Hermione Granger studies harder than you. (her_my_nee) wrote in valarnet,
The Ministry has been corrupted by fear. The Minister is afraid that Dumbledore is vying for his job, and that he'll build an army out of the students. So the Minister's representative, who was given unfair and unheard of powers at the school, began to make changes. One of them was to ban gatherings of more than three students.