Chapter 1030 Malice
Professor McGonagall’s attitude towards the fact that the Potters and the Weasley brothers were banned for life by Toad shocked many people’s jaws.
Everyone thought that Professor McGonagall would do something, but no one expected that she would pretend not to see it.
Actually, even if Professor McGonagall really wants to do something, what can she do?
Umbridge has passed the Ministry of Magic’s education order to deprive the Hogwarts professors of most of their power. Should she go to Dumbledore for help when she encounters a problem?
Is this really useful?
It's just a waste of Dumbledore's time and energy.
After Professor McGonagall's failure, other professors sensed the signal one after another and began to do nothing. The only thing they can do now is to fulfill their responsibility of teaching students knowledge.
As for other things, it has nothing to do with the professors.
Umbridge will leave next semester anyway, so let her struggle first. Even if she really wants to, there is no way to stop it.
You can't break the laws of the Ministry of Magic.
They are just professors after all.
If anyone has any questions, they should go to Umbridge, Dumbledore, or write to the Ministry of Magic.
On the night Gryffindor defeated Slytherin, Hogwarts Castle changed dramatically.
"When do you think Hogwarts will be complete..." George raised his hand and spread out his fingers, making an explosion gesture.
Yesterday, the Weasley brothers sold a lot of interesting products. Since Professor McGonagall put it on display, the whole Hogwarts Castle has become more and more lively.
“When can Toad impose collective confinement on everyone?”
Fred is looking forward to that day, he believes it will be even more lively then.
“When Dumbledore is no longer Headmaster, Toad will let himself go completely.”
Albert never thought that Fred and George could actually convince Professor McGonagall to mess up, let alone that the situation at Hogwarts would deteriorate in advance.
Hogwarts is now in chaos. Dumbledore is often absent from the school, and the professors are no longer in charge. Except for Umbridge and Filch, no one in the school continues to restrain the students.
Prefects?
Even the male and female student union presidents are not concerned, let alone the prefects.
Now it is time to take revenge when there is a grudge, and to repay a grudge if there is a grudge.
With Umbridge as his backer, the arrogant and domineering Slytherin students could no longer become arrogant.
There is no way, there have been quite a few Slytherins who have had their heads stuffed into the toilet recently, and there was one who was stripped down to just a pair of underwear and hung in front of the girls' bathroom door for people to admire.
Umbridge was almost driven mad by the chaotic situation. She thought that after she took control of the situation, the situation at Hogwarts would get better, but instead the situation became increasingly corrupt.
In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, Umbridge arrested several Gryffindor students and put them in solitary confinement in an attempt to scare the monkeys, but to no avail.
Who let Fred and George make the bad start? Everyone likes to play dirty tricks now. As long as there is no evidence, it has nothing to do with me. In addition, there is also Peeves secretly causing trouble. Every time Umbridge tries to confine students, she will run into big trouble and the confinement will not continue.
On one occasion, Peeves threw a large number of cockroaches into Umbridge's office, causing a series of screams.
“I just met a toad in the corridor, and she was being chased by several big dung balls.” Lee Jordan happily announced the good news to everyone.
At this moment, Umbridge was heard cursing angrily from outside the hall. Who knew who was evil actually used a spell to trip her up, causing the dung bombs chasing after her to hit her in the back of the head.
"By the way, Peeves asked me to ask when the next batch of dung bombs will be delivered. They are almost out of stock." Lee Jordan asked Albert in a low voice.
Peeves is now having a blast and thoroughly enjoys this game of bullying Umbridge.
Most of the time, Peeves always likes to hide and cause mischief, and then pretends to bump into them by accident, thereby making fun of Umbridge and Filch's embarrassed appearance.
With Albert providing toys, Peeves's fighting power skyrocketed, and more than half of the unlucky things that happened to Umbridge were caused by Peeves.
Not only Peeves, there are many students who secretly cause harm to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, especially DA members. After receiving training from Harry, there are always a few people who are willing to contribute to the Anti-Toad Alliance and attack Umbridge. That’s how dung bombs came to be.
If you are a smart professor, you will naturally be able to easily solve these little troubles.
But Umbridge's magic is not very good, so now she can only accept herself as unlucky and silently endure everyone's "pranks".
Part of the anti-toad coalition believes that Umbridge will be driven away by crazy pranks.
However, the senior investigator of the Ministry of Magic seems to be more tenacious than they expected. She still holds on to her position at Hogwarts, which almost makes people cry.
