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The Warts of a Toad
Dolores Umbridge was sitting in her office writing up a new law to restrain those disgusting halfbreeds even more than they already were, especially the Centaurs. She still shuddered thinking about them. She didn't want to think of the nightmares that she still had about her time in the forest. Suddenly, she heard what she thought were hooves coming towards her office. She trembled: it couldn't be, she was in her office, and she was nowhere near the forest. She took out her wand, and went to her door and carefully opened it, peering out through the crack. All she saw were Ministry workers walking in the halls going to and from their offices. She sighed and opened the door a little more just to be sure. Nope, nothing there, so she shut the door and went back to her desk, feeling relieved.
She never noticed that several small balls had rolled by her feet when she had opened the door, since they were Disillusioned. These balls were a new prank created by Weazley's Wizard Weazes especially for this occasion. After two minutes, each one duplicated itself several times until the floor was covered with them. At the five minute mark, the new pranks started to hum quietly than project an image of various "half-breeds" around her office, complete with sound effects.
Dolores Umbridge was confronted with an office filled with Centaurs, house-elves, goblins, Vampires, werewolves and other such beings all talking to her at once. She screeched, and ran for the door as fast as she could, which wasn't very fast, considering she only waddled!
As she was trying to leave her office, she fell on some of the Disillusioned balls, hauled herself back up again, and proceeded to fall once more. She was so desperate to get out of the office she didn't try to get up again; she just crawled out the door. Once out of the door she got to her feet and grabbed the first person she could and babbled at them incoherently about the things in her office. The first person she grabbed was Amelia Bones who pushed Umbridge away with distaste and barked at her, "Dolores, get a hold of yourself and tell me what is the matter!"
Umbridge was beyond speech, she was so distraught over what she had seen in her office. So, Madam Bones requested a Calming Draught be brought to Umbridge immediately. Tonks, who was with her, went to medical to get the requested potion. When she returned, she gave it to Umbridge, who instantly began to calm down due to the potion. Once Umbridge was calm, well, at least calmer, Bones again asked, "What in Merlin's name is wrong?"
Umbridge pointed to her office with a trembling hand, and with a shaky voice said, "T-t-there w-w-were all s-s-sorts of half-breeds in there. Centaurs, Vampires, Goblins, they w-were all in there." Her voice started to rise again, "I don't know how I got out of the office in one piece! There must have been more than twenty of those foul creatures in there!" She shuddered almost violently.
Madam Bones looked at her skeptically, but turned to Tonks and Kingsley, who had just arrived, and said, "Please check Madam Umbridge's office for any unauthorized persons." They nodded and turned to walk to Umbridge's office to do as asked. When they did this, they smirked and winked at the wall across from the office.
While Bones and Umbridge had been talking, five people had been watching it all with glee. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred and George had all wanted to see the results of this particular prank, along with what was coming next for Umbridge. They had had the sense to Silence each other before the prank began; they knew they would not be able to control themselves once the ball got rolling. Pun intended. They had been right; they were all laughing hysterically, as they watched the toad have a breakdown.
Tonks and Kingsley returned. Kingsley spoke in his deep voice, "Madam Bones, we could find no evidence that there had been anyone other than Madame Umbridge in her office. There were no other beings in there, nor could we find any magical signatures for anyone other than Madam Umbridge." Tonks nodded in agreement.
Umbridge screeched while pointing at her office. "That's impossible, they were there I tell you!" She waddled back to her office to see that it was empty once again. She muttered, "I don't understand, they were there, they were all over the office, filthy half-breeds were all over my office. Foul things all over the place," she kept muttering to herself, or so she thought. She was so unhinged by what had happened that she was speaking loud enough that the five 'watchers' could hear her.
She was still muttering when Madam Bones walked up to her and spoke. "Dolores." Once she was sure that she had the toad's attention, she continued, "I was coming to see you when you came out of your office. I have a warrant for your arrest."
She got no further because the toad interrupted, "WHAT?! What do you mean I am under arrest? I am the Senior Under-Secretary to the Minister of Magic, you can't do this!" She was turning red, which was not a pretty color when seen over her very pink cardigan. She continued her rant, "I have done nothing to warrant arrest..."
Madam Bones held up her hand to interrupt the rant. "The charges stem from your time as a professor at Hogwarts. You used an illegal blood quill, which is classified as a Dark Object, on students; this is considered torture. You attempted to use the Cruciatus on Mr. Potter, an Unforgivable Curse. You sent Dementors after an underage wizard so that he would be charged with using magic." Amelia glared at the toad, and finished with, "And that is just the beginning. Once we started to investigate you, we found out all sorts of interesting things about you that I am just not going to take the time to list at this time. They will be covered at your trial." This was said with satisfaction.
