"Link! Wait for me!"

Cedric caught up with Link.

Link was not surprised by Cedric's arrival.

He signaled Cedric not to speak in the crowded ordinary car, and directly took Cedric to the cafeteria room of the prefect car.

"Sit down Cedric, don't worry, drink a cup of black tea to moisturize your mouth, your lips are peeling."

As Link spoke, a porcelain teapot flew out automatically, filling the two of them with hot tea.

Cedric wasn't so anxious when he got here.

He pointed to the box next door and said in a low voice:

"If we talk here, we won't interrupt Emily's rest, will we?"

"Don't worry, every box here has a sound insulation spell enchantment."

Cedric was relieved when he heard the words, then lowered his voice and said:

"Then I'll just say it, what on earth do you want to do?

Don't tell me that it is because Malfoy is not pleasing to the eye or helping a friend to get ahead. I really know you too well. Just helping Hermione Glenn to be the leader, you will never make the Slytherins like this. You know you just got engaged to that Slytherin house boss..."

Cedric said that his voice was so low that he could hardly hear him. At the same time, he looked at the next box vigilantly, and saw that there was still no movement before he continued:

"Link, I hope you can understand. As a friend, of course I can support you unconditionally. In fact, I did just that. As the president of the Hogwarts student council, I must also know where you are. Planning something. This is the responsibility that rests on my shoulders."

After hearing this, Link took a sip of hot tea, and then smiled and said:

"First of all I have to thank you for your help. As a friend, you are really impeccable. But in this matter, the only thing I can say is that we will spend a very special semester this year."

"I knew it, I knew it. Aren't you worried about the Slytherins turning to the Dark Lord? You are not the only one who has this kind of worry." Cedric seemed to relax completely and leaned back in his chair. Shaking his legs and said, "I'll just say it straight. I came to you just to make sure if you really want to do something about this matter. I also don't want to see things develop into an incurable state. To the point, if your ideas are the same as mine, I can help you."

Link's expression was a little surprised. It seemed that he was a little surprised by Cedric's speech. He stared at Cedric for a long time before saying:

"Of course you want to help me. If you don't help me, we are friends, aren't we?"

"I said, it depends on whether your thoughts agree with me. If you say that what you want to do will harm the interests of Hogwarts and even the entire magical world, then even if we are good friends, I I will never do anything for you."

"This is the Cedric I know." Link said, "You can help me with confidence. Our ideas are generally the same. They are all to fight the Dark Lord and save Hogwarts and Ting. The magic world."

Hearing this, the smile finally returned to Cedric's serious face.

But before he could speak, Link continued:

"But there is one thing you made a mistake in your judgment. This semester we are about to face not only Slytherin's defection and pressure from the Dark Lord. After all, the trial of Harry Potter broke out during the summer vacation. Now we and Fudge Relationship is very poor."

As a child of a pure wizard family, Cedric was obviously also very clear about what happened, and he nodded thoughtfully:

"You mean that the Ministry of Magic will suppress Hogwarts? But I don't understand. Although Hogwarts is also under the control of the Ministry of Magic, in a strict sense, it belongs to the principal and all teachers and students. Even if Fudge has any ideas, what will he do?"

"It's very simple," Link chuckled lightly. "For example, send a Defence Against the Dark Arts class professor in..."

Hearing that Cedric suddenly raised his head, but Link waved his hand and continued:

"Look, Cedric, our next semester will be extraordinarily difficult. To change the situation requires the efforts of all of us."

"Then it's even more necessary to suppress Slytherin. At this time of crisis, we must make an aggressive move to eliminate all factors of instability! Only in this way can we truly unite all forces!"

Cedric said.

His expression is grim and serious, which is completely different from the kind and gentleness he usually shows.

Link was not surprised by this.

Cedric's character is indeed kind, righteous and gentle.

But he is not a good man.

If you think about it, you can understand, how can a good old person manage a bear child with a grade of hundreds or even a college with a number of hundreds?

Being praised by Dumbledore as the "most perfect student" at Hogwarts has proved that Cedric is by no means a so-called Virgin, but a person with outstanding abilities in all aspects.

He will never be merciless when it is time to kill and decisively.

Link nodded and said:

"What you said is very reasonable. But you have to know that most Slytherins have not completely turned against the Dark Lord. You can't punish them with mistakes they haven't made yet."

"As long as it's a human being, where can I make mistakes? I want to punish them for reasons. I definitely have more experience in this area than you." Cedric laughed, "but I understand what you mean. Don't worry. I will take a good sense and will not push them directly."

Link said with satisfaction:

"It's okay if you understand. To treat Slytherin, we generally have to implement the method of boiling frogs in warm water. This is the most deadly."

"If that's the case, then I won't bother you and Emily to rest. Oh, yes. By the way, give me Pansy and Malfoy, and I'll return them to Professor McGonagall."

"This is natural."

Link got up and handed the sack over. He naturally knew that Cedric's main purpose for taking the sack back was actually to return to the prefect car to be a good man in the Slytherins, but he didn't want to stop Cedric.

After all, as he said earlier, boiling frogs in warm water is the most deadly.

After getting the bag, Cedric left with a big smile on his face.

Today he got the most satisfying answer from Link, and he was in a very good mood.

And just as he stepped out of the board of directors with his front foot, the door of the always quiet box beside Link suddenly opened.

"Listening to you just discussing how to deal with Slytherin College, I really don't feel like it."

Emily sat next to Link as she spoke.

Her expression looked a little melancholy, and there was a red mark on her cheek—that was when she slept on the pillow.

Link reached out to help Emily adjust her tousled hair, and said softly:

"I understand your feelings, but we still need your help in our plans. Phew! Slytherin's ethos has been skewed by Voldemort. I believe you know this too. This Slytherin absolutely Not far. To change, you must be cruel, even if the process will be painful."

