Harry took a deep breath and walked up the stone stairs leading to the principal's office. He finally stopped in front of the griffon door knocker, reached out and knocked on the wooden door three times. Without waiting for a response from inside, he opened the door.
Enter the principal's office.
Ignoring the looks cast by others, Harry glanced across the already crowded office, and his eyes fell on Dumbledore. The old man was sitting behind his desk, with a calm expression on his slender fingers.
Taken together, Harry smiled at him after he entered the room, as if he had everything happening at the moment under control, but Professor McGonagall, who was standing next to Dumbledore, had a very nervous expression.
Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic who Harry hated so much, was also here. He was standing by the fireplace. He was a little excited when he saw Harry appear. He probably thought he had a handle and could finally fire Harry.
This really made Harry feel extremely ridiculous. He really didn't understand what was stuffed in Fudge's mind, was it shit?
It's really surprising that a minister can be so stupid.
The guard next to Fudge was Harry's acquaintance, Kingsley Shacklebolt, a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Harry pretended not to know him. Harry didn't recognize the other guards. The last one was Ron's brother Percy Way.
Sly, he was holding a quill and parchment in his hand, ready to record what happened here.
What surprised Harry was that he didn't see the "traitor" here.
"Yeah!"
Cornelius Fudge glared at Harry with a look of gloating on his face.
"Okay? I don't feel good. I heard that you released all the prisoners in Azkaban." Harry's heart was beating fast, but his mind was surprisingly calm and sober, and he spoke directly, interrupting Fudge's savings.
His momentum blocked what the other party wanted to say, and by the way, the topic was deflected.
"What?"
Fudge was obviously a little confused by Harry's words. He probably didn't expect that Harry would suddenly say such a sentence.
"I heard that you deliberately let the prisoners of Azkaban go." Harry let his cold voice overwhelm Fudge, looked at the guy with soaring blood pressure in front of him, and continued, "Don't be angry yet, I didn't mean to slander you.
You. Before those Death Eaters escaped from prison, the Ministry of Magic had already received news that the Death Eaters from Azkaban were about to escape from prison, but you actually turned a blind eye to it."
"Nonsense, simply nonsense." Fudge's face turned red, and his angry roar echoed in the office.
Not only Professor McGonagall, but also the portraits in the office stared at this scene in stunned silence. For some reason, they always felt that the angry and roaring Fudge was as ridiculous as a clown.
"But ten Death Eaters escaped from prison, and many people knew that the Death Eaters were going to escape from prison, so there is no point in you yelling at me." Harry looked as red as Uncle Vernon.
Fudge raised his lips slightly and asked, "I'm just curious, you have so much time to interfere with Hogwarts, why don't you spend your precious time on catching Death Eaters? Or do you think Hogwarts
There are many descendants of Death Eaters here, and it is worthy of the Ministry of Magic to pay special attention to whether they will become Death Eaters in the future?"
"It seems that you don't even have the basic education..."
"Are you worthy of my respect?" Harry interrupted, "If you don't believe me, go to the Hogwarts hall to see if you, the minister, are worthy of respect, and see if the students at Hogwarts welcome you.
You, I’ll still throw dung bombs at you.”
"Do you dare? No, you don't dare. With all the mess you have done at Hogwarts in the past six months, believe it or not, a group of students will use dung bombs to drive you out of Hogwarts." Harry sneered.
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To be honest, even the Aurors were shocked by Potter's shocking words, but if you think about the group of students outside the office, this kind of thing could really happen. Fudge has done a terrible job in the past six months.
Before anyone could react, Harry continued to ridicule: "Haven't you noticed by now that the credibility of the Ministry of Magic has become worse than a piece of toilet paper? If I'm not wrong,
After you last ignored Sirius Black's bounty and refused to pay for the capture of Peter Pettigrew, no one is willing to provide information to the Ministry of Magic anymore."
Everyone present looked at Harry dumbfounded, never expecting that the young savior could be so tough. Judging from his tone and style, he didn't take Fudge seriously at all.
"That's enough, that's enough. I didn't come here to talk nonsense with you today." Fudge roared out of control, obviously completely irritated by Harry.
"Calm down, Minister." Kingsley reminded him in a low and slow voice.
"Don't change the subject Potter." Fudge glanced at Kingsley, took a deep breath and said, "Someone has provided us with information that you are organizing an illegal organization in private and teaching students black magic."
"Oh? Who said that? Where's the evidence? Are you sure someone is not referring to one of your own?" Harry asked three times indifferently, making Fudge's anger rise again. "Or are you going out of your way to do it recently?"
I'm flattered that I changed the laws of the Ministry of Magic."
"However, since you want to frame me, you have to provide evidence." Harry said calmly, "Without evidence, don't think that because you are the Minister of Magic, you can slander me at will."
