HPV231-235

Once the trio mentions Umbridge's classes that only allow defensive theory and textbook reading, Sirius explains based on their information.

Fudge does not want them trained in combat.

This is because Fudge believes that Dumbledore intends to use the Defense against the Dark Arts class to raise the students as an army to take on the Ministry.

He wants to prevent this possibility with the new curriculum.

Sirius knows that with Fudge's growing paranoia, it is only a matter of time before he finds an excuse to arrest Dumbledore.

.......

On September 8th, the educational degree number 23 was made through the news of daily prophet.

This was the surprise that Percy told to Ron in his letter.

It became clear Umbridge is really there to spy on and take control of the school.

By the educational degree 23 she was soon appointed High Inquisitor.

She can arbitrarily impose rules and regulations known as "Educational Decrees".

She also harbors racial hatred for "half-breeds", such as centaurs, werewolves, merpeople and similar creatures.

Umbridge starts to observe the professors in class, where she apparently intends to evaluate all teachers.

For others it was inconvenience but for John it was all a show to watch and laugh.

He did not have any problem with her making those funny things hindering professor Snape and Flitwick.

He just felt that it was funny and happy to watch the show with his girls from the sidelines.

Umbridge visits classrooms and asks pointed, humiliating questions of the teachers in front of their students.

Trelawney gets the worst of it because she was asked to predict, while McGonagall tells her off and Flitwick doesn't seem ruffled at all.

They all are good people and they could not just turn against the people from the ministry.

So they can only close their mouths to get humiliated like this without fighting back.

During lunch, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan discuss Ordinary Wizarding Level grades with Hermione and how Flitwick treated Umbridge like a guest while she inspected their class.

In Divination, John finds Umbridge inspecting Trelawney, who is nervous while being done so.

Umbridge demands that Trelawney make a prediction and is unimpressed with the result.

In Defense against the Dark Arts, Umbridge claimed Quirinus Quirrell would've been the only Defense against the Dark Arts teacher to pass a Ministry inspection.

Well the protagonist Harry could not sit still for this comment.

So he retorts saying that Quirrell had Voldemort on the back of his head.

This successfully earned him in Umbridge giving him another week's worth of detentions.

With this he now has detention almost to the end of the month.

Well he should love Dolores so much that he likes to go for her detention.

John thought that it is a good idea to spread this rumor so he gave this task to Draco.

Well it is a simply hypnosis and Draco started to spread the rumor.

"Do you know why Harry was so eager to get the detention every time with the new defense against dark arts teacher Dolores Umbridge?

This is Harry likes her and he might have fallen in love with her."

This rumor spread through the school and even made it to daily prophet news paper making all the wizards in the country know about this matter.

Harry doesn't know where he should put his head at this moment.

Dolores was really annoyed by this matter and don't know if she should give detention to Harry or let him leave to stop the rumors.

She cannot put any pressure on Harry right now.

So she can only shift targets to another person to cause more problems for Harry.

This person is none other than Ron.

Unfortunately she chose the wrong target.

It is not that Ron is strong instead it is the problem with the love triangle between Ron, Harry and Krum that was in news before.

She just poked straight at that giving a detention to Ron instead of Harry.

Naturally John took the chance to give Rita Skeeter a hint to make a wonderful article.

"Love triangle of Ron, Harry and Krum, takes a new turn.

New member is added to the love triangle.

It is none of other than the new high inquisitor Dolores Umbridge…."

There is a lengthy article of Rita Skeeter in the daily prophet news paper at that time.

The next day things became more and more spicy.

Many people looked at Ron and Harry differently.

Some of them even looked at Dolores strangely but they did not dare to voice out this matter.

Draco did not directly spread this matter instead Crabbe and Goyle are the ones that spread this rumor.

So even if there is something wrong everything would be pushed to them making them the scapegoats for him.

This was arranged by John so that Narcissa would not be stressed about this matter.

Time passed by quickly for a month with this kind of funny and exciting incidents.

Harry, Ron and Dolores did not have happy time at this moment.

Each has a different problem.

Harry and Ron have problems of love triangle that they are not a part of.

There are weird eyes all around them and all the time.

Dolores has problems with minister fudge that actually believed in these rumors.

That is the rumor that Dolores loved Harry.

She doesn't know how to explain this matter and is having a hard time.

On October 5th,

Hermione suggested that Harry should teach others about how to fight.

John doesn't know where Harry learnt how to fight.

Lupin barely taught him the Patronus charm.

So where did Harry learnt all the spells to fight.

John was sure that he is not intelligent enough to learn them all by himself.

