Chapter 224 Meeting of the International Confederation of Wizards

After threatening to stop the Ministry of Magic's education funding, Umbridge saw the new school director, the one who was so beautiful that she was jealous to death, and smiled gently, saying lightly: "How much funding you stop, I will get the Malfoy family to subsidize double the funds."

"Since the Ministry of Magic has decided to stop funding, our Hogwarts should also be converted into a private school." Lucius continued: "Tomorrow we will issue a notice. Since the Ministry of Magic has announced the cancellation of the only subsidized school in the UK, from tomorrow all students must also conform to the values ​​of the thirteen school directors and the principal, and any faculty and staff must unconditionally accept the orders of the school directors."

Umbridge is going to explode! The Ministry of Magic received a huge amount of military funds from the Muggle authorities, but not a penny was under the jurisdiction of the Minister. The current Treasury is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Malfoy family, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the financial power is also in the hands of Dumbledore.

Now every expenditure in the Minister's Office is also supervised by a small clerk, who is Percy Weasley, who has just been in office for a year!

This is a man with a strong desire for power, and he should have been the focus of the Minister's faction. However, Umbridge was just planning to leave him idle for two weeks to give him a good rest, but the next day he was recruited by the Malfoy family as a financial accountant, and he almost controlled the accounts of the entire Ministry of Magic.

Now, apart from the position of Minister, the person with the greatest administrative power is this middle-level accountant - he has no decision-making power, but has the funds needed to stop any decision, that is, the financial veto power.

Anyone with a normal mind would not give up the position of the Finance Department and join the Minister's faction.

However, as the Minister's confidant, this little setback would definitely not be a problem for Umbridge. In addition to continuing to implement the Minister's orders, she also needs to hide like a python, waiting for the opponent to reveal a flaw before launching a fatal attack.

After the practical class resumed in the afternoon, is it necessary to set up a D.A.?

The students soon saw that the professor of "Defense Against the Dark Arts" turned back to dear Fleur, and the teaching content was also condensed a lot, all practical training, because all the theoretical content was read in Umbridge's class. What puzzled the students was that the practical class she taught was renamed "Fighting the Dark Arts", but the content did not change at all.

In the corridor after class, Harry curiously asked Miss Know-It-All: "Why change the name?"

The lady said disdainfully: "Are you afraid that you will be cursed by the mysterious man after teaching for a year?"

"Can changing the name break this unknown curse?" Ron asked in confusion.

Hermione rolled her eyes at him and continued to talk to the book: "Professor Bin and Professor Filiwi also taught "Defense Against the Dark Arts" for three years in club activities, and they were not kicked out? As long as they are not officially the professors of this subject, the curse can't hurt them."

The next day, the front-page news of the Daily Prophet was "Militarization Invasion of Campus, War Maniac-Dumbledore".

The reorganized news also kept exaggerating the horror of the Civil Security Team, all of which were speculations and doubts. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that it was to vilify Dumbledore. However, this article received little response, because no one expected that Dumbledore had already prepared a back-up.

In fact, this was not his backup plan, but Chen Bin had already persuaded him to start a newspaper in his second year. The main reason for not doing it at that time was that Old Deng had no money, no professional personnel, and he had a good relationship with Fudge, so he didn't need public opinion guidance at all.

After intimidating Fudge in the third year, Chen Bin asked Old Deng to set up a publishing house again, and Chen Bin also paid the initial investment. After a year of preparation and recruiting many people, it is finally put to good use. Old Deng announced the release of the Hogwarts Evening News that morning, which was sent free of charge to wizard families across the country.

The first issue of this newspaper is much thicker than the Daily Prophet. 70% of the content is serialized articles and columns, and 30% of the content is news. Its only function is to specifically target the false reports of the Daily Prophet, and secondly to update the latest news of Hogwarts every day.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Charlie Weasley, and the editorial department is the employees who were recruited back at a high salary a year ago. The reporters are the Squibs and Hogwarts ghosts all over the country, and the printing is done by the house elves of Hogwarts. They even sent newspapers to the ministries of magic in Western Europe and asked them to give them to local residents for free.

Every time a newspaper was printed, it would lose money, so the thirteen directors took over the operation from the day of publication. Anyway, they could really afford the loss. The annual rent of 30 million yuan could support the newspaper by cutting a little.

Therefore, before the parents sent a roaring letter to Old Dumbledore, they had received the Hogwarts Evening News in the evening. The headline was a rebuttal to the Daily Prophet, and there was a lot of classroom information, activity introductions and other news. Without waiting for the next day, residents of the entire magic world knew that Fudge had lost the war of public opinion.

The students participated in the evening club activities and mock battles as usual, and no one noticed that a large group of foreign wizards quietly moved into the newly completed military headquarters.

This building is connected to the new teaching building. The exterior is also a two-story cottage with a castle style, but the interior is much larger. There are hundreds of dormitories blessed by the traceless extension spell, more than a dozen training grounds, and a huge conference room.

In addition to the thirty-five members of the "Authorized Royal Legion" living in the dormitory, there were more than twenty national defense students who moved in this evening. They were Auror representatives from various countries, who came here to receive new Auror training and then apply these methods in their respective magic circles.

In the spacious conference room, there are three steps that rise in sequence. These steps are horseshoe-shaped oak seats. There is also a small table in front of each seat, and the seats all face the oval table at the end.

Chairman Dumbledore read out four topics in succession, two of which were rejected and two passed.

Then, during the ten-minute break, he closed his eyes and rested, feeling really tired.

After the break, the civil servants had summarized the losses of various magic circles, and Dumbledore read them out.