Already, several options to regain control over the school had been denied to him no thanks in part to the alterations made by Minerva and the Department of Mysteries when they removed certain sections of the school’s wards Albus had secretly installed during his tenure. The wards that would allow him to eavesdrop into the other students’ conversations within their common rooms or even their dorms had been dismantled, the ones that governed the type of communication from the outside such as Howlers, had been altered and the password reset.