Chapter 528: I've Never Seen Such a Cheeky Person (Thanks to the Alliance Leader's Silent Viewer)
"Ron, I can't play Quidditch again. Harry said in a hollow voice as Harry and Ron walked into the common room exhausted from Umbridge's office.
"But we were restrained!" Ron said bitterly, "we did everything she asked, but she still gave you a ban, and mockingly said that King Weasley could continue to play in Quidditch. ”
Harry didn't know how to comfort Ron, who might have been hurt even more.
"Why?!" Frustrated, Ron didn't get a response, he shook his fist angrily, "Hermione Granger, the Slytherins in those Harris bootcamps she led did the same thing as us, Umbridge even forced their punishment on us, and the reason Umbridge gave was because they were bewitched by us!"
"Don't blame Hermione, Ron! Don't fall for Umbridge's tricks, she's doing this on purpose to stir up discord between us. Remember the song the Sorting Hat sang at the beginning of the school year: Our Hogwarts is in danger, and enemies outside the school are eyeing it. We have to be united internally, or everything will fall apart from within. Although Harry himself was full of resentment, when he saw Ron, who was full of despair and irritability, he still restrained his temper and patiently persuaded him.
"Why do our Defence Against the Dark Arts classes only read boring textbooks, but the camp people can train openly, using spells that are clearly not what the students should be mastering? The more Ron thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he kicked an ironclad knight in the hallway, and the ironclad knight fell to the ground with a slam on his helmet and weapons scattered all over the ground.
Harry hurriedly tried to stop his companion's agitation, and pulled him out of the corridor quickly to avoid being punished by Filch. "Calm down, Ron. Umbridge was afraid of Ellen, who protected us when he was at school, and don't forget that Hagrid himself told us that Alan had stopped Umbridge from doing something to him. I think that's why Umbridge, who didn't dare to confront Allen head-on, had to use Durmstrang's exchange student activity to get Allen to leave, and you see, all of her actions started after Allen left. ”
It wasn't just Harry and Ron who were desperate, the next day at Hogwarts, the young wizards who were eating in the Great Hall heard the noise coming from the foyer, the students who had finished their meal swarmed out of the Great Hall to see what was going on, and many people crowded on the marble staircase. The onlookers formed a large circle, some of them looking shocked, others even looking terrified. Professor Trelawney sat on a suitcase in the middle of the foyer, wand in one hand and an empty bottle in the other, looking completely insane. Her hair was stuck, her glasses were crooked, one eye seemed much larger than the other, and her countless scarves and shawls hung messily to make her look like she was in tatters. In addition to the one she was sitting on, there was also a box that stood upside down, as if it had been thrown down the stairs.
Professor McGonagall, who almost never commented on the other professors, except for Professor McGonagall, who often expressed dissatisfaction with Professor Trelawney, did not show any dislike for her, and Professor McGonagall approached Professor Trelawney in a panic, hugged her, and softly called her name - Sybil came to comfort her, and let the other man cry in his arms, Professor McGonagall's face was full of pity.
Professor Dumbledore, who was slowly approaching, looked down at Professor Trelawney, who was trembling with tears on his face on the box, and Harry heard him say, "Lady Umbridge, as the Supreme Investigator, you have every authority to fire my teacher. But you don't have the right to banish them from the castle, and I'm afraid—" he politely bowed, "and it belongs to the Headmaster, and I want Professor Trelawney to continue to live at Hogwarts." ”
Trelawney laughed excitedly, sobbing a little.
"Forgive me, Headmaster Dumbledore, although I don't have the authority to prohibit Headmaster Dumbledore from allowing her to stay in the school, but as the new Headmaster, I think I have similar powers, I can order her to leave Hogwarts again as Headmaster every time you allow her to stay, it seems that we need to compete to see who is more patient?" Professor Umbridge said, a smug smile on her toad's face that made people feel sick.
"You—you can't!" Professor Trelawney howled, tears welling up from behind the big lenses, "you—you can't get rid of me! I've been here for — I've been here for sixteen years!Ho—Hogwarts is my—my home!"