At least the Daily Prophet is reporting these touching deeds, but it fails to move the students at Hogwarts.
In the newspaper, the Ministry of Magic regarded the students' "pranks" as an atrocity and blamed it on the current headmaster of Hogwarts. It seems that this posture is to drive Dumbledore away.
It’s a pity that they failed to do so.
Dumbledore was also very thick-skinned and simply ignored these reports.
However, the Daily Prophet's touching reporting resulted in several howler letters being sent to their editor-in-chief, Barnabas Guffey.
As a result, Fudge received a "letter of thanks" from the Death Eaters, saying that there was still a chance for secret cooperation between the two parties. Fudge was so angry that he slapped the table and cremated the letter of thanks on the spot.
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When he was hit in the face by an invisible dung bomb, Meng Taicai suddenly came to his senses and reached out to wipe the disgusting thing from his face. As the students around him whispered, he was hit by another dung bomb on the back of his head, but he could only be helpless and furious. , because he didn’t know who did it at all.
At first, when the Slytherin students were attacked, they had doubts about the Weasley brothers, but both of them had alibis, which made them unable to find their target, and they were tricked from beginning to end.
“Is Albert indulging them too much?”
Looking at the incompetent and furious Montague, Hermione shook her head helplessly, "Ever since Professor McGonagall ignored the incident, the entire school has been in a state of chaos recently."
“Hogwarts Castle was already in a mess due to Umbridge.” Harry corrected.
“No, what I mean is that everyone can think of other ways to solve the problem.” Hermione explained that she did not agree with everyone taking such a radical approach to resist Umbridge.
After all, Hogwarts is a school, a place where everyone learns, and doing so will leave a very bad impact.
"Yes, she deserves it!" Harry strongly agreed with Ron's point of view. "To be honest, I really want to turn her into a toad and then take her to the Forbidden Forest and release her so that she can live like a toad forever. That way she can no longer hurt the students of Hogwarts."
"This is not a good idea Harry." Hermione frowned and looked at her good friend, "You shouldn't have such thoughts, and that's not how transfiguration magic works."
“I remember you keeping Rita Skeeter in a bottle for days.” Ron bluntly pointed out what Hermione had done and thought her sympathy was hypocritical.
"That's different." Hermione said angrily. "You might kill the toad if you do that. She's not worth the risk."
"No, she deserves it." Harry said with disgust, "I have never hated a person so much in my life. I used to think Snape was annoying enough, but now he is nothing compared to a toad. Side shit.”
"We can talk to Fred and George." Ron agreed with Harry's point of view, "See if we can turn Umbridge into a toad so that she can no longer harm people."
"If you dare to do this, I will report you." Hermione warned angrily.
"You can go to Professor McGonagall to report us. Professor McGonagall doesn't care about these things now anyway. She must be very willing to see Toad suffer misfortune." Harry ignored Hermione's threat and continued, "Fred and I was there when George persuaded Professor McGonagall. Do you really think that Professor McGonagall would let the entire Hogwarts students act like this if they really had a way?"
Hermione stared at Harry dumbfounded, as if she couldn't believe what she heard.
“Dumbledore actually doesn’t want to care about it at all, at least not this semester.”
"Why?" Hermione asked doubtfully. She actually guessed the reason, but she just didn't want to believe it.
"He doesn't want to waste extra time and energy on Toad and Fudge. They are not worth Dumbledore's waste. Do you understand now?" Harry looked at Hermione and continued, "Fudge will step down next year, and Toad will step down next year." Instead of wasting time on them, it’s better to use the time to do something more meaningful.”
"I think Professor Dumbledore wants us to see with our own eyes the stupidity, arrogance, ugliness and madness of the Ministry of Magic. By the way, I would like to remind everyone not to be such a person after entering the Ministry of Magic, and not to trust the Ministry of Magic easily, just like Los Angeles back then. Hart." Harry's lips curved into a sneer, "So, when we hung Umbridge up, the entire Hogwarts students and professors were watching indifferently."
“Don’t look at me like that, these are Fred’s exact words, and I think he makes a lot of sense.”
"Are you sure these are Fred's original words and not Anderson's?" Ron wanted to complain. He didn't believe Fred was the person who could say such things. He probably heard it from Albert. Come.
“Maybe, does it matter who said it?”
"If you can drive Umbridge away, I think the whole Hogwarts school will be grateful to you." Ron said to Hermione.
