Chapter 601: Toad Woman (Edited)

"Polyjuice Potion?!"

Hermione immediately recognized the liquid in the bottle and took a deep breath, finally figuring out Fish's entire plan.

"You're going to..."

"Yes, nya!"

(`)

Fish nodded proudly, then shook the glass bottle in his hand and smiled mischievously.

"She hates half-humans, right? So Fish will turn her into a half-human." Fish nodded in triumph and said, "Thank goodness Severus still has supplies, or Fish would have had to wait a long time to teach her a lesson!"

Creating Polyjuice Potion was complicated and time-consuming, and certainly not something Fish could have prepared in the available time at the beginning of the school year, not to mention the fact that the idea only occurred to him after hearing Sirius' comments about Umbridge.

As for Professor Trelawney's prophecy, was it really a coincidence... or had she truly predicted it? Fish didn't care, whatever the nature of the prophecy, it only reinforced Fish's determination.

The day after the idea came to him, Fish tried to ask Professor Snape for the Forgetfulness Potion when he went to request it, and Snape didn't hesitate to give Fish all the Polyjuice Potions he had, without even bothering to ask what he would do with them.

It happened that Snape took it to heart last year when Fish asked him to improve the recipe and exclaimed it would be better if it tasted better, and he had been trying to improve the taste of the recipe whenever he had the time.

Otherwise, not even a skilled potions master like Snape would have made a few of those potions and kept them.

"It's a bargain, nya! Fish hasn't tried this new potion yet!"

(??﹃??)

Fish licked his lips and looked regretfully at the glass bottle in his hand.

Then, he pulled out a crumpled piece of grayish-brown paper from his pocket.

Seeing Hermione's perplexed look, Fish explained, "Fish got this from Trevor, it's his shed skin."

With that said, Fish opened his mouth and bit the cork off the bottle, spat it aside, and shoved the toad skin into the bottle's mouth.

When the skin fell into the Polyjuice Potion, the liquid inside seemed to immediately boil, and the previously lazy bubbles came to life, rising from the water and rapidly swelling and bursting, while the original black color of the Polyjuice Potion gradually changed to a yellowish-brown.

As Fish continued to shake the glass bottle in his hand, the liquid inside soon calmed down, except for the change in color, which remained as thick and bubbly as before.

Fish crouched down with the bottle next to the still-unconscious Umbridge, forcefully shoved the nozzle into her mouth, and turned the bottle upside down.

In an instant, the bottle's contents poured into Umbridge's stomach in one gulp.

As Fish put away the bottle and the cork, Umbridge's unconscious body quickly transformed...

Her face, already resembling that of a toad, became even more toad-like, with bulging eyes, her mouth doubling in size, her lips becoming long and thin, and opening slightly uncontrollably to spit out a clearly longer and purplish-gray tongue.

Her nose, somewhat flattened, retracted directly into her head, turning into two small holes similar to Voldemort's. The ears were still there, only much smaller, and the curls on her head hadn't disappeared, but they gave Umbridge an even more comical appearance.

At the same time, her skin had become moist, with bumps and large black stripes and spots, and her complexion had turned a clay-like yellowish-brown, Trevor's original color, as frog skin was gray when dried.

Umbridge's fingers were as short and chubby as ever, but the long, sharp nails with their pink polish had disappeared, and the tips were all rounded.

"Mwahahaha! Doesn't seem to have changed much!"

(≧≦)

Fish looked at Umbridge, who had turned into a toad, and laughed while clutching his stomach.

Even Hermione, who was worried, couldn't help but laugh along with him... because Umbridge's current appearance was quite amusing.

But after laughing for a while, Hermione's concern returned, and she said worriedly, "It's no secret that Polyjuice Potion makes people look half-human and half-animal. We used it in public at the Yule Ball last year."

Fish said nonchalantly, "So what? They have no evidence. And isn't it because someone else knows that we're less suspicious?"

Hermione seemed astonished for a moment, then reacted quickly.

The ingredients were difficult to acquire, but they weren't rare or illegal, so even if the Ministry wanted to use the fact that Fish had used it before as a reason to suspect him, it wouldn't hold up because if they knew how to use it, it was possible for anyone.

"Did you think about it from the beginning?" Hermione asked amazed.

"No."

(ω´≡ω')

Fish shook his head decisively and justified it by saying, "Fish just thought it would be more fun nya!"

As far as Fish was concerned, he didn't care if someone suspected him as long as he wasn't caught red-handed, as long as there was no concrete evidence, it was a false accusation, and he would never admit it!

Hermione: "..."

Well, Fish was still the same old Fish, and nothing had changed.

"By the way, Severus said when he gave the Polyjuice Potion to Fish that the formula had changed, so it would be difficult for anyone else to know that it was a Polyjuice Potion, especially if there were other spells to confuse it, so it would be harder to confirm nya!"

∑(ΦДΦ)

Fish suddenly remembered Snape's advice and reassured Hermione as he raised his wand and cast a transformation spell on Umbridge.

Under the influence of the transformation, Umbridge's face took on the appearance of a toad, with the facial warts more pronounced, the small ears completely disappearing, and her curly hair thinning considerably.

Furthermore, her mouth had widened even more, her lips had vanished, but the pink lipstick remained where they had been, and her tongue had protruded from her mouth as if she had eaten one of the Weasley twins' Ton-Tongue Toffees, hanging limply from the corner of her lips to the floor.

"All right nya! Let's go!"

=???? ?(?ω?)?

Fish put away his wand, then smiled as he grabbed Hermione and fled the crime scene.

Shortly after they left, a figure appeared silently.