After hearing this, Emily's eyes became even more melancholy.

But in the end he nodded silently and fell into Link's arms.

…

At night, Hogwarts slowed down slowly and finally stopped at the platform in Hogsmeade Village.

Emily, who was half-dreaming and half-awake, was also awakened by Link.

The two retrieved the luggage in the pockets of Wuhen Stretching Curse, and got out of the car from the dedicated passage of the school manager's compartment together.

"Huh!~"

Emily took a deep breath, a touch of enjoyment appeared on her face, and Link's smile became stronger when she saw it.

The cool evening breeze in early autumn, as well as the humidity in the air and the fragrance of pine trees, are indeed an excellent enjoyment for the two who have been on the train all day.

On the platform not far away, the students were still getting off the train one by one, making it extremely noisy.

Compared to Link and Emily, they are less comfortable getting off the car.

They must carry their heavy luggage and ‘squirm’ forward in the line.

This process is extremely difficult and is extremely likely to break out of conflicts and riots, requiring prefects to manage order.

Of course, this was the work of a new prefect like Hermione, and Link wouldn't care about it.

"First-year freshmen come here... come here..."

A clean female voice came slowly in the distance, "Please come here to queue up, and all the first-year students will come with me."

Both Link and Emily looked at the source of the voice, because this voice was obviously not Hagrid who was responsible for the guidance of freshmen in previous years.

In the darkness, a shaky lantern was approaching Link and the others.

Through the light, we can see that many excited new students have gathered around the light.

"What about Hagrid? Why did he even change his job as a freshman guide?"

Emily frowned and asked, looking unhappy.

But she actually didn't like the rude guy Hagrid, the reason for asking was just the emotions in the car before venting.

"I already said that Hogwarts will change a lot this semester." Link said with a chuckle, "Stop talking about it, let's go."

After that, Link took Emily's hand.

Emily did not resist, and was led by Link towards the dark street outside Hogsmeade Station.

There are about 100 night-scrambled horse-drawn carriages, perhaps because it had just rained, and many night-scrambled hairs were soggy.

A group of students had already arrived before Link and the others.

At this moment, they were not in a hurry to get in the car, but enthusiastically introduced Ye Qi to the second-year students who entered the school by carriage for the first time.

However, they obviously didn’t follow any good intentions, because their introduction method was more like telling horror stories and deliberately scaring people. They kept guiding Ye Qi in the direction of ghosts and ominousness, and finally looked at the pale-faced juniors. Laughing.

This is already one of the traditional entertainment of Hogwarts students.

Link and Emily would naturally not participate in such a boring activity.

They owned a carriage exclusively, and after waiting for a while, they followed the army directly to Hogwarts Castle.

The carriages landed one by one.

The strange thing is that there is still no Hagrid here to contain Ye Qi, nor is there any other professor present to guide the students.

Fortunately, Cedric was more reliable. He quickly pulled several prefects and started to maintain order, directing everyone to the castle.

After walking through a long stretch of grass, Link followed the large group on the steps and entered the hall, and arrived at the auditorium amidst the echoing chaotic footsteps.

Compared with the changes along the way, the Hogwarts auditorium still maintained the appearance in Link's memory.

There are four long academies dining tables full here, and the zenith is a dark ceiling without the stars and moons shining on it.

There were still candles floating above the dining table, illuminating the silver-white ghosts dotted in the corner of the auditorium, and at the same time illuminating the auditorium where the students were excited.

They talked happily, exchanged news about the summer vacation, greeted friends from other colleges loudly, and reviewed each other's new hairstyles and new clothes.

Link and Emily finally separated at the entrance of the auditorium, and went back to sit down at the long tables of their respective colleges.

As soon as Emily sat down, many Slytherins came around.

They are all prefects of Slytherin, and they can guess what it is, even if they don't talk about Link and Emily.

In this regard, how Emily, who had just discussed to cooperate with Link, agreed, nodded perfunctorily.

On Link's side, it was even more exaggerated.

As soon as Link appeared, the originally well-behaved Hufflepuffs went crazy.

They rushed to Link, frantically inquiring about the conflict between Link and Malfoy on the train.

Seeing this, Link was very helpless.

He knew very well that in fact, these people had already inquired about the development of the whole thing through various other channels, and maybe even the demonic version had already been listened to several times.

The reason they are still pestering Link now is nothing more than listening to Link speak again in front of all the Slytherin members, so that they will get a better face.

Fortunately, Snape quickly dispelled the enthusiasm of the little badgers.

There is no need for him to say anything at all. He just glanced at the noisy Hufflepuff and the others with his oppressive eyes, and the little badgers who were still in high spirits all sat back honestly. Own seat.

This is Snape's prestige.

In other words, lethality.

Thanks to Snape's fortune, Link finally had a chance to look at the faculty seat.

And his look just happened to collide with a person's gaze.

It was a short and fat witch with short curly gray-brown hair and a very ugly pink bow on it, which matched the pink cardigan she was photographed outside.

Dolores Umbridge, Senior Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Magic.

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Although due to Link’s involvement, she did not perform as much in Harry’s trial as in the original book, but this did not affect her being sent to Hogwarts as Fudge’s confidant to execute the counterattack plan. fact.

But what's interesting is that according to the information Percy returned, this Umbridge is far smarter than the original book.

At least after seeing Fudge's defeat to Old Batty, her loyalty to Fudge didn't seem so loyal.

Link and Umbridge looked at each other like this.

After a long while, the Wizard of Umbridge nodded at Link, showing a greasy and disgusting smile.

At this moment, the door of the hall was pushed open again.

Professor McGonagall walked into the auditorium with a group of scared little wizards.

The branching ceremony officially begins!