The Story Keeper (Hermione Granger x Male Reader)

Chapter 37 Dumbledor's Army

Hey guys! Author back once more!

This should be an interesting year with all that's going on.

Also going to have to make up a lot of stuff for when, in the movie, Harry is all alone. So I'm going to fill some time with Hermione and Y/n scenes and hanging out with Ron.

So, anyway, recap.

Got to Hogwarts and reacquainted with an old childhood friend, Luna Lovegood. Met Umbridge for the first time and almost automatically hated her. Then had a class with her.

That about sums it up.

So, without further adieu, let's get to it!

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Your POV...

A couple weeks have passed and things are getting ridiculous. Umbridge has come up with hundreds of rules and is enforcing them heavily. I'm following Hermione out to the courtyard. Apparently, Umbridge is throwing Professor Trelawney. The courtyard itself only has Umbridge and Trelawney, but the surrounding corridors are packed with students. Harry joins us just as Umbridge is walking out in the courtyard

Flich walks over and drops a suitcase with the rest of what I assume is Professor Trelawney's things. The professor is in tears, shaking as she looks to Umbridge.

"Six..." Professor Trelawney stutters before continuing, "Sixteen years I've lived and taught here." She pauses again before looking back at Umbridge. "Hogwarts is my home! You can't do this."

"Actually." Umbridge holds up a piece of paper, "I can."

She give a crooked smile. I grip my fist, wanting nothing more then to put it through that smirk of hers. I can feel Hermione's eyes on me as she takes my gripped fist and puts her hand into it. It calms me down a little, but not enough.

"This is bull." I mutter to her and Harry.

"I know." She whispers back. "But there isn't anything we can do about it."

"I know. That is what is making me so upset." My glare at Umbridge never wavers. 

Professor McGonagall makes her way through crowd past us to get to Professor Trelawney. She starts to comfort the Professor and tries to not look at Umbridge, but she forces a  response out of Professor McGonagall.

"Something to say, Dear?" Umbridge says to McGonagall.

"Oh there are several things I would like to say." She looks at Umbridge for only a few seconds before turning back to Trelawney.

A loud creaking is hear throughout the courtyard and all turn to the large double doors. Both doors swing open slowly as a figure stands on the other side of them. The doors only open like that for one person in Hogwarts: Dumbledor. The tall man with a long white bread and long light blue robes steps out into the courtyard. Students make a pathway for him as he walks. 

"Professor McGonagall," He calls, "might I ask you to escort Sybill back inside."

Professor McGonagall starts to walk Trelawney back toward the castle. As Trelawney passes Dumbledor, she takes his hand constantly thanks him until McGonagall escorts her on. Dumbledor never takes his eyes off of Umbridge, knowing that his next task was to face her down. 

"Dumbledor." Umbridge starts, "Might I remind you that under the terms of Educational Decree number twenty-three, as enacted by the Minister-"

"You have the right to dismiss my teachers." Dumbledor quotes right back to Umbridge, "You do not, however, have the authority to banish them from the grounds. That power remains with the Headmaster."