Sorry about any weird formatting. Doing this on mobile and if I don't do it now, I won't get the chance to any time soon, as this is the weekend of my grandma's funeral and the decent of the extended family...


Today was a good day.

No.

Today was a great day.

A fantastic day.

A day for celebration.

Today was the day that Dolores Jane Umbridge was supposed to wrap up the trial for her crimes.

Harry grinned at his reflection in the mirror as he got ready to go to the trial.

What a refreshing position to be in: her on trial and him getting to watch her trial instead of it being the other way around.

Harry truly hoped that he would get a front row seat to the action.

What also made the whole thing sweeter was that Minister Fudge (how he was still Minister after all of this blew out of the water was beyond him) wouldn't be able to help her much, if at all.

He'd lost much of his clout because of his endorsement of Umbridge and the allegations that came out against her, which also in turn led to more than just the media digging into his past interactions and dealings...

If Cornelius Fudge thought that he was in trouble now, just wait until Voldemort revealed himself.

That would be just enough to push him off of the proverbial cliff.

Not to mention that if he went, the Ministry might get a good shakedown...

Who knew that potentially toppling governments could be so much fun?

He cackled at the very thought.

Now if only a certain evil wizard would make his (usually) annual (since he started attending Hogwarts) attempt at killing him soon so he could expose him in dramatic fashion kill two birds with one stone and just be done with it...

If he managed to survive that confrontation, he would be the first one out of the gate shouting: "I TOLD YOU ARSES SO, BUT DID YOU BELIEVE ME? NO!" at them all, taking in the glorious feeling of them realising that he had been right about Voldemort's return the entire bloody time...

He shook his head to clear it.

He'd rather much prefer to deal with one evil conniving being at a time, thank you very much.

Voldemort's turn was coming for sure.

But today... today was reserved for Umbridge.

He would truly enjoy seeing her get what was coming to her.


Today was a bad day.

No.

Today was a terrible day.

Today was the day that she, Dolores Jane Umbridge was to finish her trial for "offences" that did not merit all of this!

After all, she had done nothing wrong to deserve all of this harassment!

She scowled at the very idea.

She had just been doing her job, after all!

They had continued letting her have copies of The Daily Prophet and she was well aware of how much the public seemed to hate her guts now.

Judging by the vitriol that the once esteemed publication had allowed to be published in that space they had always allowed for readers to send in their letters to be published, the Wizarding public was demanding her head.

Figuratively and in some cases... literally.

She was just doing her job.

Committed to improving the standards of education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which had fallen so sharply since she herself had been in attendance, thanks to Dumbledore's continued hold on the school!

She had been teaching the subject she had been assigned to teach properly, sought to bring the school back into the glory it once had and look what they had done to her for it!

All because a bunch of brats disagreed with her methods!

Potter.

It had to have been him.

She was sure of it.

She regretted making the mistake of ever underestimating him.

If the bloody Dementors had done their job properly in the first place, she wouldn't be here suffering in this hellhole!

He'd had it out for her since the day they first met!

She had had it out for him before they even met, but that small fact never crossed her mind at all.

Instead of being grateful that he had somehow managed to escape the punishment he had truly deserved (even worse, he had done it multiple times), he had decided to make her life at Hogwarts a true, living hell.

She knew it was him behind all of those pranks.

With some of them... he also had to have had help with them in order to pull them off, so he had obviously drawn others into his petty scheme for revenge.

Why did no one else see him for what he was?

Or at least, still see him for what he was?

At the beginning of the year, they saw his true colours, but now... they seemed to have forgotten all about it in favour of thinking that she was the lunatic!

All of her hard work. Gone to waste.

Because of him.


Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna and several other Hogwarts students who had been allowed to attend Umbridge's trial as witnesses milled about in the special area of the Ministry reserved just for them on this particular special occasion.

He and a few of the other students had hired lawyers to help present their case and one of them in particular, a man named Nathaniel Lawrence, had assured him that this case was a done deal.

"We've got her on this, don't you worry." he was practically grinning as he met with them earlier. "We have enough evidence to convict. Plus with all of the attention that this particular case has gotten in the media, there is no bloody way this could get swept under the carpet! I haven't been so glad to prosecute a case in years! Not since the Death Eater trials..."

"You think we could include a quote from that Lawrence bloke in the next you know what?" Ron whispered as they gathered in a corner of the room, away from the others.

"I suppose," Harry shrugged. "It doesn't seem as if that would be an issue once all of this is over. Just hang on a bit and let's check out some other things before we do, shall we?"

They nodded in agreement.

"Hey Harry. You ready to see her go down?" Lee asked, as he approached them, Fred and George close behind him.

"You bloody well bet I am!" Harry exclaimed.