The biggest doubt he has is on Dumbledore that should have taught Harry everything secretly.

There is no proof because Dumbledore is good at doing things in secret.

He might have taught everything to harry secretly.

Chapter 232: the true origin of defense magic class by Harry

There is no proof because Dumbledore is good at doing things in secret.

He might have taught everything to harry secretly.

As for when did that happen, John don't know and don't care.

As for why Hermione suggested that Harry should teach others on how to use the fighting spells is because of Harry's thoughts.

Harry felt very inferior to John and he did not look like a protagonist.

So Dumbledore gave her the suggestion to let Harry teach others about how to fight using spells.

This way Harry can regain some good will.

As for naming of Dumbledore's army, the inspiration came from here.

With the suggestion of Dumbledore, Hermione gave the suggestion to Harry.

Harry was immediately moved and wanted to do as Hermione said.

Hermione told John about this thing when Dumbledore made the suggestion.

John did not stop her or gave her any suggestions to divert her.

She also knows that John can teach more spells and much more advanced fighting tactics.

She even learnt from John these few days.

So she knows but it is to help a friend and she could not just back down.

Also it was the suggestion of Dumbledore so she can only act.

Harry also accepted her suggestion.

So everything went according to the normal plot.

Ron also heard about this matter and appreciated Hermione for the suggestion.

This way even he can come out of his current shame.

So the trio held a meeting at the Hog's Head to discuss with other students the possibility of Harry giving them Defense lessons.

Harry is stunned at how many there are.

There should be 28 members in this for the start.

But there are less than 20 members.

Among them many girls are mission and the people present are mostly men.

Also Neville is not present among them.

He is already improved under the guidance of John from before.

He never showed any malice or problems towards John when he taught him.

Neville learnt with great concentration.

Well he wanted to improve very much because of the ridicule he faced from many people.

In comparison he is already on the same level or even higher than Ron and very close to Harry.

So Neville is not present here and got into trouble.

Cho Chang and her friends are also not here.

Luna and Ginny are also not here.

Padma and Parvati are also not there.

With too many faces of men Harry really lost his interest in teaching.

Harry has only agreed to teach defensive magic.

At the end of the meeting, Hermione has everyone sign a piece of parchment, which is an agreement to keep the group secret.

Naturally this information was passed on to Dolores on the very next day.

Well as for how the information is passed so quickly is because of the righteousness of the people.

They wanted to help recruit more people.

Naturally the information spreads and they quickly got the news.

On October 7th,

After hearing about the defensive magic organization, Dolores Umbridge uses her power as Hogwarts High Inquisitor to pass the Educational Decree.

It is educational degree number 24.

This educational degree states that all existing clubs, teams, societies and groups are immediately disbanded.

It forbids further groups formation without the High Inquisitor's consent and a group defined as 'the regular meeting of three or more students'.

Any student found to be in noncompliance of the Decree is to be expelled immediately.

Harry is the protagonist for a reason.

He immediately came to the conclusion from the response of Dolores.

He was worried that someone from the Hog's Head group might have betrayed them.

But Hermione informed him that she enchanted the parchment they all signed yesterday.

It forbids them to inform her if someone did betray them.

Harry also learns from Angelina that the Quidditch teams will also be disbanded under the new decree.

But because of the presence of John this decision was revoked only towards the Quidditch teams.

Also they would be strictly supervised and Quidditch still exists.

So Katie bell is happy that she can still be the captain peacefully.

Among the new team members there is also Romilda that joined up under the suggestion of John.

From Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff none of his girls joined the Quidditch team.

Well they did not like to join up because they have other things to do.

If they really wanted to become a Quidditch player then John can help them join up.

But they are not interested instead their interests lie in other things.

So John supported them to achieve the things they wanted.

One of them liked to open a cloth store and one of them liked to make cosmetics.

So John brought over teachers for them to learn from both wizarding world and the muggle world.

In the future they can take a big step after graduation into various fields they liked.

Before going to Potions class, Draco Malfoy makes fun of people who go to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

This leads to Neville Longbottom trying to attack Draco, but was held back by John that pulled him over.

During the potions class, Dolores Umbridge inspected Snape's teachings of potions.

This became a fun to watch thing for John.

But he was not stupid enough to show his expressions of gloating.

Instead Harry becomes so interested in watching, that he gets extra homework on writing an essay on Strengthening Solution after messing up his potion.

For John both things are a good show to watch and there is no one to push flame towards him.

Only he would watch them get burned.

In Divination class John saw that Trelawney has been put on probation, based on her temperamental mood after getting the results of her inspection from Umbridge.

But he did not interfere in this matter.

It has nothing to do with him.

