As Percy expected the news of dementor attack on Harry spread even faster than a wild fire . Today he noticed Umbridge was glaring at him during the whole class like he had kicked her puppy .
At five that day both Percy and Harry made their way towards Professor Umbridge's office on third floor . Percy tried rubbing the exhaustion from his eyes and knocked on the door . He had finished the essay on Draught of sleeping death at 2 a.m . He is still tired . He just want to take a nice long sleep after this . His internal ramblings were interrupted by a sugary voice " Come in " .
Harry cautiously opened the door like he is opening one of the twins joke products . Both entered the room only to be treated by the scene of Professor Toadface in all her glory sitting at her desk , a nasty vision of pink . Percy looked in horror as every inch of the stone wall were covered by the moving pictures of cats . The surfaces had all been draped in lacy covers and cloths. There were several vases full of dried flowers, each residing on its own doily . Percy involuntarily shuddered at the sight in front of him . It is even worse than Aphrodite cabin Percy thought with a disgusted frown looking around the room .
" Good evening , boys " a cool voice greeted bringing back his attention .
Percy nodded distractedly while Harry said " Evening " .
"Well, sit down," she said, pointing toward a small tables draped in lace beside which she had drawn up a straight-backed chair. Two pieces of blank parchment lay on the table, apparently waiting for them . Both the boys glanced nervously at each other before sitting down .
"Er," said Harry once he sat down . "Professor Umbridge? Er — before we start, I-I wanted to ask you a . . . a favor."
Her bulging eyes narrowed. "Oh yes?"
"Well I'm . . . I'm on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. And I was supposed to be at the tryouts for the new Keeper at five o'clock on Friday and I was — was wondering whether I could skip detention that night and do it — do it another night . . . instead . . ."
Percy knew long before he reached the end of his sentence that it was no good.
"Oh no," said Umbridge, smiling so widely that she looked as though she had just swallowed a particularly juicy fly. "Oh no, no, no. This is your punishment for spreading evil, nasty, attention-seeking stories, Mr. Potter, and punishments certainly cannot be adjusted to suit the guilty one's convenience. No, you will come here at five o'clock tomorrow, and the next day, and on Friday too, and you will do your detentions as planned. I think it rather a good thing that you are missing something you really want to do. It ought to reinforce the lesson I am trying to teach you."
Percy could feel Harry's anger radiating from him , he is one step away from jinxing Umbridge with his wand . Percy shook his head indicating to not do anything stupid . Thankfully Harry understood it giving a subtle nod to Percy .
After a moment or two passed "There," said Umbridge sweetly, "we're getting better at controlling our temper already, aren't we? Now, you are going to be doing some lines for me, Mr. Potter. No, not with your quill," she added, as both Harry and Percy bent down to open their bag. "You're going to be using a rather special one of mine. Here you are."
She handed them a long, thin black quill with an unusually sharp point with a evil glint in her eye that made Percy's toes curl . He had seen that look on thousands of monsters before .
"I want you to write 'I must not tell lies,' " she told him softly. "How many times?" Harry asked, with a creditable imitation of politeness. "Oh, as long as it takes for the message to sink in," said Umbridge sweetly. "Off you go." She moved over to her desk, sat down, and bent over a stack of parchment that looked like essays for marking.
" You haven't given us any ink " Percy said noticing there is no ink .
"Oh, you won't need ink. They are special quills " said Professor Umbridge with the merest suggestion of a laugh in her voice.
Percy and Harry exchanged another look , before they began their assignment . After thirty seconds or so , Percy felt a tickling feeling in his hand . He was uncomfortable but he continued his lines .
Harry can't handle the pain as well as Percy did , as he didn't have invincible skin like Percy or his pain tolerance thanks to the multiple injuries he had received due to the monsters . Harry gasped in pain . Percy's eyes widened when he saw " I must not tell lies " cut deep into his skin .
He looked at his hand and noticed the cut was not there . He resisted the urge to facepalm , how could he forget he is invincible . Percy narrowed his eyes at the woman in front of him .
