Chapter 200 - 200- Educational Decree and rethinking

LUNA'S POV

The morning after Hogsmeade there was a new 'High inquisitor' educational decree which gave Umbridge the power to review all extracurricular activities and, presumably, the power to disband them, something that made people talk all day about them, especially those who already hated her.

Until now, most of the educational decrees were making sense.

The decree that said the ministry can choose a Professor if the headmaster can't was a logical choice as they can't allow the students to not have a teacher.

The decree that made her High Inquisitor and gave her the power to review teachers made it so maybe History class would have a new Professor.

The decree about only allowing certain candies was to stop the prank candies of Fred and George that make people sick.

Even the one about no music in study hours was done to let people study in quiet.

So it was not surprising that in the evening the Professor decided to explain her Decree.

"Ahem ahem." Professor Umbridge said in her annoying, condescending voice she used every time she had some sort of announcement.

"I would like to explain the most recent degree I made." She said "Some students seem to whisper that I did it because I want my previous house to win the quidditch championship by preventing the other houses form participating, some apparently think it's because I think Dumbledore creates a secret army and want to prevent you from learning magic, and some say it's because I'm evil, non of the above is farther from the truth.

You might not know, but this school's number one and two causes of injury iis students trying magic on their own and quidditch, to combat that, from now on every group activity involving magic would need a supervision.

I had each Professor bring me their list of students they think is responsible enough to supervise and from them I chose those that I agree with them about.

Each study group would have to have a student two years above them at least supervising them before submitting that request to me.

Sixth and seventh years study groups would have to be supervised by the teacher of the subject they study or if not possible them then madam Pomfrey.

Quidditch teams must have a teacher in the area while practicing on brooms.

Failure from complying with this rule would be taking away perfect and captain privileges, forbidding any person who was in the group from being in any activity and, if not found to join another group, detentions for the rest of the year.

Magic, while fun, isn't a subject you can study without supervision, which is why our school was founded. You can go back to eating."

The Professor sat down and noise filled the tables as everyone talked about the subject.

Luna had to admit it was logical explanation for everything, but the timing of the Decree being a day after the meeting of the DA meant it's one big pile of bullshit.

Luna wanted to talk about it with Harry, but ever since his return yesterday to the castle he has been holing up in the ROR which was changed to a Forging room and not coming out.

When asked what he was doing he only said 'He was testing the rules of magic.' And that 'He can't talk right now.' Seriously, sometimes she had to wonder why she had to fall in love with insensitive, studying obsessive person.

Huffing, Luna decided to go talk to the twins about what is going to happen to the DA.

HERMIONE'S POV

It's been 30 hours since Luna Lovegood has called Ron a Nazi because of his opinion about her and Slytherin in general and it hasn't stopped pounding her head.

She wasn't oblivious to the comparison between Ron's behavior toward Luna and her behavior toward Harry Peverell, in fact, she knew she was worse.

Harry was her first friend, someone who lived in the muggle world before the Hogwarts letter showed up, and was sorted to the house of ambition and cunningness, not a bad traits to have, yet she pushed him away because of that.

She didn't even have the excuse of growing up in the magical world and hear stories about the evilness of Slytherin, she only did it based on the books she read and her friends telling her he was evil.

If being honest, the main reason she abandoned him was him telling her she did something stupid when running towards the troll, something which, as she looked at the small first years now she could only agree.

She, Hermione Granger, freedom fighter for House Elves and magical creatures, characterized a person into evil like how people said all House Elves like being slaves.

She had to make it right!

Finally reaching a decision, Hermione turned her sight to her best friend, who was busy talking with Marcus and Ron about something.

"What should we do now?" Neville asked

"We have to continue!" Marcus said firmly. "Don't believe her nonsense about worrying for the students safety, you saw what she did to me!"

"Yeah!" Ron said "we have to learn how to defend ourself! Think about what could happen if we don't do it and You-Know-Who attacks! People can get hurt."

"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked confusion.

"Umbridge explained why any group needs her approval to happen, which seem to make most people fine with the new rule." Neville explained as he knew she was out of focus today

"What did she say?" Hermione asked and they quickly explained to her.

"Well, it does make sense if you don't know about our group and it's name." She said afterward.

"I know right? 'some apparently think it's because I think Dumbledore creates a secret army and want to prevent you from learning magic.' Dumbledore's army? She practically tells us it's the reason!" Ron said.

"Yeah, I will need to find a secret location for the group, a way to tell everyone about the time of the meetings, and a way to make everyone keep quiet." Hermione said and heard Ron mumble "Especially that Loony Slytherin." But decided to ignore him in favor to turning toward Neville. "I need to talk to you, alone." She said before dragging him away from the Grand Hall toward one of the empty classrooms not faraway.

"Why do you need?" Neville asked when she finally let go of his arm.

"How do I apologize to Harry?" That question seemed to make Neville's eyebrows disappear in his hairline as they rose in shock.

"You, Hermione 'Harry Peverell is evil' Granger, want to apologize to him?"

A growl came out of her mouth involuntarily.

"Yes, I do." She said before sighing "Don't think I didn't see the similarities between how Ron acted toward Luna and how I acted toward Harry, I never thought I would act like how Malfoy act toward muggleborns, but that's exactly how I acted toward Harry." A sad smile appeared on Neville's face as tears appeared on hers. "I just want to fix it, like you did."

"I didn't fix it." Neville said sadly "I apologize, but it was too late. We aren't friends anymore, just classmates who used to be ones."

"That's better then nothing." Hermione said "Help me do this." She begged "Please."

"Of course I will, you are my best friend."

With both of them smiling sadly, they started preparing her apology.

HARRY'S POV

In between his time blacksmithing Harry thought about his plans to restudy magic from the beginning and corrected them.

When he saw what happened to Grayback he freaked out, making a much bigger deal out of it then he should have.

Most of the magic done today was charms, transfigurations or potions, of which charms work the same in SWOR and outside as it is, at it's core, the ability to change the outside world and spiritual realm with your spiritual realm and energy, the only difference is that it take less effort and energy to use it in SWOR as there is no outside spiritual realm, potions is based on taking the properties of other living things and with the help of the energy of your magic unite them toward a purpose, with the more advance ones needing to be affected by your own spiritual realm to be made correctly while fighting the world's spiritual realm.

If he used a wand to cast and swirling to make his potions he might have needed to restart everything, but with his own magical control there is no need to.

The only subject of those three he would have to restudy was transfigurations, which work with the help of the world to give semi-life to inanimate objects by completely changing them into Golems and even in that, the pathway is already there as he only needs to change the way he makes them into Golems from transfigurations to animation - a subject in charms which let you give a specific order to an object and make it seem like it came to life.

Of course, to make a pineapple dance is easier then make a rock-turned-bird learn how to fly, and what he want to recreate is even harder as it should have all the defining properties of the said living animal.

As for runes, the only ones that will work in SWOR are his own as when making them part of the world's spiritual realm he also made them part of his own spiritual realm.

Arithmency, on the other hand, is trickier, yet easier to work about.

This subject, in the end, is based on regular mathematics, something that has no need to restudy from the beginning, the only problem is that the core part of arithmency- the magical properties of the numbers and their interaction with other properties of different numbers are wrong.

Which means the thing he needs to study those properties.

In the end, he still has much to study, but he doesn't need to demolish every single thing magical society created.