Professor McGonagall's attitude towards the fact that Potter and the Weasley brothers were banned from the game for life by the toad shocked many people.
Everyone thought Professor McGonagall would do something, but no one expected her to pretend not to see anything.
In fact, even if Professor McGonagall really wanted to do something, what could she do
Umbridge has already passed an education order from the Ministry of Magic, depriving Hogwarts professors of most of their power. Should she go to Dumbledore for help when she encounters a problem
Does this really work
It was a sheer waste of Dumbledore's time and energy.
After Professor McGonagall gave up, other professors sensed the signal and also started to give up and not do anything. The only thing they could do now was to fulfill their responsibility to teach students knowledge.
As for other things, they have nothing to do with the professors.
Umbridge will be gone next semester anyway, so just let her do what she wants. There is no way to stop her even if you really want to.
We can't break the laws of the Ministry of Magic.
They are just professors after all.
If anyone has a problem, they can go to Umbridge, or Dumbledore, or write to the Ministry of Magic.
On the night that Gryffindor defeated Slytherin, Hogwarts Castle was transformed.
“When do you think Hogwarts will completely…” George raised his hand, spread out his five fingers, and made an explosion gesture.
Yesterday, the Weasley brothers sold a lot of interesting products again. Since Professor McGonagall started to mess things up, the whole Hogwarts castle has become more and more lively.
"When will Toad give everyone a collective confinement?"
Fred is looking forward to that day, he believes it will be even more lively then.
"Once Dumbledore is no longer the headmaster, Toad will completely let himself go."
Albert never thought that Fred and George could actually convince Professor McGonagall to give up, and he never expected that the situation at Hogwarts would deteriorate ahead of time.
Hogwarts is now in chaos. Dumbledore is often absent from school, and the professors are no longer in charge. Except for Umbridge and Filch, there is no one in the school to control the students.
Prefects
Not even the Head Boy and Head Girl cares, let alone the Prefects.
Now it’s a matter of revenge and grievance.
The Slytherin students, who used to be arrogant because they had Umbridge as their backer, were no longer so arrogant.
There's no way around it. There have been quite a few Slytherins whose heads have been stuffed into toilets recently. One was even stripped down to his underwear, which was hung in front of the girls' bathroom door for everyone to admire.
Umbridge was almost driven crazy by the chaotic situation. She thought that the situation at Hogwarts would improve after she took control of the situation, but it became even worse.
In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, Umbridge arrested several Gryffindor students and put them in detention, trying to make an example of them, but to no avail.
Fred and George started the bad thing. Now everyone likes to play dirty tricks. As long as there is no evidence, it has nothing to do with me. In addition, Peeves is secretly making trouble. Every time Umbridge tries to put students in detention, she will encounter big trouble and the detention will not continue.
Once, Peeves threw a bunch of cockroaches into Umbridge's office, causing a series of screams.
"I just met Toad in the corridor. She was being chased by several big dung balls." Lee Jordan happily announced the good news to everyone.
At this moment, Umbridge's angry cursing could be heard outside the hallway. Some evil person had used a spell to trip her, causing the dung bombs chasing after her to hit her on the back of the head repeatedly.
"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 was now having a blast and thoroughly enjoying the game of bullying Umbridge.
Most of the time, Peeves liked to hide and do mischief, and then pretend to bump into them by accident, thereby making fun of Umbridge and Filch's miserable appearance.
With Albert providing toys, Peeves' fighting power skyrocketed, and more than half of the bad luck that Umbridge encountered was caused by Peeves.
It's not just Peeves. There are many students who secretly do bad things to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, especially the DA members. After receiving training from Harry, there are always a few people willing to contribute to the Anti-Toad Alliance. That's how the dung bomb that attacked Umbridge came about.
If the professor is good, it will be easy to solve these minor problems.
But Umbridge's magic was not that great, so she could only blame herself for her bad luck and silently endure everyone's "pranks".
Some in the Anti-Toad League believed that Umbridge would be driven away by a crazy prank.
