Chapter 1039: Hermione is targeted
“The toad must be crazy.”
Looking at the education order that Filch had hung on the notice wall, the students gathered around to read the content of the education order began to whisper.
“Toad has been at Hogwarts for less than half a year, and the number of education orders he has issued is almost over 100.”
"I have never seen anyone exaggerate like this. What does she want to do? What does the Ministry of Magic want to do!"
“I heard that Toad is an old witch who is extremely controlling. If she really becomes the principal, everyone’s life will be ruined.”
“Keep your voice down, do you want to be invited to tea?”
“The toad is not here.”
“Who says he’s not here? Look over there…”
The boy looked in the direction of his friend's finger and found that Umbridge was standing at the entrance of the hall not far away, looking at them with an extremely hypocritical smile, which scared everyone to shut up. I am afraid that I will become the next fat fly to be targeted by the toad.
Judging from the contents of the new education order, everyone knows that Toad may be about to take action.
“Must students be questioned about suspected illegal activities?”
Hermione in the crowd stared at the content of the new education order on the notice wall, her lips trembling slightly.
Not long ago, the DA held a meeting on this matter.
If Umbridge uses Veritaserum on members of the DA in an attempt to get information about Dumbledore's Army, how should everyone respond?
At that time, even Hermione didn't think the method provided by the Weasley brothers was a good idea. It was nothing more than an emergency measure when there was no other way.
Unless they can prepare an antidote to Veritaserum, they can solve the threat posed by Veritaserum, but this is not easy. At least after seeing the Veritaserum formula, Hermione doesn't think she can prepare an antidote.
Although she had long expected that she might encounter this situation, she was still a little panicked when she actually met Hermione. She knew that she could only pray in her heart that the DA members would not be targeted by the toad.
Just when Hermione turned to leave and was about to inform Harry and Ron of the news here, she was stopped by Umbridge in the hall.
“Miss Granger, there are claims that you are organizing illegal activities.” Umbridge opened her mouth with a false smile, as if she had just swallowed a particularly delicious and juicy fly.
To Umbridge, Hermione Granger was indeed a juicy prey. After finding no information about Dumbledore's Army from several students who had owned the "Guide to Self-Defense", Umbridge turned her target to Harry under the guidance of the students at Hogwarts (Slytherin). On several of Potter's good friends.
She was convinced that Harry Potter must know news about Dumbledore's Army, and that good friends who were close to Potter most likely knew some news about Dumbledore's Army.
Hermione Granger (Muggle wizard), who had no background, became the first target.
Umbridge's words directly caused some commotion among the surrounding students. People began to whisper again, obviously disgusted with what Toad did, and cast sympathetic glances at Hermione.
“Ugh!”
Someone was leaning over and vomiting.
Needless to say, this is the effect of fast-acting skipping candy.
This move was undoubtedly a provocation to Umbridge, but this warrior who liked to seek death continued to vomit as if he was really sick.
“You need to go to the school hospital.”
Before being targeted by Umbridge, Vomiting Man's companions took him to the school hospital without giving Umbridge a chance to trouble them.
Umbridge withdrew her gaze from the vomiting student and looked back at Hermione Granger, who had a somewhat gloomy face. Her originally bad mood began to improve, and she knew that she might have caught a big fish this time. .
"Are you referring to the Prefects' Meeting?" Hermione raised her eyebrows slightly and asked doubtfully, "Sorry, I didn't know that the Prefects' Meeting had become an illegal organization. I thought it was the responsibility given to me after becoming a prefect. .”
“No, that’s not what I’m talking about!” The fake smile on Umbridge’s face became even brighter.
"Then... Excuse me, which one are you talking about?" Hermione was even more confused. Her reaction made the surrounding students think that Umbridge was deliberately looking for trouble.
This is not the first time that Toad has caused trouble for Gryffindor students.
She knew she had to stall for time, let others notice that she was in trouble, and come to her aid to buy time.
“It’s so ugly.”
In the crowd, I don’t know who spoke.
