"You, that is, you, Mr. Creevey, what is that you wear on your chest?"
Umbridge had just been discharged from the hospital after recovering when she stopped a young wizard with a fake smile on her face. She was just about to find a poor guy to vent her anger that had been accumulating over the past few months.
There was no way. Umbridge's mentality collapsed as soon as she left the school hospital, because as far as she could see, all the students in the corridor were wearing the silver badges of their respective colleges. According to the valuable information provided by the Slytherin students, all the students wearing the badges of their respective colleges were members of the Anti-Toad Alliance. There was even evidence that the badge could be transformed into the shape of a toad by touching it.
A group of people calling themselves the Anti-Toad League acted recklessly in the school during her hospitalization, and Dennis Creevey, who was born in a Muggle family, became Umbridge's target to make an example of him.
Since she couldn't expel all the students, she had to suppress their arrogance, and picking the soft persimmons that were easy to squeeze was undoubtedly the best option.
"Ah, you mean this badge? This is the most popular college badge in school recently." Dennis Creevey was a little nervous, but he still introduced the badge on his chest to Umbridge, "The graphics on the badge symbolize the respective colleges."
"Someone told me that this is the symbol of a certain organization." Umbridge had an extremely hypocritical smile on her face, which made Dennis Creevey shrink his head in fear, as if he had become a fat fly being stared at by a toad.
"I know." Dennis Creevey nodded seriously.
"You know?" Umbridge's smile grew wider.
"Yes, Professor. These are the symbols of the Hogwarts colleges." As soon as Creevey finished speaking, Umbridge's smile froze. However, the young wizard seemed not to notice the change in her expression and continued, "In fact, more than 80% of the students in the whole school wear such badges. Even many Slytherin students wear similar badges."
"Take it off." Although Umbridge was still smiling, her tone was extremely firm, and she reached out to Creevy for the college badge on her chest.
"What?" Dennis Creevey was a little surprised.
"I said take it off." Umbridge smiled coldly, "I suspect..."
"Professor, this is private property." Creevey reluctantly took off the badge, placed it in Umbridge's hand, and whispered, "It's very expensive. It costs one Galleon."
"Who did you buy it from?" The smile on Umbridge's face froze completely, because she heard the students around her looking over here, whispering about what happened here, and many of them flashed the badges on their chests towards her, allowing her to vaguely see that they were wearing a silver toad badge on their chests.
"Number 93 Diagon Alley, Professor," Creevey whispered.
"You, Mr. Macmillan, and Miss Abbott." Umbridge stared at the two people in front of her and motioned them to come over.
"Professor, what's going on?"
The two Hufflepuff prefects stopped and turned to look at Umbridge, confused.
"Give me your badges?" said Umbridge in a maternal tone.
"Professor, is there a problem with the badge?" Ernie Macmillan and Hannah Abbott looked at each other, pretended to be puzzled, took off the badge on their chest and handed it to Umbridge.
"Some say this is a symbol of membership in an illegal organization." Umbridge took the badge and knocked on it, but there was still no reaction. It did not turn into a toad as the Slytherin students said.
"Oh, so that's what it is." Ernie MacMillan said suddenly.
"Do you know what's going on?" Umbridge asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, everyone knows it." McMillan turned to Abbott and said, "Right?"
"Yes, it has spread all over the school."
"It is said that Shop 93 did not make Slytherin badges, which led to some Slytherin students wearing homemade badges and being laughed at by students from other colleges. Some Slytherin students began to spread rumors, saying that these badges were..."
"What is it?" demanded Umbridge.
"It's the symbol of the Anti-Toad League, but as you can see, it's just an ordinary badge. It just looks more refined. It's said to be made of pure silver, so the price is relatively expensive, worth one Galleon." Ernie MacMillan explained helplessly, "Is there anything wrong with the college badge, professor?"
"It is now forbidden to wear these badges at Hogwarts." Umbridge said indifferently. She had no intention of returning the badge. She was going to let the employees of the Ministry of Magic take it for inspection to see if there were any secrets hidden in the badge.
"Professor, this is private property." Ernie Macmillan frowned and reminded, "Besides, Hogwarts does not have such a school rule yet. If you want to ban it through an education order, at least please hang the education order on the notice wall first. I think everyone will definitely take off the badge consciously."
"Mr. Ernie MacMillan..."
Before Umbridge could finish her threatening words, she felt a pain at the back of her head. When she turned her head angrily, she found that the students around her were looking at her with contempt. Everyone had a toad badge on their chest, which made Umbridge very angry.
"Who attacked me?"
"Professor, what are you talking about? No one attacked you." Creevey tried to suppress his laughter and said in confusion.
Their appearance here was an accident. No, it should be said that none of the students in this corridor appeared here by chance. They were all acting with Umbridge.
As for why it was Creevey, it was because Creevey was the only Muggle wizard here.
Before Umbridge could walk towards the nearest student, she was hit on the head again. A large group of birds were attacking the back of Umbridge's head with their beaks.
ah!
Umbridge was almost mad, and she pulled out her wand to try to scare away those damn birds. However, the funny way she waved her wand almost made the students around her laugh out loud.
“Who’s laughing!”
Umbridge, who was trying to drive away the flock of birds, glared angrily at the students around her who were laughing at her. When she used a stunning spell to hit a bird, the bird split into two and continued to attack her.
“No one’s laughing, Professor,” McMillan whispered.
“Hahahahahaha,”
"A toad is a toad!"
"You're an idiot indeed!"
"She looks so funny."
The voices continued to echo in the corridor, but except for Umbridge, everyone else still looked as if they had never heard what they said.
"Professor, are you okay? Do you want us to take you to the school hospital?" Ernie McMillan asked worriedly.