They have to pay the price to get benefits from him.

Chapter 233: that is not my idea but Dumbledore's idea

It has nothing to do with him.

They have to pay the price to get benefits from him.

On the other hand Sirius that previously tried to reorganize the order of phoenix under the orders of Dumbledore was seen as the thorn on the side by the minister fudge.

Naturally they don't want the trickster like Sirius come into contact with Harry potter.

Even though Sirius is not a fugitive, but he did escape from the prison of Azkaban before.

Also he did many dangerous things.

If Harry learns from him then the things would be complicated for the minister fudge.

So he specifically restricted his contact with Harry potter.

The letter and communications that Harry receives were strictly monitored.

Previously Dolores received instructions about this matter and now she is even checking the Floo powder network means of communication.

That night, in the Gryffindor common room, they are chatting with Sirius through the Floo Network.

He finds out about the defense organization that they formed and agrees it's an excellent idea.

When he appreciated the idea Harry said that it was the idea of Hermione.

But Hermione is not stupid as John already told her about this kind of situation.

Getting praises give good feeling but this comes with a price.

That is if something goes wrong then they would directly blame for her for her idea.

She doesn't want to receive any blames.

When Harry pushed her name forward saying that it was her idea she has two thoughts in her mind.

First is Harry was really appreciating her for her idea.

Second is Harry pushed the praise to her and wanted to blame her if something happened.

Naturally if there is no seed of doubt that was created by John she would not think of the second option.

But after she has the seed of doubt planted she now doubts the things more and more.

She did not say her thoughts out loud and made a decision.

That is she would give up the praises she received so that she can avoid the blame in the future.

For that she has to take the first step now.

All these thoughts flew in her mind in a matter of seconds just now and she came to the conclusion.

So she spoke.

"I am not the one that came up with this idea.

It was professor Dumbledore that came up with this idea.

He wanted Harry to have some support and improve his current situation so he thought of this plan and gave me the idea.

He told me to organize it and pass it on to Harry."

In her sentences she took the praise for her efforts of organizing the things but did not take the praise for coming up with this idea.

John that was standing on the side in the invisibility cloak smiled listening to her words and thought.

"She is indeed an intelligent person.

Unfortunately she is in the team with some idiots and lost her thinking capabilities."

While John is thinking Sirius started to praise Dumbledore.

"Yea Dumbledore is really great for coming up with the good ideas.

You should keep up the good work and make strong army for the future to support you."

He encouraged them to continue on with it and wanted to ask money from Harry.

But their reunion is cut off when Sirius disappears from the fire and Umbridge's hand appears in the flames, groping to catch hold of Sirius.

With this Hermione becomes certain that Umbridge has been reading Harry's mail and had injured Hedwig.

After classes Katie bell came to John telling him that the Quidditch teams are given permission without a problem.

Harry, Ron, Fred, George and Angelina heard about this matter and their faces are black.

Well 5 people are gone in the Gryffindor Quidditch team and they are really sad.

They could not get back into the team no matter what.

But John got back into the team without any problem.

This made them feel frustrated and angry.

It is especially so for Angelina as she was named captain right in her final year and she wanted to gain some extra merit in the Quidditch she liked.

But it was all gone because of a bunch of numbskulls like Ron, Fred, George and Harry.

At that time she remembered that Harry gave her a choice before.

As long as she is willing to pay the price she will receive help from John and can get back into the Quidditch team.

But the price now would be different than it was before.

She doesn't know if John even gives her the price because of her arrogant behavior from before.

She is in a dilemma of what would she have to choose.

Well she can always live her life normally, complete her last year of school and graduate peacefully.

This is her first option that is to give up.

The second option is to approach John and think of a way to get back to the Quidditch team.

That is she should be willing to pay the price for the help that she receives from John.

...…

Knowing that the idea of forming a group to teach defensive magic was from professor Dumbledore, Harry wanted to thank Dumbledore.

Also he wanted to ask Dumbledore to know if there is a secret place for them to practice.

So he went to meet with Dumbledore that was also being monitored by Dolores and her people.

Well he was able to successfully meet with Dumbledore that don't want to talk much.

Finally he suggested that they should use room of requirements as their secret place of training the defensive spells.

With the support of professor Dumbledore, Harry named the group as "Dumbledore's Army (D.A.)"

But Dumbledore is unaware of this matter and he would get his surprise for trusting those morons soon.

On the other hand Harry was very happy with the name he suggested for the defensive magic training group.

Chapter 234: giants

But Dumbledore is unaware of this matter and he would get his surprise for trusting those morons soon.

On the other hand Harry was very happy with the name he suggested for the defensive magic training group.

