Chapter 1019: expulsion, expulsion, expulsion
October at Hogwarts is always spent in strong winds and heavy rains. The damp cold air sweeps in from the wind and rain and permeates the entire castle.
Faculty and students suddenly caught a cold, especially in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Several students always had symptoms of severe high fever every day, and the number tended to increase sharply.
Umbridge suspected that someone was at work and ordered the head nurse, Madam Pomfrey, to find a way to cure the students' strange fever symptoms. However, she had little success because the symptoms seemed elusive and there was a possibility of recurrence even if they were cured.
For this reason, Fred and George's fever candies were sold very well, and they received a large sum of galleons. They were happy every day, as if they were celebrating a festival. They had obviously enjoyed the fun of making money and getting rich.
In this humid environment, the fireplace in the common room has become a popular location, and it has also become the most crowded area. Many students like to stay by the fireplace to warm up, chat, and do homework.
Albert used to like to stay there and warm himself by the fire, but now he is more casual.
At this moment, he was sitting next to the window in the common room. Although the heavy curtains blocked the moisture outside, this place was still outside the range of heat radiation from the fireplace. Few students would come here, but Albert didn't care. , because he brought a small heater himself, which could save him from the cold and dampness in the corner, making him as warm as staying by the fireplace, and no one would bother him.
Tom was lying on the cushion, staring at Albert who was writing something with a quill. After opening his mouth and yawning, he lay on the cushion again and continued to rest.
Hearing the footsteps of someone approaching, Tom opened his eyes and looked at the wet human in front of him with slight disgust.
“Is something wrong?”
Albert put down his quill and took a sip of hot milk tea and asked.
"Can you teach me Occlumency?" Harry said straight to the point.
This was Sirius' advice to Harry. Black thought that since Albert thought it was best for Harry to learn Occlumency, it would be best to take the time to learn it. There is no harm in it. Albert was always very predictive in some aspects. That's right, basically he wouldn't go out of his way to trick Harry.
"I can't teach you. If you want to learn Occlumency, you have to find Professor Dumbledore." Albert stretched out his hand to scratch Tom's chin and said calmly, "If you can't find Professor Dumbledore, just go to Professor Dumbledore." Ask Blake to write a letter to the principal for you."
In fact, Fred, George and Lee Jordan all learned Occlumency from Albert, but none of them learned it, so Albert had no intention of teaching Harry Occlumency, which was a thankless task. thing, and being in contact with Harry Potter for a long time is not a good thing.
“Sirius said he wanted to talk to you about something.”
“Forget it!” Albert refused directly.
Harry did not continue to struggle. Albert said that he could not teach him. He probably did not intend to teach him, or thought that he could not be taught.
“What if I want to teach myself?” Harry asked again.
"There is a copy of "Advanced Occlumency Guide" in the restricted book area." Albert reminded.
"Thanks."
Harry dragged his wet body away and prepared to take a hot bath first.
Albert continued to write his potions thesis, and since entering seventh grade, he has basically stopped doing homework. Writing a paper is also very casual, and no professor would complain about it.
Well, except Snape!
The Potions Professor was very dissatisfied with Albert's practice of not teaching homework, and once threatened Albert with confinement if he did not hand in his homework. In the end, after Dumbledore's "friendly" communication, Snape could only turn a blind eye instead of telling Albert to get out.
Of course, the only person with this privilege is Albert.
After Umbridge learned this "good news" from the Slytherin students, she wanted to make a big fuss about it.
Unfortunately, Albert took some time to manually convince the other party.
“I hate rain.”
“Angelina is definitely possessed by Wood.”
Fred and George had just returned from the Quidditch field. Unlike Potter, the water stains on their bodies had been evaporated by spells, and most of the remaining soil had been cleaned away by spells. They did not look like Harry. So embarrassed.
“I thought you stopped doing your homework.”
Fred took a few biscuits from the plate, put them in his mouth and ate them. They hadn't eaten dinner yet, and their stomachs were already hungry.
