Chapter 606 The Final Step of the Cat Project

"The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was attacked again. Is it a curse or a conspiracy?"

Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reported that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts has always been a dangerous position. No wizard has ever been able to safely hold the position for more than a year.

Regarding the situation of previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors at Hogwarts, the author has commented in this newspaper. For details, please refer to the relevant report written by the author on the second page of the 68th issue of this year's "Daily Prophet".

According to the author's visit, there are rumors in Hogwarts that the mysterious man wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts but failed, and cast a curse on him in anger, which led to Something happens to professors in this position every year.

Let's put aside the question of whether Mysterious Man's curse still works after he was defeated more than a decade ago. Judging from past experience, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors in previous years only had troubles after serving for one year or close to one year.

However, this year’s Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, who is also an outstanding official of the Ministry of Magic, and the newly appointed Senior Investigator of Hogwarts, Ms. Dolores Umbridge, encountered a problem less than a month after the school started. Attack by unknown persons. Relevant to the Ministry of Magic's recent educational reform of Hogwarts, the real situation has to be thought-provoking.

"I have reason to believe that this is Dumbledore's counterattack against the Ministry of Magic." Mr. Piers Thicknesse, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, said: "Dumbledore regards Hogwarts as his own backyard. No one else is allowed to get involved.”

"Ms. Umbridge was found at the door of the Headmaster's office," a Ministry insider said.

Poor Ms. Umbridge is now being treated at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Not only has she lost her memory of the attack, but she was also brutally transformed into an ugly half-man, half-frog by the attacker.

At present, the therapists at St. Mungo's have not been able to find an effective treatment method, and Ms. Umbridge seems to have some problems with her mental state, which prevents the author from interviewing her.

"Her situation is very complicated," said the therapist from the Spell Injury Department: "She has been cast on several terrible poison spells and powerful transformation spells, and there are some wonderful reactions between these spells, which makes us The treatment became extremely difficult.”

"We used a gut-removing spell on her and found that she had drunk at least three kinds of magic potions." The therapist from the Department of Pharmacy and Plant Poisoning told the author: "And most of the magic potions isolated were from the past. The ones that have not appeared before must have been prepared by the attackers themselves. The only thing that is certain is the amnesia potion.”

According to the therapist at St. Mungory, it is basically impossible for people who have taken the forgetting potion to retrieve their lost memories. Therefore, it is almost impossible to learn the appearance of the attacker from Ms. Umbridge. It's impossible.

We still don’t know why the attacker wanted to erase Ms. Umbridge’s memory. Is he a professor at Hogwarts, or someone whom Ms. Umbridge knows?

Perhaps the person who attacked Ms. Umbridge had some ulterior relationship with the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, but this does not dampen the Ministry of Magic's determination to reform education at Hogwarts. .

Mr. Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic, said: "The Ministry of Magic will not be afraid to back down because of the slightest difficulty. The attack on Ms. Umbridge further proves the need for the Ministry of Magic to implement reforms at Hogwarts. We The management of Hogwarts will be further strengthened and "Education Order No. 24" will be decided and launched as soon as possible!"

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This report by Rita Skeeter was placed on the front page of today's issue of the Daily Prophet. Next to the article, two photos of Umbridge were placed.

One picture showed her usual appearance, wearing that pink cardigan, smiling and winking at them.

The other photo showed Umbridge looking half-human and half-frog. She was wearing a large hospital gown. In the photo, she was covering her face with her hands in a panic, but because of the toad The face was too huge and she couldn't block it all no matter how hard she tried to block it.

Hermione put down the Daily Prophet.

Yesterday, when Professor McGonagall asked Fish if he had done anything else, although the little cat denied it, there was obviously something wrong with his reaction. Then, under questioning from Professor McGonagall, Fish had to admit that he also informed Rita Skeeter of what he was going to do, hoping that she could help report the matter...

In fact, Fish didn't think too much, he just wanted more people to see Umbridge's unlucky look.

Professor McGonagall and Hermione were still worried about whether Rita Skeeter would betray Fish, and Snape even proposed to rush to find her and erase her memory.

However, Fei Xu stopped him.

Now it seems that Skeeter has lived up to Maomao's trust, and her action efficiency is still as high as ever.

While Hermione breathed a sigh of relief, she also looked at Fish beside her, who was eating breakfast attentively, with a complicated expression.

"Meow?"

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Maomao noticed her gaze, looked sideways, and then handed over the fork in his hand.

"Ah~"

"...ah~"

Hermione glanced at the steak that was brought to her mouth, hesitated, and then opened her mouth.

"Yummy, meow?"

"Yeah." Hermione smiled and nodded.

Fish also nodded with a smile, and then continued to eat at the table.

Except for Hermione, the other students immediately determined who the real attacker was after seeing the photo of Umbridge in the Daily Prophet, and they all looked at Fish...

Then they saw the scene of Maomao feeding Hermione.

The boys were fine, but the girls were a little uncomfortable. Although they had seen it more than once, there were still many little witches who wanted to replace Hermione.

After taking their eyes away from Fish, everyone continued to talk happily about Umbridge's new look. She was unpopular to begin with, and now that they knew it was Maomao who did it, no one would pity her.

After swallowing the steak that Fish fed her, Hermione asked in a low voice: "Fish, can you contact Skeeter and ask her to publish a report about the resurrection of the mysterious man?"

"No, meow."

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Mao Mao shook his head and said: "When Fish asked Rita for help, she told Fish that all articles that spoke for Dumbledore would be returned by the editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet, meow." He pointed to the newspaper Hermione put on the table, "She also told Fish that if she really wanted the article to be published, she must report from the Ministry of Magic..."

"Fish thought that Albus was not afraid of one more article anyway, so he agreed, meow." Mao Mao shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently.

Although he usually didn't read newspapers at all, Hermione would read to him any important news, so Mao Mao was still very familiar with the recent content bias of the Daily Prophet.

After getting Fish's answer, Hermione sighed and showed an expression of "as expected". This situation was within her expectations, but it was a pity that she failed to spread the truth.

If only she could find a newspaper that dared to go against the Ministry of Magic...

Miss Know-it-all thought with regret in her heart.

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I am sick and have no energy to proofread. Please forgive me if there are any omissions...

It has been so miserable recently... The tea eggs I bought this morning are rotten... What kind of suffering is this!

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