That Damn Weasley Charm II G.W

Part 5, Chapter 29- Professor Trelawney

"Violet! Emma come quick! Its Professor Trelawney!" Draco comes bursting into our dorm room.

"Aren't you supposed to be at dinner? What are you doing here?" I say closing my Transfiguration book.

"Who cares! Let's go!"

Emma and I look at each other before crawling off our beds and chasing after Draco. He stops at the entrance hall that is full of students, all watching something at the front doors of the castle. We push through the crows to the two very tall redheads and a blond standing at the front of the crowd.

"No!" Someone shrieks, "NO! This can't be happening... it cannot... I refuse to accept this!" I elbow a fourth year out of my way and stand beside Fred and George. There, at the front door is Professor Trelawney and Professor Umbridge.

"What's happening?" Emma whispers. Lee and Walter both shush her.

"You didn't realize this was coming?" Professor Umbridge's high pitched, god awful voice shrills, "Incapable though you are of predicting even tomorrow's weather, you must surely have realized that your pitiful performance during my inspections, and lack of improvement, would make it inevitable that you would be sacked?"

"The bitch." George and Fred both mutter.

Professor Trelawney has got tears streaming down her face, her big circle glasses keep slipping down her nose, "You c-can't!" She howls, choking over her own words, "you c-can't sack me! I've b-been here for- for sixteen years! Hogwarts is my-my ho-ome!"

I can feel tears prick up in my eyes, I grab a hold of George's hand, but he pulls me into him and holds me close to his chest, our eyes never leaving the scene in front of us. He kisses my forehead and mumbles, 'you're alright.'

"It was your home," Umbridge says all matter of factly. She's got a smile on her face which makes me want to vomit and punch her all at the same time. I only took Divination for a year and hated every second of it but Professor Trelawney doesn't deserve this. No one deserves this. "Until an hour ago, when the minister of magic countersigned your order of dismissal. Now kindly remove yourself from this hall. You are embarrassing us." Umbridge continues.

Professor Trelawney sits down on her trunk rocking back and forth, her head in her hands sobbing loudly. Umbridge is just standing there, laughing at her. A few students around us start to cry at the sight of it all. The crowd shifts as someone comes pushing through it. McGonagall comes bursting out of the wall of students that has formed. She marches right up to Professor Trelawney and gives her a handkerchief.

"There, there, Sybill... calm down... blow your nose on this... it's not as bad as you think, now... you are not going to have to leave Hogwarts..." McGonagall coos.

"Oh really, Professor McGonagall?" Umbridge says coldly. Umbridge steps towards McGonagall almost threateningly, the only thing that anyone can hear is Trelawney's sobs and the click of Umbridge's heels. "And your authority for that statement is..."

The front doors swing open and hit the walls with a loud BANG! Everyone jumps at the sudden noise. Dumbledore is standing in the doorway, fog from outside is trickling into the hall behind him. "That would be mine." He says in a deep, rumbling voice.

He walks into the hall, leaving the doors wide open. George tightens his grip around me, pulling me into him as much as he can. He walks over to McGonagall and Trelawney.

"Yours Professor Dumbledore?" Umbridge says with a small laugh, "I'm afraid you do not understand the position. I have here-" She pulls a scroll of parchment out of her pink robes, "an order of dismissal signed by myself and the minister of magic. Under the terms of the educational decree number twenty-three, the high inquisitor of Hogwarts has the power to inspect, place upon probation and sack and teacher that she-that is to say, I- feel is not performing to the standards required by the ministry of magic. I have decided that Professor Trelawney is not up to scratch. I have dismissed her."