The Admiral of Hogwarts

“I understand what you mean.” Hermione was already a very intelligent girl, not to mention that her abilities had improved more than one level after becoming a ship girl.

“So, those pure-blood families chose the most incompetent, but also the most controlled, Fudge to take office, so that they can be successfully acquitted in the subsequent trials.”

“That's right, look at the Ministry of Magic's judgment list afterwards. Except for a few people who were too arrogant and couldn't get away with it, most people were successfully acquitted,” Hugo said with a smile.

“And after that, such a weak guy who is completely controlled by the pure-bloods can also bring a lot of benefits to the pure-blood families. This is why Fudge can stay in this position for so many years.”

“And now, those pure-blood families hope that the Ministry of Magic can reduce its attention to the Dark Lord and buy them time to develop and grow. So, it easily aroused Fudge's inner anxiety and greed, and made him start fighting with the headmaster.”

“This is a very bad thing, which means that at this important moment when the Dark Lord returns, the two most critical forces in the entire UK that can oppose the Dark Lord are not only not joining forces to resist, but are constantly consuming their strength in infighting.”

“Fortunately, we were prepared for this matter in advance.” At this point, Hermione smiled. “For everything that follows, we just need to quietly watch the situation develop.”

Just then, there was a sound of tables and chairs colliding around, apparently Dumbledore had announced the dismissal of all teachers and students, because everyone stood up to leave the hall.

Since Hugo and Hermione became prefects this year, they naturally shoulder the task of showing the way to the first-year freshmen, so they quickly came to the side of the hall to greet everyone.

I have to say that the Sorting Hat's sorting level is still relatively accurate, especially for freshmen. For example, compared to the noisy Gryffindor lions, the Ravenclaw freshmen seemed much quieter.

More importantly, there were fewer Ravenclaw and Slytherin freshmen to begin with, so it can be said that managing them is much easier than managing the other two houses with more people.

After shouting a few times to gather the freshmen together, Hugo stood at the end of the line watching them walk upstairs. Hermione walked at the front of the line, introducing some basic knowledge of the school to them as she led the way.

The freshmen, like they were back then, were full of curiosity about everything in this castle, and they would ask questions about certain novel things from time to time. Finally, after more than ten minutes, they finally successfully brought them to the Ravenclaw common room.

Like that female prefect back then, after briefly introducing Ravenclaw, Hermione got up and joined her brother, only to find that he was discussing something with a group of Ravenclaw upperclassmen.

“Bad news.” Hugo said to her after seeing his sister coming over, “Mark's grandmother has a very good relationship with Marchbanks, the person in charge over at the Wizarding Examinations Authority, and knows that our OWLs exams will be as strict as in previous years.”

“That sounds pretty normal.” Hermione frowned. “You know this exam is very important, so it's normal to be strict, otherwise it's not only useless but also harmful to learn the content of those advanced classes without reaching the level.”

Unlike the academics of ordinary people outside, the content that wizards learn is not only various theoretical knowledge, but also a lot of practical operations.

Therefore, if a wizard's talent and skills do not reach the level, forcibly learning those more advanced magic will not only fail to learn, but also easily cause some very serious problems, and even cause fatal danger.

“You're right, but the problem is that the Ministry of Magic is trying to modify this year's teaching content.” Hugo shrugged helplessly, “According to the information Mark got, this year the Ministry of Magic will try to reduce the practical part of the course as much as possible.”

“What? Are they crazy?” Hermione widened her eyes, “I remember the exam has always been about practical spellcasting, right? If there are fewer practical opportunities in class, how will we take the exam?”

“More importantly, the core of magic is not in theoretical classes, but in spellcasting ability. If you can't cast magic, it's useless to get a good score on the written test.”

In fact, magic is like driving. Theoretical knowledge is indeed indispensable, but the real core is practical operation. Without practical operation, theoretical knowledge is basically useless.

“You're right, but this year the Ministry of Magic seems to think that Dumbledore is using Hogwarts to cultivate his own power, so it hopes to weaken Dumbledore's imaginary power through this method.” Hugo shrugged.

“So this year's subjects, especially Defense Against the Dark Arts, will reduce practical operations as much as possible in order to achieve the goal of weakening Dumbledore's power.”

“They shouldn't dare to, right?” Hermione frowned at this time. “Don't forget, Hogwarts can be said to be the training base for all wizards in the UK. Tampering with this place is equivalent to weakening the future of the entire British Ministry of Magic—”

“But in fact, for those pure-blood families, this kind of weakening is very useful.” Hugo smiled, “Pure-blood wizards have their own inheritance, and they have ways to make up for it even if they don't learn well at school.”

“And whether it's Muggle-born or half-blood, all the knowledge they learn can only be obtained from Hogwarts, so now that the course content of Hogwarts is restricted, it can effectively weaken the power of Muggle-born and some half-bloods in the long run.”

“Although I don't want to admit it, you have a point.” Hermione frowned, “But I think this is just a guess. The real situation may not be known until after class.”

When eating breakfast the next morning, many students began to discuss matters about last year and the summer vacation. From their discussions, Hugo found that there were more people supporting Dumbledore now than he had imagined.

Especially for many students whose family members work in the Ministry of Magic, Umbridge's reputation is not very good, especially in terms of morality, which is often criticized. Such a moral standard is naturally not very suitable to be a professor.

So everyone at this time believes that Umbridge, as Fudge's confidant, was sent to Hogwarts at this time for only one purpose, which is to compete with Dumbledore for power.

“Now it seems that the Dark Lord's conspiracy has succeeded.” Hermione felt that the situation was not optimistic after listening to everyone's discussion.

“It's only been half a year since the Dark Lord returned, and we've already started fighting among ourselves.” Hermione said very bluntly, “The Sorting Hat's warning is also the same: unite—”

“You're right, but this is war.” Hugo also sighed.

“The interests between pure-blood wizards who are supremacist and ordinary wizards are根本就无法调和. This is a life-and-death war. It can only end when one side completely falls. Before that, there is no possibility of compromise or negotiation.”

“Of course I understand, because we are now facing a war.” Hermione sighed softly and said, “I can only hope that in the war to come, those Muggle-born wizards and even ordinary people can suffer less loss.”