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She towered over Professor Umbridge. Potter, she said in ringing tones, I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do. If I have to coach you nightly I will make sure you achieve the required results. The Minister of Magic will never employ Harry Potter. said Umbridge, her voice rising furiously. There may well be a new Minister of Magic by the time Potter is ready to join. shouted Professor McGonagall. Aha. shrieked Professor Umbridge, pointing a stubby finger at McGonagall. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Of course. Thats what you want, isnt it, Minerva McGonagall. You want Cornelius Fudge replaced by Albus Dumbledore. You think youll be where I am, dont you, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister and headmistress to boot. You are raving, said Professor McGonagall, superbly disdainful. Potter, that concludes our career consultation. Harry swung his bag over his shoulder and hurried out of the room, not daring to look at Umbridge. He could hear her and Professor McGonagall continuing to shout at each other all the way back along the corridor. Professor Umbridge was still breathing as though she had just run a race when she strode into their Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson that afternoon. I hope youve thought better of what click at this page were planning to do, Harry, Hermione whispered, the moment they had opened their books to chapter thirty-four (Non-Retaliation and Negotiation). Umbridge looks like shes in a really bad mood already. Every now and then Umbridge shot glowering looks at Harry, who kept his head down, staring at Defensive Magical Theory, his eyes unfocused, thinking. He could just imagine Professor McGonagalls reaction if he were caught trespassing in Professor Umbridges office mere hours after she had vouched for him. There was nothing to stop him simply going back to Gryffindor Tower and hoping that sometime during the next this web page holiday he would have a chance to ask Sirius about the scene he had witnessed in the Pensieve. Nothing, except that the thought of taking this sensible course of action made him feel as though a lead weight had dropped into his stomach. And then there was the matter of Fred and George, whose diversion was already planned, not to mention the knife Sirius had given him, which was currently residing in his schoolbag along with his fathers old Invisibility Cloak. But the fact remained that if he were caught. Dumbledore sacrificed himself to keep you in school, Harry. whispered Hermione, raising her book to hide her face from Umbridge. And if you get thrown out today it will all have been for nothing. He could abandon the plan and simply learn to live with the memory of what his father had done on a summers day more than twenty years ago. And then he remembered Sirius in the fire upstairs in the Gryffindor common room. Youre less like your father than I thought. The risk wouldve been what made it fun for James. But did he want to be like his father anymore. Harry, dont rogue naraka it, please dont do it. Hermione said in anguished tones as the bell rang at the end of the class. He did not answer; he did not know what to do. Ron seemed determined to give neither his opinion nor his advice. He would not look at Harry, though when Hermione opened her mouth to try dissuading Harry some more, he said in a low voice, Give it a rest, okay. He can make up his own mind. Harrys heart beat very fast as he left the classroom. He was halfway along the corridor continue reading when he heard the unmistakable sounds of a diversion going off in the distance. There were screams and yells reverberating from somewhere above them. People exiting the classrooms all around Harry were stopping in their tracks and looking up at the ceiling fearfully - Then Umbridge came pelting out of her classroom as fast as her short legs would carry her. Pulling out her wand, she hurried off in the opposite direction: It was now or never. Harry - please. said Hermione weakly. But he had made up his mind - hitching his bag more securely onto his shoulder he set off at a run, weaving in and out of students now hurrying in the opposite direction, off to see what all the fuss was about in the east wing. Harry reached the corridor where Umbridges office was situated and found it deserted. Dashing behind a large suit of armor whose helmet creaked around to watch him, he pulled open his bag, seized Siriuss knife, and donned the Invisibility Cloak. He then crept slowly and carefully back out from behind the suit of armor and along the corridor until he reached Umbridges door. He inserted the blade of the magical knife into the source around it and moved it gently up and down, then withdrew it. There was a tiny click, and the door swung open. He ducked inside the office, closed the door quickly behind him, and looked around. It was empty; nothing was moving except the horrible kittens on the plates continuing to frolic on the wall above the confiscated broomsticks. Harry pulled off his Cloak and, striding over to the fireplace, found what he was looking for within seconds: a small box containing glittering Floo powder. He crouched down in front of the empty grate, his hands shaking. He had never done this before, though he thought he knew how it must work. Sticking his head into the fireplace, he took a large pinch of powder and dropped it onto the logs stacked neatly beneath him. They exploded at once into emerald-green flames. Number twelve, Grimmauld Place. Link said loudly and clearly. It was one of the most curious sensations he had ever experienced; he had traveled by Floo powder before, of course, but then it had been his entire body that had spun around and around in the flames through the network of Wizarding fireplaces that stretched over the country: This time, his knees remained firm upon the cold floor of Umbridges office, and only his head hurtled through the emerald fire. And then, abruptly as it had begun, the spinning stopped. Feeling rather sick and as though he was wearing an exceptionally hot muffler around his head, Harry opened his eyes to find that he was looking up out of the kitchen fireplace at the long, wooden Steam spring sale ending, where a man sat poring over a piece of parchment. Sirius. The man jumped and looked around. It was not Sirius, but Lupin. Harry. he said, looking thoroughly shocked. What are you - whats happened, is everything all right. Yeah, said Harry. 