To mock the Ministry of Magic, which fears Dumbledore is creating a secret wizard army, he named the group as Dumbledore's army.

Harry starts them off slowly, practicing the Disarming Charm.

There are only few people in the Dumbledore's army.

This is less than half of the original number.

Also most of them are men, with very few women.

The class progresses at a fair rate, practicing the Impediment Jinx, the Reductor Curse, and the Stunning Spell.

For the safety of the group, Hermione bewitches some coins with a Protean Charm, one for each member of the D.A.

When activated by Harry, the numbers on each coin change to inform the bearer of the time and date of the next meeting.

Just like that they spent the time to practice in the room of requirements.

But the thing is that John let them train here.

Room of requirements did not belong to anyone.

But the room of requirements is the territory of John to come and rest.

But he doesn't have to worry because as long as he opens the door again the room changes to the model he wanted.

With that he doesn't have to worry about the room being dirty.

On November 2nd, the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin happened.

Luna made a roaring lion hat to show her support to the Quidditch team.

The team performed exceptionally well and they won the match with John catching the golden snitch in the shortest time possible.

Because of the speed and sharp movements of John no one wanted to get close to John.

Even Draco was fearful of John and don't dare to get in his way.

The entire match is like a walk in the park for John.

Ron should be the one that should get a good appearance and fame in this Quidditch match.

But Ron did not get anything.

Instead after the match Draco Malfoy insults and provokes Fred, George, Ron and Harry.

Draco actually insulted them saying that they all lost the chance to play in the Quidditch match.

Harry, Ron, Fred and George attack him out of anger.

But all of them have their broomsticks confiscated and are given lifetime bans by Umbridge.

Well originally they can still go around playing Quidditch with their brooms for a while.

But now their brooms are gone and they are prohibited from entering the Quidditch play ground completely.

John did not care about them as his focus was on different things.

That is the rituals that he has to complete before the death of Gellert Grindelwald.

Only this way his body can still be in the existence and is in his control.

If not it would be very problematic.

That night John followed Harry, Ron and Hermione that are silently sneaking towards the Hagrid's hut.

John wanted to know the location of the island that still has colony of giants on it.

This kind of place has some important and ancient things.

John wanted to go there to check the situation later when he has the time.

It is one of the locations that should be searched for the information related to the origin of magic.

There is also the prison island of Azkaban that can produce the dementors.

So he has to know the location.

For that he has to find Hagrid.

He will not tell the location but John can use the magic to get the information he wanted from Hagrid after Harry and other leave him.

At that time he would relax his vigilance giving the opportunity to John to get what he wanted.

The trio goes to visit Hagrid in his cabin which John is watching and hearing the things carefully from inside the hut.

Well he sneaked inside when Hagrid opened the door for the trio.

They are shocked to find Hagrid disheveled and badly injured, regularly applying a piece of dragon meat over some of his wounds to alleviate his pain.

Hagrid, however, gives evasive answers when they ask what happened to him.

When Ron asks if his injuries are related to giants, Hagrid explains he was in an expedition with Olympe Maxime to the last giant colony in the world.

It is located in an isolated location in Eastern Europe.

They tried to recruit the powerful giants to Dumbledore's side.

Hagrid recounted the events that happened.

Although they were initially successful, managing to impress Karkus, the giant Gurg the leader of the giant tribe their luck suddenly turned against them.

It happened when Karkus was murdered by another giant called Golgomath, who became the new Gurg.

He was allied with Death Eaters.

Hagrid and Maxime then almost managed to recruit some dissident giants exiled from Golgomath's rule in nearby caves.

But this group was attacked as well.

So they had to finally give up.

Thus their mission to convince the giants to help the Order of phoenix was ultimately unsuccessful.

John did not have anything he wanted to listen to them.

When the trio is leaving John also sneaked out of that place and returned to the castle.

Then next day Hagrid returns to his class, and he is observed by Umbridge while teaching about Thestrals.

This was recognized by Harry as the same winged skeletal horses.

He saw pulling the carriages, and which Hagrid explains can only be seen by those who have witnessed death.

But John really has a big doubt here.

So he directly asked the question.

"Does only human death is considered as death?

Seeing a human death is the only thing that was counted as seeing the death.

What if I see the death of a chicken or some other creature?"

When John asked these questions, Hagrid did not have any answer to these questions at that time.

Chapter 235: Harry got detention for Christmas

When John asked these questions, Hagrid did not have any answer to these questions at that time.

Dolores on the side is really happy with this question.

Hagrid did not know the answer to this.

What he can teach is the habits, features and getting close to the magical creatures.