However, the senior investigator of the Ministry of Magic seemed to be more tenacious than they expected. She still insisted on serving in Hogwarts, which almost moved people to tears.
At least the Daily Prophet was reporting on these touching stories, but it failed to move the students of Hogwarts.
In the newspapers, the Ministry of Magic regarded the students' "pranks" as atrocities and blamed the current headmaster of Hogwarts, who seemed to want to drive Dumbledore away.
Unfortunately, they were not able to do so.
Dumbledore was also very thick-skinned and simply ignored these reports.
However, the Daily Prophet's moving coverage resulted in several Howler letters to their editor-in-chief, Barnabas Guffey.
Fudge even received a "thank you letter" from the Death Eaters, saying that the two sides still had the opportunity to cooperate secretly. Fudge was so angry that he slammed the table and cremated the thank you letter on the spot.
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When he was hit in the face by an invisible dung bomb, Meng Tai suddenly came to his senses and reached out to wipe the disgusting stuff off his face. Amid the whispers of the students around him, he was hit on the back of his head by a dung bomb again. He could only helplessly rage because he had no idea who did it.
At first, when the Slytherin students were attacked, they did suspect the Weasley brothers, but both of them had alibis, so they couldn't find the target and were fooled from beginning to end.
“Is Albert too indulgent towards them?”
Looking at the helpless and furious Montague, Hermione shook her head helplessly, "Ever since Professor McGonagall stopped caring about things, the whole school has been in a mess recently."
"Hogwarts Castle is already in such a mess because of Umbridge," Harry corrected.
"No, I mean we can think of other ways to solve the problem." Hermione explained. She did not agree with everyone taking such a radical approach to rebel against Umbridge.
After all, Hogwarts is a school where everyone studies, and doing this would leave a very bad impact.
"If you have a better idea, I think everyone would like to hear your advice." Ron turned his head to look at Hermione and reminded her, "If you don't have any better ideas, I suggest you shut up and remain silent until you come up with a better solution... Toads are not worth wasting your sympathy at all."
"Yes, she deserves it!" Harry agreed with Ron's point of view. "Honestly, I really want to turn her into a toad, take her to the Forbidden Forest and release her. Let her live as a toad forever, so that she can no longer hurt Hogwarts students."
"That's not a good idea Harry." Hermione frowned at her good friend, "You shouldn't have such thoughts. That's not how Transfiguration magic is used."
"I remember you kept Rita Skeeter in a bottle for days." Ron pointed out what Hermione had done bluntly, thinking her sympathy was hypocritical.
"That's different," said Hermione angrily. "You'd probably kill Toad if you did that. She's not worth the risk."
"No, she deserves it." Harry said disgustedly, "I have never hated someone so much in my life. I used to think Snape was disgusting enough, but now he is nothing more than dog shit on the side of the road compared to a toad."
"We can talk to Fred and George." Ron agreed with Harry's point of view, "and see if we can turn Umbridge into a toad so that she can't continue to harm people."
"If you dare do that, I will report you," Hermione warned angrily.
"You can report us to Professor McGonagall. Anyway, Professor McGonagall doesn't care about these things now. She must be very happy to see Toad get into trouble." Harry didn't care about Hermione's threat and continued, "I was there when Fred and George persuaded Professor McGonagall. Do you really think that if there is a way, Professor McGonagall will let all the students of Hogwarts do this?"
Hermione stared at Harry in amazement, as if she couldn't believe what she had heard.
"Dumbledore doesn't really want to be involved, at least not this term."
"Why?" Hermione asked doubtfully. She actually guessed the reason but just didn't want to believe it.
"He doesn't want to waste extra time and energy on Toad and Fudge, and 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 leave next year. Instead of wasting time on them, it is better to use this time to do something more meaningful."
"I think Professor Dumbledore wanted us to witness the stupidity, arrogance, ugliness and madness of the Ministry of Magic with our own eyes, and 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 Lockhart did back then." Harry's mouth curled up with a sneer, "So, when we hung Umbridge up there, all the students and professors of Hogwarts were watching coldly."
