Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1019 Expulsion, expulsion, expulsion

  October at Hogwarts is always spent in squalls and rainstorms, and the damp cold air sweeps in from the wind and rain, permeating the entire castle.

  Faculty staff and students suddenly caught a cold, especially in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Every day, several students had symptoms of severe fever, and the number tended to increase sharply.

  Umbridge suspected that someone was playing tricks, and ordered the head nurse, Mrs. Pomfrey, to find a way to cure the strange fever symptoms of the students, but with little success, because the symptoms seemed elusive, and even if they were cured, there was a possibility of recurrence.

  For this reason, Fred and George's Fever Candy sold well and received a large sum of Galleons. They were happy every day, as if they were celebrating a holiday. They had obviously enjoyed the joy of making money and getting rich.

  In this humid environment, the fireplace in the common room has become a sought-after location, and it has also become the most crowded area. Many students like to stay by the fireplace to enjoy the fire, chat and do homework.

  Albert used to like to stay there to warm up by the fire, but now he is more casual.

At this moment, he is sitting near the window in the common room. Although the heavy curtains block the moisture outside, this place is still outside the range of heat radiation from the fireplace. Few students will come here, but Albert doesn't care , because he brought a small heater himself, which can save him from the cold and damp in the corner, as warm as staying by the fireplace, and no one comes to disturb him.

  Tom was lying on the soft cushion, staring at Albert, who was writing with a quill pen. After opening his mouth and yawning, he lay on the soft cushion again and continued to rest.

  After hearing the sound of approaching footsteps, Tom opened his eyes and looked at the wet human in front of him with a slight distaste.

   "Is there something wrong?"

   Albert put down the quill, took a sip of hot milk tea and asked.

   "Can you teach me Occlumency." Harry asked straight to the point.

This is Sirius' suggestion to Harry. Black thinks that since Albert thinks that Harry should learn Occlumency, it's best to take the time to learn it. Sure, basically they wouldn't go out of their way to trick Harry.

"I can't teach you. If you want to learn Occlumency, you have to go to Professor Dumbledore." Albert stretched out his hand and scratched Tom's chin, and said calmly, "If you can't find Professor Dumbledore, just Ask Blake to write to the principal for you."

In fact, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan all learned Occlumency from Albert, but none of them learned it, so Albert did not plan to teach Harry Occlumency, which is thankless It's not a good thing, and it's not a good thing to be in contact with Harry Potter for a long time.

   "Sirius said he wanted to talk to you about something."

   "Forget about it!" Albert directly refused.

  Harry didn't continue to struggle. Albert said he couldn't teach him, probably because he didn't plan to teach him, or thought he couldn't be taught.

   "If I want to teach myself." Harry asked again.

   "There is a "Advanced Occlumency Guide" in the restricted area." Albert reminded.

"Thanks."

  Harry walked away with his wet body, ready to take a hot bath first.

  Albert continued to write his own potion thesis. Since entering the seventh grade, he basically stopped doing homework. Writing papers is also very casual, and no professor will complain about it.

   Well, except for Snape!

  The potions professor was very dissatisfied with Albert's practice of not teaching homework, and once threatened Albert to put him in confinement if he didn't hand in his homework. In the end, after Dumbledore's "friendly" communication, Snape could only turn a blind eye, instead of letting Albert go straight away.

  Of course, the only person who has this privilege is Albert.

  After Umbridge heard the "good news" from the Slytherin students, he wanted to make a big fuss about it.

  Unfortunately, Albert took some time to manually convince the other party.

   "I hate the rain."

   "Angelina is absolutely possessed by Wood."

Fred and George had just returned from the Quidditch pitch. Unlike Potter, the water on their bodies had been evaporated by the spell, and most of the remaining mud had been cleaned off by the spell. They didn't look like Harry. So embarrassing.

   "I thought you stopped doing your homework."

  Fred took a few biscuits from the plate, put them in his mouth and ate them. They hadn't had dinner yet, and their stomachs were already starving.

