My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 407, Volume 404: Give me all the volumes!

Lynn watched their expressions and secretly felt a surge of anger rising within her.

Roll it up! How will you know the importance of studying hard if you don't roll it up?

After giving the ministers ample time to react, Lynn cleared his throat and continued.

"To ensure the authority and impartiality of the grade certificates, the Ministry of Magic will establish an Education Examinations Office, which will be responsible for setting the questions, invigilating, and grading the three grade exams each year. To avoid any conflict of interest, Hogwarts professors will not be involved."

Finally, he summarized the contents of the educational order.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Ministry of Magic is already dissatisfied with the level of wizards that Hogwarts has produced in recent years."

As the magical world continues to develop and the number of wizards continues to increase, competition for some well-paid positions is becoming increasingly fierce.

Not long ago, the head of the Auror Command, the largest department under the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, was removed from his position as the head of the British Aurors due to a major mistake.

At that time, there were as many as five wizards who had achieved an O-level in the ultimate wizarding exam competing for that vacant position!

They are all top talents, but even so, if they don't work hard enough and don't strive even harder, they will be surpassed by other, even more outstanding people. You will also face this fierce competition in the future.

Lynn is talking complete nonsense.

Although the Ministry of Magic has had some criticisms of Hogwarts' educational level in recent years, most of it is just personal feelings directed at Dumbledore, and they have no intention of doing anything like that.

After all, what's the point of having students learn so much powerful magic at Hogwarts?

Does working at the Ministry of Magic mean you have to engage in passionate spell-shooting battles every day?

Whether someone performs well in magic or not has very little to do with the Ministry of Magic, which is an administrative department.

Most wizards who apply for positions in the Ministry of Magic only become familiar with their work and how the daily operations work after they join the ministry; there are no requirements regarding magical ability.

The contents of this educational order were actually written by Lynn himself and given to old John, who then bribed Fudge in the name of the school board to get Fudge to approve its issuance.

The competition for the Auror supervisor position

Lynn wasn't lying to some extent; there were indeed five outstanding Aurors vying for the position after it became vacant.

But in the end, it was Leon, whose background and resume were quite ordinary, who got the job. This had nothing to do with his own hard work; it was just because Lynn helped him get the job through connections.

Of course, Lynn would never tell the truth.

The Ministry of Magic is the one that wants students to endure the grueling days of hard work, yet ultimately lose out to those who get in through connections. It has absolutely nothing to do with Lynn (serious face).

Every student council member at the meeting looked somber.

After the meeting, the propaganda department quickly posted the original copy of the educational order on the information board next to the auditorium.

It was past 8 p.m., close to curfew, when it was posted, so not many young wizards saw it.

But when it was time for breakfast the next morning, every young wizard in the castle saw the educational decree.

The news immediately caused a huge uproar among the students, and the auditorium was as noisy as a market throughout the entire breakfast period.

After all, the Azkaban breakouts all happened off-campus, and the adults were the ones who had to figure out how to handle them afterwards.

The educational notice posted at the entrance of the auditorium is directly related to their daily learning and life.

The first-year students, who have been enrolled for less than half a year, feel this the least.

It was their first year at Hogwarts, and everything here was new and exciting for them, including this new educational order.

The fact that the reforms were so closely aligned with the normal Muggle school admission system actually made the new students from Muggle families feel a strong sense of familiarity.

As for the older students, their opinions on this reform were mixed.

Most people are complaining that the good days are coming to an end. They are already under a lot of pressure from studying, and they won't even have a little bit of time to play anymore.

These people are basically all students of Gryffindor and Slytherin.

The Ravenclaw students, on the other hand, were quite excited about it.

For top students, increasing the difficulty of exams, raising the level of competition, and making the distinction between top students and struggling students clearer is a perfect thing.

The biggest complaint within Slytherin is that the requirements for future Ministry of Magic recruitment will be raised to a level of E or higher in the Ultimate Wizarding Rank Examination.

Originally, after graduation, they could more or less use their family connections to get jobs in the Ministry of Magic through back channels.

However, with this condition in place, if the Ministry of Magic enforces it strictly, most of them may not even be able to meet the prerequisite.

However, these people were just complaining with a cold laugh; they weren't really worried.

It's uncertain whether this education order will actually be implemented.

No, it's definitely impossible!

Those in their family wouldn't allow such a thing to happen; it would be tantamount to handing over their power.

Some far-sighted, mixed-race or Muggle wizards from humble backgrounds saw the key to this educational order.

Yes, focusing solely on performance has its limitations, but it is still much better than focusing solely on relationships, power, and money, which completely blocks upward mobility!

Especially for students who are in sixth or seventh grade and are about to graduate, and who do not have a pure-blood background.

At this age, they already understand the difference in treatment between non-pure-bloods and pure-bloods in the magical world.

This educational decree undoubtedly weakens this difference to some extent, allowing non-purebred graduates to compete with purebred graduates under relatively fair conditions.

Most students just haven't realized this yet.

The only thing they could foresee was that once this education decree was issued, life in the future would not be as comfortable as before.

As for Minister Connelly Fudge, who signed the education order, he himself was certainly aware of what these changes meant.

It could be said that the note Old John handed to Lynn perfectly suited his wishes.

Not long ago, the pure-blood families breached Azkaban, giving him a taste of his power, and he was wondering how to retaliate.

This direct approach to eradicating the root cause is just right.

Of course, this does not mean that Fudge will fight these pure-blood families to the death.

Since he could issue the education decree, he could also abolish it. He just wanted to use this method to make the disobedient pure-blood families submit.

Most of the known Ministers of Magic are pure-blooded, including Hermione, who became Minister of Magic in 2017 after the ending, since she married Ron and became Hermione Weasley.

Even in its decline, the Weasleys were once renowned as a pure-blood family.

Furthermore, the fact that Lucius Malfoy, despite holding no official position in the Ministry of Magic, was able to interfere in many of its affairs clearly demonstrates that the civil service in the British magical world was essentially monopolized by pure-blood wizards.

Graduation grades from Hogwarts may have some influence, but lineage is clearly a more important factor in the judgment.

(End of this chapter)