Last academic year, Dolores Jane Umbridge forced Albus Dumbledore to leave Hogwarts. She became Headmistress and she ordered him to go to Azkaban, for absolutely nothing! Luckily, nobody knew where he was, so he didn't have to suffer from Dementors. I was part of Dumbledore’s Army (I’ll explain more) and helped Harry and his other friends. So, firstly, I’ll tell you about Dumbledore’s Army. Since Umbridge was a horrible DADA teacher, and Hermionie Granger thought it would be a good idea to have another teacher, and Harry was great, she asked him to start a secret organisation. Students that had signed up came for DADA lessons weekly, and I came up with the name DA(Dumbledore’s army). A few lessons later, Marrietta Edgecomd revealed DA to Umbridge, and she thought Professor Dumbledore started it! Like I said, nobody knew how he escaped, but he’s a great wizard.

Right after Umbridge found out, she also put me, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermionie Granger, Luna Lovegood, and Neville Longbottom in her office, and had a bunch of Slytherins(Inquisitorial squad), hold us. Hermionie pretended to cry and made Umbridge think that Dumbledore had a secret weapon,. Then, she and Harry brought Umbridge to the Forbidden Forest, pushed her near the Centaurs, and the Centaurs broke her wand.

So, Harry had been talking about a prophecy for a long time, and kept having visions of the Department of Mysteries, and then, he had a vision of Sirius Black, Harry’s Godfather, in the Department of Mysteries, so the six of us went there, long story short, we saw You-Know-Who, the Death Eaters tortured us, there was a lot of blood, poor Sirius died, the ministry saw You-Know-Who there.


After that incident, and after it was proven that you-know-who really was back, the Ministry let Dumbledore return to Hogwarts, and obviously, for all the atrocious things Umbridge did, she was fired from Hogwarts and from the Ministry.

~Article by Ginny W