At the moment, Umbridge was in a very bad mood. Just now, she learned the breaking news that Voldemort had been resurrected from the front page of the Daily Prophet.
As a senior official in the Ministry of Magic and an excellent politician, Umbridge knew very well what this meant. All her previous efforts had become a joke. What was worse was that the prophecy had come true. Her boss Cornelius Fudge was facing the risk of being ousted by the masses, and perhaps he was not far from stepping down.
If Fudge is really driven out by the masses in the summer, what about her prediction
Umbridge did not believe Trelawney's prophecy on the surface, but in her heart she had already believed it.
Therefore, she never ventured into the forbidden forest, for fear of encountering any unexpected event.
As long as he doesn't enter the Forbidden Forest, the prophecy related to the Forbidden Forest will not come true, but will he really be imprisoned in Azkaban Prison
The probability of this happening should not be high, but... Umbridge was really scared.
Even though the Dementors had rebelled and left Azkaban, absolutely no one wanted to spend the rest of their lives in that damn wizard prison.
The more you worry about something and the more you don't want it to happen, the more likely it is to happen.
At noon on the day when she learned from the newspaper that Voldemort had been resurrected, Umbridge received an owl letter from the Ministry of Magic, informing her that she had been suspended for investigation and that the Ministry of Magic had asked her to leave Hogwarts as soon as possible.
It's a nightmare!
Umbridge couldn't help shuddering as she thought of the way the Hogwarts students looked at her.
How many things had she done to make the students hate her during her tenure at Hogwarts
Umbridge could no longer remember, but she knew very well that, except for a small number of Slytherin students, all the other students at Hogwarts hated her very much.
If Umbridge was still the headmistress or senior investigator, the students would naturally not dare to do anything to her, but she was no longer that. Once they knew that she was suspended for investigation, Umbridge could not imagine what would happen.
no!
After figuring out her situation, Umbridge realized that she must not leave Hogwarts under the eyes of the students, otherwise who knows what terrible things would happen.
After packing her luggage, Umbridge tried to go directly to her office at the Ministry of Magic via the Floo Network. However, she soon discovered that the Floo powder she had stored in the pottery jar was gone.
Someone was trying to stop her from leaving via the Floo
No, that's impossible!
Umbridge originally wanted to ask other professors, no, should I say Filch, to get some Floo powder, but the administrator didn't seem to have the habit of using Floo powder.
As for finding other professors
Umbridge had offended all the professors in the school during her tenure, especially after Professor McGonagall was sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries by the Aurors because of her relationship. She didn't think that other professors would be willing to provide any convenience.
Umbridge had to accept the cruel fact that she had to leave through the Hogwarts gates.
Must leave quietly!
The students of Hogwarts must not notice.
For this reason, after repeated consideration, Umbridge decided to leave in the evening and quietly leave when everyone was having dinner in the hall.
Umbridge didn't know that Lee Jordan was currently spreading the news that she had been suspended for investigation.
The students had already known that she would leave school during dinner.
During dinner in the evening, Umbridge, with the help of Filch, dragged her luggage to the corridor on the first floor of the castle. The journey was smooth and she did not meet any other students.
Just when Umbridge breathed a sigh of relief, she saw that Sybill Trelawney, the Divination professor she had previously expelled, had returned to Hogwarts.
For some reason, Umbridge had a bad feeling in her heart, and this premonition soon came true.
"I originally wanted to visit you in the school hospital, but Madam Pomfrey said you had been discharged." Trelawney gave Umbridge a look as if to say, "Why aren't you waiting for me in the school hospital?"
"you… "
Umbridge looked at Trelawney who was blocking her way, her face terribly gloomy. She knew very well that the other party had definitely come here deliberately to mock her. She wanted to draw out her wand and cast the Cruciatus Curse on the guy in front of her.
"You look very bad." Trelawney narrowed her eyes, looked up and down at Umbridge's darkened cheeks, and suddenly said, "You are in big trouble recently."
Umbridge said nothing, but walked away from Trelawney expressionlessly, pretending not to see her.
Trelawney was not angry, nor did she obstruct. She just followed Umbridge and continued, "You should have believed my prediction. Being a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts is not a good job. You are lucky not to have lost your life because of it. By the way, don't go into the forest, otherwise your life will be in danger."
Umbridge continued to pretend that she had not seen or heard anything, and she quickened her pace towards the entrance hall, but she did not expect that the entrance hall was even more lively. Most of the teachers and students of Hogwarts gathered here, wearing toad badges on their chests, toad hats on their heads, and holding toad firecrackers in their hands for celebration.
