Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 281 Teasing Umbridge
They had just entered the Forbidden Forest, and because they were not familiar with it, they were still far away from Hagrid's cabin.

The get out of class hasn't ended yet, so even if Lin Xia wanted to go over, she couldn't.

She could only control her temper and observe carefully.

This sight was very surprising.

Among this group of people, the one leading the way should be Professor Snape. He is the only one from the school, and the others should all be from the Ministry of Magic.

It is said that Snape often goes in and out of the Forbidden Forest to pick some precious magical plants, so it is impossible for him to be unfamiliar with the Forbidden Forest.

But the strange thing is that from Lin Xia's perspective, Snape was leading this group of people in a roundabout way.

Yes, it's a roundabout way.

Lin Xia had another idea. Could it be that Hagrid and Snape have a good relationship?

But the next second, she thought of Snape's gloomy face and dismissed the idea.

It should not be.

In the entire school, she had never seen anyone who could get along well with Snape.

So why did Snape do this?

He didn't want Hagrid to be caught by the Ministry of Magic, there must be a reason.

While he was thinking, the bell for the end of get out of class suddenly rang, waking up the sleeping little wizard. Everyone raised their heads slowly and looked around in confusion.

After a while, the little wizards stood up one after another.

There will be no classes next month, only in the afternoon, so I can have fun and relax for the whole afternoon.

"Harry! Harry, wait for me!"

As soon as the get out of class was over, Ron turned to look at Harry.

No one knew what was wrong with Harry. He did not sit with them in this class. Some young wizards were discussing privately whether there was any conflict between Harry and Hermione and others.

Harry hurried out after class without stopping.

Ron was now even more certain that something had definitely happened to Harry!
"Harry."

Suddenly, a voice sounded, coming from right in front of him. Harry couldn't help but stop suddenly. If he didn't stop, he would hit Lin Xia!
Harry said awkwardly, "Lin Xia, what do you want to talk to me about? If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

He said as he walked out.

After such a short delay, he was grabbed by the sleeve by Ron behind him, "Wait a minute, Harry."

Ron frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you? You've been hiding from all of us. Have you done something to make yourself guilty?"

Harry's heart skipped a beat. Was he so obvious about it?
Hermione also said seriously: "Harry, if you did something, you can discuss it with us first instead of hiding. Escaping will not solve all problems."

Harry thought: But escaping is shameful but useful!
"I, I, I'm sorry, I'm just in a bad mood, I just want to be alone recently..."

Lin Xia spoke up at this time: "I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but perhaps this matter is more important to you. People from the Ministry of Magic went to the Forbidden Forest and were about to take Hagrid away and put him in Azkaban."

When these words came out, everyone was shocked!

Harry said anxiously: "No, they can't do this, Hagrid is innocent!"

He was flustered and didn't know what to do.

The other little wizards were not much better.

Ron also said: "If the Ministry of Magic really goes to arrest Hagrid, then they have arrested the wrong person, but this is in line with the Ministry's style of doing things. My father said that those officials sitting in the office are a bunch of good-for-nothings. Whenever they can't solve a problem, they just want to find someone to take the blame..."

Hermione covered her ears and shouted, "Stop, stop talking, the most urgent thing now is to save Hagrid, let's think about how to get him out!"

Draco also said at this time: "Let's hurry to the Forbidden Forest."

He thinks more than others.

He didn't have a good idea about Hagrid's situation. The Ministry of Magic was very slow in doing things.

But once they identified the candidate, they arrested him very quickly.

Draco thought that if they went to the Forbidden Forest earlier, they might be able to see Hagrid for the last time.

At this time, Lin Xia dropped another bombshell.

"Snape is leading the group from the Ministry of Magic, but don't worry, he's taking a detour, so there's still plenty of time for us to prepare. Let's just go over there on our broomsticks."

Ron asked subconsciously: "Why not drive the magic car?"

Lin Xia asked back: "Haven't you noticed that it's easy to get hung up on a branch when driving a magic car into the forbidden forest? Those big trees are not easy to mess with."

Ron thought back to his past experiences and said with deep sympathy, "Yes."

He's been hung up twice!
Everyone had the common goal of Hagrid, so they put aside their own little thoughts, especially Harry, who kept urging others to hurry up.

