Chapter 657: Guarding Against the People's Mouths Is More Important than Guarding Against the River

The long table of Gryffindor suddenly became quiet. Everyone turned their heads to look at Umbridge. Only Fish was still waving his knife and fork to put the food on the plate into his mouth...

For the cat, letters from readers are not important at all. He just wants to fill his stomach now!

Umbridge stood behind Harry, and her toad eyes scanned the messy table and the letters piled together.

"Why do you have so many letters, Mr. Potter, Mr. McGonagall?" She glanced at the recipients on the envelopes and asked slowly.

"Mmmmm..."

Ψ(Φ~Φ)卩

Fish's mouth was full of food and he made a vague mumbling sound. He pointed at Harry next to him without raising his head.

He was busy eating breakfast and had no time to explain to Umbridge.

"Is it illegal to receive letters now?" Fred said loudly.

"Be careful, Mr. Weasley, or I'll give you detention." Umbridge warned, and then she looked at Harry again, "Mr. Potter?"

Harry hesitated for a moment.

Although he had imagined Umbridge's ugly face after seeing "The Quibbler" countless times, he still felt a little timid when he really faced her.

But Harry also knew that it was basically impossible to hide this matter. Even if Umbridge was really stupid enough not to discover the existence of "The Quibbler", Fudge or other people in the Ministry of Magic would ask her about the situation.

"People wrote to me because Fish and I were interviewed about what happened to us last June."

"Interview?" Umbridge's voice was sharper and higher than usual, "What interview? What are you talking about?!"

"A reporter... well, Ms. Rita Skeeter asked us questions, and Fish and I answered them." Harry said, and took the initiative to throw the "Singing Quibbler" in his hand to Umbridge, "Here..."

She caught it and looked at the cover of the magazine. After seeing the "thriller" title, Umbridge's dough-like pale face showed patches of ugly purple-red.

"When did you do it?" She asked with a trembling voice: "How could you come into contact with reporters when you stayed in Hogwarts?!"

Umbridge subconsciously looked at Dumbledore on the head of the faculty desk. If there was anyone who was most likely to arrange for Harry to meet with reporters, it must be the headmaster of Hogwarts!

Then Umbridge saw Dumbledore holding the same copy of The Quibbler as hers, reading it with great interest. After noticing her gaze, Dumbledore smiled and nodded at her.

It was indeed him!

Umbridge's face changed drastically.

At this moment, she just happened to hear Harry answer: "I don't know either. She suddenly appeared in front of us last month."

Such an answer made Umbridge more certain that this was arranged by Dumbledore, who wanted to deal with Minister Fudge and weaken the prestige of the Ministry of Magic...

I must inform Minister Fudge as soon as possible so that he can prepare early!

Umbridge took a deep breath, looked at Harry and Fish who were still eating breakfast as if no one was around, and said quickly in her original voice: "Gryffindor will be deducted 100 points! In addition, as a punishment, you two will be locked up for a week! Starting tonight!"

After saying these words, she clutched The Quibbler, stepped on the "thump thump" step, and trotted out of the hall.

After watching her leave, the students immediately started to discuss excitedly.

Only Fish, who was completely out of the picture, put down his knife and fork after finishing breakfast.

"Hulu... I'm so full, meow~"

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Mao Mao slumped in the chair, patting her stomach gently, purring happily.

As for the detention that Umbridge mentioned... Fish didn't take it to heart.

Anyway, isn't detention just a midnight snack for Fish? Mao Mao had already finished the snacks she got from Umbridge last time, so she could just get some more...

Before noon, huge notices were posted all over the school, not only on the college notice board, but also in the corridors and classrooms.

The notice prohibited any student from carrying and reading the magazine "The Quibbler". Once discovered, they would be expelled immediately.

However, Umbridge's move was obviously a bad move. For some things, the more you prohibit it, the more people want to find out.

When Hermione saw these notices, she even laughed out loud.

So although there was no copy of The Quibbler in Hogwarts, in fact, it seemed that everyone was whispering about the contents of the report.

Umbridge was furious and stopped students everywhere in the school, asking to see their bags and pockets to check whether they were carrying The Quibbler.

However, whether it was wizards or Muggles, students always had special ways to fight against teachers they hated. Their copies of The Quibbler were all enchanted, and when others read them, they looked like articles in textbooks, or they became blank, and the words would appear when they wanted to read them.

Umbridge actually noticed something was wrong, but her limited knowledge could not support her to see through the spell, let alone crack it.

Soon everyone in the school seemed to have read the article. It is not unusual for Fish to behave like this, so most people are mainly impressed by Harry. When they pass by Harry, they will pat him on the shoulder or whisper "Well done" Such words of encouragement.

Teachers were of course prohibited from mentioning the interview, but they nevertheless expressed their feelings in various ways. They were looking for various excuses to reward Fish and Harry. Before the afternoon class ended, the 100 points deducted by Umbridge were added back, and the cat got a lot of snacks.

The only ones who were dissatisfied with this were probably the students whose parents were accused of being Death Eaters, but they didn't do anything except give Harry a vicious look, because doing so meant they admitted to having seen it. That article.

Harry looked at the gloomy expressions of Malfoy and others, as well as Umbridge wasting her efforts in vain like a headless fly, enjoying the admiration expressed by other students for herself, and she was in a great mood.

Snape was right, he really liked the feeling of being in the limelight. But... who wouldn't like it?

Unfortunately, this good mood only lasted until the evening, because starting tonight, Harry and Fish had to go to Umbridge's place for a week of confinement.

Harry was very familiar with the content of Umbridge's confinement. Many Gryffindor students had already experienced her confinement, even Harry was no exception.

In fact, Feishu also knew about this punishment, because he had treated the backs of many people's hands.

only……

According to Maomao's experience, he is different from others when he is in confinement.

So when the two of them arrived at the door of Umbridge's office together, Fish pushed the door open without any hesitation.

"Umbridge, we're coming, meow!"

(ΦωΦ)

The cat walked carelessly and sat down opposite Umbridge, shouting without any politeness at all: "Fish still wants to eat those snacks from last time, and Sybil's flower tea, meow!"

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After finishing the exam yesterday, I took Zhongyuan for a follow-up consultation. I was swept by a row of shared bicycles, and they all told me that they were broken and I was not allowed to ride them. I finally found one that could be scanned, but it turned out that it was also broken...

If I didn't ride there often, I would have thought it was a storage place for damaged vehicles...

Then I ran across the street and found one. There was something wrong with the brake pads. It didn't hinder the ride, but it would make a "squeak" sound every once in a while, and then Zhongyuan would make a "meow" sound when he heard it.

So I rode all the way to the pet hospital... luckily I was wearing a mask.

Zhongyuan recovered well, but he was not completely healed yet. He was prescribed medicine for another week and had to continue feeding...

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