Filch's office is very unremarkable.
No one wants to come here all the year round because there is always the smell of grilled fish wafting out of the office.
"What are you doing to Ron?"
Umbridge enjoyed Harry's anxious look at the moment.
"Don't you already have the answer in your heart, why bother to ask?"
"You..." Harry anxiously went to the window to watch.
At this moment Ron's hands were handcuffed together. The handcuffs on Filch's ceiling are now finally in use.
Snap~!
Filch brandished the long whip in his hand, and lashed at Ron's body fiercely, causing a tear in his tattered robe.
He already had many wounds on his body and his condition looked very bad.
Umbridge whispered in Harry's ear: "How can you see clearly like this, how about I take you in?"
Regardless of Harry's objections she pulled him from the robe, pushed the door and walked into the room.
"You little bastard, starting today, you can't throw rotten eggs in the corridor, let alone make the corridor dirty."
Snap~!
Filch gave another hard whipping.
"If I find out, I will hang you upside down from the ceiling, and punish you even worse than now."
Snap~!
Filch was having the time of his life when Harry entered the office.
Looking at the excited and joyful expression on his face, you can tell how long he has been looking forward to this moment.
"Madam, why are you here? I'm teaching the stinky little bastard a lesson."
"Thank you, Argus, you go ahead, I just brought Mr Potter here for a visit."
Filch looked at Harry with a cruel smile on his face.
Snap~!
Ron didn't even have a reaction to the lash of the whip this time.
"Stop!" Harry yelled before rushing forward, but he only took a step before he was knocked down by the Tripping jinx.
"Mr Potter, we cannot interrupt Argus at will. Mr Weasley's punishment is not over yet."
"You can't do this, Dumbledore won't let you."
Umbridge seemed to hear a joke, and a harsh laughter echoed through the office.
"Dumbledore? He can't help you now, he should be thinking about how to solve Lucas Grindelwald's problem."
"Compared to a quasi-legendary wizard, you or Mr Weasley are not that important anymore. To tell you the truth, it was Lucas Grindelwald who instructed me to deal with Mr Weasley."
Harry was taken aback.
"What did you say? Why would Lucas do this?"
Umbridge said contemptuously: "You are really stupid, think about what your good friend has said recently, and you can understand why Mr Grindelwald did this."
'What did Ron say to Grindelwald recently? Something about his father being dead?'
'It would be nice if he was really dead, after all he is a dark wizard more terrifying than Voldemort.'
'It's a joy to see Grindelwald's scowling face!'
What Ronald once said in public flashed through Harry's mind instantly.
Seeing his dazed eyes, Umbridge sneered and said: "This was brought to him by his own mouth, to be honest, I really admire his courage, dare to talk badly about the father of a quasi-legendary wizard so casually."
"A child is a child after all, nothing but a flower in a greenhouse."
The sarcastic expression on the toad's face deeply hurt Harry.
Taking a deep breath, he said coldly, "What can I do for you to let him go?"
Umbridge looked slightly surprised, she didn't expect the boy in front of her to calm down so quickly.
"Let me think about it, why don't you drop out of school voluntarily?"
Harry was taken aback again. With the current situation outside, it is safest for him to stay in Hogwarts.
If he dropped out of Hogwarts, he believed he would be found and killed by Voldemort's men before long.
After calming down, he remembered many things that he had been ignoring before. For example, Draco once said that Umbridge was friends with his father.
Harry knew the identity of Lucius Malfoy well.
Would a person who had a Death Eater as a friend be an honest Ministry official?
The answer is NO.
If you add a Death Eater tag to Umbridge, then everything she has been doing can be explained.
'I need to tell Dumbledore the news, but how do I escape from the toad?'
Umbridge seemed to have read what Harry was thinking and said disdainfully: "Go back and think about it carefully. If you agree to quit school, come to my office to find me tomorrow morning."
Harry didn't expect her to let him go so easily. Taking one last look at the hurt Ron, he turned and walked out the door. Then he rushed to the headmaster's office without stopping.
Unfortunately, he was told that Dumbledore had left Hogwarts, so he reluctantly returned to the Gryffindor common room.
