

After talking about the new changes in professors and course content, Professor McGonagall turned the topic to an issue that the students in the auditorium were most concerned about before school started.

"I think you must be very curious about what kind of event is worth stopping classes for a month."

Looking at the little brats below the podium with their ears almost standing up, Professor McGonagall unconsciously put on a smile similar to that of the evil Shafrin.

To put it more accurately, it should be the famous evil smile displayed by the fake Aguru who was transformed from a metal life form.

"During this one-month suspension, the professors will lead you in a meaningful activity, which will occupy most of your time and energy, leaving you no time to think about other things."

The older cat girl's smile grew wider. "In other words, this event will be very tiring."

After hearing this, the students' expectations for this event decreased slightly.

Tired?

Didn't Professor McGonagall want them to go into the greenhouse and dig the soil?

Or like when Shafulin taught the first-year magic offense and defense class, he took everyone to the Forbidden Forest to play a hundred-person skydiving game or a monster battle royale?

Thinking of this, the reckless men of Gryffindor became even more excited.

The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs who were not very active and just liked to stay quietly in the library to study, and the little eagles and badgers who liked to hide in the kitchen to study cooking and eating, all had a trace of sadness on their faces.

The Weasley twins looked at each other.

Anyway, it's good to have a month to escape from Snape's Magical Offense and Defense class.

Even though Snape's magic attack and defense could indeed allow them to learn a lot.

If it weren't for this new course established last year, which allowed the twins, who already had a high talent for fighting, to learn many combat skills, enough to support them to confidently rush out of the Hogwarts Express and bravely kill monsters, they might not have had the two Second Class Order of Merlin medals in their possession.

Professor McGonagall paused for a moment, and in response to the students' expectations, she finally told them the real purpose of this event.

“This event

The full name is [Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's First Simulated Military Training Camp]."

"You will experience the real Auror Force training life under the guidance of Hogwarts professors and retired Aurors we hired from the Ministry of Magic."

As Professor McGonagall finished her words, the entire hall suddenly fell silent.

After a moment of silence, a heated discussion suddenly broke out in the auditorium, mixed with the cheers of the most active little lions.

No matter which world it is in, it is a fully simulated military experience activity. Here we are not talking about those boring trainings of standing at attention and marching under the shade of trees, but driving tanks and armored vehicles into the campus. Students can touch real guns and even have the opportunity to experience live-fire shooting, which is the real military training.

This highly realistic military experience activity will definitely cause a sensation among students.

Even these wizard apprentices in the magic world cannot escape the true fragrance.

For those senior students who intend to join the Auror Office under the Ministry of Magic after graduation, this is simply a huge surprise that falls from the sky.

At this moment, the auditorium's tightly closed door was slammed open.

The loud noise caused by the heavy oak door hitting the wall behind it attracted the students' attention and gradually made the originally noisy auditorium quiet.

Everyone turned their heads curiously to look in the direction where the sound came from.

I saw a man with a long cane appear at the entrance of the auditorium at some point. He was wrapped in a black travel cloak that seemed to be made of dragon skin.

The stranger took off his hood, shaking out his long gray hair, which also revealed his terrifying face.

It looked like it was carved out of a rotten piece of wood, and the carver had only a vague idea of ​​what the shape of a human face should be, and wasn't very good at using the chisel.

Every inch of skin on that face seemed to be scarred. The mouth, which was obviously cut on both sides, looked like a big crooked gash, and the bulge where the nose should be was gone.

As he limped slowly past the students' tables towards the podium, gasps could be heard from the tables on both sides from time to time.

Alastor Moody.

In the current Auror Office of the British Ministry of Magic, he is the most powerful legendary Auror, both retired and active. Most of the prisoners in Azkaban were sent there by him alone.

Even though he didn't take out his wand or speak a word, the aura emanating from this legendary Auror was like a dark cloud hovering over the students' heads, suppressing them so much that they dared not even breathe.

The same was true even for those first-year wizards who didn't know Moody or his legendary achievements.

"Moody, you're late." Professor McGonagall happily broke the silence in the hall, "Dinner is over, but I asked the elves in the kitchen to reserve dinner for you."

