The Potter Alliance

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

The next day brought the month of June to Hogwarts, and there had never been a more downtrodden day for the students. Their last great joy in Hogwarts, the Defense Association, had been ruined. Some of the students were annoyed with Umbridge for just taking another thing away from them, while others were disappointed because they truly enjoyed the meetings. However, one young lady was nearly apoplectic with rage having remembered the night before a Hogwarts Professor and her stooges had attempted to attack her boyfriend as he was lowering his wand. In the wizarding world that might as well have been a surrender, but the cowardly swine's still attacked him anyways.

What irritated the young Hufflepuff even more was that she could not confront the woman, or even speak to her boyfriend as they had inquisitorial guards and an Auror outside each of the houses that had DA members, and they were being escorted around like they were some type of criminals. Susan had wanted to write a letter to her Aunt to let her know what was happening at Hogwarts, but Umbridge had even confiscated that this morning citing that she would make sure that it went through the appropriate channels.

It was that evening in the great hall when Susan felt like they had truly lost the battle. It had been confirmed by some miracle that the Hogwarts board of Governors were granting Dolores Jane Umbridge the spot of Headmistress which meant she could basically create any educational decrees that she wanted. This gave her the literal power of being able to make up rules on the spot, and basically being able to enforce them with the might of her squadron of goons, and the teaching staff no matter how willing or unwilling they might be.

The only silver lining in it all was that Fred and George Weasley seem to be giving the woman absolute hell, and have obviously been unleashing everything they had on the tyrant. These events caused the school to edge closer and closer to open rebellion, and Susan was starting to think if her boyfriend didn't do it, she might!

Their Defense against the Dark Arts class had been even more boring and dull than usual. Susan and Harry would steal glances at each other the whole class, and they even tried to send messages, but this proved to be unsuccessful as every other thing they had tried.

Umbridge was watching the class in the great hall one day with her usual hawk-like techniques. Today they were taking an exam which made everyone uncomfortably quiet, because they had not been reading the garbage that the old bat had been supplying. Even Harry, who usually was the best in Defense Against the Dark Arts on any topic, was struggling with the ridiculous concepts the Slinkard was trying to convey.

Harry glanced throughout the room periodically to see everyone else was struggling as much as he was, and he even caught his girlfriend's eyes and gave her a reassuring smile. It was this that caused the teacher to swoop down on her unsuspecting prey, "Mr. Potter, please quit giving lecherous looks to Miss Bones, it is quite unbecoming of her stature to even associate with you, and you will no longer pull her down with you. I think detention in my office tonight will-"

Susan was about to get up, and give the cow a piece of her mind; however, it seemed like something more interesting was happening outside. Loud blasts of noise were being heard from nearby, and Umbridge immediately straightened up, and glared at Harry for a moment before walking towards the door to see just what was happening. Before she could open the doors however they were blasted open, and two young men with flaming red hair came into the room on broomsticks shouting, and throwing magical fireworks high towards the ceiling causing explosions that shook the hall, and made some people even duck down in fear. The twins then brought out their wands and summoned all the papers into the air, where they threw firecrackers, and other assortments of low powered explosives at them causing them all to burn up.