Harry glanced around the classroom watching a few of his classmates horse around while waiting on the teacher. He pulled the book out and looked at it with annoyance. Everything about this book made him believe the class would be useless.
"Children it is time to put the toys away or they will be taken from you." The professor of the class said as she walked in. Harry winced with how sugary sweet voice. She looked around the class and smiled. Harry frowned as he studied her face and the way she smiled. It felt fake like a crocodile's tears.
Harry leaned back as the teacher made her way to the front. He actually wanted to turn her into a toad due to how she looked. He listened as she went on about theory and basics and no magic in class. He frowned at those words and shook his head seeing already where this was going. He rubbed his face already tempted to walk out of this useless class. He glanced at his friends. Ron's eyes had become glazed as Hermione was clenching her jaw with irritation.
"Professor! What about casting the spells we are learning?" Hermione finally snapped out fed up of being ignored making Harry groan a moment. He could already see where this was going and it would end up with him having detention with the toad.
"Why ever would you need to cast spells within my class?" The woman asked gently. Harry bristled at her tone and glared at the woman more than before. He quivered glaring at her as Hermione frowned.
"Professor we need to practice the spells in order to do well on our O. " Hermione pointed out. Many of the students nodded knowing they were heading for an important set of tests.
"It is the viewpoint of the Ministry that a strong grounding in the theory will allow you to pass your tests with no problem." Umbridge said calmly with her condescending smile. Harry growled his yellow eyes beginning to glow gold.
"You expect a student to cast a spell on their first attempt?" Dean cried out from his spot in shock.
"Raise your hand please and with enough understanding of theory you should be able to so there is no need to cast spells in this classroom." Umbridge stated once more. Several of the students grumbled in irritation but quieted down. She directed them to read the book and Harry kept staring at the toad-like woman his glowing eyes narrowing. Slowly he raised his hand and waited for the Professor to notice. She seemed to ignore him entirely as she moved along.
Harry waited for a while then stood slowly and moved to the professor's desk still glaring at her. She slowly looked up and at him the condescending smile still on her lips. Slowly though she noticed the dark glare on Harry's face. She flinched a moment at the look in his eyes then slowly stood a bit surprised that Harry was taller than her but refusing to back down from the boy.
"I suggest you return to your seat and the reading assigned." Umbridge stated with a voice as calm as she could make it. Harry just glared then took a slow deep breath.
"If you are going to teach I would suggest actually answering the question of those that try to obey your rules, but if you are going to ignore one of your students I guess there is no real reason for said student to be here is there?" Harry growled his voice bringing everyone's attention to the two standing across from each other.
"Go back to the reading Mr. Potter, as there is nothing else to answer at this point as I can tell you haven't even started." Umbridge growled and puffed up a bit making her appearance even more toad-like.
"No, because that book contains nothing I need to learn. I read it over the summer trying to figure out what kind of teacher you would be and I now see. Even more so than before." Harry growled and turned to start for the classroom door.
"Mr. Potter you leave this classroom and I will be taking 100 points from Gryffindor and assigning you detention with me all this week." Umbridge growled. Harry stiffened slowly turned and walked back over to the woman's desk. His eyes narrowed still glowing as the symbol on his right hand began to glow. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw another symbol like his start to glow but for now, ignored it centering more on Umbridge.
"You think that scares me, Professor? You know nothing of me or what I have seen." Harry growled. Umbridge frowned up at Harry then slowly her smile turned predatory.
"Is that a reference to your claim that you-know-who is back?" She asked causing Harry to stop and look at Umbridge in confusion at her sudden question.
"That doesn't matter or have anything to do with what I am talking about. I have seen a 60-foot basilisk and lived, I have seen a full-grown mountain troll and helped take it down, I have faced of and been affected by dementors and been surrounded by a colony of Acromantula." Harry snarled then punched down onto the top of Umbridge's desk causing it to crack under the power of Harry's punch. Harry turned and returned to walking towards the door his back stiff.
