After returning from Hogsmeade, Harry found himself suffering from insomnia again. In addition to having that damn nightmare, Qiu's affairs also distracted him most of his attention.
Harry knew in his heart that Hermione was right, unless Cho dumped Cedric, he had no chance. This made Harry extremely upset, especially when he saw Cedric and Cho arm in arm in the corridor, Harry wanted to go up and separate them, which also led to Harry using tranquilizers more frequently recently.
Harry somewhat resentful of Hermione for bringing this up. Sometimes forgetting it slowly is a good choice.
"When do you plan to start?"
Harry turned his head to ask Hermione, he needed to find other things to distract himself, putting most of his energy into Quidditch training was a good choice, but after recently starting to study the "Self-Defense Guide", Harry hoped to find a place to practice magic.
"Everyone is free on Thursday." Hermione looked around and made sure no one was eavesdropping, then lowered her voice and said, "Fred and George promised to take me to their secret base today."
"Can we go?" Ron interrupted.
"I think it should be OK."
As soon as Hermione finished speaking, Umbridge's angry scream suddenly came from the hall.
"How dare they!"
Then there was the sound of newspapers being torn into pieces and a lot of whispering, and everyone looked at the toad sitting in the teacher's seat with strange eyes.
"What happened to Toad?"
Harry looked puzzled at Umbridge's back as she walked away angrily.
"You haven't read today's newspaper yet!" Ron tried hard not to laugh and handed today's Daily Prophet to Harry.
"The toad is in the newspaper?"
Harry took the Daily Prophet and spread it out directly at the dining table. When he was about to read the first edition, he heard Ron say beside him.
"No, it was actually reported to the Daily Prophet."
Harry discovered that the Daily Prophet was on the front page of his own newspaper because the Daily Prophet's headquarters in Diagon Alley was blown up by a bunch of Howlers.
This incident made the newspaper a hot topic in the British wizarding community.
Some say it was out of dissatisfaction with the false reports in the Daily Prophet, while others say it was a protest against the newspaper's glorification of Umbridge.
"Yes, I just happened to pass by and was almost scared silly!"
According to the recollection of one party involved.
He had never seen so many Howler letters explode at the same time.
At that time, someone was setting off fireworks, and a large number of magical fireworks rushed into the headquarters of the Daily Prophet, and the scene was very spectacular.
However, this is not the end of the story.
When everyone's attention was attracted by the Howler and fireworks, Umbridge's head suddenly appeared again and sang Toad's Song. Many people have heard this song now.
Umbridge is now well-known to everyone, and she will probably never get rid of the nickname of the pink toad in her lifetime.
It's no wonder that Umbridge was so angry. No matter how you look at it, it seems like the students of Hogwarts were behind this. At least the Toad Song spread from Hogwarts.
"... Every person who provides effective clues will receive a 100 Galleon reward. That's a pretty good reward..." Ron muttered, as if he was considering whether to report Fred and George. Although there was no evidence, Ron felt that this matter was related to the two of them.
"Do you really think anyone can get this reward?"
Fred and George appeared out of nowhere, glanced at the spread-out newspaper, and said contemptuously, "These rewards are like farts. If they don't want to give it to you, even if you really provide effective clues, they can still drag it out and not give a penny. This thing is purely for show. Don't look at me like that. The last time Albert offered a reward of 10,000 Galleons, the Ministry of Magic ruined it. Do you think you are better than Albert?"
"The Ministry of Magic owes Albert 10,000 Galleons?" Harry and Hermione were very surprised when they heard this. "When did this happen?"
"When we threw Peter Pettigrew into Azkaban," Fred explained, "the Ministry of Magic made up an excuse and didn't pay a single Galleon."
"Because there's no reward for Peter Pettigrew?" Hermione asked tentatively.
"No, 10,000 Galleons is the reward for Sirius Black. It has nothing to do with Peter Pettigrew. Now do you understand what the Ministry of Magic is like?" George called to Hermione, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Follow me."
Harry and Ron looked at each other, then stood up and followed.
"Where are we going?" Ron demanded.
"Shut up Ron."
After entering the secret passage, Fred glared at Ron with disgust: "Do you want everyone to know what we are going to do?"
"What are we doing here?" Ron muttered in dissatisfaction.
"You should shut up first instead of being the leaker." Fred and George took out their wands from their robe pockets and tapped the three people's heads. A cool feeling instantly spread throughout their bodies.
"That's the Disillusionment Charm." Hermione recognized the spell.
"Follow quietly!"
Fred, George and Harry went to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor, opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas to a pulp.
"There's no one around, you'd better hurry up!" Fred urged.
After George passed the wall opposite the tapestry three times, a very smooth door emerged on the wall.
"Okay, let's go in!" George pushed open the wooden door and led the way into the Room of Requirement. Inside the door was a spacious room.
"There's such a great place hidden here." Hermione looked around in amazement.
"This is called the Room of Requirement. We discovered it by chance during our first year night tour. Later, Albert found a way to use it." George spread his hands and introduced it to Harry and the others. "This is the most magical place in Hogwarts. Few people in the whole school know of its existence. Umbridge certainly doesn't know about it, and even if she did, she couldn't get in. Once someone is in the Room of Requirement, no one else can get in."
"Dumbledore should know. He mentioned it to Karkaroff at the Christmas ball." Harry remembered that Dumbledore mentioned the chamber pot at the Christmas party.
"Of course, there are other people who know." Fred and George didn't dwell on these questions and continued to introduce, "This is where we used to practice magic. I remember George and I used to hide behind the pillars and chant spells at each other to practice the accuracy of the spells."
"This place is great, but there's not enough space." Harry had been looking at this room for a while now. It would be a bit difficult to accommodate more than twenty people to train magic together.
"Don't worry, the space inside can be expanded as needed." George comforted, "When the time comes, you can think, 'We need a place to learn fighting,' and the Room of Requirement will become such a place, enough for the entire school to come."
"I'll tell you a secret. Albert has always wanted to crack the secret of the Room of Requirement, but he failed."