Chapter 488 Counterattack! Fight back!

Before anyone had to wait any longer, news spread in the castle that Harry Potter would no longer attend the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

For this reason, Colin brought a group of little fans to ask Harry about this matter.

"Of course it's real." Harry casually took out the quick-acting skipping candy he had ordered from the twins and let Colin and the others take it.

"This is the quick-acting candy that Fred and George made to skip classes. Keep it. I won't be using it for now, but you guys might need it."

In addition to Harry, Ron also voluntarily withdrew from the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, expressing his willingness to stand together with Harry.

Even Hermione and Neville, two good students, decisively gave up the Defense Against the Dark Arts class after learning that Umbridge was going to use Veritaserum.

Umbridge was furious about this. She didn't expect things to turn out like this.

What made her even more upset was that Harry and his friends were more united than she had expected.

Whenever she talked to Hermione and the others, Harry Potter would bring a group of people with wands in hand to wait outside her office, ready to rush in and fight to the death as soon as they heard any noise.

In Harry's words, if you mess with me, we'll all be doomed. Anyway, we are all minors and don't need a transcript for this course.

Umbridge was furious and frantically deducted house points from Harry and others, and punished them by putting them in detention.

In response, Harry said, you can deduct points as you like, but if we frown we are not Gryffindor.

However, when it was time for detention, no one showed up in Umbridge's office. When Umbridge asked around, she found out that all the students were in detention with Sebastian.

Umbridge was so angry that her face was almost twisted. After smashing things around in the office, she went to Professor McGonagall to complain.

After learning what Harry and the others had done, Professor McGonagall was so upset that she had to spend a lot of time talking to them.

However, Harry and others had already reached a consensus.

"I'm sorry, Professor. My time is precious. I must hurry up and improve my strength so that I can fight against the mysterious man in the future."

"Professor, Umbridge only teaches theory, and you can't get a high score in the OWL exam just by relying on theory."

"We can study on our own according to the lesson plan, and Harry's tutoring is also very effective."

"Professor McGonagall, Umbridge is going to use Veritaserum on us. Her actions are unworthy of being a professor, so we naturally don't want to respect her."

Veritaserum?

Professor McGonagall had not expected this answer at all.

Harry and his friends are members of the Order of the Phoenix. They have no ability to keep secrets under the Veritaserum. What if they leak some important information?

Professor McGonagall was shocked and angry, and she was about to go and cause trouble for Umbridge on the spot.

"Professor, don't get excited. We have no evidence. Umbridge will definitely not admit it. We just need to ignore her."

"Okay," Professor McGonagall said without hesitation, "You can do whatever you want. I'll deal with Umbridge."

After all the commotion, Harry and his friends didn't receive any punishment except for points being deducted. As for the house points, no one cared anymore because all four houses had zero points.

With these examples, there were students everywhere who gave up the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The brave ones, like Harry and his friends, disappeared from the classroom without even saying hello.

Those who were less courageous would secretly put a quick-acting skipping candy in their mouths before Umbridge's class, and when Umbridge asked them to read the text, they would start vomiting and having a fever.

Umbridge had no choice but to send these students to the infirmary. In this way, only Malfoy and his lackeys were left in the classroom.

So, she completely lost face and began to frantically issue all kinds of weird educational orders, making the students miserable.

She also used Trelawney as an example, expelling her in public and wanting to expel her from the school. It was only after Dumbledore stepped in as the headmaster that Trelawney was kept.

However, where there is oppression, there is resistance. The more Umbridge caused trouble, the more rumors spread in the school, and these rumors were all about her dark history.

"Umbridge is extremely good at currying favor with her superiors. She became Deputy Minister by flattering them."

"Relying on someone's support, she often takes credit for her colleagues' achievements."

"She said she was from a pure-blood family, but in fact, her mother was a Muggle and her father was a cleaner at the Ministry of Magic."

As the rumors spread, Umbridge and her review team faced countless misfortunes.

The first to suffer were the members of the review team. While walking on the road, they were often attacked by inexplicable spells.

Mrs. Montgomery was knocked unconscious and her head was stuffed into the toilet in the girls' bathroom, where she was finally discovered by a Slytherin girl.

For a time, all members of the review team were worried about their safety, and some students even voluntarily withdrew from Umbridge's team out of fear.

Umbridge wasn't having an easy time either. Some students would secretly cast a Confounding Charm on her, causing her to stumble into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and turn the wrong way, bumping headfirst into the door frame.

When she stayed in the office, there would always be inexplicably powerful dung bombs exploding. The key point was that the keyhole was blocked, so she couldn't escape even if she wanted to, and could only use the blasting spell to blow open the office door.

In just two months, she had blown down many doors and earned the title of "Door Blaster" among the students.

In addition, the corridor outside Umbridge's office had turned into a swamp at some point, and she tried all kinds of spells to eliminate it but couldn't. After seeking help in vain, she could only ask Filch to pick her up by boat every day.

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Pranks against Umbridge continued one after another. During this period, she was struggling to maintain the situation in a battle of wits and courage with students almost every day. As time went by, Halloween quietly approached, and the atmosphere became more and more weird.

On Halloween night, she clearly remembered to close the windows tightly before going to bed, but when she woke up in the middle of the night, she found that the window was open.

What made her even more terrified was that she heard strange noises coming from outside the window, as if some unknown existence was spying on her, but she looked around and found nothing. She kept running around all night.

In the early morning, when Umbridge appeared in the teacher's seat, she had dark circles under her eyes, and even her usual fake smile seemed unusually stiff.

The sky was grey, heavy clouds hung low, and thunder rumbled in the distance, as if foreshadowing that something bad was about to happen.

Umbridge sat in her seat without any appetite, and just took a few biscuits and a glass of milk for breakfast.

Seeing this scene, Harry, Fred and others immediately started whispering.

"Hey, Fred, how's that cookie going? Are you sure it'll work?"

"Don't worry, Harry. You have seen our canary cookies. This one is even better than them."

"That's good. The professional camera team is ready. It depends on whether Umbridge will eat the biscuit."

"Absolutely. We haven't tampered with her food since the back-to-school dinner. She's not wary of food at all now."

Under everyone's expectant gaze, Umbridge picked up a biscuit and ate it expressionlessly.