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They exchanged a look of great surprise, but Harry did not have time to feel awkward or embarrassed; his knees were becoming sorer by the second, and he guessed that five minutes had already passed from the start of the diversion - George had only guaranteed him twenty. He therefore plunged immediately into the story of what he had seen in the Pensieve. When he had finished, neither Sirius nor Lupin spoke for a moment. Then Lupin said quietly, I wouldnt like you to judge your father on what you saw there, Harry. He was only fifteen - Im fifteen. said Harry heatedly. Look, Harry, said Sirius placatingly, James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other, it was just one of those things, you can understand that, cant you. I think James was everything Snape wanted to be - he was popular, he was good at Quidditch, good at pretty much everything. And Snape was just this little oddball who was up to his eyes in the Dark Arts and James - whatever else he may have appeared to you, Harry - always hated the Dark Arts. Yeah, said Harry, but he just attacked Snape for no good reason, just because - well, just because you said you were bored, he finished with a slightly apologetic note in his voice. Im not proud of it, said Sirius quickly. Lupin looked sideways at Sirius and then said, Look, Harry, what youve got to understand is that your father and Sirius were the best in the school at whatever they did - everyone thought they were the height of cool - if they sometimes got a bit carried away - If we were sometimes arrogant little berks, you mean, said Sirius. Lupin smiled. He kept messing up his hair, said Harry in a pained voice. Sirius and Lupin laughed. Id forgotten he used to do that, said Sirius affectionately. Was he playing with the Snitch. said Lupin eagerly. Yeah, said Harry, watching uncomprehendingly as Sirius and Lupin beamed reminiscently. Well. I thought he was a bit of an idiot. Of course he was a bit of an idiot. said Sirius bracingly. We were all idiots. Well - not Moony so much, he here fairly, looking at Lupin, but Lupin shook his head. Did I ever tell you to lay off Snape. he said. Did I ever have the guts to tell you I thought you were out of order. Yeah, well, said Sirius, you made us feel ashamed of ourselves sometimes. That was something. And, said Harry doggedly, determined to say everything that was on his mind now he was here, he kept looking over at the girls by the lake, hoping they were watching him. Oh, well, he always made a fool of himself whenever Lily was around, said Sirius, shrugging. He couldnt stop himself showing off whenever he got near her. How come she married him. Harry asked miserably. She hated him. Nah, she didnt, said Sirius. She started going out with him in seventh year, said Lupin. Once James had deflated his head a bit, said Sirius. And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it, said Lupin. Even Snape. said Harry. Well, said Lupin slowly, Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/windows/pubg-game-download-pc-free-windows-10-x86.php opportunity to curse James, so you couldnt really expect James to take that lying down, could you. And my mum was okay with that. She didnt know too much about it, to tell you the truth, said Sirius. I mean, James didnt take Snape on dates with her and jinx him in front of her, did he. Sirius frowned at Harry, who was still looking unconvinced. Look, he said, your father was the best friend I ever had, and he was a good person. A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it. Yeah, okay, said Harry heavily. I just never thought Id feel sorry for Snape. Now you mention it, said Lupin, a faint crease between his eyebrows, how did Snape react when he found youd seen all this. He told me hed never teach me Occlumency again, said Harry indifferently, like thats a big disappoint - He WHAT. shouted Sirius, causing Harry to jump and inhale a mouthful of ashes. Are you serious, Harry. said Lupin quickly. Hes stopped giving you lessons. Yeah, said Harry, surprised at what he considered a great overreaction. But its okay, I dont care, its a bit of a relief to tell you the - Im coming up there to have a word with Snape. said Sirius forcefully and he actually made to stand up, but Lupin wrenched him back down again. If anyones going to tell Snape it fo4 item be me. he said firmly. But Harry, first of all, youre to go back to Snape and tell him that on no learn more here is he to stop giving you lessons - when Dumbledore hears - I cant tell him that, hed kill me. said Harry, outraged. You didnt see him when we got out of the Pensieve - Harry, there is baldurs gate enemy of zip so important as you learning Occlumency. said Lupin sternly. Do you understand me. Nothing. Okay, okay, said Harry, thoroughly discomposed, not to mention annoyed. Ill. Ill try and say something to him. But it wont be. He fell silent. He could hear distant