Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1080 Toad's Counterattack

  Umbridge, who had just returned to school, encountered a lot of trouble before he had time to find trouble with the students.

  This ancient castle seems to be cursed, and various situations will appear from time to time, and these problems need to be solved by Umbridge himself. For this reason, she had to run around again to deal with various emergencies in the school.

  Even with Filch's help, Umbridge was still troubled by these troubles.

  As for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class that had been suspended, it was naturally reopened, but the class was still half-dead.

  After the class bell rang, the students in the classroom would begin to show various symptoms of physical discomfort, and then, under Umbridge's gaze, groups of students would walk out of the classroom to the school hospital.

  Looking at the empty Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Umbridge stared blankly at the last student who left, with a stern look on his face.

Today's Hogwarts has completely broken free of her control, that's why this group of students dared to be so unscrupulous. Even if Umbridge used his knees to think about those damned emergencies, he could guess that some students deliberately made them causing trouble for her.

   And that damned anti-toad alliance, even those Slytherin students that Umbridge had wooed earlier were not very effective, it is said that she was severely retaliated by students from other houses during her hospitalization.

   And that **** Peeves!

   That guy accounted for more than half of Umbridge's troubles at school.

She also tried to solve Peeves' troubles, and even tried to persuade Baro, the only **** man that Peeves was afraid of, to ask the ghost of Slytherin House to help discipline Peeves, but the result was not very optimistic. Although the man Barrow promised to help stop Peeves' pranks, he only agreed verbally. The **** Barrow could not keep his eyes on Peeves forever.

  The ghosts of the school do help Hogwarts, but that's still very limited since they're ghosts of the dead. Umbridge also found that she couldn't command the ghosts, just like she couldn't even get into the headmaster's office now.

   Now the more he thought about it, the more aggrieved Umbridge looked up at the empty classroom, and fell into wordless silence again.

   You have to fight back, you have to change everything, you can't sit still, that's not her style.

   With Filch's help, Umbridge uses the gondola across the swamp to return to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office on the seventh floor. She didn't continue to change offices, even if she changed to a new office, maybe a new swamp would appear outside the office the next day.

All of this was done by the members of the "Anti-Toad League", and the leader of this damned organization is probably Albert Anderson, the only one with such influence in the whole school, even if it wasn't that damned Guys, the Weasley twins must have been involved too.

  According to the information provided by the Slytherin students, the Weasley brothers are selling all kinds of joke props around the school, and they are Albert's roommates, and they have a very good relationship.

   If there was no evidence, Umbridge would have fired the Weasley brothers, or had Filch hang them up and whip them.

  If Arthur Weasley hadn't been suspended for investigation, Umbridge would have asked Fudge to transfer him to the Centaur Liaison Office.

   (In the Ministry of Magic, "sent to the Centaur Liaison Office" has become an inside joke, implying that the person mentioned is about to be fired.)

  Umbridge knew she had to take action, using the power of the Ministry of Magic to consolidate her power and control at Hogwarts, or her suffering would be meaningless.

In the end, Umbridge knocked on the door of the Minister of Magic's office again. Although this would make her look a little incompetent and even weaken her impression in Fudge's mind, Umbridge knew that if he wanted to regain control of Hogwarts, he had to Must rely on the power of the Ministry of Magic.

"what happened?"

   Fudge looked up from the pile of documents, surprised to see that it was Umbridge.

   "Things are bad at Hogwarts."

  Umbridge took a deep breath, handed a report to Fudge, and began to describe the troubles he encountered at Hogwarts.

   "What are you going to do?" Fudge asked.

  "Hogwarts is experiencing various problems. I suspect that someone is secretly messing with me. I need help. If necessary, I plan to expel a few students to deter other students."

   "Who are you going to fire?" Fudge asked casually. He didn't really care who Umbridge wanted to expel, nor was he interested in what happened at Hogwarts, as long as Dumbledore was no longer the headmaster.

  As for Umbridge's so-called expulsion, it was more to deter Hogwarts students.

