After Voldemort's resurrection, many things gradually changed.
Dracula left Hogwarts and took the assistant teacher Riddle with him. Snape temporarily took on the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the last few days of the semester and assigned summer homework on behalf of Dracula, which made the young wizards complain.
Fudge was transformed into the lowest level vampire by Dracula. He returned to the Ministry of Magic and pretended to be normal. However, he could not hide the news from the insiders who were present, and the news still spread.
There was almost a change of government in the British Ministry of Magic, but it was suppressed by Fudge and his diehard followers.
Dumbledore parted ways with Fudge completely, and announced Voldemort's return publicly at the end-of-term dinner, warning students to remain vigilant.
Cedric became a vampire and chose to graduate from Hogwarts early, going to Brown Castle to study the "Code of Conduct for High-Quality Vampires" compiled by Selina and the innate abilities of vampires.
He was a vampire who was embraced by Dracula himself. His physical fitness and magic power improved greatly in a short period of time. He also needed to systematically learn how to control his own power.
Of course, how to face his friends and classmates with a new identity is also something that worries Cedric.
Cedric finally confirmed his relationship with his girlfriend, Qiu Zhang, at the semi-finals. She cried very sadly, so he had to promise her that he would come back to Hogsmeade to meet her often...
Fortunately, there is a precedent in the magical world of the famous vampire singer Lorcan Deis living in harmony with wizards.
Dracula gave a few instructions, and Deiss took the initiative to keep in touch with Cedric, using her own personal experience to enlighten him and give him reasonable suggestions. So Cedric was not too confused.
Hogwarts awarded him a graduation certificate ahead of time, which meant that Cedric officially graduated in the sixth grade instead of dropping out halfway - in fact, he was indeed better than almost all the students in the graduating year.
As for Harry, his life became a little confused.
After Harry luckily escaped from Voldemort with the help of the flashback spell cast by the same core wand in his and Voldemort's hands, he became the center of discussion in Hogwarts. His classmates all wanted to ask him what happened before he came out of the maze.
However, although Harry took the trouble to tell his classmates how Voldemort was resurrected, Harry's belief was only part of the story.
After all, as classmates for many years, they already knew the savior of the wizarding world very well. Everyone knew that Harry was just an ordinary person, and many people were unwilling to believe that he could escape from the terrible dark lord for the second time.
Moreover, there are two types of people who are willing to believe in Harry -
One group is mainly composed of fanatical fans such as Colin Creevey and Harry's good friends in Gryffindor. They are willing to believe Harry and are more willing to believe Dumbledore's warnings.
The other group, on the other hand, was mainly composed of pure-blood students from Slytherin. They seemed excited about the return of the Dark Lord and felt that the pure-bloods would become even stronger under Voldemort's leadership.
However, what was a bit strange was that Draco Malfoy, who should have been the most excited, was not as happy as his two followers. Instead, he looked a little panicky, and his pale face became even more bloodless, which made many Slytherin students think that he was sick.
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When summer vacation came, the depressed Harry left Hogwarts Castle and spent an unhappy summer vacation.
Not only was there that his aunt and uncle still treated him like a bug and ordered him around, and his cousin Dudley used him as a punching bag for boxing, but there were even two Dementors that lived on sucking souls that escaped the control of the Ministry of Magic and came to Privet Drive to ambush him.
Fortunately, under Dracula's training, Harry was able to use the Patronus Charm skillfully and easily drove away the Dementors.
These two Dementors were arranged by Umbridge.
She gave Fudge an idea, hoping to force Harry to use magic outside of school, and falsely accuse Harry of violating the "Underage Wizarding Act" by using magic outside of school, so as to expel him from Hogwarts.
A savior who was expelled from school would surely have his influence in the wizarding world greatly weakened.
And Fudge can step on Harry, whose reputation has plummeted, to further strengthen his political reputation.
Fudge, who was turned into a low-level vampire by Dracula, needed to enhance his reputation to prevent himself from being squeezed out of the position of Minister of Magic by other officials.
In fact, Fudge basically stays in the office every day and does not go out. When he encounters extremely important social events, he uses Transfiguration to modify his appearance to prevent others from noticing his intentions.
