The next morning, the castle hall of Hogwarts was particularly lively, and everyone was talking about the "Toad Mark" last night. People also found words like "Anti-Toad Alliance" scribbled on the wall near the entrance hall, which directly aroused people's curiosity.
Many students thought that Fred and George did it. They were also shocked by the twins' audacity, but they were all secretly happy in their hearts. Because Fred and George did what they had never dared to do, many people were eager to join the confrontation with Umbridge. Although they still only stayed at the verbal level, people were still keen to discuss these things.
Some students tried to get more detailed information from Albert. They even speculated that Albert might be involved. Otherwise, how could Fred and George have the courage and confidence to confront Umbridge
In fact, as long as you have a normal brain, you can guess it with your knees.
Take the toad statue at the entrance of the foyer for example. Even the curse-breaking team of the Ministry of Magic tried their best but couldn't destroy or remove it. It is not difficult to see how high the magical level of the person who created the toad statue is. It is obviously not something that Fred and George could do. It could only be Albert, and it could only be him, because the professors in the school obviously would not do such a thing.
What surprised everyone the most was that the school did not react much to this, and Umbridge miraculously skipped all the Defense Against the Dark Arts classes in the morning.
Later everyone found out the reason.
It turned out that Umbridge was hung upside down on the Quidditch field last night and was blown by the wind all night. In the end, Snape went to rescue her personally. Now their new headmaster is lying in the school hospital.
This was undoubtedly a provocation to Umbridge.
To make matters even more exciting, the vulgar words "Umbridge eats shit" were written in 5-foot-long letters on the Quidditch pitch.
And their administrator was also worried about the graffiti on the walls. Even Mrs. Skoll's all-purpose magic stain remover couldn't completely clean up the damn graffiti.
This small victory angered Umbridge, and Ginny and Ron were immediately called in for questioning by Umbridge.
On the same day, Umbridge suddenly led people into the Gryffindor common room and raided Albert's dormitory, trying to catch Fred and George on the spot.
However, Umbridge was doomed to gain nothing, because Fred and George's lockers were empty, as if they had really dropped out of school early.
"You are very rude. At least knock before coming in."
After Albert moved the chess piece to checkmate Lee Jordan, he looked up at the group of people rushing into the room, and his tone was as if he was lecturing a group of impolite children.
"What about them?" asked Umbridge irritably.
"Who knows? Maybe they moved away overnight." Albert bent down, picked up Tom, and walked outside. "If you want to search, go ahead, but don't damage my things, otherwise... I haven't thought about it yet."
"I really don't understand what you are doing?" Lee Jordan raised his hand and knocked his head, saying sarcastically, "Fred and George are not fools. How could they wait for you to arrest people?"
The two left the dormitory under the glares of the Investigation Team, but there were more people glaring at the Investigation Team.
There was no way around it. The Slytherin Investigation Team had run to the Gryffindor common room, which naturally caused the Gryffindor students' anger and dissatisfaction. Even with Umbridge and Filch in control, when they saw the smug Slytherin students, everyone still wanted to kill them.
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This is just an excuse. Only a fool would do that, deliberately making a mess of someone else's room. Do you really think Albert has no temper
Umbridge just took a careful look, and after making sure that Fred and George had moved out, she turned around and left in a rage.
"What a bad temper." Albert said to himself as he watched the group of people leaving.
"I feel like I'm half mad at you."
After everyone else left, a familiar voice suddenly came from the side.
"Nonsense, why should I be angry with her? It's obviously because she has poor upbringing." Albert returned to the room with the cat and soon heard a noise coming from the stairs.
The pent-up anger in the hearts of the Gryffindor students finally erupted when Umbridge and her gang were about to leave. No one knew who had attacked the investigation team, causing Goyle's toenails to grow wildly.
This directly triggered a conflict between the two sides. In the melee, the members of the investigation team were naturally no match for the Gryffindor students and were knocked down by a group of people using a stunning spell.
This is all thanks to the gathering with the DA, as many students have mastered common dueling spells such as the Armor Charm and the Stun Charm.
"It's so unlucky! They must have caused me to lose to Albert." Lee Jordan kicked Mrs. Montgomery's butt and complained.
"Don't make excuses for yourself. Unless Albert is letting you win the whole game, there's no way you can win," Angelina complained.
"You know what to say, right?"
He bent down to pick up his wand from the ground and looked at the students who were fighting.
"Know."
"Then throw them out, so they don't get in the way here."
This group of guys, covered in footprints, were eventually thrown out of the entrance of the Gryffindor common room by everyone, just like throwing away large garbage.
As people were celebrating their victory against the toad again, Professor McGonagall stormed into the common room angrily and asked them what the hell they were doing.
Everyone pretended to know nothing and heard nothing, as if they had no idea what had happened from beginning to end.
"Professor, I was in the dormitory trying to comfort a frightened cat," Albert said helplessly, saying he was not at the scene, otherwise he would have come out to stop the violence.
As for the cause of this conflict, everyone said that it was the investigation team that started it. They first used a spell to attack Ron, which caused this chaos. "
"Yes, yes."
Everyone agreed one after another. Anyway, it was the investigation team who took action first, which made Professor McGonagall so angry that she turned around and left.
"You won't be able to fool Umbridge like that."
Just as Professor McGonagall said, Umbridge didn't buy it at all. After she recovered from the shock, she simply waved her hand and put all the students who participated in the fight into detention. Even though many students claimed that they were not at the scene at all, they still could not escape the fate of being put in detention. In the end, they could only accept Umbridge's punishment by starving themselves.
Except Albert, of course.
Because he ignored Umbridge completely. Although Umbridge was very angry about this disregard, Toad finally endured it temporarily because the things she could rely on had no deterrent effect in front of Albert and she had no way to deal with Albert at all.