"this is not."

   "Not what?"

  George also ate the biscuits, turned out a teacup, and poured himself a cup of steaming milk tea.

   "The research and improvement of Felicia." Albert said without thinking.

  Of course, this is actually an excuse. Albert has already upgraded the Felicity Elixir to the third level through the panel. By the way, he compared it with the notes Hetok gave him, and copied down the knowledge in the panel skills.

If it weren't for the limitation of skill points and experience, Albert would like to upgrade the Felicity Elixir to level four or even higher. Maybe the side effects of the Felician of Felicity would be greatly reduced, or even directly turn this thing into a A potion with a strong buff effect, not a so-called lucky potion.

  Although Albert did have a lot of experience and skill points, he didn't dare to squander them at will, but left enough preparations for himself. Albert had a hunch that once Voldemort was eliminated, it would be extremely difficult to continue to gain a lot of experience and skill points in the future.

   No, it should be said that after leaving Hogwarts, it will become difficult to trigger and complete the mission.

Of course, Albert wrote these down and sent them to Hetok, but he didn't have any good intentions. He believed that his old friend would be very interested in the improvement of Felix Elixir, and he could use it to study Felix Elixir together. As an excuse, if you invest some Galleons to sponsor the improvement and research of Felicia, you can get some Felicia from the other party for free.

  To be honest, Albert didn’t have much confidence in whether he could successfully brew the Felicia Elixir once, especially if the potion was brewed by two people together, the probability of failure was even greater.

  Thinking of the dangers he might have to face in the future, Albert felt that he should reserve some Felicia for himself to make people feel at ease.

   "You're finally planning to make a Felicia Elixir!"

  Fred and George looked very happy. They were also very interested in this magical potion. At least the magical candy made by Felicia would definitely fetch a high price.

   Albert amused at the idea of ​​Fred and George.

   There are very few potion masters who are really good at Felicia, because the cost of trial and error is too high.

  Once it fails, the price to pay is too great.

   Whether it is time or money loss.

  So very few people would brew Felicia Felicia, and even if it was successfully brewed, they would rarely sell it. The price of Felicia Felicia on the market was simply a joke, because it was impossible to buy it from the very beginning.

   "Have you read the latest education order?"

   Just when George and Fred wiped out most of the biscuits on Albert's plate and were about to take a hot bath, Lee Jordan hurried into the common room and said to Fred, George and Albert.

   "The new education order, what kind of weird policy did the toad come up with?" Fred and George looked at the panting Li Qiaodan, raised their eyebrows and asked, "How can it make you so excited?"

   After taking a few seconds to recover, Li Qiaodan said loudly, "If you form or join any organization, association, team, or club without the approval of the senior investigator, you will be expelled immediately."

  The three of them looked at each other, and were silent for a while.

   "This is a strange thing." George said in a low voice, "Did Toad hear something?"

   "It's normal." Albert was very calm, but he didn't think there was any surprise. "It's just a matter of time before this kind of thing happens. Maybe she will tell Fudge that she successfully prevented Dumbledore from organizing an army."

   "You think she really believed that ridiculous rumor?" George thought it was ridiculous.

   "Is this kind of thing important?" Albert asked back.

   "Isn't it important?" Li Qiaodan was a little confused.

   "It's not important, it's an excuse at most, and I don't think she needs an excuse." George shook his head.

   "Toad has a strong desire to control, I think that guy is a pervert." Fred muttered.

   "The Quidditch team was included, and Angelina was about to cry." Lee Jordan reminded, "She was very worried that Umbridge would not let Gryffindor reorganize the team."

   While a few people were talking, the three girls in the team had returned to the common room, cursing Umbridge.

  When Angelina saw the latest education order, she went directly to Umbridge, and the result can be imagined.

   "How is it?" Fred asked.

   "Umbridge said she wanted a written application, and she doesn't seem to intend to reorganize the Gryffindor Quidditch team." Angelina looked a little frustrated.

