"Toad must be crazy."
Looking at the educational order that Filch had hung on the notice board, the students who were surrounding the order began to whisper.
"Toad has been at Hogwarts for less than half a year, and he has issued nearly a hundred educational orders."
"I've never seen anyone so exaggerated before. What does she want to do? What on earth does the Ministry of Magic want to do?"
"I heard that Toad is an old witch with an overwhelming desire for control. If she really becomes the principal, our lives will be in vain."
"Keep your voice down. Do you want to be invited for tea?"
"The Toad isn't here."
"Who said he's not here? Look over there..."
The boy looked in the direction of his friend's finger and found Umbridge standing at the entrance of the hall not far away, looking at them with an extremely hypocritical smile, which scared everyone so much that they shut their mouths, fearing that they would become the next fat fly to be targeted by the toad.
Judging from the content of the new education order, everyone knows that Toad is probably going to start taking action.
"Students must be questioned about suspected illegal activities?"
Hermione in the crowd stared at the contents of the new education order on the notice board, her lips trembling slightly.
Not long ago, the DA held a meeting for this matter.
If Umbridge uses Veritaserum on members of the DA in an attempt to get information about Dumbledore's Army, how would everyone respond
At that time, even Hermione didn't think that the method provided by the Weasley brothers was a good idea. It was nothing more than an emergency measure when there was no other solution.
Unless they can prepare an antidote to Veritaserum, they can resolve the threat posed by Veritaserum, but this is not easy. At least after seeing the formula of Veritaserum, Hermione doesn't think she can prepare an antidote.
Although she had expected to encounter this situation, Hermione was still a little panicked when she actually encountered it. She knew that she could only pray in her heart that the DA members would not be targeted by the toad.
Just as Hermione turned around and was about to leave, preparing to tell Harry and Ron the news here, she was stopped by Umbridge at the entrance of the hall.
"Miss Granger, someone has claimed that you are organizing illegal activities." Umbridge grinned in a false smile, as if she had just swallowed a particularly delicious and juicy fly.
For Umbridge, Hermione Granger is indeed a delicious and juicy prey. After failing to find any information about Dumbledore's Army among several students who once had the Self-Defense Guide, Umbridge, under the guidance of Hogwarts (Slytherin) students, turned her attention to several good friends of Harry Potter.
She was convinced that Harry Potter must know the news about Dumbledore's Army, and that Potter's close friends were very likely to know some news about Dumbledore's Army.
Hermione Granger (a Muggle wizard) who had no background became the first target.
Umbridge's words caused a little commotion among the students around her. People began to whisper again, obviously disgusted with Toad's behavior, and cast sympathetic glances at Hermione.
"vomit!"
Someone leaned over and vomited.
Needless to say, this is the effect of quick-acting skipping candy.
This action was undoubtedly a provocation to Umbridge, but this suicidal warrior seemed to be really sick and continued to vomit.
"You need to go to the school hospital."
Before being targeted by Umbridge, the Vomiting Man's companions took him to the school hospital to prevent Umbridge from causing trouble for them.
Umbridge withdrew her gaze from the vomiting student and looked back at Hermione Granger, whose face was a little gloomy. Her originally bad mood began to improve. 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 in confusion, "I'm sorry, I didn't know that the Prefects' Meeting had become an illegal organization. I thought it was a responsibility given to me after I became a Prefect."
"No, that's not what I meant!" Umbridge's smirk grew even brighter.
"Then... may I ask, which one are you talking about?" Hermione was even more confused. Her reaction made the surrounding students think that Umbridge was deliberately causing trouble.
This was not the first time that Toad had caused trouble for Gryffindor students.
She knew she had to buy time so that others would notice that she was in trouble and come to her aid.
“It’s ugly.”
I don't know who spoke in the crowd.
"It's a toad after all, so it's not surprising that it's a little 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 voice.
However, none of them knew who was speaking.
"I heard she's going to be the principal."
"Didn't you say you were having an affair with Fudge?"
"Fudge's taste is really exotic."
“Maybe he just likes this taste.”
The voices were talking one after another, and they simply ignored the person involved. When people finally found the source of the voices, they discovered that it was actually a small piece of parchment, and the parchment was cast with a magic spell so that it could read out the contents on it by itself.
Umbridge looked very unhappy when she found out that she had been tricked with a note. The students who saw that the situation was not good had already slipped away. No one wanted to be implicated by Umbridge, except for an innocent girl.
"I think we need to talk. Let's go to my office first!" Umbridge said gloomily, motioning Hermione to follow her.
"Oh, okay!"
Hermione followed Umbridge reluctantly.
However, when they arrived at the corridor outside Umbridge's office, the DA reinforcements they had been expecting had not arrived yet. Hermione could only secretly take out her wand from her robe pocket and cast a tripping spell behind Umbridge.
Toad had learned so many lessons but still hadn't learned to be cautious. She never expected that Hermione would dare to attack her. She was caught in the trap and tripped over herself.
Before Umbridge fell forward to the ground, Hermione cast a Stunning Spell, causing Umbridge to faint completely.
When practicing the Weasley brothers' methods of dealing with Umbridge in the Room of Requirement, Hermione thought she would never use those "methods", but she didn't expect them to come in handy so soon.
"Professor, are you okay, Professor?" Hermione pretended to be surprised and went forward to support Umbridge who had fallen to the ground, pretending that the toad had knocked herself unconscious again.
