Chapter 575 Qualifications for Entering the Principal's Office

Back in the common room at night, Fish was pulled over by the twins. They had already found several test subjects and were waiting for Fish to come as the last insurance.

Hermione naturally followed. She glanced at the group of people following the twins. Except for their good friend Lee Jordan, they were all first-year students. Obviously, they didn't understand what the Weasley twins represented.

"Do you really know what you are going to do?" Hermione ignored George and Fred and asked the group of freshmen.

"Try the new products of Weasley's Magic Joke Shop?" A black-haired girl answered cautiously.

"So, do you know what will happen after eating them?" Hermione continued to ask.

The first-year freshmen looked at each other, and then a freckled boy said, "George and Fred said that we might have a nosebleed or something."

Hermione immediately glared at George and Fred, while the twins turned their heads away guiltily.

"We didn't lie, did we?" George muttered, and then looked helpless as Hermione told the freshmen the information they had concealed.

However, Hermione did not exaggerate, and told them that the twins had tried the drug themselves and that Fish was watching over them.

Although the freshmen were very angry about the twins' concealment, they chose to continue participating in the experiment after George doubled the commission.

Then, Fred took out a handful of normal-looking candies from a large paper bag and distributed them to the freshmen.

Soon, the first-year freshmen seemed to have been hit on the head by an invisible sledgehammer, and one by one they fainted in their seats.

George took out a writing board with a spring clip and carefully observed the unconscious first-year freshmen and recorded their reactions one by one.

Immediately afterwards, the twins and Lee Jordan stuffed a purple candy into the mouths of the freshmen, and soon they woke up one after another.

"Do you feel okay?" George asked the short black-haired girl kindly.

"I... I think so." The girl said tremblingly, and she was still a little dizzy.

"Great!" The twins cheered happily, and then were roughly pushed aside by Hermione.

"Fish, come and see if they have any problems?" She pulled Fish to the side of the freshmen.

"Okay meow!"

(ΦωΦ)

Fish did not say anything, and directly launched a spell to detect poisons, and carefully sensed the life breath of these freshmen.

After a while, he shook his head and said, "They are all healthy meow, nothing happened."

"I said there is no need to worry," George put away the writing board proudly, "Our product quality is well-known!"

On the other side, Fred pulled up the group of freshmen one by one, then patted their backs and smiled, "That's it for today. Tomorrow we will continue to test another kind of candy with different effects. The commission will be the same as today."

The freshmen let out excited low shouts, and then discussed their experience after eating candy just now, and then dispersed.

"Hmph!" Hermione glared at the twins who were showing off unhappily, and ran back to continue writing today's homework.

"Remember to notify Fish when you do the experiment next time." After reminding the twins, the cat chased Hermione away.

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With the arrival of night, the whole Hogwarts gradually became quiet, and even many of the portraits on the wall had already gone to bed.

At this time, two kittens came out of the hole in the wall behind the portrait of the Fat Lady one after another.

"Come back early."

The Fat Lady, who was awakened, muttered and fell asleep again. As the doorman of the Gryffindor dormitory, she had long been accustomed to being woken up at night.

Especially after Fish came to Hogwarts, even if no one woke her up, the Fat Lady would sometimes wake up automatically in the middle of the night.

Fish did not scratch here and there as usual, but took Hermione all the way to the stone monster on the third floor.

"Meow~"

The stone monster immediately jumped aside when he heard the cat's cry, revealing the secret door behind him.

"Let's go, Hermione."

The two cats returned to their human form and walked hand in hand up the spiral staircase.

"What do you want to talk to Albus about?"

(ω)

Fish asked curiously.

"It's about Umbridge. I want to ask him what he was thinking. He hired someone who doesn't let us do magic to teach the Defense Against the Dark Arts course." Hermione answered without intending to hide it.

"Hermione doesn't like Umbridge either?"

"Disliking her is one thing, but the main reason is that she doesn't seem to be planning to teach us anything."

"Like Lockhart?" Fish also thought of the liar teacher.

"There are some useful things in Lockhart's stories," Hermione shook her head and said with disdain, "and Umbridge's courses are all useless nonsense."

Then she took the initiative to explain to Fish the reasons for her dissatisfaction.

"This year is the year we have to take the O.W.L. exams, and there is also a resurrected mysterious man hiding in the dark who may attack at any time..." Hermione frowned and said solemnly: "Finding a professor like this will not help us at all."

The cat, who had no such worries, shook his ears. He didn't quite understand Hermione's mood, but he also knew that Hermione just liked to read books and learn anything new, so it was normal for her to have a problem with Umbridge, who "didn't teach anything".

Fish thought about it and became more certain that he would find an opportunity to quietly beat Umbridge up.

As he spoke, the spiral staircase came to the end. Fish first knocked on the oak door, waited for a while, and then pushed the door open.

"Albus isn't here..."

(°ω°≡°ω°)

After entering the room, Fish looked around and confirmed that Dumbledore was not in his office. Then he ran to the golden perch by the door and greeted Fawkes and Ouroboros.

"Hello, meow~ Long time no see!"

(ΦωΦ)

Fish directly took Fawkes down from the perch, and the basilisk beside him also wrapped around his arm.

"Tick--"

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."

The two magical creatures touched Fitz's cheeks affectionately. Fitz was tricked by Dumbledore to the Black family this summer and had never met them.

After rubbing against Fawkes and Ouroboros, the cat put them back on the perch.

"Do you know where Albus went, meow?"

ω

"Tick--"

Compared to the basilisk, which slept most of the time, Fawkes knew more about Dumbledore's whereabouts, but he only knew the general direction.

"Yeah, so you don't know when Albus will be back?"

"Lie——"

"Okay, Fish knows, thank you meow."

(ΦωΦ)

Mao Mao reached out and touched Fox's back, then turned to Hermione and said, "Fox said that Albus left school in the afternoon and didn't know when he would be back, but he also said that he would notify Albus when he came back."

Hearing Fish say this, Hermione was disappointed, but secretly relieved.

After all, she came to question the headmaster. Even if she was already familiar with Dumbledore and had this relationship with Fish, she would still be a little nervous.

"Then let's go find Minerva." Hermione thought about it, but still didn't want to give up.

After thanking Fox, she pulled Fish, who wanted to play with two friends for a while, out the door.

"Fish will take you to the Forbidden Forest in two days meow~" Mao Mao waved to Fox and Ouroboros, and then closed the door.

(ΦωΦ)ヅ

The two returned to the third floor. Just when Hermione was about to open the secret door and go out, Firth grabbed her.

"Wait a minute, meow," the cat put its index finger to its mouth and whispered, "The fat toad is outside."

Hermione carefully put her ear to the wall, and then she heard Umbridge's real voice like an old whistle.

After listening for a while, Hermione found that Umbridge was constantly muttering some phrases, including the names of some snacks, and she opened her mouth slightly in surprise, knowing Dumbledore's habit of setting passwords.

"She is... trying the password to enter the principal's office?"

"Meow?" Firth tilted his head, "But shouldn't the professors all know the password meow?"

"It seems that the relationship between the school and the Ministry of Magic is more tense than I thought." Hermione sighed and said.

At the same time, she became more confused. Since Dumbledore was so wary of the Ministry of Magic, why did he let Umbridge be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts?

She didn't think Dumbledore would really not be able to find a suitable candidate... There are so many people in the Order of the Phoenix.

When Umbridge's cursing voice and her heavy footsteps gradually faded away, Fish and Hermione opened the secret door and slipped out in the form of cats.

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