But he cannot tell the technical stuff.

So the problem is he doesn't know the answer to John's questions.

Well the class ended quickly while Dolores took Hagrid to talk to him about his teaching.

The expression of Harry and Ron are not good when they looked at John.

Even Hagrid did not have a good face towards John.

But John did not care.

He walked away without getting his answer.

The other students once again felt that Hagrid is not as intelligent and professional as Dumbledore said.

Well a proper professor should be able to answer most questions in his subject.

But here things are not like that.

This made them lose their confidence in Hagrid.

On December 18th, Dumbledore's Army meets again to review practicing the Impediment Jinx and Stunning Spell before the Christmas holidays.

Originally Harry should receive a kiss from Cho Chang that lost Cedric here.

But he did not get anything other than wishing happy Christmas to some smell men.

Because of the previous situation with Hagrid most women lost their interest in Harry too.

They did not think that his teaching has much effect on them learning the defensive magic.

Even if they left they could not speak about this matter because of the sign they made on Hermione's document.

So they specifically withdrew from Harry's defensive magic classes and got their names removed from the main sheet.

Also Hermione specifically took a confidentiality oath from them for safety.

When looking at Harry her face did not appear good.

She is the only woman in the Dumbledore's army right now.

She was a little embarrassed about this matter.

But she could not speak anything.

If she did then Harry and Ron would be sad and angry.

John returned back late from the room of requirements after finishing his training.

That night, Harry dreamed that he is a snake attacking Ron's father which has actually occurred.

He woke up with a scream and woke up John that is still sleepy.

John got up and watched Harry that was like a frightened rat.

He awakened in a panic and told others in the dorm room that woke up about his dream.

Ron suggested that they should go to Dumbledore to inform about this matter.

Dumbledore sent someone to find the information and indeed found that Arthur Weasley at the Ministry, suffering from severe venomous snake bites.

Dumbledore once again asked Harry about the complete dream when professor Mcgonagall arrives at the office.

In Dumbledore's office with Ron and McGonagall, Harry told the Dumbledore with the latter barely looking at him about the attack.

Dumbledore calls for several portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts to raise the alarm.

Critically injured, Arthur is taken to St Mungo's.

Dumbledore then sends Ron, Fred, George, and Ginny to 12 Grimmauld Place via Portkey.

Dumbledore wanted to send Harry along with them.

But Dolores appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night and stopped Harry from leaving.

In fact Dolores received a letter from John using his Goldy to interrupt this matter and did not let Harry leave here.

On the other hand Dumbledore needs John to help him open up the portkey to return back to number 12 Grimmauld palace.

Well he is the master of the house and without his consent no one can come there and no one can leave there.

So Dumbledore called John and explained the matter.

Dumbledore could not reveal the location of the Grimmauld palace as the secret hideout of the order of phoenix so he can only let Harry act as bait to let Dolores return back.

John decided to take the people to Grimmauld palace without saying much.

But he doesn't want to travel through portkey.

So he took Ginny by hand and apparate back to Grimmauld palace under the envious eyes of Ron, Fred and George.

Ron, Fred and George used the portkey to come to the Grimmauld palace.

Molly was not in a good state when they returned.

Arthur was completely bandaged like a mummy.

He could not move and only stay on the bed.

This Christmas holidays they decided to spend here.

Harry on the other hand is not having a good time in Hogwarts.

He was stuck with detention again for the entire holidays.

The reason was even more absurd.

It was because Harry is still spreading strange rumors around.

As for the accusation towards Harry, it was done by Crabbe and Goyle.

Well Draco pitched in but his name could not come out.

Dumbledore is powerless in this matter as there are too many things to take care of during this time.

John also has other things to do like meeting Penelope Clearwater that went to Auror training before.

She has completed the training and was assigned as a junior Auror.

John would see the right time to pull her out of the Aurors into his side later.

John and the Weasleys along with Mad-Eye and Tonks went to visit Arthur Weasley at St Mungo's hospital.

Arthur weakly is required to take a Blood-Replenishing Potion at regular intervals.

Well in order to remove the poison all the blood in his body was drawn out.

"Strange magic procedures for the treatment"

John thought for a moment.

Arthur Weasley shares the ward with a man who had been bitten by a werewolf and a woman with a massive chunk out of her leg.

She refused to tell the Healers what had bitten her, arousing suspicions she had been handling something illegal.

While they are talking Fred, George and others that are outside the ward might have overheard the words of Mad-Eye moody on the Extendable Ears.Once the trio mentions Umbridge's classes that only allow defensive theory and textbook reading, Sirius explains based on their information.