"Detention tonight with me Mr. Potter, directly after dinner We shall teach you not to lie." Umbridge yelled out her eyes still locked on the cracks now in her desk. Harry turned a snarl on his face his eyes glowing even more brightly the whites of his eyes even starting to glow gold.
"See you then and only then. I refuse to be submitted to your foolishness and obvious self-importance." Harry snarled then slammed the door open and closed behind him. The door actually breaking almost shattering the door to pieces and causing the class to all flinch and stare in fear.
Harry stalked along the hallway shaking with adrenaline and rage. Slowly the glow faded from his eyes and the symbol on his hand. His mind centered on the DADA teacher and the rage she so easily triggered. He frowned as he took a slow deep breath. He'd need to see if he could pull from a core subject and take it with a tutor.
He leaned back against a wall with a sigh as the tension from his rage was slowly released. After a bit of standing there he moved to head for the library he may as well make use of the free time he had at the moment. He walked towards the library humming a bit of a tune to himself as he did.
"Mr. Potter, what are you doing outside of class when you should be in it?" A dark voice growled at him. Harry groaned before turning to face the person behind him. Seeing Professor Snape he reached up and pinched his nose.
"If you want to know I am heading to the library to look up the rules on getting a tutor for a required class and not going to that class anymore." Harry stated with a sigh.
"Oh, are you trying to avoid me from now on?" The professor asked. Harry groaned and rolled his eyes a bit.
"No matter how much we both might like that, I must admit that no it is not your class. It is the Ministry's toad's class that I wish nothing to do with. That thing is even worse than Mr. my smile is the best." Harry growled his eyes flashing with his irritation. Snape blinked stunned at Harry's words having seen he never truly insulted teachers that haven't done something to him personally.
"So you walked out of your class? I'm surprised you have not lost a huge amount of points." Snape stated with a smirk thinking maybe he could take them since he was technically skipping class.
"Oh, I'm pretty sure she took 100 points from me. She also has me for detention tonight after dinner. I kinda look forward to seeing what she is going to do." Harry admitted with a bit of a smirk. He glanced at Snape. "If she hasn't repaired it yet you should see the door and desk and what happened to it."
"What do you mean Potter?" Snape snarled as he was tempted to take a step back seeing the dark smile on Harry's face. Harry blinked a few times and then chuckled softly.
"She wants to shut me up and treat me like a little liar who wants to destroy the ministry. Really she makes me want to do just that." Harry said as his eyes started to fully glow as a dark joyful grin started to spread on his face.
"Mr. Potter, I believe you need to stop wherever your mind is going at the moment." Snape said causing Harry to look at his professor and smirked a bit. He shrugged then turned to walk away from Snape.
"Sure thing Snape I am going to continue to the Library." Harry said as he walked away from Snape who turned and headed up to the headmaster's office to speak to him on what he had seen. Harry meanwhile frowned a moment and as he entered the library he glanced about a bit with a frown. His original plan of looking into a tutor or the symbol on his hand. Instead, he moved to look into the Ministry's rules and laws.
He was deep into his search for information when Hermione showed up behind him and stared in shock at the books he was looking through. She looked over all the books about the Ministries laws and the way it works in shock. She slowly looked again at Harry and licked her lips wondering what Harry was up to.
"Harry the class is done and it is soon going to be time for dinner." Hermione said before touching Harry's shoulder. Harry looked up then nodded before putting all the books away. He moved next to Hermione and motioned her to lead with a grin.
"Lead the way to food. I have a few plans to make so don't mind me being quiet." Harry said as he walked with Hermione. She looked again at Harry suspicion building in her about what he had been looking at.
"Harry why were you looking at all those books about the ministry?" Hermione asked as they walked. Harry glanced at Hermione as he tried to look as innocent as possible.