"Professor Toad! Professor Toad..."
When Umbridge appeared in the corridor, everyone spontaneously applauded and cheered.
Umbridge looked at the "enthusiastic" students and wanted to turn around and leave.
"Where are you going?" Trelawney blocked Umbridge's way with a smile and kindly reminded her, "We have specially prepared a farewell ceremony for you."
Umbridge glared at Trelawney and dragged her luggage through the enthusiastic students.
The next moment, students on both sides blew toad firecrackers in the direction of Umbridge. With a bang like a cannon bombardment, a cloud of dark green smoke and toad-shaped confetti flew out of the toad firecrackers, completely covering Umbridge.
The explosion drowned out Umbridge's screams, but the applause in the corridor continued. Even the professors stood in the crowd and applauded with everyone to bid farewell to Umbridge.
After the sound of the toad firecrackers disappeared, a large number of small firework sticks began to fly randomly in the corridor, automatically writing farewell words for Umbridge in the air.
Those words were indeed suitable for bidding farewell to Umbridge, at least everyone thought so. Even the professors didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Professor McGonagall even lit a firework stick handed to her by Lee Jordan herself to express her feelings at the moment.
When the dark green smoke gradually dissipated, Umbridge also disappeared, replaced by a dark green toad.
No one knew what had happened, but Umbridge was indeed dyed with a layer of dark green, looking like a humanoid toad. What surprised everyone the most was that Umbridge no longer walked normally, but squatted like a toad and began to jump out.
"Professor Toad! Professor Toad! Professor Toad!"
The crowd's cheers became louder, and many people clapped their hands vigorously and shouted at the top of their lungs.
Lee Jordan excitedly raised his camera and looked around for shooting angles.
Peeves appeared above Umbridge's head at some point, holding a large bag in his hand, and kept sprinkling toad-shaped pieces of paper and chalk dust on Umbridge's head.
“Oh my god!”
Hagrid and Albert were standing in the hallway, staring in amazement at Umbridge jumping out amid the applause of the crowd.
The old witch who was once feared by countless students has now become a laughing stock among the students of Hogwarts. She and the toad statue will continue to be passed down in Hogwarts and become a wonderful legend.
"Did someone use the Imperius Curse on Umbridge?" Hermione asked, frowning.
"It's a Confusion Charm," Albert explained. "An advanced... I mean a very powerful Confusion Charm that can temporarily confuse other people's minds and make Umbridge think she is a toad?"
"You did it?"
Hermione turned her head and looked at Albert. Apart from Albert, she really couldn't think of anyone else who could do this quietly.
"Great! This is definitely the most interesting farewell ceremony." Harry glanced at the toad statue in the entrance hall, then looked at Umbridge hopping away, and said with a smile: "Our Professor Toad is destined to become a legend of Hogwarts."
"More than a legend, Umbridge will forever be a part of Hogwarts' history," Lee Jordan said confidently, "the representative of the worst professor in history, forever nailed to the pillar of shame."
"There are bigger surprises outside." Albert said suddenly.
"What surprise?" Ron asked curiously.
"Fred and George prepared a surprise for Umbridge." Albert did not intend to reveal it for the time being, nor did he intend to let Umbridge go.
Now that he had done it, he would not give Umbridge any chance. He had arranged everything that would happen next.
Prepare to send Umbridge away.
When Umbridge jumped out of the castle, everyone rushed out of the castle, leaving only Filch who was still stupidly shouting to Umbridge: "Professor, your luggage."
"Hagrid, take your luggage and follow." Albert nudged Hagrid, who was still in a daze, with his elbow and reminded him.
"Oh, this is really funny, but will this cause trouble for Professor Dumbledore?" Hagrid walked towards Filch, picked up the luggage and Umbridge, while Peeves was still throwing things and humming the Toad Song.
The students of the Anti-Toad League also happily sang this joyful song and followed Umbridge as she jumped towards the school gate, intending to see her off as she left Hogwarts. Even the professors of Hogwarts followed them out.
In fact, Dumbledore was the only one who was not there in the entire school. The rest of the people came to see Umbridge off because everyone heard that after Umbridge left this time, she would most likely go to Azkaban and would have no chance in the future.
As for Headmaster Dumbledore, he was actually not suitable to show up or participate, so he could only stand on the castle and watch Umbridge leave.
