I can finally go to Hogwarts tomorrow.
Katrina, who had just packed her luggage and closed her suitcase, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although life here was good, being sandwiched between Isobel and Albert made her feel uncomfortable. She hated the feeling of being completely redundant, and she hated seeing the two of them showing their affection in front of her, which always made her feel embarrassed.
Fortunately, I can finally go to Hogwarts tomorrow and get away from all this.
At this time, the door of the room was knocked, and the voice of the house-elf Kara came from outside the door.
"Ms. Katrina, dinner is ready."
She remembered that the house-elf always called Isobel "Mistress", even though they were not married yet.
It goes without saying that it was Albert who ordered this.
Coming out of the room, Katrina walked along the long corridor to the dining room. Looking at the sumptuous meal on the table, she raised her head to look at Isobel: "Today's dinner is really sumptuous."
"You're going to school tomorrow, so we'll have a big meal tonight." Isobel helped put dinner on the table.
"Can you send some food to mom?"
"Mom has house-elves taking care of her too," Isobel said comfortedly, "You don't have to worry about her daily life."
"We are going to Hogwarts tomorrow. Will you still live here?" Katrina sat down at the dining table, picked up her knife and fork and asked, "By the way, where is that guy?"
"It seems he went out for something. He should be back soon."
Isobel looked at her sister and said gently, "I will move to Hogsmeade. There is a similar safe house there. That's where I used to live."
"Hogsmeade?" Katrina was surprised. "He visits you often?"
"Yeah." Isobel responded.
"No wonder you don't feel bored and have time to publish a book with him."
Katrina was surprised at Albert's skill, she felt that decorating a place like this would take a lot of thought and money.
"But he's always busy." Isobel looked at her sister and said, "You can actually help him."
"Busy, busy saving the world?" Katrina said self-deprecatingly.
"Not really. Albert had anticipated the upcoming turmoil a long time ago." Isobel glanced at her communication watch and continued, "He has only been preparing to weather the current difficulties."
"I thought he would take you away from England and escape to a foreign country." Katrina put down her fork and followed Isobel to wait for Albert to come back.
"In fact, I hope he does that," Isobel said suddenly.
The hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
Katrina looked at Isobel and asked with a strange expression, "You didn't convince him?"
"If the situation gets out of control, Albert will take us away from England." Isobel shook her head and said, "He has already arranged a way out."
"You've changed a lot in these years." Katrina sighed.
At this time, there was a noise outside. It should be Albert coming back.
"What were you doing?" Katrina turned around and asked. "Everyone is waiting for you!"
"I'm sorry to have made you wait for me." Albert kissed Isobel on the cheek.
"Then sit down and eat. The food is getting cold. I remember you don't like cold food." Katrina said unhappily.
"You don't have to get up too early tomorrow. We'll Apparate directly to the train station just before the train leaves." Albert put a large piece of brown crab on the plate and explained tomorrow's itinerary while eating.
"You're really cautious." Katrina asked doubtfully, "Do you think someone will launch an attack at the station?"
"We still have to be careful on the road. Who knows if the Death Eaters will stop the train halfway?"
If possible, Albert actually wanted to go directly to Hogwarts, but as the president of the student union, he needed to show up in the prefect's carriage.
Albert really didn't care about the position, but he needed to consider Professor McGonagall who gave him the position.
"Would a Death Eater do that?" Katrina was reluctant to believe that a Death Eater would do such a stupid thing.
"Although the possibility is very small, we still have to be prepared. God knows whether the Death Eaters will do something crazy." Albert said to himself, "If I were a Death Eater and wanted to assassinate a student on the train, I would disguise myself as a salesperson pushing a cart. When the cart approaches the target, I would take out my wand and cast an Avada Kedavra curse on the person while he is buying something without any defense, and then Apparate away when everyone is panicking."
"You are so insidious." Katrina curled her lips, but she had to admit that Albert's sinister plan had a very high probability of success.
Yes, it is hard to guard against.
"It's always better to be cautious. There is no shortage of smart people in this world."
After saying that, Albert looked at Isobel, who immediately understood and began to explain to the two the work of the student union president.
Compared to Katrina, who performed his duties as a prefect conscientiously, Albert, who mostly fished in troubled waters, obviously needed to hear these things.
"By the way, who will be in charge of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Advanced Class this year?" Katrina asked after Isobel finished speaking.
"Unfortunately, this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts is probably doomed."
Albert put down his knife and fork, took out a handkerchief to wipe the corner of his mouth and said, "This year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is Umbridge, the Senior Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Magic. The textbook is Magical Defense Theory. I have asked the house-elf Dobby to buy it back."
"Magical Defense Theory?" Katrina repeated suspiciously. Hearing the title of the book, she knew why Albert said that this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts was probably doomed.
"You guessed it right. It is said that Magical Defense Theory does not encourage the use of any offensive defensive magic." Albert's tone was full of contempt and disdain. "Umbridge is not a qualified professor, so don't have any expectations. I think Deputy Minister Umbridge will probably take the book and read the contents like Lockhart did."
"That's too bad." Katrina muttered, "I'm a little worried about my Defense Against the Dark Arts score."
She also wanted to get good grades like Isobel.
"Your Defense Against the Dark Arts level is not bad. You can ask Albert to give you extra lessons when the time comes." Isobel comforted him. "Of course, you can also come to me. Although I am not as good as Albert, it is still no problem for you to get an excellent score."
Isobel had received special training for revenge before, and later Albert taught her a lot of things, so she could easily escape even if she encountered Death Eaters.