"It used to be your home," Umbridge said viciously, "the Minister of Magic has signed your dismissal order, and now please leave the halls, you embarrass us." ”
Professor McGonagall then kept Trelawney close at this point, and she shouted at Umbridge, "For Merlin's sake, you fired her for your power, at least be fair enough to let her stay." ”
Umbridge looked away from Dumbledore and turned to Professor McGonagall with a smile: "I thought that you, as an old professor at Hogwarts, would have a high opinion when you came to the middle of this hall and faced the teachers and students of the whole school. I didn't expect to say such a foul language!"
McGonagall glanced around at the teachers and students and glared at Umbridge.
Umbridge lifted the corners of her skirt and bowed slightly to the crowd of onlookers: "I have a word, please listen." Professor McGonagall, since you and I have mentioned fairness, I will talk to you about fairness little by little.
It was a Hogwarts school rule that the first year could not join the Quidditch team, and when Lady Hooch sent poor and unfortunate Neville Longbottom to the school doctor's office, it was also the rule that whoever broom after her departure would be kicked out of Hogwarts.
And Professor McGonagall, who is known for her fairness, not only did not punish Harry Potter after he violated Mrs. Hooch's rules, but even took Harry to Dumbledore in the name of letting Greenffindor win the House Cup, relying on her own status as a Quidditch fan, to ask him to make an exception to let Harry Potter, who was a first-year student and had only taken one flying lesson, join Greenffindor's Quidditch team. Potter's ability to keep himself safe when competing against other seniors on the field.
As the headmaster, Dumbledore not only did not uphold the school's own school rules, but even agreed to Professor McGonagall's unreasonable suggestion, and even more, after obtaining the agreement, Professor McGonagall bought Harry Potter a broom wheel 2000, which was the only one of the most advanced among the four house teams at the time, because of the school's rule that "first-year freshmen are not allowed to bring their own broomsticks".
Our Mr. Harry Potter, under Professor McGonagall's bad influence, was rather unhappy with the new equipment that the Slytherin team had to configure in order to counter the Halo 2000, which was ahead of the other teams, and even tried to check the rules to stop Slytherin from protecting itself.
This shows how horribly negative the wrong guidance can have on a student's character, and Harry Potter has now even begun to lie about the return of the mystery man in order to get the attention of others!"
Professor McGonagall was so enraged that she hugged Professor Trelawney so tightly with one hand that she almost couldn't breathe, and pointed at Umbridge with the other, "You...... Umbridge ...... Didn't it take Alan Harris to meet the requirements of the student's flying talent, we would all ...... together."
Umbridge took a step forward angrily when she heard this, and slapped McGonagall's finger pointing at her: "Shut up, shameless old thief, don't you know that the students of other houses dare not speak out behind your back, and dare to mention Mr. Alan Harris here! Compared to Harry Potter, how is Alan Harris's Quidditch talent? Ravenclaw's flying lessons were taken before Gryfindor, and he showed even better flying talent in the first flying lesson. I checked the school log, and Mrs. Hodge also reported on Mr. Alan Harris's performance, and you could have said something to him at that time? Headmaster Dumbledore had said something to him? If you hadn't taken the lead in breaking the rules yourself, Professor Flitwick wouldn't have had a chance to fight for the opportunity that should have belonged to him for this more talented flying student!"
Seeing that McGonagall was insulted and speechless, Dumbledore wanted to relieve her: "Miss Umbridge, what you said is indeed a mistake caused by our poor thinking. Minerva just made a wrong judgment because of the excitement of seeing Harry's talent, but this kind of thing doesn't have a big impact, after all, students with flying talent can still participate in the Quidditch team in the second year, and we didn't delay Allen's development in Quidditch, and Alan Harris also solved the problem for us when it comes to Quidditch match equipment, isn't it?"
Umbridge also calmed down, and she smiled sweetly at Dumbledore, "Oh, please forgive my excitement, Headmaster Dumbledore, it's true that this Quidditch matter doesn't have much impact on the students, so allow me to continue."
In the past, before the Ministry of Magic implemented educational reforms for students and the school to strictly abide by the school rules, do you still remember the year Mr. Harry Potter entered the school? After the sorting ceremony, Headmaster Dumbledore personally issued a rule in front of all the teachers and students not to enter the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor. However, at the end of the semester, the Griffondor, led by Harry Potter, broke the school rules set by you as the headmaster, and you gave them extra points instead.
