Chapter 1218

This made more students restless. But this also brought negative effects.

Umbridge seemed to vent all the humiliation the Ministry of Magic had received in the hearts of ordinary people onto the students and faculty of Hogwarts.

The day after that Ravenclaw student shouted those words, a new decree was posted on the school bulletin board.

"Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six"

Hogwarts faculty and students are prohibited from discussing matters unrelated to teaching and learning!

This decree made even those students who didn't like studying start to get angry.

Lee Jordan shouted loudly at Umbridge that from now on, teachers were not allowed to criticize him for playing Wizard's Chess at the back of the classroom.

As long as he and his classmates weren't discussing Wizard's Chess, the professors couldn't criticize him. Because criticizing him for playing was clearly unrelated to teaching.

This remark by Lee Jordan brought him some trouble.

Because the next day, the back of his hand became covered in scars. Umbridge had increased the punishment.

She made Lee Jordan end up like this on the very first day.

Darren gave him some potion to use at night, so at the very least it wouldn't hurt too much.

Lee Jordan perhaps had the illusion that Darren was encouraging him to do so, and he began to become the warrior who continued to stand up to Umbridge after Harry.

In short, these things stimulated Umbridge's fragile nerves. She was a bit crazy now.

She neurotically wanted to hold Hogwarts in the palm of her hand.

She even wanted to expel a professor in the near future to serve as a warning to others.

This "chicken" was obviously either Trelawney or Hagrid. Hagrid's last inspection had also resulted in a decision of probation.

Umbridge looked down on life other than wizards; she felt they were all half-breeds and even felt those creatures should all die.

So treating Hagrid this way was very normal. As for Trelawney.

She simply felt that Trelawney was an old fraud.

This could be seen from the fact that she had been attending Trelawney's classes every day recently, using a quill to record some crimes.

She kept making Trelawney predict things. As everyone knows.

Trelawney's prophecies weren't inaccurate, but to say they were accurate... they were always just a little bit off.

Her prophecies could see further into the future, or rather, could see things that others couldn't.

This led to everyone suspecting her of being an old fraud.

Umbridge made her predict twice, and both times Trelawney saw that Umbridge would have misfortune.

But for a period of time recently, apart from the group of Death Eaters running from the Ministry of Magic, Umbridge had been living a very comfortable life.

There wasn't the slightest omen of misfortune.

This made her feel even more that Trelawney was a big fraud. Of course.

Hagrid didn't have a good impression in Umbridge's mind either. Besides his giant half-breed status.

There was also his lack of respect for the Ministry of Magic's decrees.

What Umbridge wanted was for everyone to respect the Ministry of Magic's decrees.

And Hagrid had previously said that dogs bite too when Umbridge said that Thestrals had already been listed as dangerous animals.

This made Umbridge even more disgusted with him.

Hagrid was so scared by Umbridge that he didn't dare to use creatures like Thestrals in class anymore.

But he was still often interrupted by Umbridge during class, causing him to forget his train of thought, which led to the lessons being bumpy and stumbling.

Because of this situation, Hagrid didn't even dare to let them go to his hut, he told Harry.

"Umbridge already hates you and Darren; if she finds out you come here at night, you will definitely be expelled by her!"

Harry wanted to stubbornly say that he wasn't afraid of being expelled.

But he also understood that if he were expelled, perhaps the first person to be sad would be Darren.

Darren was always so kind and simple; if they were expelled, Darren would definitely be more pained than he was now.

When Harry was pulling Darren out of Hagrid's hut, he suddenly realized that Umbridge had stripped him of everything.

His reputation, his Quidditch, the confidence of his younger brother, the pastime of seeing Sirius, and the joy of occasionally chatting with Hagrid.

He now felt that all his happiness was about to disappear.

For this reason, he could only place all his retaliation on the DA. The DA members were working harder than before.

Especially Neville.

Neville was now even more reticent; he was working hard to learn magic at every moment.

Even some magic that Darren had come up with himself, he could train to master. The only one who could be more outstanding than Neville was Harry.

However, sometimes he couldn't even beat Neville.

For example, with this Shield Charm, Neville mastered it a minute before him.

Although it was only a minute, the two of them were already ahead of all other DA members except Darren.

Neville's progress made Harry very happy. After all, Neville's hard work was also what he wanted to see.

Harry understood that every bit of progress the DA members made was soaked with his and Darren's sweat.

Their progress was what made him and Darren happy.

But outside the DA, that is, regarding Occlumency, Harry couldn't be happy at all.

In the first Occlumency lesson, Harry had managed to resist Snape a little, but from the second lesson on, his Occlumency had gotten worse and worse.

"I can feel Voldemort's emotions even more clearly now!"