Umbridge stomped her foot and yelled, "This is all that Potter brats fault. Him and his lies about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I had to stop him."
When she said that, Harry and company appeared. Harry said, "In a way, you're right. I am responsible for this." She attempted to draw her wand on Harry only to be disarmed by Tonks and cuffed by Kingsley. When they finished, Harry shook his head at her and continued, "You see, I came forward and made an official complaint against you, forcing an investigation into your actions. Everything is all on you and what you did, not what I did. You are getting exactly what you deserve. Some Muggles believe in a concept called Karma. Loosely translated, you will be judged on how you treat others, if you treat them well, your life will go well, if you treat them badly, your life will go badly. I guess we know what kind of life you led, don't we?" He smirked.
The toad woman screamed as she struggled within Tonk's and Kingsley's grip. "The ministry will find out that you were lying about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and I will be vindicated."
Amelia spoke up here. "Actually, Voldemort was really back." The toad stopped struggling to gape at Bones. Amelia continued regardless, "And Harry destroyed him yet again. I will be pushing for Harry to get an Order of Merlin 1st Class, though he doesn't want it." She smiled at Harry, while he blushed, and his friends snickered, including Tonks and Kingsley. "We also have more than a few of his followers in custody including Fudge's old friend, Lucius Malfoy. You will be in good company while waiting for your trial. Please take Madam Umbridge to a holding cell while she waits for her trial, Aurors Tonks and Kingsley."
Tonks and Kingsley bowed their heads at their boss and led the struggling, sputtering toad away. Once she was gone, the six people burst out laughing. They had to lean on the wall or each other, or they would have fallen over.
Ron stuttered, "D-Did y-y-you s-s-see her f-face…." He couldn't go on he was laughing too hard, holding his sides.
Harry finally gained some control; "She even waddles when she crawls!" and he lost it again, and slid down the wall to sit on the floor while he laughed. At this point, Tonks and Kingsley had returned. They took a look at the hysterical group and started laughing themselves.
Tonks spoke, "I just wish I could have seen her face when she first saw the prank."
Hermione pulled herself together and said, "Accio memory ball. You can Tonks. We all can. One of the balls we rolled into the room was charmed to record what happened in the room." She pointed to the three Weasleys, Harry and herself and continued, "We didn't want to miss that scene either, so Harry and I worked on this while Gred, Forge, and Ron worked on the pranks themselves." They all smiled at the idea of seeing the whole thing again.
Harry snickered, "It will also be fun to show this to some of the students at school who hated the toad too." They laughed thinking about showing this memory to many others, including Remus. He looked at Amelia and asked, "How long do you think it will be before Fudge finds out his precious toad is under arrest? And do you think that he will be able to get her out?"
Amelia answered honestly, "He might know by tonight, but he will not be getting her out. You don't know this, but we not only arrested Albus, but we had to arrest two other Wizengamot members when we discovered that he had been bribing one of them, and Dolores had been bribed by the other one." She shook her head, and said, "This has been quite the investigation. Well, three of you should get back to school. And I imagine two others have to get back to their shop. I will let you use the Floo in my office so that you can avoid the Atrium."
"Thanks," the friends chorused together. They followed Amelia to her office, and returned to their respective locations with promises of getting her a copy of the memory of the prank so that she could see it too.
When Harry and his friends arrived at Hogsmead and walked to the castle from there. Madame Bones had been able to arrange for the arrest to happen on a Hogsmead weekend so that Harry, Ron and Hermione would not have to leave school or make special arrangements with McGonagall, since Harry was on the outs with her as well.
They returned to the dorm to find it empty. They decided to sit in their favorite chairs for a few minutes; they were still a little wired from the events of the day. Harry was happy, another person off of his revenge list of people who had wronged him. He looked at his two best friends and realized that he was still very lucky because he had them. The revenge was nice, because the people he had been going after truly had done something wrong, and should be punished. He would have to think carefully about the next people on his list to see how he was going to go about paying them back. After all, he did not want to go Dark.
He heard a comforting trill and looked to see Fawkes sitting on his perch in the common room. Fawkes sang a very beautiful and comforting song, letting Harry know that he was doing alright, and that Fawkes would let him know if he was heading down a dark path. Harry smiled along with his friends. Phoenix song were always so beautiful.
A/N: So what did you think? Obviously I have decided to keep going. I had a reviewer let me know that I needed some editing which I have done. I hope you approve. Please let me know. I like criticism as long as it is helpful, that way I can improve my writing. Thank you and enjoy.