the Gambler

The DA went well, and they soon had practice with the Patronus Charm, one of Harry's favorite spells, not only because his Patronus was like his father, but also because he likes to cast spells with Give yourself warmth and peace.Since there is no boggart, there is no way to conjure a decent dementor for practice. Harry is not sure whether the Patronus effect can really drive away those disgusting creatures, but even so, this does not calm everyone's excitement. little bit.The entire Room of Requirement was filled with shimmering silver mist.

"It's so beautiful." Cho sighed, staring at the creature in front of him. Harry nodded beside the girl. Cho's patron saint was a beautiful swan, which was waving its wings and circling the whole room. The girl turned her head and gave Harry a swan. Bright smile, her face flushed, the boy's heart beat faster, "Thank you, Harry."

"I'm glad you've mastered it, you're a smart witch."

Qiu seemed to want to say something, but his words were interrupted by Neville's movement. There was a faint silver gas from the tip of his staff, and frustration was already written on his face.Harry comforted the other party: "You have to imagine happier things, maybe when you received a gift from Professor Splowney?"

Neville nodded, squinting his eyes and taking a deep breath, tracing the beautiful plant in his mind.He waved his wand again, and what came out was still silver gas, although it was a little thicker.

Harry turned his head to look at Tom, who was standing against the wall. His expression was hard to discern. Harry knew that this was one of the few spells that the other party didn't know, and perhaps it was a shock to Tom.Noticing Harry's gaze, Tom raised half of his eyebrows. After hesitating for a moment, Harry walked slowly to Tom's side and invited him: "Maybe you want to practice this spell? I mean you know all the spells." Looks very good at it."

"I can't," said Tom in a statement of fact.

"You haven't even tried, how do you know you can't do it?"

"I have no happy memory." Tom's emotions did not fluctuate at all. "The only memory I have worth using is when I found out that I was a descendant of Slytherin, but that couldn't summon the Patronus at all."

Harry's eyes widened in surprise, "Really?"

Tom waved his wand in Harry's face, and the silver mist on the tip of the wand was much thinner than Neville's.

"Then we can create memories that make you happy. I mean this spell is very important, and you don't want to encounter the situation in Diagon Alley last time—" Harry's clothes were suddenly tugged, and he looked down to see many Compared with the frightened expression, the poor elf was still trembling.

"Dobby, what happened?" Harry squatted down. This question only made Dobby more frightened. He pointed towards the door, and Harry could hear the rustling of footsteps outside.Big tears poured out of Dobby's eyes, and it seemed that he was forbidden to speak, and the elf kept banging his head against the wall.Harry grabbed Dobby's arm to prevent the other party from hurting him, and suddenly a terrible thought hit Harry.There can only be one person who can prevent house-elves from speaking freely and has a lot to do with Harry's current situation.

"Umbridge," said Harry vaguely, and Dobby nodded eagerly.

Somehow, that pink toad//toad has been aware of the existence of DA, and Harry is pretty sure that Hermione's spell is working, someone informs, not the people present.Harry looked around. Everyone had the same panicked look on their faces as they rushed towards the door eagerly, only to be bounced back by the huge barrier.Harry looked at Tom in shock, his wand still pointed at the door.

"What do you mean?" Zacharias yelled.

"They're already outside." Tom was not offended at all, and he glanced at Harry and asked, "Which of you can cast the Disillusionment Charm?"

About 5 minutes later, the door of the Room of Requirement opened, and Umbridge led a group of Slytherins in. They all wore golden badges on their chests. Harry was huddling beside Tom. He glanced at the expressionless latter.Also in the procession, Harry noticed, was Marietta, Cho's friend, crying with her hands over her face, covered in curly brown hair.

There was a sudden exclamation in the originally quiet place, Harry knew that direction was Qiu's position, Dawlish extended his wand and waved it a few times, Qiu and a group of people nearby were exposed to everyone's view.Umbridge's happy laughter was interrupted by people who came in again. Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and two Aurors walked in, and the last one appeared was the triumphant Fudge.

Fudge's eyes lit up at the sight of the restless students standing to one side, and he gloated over Dumbledore, who didn't give him a look at all.Fudge narrowed his eyes and scanned all the people in front of him carefully, the smile on his face froze suddenly, he glared at Dumbledore viciously: "Where is Potter? He should be inside!"

Dawlish quickly turned around and scanned the room, and Harry noticed Dumbledore secretly blinking in their direction and then quickly readjusted to a serious expression to face Fudge: "I don't know what your hint means, dear Connelly. "

"They're having a secret illegal assembly! Miss Ackmore came to me this evening and said she was going to report on this organization! She wanted to bring me here directly, but as soon as she walked out of the office, her face—" Umbridge grabbed Mary Etta's hand made her reveal her face, and everyone else made disgusted sounds at the same time.The witch's face was covered with dense blisters, lined up with the words of an informer.Marietta wailed and put her robe back over her face.

"Actually, it doesn't seem illegal to me," Dumbledore said with a smile, "They just used their spare time to practice spells."

