Of course, Harry wanted to be an Auror even more now. He didn't know what kind of achievements an Auror needed.
"I haven't thought about it yet," Ron said slowly, looking a little embarrassed. "Unless, well..."
"What?" Harry urged. Everyone looked at him.
"Yeah, it's pretty cool to be an Auror," Ron said in a half-joking tone.
"Yeah," Harry said enthusiastically. "That's pretty cool. It's the best profession."
"But they're almost all elites," Ron said. "They have to be very outstanding. What about you, Corin?"
"I think it would be great to be a cameraman or something!" Corin said. "Especially for the Hogwarts Magic Newspaper."
"You're already doing that," Ron said disapprovingly. "What are you going to do, Hermione?"
"I'm not sure yet. There are too many ideas," Hermione said. "Anyway, I want to do something really valuable."
She paused and didn't finish her sentence. In fact, it would be even better if she could be with Elwyn!
"Being an Auror is very valuable!" Harry said.
"Yes, but that's not the only valuable thing." Hermione said thoughtfully, "I mean, if I can further promote the House-Elf Rights and Interests Association..."
Everyone stopped talking, careful not to look her in the eyes.
Breakfast ended with this. Harry, Hermione, and Ron went to the boring magic history class.
Elwyn and Corin went to the third floor for the Defense Against Dark Magic class, which was Umrich's first class at Hogwarts.
Elwyn wasn't sure if Umrich put the fourth grade class on Monday because of him.
What he was sure of was that he didn't have any expectations for Umrich's Defense Against Dark Magic class.
Sure enough, when he and Corin walked into the Defense Against Dark Magic class, Professor Umrich was already sitting behind the podium. She was wearing the fluffy pink cardigan she had worn the night before and the black velvet bow on her head. She looked like a big fly that had foolishly landed on a bigger toad.
"Hello, Elwyn Mason. Nice to see you again!" she said in a sweet voice.
"Hello, Professor!" Elwyn said cautiously. He wasn't happy at all.
"Oh, sit down quickly. We're going to start soon!" Umbridge had a fake smile on his face, as if he was very close to Ivan. "We'll have plenty of time to talk in the future."
Elwyn sat down and saw Ginny making a face at him.
The whole class was silent when they walked into the classroom. They didn't know what kind of person Umrich was, and they weren't sure how strict she was with class discipline. Everything was unknown, so it was better to be careful.
"Good morning, everyone!" Umrich said after the whole class sat down.
"Good morning, Professor!" His reply was messy and casual.
"Tut-tut!" said Umrich. "That won't do, will it? You should have learned the appropriate etiquette. I would like you to say, "Good morning, Professor Umrich. All right, one more time, please. Good morning, students! "
"Good morning, Professor Umrich." Elwyn opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
"It's not neat enough, and it's not loud enough!" Umrich said critically. "Students, please do it again."
Everyone looked at each other in silence, exchanging a surprised and uneasy look.
Looking at Umrich, if their greetings didn't satisfy her, they might practice for the whole class.
In the end, they said it again in unison, and some of the boys even shouted it out.
"That's right!" Professor Umrich said in a coy voice. "It's not too difficult, is it? I hope that you can do this before every class in the future. This is the most basic respect for the teacher. All right, now please put away your wand and take out your quill. "
Hearing her words, many students exchanged gloomy looks again.
The class that followed the order "put away your wand" was never interesting to them.
The Defense Against Magic class had always been focused on actual combat. If they didn't use their wands, would they use quills to deal with the dark wizards?
When the whole class reluctantly put away their wands and slowly took out quills, ink, and parchment paper, Umrich opened her handbag, took out a surprisingly short wand, and knocked it hard on the blackboard.
Two lines of words immediately appeared on the blackboard: Defense Against Magic: Return to the Basic Principles.
"Students, you must have had the same doubts. The teaching of this course has always been intermittent and not systematic, right?" Professor Umrich turned to face the whole class, crossed her fingers, and put them straight in front of her chest. Then she said, "I've looked through the course materials, related homework, and test papers for the past few years. I can only say that those are all rubbish. You've wasted three years without learning any useful Defense Against Magic. The teachers are constantly changing, and most of them don't follow the curriculum standards approved by the Ministry of Magic …"
Under the podium, the students quietly exchanged looks again. They didn't know what Umrich meant.
Was she trying to say that they had been wasting their time for the past three years?
That was indeed the case for Lockhart's year. But in all fairness, Lupin and Sirius's teaching was not bad. They taught orthodox Defense Against Magic, and the fake Moody also let them see what true black magic was. As for the first half of this year, the classes that the real Moody taught after his return showed them that this was the real Aurora.
Everyone felt that they had improved a lot. Was it a little too much to say that they had not learned anything and that the homework and test papers were all rubbish?
Besides, they had Elwyn in their class. He was now publicly recognized as the strongest wizard in the Hogwarts.
Unlike these people who were angered by Umrich's words, Elwyn didn't feel anything. He wasn't Harry. He wouldn't recklessly jump out to go against Umrich in class and give her an excuse to punish him.
At the very least, on the surface, everyone had to abide by the rules.
Umrich was the professor of their Defense Against Magic class. She was sent by the Ministry of Magic to monitor the Hogwarts. They couldn't go head-to-head with her, and it wasn't the time to fall out with her. But in the dark …
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