The next morning, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna's permission changes, along with the proposal to elevate their query level to "Major Arcana," appeared on the desks of Dumbledore, Scamander, Xenophilius, Lockhart, Lemei, and others.

Of course, the rather special Mr. World was notified personally by Eileen.

After all, the food supply hadn't learned how to deliver letters to ghosts yet.

As she expected, the Mr. Hermit seemed rather agitated after seeing the candidate list.

The only fortunate thing was that the voting stage hadn't arrived yet—Hermione, Hannah, and Luna weren't even considered official members. They were spending most of their time reading materials and assisting Eileen with her daily "review of memorials."

Gringotts, Destiny Group, Hogwarts planning...

Each area involved the lives of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of people.

As Eileen's "personal intern secretaries," Hermione, Hannah, and Luna absorbed knowledge like sponges, carefully considering each command that Eileen signed and replied to, fearing they might cause a major disaster after officially taking over the work.

If there were no special circumstances, they would have to gradually handle some simple tasks after Christmas.

Umbridge did not continue to appear in the second-year classroom after that. She had many things to worry about this week.

Defense Against the Dark Arts was her main battlefield at Hogwarts. As a senior investigator sent to the school by the Ministry of Magic, if even her own courses could not pass the review, then naturally there was no reason or face to review other professors—no matter how much Umbridge hated a certain werewolf professor deep down, as long as she wanted to stay at Hogwarts, she would have to adjust her teaching content according to Remus Lupin's requirements.

Of course, Remus Lupin did not deliberately target this unwelcome guest from the Ministry of Magic.

With the advancement of the Hogwarts teaching reform, the original single-professor system for each subject was gradually becoming difficult.

Compared to some contradictions and undercurrents, Lupin valued the teaching effect more. If Umbridge was willing to put some effort into teaching, he would be very happy to have her return to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, after all, Hogwarts now had a full eight grades.

On the other hand, it wasn't just the school professors who were feeling the pressure at Hogwarts.

During this time, many students began to try to "smuggle" energizing potions from the school infirmary using various excuses.

Unlike those prohibited drugs, the energizing potions produced by the school infirmary were quite effective in terms of studying, at least doubling efficiency.

This practice was quickly discovered by the professors. Percy Weasley was even deducted ten points for this—he had taken five vials of energizing potions from Madam Pomfrey in a short day, using different reasons, and supplied them to his girlfriend, as well as his younger brothers and sisters.

However, this was not the reason for Percy's deduction.

The real reason for the model student's deduction was that he shouted loudly in the Great Hall and almost started a fight.

Now all the students knew that George and Fred had secretly sold the energizing potions that Percy had obtained. The most pitiful thing was that before they could complete the transaction, they were caught by Luna and others who were patrolling, and the stolen goods were confiscated and reported to their respective prefects.

Obviously, this made Percy very angry.

If Charlie and Bill hadn't pulled him back in time, the Gryffindor prefect might have disowned his own family during dinner that day.

"If you two fail this semester," Percy said, pointing at the two pranksters who were acting dumb in the common room, and stuttering with anger, "I will definitely write to Mom, and boil a large pot of energizing potion, and force-feed you three bowls every day until your O.W.Ls exams are over."

After the Weasley family made such a fuss, the daily energizing supply at Hogwarts was finally officially put on the agenda.

The only point of conflict was that the three potions masters had not yet unified the final formula.

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The second week of December.

As usual, the heads of each house would begin to collect the list of students staying at school for Christmas.

However, Hogwarts has broken quite a few conventions this year.

Extremely rarely, the school posted a special notice, informing all students that they were not allowed to stay at school during this Christmas.

Individual students who could not return home due to family reasons also found wizarding families who were willing to invite them to spend Christmas together through the communication of the professors.

And the stranger thing was that neither Professor Dumbledore nor some well-informed wizarding families had much explanation for Hogwarts' unusual evacuation decision this Christmas. The unified reason was "renovating and cleaning the castle."

"This is very unreasonable, right?" Hannah said in confusion, "If it's renovating and cleaning, then can't it be done at other times?"

"Yes, according to historical records, the last time there was a full school departure at Christmas was..."

Hermione nodded slightly, subconsciously took out "Hogwarts, A History," and was about to reconfirm it.

"The first time this century—"

Just then, Eileen walked over with a list and casually replied.

"There was almost one time more than fifty years ago, but under Tom Riddle's self-directed and self-acted performance, Hogwarts was not finally closed, and Christmas was safely spent. This content should appear in the latest edition of 'Hogwarts, A History'."

"The latest edition of 'Hogwarts, A History'? You wouldn't directly give that as a Christmas gift, would you?"

Hermione turned to look at Eileen, her gaze lingered on Eileen's somewhat stiff smile for a moment, and she raised her eyebrows slightly.

Since watching the "Third Generation Dark Lord" handle government affairs at close range during this time, Hermione and others' worldviews have been thoroughly kneaded and reorganized without exception, especially after they took the time to visit the underground vault of Hogwarts, they redefined stones.

More importantly, she saw yesterday how Eileen held shares in various shops in Diagon Alley.

Even the seemingly transcendent Ollivander Wand Shop had to pay three copper knuts for every wand sold—as a Destiny Group holding dividend.

As for shops with weaker backgrounds and heritage, such as Flourish and Blotts, Gringotts and Destiny Group had long completed cross-shareholding. Not to mention taking a book from the shelf, even sending all the books in the entire bookstore now was just a matter of a letter.

"Cough, of course not, of course not—"

Eileen replied with a dry smile, shook the parchment in her hand, and quickly changed the subject.

"Girls, sign here, this is this year's Hogwarts Christmas 'Special Permission to Stay at School' list—after the holiday starts, at least dozens of powerful wizards will join forces to cast expulsion charms at Hogwarts, and anyone not on the list will be temporarily forced out of the school."

"Eh? Are we... staying at Hogwarts for Christmas?"

"Yeah, that's the plan for now—don't worry, Professor Dumbledore has already arranged it... the reason is to play at my house."

Eileen looked at Hannah, who was bitterly doing her homework, and casually explained, then turned to look at the side.

"As for Luna, on your side..."

"Dad will be there too, right? As the Hermit—"

Luna said calmly without raising her head, and continued to look at the investment weekly report provided by Gringotts this week.

Although she still couldn't fully understand the business, her responsibility was not to understand those venture capital logics. She only needed to pick out some that looked wrong—this was the special right given to her by Eileen, a veto power.

"Yes, all the 'Major Arcana' will be there at that time."

Eileen nodded, while pointing to the marble floor under their feet.

"This is the highest-level hunt jointly launched by the magical world in recent centuries—"

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