The Eight Part Soul

Comfort

It's a week to Valentine's and I am glad that nothing happened to raise suspicion among the demigods, an unknown and always will be unknown species.

But that doesn't mean that nothing happened at Hogwarts.

It was a known fact that every time a new law or rule is imposed, it just gives a calling to be broken. Same goes with that Educational Decree for pranks.

Instead of the pranks dying down, it just spiraled out like an explosion. So to put it simply, the Ministry unknowingly set a bomb at Hogwarts that exploded all the time. Hogwarts became slightly unsafe ever since those Decrees came out starting the first prank.

"Blaise, you were right," I said, after we had to cast a shield spell to protect ourselves from too many Fanged Frisbees swooping down on us, "This place is going to hell."

"I take no pleasure being right," Blaise said, "And no teacher is helping out this mess."

"Well, of course not," I said, "Remember the aftermath of that prank?"

We all remember very well.

After the harrowing first prank after the first day of school and before those Decrees, Toad had falsely accused of incompetence from Dumbledore and asked him to step down as Headmaster so that Hogwarts didn't fall down into even more chaos.

But all the teachers and students (most of them) protested loudly, which caused an unsettling dispute that resulted into Toad having more control than the Headmaster himself in the point of dealing with the students, detentions and a plain dictatorship.

It was that Toad plainly stated that she could run Hogwarts better than Dumbledore that the teachers and students let her have free rein at that. Dumbledore looked on at this with a twinkle in his eye, but did nothing because there was no misdeed that could kick him out as Headmaster. But Toad had the reins now.

And doing poorly at that.

More pranks were made to spite Toad, which she retaliated of course with Filch by her side. But no teacher nor headmaster helped her with her fight with the troublemakers. Even if they did, mostly Dumbledore, Toad waved it off while plainly stated that the fall of Hogwarts was his doing after all.

"Yeah..." Daphne said.

"Considering the turns in the situation, and Death Eaters at loose at that, I feel like the Ministry finally snapped," I said.

"You are not wrong..." Blaise said.

"But it's like the Ministry is more afraid of Dumbledore than the Death Eaters," Michael said.

"Yeah, and that is stupid. Dumbledore is against the Death Eaters as well, why don't they just call it quits and decide to join forces or something?" I asked.

"I guess it's like this," Daphne said. "After all this time when Dumbledore was preaching something like this would happened because of the awakening of You-Know-Who, and it actually happened? It's not like the Ministry is going to do a 180 after all the stuff they went through to deny."

"So, instead, they decided to ignore something that might be a matter of national security, and just keep on targeting an innocent old man just because they don't want to believe they were wrong. Huh," I said.

"When you say it like that, it sounds childish, and makes me completely ashamed of the Ministry right now," Michael said.

"Yeah... but at first, it was all because no one wanted to believe that You-Know-Who has returned. And come on, it's still far fetched, but now... a few people have to admit that these circumstances mean Dumbledore was right," Blaise said.