Unless the two sides completely fell out, but Umbridge didn't want to do that.
This incident was not so easy to end. In the next few days, new changes occurred in Hogwarts. When everyone went downstairs to eat, they found that the oak door of the Great Hall had a picture of a toad licking the butt of a Slytherin snake and a picture of Fudge kneeling and licking the butt of a mysterious man. The two pictures looked very vivid and vivid, which made Umbridge tremble all over. She immediately sent an investigation team to search for the whereabouts of the Weasley brothers in the castle.
The Weasley brothers, whom the investigation team had been searching for, were now sitting in the Gryffindor common room, selling joke props and bragging to people about their deeds in fighting against Umbridge, successfully gaining a wave of admiring glances.
"Toad does have people patrolling at night."
"But the only person she can rely on now is Filch. She is the worst headmaster I have ever seen."
"No, she's not even the principal."
As for Filch, everyone knew his situation. Although that guy did know a lot of secret passages, as a Squib he was destined to be no match for the wizards, so we used some tricks to make Filch run around in circles.
Umbridge never dared to get up to patrol at night, so she didn't have to worry about being caught while wandering at night.
"You guys are still in school?"
Harry, Ron and Hermione were very surprised to see Fred and George selling joke props in the common room. They thought the Weasley brothers had quietly left Hogwarts.
"Why should we leave?" Fred and George asked in unison.
"Mum's going crazy. She's looking for you guys," Ron said gloomily, almost throwing the envelope in his robe pocket at the twins' faces. "She's also blaming me for not stopping you from running away."
"Don't worry, we just wrote to Mom to explain everything clearly," Fred said comfortingly.
"Those guys are looking for you like crazy," Harry reminded.
"They can't find it."
"Where are you hiding? The Room of Requirement?" Hermione asked curiously.
"no."
Fred and George noticed that the other students around them were listening intently, and said with a smile: "Albert has a house in Hogsmeade. We can always return to Hogwarts to fight the toad."
"Now someone needs to step up and hold back Toad's experience so that she won't have other thoughts about causing trouble. Anyway, we don't really need an S certificate."
"But… "
"Don't be silly, Hermione. If we don't step up and delay Toad's time and energy, do you really think she will let Harry go easily?" Fred sneered. "That guy really wants to expel Harry and drive him out of Hogwarts."
"Fred is right, Toad has always wanted to do that." Harry admitted this, and he believed that Umbridge had always wanted to silence him, discredit him, and expel him from school.
"What are you going to do?"
"Ai... cough, cough, we hope to call on more people to drive the toad out together." George said with a light cough.
"Our ultimate goal is to unite students from the other three colleges and expel Umbridge from Hogwarts." Fred continued to tell everyone about his grand plan. "Umbridge will also be the first professor to be expelled from Hogwarts. She will become a celebrity in "Hogwarts, A History of the School", but it will be difficult to succeed."
Because many of them are used to remaining neutral.
"We should go find Albert, he can definitely do it."
So, a group of people ran to find Albert and mentioned Umbridge who had just left.
"I'm sorry, I can't do it. In fact, even Dumbledore might find it difficult to do it." Albert was not affected by their passionate emotions, but gave them some suggestions, "You can resist them together, use the reputation of Fred and George, or the reputation of the Anti-Toad Alliance, and let Fred and George teach you. He is better at these things and knows better how to deal with the Investigation Team and the Toad."
In just a few days, the investigation team was sent to the school hospital one after another. Even Umbridge was beaten up by an unknown person and her face was swollen. Such brutality shocked the entire Hogwarts.
The Ministry of Magic intervened urgently to investigate, but still found nothing, as if the so-called riot at Hogwarts did not exist at all. Fred and George, whom they suspected, were not in Hogwarts at all, at least there was no one in the Room of Requirement. If Fred and George were really hiding in there, no one else could get in.
As for Hogsmeade, the Ministry of Magic did send people to search Hogsmeade village, trying to find Fred and George's hiding place, but they never found the legendary house.
"Didn't you have people search Hogsmeade? Why are you asking me?" Facing Umbridge who ran up to him with murderous intent, Albert said calmly: "And you actually believed that kind of nonsense and came to ask me, don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Fred and George had actually been at Hogwarts, in the dormitory where Albert had originally lived. However, they were living in a suitcase prepared by Albert, using the laboratory inside to try to make more joke props in preparation for the upcoming store opening, and by the way, they could also sell them at a reduced price at Hogwarts, making a name for themselves while also causing some trouble for Umbridge.
To this end, Umbridge also arranged for reporters from the Daily Prophet to appear at Hogwarts and specifically interview Slytherin students, trying to discredit Fred and George as extremely vicious students.
However, the ambitious reporter failed to achieve his wish in the end, because Fudge did not dare to report it at all. He had to conceal the true situation of Hogwarts as soon as possible, so as to prevent Umbridge's bad deeds from being completely exposed. They could only send a task force to patrol the castle to restore Hogwarts to peace. Of course, that was just an overt weapon, just to deter those students, so as not to continue to be naughty and cause trouble for Umbridge.
This "elite" task force from the Ministry of Magic is not elite at all.
The next day, the content of the educational order in the entrance hall was tampered with at some point, and the photo of Umbridge conjuring up a toad was enlarged and hung directly in the hall for people to appreciate.
At the same time, a new version of the "Anti-Toad Guide" began to circulate privately in Hogwarts. Fred and George privately taught everyone how to avoid punishment or reduce punishment when rebelling against Umbridge. The "Anti-Toad Guide" soon became a must-have popular book for Hogwarts students. After all, everyone has the responsibility to fight against Umbridge.