After the Christmas vacation, Albert and Katrina quietly returned to Hogwarts Castle with Dobby's help.
When he separated from Katrina and returned to the common room, he found that someone had already returned to school earlier than him.
Harry, Ron, Fred and George were sitting by the fireplace doing their holiday homework, while Hermione and Ginny were discussing in a low voice the patterns for knitting scarves.
"Oh, great, you're finally here. We thought you would come at night." Fred and George heard the noise, raised their heads and saw Albert entering the lounge, and immediately got up from their chairs.
He jumped up and faced Albert with a smile on his face.
"Holiday homework, right?" Albert raised his eyebrows slightly, revealing the reason why the twins were so enthusiastic.
"It's better that you understand us." The twins grinned and patted Albert's shoulders, "This makes it much easier."
"Is it really okay for you to do this?" Hermione glanced at the envious Harry and Ron and asked, "I didn't even do my homework during the holidays. What about the final exam?"
"Everyone has something they are good at. We are better at practice than theory. As for the final exam, is that important?" Fred said nonchalantly.
"Now that we already have O.w.Ls," George shrugged and said a bunch of rebellious words, "do we really need N.E.w.Ts?"
"Mum would be furious if she knew." Ron warned.
Albert put down the cat carrier, took out his wand from his cloak pocket, waved it lightly, conjured a folder out of thin air, and handed it to George.
"Mom actually knows a little bit." George took the folder and returned to his seat, intending to finish the holiday homework as soon as possible.
Albert bent down and picked up the cat carrier, preparing to go back to the dormitory first.
"That... Occlumency..."
Harry stood up immediately and looked at Albert walking towards the stairs of the boys' dormitory, looking like he was hesitant to speak.
"Most Gryffindor students rarely go out of their way to suppress their emotions, so the possibility of learning Occlumency is not very high. Even if it can be learned, it will take a long time." Albert stopped and looked at
Harry, who was about to stuff a sedative into his mouth, said directly, "You don't have to try to quibble, I have already verified it from Fred, George and Lee Jordan, and you are even more emotional than the three of them."
transformation, so I am not sure that I can teach you Occlumency within half a year, and it may even make your brain worse."
"But Dumbledore..."
Harry was about to speak when he was interrupted by Albert.
"You may not succeed if you try, but you will never succeed if you don't try." Albert was no longer in a hurry to go upstairs and sat down by the fireplace. He opened the cage and let Tom out.
The fat cat yawned, swung its tail lazily, rubbed against Albert, and tried to jump onto Albert's lap, but was stopped in time.
"It's Snape." Harry slumped back into his chair helplessly.
"I know, I mentioned to the principal that you have a bad relationship with Snape." Albert calmly said something that surprised several people, "He obviously thinks..."
"Can't you finish what you're saying?" Harry cast a resentful look at Albert, who hated half-sentences.
"Well, Mr. Headmaster probably thinks that both you and Snape can overcome their dislike of each other." Albert glanced at Harry and said calmly.
The corners of Harry's mouth twitched slightly, and several others looked at each other, obviously unable to understand why Dumbledore thought so.
"It's really surprising...Dumbledore always...I dare say Snape can't do it himself." Harry's expression was extremely strange, "He hates me, just like he hates my father, and I also hate him.
I instinctively hate him."
"Maybe you can give him a tranquilizer." Ron suddenly said.
"This is... a good idea." Harry poured out a tranquilizer and threw it into his mouth, "He is willing to take it in advance."
"I think it's very difficult," Fred muttered. "It's like Percy calling himself a fool."
"Percy is now the biggest fool in the world." George reminded.
"I just dropped by the school hospital. Umbridge's skin disease is almost cured." Albert reminded.
"This is really good news."
Ron looked at Harry suddenly, suspecting that he had heard wrongly.
"Perhaps, we can continue to turn her into a cat." Harry looked at his holiday homework and said slowly, "I got some compound potion from Professor Moody and let her lie down again.
Two months.”
