[HP] The magic thieves #34 (Patreon)

Chapter #34: New enemies, new opportunities.

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The morning after Harry’s encounter with the minister and the Malfoy family was busy, or at least that was the impression Harry and Hermione had as they walked hand in hand inside the great hall, there was a fuss and for the first time in ages, Harry felt comfortable to be there as the attention was focused on something else than himself.

“What’s going on, Mione?” Harry whispered in her ear.

“No idea, let’s try to find out,” Hermione soon took a seat beside Neville who was staring angrily at a newspaper.

“Nev…What’s wrong?” Asked Hermione concerned about her friend.

Neville didn’t say anything, he simply placed the newspaper in a position Hermione would be comfortable enough to read and then her eyes widened.

“Mass breakout at Azkaban?!” Asked Hermione with a shocked tone then she felt bad for Neville once she saw that some of the escapees were the Lestranges. “This is awful Neville,” Hermione said as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

“This is so unfair, why weren’t they given the kiss?! People like them don’t deserve the chance to keep living, they’re not like us!” Neville said with clear anger.

This caused the students to look at him in disbelief, the usually shy and calm student was now showing a very twisted side.

“Mr. Longbottom that’s enough, you should never wish harm to other people!” Umbridge decided to make an act of presence.

“They’re criminals, Madam Umbridge, they killed, tortured, and committed many horrible things, of course, they don’t deserve to breathe the same air as we do,” Harry decided to speak.

“That’s enough—” Umbridge tried to speak but Harry cut her short.

“But Madam Umbridge, that’s the truth, the ministry judged them and sentenced them, they're criminals of the worst kind,” Harry said with an innocent tone. “Unless…You think our honorable ministry is wrong?” He asked not expecting an answer.

Umbridge's mouth opened wide, she tried to say something but she was just stuttering nonsense, it seems like his words had the effect he wanted, she was so confused that she didn't know what to say.

On one hand, Potter was right, the ministry indeed did its job by judging those people but on the other hand, Umbridge admired those death eaters, they were nothing but honorable people in her mind, but because she was part of the ministry she couldn’t allow herself to badmouth the institution.

“At least there’s something positive about this…It seems like Draco Malfoy is missing, however, with his aunt Bellatrix and his uncle Rodolphus, I’m sure they’re going to do some horrible things to the ones who did it,” one of the Weasley twins said which caused Harry to look at Hermione’s eyes for a brief moment.

They needed to have a conversation about what to do with the Malfoy heir, they wanted to keep him as much as they could so they could monitor his progress and know if he truly lost his magic forever or not.

“Well, I hope that the person or persons involved in his disappearance get found as I want to give them a piece of me!” Harry said angrily.

“Why’s that Harry? Didn’t Malfoy try to kill you?” Asked the other Weasley twin with a raised brow.

“Yes, and that’s precisely why I’m angry, Malfoy needs to face justice and the consequences of his own actions and that won’t happen if someone kills or makes him disappear!” Harry said bitterly.

However, in his mind, he was smirking just like Hermione, they know that Dumbledore and most of all Snape probably still think they’re involved in Malfoy’s disappearance, that’s why they’re making all the efforts to make people think that regardless of what happened, Harry wanted Malfoy to face justice and not being harmed, he’s the hero of the world after all, people need to think of him as some kind of saint.

After that, the conversation died while Harry and Hermione enjoyed their breakfast, this was going to be a busy day and the day just got worse because Harry and Hermione realized something as the hours passed by, they were being followed, and just like they expected, their stalker was no other than professor Snape.

Luckily they had the time turner, so, after classes they decided to go to the room of requirement, but first they got inside a broom closet while they were aware Snape was following them and then they decided to travel back in time, at that moment, their past selves were waiting under the invisibility cloak and then stormed out of the broom closet less than five minutes later.

Hiding under the invisibility cloak, Harry and Hermione traveled back in time, luckily they arrived at the moment in which everyone was gathered in the great hall, so, they didn’t waste time and with the invisibility cloak they went to the room of requirement, once inside they found Malfoy with a hopeless expression.

“How do you feel Malfoy? Do you think your magic is back?” Asked Harry with a curious tone.

The blonde on the other hand only looked at him in disgust in response to the question, Harry sighed, he hated doing this but he had no other choice.

“Imperio!” Harry said again before he gave Malfoy his wand back.

Harry made him perform some basic spells and nothing happened which meant that he was still magicless.

“Well, I guess this is still okay,” Harry said before sighing and finishing the imperius curse.

Hermione on the other hand was preparing the ritual to test the notebook once again, the code had been modified but that didn’t mean she was less scared, this was getting out of hand, they needed to get to work already because the death eaters for sure are going to start causing mayhem now that they’re free.

“So, which test subject are we using for this, Hermione?” Asked Harry with an interested tone.

“Umbridge, and it's going to happen tonight during the dinner fest,” Hermione answered and Harry nodded.

It hadn’t been too long since classes started and the woman already become too annoying for him to handle, the woman didn’t even hide her disdain for people like Hermione, this castle was no place for someone like her.

“Okay that’s great,” Harry said trying to hide his smirk.

Hermione smiled weakly at him.

“Come on, let’s get onto it,” she told him before he nodded, and soon, using the same ritual they used the other day they produced a new notebook with a different code.

As usual, the ritual took a heavy toll on them, however, this was a small price to pay compared to what they were going to get if they succeeded, and as soon as they got back on their feet, they shared a small kiss before focusing on the new notebook.

“Okay let's write her name...Dolores Jane Umbridge; hour: 08:25 PM,” Hermione wrote enthusiastically. “Well I guess it’s time for us to wait now until dinner, what shall we do now?” Asked Hermione with a calm expression before Harry started to snog her.

At first, she was taken aback but soon she kissed him back, spending some time doing this didn’t sound so bad.

Meanwhile on the other side of the country...

Bellatrix, Lucius, and Narcissa were watching with fury as a house burned with fiendfyre, the house belonged to a wizengamot member that was on the dark lord’s side but hated Lucius’ guts, so, they suspected he was involved in Draco’s disappearance.

However, no matter how much they tortured him, he didn’t say anything, in fact, he mocked them which cost him his life. But this was just the first step, Bellatrix was going to find her nephew no matter the cost.