Lin Xia and Draco were fine, as they had undergone professional training and could keep up with the speed of Harry's broomstick.

But Ron and Hermione felt a little uncomfortable.

Neither of them were professional Quidditch players, nor had they done any training, but it was already pretty good that they could continue to fly high into the sky and overcome their fear.

After Ron and Hermione were nearly entangled in branches again, Hermione simply said:
"You three don't have to wait for us, hurry to Hagrid first and make him escape. He must not be caught by the Ministry of Magic!"

Once you are in Azkaban, it will be very difficult to get out.

They want to save Hagrid!
Lin Xia stared ahead with the ESP spell and said, "Okay, keep flying forward. After about a thousand meters, people from the Ministry of Magic will appear on our right.

You guys calculate the distance and time, don't run into them, Harry, Draco and I will set off first."

No one else had an opinion.

Ron watched Lin Xia and the others take off smoothly, and soon disappeared into the sky, feeling envious:
“When will I be able to be like them?”

Hermione complained: "Didn't you want to join the Gryffindor team before, but your brothers refused to let you join, and you were sulking with them. Now you see the gap, don't you?

Even Lin Xia and Draco didn't join the Hufflepuff team. I guess the school team is stronger. It's normal that you didn't join."

Ron jumped up, grabbed the handle of the broomstick that was hanging on the branch, and with great effort, pulled it down from the pile of branches.

He turned his head and said silently: "Hermione, don't comfort me, it's better not to comfort me.

Lin Xia and Draco can't join the school team? They just don't want to join because it's too troublesome. If they really want to join, Senior Cedric would like to applaud and welcome them."

He sat on his broomstick and muttered quietly, "I admit that Mikel has some talent on the broomstick, but what the hell is Neville? Whenever I play, I will perform better than him."

Seeing that he was not bypassed, Hermione couldn't help but think: Ron is sometimes quite smart.

It’s not easy to fool you!

On the other side, Lin Xia is here.

The three of them galloped away and soon met the group of people from the Ministry of Magic.

They tried to move as quietly as possible, trying to go around the side and get in front of them.

But Snape is Snape!

As the Potions Master in Hogwarts, he was also talented in combat. Even though he was not as good as Professor Flitwick, the combat master, he was not much worse.

As Lin Xia and others approached, Snape turned his head and looked in their direction, his eyes slightly narrowed.

Everyone couldn't help but feel nervous, fearing that Snape would call them.

However, the next second, Snape turned around and continued to lead the people from the Ministry of Magic around.

Fudge took out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the scorching sun in the sky, and said, "Professor Snape, how long will it take to get there? This Forbidden Forest is too big!" Snape said calmly, "The school's Forbidden Forest has always been very large. Hagrid is the ranger and lives a little deeper in the forest."

Umbridge slapped the mosquitoes that had been flying around her in disdain. She had sprayed a strong perfume, so the mosquitoes liked to fly around her.

"This is terrible, it's really terrible! What a hell of a place!"

Snape stepped back.

I don't know whether he disliked the smell of Umbridge's perfume, the mosquitoes gathered around her, or the fact that she looked like a big pink toad.

He said arrogantly: "Ms. Umbridge, you are the first person I have ever met who belittles the Forbidden Forest. There are rich magical resources in the Forbidden Forest. Dumbledore has repeatedly emphasized the need to protect the Forbidden Forest at every annual meeting."

Umbridge quickly changed her words and said flatteringly: "Did I say that? No, you heard me wrong. I never said that. Dumbledore is absolutely right. The Forbidden Forest has been of great help to us..."

While Snape was attracting other people's attention, Lin Xia and others also flew past smoothly and went around in front of them.

Umbridge squinted her eyes and said uncertainly, "I just seemed to see someone flying by, wearing a black wizard robe."

Snape said indifferently: "You must have read it wrong. Little wizards are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest. There are many big black birds in the Forbidden Forest. They specialize in eating rotten food."

Umbridge got goosebumps and touched her arm, "Okay, professor, you don't have to say it anymore."

Lin Xia and others finally arrived at Hagrid's hut.

Hermione and Ron flew to the Ministry of Magic.

The two of them suddenly stopped, not only because they felt that Snape had discovered them, but more importantly, Ron came up with an idea.