"I have no idea what you are talking about Hermione." Harry said in a faux-innocent tone. Hermione stopped walking and turned to face Harry her face becoming completely serious and kinda strict.
"Harry don't even attempt that on me. I know you even with your new quirks. You have some strange plan building in your head." Hermione growled showing a bit of irritation. Harry sighed and looked away from Hermione.
"Fine, I was looking into the rules of the ministry. They need to learn a few things and I need to know what is legal and what isn't first." Harry growled with a pout as he picked Hermione up and started to carry her over his shoulder towards the Great Hall and dinner. Hermione immediately started to smack Harry's back as she squirmed.
"Let me down immediately mister!" Hermione yelped and squirmed a bit more. Harry chuckled knowing that this is distracting Hermione from her questioning of his plans as he kept walking while carrying her over his shoulder. She kept squirming till he put her down just outside the Great Hall.
"Welp let's go eat. Then I have that lovely detention with the wannabe toad." Harry declared with a smirk. Hermione stared as Harry walked through the doors and sighed in frustration. She frowned then looked around surprised to see Draco Malfoy sitting with a confused look at the Slytherin table and looking up to glance at Harry a few times as Harry walked towards the Gryffindor table.
Hermione watched as Harry sat next to Ron and started to collect food. Hermione meanwhile saw Luna look up and glance between Harry and Draco with a bit of a frown her far away eyes much more focused at the moment. She slowly went to join Harry and Ron a slight frown on her lips with what she has noticed once more. Harry smiled seeing her finally join her and motioned to the plate of food he had already gathered for her. It contained food she would normally grab causing her to blink in surprise and frown a moment at Harry.
"What you were taking a while to get over here so I decided to get your food together for you?" Harry defended himself about what was going on. Hermione frowned as she started to eat still looking at Harry closely.
"Harry, how do you remember what I like to eat especially what portions of said items I like?" Hermione asked surprised at that. Harry blinked and looked at her with pure confusion.
"Is something wrong with knowing what a friend eats? I could do the same for Ron but well he usually has his plate full in half the time either of us do." Harry pointed out before starting to eat.
"So Harry what are your plans about Umbridge and the class?" Ron asked with his mouth full like usual. Harry looked at Ron with a bit of irritation at his manners. Harry waited till Ron swallowed then whacked the back of his head hard enough to cause Ron to wince and yelp a bit.
"Stop talking with your mouth full Ron, or I am going to keep hitting you every time you do so." Harry said before going back to eating as Ron rubbed the back of his head for a bit before going back to eating with a pout. Harry kept eating then paused as he thought.
"Not sure yet. I will figure things out a bit more tonight after detention with her. I feel I need to know more about her before I can fully decide anything." Harry explained then going back to eating slowly. Once Harry finished his food and dessert appeared on the table Harry glanced over to Hermione then back to Ron.
"Harry be careful with her. I have a feeling she is not as concerned about the rules of the school let alone the safety of some students as she should be." Hermione warned softly. Harry nodded slowly as he looked at the toad and grinned.
"Oh, no worries she should be a fun target to break." Harry murmured his eyes starting to mutely glow golden again. Hermione frowned then smacked Harry's shoulder as hard as she could before wincing at the pain spiking up her hand. Harry glanced at her questioningly as she did that.
"Harry stop with the almost dark attitude. You keep on and get caught she will force you into Azkaban. That is what she actually wants to do and she is intelligent enough to manipulate a situation to cause it." Hermione warned. Harry frowned and kept grinning softly.
"No, she is not that intelligent Hermione. She may seem it but I know how to work around such things, after all, I was able to fool a King with peace once." Harry said offhandedly still grinning darkly before standing. He turned and walked out of the Great Hall with confidence and a smirk on his lips.
