Disgusting Umbridge

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Dumbledore was not surprised by the internal structure of the Dementor.

He tapped the internals a few times with his wand, and the gray filaments separated.

Only then did Ethan realize that where the filaments had faded away, a piece of glass was revealed.

"It's this thing that caused the Dementor to go out of control," Dumbledore pointed to the strange glass with his wand and said to Ethan.

Ethan took two steps forward and looked closely. The odd piece of glass even reflected Ethan's face like a mirror.

Ethan's face, shown on the glass of the Dementor's chest, was slightly distorted.

Even though Ethan had been through both worlds and was well-informed, he had never seen anything so outlandish.

"I don't understand this thing. It's just too strange," Ethan said to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore was a little disappointed. He had hoped that Ethan could provide some clues about this strange thing, but unfortunately, Ethan didn't know anything about it.

"I think we have to put this matter aside for now," Dumbledore said calmly.

Dumbledore was bothered by Voldemort's situation, so he didn't have the energy to spend too much time on other things.

He waved his wand, and the Dementor floated back into the cage, and the door closed.

After dealing with the Dementor, Dumbledore closed the curtains.

Now, all the Dementors had been driven back to Azkaban.

One reason was that the Dementors who caused such a big commotion couldn't stay at the school.

Second, now that Dumbledore knew the truth about the Sirius Black incident, he knew that Harry was not in danger at present.

After talking with Dumbledore for a while about comforting the injured students and the student's parents, Ethan said goodbye to Dumbledore.

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Arriving at the Ministry through the fireplace in the headmaster's office, Ethan attracted a lot of attention as soon as he arrived.

Several parents of students who worked at the Ministry of Magic and whose children attended Hogwarts came forward to enthusiastically thank Ethan.

Because of the description in the Daily Prophet, many people now regard Ethan as a hero.

After dealing with waves of overzealous parents, Ethan finally got into the elevator.

He took the elevator to the Ministry of Magic's basement floor, where the Office of the Minister of Magic, the logistics office, and the Hall were located.

Finally, Ethan was free, and those over-enthusiastic thank-you voices disappeared. The entire basement floor was silent.

Ethan walked towards the minister's office. He heard a sharp female voice coming from behind the door as he approached.

"Lila! Can you stop being so clumsy? Now is a critical period. What stupid things are you doing? I won't let you go!"

Ethan frowned when he recognized the harsh voice as belonging to Dolores Umbridge, Senior Deputy Minister of Magic.

Umbridge was a biting, rigid, cunning, and cruel person. She was keen on flattering her boss and then bullying her subordinates, especially the new interns.

When he was the leader of the Magic Crisis Response Team, Umbridge had tried several times to get close to Ethan, but Ethan refused her advances.

After that, Umbridge never approached him again, and the two had little contact.

It was clear that Umbridge was chastising an intern again. From her words, Ethan recognized that she was berating Lila, a strange Muggle-born Hufflepuff who had been interning at the Ministry of Magic for less than two months.

Ethan didn't want to hear Umbridge's rambling, so he knocked on the office door several times, trying to interrupt their conversation.

But Umbridge seemed too involved in teaching the intern a lesson. She didn't seem to hear the knock on the door and continued reprimanding poor Lila.

Ethan had to knock on the door twice more, finally catching Umbridge's attention, and her voice stopped abruptly.

"Who is it? Come in!" said Umbridge.

Ethan pushed open the door and looked inside. Sure enough, Umbridge was berating poor Lila with a pile of papers between them.

At this moment, poor Lila's eyes were red from being reprimanded, and she was about to cry.

"Mr. Ethan! It's you!" Umbridge greeted Ethan in her high, sharp, angry little girl's voice.

Umbridge was short and stout, with short, curly taupe hair tied with a very ugly big pink bow. She was wearing a fluffy pink cardigan that was inappropriate for her age. Her broad, slack face had a mouth that drooped downward, and her large, round eyes bulged slightly outward like a toad about to eat a fly.

"Mr. Ethan, what's the matter with you?" Umbridge asked in her weird little girlish voice.

"I'm here to find Minister Fudge, but it doesn't look like he's here," Ethan said coldly to Umbridge.

"What a pity!" Umbridge put on a strange expression.

"Minister Fudge is not feeling well and won't be at the Ministry of Magic for the next two days."

Ethan frowned. He didn't expect Fudge's character to be so fragile. He thought that even if Fudge failed, he would at least finish his job at the Ministry of Magic.

Ethan did not expect that Fudge could no longer accept such a heavy blow and chose to stay home, unable to face reality.

"It's a pity, then I'll go first," Ethan said to Umbridge with a blank expression.

"No problem, Mr. Ethan," said Umbridge.

"If I see Minister Fudge, I'll tell him you've come to see him."

Ethan nodded, thanked her, and was about to leave, but his eyes met Lila's. She was still standing there with her head lowered. Clearly, poor Lila would continue to be tortured by Umbridge if he just left.

Ethan thought momentarily, then said, "Lila, do you have a spare key for my office? I can't find my key!"

"Yes, yes!" Lila replied hurriedly. Subconsciously, she wanted to help Ethan find a spare key but then remembered that Umbridge was reprimanding her. She stopped and glanced at Umbridge timidly.

Umbridge snorted and said, "Go and help Mr. Ethan first!"

Lila hurriedly packed up the documents scattered on the ground as if she had been granted an amnesty and followed Ethan out of the minister's office.

"Mr. Ethan, I'll get you the keys." Lila put the folder under her arm, took out a bunch of keys from her waist with difficulty, and rummaged through them.

"No, I haven't lost my key," Ethan said gently.

Lila looked at Ethan in surprise, not understanding what was going on.

"I did this to free you from Umbridge," Ethan explained to Lila. "Don't take her words to heart, and don't feel sorry for such a person."

Hearing Ethan's words, Lila's eyes turned red, and she tried hard not to cry. She thanked Ethan in a tearful voice and bowed.

Then Lila walked away with her back to Ethan, the pile of documents in her hands, wiping her tears away.