Moreover, a low-level vampire like him couldn't control his desire to suck blood, so he could only secretly order a lot of blood from merchants who made blood-flavored lollipops and blood puddings, and only then could he barely suppress his desire to attack others...
However, Fudge and Umbridge's plan ultimately failed.
When Harry came to the Ministry of Magic for trial, Dumbledore personally attended the trial as a witness for Harry and ultimately helped him get rid of the charges.
Poor Harry, after experiencing a series of misfortunes during the summer vacation, finally school started.
But at the opening ceremony, he discovered that Fudge's assistant, senior executive of the Ministry of Magic, and acting Deputy Minister Umbridge had become the new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts that year.
She represented the Ministry of Magic to rectify the "bad atmosphere" in Hogwarts, and it was also a small compromise made by Dumbledore in order to let Harry get rid of the accusations and let Hogwarts continue to receive the support of the Ministry of Magic.
This is because, after Dracula left, the funding chain provided by the school board to the school was broken.
Originally, the Malfoys and other pure-blood families were the largest donors of Hogwarts' operating funds, but after Voldemort's resurrection, Lucius naturally had to draw a clear line between himself and Dumbledore and tried every means to embarrass him.
Hogwarts students are exempt from tuition, and the school does not have many ways to make a profit. Hogwarts must have external sources of funding to continue operating.
In addition to the Board of Governors, the remaining funds were provided by the Ministry of Magic. Fudge threatened to cut funding and forced Umbridge into the Hogwarts professor team.
Umbridge's teaching method was nothing like Defense Against the Dark Arts. Instead, she made students read nonsense textbooks without any practice or exercise. Even the dueling club was stopped.
The students of Hogwarts completely lost the opportunity to practice, just because Fudge stubbornly believed that the wizarding world was extremely stable and students did not need to be wary of any dark magic...
In the first class, Harry clashed with Umbridge because he was angry about her teaching methods and was eventually put in detention.
The huge gap made other students complain about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and they hoped that Dracula would return to Hogwarts, even if it meant leading them to jump out of the window again...
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In order to oppose Umbridge's control over the students and to enable everyone to learn more about defense so as to cope with the coming storm in the wizarding world, Harry and several good friends organized a small Defense Against the Dark Arts Club, which met in the Room of Requirement.
The club was named Dumbledore's Army, or DA for short.
The connotation of Dumbledore's Army is actually a successor to the Dueling Club hosted by Dracula, which is to train students' practical combat skills.
As a result, many more classmates responded than Harry had imagined.
However, due to the large number of people involved, there were still betrayal members within the DA. Umbridge relied on the traitor to discover that Harry was teaching everyone Defense Against the Dark Arts behind her back.
Everyone fled in a hurry, and in the end only Harry was caught because he was the last one to leave. Umbridge was overjoyed, and finally found a way to weaken Harry's reputation. She prepared to expel him from Hogwarts on the grounds of illegal association.
However, Dumbledore took the blame for Harry's crime and was deliberately expelled from Hogwarts to make other preparations to deal with Voldemort.
During Dumbledore's absence, Harry's scar hurt worse.
One day, in his hazy fantasy, he saw Sirius being captured by Voldemort and taken to a black door under the Ministry of Magic. However, at this moment, Headmaster Dumbledore was no longer in school.
"We have to save Sirius," Harry said anxiously to his friends, "He is being tortured by Voldemort!"
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"You are sure of the accuracy of the information, right?"
In the most luxurious compartment of Bai Feilong Bar, Dracula and Lucius sat face to face on the sofa.
"That's right. The Dark Lord has invaded Potter's mind and wants to trick him out to get a prophecy." Lucius's face was pale and his facial muscles were trembling with tension. "He seemed to be saying that the prophecy concealed the fate of both him and Potter..."
"What he wants to do is of no concern to me." Dracula shook his head. "All I need is a chance to stop him... If it's in the Ministry of Magic, this opportunity might work."
He looked up at Lucius and handed him a two-sided mirror. "Thank you for your hard work this time. Feel free to find a chance to contact me with this."
Lucius took the mirror, a look of hesitation on his face.