"Don't look at me like that, that's what Fred said, 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 that Fred was the kind of person who could say such things. He probably heard them from Albert.
"Maybe. Does it matter who said it?"
"If you can get Umbridge out, I think the whole Hogwarts school will be grateful to you," Ron said to Hermione.
"Besides, Umbridge will drive Hagrid away sooner or later, and I don't want Hagrid to be driven away by her suddenly one day," Harry continued.
"We'll help Hagrid get through Umbridge," Hermione argued.
"Hermione, do you remember in third year when Hagrid's Hippogriff was tried and sentenced to death?" Harry poured cold water on Hermione mercilessly.
Hermione opened her mouth but didn't reply, 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. It was a huge waste of time and energy." Ron was also not optimistic about Hermione's proposal. "If Umbridge really wanted to fire Hagrid, she could always find a dozen excuses."
"She already has an excuse." Harry explained when the two looked over. "Remember when Toad's office burned down on the day we celebrated winning the competition?"
"What does that have to do with Hagrid?" Hermione asked puzzled.
"I heard that the fire was caused by the fire snake eggs. Toad thought that Hagrid brought the fire snake eggs into her office." Harry looked at Hermione's shocked face and said calmly, "Do you think you have a way?"
"Wake up Hermione, if you still have any expectations of Toad, then Hagrid is really doomed." Ron also felt that Toad would find a way to fire Hagrid no matter what.
"You're right." Hermione sighed, "But what should we do?"
Harry and Ron looked at each other, they didn't know what to do.
"Sure enough, we should find a way to get Umbridge out." Harry felt that this was the most reliable way. "It would be best if she was injured and hospitalized."
"How about we get some polyjuice potion and add some toad skin to it and let her drink it?" Ron suggested maliciously. "That way she'll be more like a toad and can stay in the hospital wing for a few months."
"We don't have any Polyjuice Potion," Harry reminded.
"Fred and George will definitely be able to get it. I'm sure Anderson has some in stock." Ron was very sure of this. "As for getting Toad to drink it, that's even easier. We can secretly knock her out and then force her to drink it. Then we can have a pretty good 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 home?"
Harry stood in front of the hunting lodge and knocked on the wooden door, but there was no response from inside the lodge, not even Fang was there.
"Hagrid might be out."
The three of them went around to the other side and found that the windows were closed and the curtains were drawn.
"What should we do?" Ron asked.
"Wait a moment!" Hermione took out her pocket watch and checked the time.
"Hermione, do you really think we've gone too far?" Harry continued with the previous 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's that?" Hermione asked warily.
"Umbridge is a person with a strong desire for control. She loves to conquer and humiliate others. In her opinion, anyone who challenges her authority and worldview must be punished. She has exceeded the scope of authority given to her by Fudge and has been blinded by her fanatical self. She is bringing a disaster to Hogwarts. Even if she is expelled from the school one day, she will not waver or repent."
"Toad is indeed that kind of person." Even Hermione had to admit that Albert's evaluation of Umbridge was quite accurate. Umbridge was indeed that kind of person.
"Actually, if that's all, then it's nothing, but..." Harry glanced at the two of them, lowered his voice and continued, "There's also a prophecy about Umbridge at the end, which is said to be what he learned when he gave Umbridge the prophecy."
"Prophecy, the old liar's prophecy?"
"Yes." Harry nodded and said, "Anderson believes that in the next few years, Umbridge will bring disaster to those 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 and said, "It is said that he discovered this when he prophesied to Umbridge later. Now you understand why I hate that woman so much."
Hermione's eyes widened in shock, and so did Ron.
"Are you sure?"
"Fred and George revealed the news," Harry recalled. "I didn't think they had any reason to lie to me."
"They didn't even tell me," Ron complained.
"I dare say they don't know much. Anderson hasn't revealed too much to them, but the situation will definitely get very bad in a few years." After several experiences, Harry was willing to believe Anderson's divination results. At least he hadn't made a mistake yet.