Harry had never believed there was such a thing as honest folk in this world.
Honest folk were merely one of two kinds: the timid and the withdrawn.
The former was easy to understand. It was not that they were honest and unwilling to act; they were simply too scared to act.
The latter was more complicated, but put simply, the reason these people did nothing and caused no trouble was not that they were kindhearted or anything of the sort. They simply could not be bothered with certain things.
Hermione disagreed completely with Harry's view. In several debates, she had argued him into speechlessness.
But Harry had a mouth as stubborn as a duck's bill.
He could not win the argument, but he still refused to concede.
And recent events at Hogwarts had given Harry new evidence for his argument.
At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there was a house of honest folk-Hufflepuff.
Apart from a very few, such as the exceptionally outstanding Cedric or the exceptionally foul-mouthed Zacharias, the vast majority of Hufflepuff students could be described as what most people called honest folk.
Recently, however, these honest folk had begun to act because of Umbridge's arrogance and unreasonableness.
On the third day after Cedric's clash with Umbridge, large patches of muddy swamp appeared outside Umbridge's office and the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
The swamps were not very deep. Even the shortest student in each house would only sink chest-deep if they fell in. They gave off a stink, but it was not unbearable.
Yet the locations of these two swamps utterly humiliated Umbridge, who was nominally the headmaster of Hogwarts at the time.
Unlike these swamps, the earlier toad fireworks, though they had exploded all over the Castle, could still be dealt with using