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Ch. 36
Nymphadora Tonks
Dolores Umbridge was having a terrible day because of the centaurs, ignoring the irrefutable fact that she insulted them to the point of provoking them. Upon making it back to the castle entrance, Dolores saw an angry mob pointing their fingers to her, frightening the evil toad of a woman even more. She quickly turned around and made a run for it as she heard the mob complaining about her committing crime after crime while they chased her. Then the toad found a crumbled wall and hid behind it to throw the mob off track. When she felt certain the mob was in Hogsmeade, Dolores waddled her way back to the castle, only to run into 'herself.'
"Alright, who are you and why are you impersonating me?!" Dolores demanded with a growl.
"I'm you!" the clone claimed. "I thought you'd want someone to help you double-team Potter the brat. How about it?"
"Ooh, my clone joining me?! Sure, when do we start?" asked Dolores, intrigued.
"Right now," said the clone. "We'll commit some on the way to the Room of Requirement, where we can escape from there and flee the country."
Dolores was even more intrigued, so she began following the 'clone's' every move. They broke windows, vandalized the moving paintings, and graffitied the walls inside the castle with pink spray paint. The clone was so fast that Dolores had trouble keeping up, to the point where the clone was no longer in sight. It took several minutes for the toad to reach the entrance to the Room of Requirement. Then she barged her way in, determined to get Harry and deal with him once and for all. Then she saw him, with Nymphadora Tonks hugging him. When they spotted the toad walking in, they both glared at her (with Tonks' hair turning red because she was angry).
"Alright Nymphadora, where is my clone?" Umbridge demanded.
"There was no clone," Tonks claimed. "You must've suffered a hallucination."
"Very funny, Nymphadora," said Dolores sarcastically. "Now where…?"
Tonks walked up and smacked Dolores across the face as hard as possible, before snapping, "Nobody calls me that wretched name! I insist that I'm called by my last name in a civil manner, or Dora if it's friends or family, you hag! Is that clear?"
"Yes," Dolores claimed. "But that's assault and battery…"
"You've committed tons more serious crimes, Umbitch!" Dora angrily replied. "When Harry was over at Grimmauld Place during the Christmas holidays, he happened to write me a note explaining what all you did to him during the first half of the school year, such as making him write sentences with a stupid blood quill and banning him from playing quidditch for life. That quidditch ban being lifelong wasn't your right, it was up to the head of the Department of Magical Sports and Games. Blood quills being used outside of Gringotts business is a crime, too."
"I slipped the note into Dora's jacket pocket, Umbitch," Harry sneered. "You need to realize one way or the other that no one is above the law, no matter who they are."
"And there's more where that came from." Dora sneered at the toad.
A knock at a door behind her and Harry was heard, with Harry answering it. To Dolores' horror, it was Amelia Bones and several aurors, including Kingsley Shacklebolt. They pointed their wands at the toad to keep her from escaping justice.
"Dolores Jane Umbridge," said Amelia as the toad was being placed in magic suppression handcuffs. "You're under arrest for multiple counts of assault and battery, multiple counts of child endangerment, multiple counts of vandalism, multiple counts of corruption, and perhaps many more. The people in the pictures even informed me of your vandalism crimes, Dolores, with a clone of yours. So that's a count of abusing the cloning charm for evil intent. You don't have to say anything, as it may harm your defence in court. Anything you do choose to say can be given in evidence."
Dolores glared at Harry and Dora as she was led out to be taken into ministry custody. Once Harry and Dora were by themselves, the two couldn't help but smile at each other.
"That was so funny, using your metamorphmagus abilities to impersonate Umbitch as payback!" Harry giggled.
"And no one will know that but us." Dora laughed.
"How should we celebrate the toad's permanent downfall?" asked Harry.
"Maybe we can go out into Muggle London," Dora suggested. "Maybe go to a movie theater. A great way to catch up on all the missed moments where I could've been like a big sister to you, Harry."
"That'd be wonderful," said Harry ecstatically. "What movie shall we watch, Dora?"
"We'll figure that out when we get to a theater," said Dora. "Since they have different movies and different times when they'll be playing."
Harry nodded his head in acknowledgement before they left the Room of Requirement and outside. Once they were outside the wards surrounding the castle, Dora apparated Harry and herself over to an abandoned alley somewhere in London to find a good movie theater. Peace at Hogwarts was finally restored, no more lifelong quidditch ban, no more educational decrees, no more detentions with the blood quill, and no more useless defence teacher teaching only textbook methods. Things were finally looking up.
The End!
Author's note: Another one-shot completed. I'll leave it up to you to decide what movie Harry and Dora will watch. Which girl should Harry be paired with in the next one-shot? Please let me know in a review or a PM, happy reading!
A big shoutout to 'Chaos Snow Kitsune' for suggesting that Tonks use her metamorphmagus abilities to impersonate Umbridge, commit crimes while pretending to be the toad of a woman to ruin her for good, and Harry secretly informing Tonks on the crimes Umbridge committed against Harry during the first half of the school year.
Also a big shoutout to 'Slytherin66' for suggesting that some of the people in the Hogwarts pictures alert the ministry about Umbridge's crimes.
