The arrival of Centaur Firenze was not hidden from the eyes of other students, or the principal had no intention of concealing this matter from the beginning.
At that time, Umbridge, who was standing on the stone steps, almost stared out of her eyes when she saw Firenze, setting an example to everyone about what it meant to be stunned.
She obviously never thought that Dumbledore would find a centaur to be the professor of Divination.
It's hard for Umbridge to say anything about this, because most centaurs are involved in divination, even more professionally than most wizards.
No one would have thought that Principal Dumbledore would hire a centaur to be the divination professor at Hogwarts. This is undoubtedly a novel thing. Especially for Hogwarts students who know little about centaurs.
So, they were all curious about the professor's arrival.
Of course, there is also the string of prophecies left by Trelawney.
Although centaurs have the same intelligence as humans, centaurs ask the Ministry of Magic to classify them as "beasts" and do not want to share human identities with creatures such as hags and vampires, so centaurs are not humans.
Yes.
Not humans, but beasts.
Trelawney's third prophecy is that Principal Dumbledore will hire a non-human Divination professor to serve at Hogwarts.
There is no doubt that Trelawney's prediction has come true again.
So what will be the next prophecy?
Most students have forgotten the prophecies Trelawney once made, but there are always a few who still remember them. However, the content of Trelawney's next prophecy is really bad, because Umbridge will drive away Dundee.
Bleddo becomes the new headmaster of Hogwarts?
Umbridge becomes the headmaster, what an international joke.
With the poor performance of this Deputy Minister of Magic, apart from some Slytherin students who will support her, I am afraid that the entire Hogwarts students will hate and reject her.
In fact, after the content of the fourth prophecy spread, most students looked at Umbridge with unprecedented disgust.
It's not that everyone wants to believe the old liar's predictions, but that three consecutive predictions have come true. Even if they don't want to believe it, they can't change the cruel fact that the fourth prediction may come true.
For a time, conspiracy theories about the Ministry of Magic and Umbridge spread rapidly in Hogwarts like wings.
These rumors are not really friendly to Umbridge, and they say that the reason for expelling Trelawney is unreasonable.
Trelawney can't prophesy at all, and the idea that she is a liar is totally untenable. How does being expelled look like Umbridge's revenge?
To be honest, Umbridge doesn't really care about these gossips. As long as the method is strong enough, all the students can be silenced.
The worst thing for Umbridge was that her original plan was completely disrupted. Not only did she not get any benefits, she also had a headful of excrement dumped on her head, and her whole body exuded a stench.
According to the original plan, Umbridge actually planned to install new Ministry of Magic professors at Hogwarts. It was no longer important whether they knew divination or not. What was important was to put people in first. The changes in Hogwarts made her more and more confident.
The more she failed, the more those damn attacks made her dizzy.
Umbridge needs new helpers, even if they are not capable, they can help share the firepower of the students. However, Dumbledore's move to find a centaur to be the divination professor undoubtedly made all Umbridge's previous efforts become useless.
Dream bubble.
This was worse than stuffing a piece of shit into her mouth.
That day, Umbridge locked herself in the office and broke things again. She had forgotten how many times this was. Since coming to Hogwarts, Umbridge found that her temper became worse and worse.
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There is nothing we can do about this.
Who knows that every time she passes by the corridor, she can always hear the students at Hogwarts discussing the new Divination professor, or discussing her. The number of students making retching movements on the wall has increased sharply, and their eyes are even more contemptuous.
There is never any shortage.
Umbridge has once again successfully made herself the subject of heated discussions among the students at Hogwarts. Although she has been a hot topic among students in the past few months, those topics are not as scary as this time.
, because everyone is talking about why Umbridge died tragically in Azkaban Prison.
What outrageous thing did she do to deserve a life sentence?
Many students believed Trelawney's prophecy, and they looked at Umbridge with a little fear. Only extremely evil wizards are qualified to be imprisoned in Azkaban Prison forever, among dark wizards and Death Eaters.
The name of the class almost belongs to Umbridge.
Many students also question the current Ministry of Magic. If the deputy ministers are like this, what about Fudge as the Minister of Magic?
Could Fudge be the same thing?
They have not forgotten that in Trelawney's words, Minister of Magic Fudge will eventually be ousted by everyone, and the time will be next summer.
Unless he has done something outrageous, it is rare for the Minister of Magic to be ousted from office.
These gossips made Umbridge extremely irritated, because no matter where she went, she could hear people whispering about her.
Although Umbridge tried to change all this, and even imprisoned several people in succession, the situation did not improve. She could still listen to the students' gossip, even if those students shut up when she passed by, and then
Staring at her with a look of disgust and speaking ill of Umbridge behind her back was even more common.
Really worthy of Albert!
Privately, Fred, George and Lee Jordan all admired Albert's methods. The three of them spent a long time building the anti-toad alliance, but the results were not satisfactory.
Everyone was afraid of the toad's authority and only dared to babble a few words in their mouths. They had no courage to stand up and resist.
Most of the time, a few people used the Anti-Toad Alliance to cause trouble everywhere. Even if the situation got better later, it was far behind Albert's amazing operation.
Now Umbridge is simply a toad being roasted on the fire. Not only is she hated by most of the students at Hogwarts, but she has also brought about a wave of hatred. Except for some Slytherin students, even Hogwarts is now a toad.
Gwartz's other professors had ill intentions toward her.
This completely isolates Umbridge!
There is no way, no one wants Umbridge to become the headmaster of Hogwarts.
Look at how many troubles she has caused now that she has become a senior investigator. Who knows what the whole Hogwarts will look like after she becomes the principal?