"Albert Anderson." Umbridge said without hesitation: "Even if it wasn't him, this whole thing must have something to do with him. I suspect that all the troubles I encountered were related to him. The corridor outside my office was destroyed. Turned into a swamp. There are all kinds of strange diseases in the whole school. Every time there is a Defense Against the Dark Arts class, there is no one left. I suspect it is all his tricks. I still need St. Mungo's magic help from the therapist at the injury hospital.”

   "That guy is troublesome." Fudge reminded with a frown, "Besides, I remember that he is about to graduate, and he will go out on his own in a few months."

  Umbridge understood what Fudge meant, that is, don't provoke Albert.

   "Okay, what are you going to do?" Fudge didn't forget the disgrace.

   "I have an idea!"

  Umbridge handed Fudge a parchment, a solution she'd been thinking about recently.

  Fudge quickly read the contents of the parchment, then looked up at Umbridge, not optimistic about the plan. But Fudge did not refuse the right-hand man's request in the end. Hogwarts is a mess now, just look at the last time Umbridge was hospitalized.

  If the Ministry of Magic wants to completely control Hogwarts, I am afraid it still needs to rely on Umbridge. At least she will not just stay in verbal complaints like others, but will actually take action for it.

   There is no doubt about Umbridge's ability to handle affairs, otherwise Dumbledore would not have been expelled from Hogwarts.

   "I'll let Weasley cooperate."

  Fudge stamped the parchment, agreeing to assign a group of people to Umbridge to help her put order in Hogwarts.

   As for whether the simple plan on the parchment can be successful, you have to try it to know.

  A few days later, on the seventh floor of Hogwarts, in Umbridge's office, the administrator Filch was holding a pocket watch, standing by the fireplace patiently waiting for the coming "distinguished guest".

Suddenly a raging green flame rose from the fireplace, and two therapists from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries came out of the green flame. Filch immediately introduced the current situation and brought the two therapists to Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

  According to the following practice, there will be many students with various strange symptoms.

   When Umbridge smiled and introduced to everyone that she had found a therapist from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Wounds, she caught the students in the classroom by surprise.

  The group of students who had just fainted, vomited, had a high fever, and had nosebleeds were a little dumbfounded.

   Among them, several unlucky ones were screwed out as typical ones.

   "Can the source of these mysterious illnesses be examined?" Umbridge asked the healers.

  Therapists didn't have an immediate answer.

In fact, the two realized something was wrong when they noticed that the entire classroom was suffering from strange diseases, especially when the students said that they had "Umbridge Syndrome". what's the situation.

  However, this professor in front of me is really talented, he can actually make the whole class want to skip class, how bad Defense Against the Dark Arts class must be to be disliked by all the students to use this method to skip class.

  They recalled the reports they read some time ago, and suddenly regretted coming to help.

  In fact, if the director of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries hadn't asked them to come here to help solve the strange diseases of the Hogwarts students, they wouldn't want to lie in this muddy water at all.

   "According to the condition you mentioned, it is likely to be caused by something."

  The male therapist said to Umbridge after choosing his words carefully, "Many magical plants and magical animals are poisonous. In the case of taking a small amount, similar symptoms may indeed appear, such as blood collapse."

As he said that, he pointed to the student who was bleeding from the nose, and continued to analyze, "Misuse a small amount of Xuebengdou, and a similar situation may occur. Of course, there may be other reasons, but if you want to find the incentives one by one, you have to do a detailed study. At present, we can only give such preliminary conjectures.”

  Looking at this group of students who fainted, vomited, had a high fever, and had nosebleeds, the therapists couldn't help feeling that the student who invented this way of skipping classes was really a genius. From what Umbridge said, it was not difficult for them to guess that the other party must have found a solution to these symptoms, otherwise it would be impossible to cure these symptoms in a short time.

   "Can they be cured?" Umbridge asked again.

   "We can temporarily prepare some antidote for them, but it is not difficult for us to guarantee it will be effective." The therapist shook his head and said, "We need time to study their symptoms carefully."