" Yes " she said sweetly relishing on seeing Harry's pain making Percy sick .
" Nothing " Harry said immediately giving Percy a shake of his head , not wanting to create a scene . Percy returned to his quill , shaking in anger every time he heard Harry grit his teeth in pain . Percy saw the words appeared in shining red ink making him want to puke knowing this was blood . Percy thought he saw a few traces of gold colour among the red but after a second it was back to normal red colour . He shook his head tiredly thinking his exhaustion is getting in his head .
After half an hour Percy had enough of it , he could not let Harry go through this pain when he can do anything . Percy's face twisted into a wicked smile which will make anyone to sweat who saw it .
Percy looked around the office and concentrated . He felt the familiar pressure in his gut .
Harry's hand was burning with pain when he felt the shaking of Earth . He saw Percy had a look of intense concentration on his face while Umbridge looked around the room in panic . He saw the vases fell down and broke . The chair Umbridge was sitting on fell causing her to fall down on her butt .
Harry smirked at the sight in front of him . The earthquake continued for few minutes not allowing Umbridge to stand up . Whenever she stood up soon she fell on her butt . When the earthquake died down Umbridge stood up with her disleveled hair and said with a shaky voice " The detention is over . Tomorrow same timing " before walking out of her office with trembling legs , kicking away the broken pieces of vases that littered the floor .
Once Harry was sure Umbridge was out of her office he turned towards Percy with barely concealed astonishment and said " That was awesome " .
Percy smirked at his awed face but it turned into a frown when his eyes landed on Harry's hand were the words cut deep into his skin . Harry saw Percy's eyes landing on his scarred hand and said " It's okay " .
Percy rolled his eyes and took Harry's hand ignoring his protest . Harry's eyes widened when he saw tendrils of water emerged from Percy's hand wrapping around his hand . After a few moments the water vaporized leaving nothing but a faint scar which is almost not visible .
He looked at Percy with jaw slacked expression and managed to say " How ? "
Percy motioned towards his ring which Harry knew is a trident a gift from Percy's father Lord Poseidon . Yesterday Percy had shown them the trident and he said eventhough he didn't know the reason for his increase in power he believe the trident is the reason . Harry had never seen anything powerful like the trident before . He felt the untamable power of sea rolling from the trident . He really feels sorry for those who were going to be in the other end of the trident .
Harry nodded wordlessly still amazed by his healing abilities .
Both Percy and Harry walked out of her office when Harry abruptly said " You can't tell anyone about the punishment " .
" What ? Why not ? " he asked .
Harry traced the faint scar on his hand " If we tell anyone she wins . We can't give her satisfaction" .
Percy looked at Harry for a moment and sighed " Fine but let's see even if she keeps detention in first place , who knows when earthquake will occur and destroy her office " Percy finished with a dark grin sending shivers down Harry's spine .
Harry frowned at him " If you continue like this then there'll be no Hogwarts at the end of the week ".
Percy shrugged and motioned his hands around him asking Harry to look . For the first time Harry noticed the corridors didn't look like it had experienced a earthquake .
Percy said looking at Harry's confused face " I had focused the earthquake on Umbridge's office. Other parts of the castle would not have experienced any damages except the slight shake of the Earth " .
Now it was Harry's turn to grin at Percy , it was a good idea . But the grin was soon replaced with a frown " What if she suspects us ? You know she will definitely suspect if earthquake occurs particularly at that time " .
" Sure she will suspect but she couldn't prove it . No one even Dumbledore and Voldy couldn't create earthquake , so we wouldn't have any problem " Percy shrugged carelessly not even bothering that toadface will suspect them " Besides it will help us to participate in Quidditch tryouts " .
As soon as Percy mentioned tryouts Harry didn't care whether Umbridge will suspect or not as long as he could attend the tryouts . Besides that what Percy said is true if even Dumbledore and Voldy couldn't create earthquake then how could anyone believe it was either of them .
When Percy and Harry entered the common room Percy saw no one except Hermione and Ron probably the two were waiting for them .
