Chapter 228 Useless Favors

"Meow, I really didn't realize that this Umbridge actually has such a scheming mind."

In the dormitory, Chris squatted on Lu Yunkai's chest, licking her paws and said to Lu Yunkai.

Lu Yunkai was half-lying with his hands behind his head, thinking about the conversation he had just had with Umbridge in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, and remained silent.

"Don't you think she has high expectations for you by doing this? Calm down! She's just going with the flow!" Chris reminded Lu Yunkai, "She couldn't stay at Hogwarts in the first place. For how long, torturing Sybil is just to find something to do. If I can sell you a favor, she will laugh in her dreams. "

"What does she want from me?" Lu Yunkai finally said, "And you know she won't be able to stay long?"

"Even Fudge can't survive, let alone her!!" Chrissy shook her head: "Your favor is so valuable, and she's not blind. Voldemort actually used a chess piece that had been buried in the Ministry of Magic for so many years. Just to cover up the matter of taking you abroad! If Voldemort comes to power in the future, she will be able to ingratiate herself with Voldemort through you!"

"But just before the Christmas vacation, she was eager to kick me out of Hogwarts. Suddenly it changed. It feels weird." Lu Yunkai understood what Chris said, but still shook his head.

"Meow, before, she was acting as a pawn for Fudge to drive away Dumbledore, so she always had to find some breakthrough. You are always trying to get someone else's gun. If you don't deal with it, who will you deal with?" Chrissy shook her head, " Now that Fudge is no longer able to protect herself, she must have more ideas, so there’s no problem!”

"...The trees fell and the hozens scattered!" Lu Yunkai let out a long sigh, "It's really dirty."

"Meow, this is not called dirty..."

"You don't need to tell me, I know this is how the world should be." Lu Yun laughed, "But if I have a choice, I really don't want to hang out with these people."

"But you have no choice, unless you stand opposite all of them like the guy in Nurmengard."

"But even if Grindelwald is in power, these people will inevitably be used!" Lu Yunkai sighed, "Umbridge is right. Forget it, let's not worry about this. It won't do me any harm for the time being anyway."

"I've been telling you that it's not bad for you, meow! It's just like the Magical Apothecary Association. If you were asked to do it yourself, you would definitely find it troublesome and not want to get involved. But you also saw it last year. There are so many things like this. it works……"

"Stop being so nagging!!" Lu Yunkai glared at Chris, "Okay, I'm going out to find Daphne. What about you? Are you still watching over Gryffindor?"

"Aren't you worried that this precious friend of yours will break up with you?" Chris complained, "But I think it may be inevitable. When he talks about you recently, he doesn't have a good word to say. They are gathering at DA again tonight, I guess. I’ll have to say a few more words to you.”

"I really don't care about this. When Voldemort's matter is resolved, he will understand. What I'm worried about is that Voldemort lied to him about Sirius before. I'm really not sure what Voldemort means by coming here all of a sudden."

"Meow! I'll go find out for you! Let's go now!!"

"I'm not urging you..."

"I did it consciously! You have done Sibyl such a big favor, I owe you."

"You tell me whether you owe me something or not..."

Seeing Chris jumping out of bed and disappearing in a flash, Lu Yunkai smiled helplessly.

Just as he was about to stand up from the bed and go to the lounge to chat with Daphne, the door to the dormitory opened.

"Yunkai!! Something happened!!"

"...What are you doing? What's wrong?"

Lu Yunkai was stunned when he looked at Blais rushing in from outside the room.

"Umbridge just ran to the Prophecy classroom and said she wanted to expel Professor Trelawney."

"……What??"

Lu Yunkai was stunned.

Didn't this woman just promise that she would let Trelawney go?

Even if you regret it, you won’t regret it so quickly! ?

…

"Lu Yunkai! You are here!!"

"...Don't panic! Blaise, take care of Padma and the others here."

"Leave it to me."