“It’s a toad after all, so it’s not surprising that it’s ugly.”
People looked at each other, as if trying to find the source of the sound. Even Umbridge was looking for the owner of the sound.
However, none of them knew who was speaking.
“I heard she will become the principal.”
“Didn’t you say you were having an affair with Fudge?”
“Fudge’s taste is really interesting.”
“Perhaps, he likes this taste.”
You and I simply ignored the person involved in this voice. When people finally found the source of the voice, they found that it was actually a small piece of parchment, and the parchment had been enchanted to read out the contents on its own.
Umbridge looked very ugly when she realized that she was being teased with a note. All the students who saw that the situation was not good had already fled away. No one wanted to be implicated by Umbridge, except for a certain innocent girl.
"I think we need to talk, let's go to my office first!" Umbridge said with a sullen face, motioning for Hermione to follow her.
"Oh fine!"
Hermione followed Umbridge helplessly.
However, when she came to the corridor outside Umbridge's office, the DA reinforcements she had expected had not arrived yet. Hermione could only secretly take out her wand from her robe pocket and use a tripping leg behind Umbridge. curse.
Toad has experienced so many lessons, but he still hasn't learned to be cautious, and he didn't expect that Hermione would dare to do something evil to her. She was caught in the trick and tripped over.
Before Umbridge leaned forward and fell to the ground, Hermione applied the Stunning Curse, causing the fallen Umbridge to faint completely.
When practicing the Weasley brothers' methods for dealing with Umbridge in the Room of Requirement, Hermione thought she would never use those "methods", but she didn't expect that they would come in handy so quickly.
"Professor, are you okay, Professor?" Hermione pretended to be surprised and stepped forward to help Umbridge who fell to the ground, pretending that the toad had knocked her unconscious again.
“Stop pretending Granger, you actually dare to attack the professor.”
"I bet Umbridge would be happy to fire you Mudblood."
“Oh, are you sure?”
A voice sounded behind Malfoy and his group. Before they could turn around, several people led by Malfoy were knocked to the ground by the stun spell.
“You are finally here.”
Hermione breathed a sigh of relief. It was several DA members headed by Harry who came to reinforce her.
"We just came over and noticed that these guys were following you sneakily." Harry glanced at the Malfoy group lying on the ground and said to Hermione: "This is probably a trick of the toad. However, your efficiency is faster than I expected."
"We are in big trouble, and Toad will never let it go like this." Hermione looked at Umbridge who fainted, and sighed softly: "You are right, sometimes it is not you who wants to cause trouble. , but the trouble comes to you."
"You'd better move quickly, Filch is coming this way." Ginny hurriedly walked this way, her eyes swept over the people who fell on the ground, and she said, "I just threw a few pills into the corridor. Choke gas and seal off the corridor behind, but I highly doubt Filch will use other secret passages to bypass it."
"You should be able to forget the spell, right?" Harry turned to look at Hermione and reminded, "It's best to erase their memories, otherwise there will definitely be big trouble next."
"Don't hesitate Hermione, these guys don't deserve your sympathy, and we believe in your forgetting spell. I remember that you have been using rats to train the forgetting spell since the last party." Ron encouraged. He actually didn't mind Hermione turning Malfoy and the others into idiots, but this was obviously impossible. Hermione was much more accomplished in spells than they were, and she was Professor Flitwick's favorite. one of the students.
After a moment of hesitation, Hermione raised her wand and used the Forgetting Charm on Malfoy and the others to make them forget what happened a few minutes ago.
Ron immediately took the DA members and used spells on the unconscious group of people, preparing to throw them into the boys' bathroom.
"Hermione, you'd better fall down too." Harry suddenly said before leaving, "I mean you and her both eat some nosebleed nougat, and when Filch comes over, pretend you've fallen down too. ”
“That’s a good idea. I think a little nosebleed would be good.”
Hermione agreed with Harry's emergency response, and there was nothing better to do now.
She stretched out her hand to rub her nose red, and then used the nosebleed nougat she got from Harry to make it look like she had fallen down and had a nosebleed.
