Although Su Er did not know why Dumbledore was so sure he could carry out this task, he accepted it anyway.
Whatever else happened, he could hardly spend the whole year doing nothing. Going to the Forbidden Forest to unwind was a good option, too.
Old Mr. Merlin, who had not appeared for a long time, returned to the scene, quietly nudging the hour hand of the clock when no one knew.
In the blink of an eye, several days had passed since the start of term.
The big black dog who had come to Hogwarts with Harry-no, Sirius-had disappeared from the Castle. Dumbledore had probably given him a task, and with Dumbledore in the Castle, Sirius had nothing to worry about regarding Harry's safety.
In fact, this school year might have been, relatively speaking, the year in which Harry's life was in the least danger out of his entire seven years at school.
Oh, no. To be precise, it was the first half of this school year.
They only needed to battle Umbridge from the Ministry of Magic with magic in the Castle.
Speaking of Umbridge, Su Er had run into the woman many times while wandering around the Castle as a little badger. He had to admit that her appearance was rather hard to describe. Compared with how she had looked on various occasions during the previous school year, she seemed to have let herself go after obtaining a teaching post in the Castle.
If he had to find a description, "car crash" seemed the most fitting.
Picture a somewhat older woman wearing heavy makeup, pink lipstick, and emerald-green wizard robes paired with a pink shawl, with a velvet bow inexplicably pinned to the top of her head. Oh, of course, that was pink, too.
Add Umbridge's short,