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Chapter 43: Stepping Down, Exonerating, and the News is Announced!
Having finalized his study plan, Dumbledore quickly got into character and began giving his lecture.
The course covers all aspects of spell theory, spell pronunciation, wand gestures, and spell casting intentions, starting from the most basic content and gradually delving deeper, and then combining it with practical exercises. The course is taught with great care.
Dumbledore was quite skilled in teaching magic.
After all, before becoming the headmaster, he had been a professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts for many years.
This greatly reduced the learning difficulty for the five students, and everyone listened attentively, all for their dreams and to become stronger.
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Teaching at the Dursleys' house was an ongoing process, during which Dumbledore also had to manage his time and accomplish many important tasks according to Dudley's plans.
August 5th.
Minister Fauci, who is under house arrest for corruption, is plotting to seize back power by colluding with his confidants.
They were deliberately let go by Kingsley and his Aurors, who then followed them closely, tracked them down, and captured them all at once.
Minister Fouché's power has waned, and the pure-blooded families who supported him have abandoned him.
The trial process was greatly accelerated.
August 6th.
Dumbledore personally imbued the Dursleys' house with numerous protective charms and cast the Faithful Charm on the Dursleys' master bedroom, with Dudley designated as the Keeper of the Secrets.
When necessary, the protective range of this Unwavering Loyalty Charm can be extended to the entire Dursley House.
In addition, in the master bedroom protected by the Faithful Charm, Dumbledore had a special teleportation fireplace installed.
This fireplace uses a fixed, secure passageway. Simply throw in some Floo Powder, and without needing to say your destination, you'll be taken directly to a secluded guest room in the Hogsmeade's Hog's Head pub.
Dumbledore had already spoken to his brother, Aberforth Dumbledore, the owner of the Hog's Head.
Although the brothers' relationship became strained because of their sister's accidental death, they were still able to maintain friendly communication when it came to matters of principle and helping others.
August 8th.
Wizengamo has officially opened the trial for Minister Fudge's corruption case, with Wizengamo's chief wizard Albus Dumbledore presiding over the proceedings.
Faced with detailed and irrefutable evidence, Connelly Fudge had no choice but to plead guilty and accept punishment.
He was dismissed from his position as Minister of Magic in court and barred from ever being employed again.
After the verdict was announced, Cornelius Fudge broke down and angrily rebuked Judge Dumbledore in court.
With the defeated words, "Dumbledore, you really are trying to take my power!" Fudge resigned from his post with great resentment.
Fudge's close associates were also demoted or dismissed depending on the circumstances.
Dolores Umbridge, a short, stout witch who loves wearing pink and is equally obsessed with power, has been stripped of her position and reduced to the lowest-ranking clerk in the Ministry of Magic, responsible for registering wand information for guests entering and leaving the Ministry.
After the trial concluded that day, Dumbledore proposed that Kingsley Shackles, a high-ranking Auror in the Ministry of Magic, succeed Fudge as the next Minister for Magic.
Of the high-ranking wizards in the magical world who attended the trial, 40% immediately agreed, 30% did not immediately give their opinions, and 30% said that several more candidates needed to be selected for a vote.
August 9th.
Dumbledore convened the Wizengamor meeting again, the meeting's main topics being the retrial of a wrongful conviction that occurred forty-nine years ago, and the bombshell announcement that Voldemort was not dead and had returned to commit crimes.
Under Dumbledore's powerful influence, the highest-ranking wizards in the British wizarding world gathered together to witness this event.
Hagrid pulled a silver-white memory thread from his mind and placed it into a large meditation basin.
Through the replay of memories in the Pensieve, the attending wizards witnessed firsthand the horrific scene that unfolded in the Gringotts vault on July 31st:
Voldemort slowly approached Hagrid and Harry, and confessed to Hagrid that he had framed Hagrid in the past.
Nearly ten years later, seeing that terrifying face again, even though it was on the back of someone else's head, still terrified the wizards present, who held their breath in fear.
Dumbledore seized the opportunity, using Voldemort's own confession from this memory, along with the victim's testimony that Myrtle's ghost had recently filmed and recorded at Hogwarts, that Myrtle saw a pair of terrifying, bright yellow vertical pupils before she died, rather than the eight eyes of the eight-eyed spider.
This completely cleared Hagrid's name and restored his innocence.
Hagrid will receive compensation from the Ministry of Magic and Wizengamor, and will have his right to use wands and magic restored.
Next, Dumbledore showed the memory of how he struck Voldemort's main soul with 'All Curses End,' and how the wounded Voldemort's main soul escaped using a Portkey made from Quirrell's bandana.
This was to announce both good news and bad news to the magical world.
The bad news is that Voldemort has returned, and the wizards need to be on guard.
The good news is that Voldemort is now very weak and needs to inhabit the bodies of other beings to survive.
If any wizard discovers any trace of Voldemort, please immediately notify the Aurors and Dumbledore of the Ministry of Magic.
At the meeting, Dumbledore also specifically warned the pure-blood family members who had been Death Eaters not to try to help Voldemort, or they would suffer consequences they could not bear.
These opportunists, who follow whoever is stronger, naturally wouldn't jump out and risk their lives when Dumbledore was in power, and instead made verbal guarantees.
But what these people are really thinking, and what underhanded tricks they plan to pull, remains unknown.
Dumbledore wasn't a born Legilimency master; he couldn't openly use Legilimency in front of hundreds of wizards—he couldn't bear the embarrassment.
But Dumbledore doesn't need to read their thoughts to guess their plans.
He already had a perfect plan of action; no matter what bad ideas these people had, they would behave themselves in a few days.
August 10th.
The Daily Prophet published the contents of yesterday's meeting, plunging the entire British magical community into shock and mild panic.
The international magical community was also shaken.
Meanwhile, the students in the Dursleys' magic classroom have achieved some progress in their studies.
Vernon and Penny each learned two simple spells.
In addition, Dumbledore obtained two precious protective garments from his friend, the alchemist Nicolas Flamel, who lived for over six hundred years, and gave them to the Dursleys.
These two anti-curse garments are rated B, meaning they offer strong resistance to most offensive spells, though they cannot stop the Killing Curse.
This provides another layer of protection for the Dursleys' personal safety.
In order to recharge the protective magic of maternal love in Harry, the Dursleys cannot move abroad. They need to maintain the concept of the house at No. 4 Privet Drive. Obviously, if only Dudley and Harry remain, it cannot be called a 'home'.
Therefore, in order to ensure his parents' safety as much as possible, Dudley made several requests to Dumbledore, in addition to the already provided Fidelity Charm and protective clothing.
He also wanted Dumbledore to provide the Dursleys with two house-elves so that if the Dursleys were out and about and something happened, they could quickly return to No. 4 Privet Drive.