"With the same trick, if Toad is hit twice in a row, then she is an out-and-out idiot." Although Albert hated Umbridge, he did not think that the other party would be stupid enough to hit her in succession. She must have
Now I have been holding back my anger and have nowhere to vent it, and I am planning to find trouble with Potter as soon as I recover.
Regardless of whether it was Potter who did it or not, Umbridge would probably deny that it was them. She needed to vent her pent-up anger, and Potter obviously handed over the handle.
After the vacation, before Harry could face Umbridge's anger, he first faced the complicated looks of the students at Hogwarts.
At least, most people will not reject him as they did before and think he is a liar.
The Azkaban prison break was such a slap in the face to the wizarding world that they had to face the terrible question of whether Voldemort would be resurrected.
Now, no matter where Albert goes, he can hear students discussing the Azkaban escape incident and the two articles in the latest issue of "Defense Express". Even the professors are discussing this matter.
According to the latest news provided by Fred and George, the number of students joining the DA has increased dramatically, and the number is already close to a hundred. The escape of Death Eaters has made many people feel insecure, and by joining the DA, you can learn defense against the dark arts.
How to protect themselves is undoubtedly what they need most at the moment. More importantly, the number of DA members has given some people a kind of blind obedience.
Along with DA members, there are also members of the Anti-Toad Alliance. Because of the article "Secrets Behind the Lies", many students dislike Umbridge, and nearly half of the students claim to be members of the Anti-Toad Alliance.
member.
"If all the students in the school wear this kind of badge, what do you think the toad will do then?" Fred handed a Gryffindor lion head badge to Albert, then reached out and pressed it.
The lion's head spins and turns into a toad.
"We got inspiration from Harry's smelly poop badge made by Slytherin last year. Just touch it with your hand and you can turn into a toad form to show that you are a member of the Anti-Toad Alliance." George introduced their work to Albert.
Latest Products.
"Is this thing distributed for free, or..."
After Albert took the badge and looked it up and down, his eyes fell on the task content of the Anti-Toad Alliance that had just been triggered.
The members of the Anti-Toad Alliance now account for 35% of the school's population, and the task requires 60%. It is a bit difficult to complete the task.
"We're going to sell Two Sickles," George said.
"Too cheap."
"How much do you think is appropriate?" Fred asked.
"One galleon."
"It's too expensive and no one will buy it," Lee Jordan reminded.
"Make it a symbol of each college and distribute the free version of the badge to members of the Anti-Toad Alliance for free. Consider it a benefit of the Anti-Toad Alliance. If it is lost or confiscated, you can spend one galleon to buy a new sales version of the badge.
.”
Albert never expected to be able to sell these badges, but it would not be difficult for most Hogwarts students to get one for themselves. People like to take advantage of others, and it's the same everywhere.
"Also, your method is wrong. You have to use the rhythm of tapping to control it to turn into a toad. This is not difficult. It also comes with the function that when Umbridge is nearby, the badge will heat up slightly. It will be sold
The version of badges has more features.”
"From now on, when members of the Anti-Toad Alliance greet each other, they only need to show each other their toad badges."
Fred, George and Lee Jordan were all stunned for a moment.
"There is a saying that there is no blame for the masses. If everyone carries these things together, do you think Umbridge dares to expel more than a hundred students at once?" Albert pointed to the magazine on the table again, "How to deal with it?"
Toad, you have to drag everyone together and don't give her every chance to defeat her. Especially since Umbridge's condition is about to recover, I think she will definitely want to find a few unlucky people to vent her anger after she is discharged from the hospital. If you don't want to
If you become one of the unlucky ones, act quickly and take advantage of this opportunity. After this crisis is over, it will be difficult for you to form an anti-toad alliance."
"What if there's a big fuss then?" George frowned and said.
"Don't you want to stay in school? It would be great if you graduate early, and you can also win everyone's favor. Are you afraid that no one will care about the joke shop?"
"I thought you didn't want me to graduate early?"
"Aren't you even ready for the store?" Albert knocked on the parchment in his hand and said: "However, the price is still a bit expensive now. After the mysterious person announces his return, we can negotiate with them and the price can be still good.
Lower it again. Now you can first think about how to design the store, what things need to be used, and what joke props you plan to sell."