Taking on the Magical World 60 Chapter 59: April Fools

George smiles widely when he heard my question, he looks at his twin as he is rubbing his chin in contemplation. "I am of the opinion that we should kick him out and leave him to the doxies! He was after all just about to abandon us, so it is only fair we make him pay, by doing the same."

"I am your brother, George!" Fred nearly shouted that at the top of his lugs, but he swiftly stopped himself and finished the rest in a whisper.

George shrugged his shoulders and said to his twin in a plain tone. "All brotherly bonds have been cut off, as soon as you thought about abandoning us to save your skin."

"I was merely, playing around with you guys!" He adds in a pleading tone with tears welling up in his eyes.

I place my hand on my heart and put on a sad expression. "That is not how we felt when you said those words to us. Whether or not you meant it doesn't matter, you must pay for your crimes. Doubting your own brother and best friend in a very serious crime. The only way you can atone for it is to jump into the fry of that doxy swarm."

"No way I going anywhere near that, they going to eat me for sure!" Fred says as he steps back.

"Don't worry twin, Doxies do eat humans, all they do is bite and scratch you."

I swiftly grab one arm before he could even have a chance to fight back, George quickly follows my direction and grabs the other arm. Fred tried to resist, but with two people at or near the same age as him holding him down, he could not do anything.

With a big shove from the two of us, Fred was hurled at the doxy swarm. He went flying at the black mass, all the while screaming and wailing. The doxies all turned around and stared at the young redhead before them. Fred also looked up in fear at the big black mass of chittering pests, and he loudly gulped.

He tried to scary away from them, but a single cry from one particular doxy that was in the middle of the whole drove, dashed all of his hopes. That must have been the Doxy Queen giving a command to the lot of them, because all of sudden, the whole lot of them started to let out a loud ~Screech~

The whole swarm drove at Fred then started to tear him apart. Blood, pieces of clothes, and some flesh started to fall to the ground, while the whole time we continued to hear unearthly screams. After what felt like ages the cries completely stopped and the swarm backed away from the area. I and George got a good view of what was left of Fred, as we slightly peaked from our hiding place, and there was absolute Nothing left of him!

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The school was finally able to get back to working order since the whole swarm was brutally disposed of. In no small part thanks to Professor's Dumbledore effort and all the other teachers. But at a great cost, many students were injured from Doxy bites, jabs, or scratches and they all filled up the school's hospital. Madam Poppy Pomfrey was running around the hospital wing trying to get to every patient. The hospital wing may be well equipped to deal with all kinds of magical and mundane injuries, from broken limbs to regrowing lost bones. But today that was tested to the limit and couldn't come through. Those who could not be got to by Madam Pomfrey were sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

To make matters worse some students did not make it, who know that these fairy-like creatures had a craving for human flesh. Those who passed away in the attack, their loved ones came to collect them.

With students' death in the school walls, the school fell into disorder. Parents started to send Howlers to Professor Dumbledore office and even to some of the other Professors. Classes came to a complete stop, students would come in and talk about what happened and the Professors would stare off into space, thinking. Parents started to withdraw their kids for Hogwarts all together, and only a few students loitered around the school.

In light of all this, Professor Dumbledore was forced by the school's twelve governors to resign from his post as schools Headmaster in the wake of the attack by a Doxy swarm.

Lucius Malfoy helped bring in a new Headmaster to Hogwarts named Thomas Riddle. His features were very unpleasant, to say the least. His skin was bone-white, he had a skeletally thin body, and dark scarlet eyes with cat-like slits for pupils. He had a chalk-white face that resembled a skull, snake-like slits for nostrils, and large hands with unnaturally long fingers like spider's legs.

Much has changed after that incident happened with the Doxy swarm.

With the new headmaster, many professors were kicked out including Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Hagrid and much more.

New Professors started to replace the old one that was fired, and the new professors did not exactly look like good peoples. The new headmaster, himself started to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, but before that, he renamed the class into The Dark Arts.

The core classes like Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Herbology, and the other stayed, but the electives changed a lot. For example, Muggle Studies was flipped by its head and the teacher of that class mysteriously fell ill and then died.

Things continued to get a lot darker from there, for Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

Chapter end