"Of course we have evidence. I'll bring the people here. Maybe the progress will be faster." Umbridge walked into the fireplace with green flames and soon came out with a girl.
Harry had no impression of the girl in front of him. She was definitely not a member of the DA. Of course, even if she was, he wouldn't be able to recognize her because there were so many DA members.
"Miss Acmore told us everything." A sickening smile appeared on Umbridge's face.
"Did you use Veritaserum on her?" Harry suddenly asked.
"What?"
This question really caught Umbridge off guard.
"I said you used Veritaserum on this poor Miss Acmore?" After Harry finished speaking, he glanced at Dumbledore. He didn't believe Dumbledore couldn't tell.
"Of course not," Umbridge said dryly.
"If not, then why do you think her words are true? Just because of her few words, you can slander me?" Harry turned to stare at Umbridge and sneered, "As far as I know, Umbridge
Professor Richie, you yourself formed an organization called the Toad Alliance at Hogwarts with the intention of overthrowing the current Minister of Magic Fudge. Don't rush to refute it, I have a lot of evidence."
"Members of the Toad Alliance will wear toad badges that symbolize the Toad Alliance. All students in the school know this." Harry said to Fudge, "If you don't believe it, you can ask some students outside to ask. , you will know whether I lied or not."
Not only was Fudge a little confused, but even the other Aurors were dumbfounded as to what the Toad League was. And from Harry Potter's confident tone, it seemed as if all the students in Hogwarts knew about it.
"How dare you insult me like this." The fake smile on Umbridge's face finally couldn't hold on any longer.
"Insult, I don't dare to insult you. Most of the students in Hogwarts know this." Harry sneered: "If you don't believe it, you can ask other students about this. Compared with your slander without evidence, I was able to find a bunch of witnesses to prove what I said."
"I still have evidence of your activities here."
Umbridge took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, took out a few pieces of parchment from her pocket and said: "You established an organization called DA in October last year. Don't deny it. I have your detailed information here. Activity sheet, you use the "Self-Defense Guide" as your study material."
"DA?"
Fudge took the parchment, chewed it carefully and said, "Dumbledore's Army?"
"Are you sure you didn't make that thing by yourselves?" Harry couldn't help but mocked, "Honestly, I can make up a bunch of this kind of stuff at random, and are you sure there really is a book called "Self-Defense Guide" Really? If so, why don't you take it out and let me see it?"
"Of course, the book is right here." Umbridge took out a "Self-Defense Guide" from somewhere and handed it to Fudge.
"Are you sure you didn't get someone to print this? As far as I know, no shop sells this stuff?" Harry walked directly to the young witch without even looking at Fudge and Umbridge and said. : "Okay, assuming you used Veritaserum on this poor lady, let me ask a simple question. Miss Acmore, do you join the so-called DA organization?"
"No," said Marietta.
"Look, this poor lady has not joined the so-called DA organization. Why do you think what she said is true?" Harry turned to look at Fudge, who was flipping through the book, and asked.
He didn't know where Umbridge got the "Self-Defense Guide" from, but he was not worried that it would become evidence. Not to mention that the "Self-Defense Guide" was not published at all, and only a few people had seen it. And you really Think Anderson is easy to mess with?
"Of course, we have other evidence."
Umbridge had a successful smirk on her face, which gave Harry a bad premonition.
"Mr. Colin Creevey confessed to us the entire process of your establishment of the DA, and provided the list of members who initially established the DA."
"You used Veritaserum on an innocent student. I remember it was a prohibited item!" Harry looked at Dumbledore in pretended surprise, "Does the Ministry of Magic have such a privilege?"
"We only added two drops of Veritaserum to him. Don't worry, the effect will not have any bad impact on Mr. Colin Creevey..." Umbridge was actually forced to have no choice but to do otherwise. Fudge will never be allowed to know about this.
Of course, she believed that as long as Dumbledore's guilt could be confirmed or Potter was expelled, Fudge would pretend that the incident never happened.
"Dolores..."
"As far as I know, Umbridge often uses Veritaserum to torture students in school, and everyone thinks it's you, the Minister of Magic, who tacitly approves of it," Harry said sarcastically.
"Minister, in special times, we need to use special methods." Umbridge said softly, "As long as the dose of truth serum is controlled well, asking a few simple questions will not cause harm to the students. Harry Potter
, if you think you are innocent, then why don't you take a small amount of truth serum in front of Dumbledore and answer a few questions? If you are innocent, I will immediately and solemnly apologize to you and resign from Hogg
All of Watts’ work.”
"It's really enlightening me. The Deputy Minister of Magic actually openly violated the laws of the Ministry of Magic. Did you secretly use the Cruciatus Curse to torture other students?" Harry did not hide his disdain and sarcasm.
