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Ch. 38
Madam Rosmerta
Dolores was one, angry witch. The evil toad of a woman had been dragged by the centaurs for at least half an hour because of the toad's insults towards the creatures. As she started marching back to the castle to confront Harry 'brat boy' Potter, the toad crossed paths with Draco Malfoy (who had an elated look on his face).
"Professor," Draco informed Dolores. "Potter is down at the Three Broomsticks, I saw him entering the pub."
"I thought I gave him a lifelong ban from Hogsmeade, too," Dolores ranted, then calmly told Draco. "One-hundred points to Slytherin for informing me of what the brat did."
Draco began showing his defence teacher over to the pub, hoping it would double-team Harry and get him expelled, and subsequently exiled from Britain. Once Draco and the toad entered the Three Broomsticks, the door automatically closed and locked. As Draco and Umbridge looked behind them and then in front of them, they spotted Harry accompanied by Madam Rosmerta, the innkeeper of the pub. They were both glaring at Draco and Dolores, with their arms crossed.
"You have alot of nerve to come in here, Umbitch," Madam Rosmerta growled. "And Malfoy here. You two are to leave the pub and never come back. You two are a disgrace to Hogwarts, now out you go."
"Well, Potter needs to report to my office at once," Dolores insisted. "So I can…"
"You two will need your strength first, toadie," Madam Rosmerta coaxed. "If you'll follow me and I'll show you to a private room for free butterbeer."
"With your cat plates there to give you and Malfoy company." said Harry.
That intrigued Dolores and Draco enough to follow Madam Rosmerta and Harry. It was the door leading to the cellar of the Three Broomsticks when Harry and Madam Rosmerta stopped in front of. Harry opened the door to let Dolores and Draco enter, with the arrogant witch and wizard walking in without second thoughts. Once they closed the door, Harry and Madam Rosmerta cast some powerful locking charms and a soundproof charm to ensure that Dolores and Draco couldn't escape nor get help. Then the cats inside the plates started jumping out. This momentarily pleased Umbridge, until the animals began surrounding Draco and Dolores (both who were quickly becoming utterly terrified, their eyes widening proving it).
"Wh-What is g-going o-o-o-on?!" Draco and Dolores exclaimed.
The cats surrounding the arrogant people in the cellar began growing bigger to frighten Dolores and Draco more and more. Then the angry felines started hissing and then licked their chops, indicating that they were getting hungry. Draco and Dolores began making a run through the angry cats to get up on a ledge to escape the vicious animals. Back in the pub itself, Madam Rosmerta got a tankard of butterbeer ready for Harry (who walked back inside with Cho Chang). Madam Rosmerta got one ready for Cho as well.
"It's on the house." Madam Rosmerta assured the teens.
"Thank you!" Harry and Cho told the owner of the pub, in grateful tones of voices.
"Has the ferret and the toad been dealt with?" asked Cho anxiously.
"Don't worry, Miss Chang," assured Madam Rosmerta.. "Harry and I happened to get that covered… permanently."
"Oh, thank goodness!" Cho replied as she breathed a sigh of relief. "The toad gave the ferret permission to give me spankings for 'being a bad girl,' as they put it. Can you believe it?"
"No," stated Harry as he gave Cho a comforting hug (she even hugged him back). "It wasn't their right to do that. Their reign of terror has come to an end, and pretty soon, their lives will."
Back in the cellar, the cats kept getting more and more vicious as Dolores and Draco kept trying to stay out of reach. The cats' hunger never died down, as their meowing proved it. It was hours into the ordeal when Draco and Dolores felt their eyelids getting heavy from a lack of sleep. As their eyelids started closing some involuntarily, the cats started nipping at Draco and Dolores, forcing them to go on full alert. It was approximately 2:00 AM when the arrogant wizard and witch felt their eyelids getting heavier as their lack of sleep worsened.
"When will those cats go away?" asked Draco drowsily.
"I d-don't kn-kn-know," Dolores responded as she yawned. "They j-j-j-j..."
As they finally got so tired they couldn't keep their eyes open, sleep finally overtook Draco and Dolores. The cats grabbed the two and began dragging them away, much to their utter fright. Then the cats jumped into one, sugergiant plate that had a meadow in it, with some of them dragging Draco and Dolores (both who began screaming) with them. The cats in the plate dragged Draco and Dolores with them in the plate towards a point of no return. Then the hungry felines started eating Draco and Dolores, leaving nothing but skeletons picked clean. With Draco and Dolores gone, the rest of the Inquisitorial Squad was caught by the teachers. The aurors came by Hogwarts to arrest the members of the Inquisitorial Squad, which finally allowed peace at Hogwarts to return. Things were finally looking up again.
The End!
Author's note 1: I'd like to give a huge shoutout to the anonymous reviewer 'Fugacity' for suggesting the prank pulled on Umbridge for this one-shot. While I had Draco face the same fate, the main idea belongs to Fugacity.
Author's note 2: Another one-shot completed. Which girl should Harry be paired with in the next one-shot? Please let me know in a review or a PM, happy reading!