Isabella Lestrange

Caught

A few days had passed and I sat on the Slytherin common room leather couch. I held the copy of the Daily Prophet with the article about my mothers escape. I knew she was going to come for me. I just didn't know when. The door slammed open, causing me to jump and hide the paper under a pillow. I looked up and sighed when I saw Draco heading my way.

"Let's go, Umbridge needs us." He stated frowning, offering his hand to me. I accepted his offer and walked all the way up to her office alongside my best friend. Once we were in there I frowned, seeing a crying Cho Chang. I had no idea what this was about, but I didn't ask questions.

"Good, Bella you're here. You take the girl." Umbridge ordered gently pushing the saddened Asian girl in my direction. I caught her before she fell on me and just loosely gripped her robe. The entire Inquisitorial Squad was there.

"Let's go." Umbridge ordered. Our whole group began to walk towards the halls, this included Cho and Filch. I stood kind of in the back of the group not saying a word.

"I heard you used to be nice." Cho whimpered out, causing me to hesitate for a second. My grip on her arm tightened, causing her to whimper out in pain.

"You heard wrong." I grumbled pulling her roughly along with me. We arrived at the wall where all of the students had been running off to through a magical door. How did They even do that? A portkey? Umbridge held her wand up and struck the wall, causing it to shutter and leave a hole. The hole wasn't big, but it was large enough to see through it.

"I'll make short work of this." Umbridge smiled menacingly still pointing her wand at the wall.

"Bombarda Maxima." She casted causing the wall to finally explode. Draco ripped Cho from my grasp and moved besides Umbridge with her in view. I stood next to him and smirked at the group of shocked students.

"Get them." Umbridge hissed. I moved passed Umbridge and grabbed Hermione. I roughly dragged her up to Dumbledore's office as the other Inquisitors followed. I was the first one in the room, besides the Minister of Magic, along with a few other men. I could feel Dumbledore staring at me as I held Hermione. I held my wand up to her throat and roughly pointed the end to her. The others began to crowd in. Every member of the Inquisitorial Squad held their wands at a students throat.

"I have been watching them for weeks! And see 'Dumbledore's Army.' Proof of what I've been telling you right from the beginning, Cornelius." Umbridge hissed walking into the room.

"All your fear mongering about You-Know-Who never fooled us for a minute. We saw your lies for what they were: A smokescreen for your bid to seize control of the Ministry." Umbridge smirked.

"Naturally." Dumbledore rolled his eyes as if this wasn't an important matter to him.

"No, Professor. He had nothing to do with it. It was me." Harry interjected.

"Most noble of you, Harry, to shield me. But as been pointed out the parchment clearly says Dumbledore's Army. Not Potter's Army. I instructed Harry to form this organization. And I, And I alone am responsible for its activities." Dumbledore confessed calmly, too calm.

"Dispatch am owl to the Daily Prophet. If we hurry, we should still make the morning edition. Dawlish, Shacklebolt, you will escort Dumbledore to Azkaban. To await trial for conspiracy and sedition." The Minister of Magic ordered. I looked to Draco, feeling very uncomfortable with the situation. Us students just stood around watching.

"Ah, I thought we might hit this little
Snag. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that I'm going to-" Dumbledore explained walking behind his desk.

"What was the phrase? Come quietly? Well, I can tell you this: I have no intention of going to Azkaban." He smirked.

"Enough of this. Take him!" Umbridge hissed pointing at Dumbledore. The sound of a screaming bird invaded my ears. I looked up to see a familiar red phoenix flying towards Dumbledore. Just as the bird approached the Headmaster, Dumbledore,  threw his hands up into the air. He immediately turned into flames and disappeared along with the bird. The blast from the two sent us all flying backwards. I was thrown away from hermione and hit my head on the back wall.

"Whoa. Well you may not like him, Minister. But you can't deny, Dumbledore has style." The man named Shacklebolt gasped as we all stood up.

All of us students were sent out of Dumbledore's office. So the grown ups could figure out what to do with his absence. We all gathered around the same wall were Umbridge had hung all of her other new enforcement rules. Filch was hanging the latest one, he stood shakily on a ladder as he nailed the sign up. It said that Umbridge had replaced Dumbledore as the new Headmaster. Umbridge began to read off all of her rules throughout the Daily announcements.

The students who were members of 'Dumbledore's Army' were sent to detention to write an essay about how they were in the wrong. I was also a member of Dumbledore's Army, but the more grown up and serious one. My punishment for getting caught wouldn't be detention, it would most likely be death. Later that week, I received an owl from Dumbledore. He wanted me to keep an eye on Harry and see every move he makes while Dumbledore was out of power. I wasn't supposed to stop him if he did anything stupid, just observe.

I couldn't bare to watch any longer as Umbridge rewrote every school policy. This wasn't my battle, but I wanted to help. But I couldn't, it could ruin everything. So I went against everything I believed in and kept quiet. I walked through the corridors of the school minding my own business. I felt someone snake their arm around my waist and pull me close to them. I looked up to see a confident Draco.

"Let go. We're supposed to be eight inches away from each other." I hissed pushing him away from me in annoyance. As I remembered one of Umbridge's rules.

"When did you start to follow the rules?" Draco frowned with confusion.

"Since you started enforcing them." I puffed walking towards my class. I walked passed Draco and smiled as I heard him growl in aggression. Once I entered my Defense Against the Dark Arts class, I felt uncomfortable. Everyone sat quietly, I made my way towards my seat besides Crabbe. I had totally forgotten we had our charms Owl Today. And it was a written test, I was the worst test taker. I did better when we actually used magic in class. Once the parchments were passed out I grabbed my quill and began writing. I had no idea what I was doing, and it was too quiet and secluded to cheat. I looked up to the front of the room to see Umbridge smiling at me.

A large clock swung back and forth ticking down the time we had left. The sound of something banging against the steel door had all of our attentions, it continued to bang. Umbridge began to walk down the aisle of stressed students towards the door. My eyes widened as colorful fireworks began to fly into the classroom. They popped and whistled everywhere. I smiled as I saw Fred and George Weasley fly in on broomsticks. Everyone began to cheer as they threw firework after firework into the sky. Hundreds of test flew in the air as students stood up to watch the show. The two boys hollered out as they threw fireworks of blues, reds, greens, yellows, oranges, and purple into the sky. I laughed as a tiny firework flew into Goyle's face. He screamed and attempted to swat it away. My laughing stopped as tiny fireworks began to chase my friends.

I screamed running away as a firework began to chase me around the class. I took a sharp turn and watched as the firework collided into the wall it revealed a green snake. I watched from the corner as Fred and George revealed their finally. They threw a large firework up into the air as it popped hundreds of times and colors. I watched as it turned into a giant dragon and began to chase Umbridge. She shrieked in horror. The woman ran for her life. It chased her out of the classroom and chomped down on her, causing more fireworks to explode. She wasn't hurt, just scared. I ran out of the classroom along with the other hundred students. My eyes widened as every single one of Umbridge's new policies fell to the ground off the wall. The Weasley twins flew out of the classroom and into the sky. The students ran outside and smiled as the boys cheered into victory.

"They're going to be expelled." I stated looking into the sky at the two boys. I felt Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle walk up besides me and watch the twins with hatred. More and more students ran outside to cheer as the twins celebrated their victory. Even teachers and stuff cheered for Umbridge's embarrassment.