Blaise took a deep look at his good friend and nodded.

He remembered the scene where Daphne in the lounge wanted to follow her just after coming out of the dormitory, but was stopped by Lu Yunkai.

"What if you go with Blaise?"

At the time, Blais didn't understand what Lu Yunkai meant at all.

Now I understand!

After seeing that Blaise had moved closer to Padma and her sister Parvati, whose faces were full of worry, Lu Yunkai knocked on the door of the divination classroom.

The strong smell of alcohol hit his face, making Lu Yunkai, who was already a little confused about what Umbridge was going to do, feel even more dizzy.

"You can't do this to me!! Hogwarts is my home! I...I..."

"Ms. Trelawney, actually I can. I am the principal of Hogwarts, and I have the right to expel any teacher in the school, especially one who is not worthy of the name like you..."

"How can you say that about me! I'm Trelawney..."

"Professor Umbridge? What are you doing?" Lu Yunkai felt a little uncomfortable listening to Trelawney's grievance, anger, and helpless crying voice, so he quickly checked Sense of presence.

"What are you doing here?"

Umbridge glanced at Lu Yunkai and asked casually.

The two looked at each other, and Lu Yunkai instantly understood what Umbridge was going to do.

She was going to "help" Lu Yunkai sell this favor.

But... is it necessary? To be honest, Trelawney's favor is not worth anything, so there is no need for her to remember it!

But she will never understand talking about feelings with such a person who only cares about interests!

"The OWLS exam is coming soon, and I have some questions about divination that I want to ask Professor Trelawney." Lu Yunkai tried to put a smile on his face.

"She will no longer be the professor of divination at Hogwarts soon." Umbridge shook his head.

"Ah? Why? Professor Trelawney, are you going to... resign?"

"I didn't!! It's..." Trelawney shook her head quickly, but she really couldn't say such a shameful word as being expelled.

"Even if you want to resign, you should at least wait until the summer vacation, right?" Lu Yunkai gave Trelawney a look, "We are about to take the OWLS exam. If you resign at this time, what should we do? You are just putting Professor Umbridge on the spot!"

Umbridge was stunned. She really didn't know how to respond to Lu Yunkai's words.

What does this have to do with me?

Keep calm and see how you can smooth it over.

"This is Professor Umbridge's first year as the headmaster of Hogwarts. If the results of this year's OWLS and NEWTS exams are much worse than in previous years, it would be too unpleasant to say it out, don't you think, Headmaster?" Lu Yunkai gave Umbridge a look.

"...I think even if Professor Trelawney continues to stay in Hogwarts, it will be of no use in improving the school's performance." Umbridge said half-truthfully.

"Headmaster, I remember that the pass rates of OWLS and NEWTS in Divination at Hogwarts are still pretty good, right? The Defense Against the Dark Arts class has always had relatively poor grades... You... really shouldn't do this."

"..."

Umbridge almost couldn't breathe.

This brat still speaks so disgustingly! !

Can these two courses be the same? ?

The students taught by Trelawney are all the same as her. They keep saying things like "ominous signs" and "foreshadowing of death" as if it were a curse. Those OWLS and NEWTS examiners usually don't have anything to do to offend this bad luck and give low scores!

Anyway, except for the Department of Mysteries, no other job positions will have any grade requirements for Divination. Even if you give a high score, it won't matter...

What about Defense Against the Dark Arts? That's one of the grades that the Ministry of Magic values ​​the most! The strictness of the grading is completely different! !

And...what does the poor performance of Defense Against the Dark Arts before have to do with me!

"Hogwarts has already suffered so many disasters this year. We can't let others say that after Dumbledore left, Hogwarts' teaching performance began to decline, right?"

"... Humph." Umbridge glared at Lu Yunkai.

This statement doesn't seem to be a big problem, it's quite convincing.