"This needs to be kept secret. I don't want a bunch of people to come to me for extra lessons." Albert agreed. He thought for a moment and said, "I need you to help me study Magical Defense Theory. Then I plan to let everyone take turns asking questions to Umbridge."
"You are... such a bad person."
"We have to find something fun for her, and test the teaching standards of the Ministry of Magic at the same time." Albert said with a smile, "In fact, Dumbledore and I applied for this course, but unfortunately we were rejected."
"You seem to hate Umbridge?" Isobel was surprised that Albert would show obvious dislike for someone.
"He is indeed a very annoying guy." Albert waved his wand and a piece of parchment appeared out of thin air. When he reached out to take the parchment, it split into two pieces, which he handed to Isobel and Katrina respectively.
The parchment detailed Umbridge's deeds.
"I see, no wonder you hate him."
Isobel did know some things, such as the warning letter for violating the Statute of Secrecy and the loss of the title of Wizengamot Youth Representative.
I just didn't expect Albert to get such detailed information.
Katrina was shocked after reading it. She didn't expect there was such a shameless guy. What surprised her most was that this man actually let Dementors attack Harry Potter.
"Although there is no evidence, it should be her who did it." Albert nodded. "The purpose should be to please Fudge. In fact, she became the deputy minister because of this."
"How disgusting." Katrina also hated Umbridge.
"Some of her actions are actually correct. Otherwise, how do you think she could climb to such a high position? Political struggle is so cruel." Albert took out his pocket watch to check the time, turned on the radio, and tuned to the wizard lookout station. Sirius' voice soon came out:
Welcome to Wizard Lookout.
The theme of this issue is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, who is of great concern to everyone.
Anyone who has studied at Hogwarts knows that Hogwarts needs to change the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor every year... Let us welcome today's guests, Professor Lupin and Professor Moody, who used to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors at Hogwarts...
Sirius, Lupin and Mad-Eye Moody's comments on Magical Defense Theory came from the radio...
"I dare say that when Umbridge is in class, she will only read that book to everyone. This book cannot teach everyone much useful knowledge. It is only suitable as an extracurricular reading to supplement everyone's knowledge reserves..."
"I totally agree. I just spent some time looking through this thing, and I saw that it actually discourages everyone from using any offensive defensive magic."
"... As an Auror, I can tell you clearly that this is like you telling dark wizards not to do that. Using dark magic is illegal..."
"… Instead of that, I'd rather teach you something useful. If you have any doubts, just look through the book yourself!"
…
Lupin also predicted that many students might not learn anything useful about Defence Against the Dark Arts if it was taught the way Umbridge did.
…
"… I completely agree with Professor Lupin's judgment. I think time will tell. However, the ones who are really unlucky are the fifth and seventh graders. Their further studies will be seriously affected."
…
"As far as I know, although Professor Lupin is a werewolf, he is indeed the most popular professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in recent years. Am I right?"
"Yes, although everyone was shocked when the truth was finally revealed, Professor Lupin is still very popular in Hogwarts."
Fred and George were also guests on the broadcast, and although their voices had changed and they used aliases, Albert still recognized their voices.
The two were telling everyone about the tragic experiences of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors from first to sixth years.
…
"Finally, I hope everyone can send silent blessings to Professor Dolores Umbridge, hoping that she can successfully complete this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professorship and not be persecuted by the curse again."
The atmosphere in the hall became strange. The McDougal sisters turned their heads to look at Albert. They suspected that today's broadcast was deliberately made by Albert.
At least part of the introduction to Dolores Umbridge can be found on the parchment just now.
"Don't you think these broadcasts are useful?" Albert's mouth curled up slightly, "At least everyone understands the current situation."
"If Umbridge heard this, I think she would be furious!" Katrina suspected that Albert was planning to cause trouble.
"I don't think she would know, and it wouldn't matter even if she did." Albert didn't care much about Umbridge. Anyway, there would be a lot of people playing with Umbridge at school.
After turning off the radio, everyone went back to pack their luggage. Although the house-elves were willing to do it for them, Albert didn't have that habit, as there were many important things in the suitcase.
As for Isobel's move to Hogsmeade, there was not too much trouble. The only thing that made Albert a little helpless was that Isobel now devoted most of her energy to researching beauty potions and was obviously very concerned about her youthful face.
I can only say that women are obsessed with their appearance. The more beautiful the woman is, the more like this. Even the two Americans are like this.
Especially after they found a potion that was suspected to delay aging, they invested a lot of energy in it.
However, genius can never defeat cheating.
After Albert repeatedly assured her that he would help with the research later, Isobel picked up the half-written manuscript of Defense Against the Dark Arts again.
"How long do you think this chaos will last?"
Isobel, who was soaking in the hot spring pool, turned around and asked Albert behind her.
Katrina finally felt embarrassed to join them in the bath, and when Albert came to take a bath, she hurriedly got up and left.
"Three or four years at most," Albert speculated, "If it's not over by then, I'll take you away from England."
"Do you think it's possible to stay young forever?" Isobel asked.
"It's possible. After all, immortality exists." This was not the first time Albert answered this question. "I don't care."
"You're lying. Men always like young and beautiful women." Isobel snorted in dissatisfaction, raised her hand and poked Albert's chest and said, "Besides, I believe this research will be welcomed by girls. I have already agreed to the plan to open a beauty shop in the UK."
"You opened a shop with Katrina?" Albert was a little surprised.
"Of course not. I can also find helpers." Isobel curled her lips and said, "We plan to gather everyone's strength to advance this big project."
"I can be your potion consultant then." Albert said with a smile, "But before that, we still have to solve the big problem at hand."