Calum Science Center was methodically preparing for its next Deuterium-Tritium Fusion experiment, while a certain toad professor at Hogwarts spent every day on edge, terrified that Granger, that little bitch, would pull something on her again if she let her guard down.
Thanks to the publicity spread by a certain pair of twins, her neurotic behavior had turned her into a severe sufferer of some rare disease—one that certain Pure-blood Wizard families had stigmatized as "a frail ailment unique to Mudbloods."
To put it more bluntly, she had gone insane.
Umbridge could sense that the looks people gave her had become "sympathetic" and "pitying," and her mindset began to undergo subtle changes without her realizing it.
In front of the entire school, she was still that toad professor whose voice was sickeningly sweet and whom no one could bring themselves to like.
But whenever the night grew quiet, she would clutch her short wand and stare blankly into space alone, occasionally letting out chilling laughter.
If there were biology experts around, like old Mr. Newt Scamander, they would surely recognize it at a glance as the peak metamorphic stage of morphological reconstruction when amphibians such as frogs developed from larvae into adults.
"Heh heh heh—what a quiet night. What's wrong? Too scared to come play with me?"
The creepy laughter sent chills down Peeves's spine as he hid in the ceiling.
It had not even been a month since school started, and the toad professor had already been broken that badly?
Peeves shuddered, twisted his hips, and swayed away.
If she was truly driven mad, there would be no fun left in his dull, tedious routine.
It was another new day. After begging and wheedling the old men in the military department all night, Hunter finally got them