"this is not."
“Not what?”
George also ate the biscuits, conjured up a teacup, and poured himself a cup of steaming milk tea.
“Research and improvement of Felixir.” Albert said without thinking.
Of course, this is actually an excuse. Albert has already upgraded the elixir to level three through the panel. By the way, he compared it with the notes given to him by Hutok, and copied down the knowledge in the panel skills.
If it were not for the limitation of skill points and experience, Albert would like to upgrade the Felicity Potion to level four or even higher. Perhaps the side effects of the Felicity Potion would be greatly reduced, or even directly turned into something with a lot of... A potion with a strong buffing effect, not a so-called lucky potion.
Although Albert did have a lot of experience and skill points, he did not dare to squander them casually, but left enough preparations for himself. Albert had a hunch that once Voldemort was eliminated, it would be extremely difficult to continue to obtain a large amount of experience and skill points in the future.
No, it should be said that after leaving Hogwarts, it will be difficult to trigger and complete tasks.
Of course, Albert didn't have any good intentions when he wrote this down and sent it to Hertok. He believed that his old friend would definitely be interested in the improvement of the Fuling Elixir, and they could use it to study the Fuling Elixir together. On the pretext of investing some galleons to sponsor the improvement and research of the Felixir, you can get some Felixir from the other party for free.
To be honest, Albert had little confidence in whether he could successfully brew the elixir in one go, especially since the potion was brewed by two people together, so the probability of failure was even greater.
Thinking of the dangers he might need to face in the future, Albert felt that he should reserve some Felixir for himself to make people feel at ease.
“You finally plan to brew the elixir of good fortune!”
Fred and George looked very happy. They were also very interested in this magical potion. At least the magical candies made by Felixir would definitely sell for a high price.
Albert was amused by the idea of Fred and George.
There are actually very few potions masters who are really good at elixirs, because the cost of trial and error is too high.
Once it fails, the price paid is too high.
Whether it is loss of time or money.
So few people will cook the Spiritual Elixir, and even if they successfully brew it, they will rarely sell it. The price of the Spiritual Elixir on the market is simply a joke, because it is impossible to buy it from the beginning.
Just when George and Fred destroyed most of the biscuits on Albert's plate and were about to take a hot bath, Lee Jordan hurried into the common room and said to Fred, George and Albert.
“What weird policies have been introduced under the new education order?” Fred and George looked at the panting Li Jordan, raised their eyebrows and asked, “How can it make you so excited?”
Li Qiaodan took a few seconds to calm down and said loudly, "Anyone who forms or participates in any organization, association, team or club without the approval of the senior investigating officer will be immediately expelled."
The three of them looked at each other and were a little silent for a while.
“This is weird.” George said in a low voice. “Did Toad hear something?”
"It's normal." Albert was very calm, but he didn't think there was anything surprising. "This kind of thing is just a matter of time. Maybe she will tell Fudge that she successfully prevented Dumbledore from organizing an army."
“Do you think she really believed that ridiculous rumor?” George thought it was ridiculous.
“Is this kind of thing important?” Albert asked rhetorically.
“Isn’t it important?” Li Qiaodan was a little confused.
“It’s not important, it’s just an excuse at most, and I don’t think she needs an excuse.” George shook his head.
“Toad has a strong desire to control. I think that guy is a pervert.” Fred muttered.
"The Quidditch team is included, and Angelina is about to cry." Li Jordan reminded, "She is very worried that Umbridge will not let Gryffindor reorganize the team."
While the others were talking, the three girls in the team had returned to the common room, all cursing Umbridge.
When she saw the latest education order, Angelina went directly to Umbridge, and the result was predictable.
“How was it?” Fred asked.
"Umbridge said she wanted to apply in writing. It seems she doesn't intend to reorganize the Gryffindor Quidditch team." Angelina looked a little annoyed.
“There’s something wrong with your idea.” Albert said suddenly.