   "There is a problem with your thinking." Albert said suddenly.

"What?"

   "The toad really doesn't want the Gryffindor team to reorganize. It's actually normal for her to suppress the Gryffindor team." Albert said calmly.

   "Then what should I do?" Angelina asked with wide eyes, "Looking for Professor McGonagall?"

"Even if you ask Professor McGonagall, Umbridge probably won't agree to it. In the end, Professor Dumbledore will probably have to come forward to solve the problem." Albert really knew Umbridge's tricks too well. He has been in the system for decades, and he is very good at using the tricks of the system, and people in the system always like to use this trick.

"That is not bad."

  Hearing what Albert said, Angelina couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the Quidditch team can continue.

   For Angelina, who is planning to join a certain team after graduation, Quidditch is almost everything to her.

   "What if I barely pass?" Albert asked back, "Do you really think that the toad will let it go like this?"

   "You mean Umbridge will target Harry." Arya guessed what Albert meant.

   "So what do we do?" Katie asked.

   "Just stop the Quidditch game." Albert said calmly.

   "Stop the Quidditch match?" Angelina's eyes widened, she couldn't believe what she heard, "How is this possible?"

   "I'm just making a suggestion." Albert packed up his things and took Tom back to the dormitory.

  He knows very well that if he doesn't fight for it himself, it is unrealistic to expect others to change something.

  Most people in this world think so.

  But if you don't want to save yourself, you can only endure in silence.

  Whether it was Angelina, Alia or Katie, they all looked at the back of Albert's departure.

   "What are you going to do, if you can't, go to Professor McGonagall!" Fred looked at Angelina. Although he wanted to help her, there was no good way. Intuition told Fred that Albert was right. If Umbridge wanted to target the Gryffindor team, then the next conflict with Slytherin might be inevitable. Toad would find an excuse soon, maybe not Expelled, but definitely banned from playing or disbanded from the team.

  Toad can definitely do these things.

"It should be said that the thinking was wrong from the beginning." George said suddenly: "Once there is one less team in the Quidditch game, there are only three teams left. What if we persuade another team to give up the game? Then There is no need to compare the game, even if the Slytherins want to compete, they have to find an opponent."

   "What if Umbridge still disagrees?" Angelina asked rhetorically, she was really afraid that Umbridge would not be willing to compromise.

   "Then there is no other way!" George shrugged. "Compromise, or fight to the end, you are the captain, choose yourself, anyway, Fred and I don't care."

   "Doesn't matter?"

   "We are different from you." Fred shook his head.

   "What's different?" Katie asked.

"Let's find a few more substitutes. I think Charlie's idea of ​​finding a substitute is good. Anyway, we are graduating this year. At that time, you have to leave a few experienced players for Katie or Harry and start training from scratch. It's not easy." George smiled and beckoned Fred back to the dormitory to take a shower.

They didn't put all their hearts into the Quidditch match like Angelina did, let alone Umbridge. messing around.

  George actually hopes that Angelina can give up, and persuade other colleges to give up this year's Quidditch competition, and directly give the championship to Slytherin.

  Once this happens, those Slytherin students will definitely accept the Quidditch champion trophy with great satisfaction.

After the Slytherin students realize that they picked up a trophy for nothing, they will definitely not be happy, because there is no honor at all, and instead, the trophy will become a disgrace to Slytherin and be nailed to Hogwarts forever. on the pillar of shame.

  Students who come to Hogwarts to study in the future will know that this trophy is directly obtained by Slytherin students due to the interference of Umbridge, an official of the Ministry of Magic.

  And the name Dolores Umbridge will remain in Hogwarts forever, firmly nailed to the pillar of shame.

  However, George probably guessed what Angelina would choose, just like Albert also guessed Angelina's choice.

   "Don't worry about Angelina, the situation is not that bad." Lee Jordan comforted, then turned and returned to the dormitory, but even he didn't believe his own words.

  (end of this chapter)