Snape did not tell his jokes in the end, which has to be said to be a pity. Felix believes that the professor is still very talented in telling jokes.

He secretly wrote down a note that next year's Christmas gift would be available.

Felix sat next to Snape, about to make a few jokes when the main entrance of the auditorium suddenly opened, and a large area of ​​wind and snow were swept into the door.

A short and plump witch in pink walked in, and Felix heard the deep breath of Professor McGonagall, who was separated by two seats, her black eyebrows tightly twisted together.

The short and fat witch was Dolores Umbridge, and there were two people behind her, one of whom was a thin and dark-skinned middle-aged witch with a golden ring on one side of his ear and an Auror dressed in an Auror.

Felix knew him. When Minister Fuge came to visit the Basilica last year, he was with him. Fuge called him "Kingsley".

The other is a witch, also dressed in an Auror, with a thick scarf on her face. From some of her lively little movements, she was not old and walked with Kingsley.

The smile on Dumbledore's face was curled away, and his surprised expression lasted for a moment, then he stood up and said politely: "What a rare guest, I don't know you will come on this special day."

"The one who has never seen you, Professor Dumbledore." Umbridge's toad face filled with a conspicuous smirk, "I'm not saying that your vice-chancellor is not serious enough... it's all for the purpose of completing the work. Just like me, I can't help but worry about Minister Fudge on Christmas."

Dumbledore said calmly: "I totally believe in Minerva, and she did a great job."

Umbridge seemed to feel embarrassed at all, but the female Auror behind her had turned her head away and looked like she couldn't bear to look at her.

Kingsley stood up, and he said in a low, slow voice: "Dumbledore, we have new information to share with you."

Umbridge immediately screamed: "Kinsley! I am the investigator appointed by the minister-"

Kingsley didn't look at her, but his next sentence also explained: "I only accept the orders of Minister Fudge and Sclinger - Dumbledore, about Sirius Black, there is new progress now."

"I'll listen, Kingsley," Dumbledore said softly.

"Someone found that Sirius Black appeared in the Overturned Alley. According to the information we have - an unlucky wizard was attacked from behind and the attacker robbed his wand."

"So, he re-armed himself?" Dumbledore said: "I thought he would wander between the school and Hogsmeade."

Kingsley said: "We thought so before, so we relaxed our guard against it. But he might be more cunning than we thought. I'm going to London tomorrow - this is Tonks, and Sclinger hopes to pass the message through her."

"Tonks?" Dumbledore smiled and looked at the young witch.

"It's me, Principal Dumbledore, it's great to see you." Auror took off his scarf covering his face and said enthusiastically.

Kingsley explained: "Tonks is mostly in Hogsmeade, just as a precaution." He glanced at Umbridge, who was impatiently fiddling with the pink bow on his cuffs, "and she could also restrain the dementor."

Dumbledore nodded and said, "No problem, Hogwarts has a common demand with the Ministry of Magic in this matter."

Kingsley fell silent. The man had a calm and speechless temperament. After the serious matter was finished, his presence immediately decreased.

Contrary to him, Umbridge finally found an opportunity, she said in the awkward little girl's voice: "Thanks Kingsley for his speech, Professor Dumbledore, I hope you can think about it again, Tonks - to some extent, not following the rules enough, the Ministry of Magic is willing to send a permanent team..."

"We don't need to talk about this, Umbridge," Dumbledore insisted, "go back and tell Fudge, if he has any ideas, let him come to me directly."

Felix almost understood it. Umbridge and Kingsley were not in the same group. Behind Umbridge was Fudge, maybe because of a temptation or the woman's own decision. In short, she wanted to put her tentacles into Hogwarts, but Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore were pouting back one after another.

Although Kingsley also followed Fudge's orders, he obviously didn't care about the attitude of the investigator Umbridge, and this time he came to follow the command of Sclinger, the director of the Auror's office.

They quickly left, and with this episode, the professors were in no mood to joke. The topic inevitably touched Umbridge, and Black's threat was too far away, but this toad lady really couldn't make people feel good about it.

Professor McGonagall said sharply: "I'm not the one who speaks bad things about others, but Umbridge--" Her nose was a little white and she was obviously very angry. "If you know how she treats her subordinates and her family, you will understand how I feel."

"Umbridge is not good to the family?" Felix asked.

"Ha! She claimed many times that her 'dead' father was an outstanding figure in Wiesengamor when he was alive, but in fact he lived well."

Frieve frowned and recalled: "I seem to have some impression that the surname Umbridge is still very rare. I remember that more than ten years ago, there was a cleaning person named Umbridge in the Ministry of Magic..."

At this time, a student finally came over, and two first-grade students appeared together. Not long after, a sixth-grade Slytherin student came with a gloomy face.

The professors talked about the topic again, Dumbledore left halfway and brought back a bunch of silver firecrackers when he appeared again, "This is a firecracker hat, like Bibidobean, every time it is a surprise."

He sent one to everyone on the table and asked happily, "Does anyone want to try it?"

Felix looked at Snape, Dumbledore followed his gaze, blinked and said with a smile: "Severus, you absolutely don't want to miss this."

While speaking, Harry, Ron and Hermione arrived. They watched Snape pull out the thread of a silver firecracker with impatient expression. The firecrackers scattered with a thud, revealing a woman's pointed hat.

Dumbledore handed the hat to Snape, but Snape pushed it away without thinking, so Dumbledore immediately replaced his wizard hat.

“Merry Christmas, ladies and gentlemen.”

Harry and the others looked at Dumbledore's new image in a daze, unable to speak for a moment.

After eating this big meal for two hours, everyone was having fun. No one talked about Umbridge, a topic that was so popular. Except for Trelawney appeared in the middle, he had to count the number of people before sitting down. When she counted twice or the number thirteen, she couldn't help but scream.
Chapter completed!