The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 420 The situation worsens (please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
"Do you think Harry can control himself?" Hermione asked Ryan as she watched Harry pulling Ginny to the other side of the common room.

"It's very difficult." Ryan shrugged. "I believe Harry meant what he said just now, but now his brain is connected to the You-Know-Who, so it's hard to say whether he can control it."

"Didn't Snape say he was teaching him Occlumency? I heard that Snape was a master of Occlumency. After learning it a few times, he should be able to break the connection with You-Know-Who, right?"

"Hermione, you think things are too simple." Ryan said in a helpless tone. "Not everyone learns as quickly as you do! Not to mention that the way to practice Occlumency is to attack the learner with the Dementia Curse, so that the learner tries to eject the power that invades his mind. Think about the relationship between Snape and Harry. How could Harry learn Occlumency when Snape was always watching his privacy?"

"How terrible." Hermione shuddered. It was terrifying to think about having her enemy read her private thoughts.

Even more terrifying was Hagrid's face. When he went to the hall for dinner the next day, Ryan found that Hagrid's face had not healed, and there was even a new wound on his nose. This was not normal. Even if the potion took a long time to work on a half-giant, the flesh wound should have healed with the half-giant's healing ability.

"Good morning, Hagrid." Hermione waved and greeted Hagrid. "Your face looks more injured. Are you raising any dangerous creatures in the Forbidden Forest again?" Hermione lowered her voice in the second half of the sentence so that Hagrid could hear it only after he lowered his head.

"No, of course not. I just slipped and fell accidentally." Hagrid said with pretended happiness, and waved his hand, almost hitting the terrified Professor Victor. "You know I've been very busy lately. Not only do I have to prepare lessons, but some little guys are also causing trouble for me. For example, the salamanders prepared for the lower grades have contracted a skin disease, and their scales have rotted. And I've been kept on probation recently, which has made me a little uneasy, so some unexpected situations have occurred, such as my face."

"Retained on probation? It seems that Umbridge is trying to replace all professors with people from the Ministry of Magic. So she can't wait to get rid of those she doesn't like." Ryan said indignantly. "So you should prepare for the magical beasts according to the exam content recently, and don't let Umbridge catch you again, especially since that guy is a disgusting racist."

"Okay, I'll try my best. But I really - forget it." He sighed, "It's useless to tell you kids these things. It will only add to your troubles. I shouldn't tell you these things."

Hagrid changed the subject: "Now I should go put some chili powder on the salamanders, otherwise their tails will fall off. Goodbye, Ryan, Hermione."

After that, Hagrid walked away with heavy steps. Ryan saw a sense of desolation as he watched his huge and lonely figure walk out the front door, down the steps, and into the wet grounds.

"I think he might be hiding something from us." Hermione walked up to Ryan and said, "Especially when it comes to raising animals, his past record is really untrustworthy. Especially his face, you can tell at a glance that he was hit by something. As a half-giant, there aren't many things that could beat him like this."

"I'll find time to ask Wolfe. The only place where big animals can hide nearby is the Forbidden Forest. Wolfe and the centaurs stay in the Forbidden Forest all day. They should know if it's a big animal." Ryan comforted him. It seemed that Hagrid must have brought his brother here. This was not something to be happy about.

In view of the fact that Umbridge once again broke the limit and used dark magic items to torture her classmates, Ryan decided to fight back again. However, this time it was not to spread rumors, but to dig into a person's privacy. Those things that Umbridge had always wanted to hide.

Soon, he brought the letter to Hogsmeade through the secret passage of the Weasley twins. It is estimated that the article will be published in the Quibbler next month. I hope Umbridge can remain calm even after her secrets are exposed.

After Christmas, Umbridge's madness was raised to a new level. Maybe she felt that she had not made much progress in the past few months, so she was determined to go further and control the life of Hogwarts in her hands. In this case, firing someone is the best way to show her power, and recently she just chose between Trelawney and Hagrid. Now every Divination class and Care of Magical Creatures class is held in front of Umbridge and her writing board, which makes the two professors look a little overwhelmed. Among them, Trelawney's condition is worse. Ryan has seen her walking alone in the corridor with a horrified face and a full body of alcohol several times, and she would look back in horror from time to time.

Even though Trelawney was not very competent as a professor, it was indeed too much for Umbridge to force a normal person to have mental problems. Not to mention that although Trelawney's teaching level was average and she liked to say some unpleasant words, she had never had bad intentions to harm anyone. If there was a professor who needed to be expelled from this castle, Ryan felt that Umbridge was actually the one who needed to be expelled the most.

Unfortunately, Umbridge, now in power, would not expel him. Also, perhaps because Voldemort had discovered the connection with Harry and Harry had made no progress in Occlumency, he now dreamed of himself walking down the corridor towards the Department of Mysteries almost every night, always standing longingly in front of the black door.

After listening to Ginny's description of Harry's condition, Hermione felt that this was not a good thing. Ryan told Ginny directly that Snape's rough teaching method was actually destroying Harry's soul defense. This kind of soul defense is possessed by every intelligent creature, but several times of Legilimency every day will destroy Harry's defense, which is already weaker than normal people. Let his condition slide to a worse direction.

"I think Harry should go find Dumbledore and tell him about this, otherwise the final outcome will probably be something none of us wants," Ryan concluded.

"I told him, but Harry refused to go. I really had no other options." At this point, Ginny was so worried that she almost cried. Hermione, as Ginny's friend, persuaded her for a long time before he calmed down.

"What do you think Harry's dream means?" Hermione asked after watching Ginny walk away. "Although I disdain Trelawney's interpretation of dreams, I also know that this very specific dream that repeats itself definitely means something behind it."

Voldemort was still thinking about the content of Trelawney's prophecy. Ryan guessed what the black door in the Department of Mysteries in Harry's dream represented as soon as he heard it, which also showed that some things had not changed. He felt that he could take this opportunity to make some arrangements. After all, according to the butterfly effect, the opportunity to accurately judge Voldemort's actions would become less and less in the future.

Ryan was determined to kill at least a few Death Eaters.

"What are you thinking about?" Just as Ryan was thinking about what he should do in the possible battle, he felt someone shaking him. When he came to his senses, he saw Hermione looking at him with concern.

"Why are you distracted? Is it because you've been too busy and tired lately and are not feeling well?" She said to Ryan in a caring tone.

"Oh, no." Ryan smiled at Hermione. "Just thinking about what you just said, I think Harry's dream is likely that what the You-Know-Who wants is hidden behind the black door."

"What could it be? A spell, a magic item, or--" Hermione began to guess.

"The Order of the Phoenix knows this, so they sent people to be on duty there. We don't need to worry here in vain." Ryan concluded.

(End of this chapter)