Feast, Behead, Take Them In as Dogs

Before July arrives,

Bones defeated Scrimgeour by a landslide and was successfully elected as the new minister.

Bones' rise to power was inevitable; she was the head of the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, a position of great power and influence.

Most importantly, with the support of William and Dumbledore... she was naturally invincible.

After taking office, Bones delivered what was arguably the shortest inaugural address in history, lasting only four minutes, before returning to work.

The media praised her for her decisive and time-saving approach, deeming her the best candidate for minister.

In stark contrast, when Fudge took office six years ago, he excitedly delivered a four-hour speech.

The media dug up this incident and lashed out at Fudge, criticizing Fudge for his glib tongue, arrogant and smug demeanor, and saying they had long seen through him as a scoundrel.

Back then, newspapers unanimously praised him as witty, humorous, approachable, and eloquent, calling him a great orator.

That's just how real life is.

As the newly appointed minister, Bones naturally took action to demonstrate her stance.

She can play three cards:

Invite them to a feast, behead them, and take them in as dogs.

Bones decided to play the "decapitation" card first to deal with the legacy issues.

The biggest remaining issue is the criminal record of the two former ministers.

During the last trial, Umbridge deliberately digressed to buy time for the Death Eaters.

But the Death Eaters failed, and her ultimate gamble became the biggest joke.

Umbridge, of course, had no chance to overturn the verdict.

Fudge was first tried for... embezzlement, bribery, abuse of power, illicit relationships, misuse of public office, and profiting from publishing books...

During his trial, Fudge uttered the famous line. "Umbridge did it too!"

Umbridge did indeed commit the crimes; she was involved in Fudge's sins and was also a party to the illicit relationship.

She even committed crimes that Fudge had never committed.

Abusing students, siding with Death Eaters, and manipulating Ministry of Magic employees.

The Auror in Azkaban prison recanted his testimony, refusing to take the blame for Umbridge.

Umbridge threatened him, saying she would give his family the best life.

But now that Umbridge is in jail, all of that has become a pipe dream.

The old toad eventually pleaded guilty, but during the trial, she claimed:

"It was Fudge who seduced me. I was just a young Auror back then, and he used his power as minister to rape me in his office."

I used to have high hopes for life, but this experience completely changed my life.

I'm terrified, I don't know what to do, I'm afraid to face it... I've done so many wrong things, all because Fudge coerced and forced me."

Umbridge lost control of her emotions, broke down in tears, and said:

"You can say I'm not outstanding, but you can't say I'm not kind."

"I shouldn't be an evil person, I'm not someone who carries evil intentions to do evil..."

Faced with Umbridge's shameless defense, Dumbledore, as the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, refuted her in court:

"Many of the prisoners do not feel remorse for the crimes they have committed; their only regret is that they were caught."

To make the trial work in their favor, they'll pull some disgusting little tricks.

They talk about their upbringing, how they weren't loved by their parents, how society ignored them—endless tiresome sophistry and self-deceiving nonsense.

But even if placed in the same environment, or even faced with a crueler fate... many people would never commit a crime, nor would they so easily deprive others of their dignity.

Like Fudge, Umbridge was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Umbridge is not exempt from execution, but rather should be kept alive for another two years.

Dumbledore didn't want anything to happen to Professor Snape.

He believes:

Retaining Umbridge's professorship and having Snape serve as an interim professor would be a good option.

That way, the curse wouldn't affect Snape.

Also on trial were the Death Eaters. Of the twelve wizards, four were already dead.

The remaining eight were all sentenced to life imprisonment.

Azkaban has been destroyed by William and Voldemort, Dementor, led by the Little Black Robe, have "betrayed" the Ministry of Magic and joined the Death Eaters.

It is unsafe to leave these Death Eaters there; the Ministry of Magic will choose a more stringent method to imprison them.

After the trial concluded, the Hogwarts O.W.L. Exam also came to an end.

Hermione finished her exams with ease... She took all eleven courses except for Divination, which she had to drop.

However, Hermione has another problem: she's prone to anxiety and insecurity.

This is similar to many top students; they clearly do very well on tests, but they still constantly think, "Oh no, I'm doomed!" or "I'm going to fail this time."

Whenever a struggling student hears a top student say something like that, they assume everyone did poorly on the exam.

In the end, it turned out that they were as good as ever.

Of course, some people have an inexplicable overconfidence, feeling that they did well on the test.

For example, Ron, when he estimated his scores after the exams, found that he had the highest scores in eight subjects in the college.

Eight O's... I can't believe he even came up with that.

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With the exams over, this semester is finally coming to an end.

As is customary, Hogwarts hosted a Christmas dinner.

It wasn't just to bid farewell to graduating students, but also to dispel the shadow of war.

The dinner didn't offer many surprises; Ravenclaw won the House Cup.

Snape once again missed out on his eleventh consecutive championship, while Ravenclaw achieved the incredible feat of winning six consecutive titles.

This surpassed Slytherin's previous record of five consecutive titles, which greatly displeased Professor Snape.

It is generally believed that:

As long as William hasn't graduated from school, the House Cup will always Ravenclaw.

But it's okay, Shidake only has one year left to graduate, and the future belongs to Slytherin.

Snape had already made his plans... When it comes to favoring students, he's in a league of his own.

Snape was in a fairly good mood.

Before the dinner party, Potter and Weasley apologized to him, and he then made a sarcastic remark about them.

Of course, most importantly, Dumbledore has agreed to let him serve as the Defence Against Dark Magic teacher next semester.

Snape waited a full sixteen years to get this position; it's truly touching.

Snape is often called the Yang Guo of the Wizarding World, and that's no exaggeration.

The only downside is that he's not a professor, just a substitute teacher; the position is still nominally held by Umbridge.

Snape also became the first person to serve as headmaster while acting as a substitute teacher.

If he weren't the dean, William could have openly mocked him next semester as the professor of Ancient Runes.

You, a mere substitute teacher, dare to be so arrogant in front of me, a noble full professor.

The banquet was particularly lively.

For their last time at Hogwarts, the twins brought a lot of alcohol to celebrate the end of their youth.

There was no more homework, no more exams, no more stern Professor McGonagall... Everyone was laughing, yet they all looked so sad.

Because youth is truly coming to an end.

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