Hermione was the one to notice them " Has the detention finished ? " wondering how they would have returned after just half an hour .
Percy and Harry shared a knowing grin " Unfortunately Umbridge's office was destroyed by earthquake " Harry said innocently .
" What there was an earthquake ? We just experienced a few vibrations " Ron exclaimed and looked at Hermione who nodded in confirmation .
One look at Percy's smug face Hermione knew how the earthquake even occured in first place "It's you " She said pointing at Percy who didn't try to deny the claim .
Ron exclaimed " Excellent mate . I should have known that " . Percy grinned at him and gave him a dramatic bow .
"How was detention with Umbridge, anyway? What did she make you do?"
Harry hesitated for a fraction of a second, then said, "Lines."
"That's not too bad, then, eh?" said Ron.
"Nope," said Harry.
" If it was lines then you know you could have done it right ? " Hermione chided her boyfriend .
" Come on Mi'one . I have dyslexia and ADHD . Do you have any idea how difficult it is for me to sit and write " Percy exclaimed .
Hermione's eyes softened and nodded knowing how difficult it could be .
Percy yawned widely and went to sleep after pecking Hermione on her lips .
-TIME SKIP-
The other three days passed like it , everyday a earthquake will occur destroying her office making them to abruptly leave without detention enjoying Umbridge's face when it burned with fury . Harry knew Umbridge was suspecting them but she couldn't do anything without any proof . Words spread among other Professors about the earthquake which ocurred whenever detention happened but none of the teachers even tried to find out the reason except Snape who occasionally would stare at Percy and Harry with suspicion .
Percy and Harry were walking towards the common room discussing about the next day's tryouts when they both walked into Ron, who was lurking behind a statue of Lachlan the Lanky, clutching his broomstick. He gave a great leap of surprise when he saw Harry and Percy and attempted to hide his new Cleansweep Eleven behind his back.
"What are you doing?"
"Er — nothing. What are you doing?"
Harry frowned at him. "Come on, you can tell me! What are you hiding here for?"
"I'm — I'm hiding from Fred and George, if you must know," said Ron. "They just went past with a bunch of first years, I bet they're testing stuff on them again, I mean, they can't do it in the common room now, can they, not with Hermione there."
He was talking in a very fast, feverish way .
"But what have you got your broom for, you haven't been flying, have you?" Harry asked.
"I — well — well, okay, I'll tell you, but don't laugh, all right?" Ron said defensively, turning redder with every second. "I-I thought I'd try out for Gryffindor Keeper now I've got a decent broom. There. Go on. Laugh."
Percy and Harry looked at each other with confusion thinking why Ron said something lie that .
Harry then looked at Ron " I am not laughing " to which Percy added "It's a brilliant idea! It'd be really cool if you got on the team! "
" Yeah like Percy said it will be cool . I've never seen you play Keeper, are you good?"
"I'm not bad," said Ron, who looked immensely relieved at Harry's and Percy's reaction. "Charlie, Fred, and George always made me Keep for them when they were training during the holidays."
"So you've been practicing tonight?"
"Every evening since Tuesday . . . just on my own, though, I've been trying to bewitch Quaffles to fly at me, but it hasn't been easy and I don't know how much use it'll be." Ron looked nervous and anxious. "Fred and George are going to laugh themselves stupid when I turn up for the tryouts. They haven't stopped taking the mickey out of me since I got made a prefect."
" They are your brothers Ron . They will of course make fun of you but they also love you" Percy said softly thinking about how Thalia and Nico would never hesitate to kick his butt if he angered them but at the same time they both will lay down their lives for Percy without a second thought .
" Yeah ..I know it Percy but you know it will be ... good if they don't make fun of me sometimes " Ron said shifting uncomfortably . Percy nodded understandingly .
" So will you two come to tryouts tomorrow " Ron asked shifting the topic .
" Yep . It will be no problem " Percy said with confidence grinning at Harry who grinned back at him .
Ron grinned at them and the three started to walk towards the common room .
Stay tuned till next chapter .