After Dolores Umbridge became High Inquisitor through a Ministry of Magic Educational Decree, she failed to gain much additional authority among Hogwarts students.
In everyone's eyes, she was still that hopping pink toad of a professor.
The impression had been far too deep, and there were even photographs to back it up. As a result, some overly excited students with a death wish occasionally called Umbridge a pink toad.
The consequences were predictable—detention.
Thus, a few more lucky souls had the privilege of tasting Umbridge's punishment quill.
Even though Dumbledore had expressly forbidden professors from using Dark magical items to punish students, the furious Umbridge simply ignored him.
The innocent headmaster consequently caught flak and received a great many letters of complaint.
In fact, the Daily Prophet also received several similar letters each day. "Someone" even deliberately sent Howlers to the newspaper, yet it still failed to cause the slightest stir.
The entire British wizarding world reacted with remarkable sluggishness—or rather, numbness—to the Ministry of Magic's interference with Hogwarts. Wizards simply did not care about Hogwarts education as much as expected.
They didn't know?
How could that be possible!
The Daily Prophet had clearly reported that Umbridge had become High Inquisitor, and Lucius Malfoy had even appeared in the paper as the representative of "all parents."
The only dissenting voices came from Wizengamot elders Griselda Marchbanks and Tiberius Ogden, who resigned in protest against appointing an investigator to Hogwarts.
The matter had only made it into the Daily Prophet thanks to the importance of Wizengamot members.
And yet—
British wizards remained indifferent, even though the issue of education might affect their own children.
Of course, it might also have been because of the pressures of life. They feared that one careless word would bring persecution upon them and get them