Seeing Ginny sitting on the sofa reading a book, Harry really wanted to ask why she wasn't worried about her brother at all.
He knows Ronald is still suffering right now.
Thinking of Ron, the image of Filch waving the whip appeared in Harry's mind.
Shaking his head, he hurried back to the bedroom.
When Neville and Seamus saw him coming back, they immediately got up to meet him.
"Harry, are you okay?" "Where's Ron? Why didn't he come back with you?"
Hearing the two mention Ron, Harry's expression became complicated. He went to his own bed to sit down, and told the two of them in detail what happened just now.
"So Ron was punished because of Grindelwald's orders?" Seamus asked thoughtfully.
"That's right." Harry nodded: "And Lucas also had a conflict with Dumbledore, neither of them seemed to compromise, and it seems like it was very serious."
"Now that Dumbledore is not here, what do you think I should do? Who should I call to rescue Ron?"
Neville and Seamus were silent.
The dormitory became extremely quiet, and after about ten minutes, Neville whispered, "Why don't we save him ourselves?"
"Every time we encounter difficulties, we have to seek help from others, but it is impossible for others to help us for a lifetime, so why don't we learn to solve problems by ourselves?"
Neville's words caught the attention of the other two, and seeing them looking at him he scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Just now you said that Lucas really wanted the invisibility cloak in your hand, so why don't we use the invisibility cloak in exchange for his help?"
"No, the invisibility cloak is something passed down from my family, and it was left to me by my father. I will never give it to others."
Neville hadn't expected Harry to be so resistant to it.
"Harry, the invisibility cloak is a dead thing after all, and maybe Lucas only needs it for a while, after Ron is safe, we can find a way to get it back, won't it be great?"
"But..." Harry wanted to say something else, but Seamus had already made a decision: "That's it, Harry, don't be reluctant, that's Ron, your best friend."
"Let me think again..."
Harry didn't agree right away, but got into bed and closed his eyes.
The invisibility cloak meant too much to him, it was not only a family inheritance, but something his father had used.
If the invisibility cloak is handed over, with Lucas' character, he will definitely not return it in the future.
One side is a friend, the other side is a family heirloom.
Harry tossed and turned all night, unable to fall asleep.
When it was bright outside, he walked out of the dormitory with his panda eyes on his face and went to the door of the headmaster's office again.
Finding out that Dumbledore still hadn't returned he sighed helplessly.
It had been a rough day for Harry. Passing Filch's office several times and hearing the faint screams coming from inside, he would hasten his pace to leave.
In the evening he could no longer endure the suffering and took the initiative to find Ginny Weasley in the common room.
"Are you here? Then let's go!"
Ginny was not surprised that he had come to find her. Seeing her figure walking out of the common room, Harry hurriedly followed.
"Ginny, don't you worry about Ron? He's..."
"Worried? I think he needs to receive some education to get rid of his bad habits."
Seeing the indifference in Ginny's eyes, Harry was taken aback, thinking that she was becoming more and more like her boyfriend.
It didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at the Slytherin common room.
The arrival of the boy-who-lived attracted the attention of the Slytherins.
Harry was very uncomfortable being stared at by everyone, so he followed Ginny with his head down, and quickly came to Lucas' room.
"Go in, Lucas is inside."
As the door was pushed open, the appearance of Lucas' room appeared in his eyes.
When he saw that he had a room for himself, Harry felt a little jealous again.
"Are you here? Sit down!"
Harry didn't sit down, but went straight to Lucas: "Lucas, for the sake of Dumbledore and Mrs Weasley, can't you let Ron go?"
"We are all classmates. He just has a bad mouth and doesn't think too much before talking. When this incident is over, I will ask him to apologize to you!"
Just as Harry finished speaking, he heard the blond boy in front of him let out a low laugh.
"Harry Potter, you are really naive, if you are here to negotiate a deal with me, go ahead."
"But if you're here to play the emotional card with me, trying to convince me with naive ideas, then please leave!"
The expression on Lucas's face turned cold, and he pointed to the door as he said the last word.
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