"Just remember that we have to be on our best behaviour in that courtroom. If you get rowdy in there, they won't hesitate to kick you out!" Hermione reminded them, eyeing Fred and George in particular.

"Contrary to popular belief, we do have enough common sense to know that, Hermione." George rolled his eyes.

"Do you really think that we'd do anything that might jeopardise her going down for good?" Fred asked. "Hell, we would not want to jeopardise seeing this for ourselves!"

"As long as you're aware of that." Ginny shot them a warning glare.

At that point, a court worker entered the room and announced that they could all make their way into the courtroom.

Ron, Harry and Ginny grinned at one another like lunatics while Hermione, Neville and Luna, although they were not grinning like lunatics, nevertheless looked quite pleased.


Harry and his group of friends managed to secure seats in the front most row of where the spectators were allowed to sit.

They also saw other students as well as their family members and friends, mingling with the press, some of whom were quite eager for their opinions on the trial.

Harry saw Madam Longbottom talking to someone he vaguely recognised as working for the Wizarding Wireless Network, after having met them himself several days before.

He nudged Neville, who was seated next to him and inclined his head towards her.

Neville shrugged.

"She's a strong, opinionated woman. She'd never let the chance to tell people how wrong they were about Umbridge slide."

"Strong, opinionated?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "More like bloody terrifying."

"I love her, but that's true," Neville shrugged.

Colin waved to him from a few seats above and Harry waved back.

Judging by the way that Colin's face brightened, it looked as if the simple act of Harry waving back at him had made his day.

Which, Harry realised, it probably did.

Several minutes later and the court was called to order.

A few minutes after that and Umbridge was brought in.

Harry quite enjoyed not being the centre of attention in the courtroom for once.

Watching them all bring the evidence forward and present in such a way that it couldn't be refuted.

It was so much more efficient than his own farce of a trial had been...

They showed pictures, actually allowed witnesses to speak (and the few times that Umbridge did dare to attempt to interrupt, she was literally Silenced) and everything went smoothly.

Occasionally, he would have a whispered conversation with his neighbours (even those outside of his friend circle) about how it was going and all of them seemed quite pleased to be there and pleased with what was going on.

They even used excerpts from various issues of The Hogwarts Voice as part of the case.


"we mean deliberate, premeditated actions by one of the professors that are meant to educate and protect us.

Who is it, you ask?

It is none other than Dolores Jane Umbridge, esteemed minion of the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge.

She has been using a foul instrument called a Blood Quill on the students during detentions that she gave earlier. We can confirm that she used them on several students and while we do know that she stopped for a time, we cannot confirm whether or not she has resumed the use of the instruments.

While we acknowledge that many of the detentions were given for transgressions that would merit them (interrupting class, being rude to a professor and so on), who gave her the right to torture students in such a manner? Isn't this a case of disproportionate retribution? These Blood Quills are meant to sign contracts that are supposed to be airtight. Infallible. The only legal form of Blood Magic that our country allows.

Instead, Professor Umbridge uses them to force her unfortunate students to write with their own blood and offers no medical attention to them whatsoever, leaving them to try and heal the injuries on their own if they were too afraid or indeed too proud to seek help from our resident Matron."


"We have pointed out questions without answers, answers that weren't entirely answers (and in some cases were outright lies) and even managed to bring to light the problem that the Ministry of Magic caused in our beloved school recently.

Amazing work, isn't it?

All of it is thanks to our small team of writers and editors.

However, this is not about us. We did not do it just for fun.

We did it for our fellow students.

Dolores Jane Umbridge was a menace to all of us, whether we are Gryffindors, Slytherins, Hufflepuffs or Ravenclaws.

She is (or rather, was, as we are glad to say)the only problem at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but she certainly was the most pressing one.

Rest assured, we shall be tackling those later.

We are far from finished!

To the matter of Umbridge, she was arrested at our beloved school a few days ago, as all of you should know by now. Clearly the evidence that we submitted to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was enough for them to act upon, which we are most certainly most grateful for. Thank you for believing us and doing your job, DMLE!

We have also managed to confirm that upon learning that she would in fact, be arrested for her crimes instead of being able to brush it off and continue as normal, she tried escaping and evading capture, but stopped along the way to attack a group of students, who promptly managed to render her harmless, just in time for the Aurors to catch up to her.

We managed to track down those students and all have promised to give us an interview on the incident as soon as they are cleared to by their lawyers.

We all eagerly await their story.

In the meantime however, we have managed to go around the school, finding out from staff and students alike their opinions of the latest situation and needless to say, they all had very interesting things to say."


Harry felt particularly pleased when they used those excerpts.

Soon enough, the moment of truth arrived.