   I don't know if it was intentional, or it was just like that. The medicine given by the therapist did have some effect, but it didn't completely cure the symptoms of the students, it could only relieve the symptoms.

After Umbridge smiled and asked Filch to send the two therapists away, he looked at the students in front of him with a smirk, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, you heard it too, what you call "Um Ritchie Syndrome" is just a symptom of something. To be honest, I am very disappointed in you. Next, you don't want to use this excuse to skip any classes. Also, everyone will be in detention tonight, just Here, I hope this can clear your minds and stop thinking about messy things."

  The news that Umbridge sought out a therapist from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Wounds to treat "Umbridge Syndrome" quickly spread throughout Hogwarts.

  However, the operation that surprised everyone is yet to come.

  Umbridge actually found the Ministry of Magic's anti-curse team again, and lifted the swamp on the corridor on the seventh floor of the castle and the swamp of the original Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

  The "elite" Auror team even managed to suppress Peeves.

  The method is very simple, that is to use spells in turn to disarm what Peeves holds. As long as Peeves has no weapons in his hands, it will be difficult for him to cause trouble for everyone.

The unprepared Peeves suffered a great loss from the pursuit of the Auror team led by Gadvin Robards. What surprised everyone was that the Aurors seemed to have found a spell that could have an effect on Peeves. After trying various expulsion spells for the first time and failing, Gadwin Robards worked hard in this area, and finally got his wish to complete the revenge on Peeves.

   However, they couldn't get rid of Peeves in the end, because the guy just disappeared invisibly.

  Peeves naturally didn't intend to let it go, so he took various items prepared by Albert to fight against the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic.

  But in front of the well-prepared Aurors, Peeves really couldn't get much benefit.

The large amount of throat-locking gas it threw into the corridor was easily deciphered by the Cannon Head Curse, and the mandrake roots it threw were deciphered by the earmuffs, but the Aurors didn't take much advantage. With all kinds of strange stench, several Aurors were hit on the head by Peeves with a broom handle, and there were always students secretly casting cold spells on them, the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.

  Peves approached Albert quietly, and pointed to his throat, as if unable to make a sound.

  After Albert pulled out his wand to lift the spell on Peeves, the mischievous guy immediately said, "I need more things!"

   "Bloodman Barrow will come to you soon." Albert reminded. It is normal for Peeves to be deflated when the opponent is well prepared.

   Bloody Barrow?

  Peves shrank his neck involuntarily.

Albert had already seen through Peeves' bullying nature, and said calmly: "You can agree to sign a contract, saying that you will not go to trouble with the principal again, and get some power for it, just like you It's the same as the land deed signed with Principal Eupracia Moore."

"Don't worry, this contract basically has no effect, you can still make trouble with her, even if the contract is effective, Umbridge is not the headmaster of Hogwarts, that guy doesn't get some Hogwarts headmaster has In fact, she can't even get into the principal's office, and you can get more privileges for no reason."

As for why Albert knows these things, it is because Wild Smith is also one of the school directors. Although they are only responsible for donating money to the school, the appointment from the Ministry of Magic is actually invalid, and even the principal's office cannot be entered. The best proof.

  If Umbridge is really the headmaster, he can change the password of the entrance to the monster stone statue, how could he not even be able to enter the door.

  Umbridge seemed to have expected this kind of situation early on. After discovering that the dispersal of Peeves was in a stalemate, he sent the **** Barrow to negotiate with Peeves.

  Finally, Peeves succumbed to Albert's suggestion and only agreed to sign a contract stating that he would never trouble the headmaster of Hogwarts again.

  The successive bad news cast a shadow over the castle again, and everyone knew that the annoying toad had returned.

The only thing that is more gratifying is that the group of employees of the Ministry of Magic tried a lot, but they couldn't get rid of the **** toad statue at the entrance of the foyer. They finally had to give up and made another quick rag for the toad statue cover.

  (end of this chapter)