Harry walked smoothly up to the DADA classroom where he paused by the closed door. He could see it had been fixed somewhat but the cracks from when he had slammed it still showed. Whoever and repaired the door obviously was not good with charms which surprised him a bit since he knew Professor Flitwick was a charms master. After a moment of examining the door, he leaned back against the wall next to the door and crossed his arms over his chest.
Harry waited till he saw the pink toad walking towards the door then stood straight and tried not to laugh a bit at how out of breath she seemed after climbing up the couple flights of stairs there were between the Great Hall and the DADA classroom. He watched as she opened the door and gave him another of her condescending smiles. He clenched his right fist just imagining punching that smile off of her face.
"Well, at least you are prompt to your punishments. Please enter the classroom Mr. Potter and we will see if we can get some manners properly sunk into you." Umbridge said in a falsely sweet voice. Harry rolled his eyes as he entered the room and found a desk near the teacher's desk knowing she would probably want to keep an eye on him while he did whatever punishment she might try.
"Being late for anything if it can be at all avoided is a very terrible thing to do. Especially in school or politics." Harry murmured before glancing as Umbridge placed a long piece of parchment in front of him and a black quill. Harry looked up at the toad wondering what she wanted him to do with a quill and parchment but no ink.
"You shall write the line: I will show respect to my superiors." Umbridge stated as she moved towards her desk a smirk on her lips.
"You have given me no ink Professor and how many times am I to write said line?" Harry asked holding back the urge to beat the woman.
"You will not need any ink and as many as it takes to sink in." Umbridge grinned. Harry frowned but slowly lifted the quill in his right hand and moved to begin the link. He had written three lines before the sting on his left hand even started to bother him. He watched his left hand as he wrote the next line and his expression darkened seeing the words appear on the back of his left hand.
Harry looked up at the grinning Umbridge and frowned darkly at her. He could tell already that she felt power over him, believing her position gave her the power to act like a god. He growled his eyes beginning to glow gold. She had no right to act like a god over him. He was the closest this castle had to a god. He stood and glared at the woman for a bit causing her to look at Harry.
"I suggest you get back to work. I suspect you have some homework to get done and so wouldn't want to be here all night." Umbridge stated as Harry picked up the black quill in his right hand the symbol on the back of his right hand beginning to glow again. With her looking on he moved up the quill a bit and with one motion snapped the quill in half.
"I refuse to use such a barbaric tool for detention and if I find out you have used one on anyone else…" Harry trailed off as the darkest grin he had ever shown crossed his face and he leaned forward lifting his right hand allowing a ball of pure energy to form above his hand black lightning streaking over the surface. "No one shall find your body."
"How dare you I am the undersecretary to the Minister if you did such a thing you would end up kissed!" Umbridge snarled as fear ran through her at what she was seeing from Harry.
"Wouldn't be the first time someone has attempted to kill me and much more competent people than you have tried." Harry growled and sent the energy ball into a wall causing all the annoying cat plates to shatter then walked over to the toad-like woman and punched her hard enough to knock her out. He watched her hit the ground and snarled a moment as he couldn't simply leave her like this or she would definitely blame him.
Harry looked down at the woman then grinned darkly and started to laugh. He had a wonderful idea that would hopefully prevent him from being able to be blamed yet at the same time let him do one last thing to her. He picked the toad-like woman up and after checking that it was clear in the halls moved her so she was limp at the base of one set of stairs and her wand broken next to her as though she had fallen when trying to pause the moving staircase with magic.
Harry ran back up to the classroom and slipped into it grabbing the broken black quill and the parchment without a thought he used Din's Fire to destroy the parchment to ash. Then carefully he opened up the drawer Umbridge had pulled the quill out of and placed the two broken part within. He paused a moment then broke the first inch of the tip of the quill off and burned it with another quick burst of fire.
Harry left the class with a smirk and turned to head for the dorm room. He chuckled darkly knowing he had left no proper evidence of anything he had done and so it would be great at how she would react to the situation, but he also knew he could not be there for that would give it to high a chance of his being found out.