At breakfast the next day, far more owls than usual arrived with the post. What had happened in Ancient Magic Class yesterday—news of the dispute between Allen and Dumbledore—had been passed on by wizards from both pure-blood and half-blood families.
Allen having students learn magic that summoned Undead Creatures certainly caused some controversy, but what drew more attention was the irreconcilable conflict revealed by the dispute between Allen and Dumbledore.
British wizards began to worry about the situation instead of remaining blindly optimistic as they had before, especially when the news reported that the Death Eaters had attacked two more Muggle villages and had still not been caught.
The Death Eaters' attacks on Muggle villages had been making front-page headlines in all kinds of newspapers lately, while the dispute between Allen and Dumbledore had also been deliberately exposed by certain pure-blood families through media outlets under their control.
The media had been extremely lively recently. After finishing breakfast, Allen sat in his chair and leafed through the various newspapers and periodicals delivered by the owls. "We solemnly condemn Professor Allen Harris's irresponsible behavior in teaching the dangerous magic of summoning Undead Creatures to adolescents whose minds have not yet fully matured, tempting and encouraging them to study Dark Magic... This is an extremely immoral and dangerous act..."
"The Hogwarts Board of Governors should consider abolishing a dangerous course like Ancient Magic, one that can so easily distort students' characters... The board should exercise its supervisory role and remove unqualified professors from the teaching staff... Otherwise, Hogwarts's reputation in the world may become even more notorious than Durmstrang's—at least the Harrises' old superior, Gellert Grindelwald, was expelled from Durmstrang for being radical in his study of Dark Magic."
Allen flipped to the mastheads of the publications and, after seeing the surnames