New Beginnings

Chapter 24

    Hogwarts School of Detentions and        Torture

once again Hogwarts is in the news as new reports of torture has been leaked to the press.  following the explicit orders from Dumbledore, students have been forbidden to communicate outside of the school.

luckily one member of the castle was able to give information showing the continuous use of blood quills on students as young as eleven for hours at a time, along with accounts of what they'd been given detention for.

shockingly enough the perpetrator was none other than Dolores Umbridge, the ministry's priced inquistor and apparent torturer of children.

The full report is on page 3 with every and all pieces of evidence handed over to the aurors.

maybe this time they'll finish the job.
 

Harry loved dramatic timing, with the best example to date being Rita's article released minutes before Umbridge got arrested in front of the entire castle.

One of the best parts of the article was a small paragraph on dumbledores involvence in it all, the speculations completely destroying his reputation as it didn't take an idiot to notice most purebloods hadn't been subjected to the blood quills and the supposed muggle lover had let the heinous crimec occur.
It had been an early morning for most students, the holidays  so close that nearly all of them were packed and ready to go.

Hermione's dead body was still concealed in the hourglass and unless Gryffindor got the necessary amount of house points, she'd remain there.

With Harry openly friends with draco, he now say at the Slytherin table, back to the hall as he'd gotten sick of the disgusted looks from Gryffindor.

It was once the owls circled that noise died down, newspapers visible in the owls talons.

Few teachers were present and Harry felt a flash of disappointment.

Silence reigned, absolutely no noise heard for almost ten minutes before chaos broke loose. A fire was started on the Gryffindor table as Dumbledore's staunchest supporters rejected it, the flames burning half the table before a couple exasperated Hufflepuffs put it out.

Ravenclaw was torn between conspiracy theories whilst Slytherins ran to find their friends (though they wouldn't admit to having friends in other houses) and see if they were okay. Contrary to popular belief only Gryffindor had a raging vendetta against Slytherin, most of the houses friends and a few relationships here and there.

Draco kept staring at him, horror written over his face and Pansy had started checking his hands and wrists for marks.

Hurriedly, he shook his head, before she went any further.

just then a group of aurors headed by Lucius Malfoy stormed the castle, splitting up so that the only place she could run was into the trophy room. Hilariously she did just that, earning a boisterous cheer from everyone, even some teachers.

Harry glanced at Dumbledore and saw the old man fume; for the first tjme, Harry wondered if Dumbledore really had some involvement in Umbridges "detentions" or if he knew and just let  her continue.
 
"I swear your father isn't an auror."  Blaise whispered, seeing Harry turn to them.
 
"He isn't." Draco held eye contact with Harry. " If he's here... "