"The spells you practice are all irrelevant to the OWLs exam!" Umbridge retorted angrily. She suddenly put on a smug smile, and took out a roll of parchment from her bosom, on which were densely written names, "I have The list of all members provided by Miss Aikemo is not the point," she smiled at Dumbledore, "this organization is called Dumbledore's Army."

"Haha! Dumbledore! I already knew that you secretly organized students to form an army to resist me! What else do you have to say now!" Fudge's face made Harry wish he could plant him in the ground, and he took the parchment Counting the names carefully, "25! There are only 21 here now, tell me where Potter and his friends are, they all need to be fired!"

"I don't think there is a need to expel it." Dumbledore's eyes turned cold. "Since this is called Dumbledore's Army, it means I am the one who organizes it and has nothing to do with the students."

Hearing this, Harry almost rushed out. If Tom hadn't stopped him, he turned to look around, and Hermione also grabbed Ron's arm.

"Then you admit it?" Fudge said excitedly. He originally only wanted to catch Potter's gang, but it was completely unexpected that he caught Dumbledore. He turned to look at Percy, "You recorded him Is there any testimony?"

Percy nodded eagerly, the quill was moving quickly on the paper, and the twins scolded him dissatisfiedly for being a traitor, a mercenary bastard, a lackey of the Ministry of Magic, etc., all of which did not stop him from grabbing the pen for a moment.Fudge looked at the two Aurors with satisfaction: "Dawlish, Shacklebolt, grab him!"

"It's not easy." Dumbledore still kept smiling. A dazzling white light suddenly flashed in the room, followed by the sound of various things exploding. In the dust, red flames could be seen flying in front of him. There was a melodious chirp.The whole floor was shaking constantly, and the people in the Room of Requirement were lying crookedly on the ground. When the vision became clear again, Dumbledore was standing in mid-air holding Fox's foot, and the flames were burning around the headmaster's body. He didn't show the slightest pain, and Dumbledore disappeared in front of everyone after a while, leaving only the room that seemed to be swept by a storm.

"Dolores, I accept you as the headmaster of Hogwarts. Percy, give the testimony to the "Daily Prophet", and I will see it on the front page tomorrow morning!" Fudge got up from the ground, He dusted off his robes angrily, and stormed out of the room, followed by the others.

The news that Umbridge had succeeded Dumbledore as Headmaster of Hogwarts quickly spread throughout the campus, and almost everyone was talking about the events that happened in the afternoon.Harry and the others went around several secret passages before returning to the common room. As soon as they showed up, Harry was taken by Filch to Umbridge's office.When the old witch entertained him to drink the potioned tea, Harry was very thankful that he had learned the silent disappearing spell. Seeing the empty teacup, the witch seemed very satisfied. After asking about the whereabouts of Harry Dumbledore and Sirius to no avail. Indignantly let go of the boy.

The Gryffindor lounge was extremely noisy. Harry scanned the crowd. Tom and Hermione Ron sat together. The other party seemed to have no intention of communicating with others. An ancient book thicker than all textbooks combined.Hermione craned her neck to see what Tom was looking at, Ron looked at him cautiously, and Harry suddenly realized that this was the first time he had completely left Tom to his friend.

Harry walked to the couch in front of Tom and sat down. George poked his head out from the stairs that went up: "Those Slytherins are really disgusting today. They seem to have set up some kind of shit monitoring group to deduct points everywhere."

His words were clearly echoed by many.There were angry grumbles all around, and Fred came out from behind the board and sat down beside Harry: "Monta just tried to find a chance to deduct points from us, and George and I hung him naked in the astronomy tower Already!"

The lounge erupted in exaggerated laughter, and Lee whistled at the twins, who bowed triumphantly.George tumbled down the stairs and sat down on Harry's other side.Sandwiching Harry, the twins excitedly told the boy that they had bought a bunch of firecrackers from Hogsmeade for a fortune to give Umbridge a memorable celebration.

"But you can't do this, Umbridge will fire you!" Hermione snapped.

"We didn't intend to continue reading," George said. "It's better to make our careers sooner than stay under that old hag!"

"So don't worry, we'll let you enjoy the upcoming Easter holiday and help the principal get revenge." Fred blinked and told Harry in a low voice, "We've already found a good storefront, this This time can be used as an early publicity, how about the Weasley joke shop, brother?"

"It couldn't be better, bro." George reached out and touched Fred with his fist.The two showed exactly the same sly smile.

"You're going to beat Dr. Phillips." Harry said with a smile, and he saw many Gryffindor students staring at the two with the same excited expressions.It seems that there are already many potential customers.

"If you are expelled, I can help you get revenge on Umbridge." Tom suddenly said, his smile was particularly cold, but Harry rarely looked forward to it, he really hated Umbridge so much, let alone she drove him away. Headmaster Dumbledore!

"Then don't overdo it." The twins struggled to accept Tom's proposal, which made the smile on the latter's face more obvious.

"You won't be disappointed."