"How about we stop them now?"

Hermione asked hesitantly, "It can't be stopped, what can we do?"

Ron: "Even if we can't stop them, we can delay their journey to Hagrid's hut. If we let them stay here longer, Harry and the others will have a better chance of taking Hagrid away."

Hermione thought for a moment, "Okay!"

She thinks this method is still feasible.

Snape glanced somewhere in the woods from the corner of his eye and frowned imperceptibly.

He couldn't understand why these two little wizards didn't leave. Didn't Lin Xia and the others leave long ago?

Suddenly, Ron and Hermione flew directly over their heads and landed in a closer tree on the other side.

Snape couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

Apart from him, no one else saw it.

A few seconds later, with a plop, something sticky fell on Umbridge's head.

When she heard the noise, she subconsciously reached out to touch the top of her head and felt something wet. When she moved her hand closer, she was hit by a foul odor.

She screamed immediately!
"Ahhh! Which stupid bird pooped on my head!"

"I'm going to kill that bird and get it out!"

Snape spoke up at the right time: "Why don't you go to the river to wash your hair first, or do you want to continue walking with bird droppings on your head?"

Umbridge responded: "Wash my hair, take me to wash my hair!"

Ron and Hermione covered their mouths and stopped laughing.

To be honest, this was not done by them.

Originally they just wanted to get some slugs out and throw them on them, but they didn't expect a passing seabird to do this.

Snape and his companions headed towards the nearby stream.

Ron and Hermione both saw it from high in the sky. There was clearly a line nearby, but Snape took them in a big circle, moving further away from Hagrid's hut.

Ron asked doubtfully, "Is Snape helping us?"

Hermione frowned and said, "I'm not sure, maybe he knows Hagrid is innocent?"

Ron: "I think Snape's character is such that even if he knows someone is innocent, he won't help them. He just stands by and doesn't step on them. That's his character."

Hermione said seriously: "No, Ron, you and Harry are too prejudiced against Snape. He is a professor of the college after all."

Ron said nothing more, not wanting to start an argument with Hermione.

He could never win an argument with Hermione anyway.

But Professor Quirrell is also a professor.

They finally arrived at the stream, where Umbridge was washing her hair. Hermione came up with an idea and cast an invisibility spell.

She stalked up to Umbridge and gave her a vicious kick.

"what!!!"

Umbridge fell into the stream, soaking wet, and screamed a few times, scaring the others.

"Who is it? Who just kicked me?"

Umbridge glared at them fiercely and said hysterically: "Stand up here, who on earth doesn't like me?"

Fudge and others frowned, thinking Umbridge was very strange.

……

While Ron and Hermione were taking action, Lin Xia and others also started their persuasion journey.

They originally thought that as long as they told Hagrid that the Ministry of Magic was coming to arrest him, he would leave.

But Hagrid refused them seriously and said, "No, I can't leave. If I leave, it will prove that I am really related to the Chamber of Secrets.

The Ministry of Magic wants to take me away for investigation. I believe they will prove my innocence. I am innocent."

Harry said anxiously, "Hagrid, they want to put you in Azkaban. They won't listen to you at all. They just want to find someone to take the blame so that they can give an explanation for the Chamber of Secrets incident!"

Hagrid shook his head: "No, Harry, I trust Dumbledore."

Harry suddenly felt angry. "Dumbledore might know that they arrested you. He is the mastermind. Do you still believe him?"

Hagrid looked at him in surprise and said, "Harry, Dumbledore is smart and wise. If he knew, he would never let anyone take me away."

"How can you guarantee that?"

Hagrid: "If he really wanted to put me in Azkaban, he could have done it decades ago, instead of just expelling me. It's because Dumbledore saved me that I just expelled me."

Harry thought he had a point.

But when he thought of the group of people from the Ministry of Magic on the road, he became anxious and spoke without thinking:

"But that was decades ago. How do you know—"

"That's enough, Harry." Lin Xia interrupted him, "Calm down first."

She paused, then said, "We must also respect Hagrid's choice."

In the wizarding world, faith exists.

Belief in external gods and faith in the inner soul.

As the greatest white wizard of this century, Dumbledore is regarded as a faith by many wizards.

(End of this chapter)