Isn't that the other houses being punished in disguise for following the rules you have set? Is this fair to the law-abiding students of the other houses? Oh, Professor McGonagall, don't you want to use Mr. Alan Harris as a shield again, I looked up the data for the year, and although Mr. Harris also violated this rule, even if he was deducted points, Ravenclaw would still have no problem getting the House Cup with the extra points he usually receives.
But the Hufflepuff and Slytherin students were actually chased by the broken Greenffindors because they were following the school rules. I'd like to ask, Headmaster Dumbledore from Greenffindor, is there any fairness that Professor McGonagall has just emphasized? This kind of encouragement of students to break the rules of Hogwarts is the reason the Ministry of Magic has sent me to inherit what should be inherited, to improve what needs to be perfected, and to cut off those practices that should be forbidden. ”
Professor McGonagall gasped, "You...... Umbridge, how dare you accuse Dumbledore like that...... The situation was that we were ......"
Umbridge was unforgiving: "Professor McGonagall, you have lived in vain for sixty years, and you have not made any great contributions to the cause of education in your life, except that you are still excellent in transfiguration, and you will only boast that you are strict and fair, and you are superior, do not distinguish between right and wrong, and take pleasure in indiscriminately accusing others." Even Sybil Trelawney in your arms, I have heard you accuse her many times in front of your students, and the reasons are basically the same as the reasons for my dismissal today, and now you are pretending to be a good person again? Professor McGonagall, I know all about your life, do you remember a local Muggle farmer in your hometown named Doug McGregor? You explicitly agreed to the other party's marriage proposal to you after you had been with him for a while, and after you calmed down, After weighing the trade-off, you were unwilling to give up the job you got in the Law Enforcement Department at the Ministry of Magic at that time, and you didn't even dare to tell the other party the real reason, so you ran away and rejected him, and after three days without saying goodbye, and even married your boss in the Ministry of Magic, who was much older than you, Efenstone Erquard, it can be seen that you yourself are for the sake of power and disregard for fairness and justice, I have never seen such a brazen person!"
Umbridge deliberately concealed some facts in his accusations to make it sound like something else, and the reason why McGonagall agreed to Doug's marriage proposal and rejected him was because the unhappy married life of her Muggle father and wizarding mother as a child made her hesitate, and the stricter international secrecy laws at the time made McGonagall unable to tell him the real reason for the repentance. When McGonagall agreed to pursue her boss, Epin Stone, the man she had always loved and married another Muggle had died, McGonagall herself had left the Ministry of Magic to teach at Hogwarts, and Epin Stone had retired early. As a result, Professor McGonagall was trembling with rage, and she tried to contradict Umbridge, but in her anger she only uttered a "you, you!......" and then fainted in anger, and Sybil, who was unable to move or speak because she was angry behind her, was also taken to the ground and pressed against the sleeve of Professor McGonagall's black robe.
"Miss Umbridge, if you try to use wordplay to frame Minerva again......" After seeing Professor McGonagall faint, the usual gentleness on Dumbledore's face disappeared, and the young wizards watching from the outside of the crowd found that they had never seen Headmaster Dumbledore have such an angry expression, only to see him slowly approaching Umbridge, and the vicious witch who was still full of smugness just now could only tremble and fall backwards when facing the world's greatest white wizard, she was so frightened that she sat on the ground, and her mouth trembled and threatened Dumbledore such as she was the highest inquisitor of the Ministry of Magic, and you can't touch me.
At this time, Traolini, who had just gotten up after regaining her freedom, took the lead and said, "No-Dumbledore-no, it's not worth it, thank you for your protection, I'm leaving, I'm leaving—leaving Hogwarts, going somewhere else to earn a living—you send Minerva to the school doctor." With that, her box flew up and followed her, stumbling towards the castle gate,
Dumbledore sighed and regained his momentum, he stepped directly over Umbridge, who was still slumped on the ground, no longer looking at her, picked up McGonagall with one hand and began to help her in the direction of the school doctor's office, shouting to the onlookers who were blocking his way, "Didn't you do your homework?"
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