"Stop pretending Granger, how dare you attack the professor."
Several members of the task force, led by Malfoy, appeared out of nowhere, pointing their wands at Hermione with victorious smiles on their faces.
"I'm sure Umbridge would be happy to expel you, a Mudblood."
"Oh, are you sure?"
A voice sounded behind Malfoy and his group, and before they could turn around, several people led by Malfoy were knocked to the ground by the Stunning Spell.
“You’re finally here.”
Hermione breathed a sigh of relief, as the reinforcements came from several DA members led by Harry.
"We just came here and found these guys following you stealthily." Harry glanced at Malfoy and his gang lying on the ground in a heap, 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." Hermione looked at Umbridge who had fainted and sighed softly, "You are right, sometimes it is not you who want to cause trouble, but trouble that finds you."
"You'd better hurry up, Filch is coming this way." Ginny hurried over here, her eyes swept over the few people lying on the ground, and said, "I just threw a few throat-locking poison gas into the corridor to block the corridor behind, but I doubt Filch will come around from other secret passages."
"You should know the forgetfulness spell, right?" Harry turned his head to look at Hermione and reminded her, "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. We believe in your forgetfulness spell. I remember that you have been using mice to practice forgetfulness spells since the last party." Ron encouraged. He didn't mind Hermione turning Malfoy and his gang into idiots, but this was obviously impossible. Hermione's attainments in spells were much higher than theirs, and she was one of Professor Flitwick's favorite students.
After hesitating for a moment, Hermione raised her wand and cast the Oblivion Charm on Malfoy and the others, making them forget what had happened in the previous few minutes.
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 said suddenly before leaving. "I mean you and her should both eat some nosebleed nougat, and when Filch comes over, pretend to fall down too."
"That's a good idea. I think a little nosebleed would be nice."
Hermione agreed with Harry's emergency measures, as she had nothing better to do.
She rubbed her nose red with her hands, and then used the nosebleed nougat she got from Harry to create the appearance of falling and bleeding from the nose.
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 didn't mind causing some trouble for Umbridge.
"See you later."
Harry disappeared quickly, and when he arrived in the boys' bathroom, Ron was discussing with the others how to punish Malfoy and his gang.
"Give each of them a bowel cleansing pill," Harry took out a bottle and said to several people, "Remember to put them on the toilet."
"Do you want to take off your pants?" Someone was eager to try.
"Aren't you disgusting?" Ron couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"No need." Harry shook his head. "Hurry up and get out of here."
“Do you think they’ll poop in their pants?” Everyone is excited about doing bad things.
"It's because Malfoy and his gang are so arrogant."
"How should I know? Maybe they will wake up on their own soon. If they don't wake up in time, they are just unlucky. We'd better disperse quickly to avoid leaving any evidence!" Harry was very familiar with the process. After all, he had done it many times with the Weasley brothers.
When Filch hurried over, he saw Umbridge with a bloody nose and Hermione wiping the blood.
"What the hell are you doing?" Filch asked, looking around.
"Professor Umbridge just slipped and hit her nose and passed out." Hermione said innocently, "I was just about to take her to the school hospital and I also slipped. By the way, it's very slippery here, you'd better be careful not to fall."
Before Hermione could finish her words, Filch tripped and fell to the ground.
"Oh my God, I warned you." Hermione looked at Filch and said innocently.
Soon, the unconscious Umbridge was helped into the school hospital by Filch, and Hermione also went to the school hospital and received treatment there.
However, the farce did not end there.
After Umbridge suffered a setback from Cedric and failed to get any useful information, and also suffered setbacks from several other students, she was convinced that Hermione Granger, who was Harry Potter's good friend, must know something.
Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that Hermione is a Muggle wizard.
As long as Dumbledore was the headmaster, Umbridge would not easily use Veritaserum on Potter.
As for Albert Anderson, who was also a major suspect, she had given up. He was a stone that could knock out her teeth.
Of course, you only pick the softest persimmons.
As soon as Umbridge left the hospital wing, she asked someone to call Hermione to her office.
"What would you like to drink, Miss Granger?" Umbridge smiled even more broadly. "Tea, coffee, pumpkin juice?"
She flicked her wand and three drinks appeared in front of Hermione.
"No, thank you," Hermione said calmly.
Umbridge said, almost commandingly, "Pick 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 already held her breath, and with the cover of the black smoke, she knocked down Umbridge who had just stood up.
"Did it work?" Harry pushed the door open and looked at the unconscious Toad and said, "I told you long ago that it's best to modify her memory, otherwise the Toad will cause trouble for you again."
"Okay, you're right." Hermione glanced at the fainted Toad, drew out her wand and used a memory spell on her, preparing to slightly modify the Toad's memory so that she would think she had completed the interrogation of herself.
"Wait, let Toad get the news that there is a secret base in the Forbidden Forest that is suspected to be Dumbledore's." Harry reminded.
Under the puzzled gazes of Hermione and Ron, Harry simply explained, "Let Umbridge go find trouble with the Acromantula, so that she won't always like to cause trouble for everyone."
"Hagrid's giant spider?" Hermione raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Those Acromantulas are the most ferocious monsters!" Ron said in a trembling voice. "I think Harry is right. Those giant spiders will become a nuisance sooner or later. Let the two nuisances nuisance 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," said Harry significantly.