Outside the iron gate of Hogwarts, the reporters who had received the news in advance and rushed to interview Harry Potter were also staring at Umbridge jumping around in amazement, and the sounds of taking pictures soon became continuous.
Then they saw Peeves light the special fireworks that he had prepared in advance when Umbridge jumped to the school gate.
With a deafening roar, a toad mark appeared above the Hogwarts castle.
All the Hogwarts students ran to Umbridge and lined up on both sides of the Hogwarts gate. Accompanied by Peeves waving his cane, they sang the extremely cheerful Toad Song. Even the professors of the school were humming songs and bidding farewell to Umbridge in unison.
After the song officially ended, Hagrid opened the school gate, waited for Umbridge to jump out, and put the luggage outside the school gate. He closed the school gate again amid the students' voices of "Goodbye, Professor Toad."
After leaving the school, Umbridge finally returned to normal and slumped down on the ground. Just as he was about to turn around and glare at the students who were waving at him, he suddenly felt the sky around him darken, and then countless white lights and white smoke appeared around him.
Umbridge looked up suddenly and saw a large group of reporters surrounding her and taking pictures.
Finished!
She felt like she was having a short breath and fainted in front of all the reporters, leaving the reporters looking at each other in bewilderment and the Hogwarts students who were laughing loudly inside the castle's iron gate.
The reporters looked at Umbridge, who had fainted, and then at the large group of Hogwarts teachers and students outside the iron gate, and muttered in a low voice: "What on earth did this woman do in Hogwarts to be so hated!"
The question finally fell to Harry, who, after taking a tranquilizer, said slowly, "Except for the headmaster, all the teachers and students in the school are here. What do you think?"
"So, those rumors are true?"
"Rumor, no, that's not a rumor. Umbridge prepared 123 educational orders for the students at Hogwarts, so she was severely whipped 123 times by Anderson." Harry raised his palm and placed the back of his hand in front of the reporters. "She is a psychopath who likes to use a punishment quill to punish students. The marks on the back of my hand are evidence. Most of the students in Hogwarts have been punished."
"Mr. Porter, what is the meaning of the badge on your chest and the hat on your head?" asked a famous reporter.
"This is the symbol of the Anti-Toad League, so..." Harry made a gesture to show it. "You know, almost the vast majority of students are members of this league. In fact, this is also a last resort. In order to conceal the fact that Voldemort has resurrected, Fudge used Umbridge to brutally suppress the entire Hogwarts student body. He even allowed people to be hung up with chains, or locked up in dungeons, or whipped to punish students. She even recruited some Slytherin students, gave them privileges, and suppressed other Hogwarts students. Well, several descendants of Death Eaters are among them. By the way, Umbridge also likes to use Veritaserum and Cruciatus Curse to interrogate students."
"He really did that."
"Yes, at least two floors of students in the whole school have drunk drinks spiked with truth serum, and she even used the Cruciatus Curse on Harry in an attempt to find Dumbledore's whereabouts." Ron waved his fist angrily.
"That's just a horrible old witch." Hermione agreed, "It's the nightmare of all students."
"She doesn't even know Defense Against the Dark Arts, nothing at all. She just sits there reading from a book during every class. We don't learn anything in class."
"There is nothing we can do because she represents the Ministry of Magic and we are just students. We cannot resist the Ministry of Magic."
…
"So, this is what happened today."
"Did she really use the Cruciatus Curse?" The reporters were all stunned, and suddenly they understood why Umbridge was so miserable.
“Yes, many people saw it.”
"She also admitted that she had the Dementors attack me in order to get Fudge to expel me," Harry continued. "In fact, she almost succeeded."
"What do you think of Fudge?" Rita Skeeter asked with a smile.
"He is good friends with many Death Eaters, such as Malfoy, Goyle, Crabbe..." Harry named a bunch of Death Eaters. "In fact, when Fudge was attacking Dumbledore, Voldemort had already taken the opportunity to win over giants and werewolves and rescued the minions in Azkaban. Many dark wizards and even Dementors approached him, but he made things worse and made everyone miss the best opportunity."
"Sometimes, judging from Fudge's behavior, I wonder if he is afraid of death and is holding Dumbledore back because he is worried about Voldemort's revenge, or if he is actually under the control of the Imperius Curse, or is he Voldemort's minion himself."
"It's not that I want to question the Minister of Magic, but earlier, when Albert captured Barty Crouch Jr., Fudge immediately used the Dementors to silence him to prevent the news of Voldemort's resurrection from leaking out."