"Hurry, help drive away those damn birds." Umbridge covered her face with her hands to prevent the birds from pecking her face.
"What birds, professor? There are no birds here." Hannah Abbott said worriedly, and took a step back while speaking, fearing that Umbridge would suddenly go crazy and attack her.
"It's those damn birds." Umbridge used the crushing curse to hit one of them, and the bird exploded immediately. However, the others still looked at Umbridge with confusion, as if to say, "Are you sick?"
"Professor, are you under too much pressure?" A Ravenclaw girl who was watching the scene said anxiously, "There are not many birds here. If you don't believe me, you can ask others."
"We'd better take the professor to the school hospital. I think she might have..."
"Didn't you really see it? And the badge on your chest." Umbridge's gaze scared the girl and she shrank back.
"Professor, this is just an ordinary house badge." The student took off the badge nervously and threw it to Umbridge.
However, whether it was intentional or due to lack of strength, the badge fell to the ground.
Ernie MacMillan, who was standing nearby, finally couldn't bear it anymore and bent over to help pick up the badge and handed it to Umbridge. "It's just an ordinary badge. And professor, are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital ward?"
"The Toad is crazy!"
"She was crazy!"
"That's great! She finally went crazy!"
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Several voices echoed in Umbridge's ears, sometimes far away and sometimes near.
"Shut up, shut up."
"Professor, are you okay? No one is talking here. Are you sure you don't need to go to the school hospital?" Ernie Macmillan stepped back uneasily. Not only him, but everyone else also slowly moved away from Umbridge, as if the toad was carrying some terrible infectious disease.
The next moment, a large number of birds flew from behind Umbridge, constantly harassing and attacking her, causing Umbridge to curse in pain and wave her wand vigorously, trying to disperse the flock of birds around her.
"Don't worry, Professor. I'm sure Madam Pomfrey will be able to cure your hallucinations." Ernie Macmillan said expressionlessly.
In fact, he was trying hard not to laugh.
Hallucination
Of course not. Everything here is not an illusion. Everyone here is an actor, except Umbridge. The reason they didn't reveal themselves is that they all took tranquilizers just now.
"This is not an illusion!" Umbridge abandoned her usual fake smile, her face becoming extremely ferocious: "If I knew who is..."
"Hahaha, I almost died of laughter."
"What an idiot."
"Go to hell."
"Then we'll leave first." Ernie MacMillan gave a look to the people around him, and then everyone quickly left the corridor as if they had encountered the plague. Before leaving, they were still whispering about whether Umbridge was crazy or not.
"Look, everyone knows you're crazy, why won't you admit it?"
"A madman never admits he is a madman."
"Shut up, everyone, shut up. If I find out who is behind this, I'll skin him alive." Umbridge cursed angrily. She looked around to find the source of the sound, but the corridor was already empty.
"Look, what I found, a mad toad." Peeves appeared from nowhere and looked at Umbridge with interest.
"It's you, it's you who did it, right?" Umbridge pointed her wand at Peeves and fired a spell at him.
However, the spell passed through Peeves' body without causing any substantial harm to him.
"Me?" Peeves pointed at himself, seeming a little surprised, but he quickly accepted the result, made a face at Umbridge, and then began to laugh unscrupulously, "Yes, it's me, Peeves."
As he said this, Peeves took out a big dung egg and threw it on the toad's face.
"Look, he's completely crazy."
"He's really gone crazy."
"But it's normal. She was not normal to begin with."
"She's going to suffer now."
Umbridge seemed stunned by Peeves's behavior, and the next moment, a sharp scream echoed throughout the corridor.
The angry Umbridge used random spells at Peeves, but the effect was not good. Instead, Peeves threw dung balls all over her face.
The battle ended with Umbridge being defeated and fleeing.
However, Peeves did not seem to intend to let Umbridge go. He kept chasing after Umbridge, humming "Toad's Song" and hitting Umbridge on the head with a paper stick rolled up from newspaper.
"Do you think this will really work?"
Shortly after Umbridge left, several figures suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the silent corridor.
"It works." Fred said with a smile, "If you do this a few more times, Umbridge will definitely start to think she's crazy."
"If Umbridge goes to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries to check if there is any mental problem, this matter will definitely be exposed." Cedrit still did not think highly of this idea. However, there was no better solution at the moment.
The method proposed by Fred and George was so disgusting that he was a little worried that doing something like that would cause the situation to get completely out of control.
After all, if she had really experienced that kind of thing, Umbridge would probably go completely crazy!
Confronting a madman is not an option.
"She will be suspicious and paranoid, and I think that's enough. We can spread the news around the school and make everyone think that Umbridge is crazy, and a madman cannot be a professor." George explained.
"The method of the diarrhea angel is more reliable. I dare say that anyone who has experienced that would not be ashamed to stay in Hogwarts."
"Harry."
Hermione looked at her friend helplessly.
"Do you think we should go to her office and watch?" Ron suddenly asked.
"It's better not to, and don't let her find out. Do it again next time. According to Albert, after two or three times, Umbridge will definitely doubt whether she has a mental problem." George looked at Harry and continued, "Then find a chance to let Toad drink that stuff. I think we don't have to worry about her causing trouble for us next time."
"If this method is still unreliable, use yours..." Harry regretted that no one made Umbridge a legendary figure in Hogwarts' history. "Otherwise, tell her that there is a secret base of Dumbledore's Army in the Forbidden Forest, and let her communicate with the group of giant spiders in a friendly manner."
"Ahem, even though Toad is stupid, we'd better be on guard against him." George kindly reminded, "If he's pushed to the limit, he might do anything."