He also secretly thought that it was a pity. If he had brought the antidote to Veritaserum, Fudge and Umbridge would have become the laughing stock of the wizarding world today.
"Since you don't dare, I still have other evidence." Umbridge disappeared into the fireplace again and soon reappeared. She was holding a student in one hand. The two of them looked similar to Miss Acmore.
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"Dolores, how dare you do this to my students." Dumbledore showed an angry expression for the first time after seeing Ginny and Colin. He could see that Umbridge had used excessive amounts of vomit on them.
Without giving them a chance to ask, Dumbledore directly pulled out his wand and knocked down Colin Creevey and Ginny Weasley.
"It seems the evidence is conclusive."
Fudge said excitedly, having completely forgotten about Umbridge's use of Veritaserum.
"Don't you know that excessive use of Veritaserum may cause irreversible damage to the brain?" Dumbledore ignored the excited Fudge, but stared at Umbridge, with anger in his eyes.
Umbridge couldn't help but take a step back.
"Stop him," Umbridge screamed.
"catch him."
The Aurors looked at each other and did not try to confront Dumbledore. Instead, they stood in front of Fudge and Umbridge to protect their safety.
"Minerva, send Mr. Creevey, Miss Weasley and Miss Acmore to the campus hospital and let Poppy check them out." After Dumbledore finished giving instructions, he looked at Fudge and said calmly, "I
I know what you want to do. Someone told me a long time ago that this day is coming, but I have to remind you, Connelly, you made a wrong decision. So what if you bring me down? You can never change it.
The fact that Voldemort has been resurrected and his return is doomed, and the answer you gave is destined to be disappointing."
"Believe me, not everyone is as easy to talk to as me. You will regret it soon. No one will forgive you then. Believe me, no one will." Dumbledore's voice was so cold that several people fell down.
Taking a breath of cool air.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Fudge said in a panic.
"Okay, as you wish, I admit it, it's Dumbledore's Army. I recruited these students just to see if they were willing to cooperate with me to oust you from the position of Minister of Magic, just like I spread your
The collapse is about to happen this summer." Dumbledore chuckled, "It seems that you are a real failure as a human being, and nearly half of the students are willing to join in and watch the collapse."
"You're plotting against me!" Fudge shouted excitedly.
"Yes, I'm glad you figured this out." Dumbledore said happily, "In fact, even if I didn't do that, the result would have been doomed."
"Weasley, have you written it all down? He wants to build an army to fight against the Ministry of Magic. He wants to overthrow me." Fudge was radiant with joy.
"Yes, sir, I took note of it." Percy quickly took notes and glanced at Ginny with a gloomy look on his face.
"Send a copy to the Daily Prophet immediately, and maybe we can catch the edition tomorrow morning." Fudge muttered excitedly.
"I'm afraid you have encountered a small problem." Dumbledore said softly.
"I didn't see the problem," Fudge said with a sneer.
"To be honest, I don't want to sit around and be sent to Azkaban. Of course, I can escape - but that would be a waste of time, and frankly, I have a lot of things to do, and I
I would rather do those things than waste time here with you."
Fudge stared at Dumbledore. He was stunned for a moment, as if he was suddenly blinded, and he simply couldn't believe that this happened.
"You can't escape." Umbridge reminded, "A large number of Aurors have arrived at Hogwarts. You can't escape."
"Don't be stupid, you alone can't deal with me." Dumbledore smiled and pulled out his wand, "Unless you are stupid enough to force me... Oh, well, in that case..."
To be honest, Harry was immediately confused by Dumbledore. He didn't understand why Dumbledore would admit these things.
By the time he came to his senses, the principal's office had exploded, the group who tried to violently arrest Dumbledore had all fallen, and Dumbledore had disappeared.
"Where is he?" Fudge struggled to get up from the floor.
"No, it's impossible to Apparate in school!" Umbridge shouted, "Hurry up and tell other Aurors to intercept Dumbledore."
"stairs!"
Several people hurriedly opened the door and were about to chase Dumbledore, when they happened to bump into the students blocking the door of the principal's office.
"They used veritaserum to torture Colin, Ginny and Exmo." Harry's voice came from behind, "They also drove away the principal without any evidence."
For some reason, Fudge and his group suddenly felt that the situation was not good, because the students in front raised their wands and pointed them at them angrily.
Kingsley stared at everything dumbfounded. He never thought that Harry and the Weasley brothers would actually pull up such a huge team in the school.
"Don't come over, the Aurors have already arrived." Umbridge stammered and threatened: "Besides, it is illegal to attack Ministry of Magic officials, and you will definitely be expelled."
Umbridge didn't know where the thirty-four Aurors were.
"So, you don't let Aurors deal with those dark wizards who escaped from prison, but instead use them to suppress innocent students." George sneered sharply, "Is this the Ministry of Magic that keeps saying it will protect everyone?"