Indeed, Umbridge parachuted into Hogwarts on behalf of the Ministry of Magic and took Dumbledore away, but if the school's teaching performance suddenly dropped sharply this year, it would be really unpleasant to say it out.

Is this also Lu Yunkai's reminder to himself, a proper return?

Yeah. Not bad.

"Professor, it's like this, when I was practicing teacup divination today..." Lu Yunkai looked at Trelawney.

"Professor Trelawney. Since you are so popular among students, I will give you another chance." Umbridge interrupted Lu Yunkai's impromptu excuse and looked at Trelawney and said, "If there are any bad changes in the results of this year's NEWTS and OWLS exams..."

"No! No! Don't worry, Headmaster!!" Lu Yunkai answered for Trelawney: "Please take care. I still need to ask Professor Trelawney some questions about divination."

"Hmph."

Umbridge turned around and left directly.

With a thud, the door of the room closed.

But soon, the door of the room opened.

The twin sisters who had been guarding outside the door poked their heads in worriedly.

"Professor..."

Although Parvati was greeting Trelawney, she looked at Lu Yunkai.

Lu Yunkai nodded slightly.

Parvati rushed in immediately.

Padma moved a little slower and walked into the room with Blaise who was staying beside them.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yunkai was still very relieved.

Finally, there is a little bit of effect! ! Although it is only a little bit...

"Professor! It's okay! We support you!!" Parvati, who entered the room first, said to Professor Trelawney seriously.

"Okay, here... you guys comfort the professor." Lu Yunkai glanced at the twins, gave Blaise a look and said, "I'll leave first."

"Yunkai! Thank you!" Blaise interrupted.

"... It's not your turn to thank me. Even for Chris, I can't ignore this kind of thing." Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head, and the relief just now disappeared in an instant.

This silly boy! You still don't know when and how to do favors! At this time, Padma should thank me, and then you should stand up and say that you don't need to thank me, as long as I know it, I won't ignore it... This will highlight the importance of you running to call me over!

Otherwise, you are just an errand boy! !

Forget it, Blaise is actually quite good like this. He is really like his mother...

It's scary to think about it.

After saying goodbye to the twin sisters and giving Blaise a look, Lu Yunkai walked out of the tower where the prophecy classroom was located, and walked down the spiral staircase.

For some reason, he suddenly stopped.

This is... the eighth floor.

Lu Yunkai hasn't been to this place at night for a long time...

Chris said that Harry is organizing DA training in there now, do you want to go and take a look?

Forget it, Harry rarely greets Lu Yunkai during class recently.

Alas...

Forget him.

Lu Yunkai shook his head.

Let's concentrate on dealing with Umbridge's affairs and Voldemort's affairs!

It's better to leave Harry to Chris.

Just like Ginny was handed over to it in the second grade, to be honest, it's still very reliable.

Oh, and Hermione...

It shouldn't be a big problem, right?

...

The last chapter added some drama to Umbridge, who I think is the biggest bug character in the whole HP book. Because some book friends mentioned it, I will explain it here.

In fact, I always think that Umbridge, as the Deputy Minister of Magic in the non-Voldemort period (even if she is Fudge's confidant, she must follow the rules and qualifications to get this position. Even if she always likes to take credit for others, it's not easy to take credit), and then when Voldemort was in power, she could still serve as a count of Muggle-born wizards (that is, Fudge's fall did not affect her much). She can be regarded as a black and white, and even when Voldemort fell, she still had a high-end suite in Azkaban... If she is really a simple fool, it is an insult to the IQ of the entire wizarding world, regardless of black and white. No one who can reach this position is simple and stupid, otherwise Hermione's future position as Minister of Magic would not be very honorable...

Considering some descriptions of the British officialdom in a great drama called Yes Minister, I arranged such a plot. I think it should be quite reasonable... Well, I am not pushing YM (fake), hehe

Finally, don't worry, as the second most hated character in the HP book (second only to Lockhart), I will not give her a good ending... This should not be considered a spoiler, right?