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Ch. 62

(OC) Persephone Clearwater

Dolores Umbridge was one angry witch because the centaurs dragged her away for an hour before dropping her off somewhere in the middle of the forest. Rather than acknowledging the fact that her insults provoked the centaurs into retaliation, Dolores just blamed it on her least favourite person, Harry Potter (who the evil toad of a woman dubbed as a brat). Once the toad got back onto her feet, she began marching her way back to the castle to confront Harry for supposedly causing her misfortune to happen. Upon making it back to her classroom, Dolores heard the door slam shut and lock itself heavily. Hearing some laughter coming from her office, Dolores marched up the stairs and inside before that door shut and locked itself, too. Stepping out of the shadows was Harry (recognized by his untidy black hair), and he was accompanied by a girl with neck-length bright-blonde hair. She was dressed in a purple short-sleeve polo shirt, white shorts, and white sneakers. The girl looked familiar to Dolores, due to having seen a similar face in the ministry.

"Alright, Potter!" Umbridge demanded. "What's going on here?"

"Your reign of terror coming to an end, Umbitch!" the girl revealed in an elated voice.

"Well, well, Penelope," Umbridge replied with a sneer, as she turned her attention to the girl before her. "If I'd known you were going to skip work to help promote Potter's delusions, I'd have you fired for conspiracy to play hooky."

"I'm not Penelope, I'm her sister Persephone!" the girl snapped. "She goes by Penny with friends and family while I go by Perry. I'm a fourth-year Ravenclaw girl, so don't mistake me for my sister. I was in my first year here when Penny was in her sixth year, the same year when she was petrified by that basilisk."

"How did you meet Potter?" Umbridge demanded.

"It started one day when Harry and his best friend, Ron Weasley, came to visit their friend, Hermione Granger, as she was also petrified," Perry started explaining. "He spotted me sitting beside Penny's bed in the hospital wing, weeping for my sister because she and I have always been pretty close. Penny and I are half-bloods and that made her the only petrified victim to be a half-blood, since the other human victims were muggle-borns. Harry and I even took turns in confiding to each other during that visit. Then he found a torn-out page from a book crumbled in Hermione's hand, which made them realize that the creature petrifying the students was a basilisk and that it was getting around in the pipes."

"Yes," Harry explained to the toad of a woman in pink cardigan. "Since Perry was already with me and Ron, we allowed her to tag along with us when we found out that Ron's sister was taken into the Chamber of Secrets after the teachers found another message written in blood. Gilderoy Lockhart was the only teacher there all cool and calm and he'd been boasting about knowing where the entrance to the chamber was located, so the other teachers left him to deal with the monster and he claimed he would be getting ready. When Ron, Perry and myself went to this classroom to tell Lockhart what we found out, he was packing up his stuff with the intention of skedaddling."

"Lockhart also revealed that he was taking credit for achievements other wizards accomplished," stated Perry. "He even tried to turn his wand on us to erase our memories so he wouldn't have to worry about people finding out he was a fraud. Luckily Harry disarmed the cowardly man and tossed his wand out the office window. Then we forced him to tag along with us to the chamber's entrance located in a girls' bathroom located on the second floor. When we were down there, Lockhart pretended to faint before grabbing Ron's spellotaped wand and trying to erase our memories, since he did say that he was gifted with memory charms. When Lockhart tried obliviating Harry first, the spell backfired and hit him with enough force to fly into the rocky ceiling and cause a cave-in. The fallen rock separated Harry from Ron and myself, forcing us to shift some of the rock while Harry went on to find Ron's sister, Ginevra. Sometime later after the rocks were shifted, Ron and I spotted Harry coming back with Ginny following. Then Dumbledore's pet phoenix, Fawkes, flew us up to the headmaster's office."

"Even then, I kept in touch with Perry since," said Harry. "Even Penny approved after she was cured of her petrification, and she even gave me a kiss on my cheek as a way of thanking me for saving her life."

"But now's the time for you to get your just desserts, you ole hag!" Perry informed the toad in a delightful voice. "Since the way you treated Harry over the course of this school year was inexcusable."

Umbridge darted her eyes around the office, wondering what was going to happen. As soon as she attempted to tackle Harry, some kind of invisible wall bounced her back. Then the crazy toad of a woman was surrounded by a cyclone of what looked like snow. When it receded, Umbridge darted her eyes around and saw that she was trapped in some kind of glass enclosure. She looked around more and saw the rest of the Inquisitorial Squad trapped inside along with her. Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson were the most terrified of the squad members. Then a gigantic pair of hands wrapped around most of the enclosure before everyone felt their makeshift prison getting picked up somehow. Then they all looked out and spotted Harry and Perry were gargatuan size (though it was from the squad's point of view, meaning that Harry and Perry were still their normal sizes while the Inquisitorial Squad shrunk to minuscule size to fit inside their prison). What the Inquisitorial Squad didn't yet know was that they were trapped inside of a snow globe toy.

"Your just desserts is getting ready to happen!" Harry and Perry sneered at the utterly-terrified members of the Inquisitorial Squad.

The hand that was around the snow globe was Perry's and she began shaking the toy. That caused the members of Umbridge's evil squad to get thrown, tossed, or hurled in different directions. Everyone inside the snow globe was also screaming their heads off every time they were violently hurled around inside the toy. Harry and Perry were laughing themselves silly to see what Umbridge and her goon squad experiencing their bad karma coming back to bite them. Then Perry handed the toy to Harry and he also gave it a good shake. Everyone inside the toy was hurled around once more, resulting in the Inquisitorial Squad receiving cuts and bruises. The inside was also getting splattered with blood, much to Harry and Perry's amusement. Then Harry walked up to the open window and stuck his hand out, with Hedwig grabbing the toy with her talons and flying off into the air with it. From one-thousand feet in the air, the Inquisitorial Squad members looked terrified and gasped in fright before Hedwig let go, causing the toy to start falling to the jagged rocks below. Umbridge and her goon squad were screaming in terror to see that they were falling to their doom. As soon as the snow globe hit the rocks at breakneck speed, it exploded in a huge puff of white mist, engulfing and vaporizing everyone inside the toy. Harry and Perry were laughing themselves silly as they saw that misty explosion.

"How should we celebrate the toad's permanent downfall?" asked Harry.

"Maybe we can go find Penny," suggested Perry. "And see if she has time to tag along with us for dinner at a nice restaurant somewhere in London."

"Sounds good, my sweet Perry!" Harry replied in an ecstatic tone of voice.

"Let's get going, my handsome Harry!" Perry replied, equally ecstatic.

So the two left the defence classroom while holding hands, to go find a place to meet up with Penny and ask her to tag along with them for dinner. With Umbridge and her goon squad gone for good, Harry was free from the toad's reign of terror. No more educational decrees, no more blood quill detentions, no more lifelong quidditch ban, and no more unjust punishments. For once, luck was on Harry's side.

The End!

Author's note: Another one-shot finished. Which girl should Harry be paired with in the next one-shot? Please let me know in a review or a PM. Remember, any ideas you think could work is always appreciated, happy reading!