Even according to Trelawney's prophecy, Umbridge would only stay in school for about half a year, but it still made most students feel extremely uncomfortable.
As for Dumbledore?
He seemed not to know about these things and had never cared about them. It was in line with what Trelawney said: Dumbledore simply didn't like to argue with idiots like you, so he never bothered to pay attention to you.
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"I just saw the news about the resumption of divination class on the bulletin board. It's in classroom 11." Li Jordan shared the news he just saw with several people. "I also heard that Toad planned to take time to review
Regarding the Centauri course, do you think she will find an excuse to drive our new professor away?"
"It depends on how crazy the toad is." Fred swallowed the food in his mouth and said calmly, "I hope she tries to do that. It will definitely be interesting."
"That's enough for you, we don't want to take a divination improvement class."
George, who was flipping through the Daily Prophet, couldn't help but complain, "Lucius Malfoy is really lying. His little brat didn't even take the Divination class."
"Firenz cannot return to the Forbidden Forest. Also, I heard from Nearly Headless Nick that Umbridge has recently been trying to find the meeting place of Dumbledore's Army. She seems to have determined that there is someone like that in the school.
An organization." Albert was surprised by Umbridge's madness. He suspected that once Dumbledore was driven away, the entire Hogwarts would fall into chaos, and there might even be Aurors from the Ministry of Magic trying to suppress the students.
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There was no way, with Albert disrupting the situation, the controlling Umbridge was driven almost crazy.
"They can't find it, and even if they find it, they can't get in." Fred comforted.
"Hogwarts is not a big area. Maybe they can't get in, but they will find it sooner or later." Albert always believed that the most important thing is to prevent the other party from finding it. "As long as it is known, the toad will be found sooner or later.
It’s safest not to let the toad know about the flaw.”
"Although you say so, it's difficult... we can't dissolve the DA!" George frowned and thought about how to solve the problem.
Finally, he decided to tell the other DA members about the news and let them help find a solution together.
"Where are you going?"
The three of them all looked at Albert, who had finished lunch and stood up to leave.
"Going to visit a friend."
"Albert really knows that centaur." Fred looked at Albert's leaving figure and said to the two people around him: "Look, I won."
"Do you have evidence? No, you don't have any evidence." Lee Jordan reminded.
None of them wanted to eat several chili-flavored Bibi Beans in one go, let alone try the newly developed Devil's Chili Candy.
Albert walked through the hall and headed to Classroom 11.
He raised his hand and knocked gently on the classroom door, waiting for the centaur's response.
"Please come in."
Albert pushed the door open and walked in. He glanced across the classroom and found that the original floor had turned into soft moss. Trees with lush branches grew out from under the moss, spanning the ceiling and windows. Soft, mottled light poured from above.
And down.
There is no doubt that Dumbledore cast magic here, imitating the classroom to look like a forest. Probably only Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had the ability to transform this classroom in a short time.
At this moment, Firenze was sitting under the shade of a tree and resting.
"Albert Anderson." After Albert walked into the classroom, he took the initiative to introduce himself to the centaur: "I take the liberty of disturbing you. I don't know if the centaur accepts owl mail."
"I heard Hagrid and Dumbledore remind you that those fresh vegetables helped me a lot." The platinum-haired centaur looked at Albert unblinkingly with his surprisingly blue eyes, and his tone was very calm.
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"Even without me, Hagrid will help you get out of trouble, I just reminded him a little." Albert found a place to sit down, "To be honest, I didn't take the advanced course in divination, Trelawney
The professor’s advanced divination class also failed to help me acquire more useful knowledge.”
"I don't mind if you come to the class." Firenze guessed Albert's reason for coming, and Dumbledore mentioned to him that Albert would probably be happy to exchange knowledge about prophecies with him.
"Thank you." Albert nodded and said: "I heard that centaurs are very good at divination. If you don't mind, I hope to talk to you about centaurs' divination. To be honest, this is a rare opportunity. In return
, I tell you something about you, I think I can definitely help you."
"If my words have offended you," Albert added, "I can apologize to you here. To be honest, I don't understand your customs."
"You did not offend me, young prophet." Firenze looked at the humble young wizard. He felt that the other person made him feel more comfortable than other students in Hogwarts. No wonder Hagrid said that he would not hate the other person.
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"To be honest, this is the first time I have met a wizard who is good at prophecy. I don't know how you human wizards predict." Firenze looked up at the sky and said softly: "The centaurs will lie down and observe the sky.
Interpret the astrology. For those who can read the astrology, the destiny of our various nations has been described there."
"If possible, please allow me to take the time to visit you." Albert tentatively proposed the exchange of prophecy knowledge. "Humans have completely different understandings of astrology from centaurs."
"No problem, this was originally the knowledge I planned to teach the students here after coming to Hogwarts." Firenze said calmly.
"Thank you." Albert looked at the centaurs and said gently: "I know that you have been excluded and expelled from the centaurs community, but please don't feel lost because of this. One day, your compatriots will fight for you.
Be proud of your choice and accept your return, so there is no need to regret it.”
"It really surprises me." Firenze stared at Albert, with unconcealable surprise in his blue eyes.
"I saw from the crystal ball that in the near future, you will resign as a divination teacher and return to the Forbidden Forest." Albert explained gently.
"Thank you." Firenze did not think that the other party was lying. What the other party said to him should be a feedback to him for agreeing to exchange divination knowledge.
This doesn't bother Firenze because the news is important to him.
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing."
Before leaving, Albert stopped and turned around to remind: "Be careful with Umbridge, she hates non-human creatures, such as werewolves, centaurs and half-giants, so you are very unhappy with your appointment at Hogwarts."