"What?"
"That toad really doesn't want the Gryffindor team to reorganize. It's actually normal for her to suppress the Gryffindor team." Albert said calmly.
“Then what should I do?” Angelina asked with her eyes widened, “Should I ask Professor McGonagall?”
"Even if you ask Professor McGonagall, Umbridge will probably not agree. In the end, you will probably have to ask Professor Dumbledore to come forward to solve the problem." Albert knew Umbridge's tricks very well. That woman is in the system. Having stayed in the system for decades, he is very good at using the system's tricks, and people in the system always like to use this trick.
"That is not bad."
Hearing what Albert said, Angelina couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the Quidditch team could continue.
For Angelina, who plans to join a team after graduation, Quidditch is almost everything to her.
“What can we do even if we barely pass?” Albert asked, “Do you really think that the toad will let it go?”
“You mean Umbridge will target Harry.” Arya guessed what Albert meant.
“Then what should we do?” Katie asked.
“Just stop playing Quidditch,” Albert said calmly.
“Stop the Quidditch match?” Angelina’s eyes widened and she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “How is this possible?”
“I’m just making a suggestion.” Albert packed his things and took Tom back to the dormitory.
He knows very well that it is unrealistic to expect others to change anything if he does not fight for it himself.
Most people in the world think so.
But if you don’t want to save yourself, you can only endure it silently.
No matter it was Angelina, Aaliya or Katie, they all stared blankly at Albert's leaving figure.
"What are you going to do? If it doesn't work, go find Professor McGonagall!" Fred looked at Angelina. Although he wanted to help her, he didn't have a good solution. Intuition told Fred that Albert was right. If Umbridge wanted to target the Gryffindor team, then the subsequent conflict with Slytherin might be unavoidable. Toad would be able to find an excuse soon, maybe not. Expelled, but will definitely be banned from playing or the team will be disbanded.
The toad can definitely do these things.
"It should be said that the idea was wrong from the beginning." George suddenly said: "Once one team is missing from the Quidditch game, there will only be three teams left. What if we convince another team to give up the game? Then There is no need to compete, even if Slytherin wants to compete, they have to find an opponent."
“What if Umbridge still disagrees?” Angelina asked, she was really afraid that Umbridge was unwilling to compromise.
"Then there's no other way!" George shrugged, "Whether you want to compromise or fight to the end, you are the captain and you have to choose. Anyway, Fred and I don't care."
“It doesn’t matter?”
“We are different from you.” Fred said, shaking his head.
“What’s different?” Katie asked.
"Let's find more substitutes. I think Charlie's idea of finding substitutes before was very good. We are graduating this year anyway. Then you have to leave a few experienced players for Katie or Harry to start training from scratch. It’s not easy.” George smiled and asked Fred to go back to the dormitory to take a shower.
They don't put all their hearts into the Quidditch game like Angelina, let alone Umbridge. After all, they all prepare to go to school with the attitude that it doesn't matter if they leave Hogwarts early. There's trouble in there.
George actually hoped that Angelina would give up and persuade other houses to give up this year's Quidditch competition and directly give the championship to Slytherin.
Once this happens, those Slytherin students will definitely accept the Quidditch championship trophy with great pride.
When the Slytherin students realize that they have picked up a trophy for nothing, they will definitely not be happy, because there is no honor at all. Instead, the trophy will become the shame of Slytherin and be nailed to Hogwarts forever. on the pillar of shame.
Students who will come to Hogwarts in the future will know that this trophy was directly awarded to Slytherin students due to the intervention of Umbridge, an official from the Ministry of Magic.
The name Dolores Umbridge will remain in Hogwarts forever, and will be firmly nailed to the pillar of shame.
However, George probably guessed what Angelina would choose, just like Albert also guessed Angelina's choice.
“Don’t worry Angelina, the situation is not that bad.” Lee Jordan comforted her and turned back to the dormitory. However, even he did not believe his own words.
(End of this chapter)