Moody said gruffly, "No need. I ate before I got here. I'm not used to eating food prepared by others."

He sat down on the vacant seat at the dining table above the podium.

Professor McGonagall smiled and cast her eyes towards the young wizards sitting in the podium. "Please allow me to introduce you to Professor Alastor Moody. He will be the deputy chief instructor of this military training camp and will accompany you through this one-month simulation training."

Originally, Professor McGonagall planned to hire Moody to be the professor of Magic Offense and Defense.

But now Moody has chosen to accept the Ministry of Magic's invitation to re-employment and returned to the Auror Office as an instructor.

Therefore, Professor McGonagall had no choice but to take a compromise approach, which was to find Amelia Bones, the big boss in charge of the Ministry of Magic, and borrow Moody, the head coach of eighty Aurors, from the Auror Office for a month.

Because of this, the candidate originally chosen by Professor McGonagall to be the chief instructor of the training camp had to be demoted to the deputy chief instructor.

At the same time, the Winter Soldier, who was a newcomer both in the wizarding world and in Hogwarts, was successfully elected as the chief instructor with Noah's recommendation.

"Okay, the next period of time..."

Professor McGonagall originally planned to announce the end of the dinner and let all students, led by their respective college prefects, return to the common rooms of their colleges.

But before she opened her mouth, she subconsciously looked back at the seat where she had just sat.

That should have been Dumbledore's seat, but now it was empty.

A complex thought flashed across Professor McGonagall's eyes.

Although I had thought about it a long time ago that when I became the headmaster of Hogwarts, the first thing I would do would be to cancel the evil part of singing the school song at the opening dinner.

But now that she had really become the headmaster of Hogwarts, she finally no longer had to endure the attacks of the unbearable magic sound. However, she hesitated when she was about to announce the end of the dinner.

Professor McGonagall forced a smile and finally made up her mind.

"Let's sing the school song!"

She took out her magic wand and flicked it in the air. The light that shot out from the tip of the wand exploded in the air and transformed into a song lyric that twisted and coiled like a snake, floating in the air.

"Follow my command!"

Professor McGonagall used the wand in her hand as a baton.

This time, the smiles of the other professors did not freeze as in previous years. Instead, everyone stared at the lyrics floating in the air very seriously and sang loudly following Professor McGonagall's instruction.

"Hogwarts! Hogwarts! Please teach us knowledge..."

Chapter 286 Noah's Animagus

A heart-breaking song, where can I find a close friend in the world?

Under the direction of Professor McGonagall, the Hogwarts school song, which was always sung in a disjointed manner in previous years, ended with a relatively neat tune this year.

Compared to Dumbledore who asked students to sing randomly according to their favorite tunes, Professor McGonagall's operation was called professional!

Led by their respective class leaders, students from each college poured out of the auditorium entrance in a chaotic but somewhat orderly manner. They were divided into four distinct teams according to their college affiliation and walked in four different directions.

But Noah did not leave with the group, but stayed in the auditorium.

"Professor McGonagall."

He took a few steps forward and met the older cat lady who was about to go back to her office to rest.

"I plan to complete the Animagus transformation."

There were still many students and professors in the auditorium at this time, and Noah had no intention of hiding anything from outsiders. For him, the Animagus report was not a problem that would expose his abilities like it was for Rita Skeeter.

After all, what he prepared this time was not an ordinary Animagus, but a magical Animagus that was unprecedented in the entire history of magic and could transform into a magical creature.

Noah had already mastered the ordinary Animagus during the summer vacation.

After torturing himself so many times with Polyjuice Potion mixed with animal hair, with Noah's magical talent and his profound knowledge from another world, if he still couldn't learn a simple Animagus, he might as well suffocate to death in Fox's arms.

But up to now, the Animagus that Noah has mastered can only transform into three common animals, namely cats, dogs, and owls.

These three animals are the ones he comes into contact with most often in his daily life, and they are also the most convenient to pluck.

Of course, wolves are also canines, and dogs are close relatives of wolves. If huskies are included, Noah's Animagus form should also include wolves.