"Besides, Umbridge will drive Hagrid away sooner or later. I don't want Hagrid to be driven away by her suddenly one day." Harry continued.
"We'll help Hagrid pass Umbridge's review," Hermione argued.
“Hermione, do you remember when Hagrid’s Hippogriff was tried and sentenced to death in third grade?” Harry poured cold water on Hermione mercilessly.
Hermione opened her mouth but did not answer, but she already knew what Harry meant.
"I remember that you spent a lot of time helping Hagrid prepare the manuscripts that would be used in the trial, but it turned out to be meaningless and a lot of time and energy wasted." Ron was also not optimistic about Hermione's proposal, " If Umbridge really wanted to fire Hagrid, she could always come up with a dozen excuses."
"She already has an excuse." Harry explained when the two of them looked over, "Do you remember the day when we won the competition and had a celebration party, and Toad's office was burned down?"
"What does that have to do with Hagrid?" Hermione asked confused.
"I heard that the fire was caused by ash snake eggs, and the toad thought it was Hagrid who brought the ash snake eggs into her office." Harry looked at Hermione's shocked face and said calmly, "You think you can do something about it? "
“Wake up Hermione, if you still have any expectations for Toad, then Hagrid is really doomed.” Ron also felt that Toad would find a way to expel Hagrid no matter what.
"You're right." Hermione sighed, "But what should we do?"
Harry and Ron looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"Sure enough, we should still find a way to drive Umbridge away." Harry felt that this was the most reliable way. "It is best to let her be injured and hospitalized."
"How about we get some compound potion, add some toad skin to it, and let her drink it?" Ron suggested with a malicious look on his face, "That way she can be more like a toad, and she can still stay in the school hospital. A few months ago."
“We don’t have Polypotion,” Harry reminded.
"Fred and George can definitely get it, and I dare say Anderson definitely has reserves." Ron was very sure of this. "As for making the toad drink it, it would be easier. We can secretly knock her out, and then we can Just drink it down, and then we can have a fairly pleasant time."
Hermione didn't want to talk to the two of them. She still felt that Harry and Ron's ideas were too radical.
“Hagrid doesn’t seem to be at home?”
Harry stood in front of the hunting cabin, stretched out his hand and knocked on the wooden door, but there was no response in the cabin, not even Fang.
“Hagrid may be out.”
The three of them went around to the other side and found that the windows were closed and the curtains had been drawn down.
“What to do?” Ron asked.
“Wait a moment!” Hermione took out her pocket watch and looked at the time and said.
"Hermione, do you really think we have gone too far?" Harry continued the topic.
"That's right." Hermione nodded and said, "Although I hate toads, I still don't want you to do that. I understand that you want to fight back, but..."
"You probably haven't heard what Albert said about Umbridge," Harry said suddenly.
“What comment?” Hermione asked warily.
"Umbridge is a very controlling person who likes to conquer and humiliate others. In her view, anyone who challenges her authority and worldview must be punished. She has exceeded the scope of authority given to her by Fudge. Dazzled by her fanatical ego. She is bringing disaster to Hogwarts. Even if she is kicked out of school one day, she will not waver or repent."
"Toad is indeed such a person." Even Hermione had to admit that Albert's evaluation of Umbridge was quite accurate, and Umbridge was indeed that kind of person.
"Actually, if it's just like this, it doesn't matter, but..." Harry glanced at the two of them and continued in a low voice, "There is also a prophecy about Umbridge in the back. It is said that he gave it to Umbridge. It was known during the prophecy.”
“Prophecy, the prophecy of an old liar?”
"Yes." Harry nodded. "Anderson believes that in the next few years, Umbridge will bring a disaster to Muggle-born wizards and kill many innocent Muggle wizards."
"Albert's "Self-Defense Guide" was actually prepared to a large extent for those Muggle-born wizards. He even predicted what would happen in the next few years." Harry looked at Hermione Said, "It is said that he discovered this later when he gave Umbridge a prophecy. Now you understand why I hate that woman so much."
Hermione's eyes widened in shock, and even Ron's eyes widened in shock.
"you sure?"
“Fred and George revealed the information,” Harry recalled. “I didn’t think they had to lie to me.”
“They didn’t even tell me,” Ron complained.
"I dare say they don't know much. Anderson didn't reveal much to them, but the situation will get very bad in a few years, that's for sure." I've had several experiences, ha. Leigh was willing to believe Anderson's divination results, at least he hadn't been wrong yet.
(End of this chapter)