footsteps. Is that Kreacher coming downstairs. No, said Sirius, glancing behind him. It must be somebody your end. Harrys heart skipped several beats. Id better go. he said hastily and he pulled his head backward out of Grimmauld Places fire. For a moment his head seemed to be revolving on his shoulders, and then he found himself kneeling in front of Umbridges fire with his head firmly back on, watching the emerald flames flicker and die. Quickly, quickly. he heard a wheezy voice mutter right outside the office door. Ah, shes left it open. Harry dived for the Invisibility Cloak and had just managed to pull it back over himself when Filch burst into the office. He looked absolutely delighted about something and was talking to himself feverishly as he crossed the room, pulled open a drawer in Umbridges desk, and began rifling through the papers inside it. Approval for Whipping. Approval for Whipping. I can do it at last. Theyve had it coming to them for years. He pulled out a piece of parchment, kissed it, then shuffled rapidly back out of the door, clutching it to his chest. Harry leapt to his feet and, making sure that he had his bag congratulate, rust game g2a updates share the Invisibility Cloak was completely covering him, he wrenched open the door and hurried out of the office after Filch, who was hobbling along faster than Harry had ever seen him go. One landing down from Umbridges office and Harry thought it was safe to become visible again; he pulled off the Cloak, shoved it in his bag and hurried onward. There was a great deal of shouting and movement coming from the entrance hall. He ran down the marble staircase and found what looked like most of the school assembled there. It was just like the night when Trelawney had been sacked. Students were standing all around the walls in a great ring (some of them, Harry noticed, covered in a substance that looked very like Stinksap); teachers and ghosts were also in the crowd. Prominent among the onlookers were members of the Inquisitorial Squad, who were all looking exceptionally pleased with themselves, and Peeves, who was bobbing overhead, gazed down upon Fred and George, who stood in the middle of the floor with the unmistakable look of two people who had just been cornered. said Umbridge triumphantly, whom Harry realized was standing just a few stairs in front of him, once more looking down upon her prey. So. you think it amusing to turn a school corridor into a swamp, do you. Pretty amusing, yeah, said Fred, looking back up at her without the slightest sign of fear. Filch elbowed his way closer to Umbridge, almost crying with happiness. Ive got the form, Headmistress, he said hoarsely, waving the piece of parchment Harry had just seen him take from her desk. Ive got the form and Ive got the whips waiting. Oh, let me do it now. Very good, Argus, she said. You two, she went on, gazing down at Fred and George, are about to learn what happens to wrongdoers in my school. You know what. said Fred. I dont think we are. He turned to his twin. George, said Fred, I think weve outgrown full-time education. Yeah, Ive been feeling that way myself, said George lightly. Time to test our talents in the real world, dyou reckon. asked Fred. Definitely, said George. And before Umbridge could say a word, they raised their wands and said together, Accio Brooms. Harry heard a loud crash somewhere in the distance. Looking to his left he ducked just in time - Fred and Georges broomsticks, one still trailing the heavy chain and iron peg with which Umbridge had fastened them to the wall, were hurtling along the corridor toward their owners. They turned left, streaked down the stairs, and stopped sharply in front of the twins, the chain clattering loudly on the flagged stone floor. We wont be seeing you, Fred told Professor Umbridge, swinging his leg over his broomstick. Yeah, dont bother to keep in touch, said George, mounting his own. Fred looked around at the assembled students, and at the silent, watchful crowd. If anyone fancies buying a Portable Swamp, as demonstrated upstairs, come to number ninety-three, Diagon Alley - Weasleys Wizard Wheezes, he said in a loud voice. Our new premises. Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear theyre going to use our products to get rid of this old bat, added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge. STOP THEM. shrieked Umbridge, but it was too late. As the Inquisitorial Squad closed in, Fred and George kicked off from the floor, shooting fifteen feet into the air, the iron peg swinging dangerously below. Fred looked across the hall at the poltergeist bobbing on his level above the crowd. Give her hell from us, Peeves. And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset. T CHAPTER THIRTY GRAWP he story of Fred and Georges flight to freedom was retold so often over the next few days that Harry could tell it would soon become the stuff of Hogwarts legend. Within a week, even those who had been eyewitnesses were half-convinced that they had seen the twins dive-bomb Umbridge on their brooms, pelting her with Dungbombs before zooming out of the doors. In the immediate aftermath of their departure there was a great wave of talk about copying them, so that Harry frequently heard students saying things like, Honestly, some days I just feel like jumping on my broom and leaving this place, or else, One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley. Fred and George had made sure that nobody was likely to forget them very soon. For one thing, they had not left instructions on how to remove the swamp that now filled the corridor on the fifth floor pubg game download windows and pc the east wing. Umbridge and Filch had been observed trying different means