"Mr. Dracula, I feel that if the Dark Lord finds out that his plan has been exposed, he will probably suspect me." He said in a panic, "Then I think..."
"After this is over, you will get away from Voldemort." Dracula said, "You can stay in Dracula Castle temporarily, or I can help you set up a house and be your Fidelius Secret-Keeper. It's all up to you."
Lucius' eyes suddenly revealed an expression of overjoyed joy.
"Okay... okay! Thank you so much, Professor Dracula!" he said happily.
For Lucius, after being an undercover agent for so long in fear, there is finally a day to relax!
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At the edge of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Rolf, Ginny, Neville and other students stood together.
Harry and his friends finally got rid of Umbridge, and later, at Rolf's suggestion, they prepared to ride the Thestrals in the Forbidden Forest to the Ministry of Magic to rescue Sirius.
"Rolf, how do we ride them?" Harry walked to a Thestral and looked back at Rolf and asked.
"That's not difficult, but I didn't expect you to be able to see the Thestrals." Rolf said, "I heard Luna say that you saw the Thestrals in front of the carriage, but I didn't quite believe it..."
"Maybe it was because of what happened in the cemetery. I really thought Cedric was dead at the time." Harry said slowly, "And I also saw my parents who had passed away a long time ago, and remembered things from my childhood when I didn't even remember anything."
Rolf fell silent, then reached out a hand and patted his shoulder.
"Come with me, just come up." After a moment, he said to Harry gently, "Thestrals are actually quite docile. Luna and I often come to feed them. Let's ask them to do us a favor today."
Harry thrust a hand into the mane of the nearest Thestral and grasped it firmly, then he planted one foot on a nearby stump and climbed clumsily onto its smooth back.
As expected, Ye Qi did not resist, but just turned his head and glanced at Luo Fu.
"I know, I know. I'll bring you more meat next time." Luo Fu seemed to immediately understand what Yezhin's expression meant, and said to it with a smile.
Harry sat on the Thestral and turned to look around at the others -
Neville was hunched over the other Thestral's back, trying to get one of his short legs over to the other side; Luna had already sat sideways, adjusting her robes, just like she did every day when she mounted her Thestral.
But Ron, Hermione and Ginny still stood there motionless, staring with their mouths open.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked.
"How are we supposed to get up there?" Ron muttered. "We can't see them."
"Oh, easy," said Luna, sliding off the Thestral helpfully and striding towards Ron, Hermione and Ginny. "Come over here..."
She pulled them to the side of the Thestrals standing around her, and one by one she helped them onto their backs.
Before walking back to her mounts, she held their hands and told them to hold on tight by the mane. All three of them looked nervous as hell.
"This is incredible," Ron muttered, stroking the horse's neck gingerly with his free hand. "Incredible... If I could see it -"
"You'd better never see it." Harry said helplessly, "Let's not talk about this for now. Are you all ready?"
The others nodded, all of their knees tensing under their robes.
"good… "
He glanced down at the Thestral's smooth black head and swallowed nervously.
"So, London, Ministry of Magic, guest entrance," he said uncertainly. "Well... if you know the way..."
The Thestral stood perfectly still for a moment, then suddenly spread its wings with such force that Harry was nearly thrown off his feet.
It crouched slowly first, then shot up into the sky like an arrow, at such a fast speed and at such a steep angle that Harry had to hold onto its body with his hands and feet to prevent himself from falling off its bony tail.
They rushed through the treetops and flew towards the fiery sunset, closing their eyes and pressing their cheeks against the smooth, silky mane of the Thestral.
They flew over the Hogwarts grounds and passed over Hogsmeade; Harry could see the hills and valleys below.
The day began to fade, and they flew over one village after another, with lights scattered all over the sky below, and then a lone car on its way home, speeding through hills along a winding mountain road...
“How peculiar!”
Harry could just hear Ron shouting from somewhere behind him, and wondered what it would be like to be hurtling so high in the air without being able to see his mount.
Dusk fell, and the sky gradually turned a faint, hazy purple, scattered with little silver stars.
Gradually, a group of tall buildings appeared in the sight of the little wizards.
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