As for Umbridge, Hermione opened her mouth, threw another small pill into her mouth, and asked her to swallow it. As long as she didn't go too far, Hermione actually didn't mind causing some trouble for Umbridge.
“See you later.”
Harry quickly disappeared. When he arrived at the boys' bathroom, Ron was talking to the others about how to punish Malfoy and his gang.
“Give them each a bowel cleansing pill,” Harry took out a bottle and said to several people, “Remember to put them on the toilet.”
“Would you like to take off your pants?” Some people are eager to try.
“Aren’t you disgusted?” Ron couldn’t help rolling his eyes.
"No need." Harry shook his head, "Hurry up and get out of here."
“You think they’ll **** on their pants?” Everyone is excited about doing bad things.
“Who made Malfoy and his gang too arrogant?”
"How do I know? Maybe they will wake up on their own later. If they don't wake up in time, they are out of luck. We'd better disperse quickly to avoid leaving any clues!" Harry was very familiar with the process. , who asked him to do it many times with the Weasley brothers?
When Filch hurried over, he saw Umbridge with a nosebleed on her face and Hermione who was wiping the nosebleed.
“What are you doing?” Filch asked, looking around.
"Professor Umbridge just accidentally slipped and hit her nose and fainted." Hermione said innocently: "I was just about to send her to the school hospital, but I accidentally slipped and fell. By the way, it's very slippery here. , you'd better be careful not to fall."
Before Hermione could finish speaking, Filch tripped and fell directly to the ground.
“Oh God, I warned you.” Hermione looked at Filch and said innocently.
Soon, Filch helped Umbridge into the school hospital after she fainted. Hermione also went to the school hospital and received treatment there.
However, the farce did not end there.
After Umbridge was embarrassed by Cedric and failed to get any useful information, and after being embarrassed by several other students, she was convinced that Hermione Granger, a good friend of Harry Potter, must know something. What.
Of course, this is also related to Hermione being a Muggle wizard.
As long as Dumbledore is still the headmaster, Umbridge will not easily use Veritaserum on Potter.
As for Albert Anderson, who is also a major suspect, she has given up. He is a stone that can knock out her teeth.
Persimmons are of course chosen to be soft.
As soon as Umbridge left the school hospital, Hermione was summoned to her office.
"What would you like to drink, Miss Granger?" Umbridge smiled even more happily, "Tea, coffee, pumpkin juice?"
She waved her wand lightly, and three drinks appeared in front of Hermione.
“No, thank you,” Hermione said calmly.
Umbridge said almost commandingly, "Choose a drink."
“Okay, then please give me a cup of milk tea.” Hermione shrugged.
Umbridge's expression froze, as if she was recalling something unpleasant.
At this moment, a disgusting stench suddenly came out of the room, followed by a large cloud of smoke. Hermione had held her breath for a long time, and then the cover of black smoke knocked down Umbridge who had just stood up.
"Succeeded?" Harry opened the door and came in, looking at the unconscious toad and said, "I told you before, it's best to modify her memory, otherwise the toad will still cause trouble for you."
"Okay, you're right." Hermione glanced at the fainted toad, took out her wand and used a memory charm on her, preparing to slightly modify the toad's memory to make her think that she had completed her interrogation. "
“Wait a minute, let the toad get the news that there is a suspected Dumbledore secret base in the Forbidden Forest.” Harry reminded.
Under the puzzled looks of Hermione and Ron, Harry simply explained, "Let Umbridge go find trouble with the Acromantula, so that she won't always like to make trouble for everyone."
"Hagrid's giant spider?" Hermione raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Those Acromantulas are the most ferocious monsters!" Ron said with a trembling voice. "I think Harry is right. Those big spiders will become a scourge sooner or later. Let the two scourges harm each other."
"That's not what I said, that's what Albert said." Harry shook his head.
"Okay! But will it work?" Hermione agreed, raising her wand.
"She'll believe it sooner or later," Harry said meaningfully.
(End of this chapter)