of removing it but without success. Eventually the area was roped off and Filch, just click for source his teeth furiously, was given the task of punting students across it to their classrooms. Harry was certain that teachers like McGonagall or Flitwick could have removed the swamp in an instant, but just as in the case of Fred and Georges Wildfire Read article, they seemed to prefer to watch Umbridge struggle. Then there were the two large broom-shaped holes in Umbridges office door, through which Fred and Georges Cleansweeps had smashed to rejoin their masters. Filch fitted a new door and removed Harrys Firebolt to the dungeons where, it was rumored, Umbridge had set an armed security troll to guard it. However, her troubles were far from over. Inspired by Fred and Georges example, a great number of students were now vying for the newly vacant positions of Troublemakers-in-Chief. In spite of the new door, somebody managed to slip a hairy-snouted niffler into Umbridges office, which promptly tore the place apart in its search for shiny objects, leapt on Umbridge on her reentrance, and tried to gnaw the rings off her stubby fingers. Dungbombs and Stinkpellets were dropped so frequently in the corridors that it became the new fashion for students to perform Bubble-Head Charms on themselves before leaving lessons, which ensured them a supply of fresh clean air, even though it gave them all the peculiar appearance of wearing upside-down goldfish bowls on their heads. Filch prowled the corridors with a horsewhip ready in his hands, desperate to catch miscreants, but the problem was that there were now so many of them that he did not know which way to turn. The Inquisitorial Squad were attempting to help him, but odd things kept happening to its members. Warrington of the Slytherin Quidditch team reported to the hospital wing with a horrible call of black ops 3 download reddit complaint that made him excellent baldurs gate karlach teljes film really as though he had been coated in cornflakes. Pansy Parkinson, to Hermiones delight, missed all her lessons the following day, as she had sprouted antlers. Meanwhile it became clear just how many Skiving Snackboxes Fred and George had managed to sell before leaving Hogwarts. Umbridge only had to enter her classroom for the students assembled there to faint, vomit, develop dangerous fevers, or else spout blood from both nostrils. Shrieking with rage and frustration she attempted to trace the mysterious symptoms to their source, but the students told her stubbornly they were suffering Umbridgeitis. After go here four successive classes in detention and failing to discover their secret she was forced to give up and allow the bleeding, swooning, sweating, and vomiting students to leave her classes in droves. But not even the users of the Snackboxes could compete with that master of chaos, Peeves, who seemed to have taken Freds parting words deeply to heart. Cackling madly, he soared through the school, upending tables, bursting out pubg game cute blackboards, and toppling statues and vases. Twice he shut Mrs. Norris inside suits of armor, from which she was rescued, yowling loudly, by the furious caretaker. He smashed lanterns and snuffed out candles, juggled burning torches over the heads of screaming students, caused neatly stacked piles of parchment to topple into fires or out of windows, flooded the second floor when he pulled off all the taps in the bathrooms, dropped a bag of tarantulas in the middle of the Great Hall during breakfast and, whenever he fancied a break, spent hours at a time floating along after Umbridge and blowing loud raspberries every time she spoke. None of the staff but More info seemed to be stirring themselves to help her. Indeed, a week after Fred and Georges departure Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he read more her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, It unscrews the other way. To cap matters, Montague had still not recovered from his sojourn in the toilet. He remained confused and disorientated and his parents were to be observed one Tuesday morning striding up the front drive, looking extremely angry. Should we say something. said Hermione in a worried voice, pressing her cheek against the Charms window so that she could see Mr. and Mrs. Montague marching inside. About what happened to him. In case it helps Madam Pomfrey cure him. Course not, hell recover, said Ron indifferently. Anyway, more trouble for Umbridge, isnt it. said Harry in a satisfied voice. He and Ron both tapped the teacups they were supposed to be charming with their wands. Harrys spouted four very short legs that would not reach the desk and wriggled pointlessly in midair. Rons grew four very thin spindly legs that hoisted the cup off the desk with great difficulty, trembled for a few seconds, then folded, causing the cup to crack into two. Reparo. said Hermione quickly, mending Rons cup with a wave of her wand. Thats all very well, but what if Montagues permanently injured. Who cares. said Ron irritably, while his teacup stood drunkenly again, trembling violently at the knees. Montague shouldnt have tried to take all those points from Think, baldurs gate discord game idea, should he. If you want to worry about anyone, Hermione, worry about me. You. she said, catching her teacup as it scampered happily away across the desk on four sturdy little willow-patterned legs and replacing it in front of her. Why should I be worried about you. When Mums next letter finally gets through Umbridges screening process, said Ron bitterly, now holding his cup up while its frail legs tried feebly to support its weight, Im going to be in deep trouble.

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