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pudding and only indulged because she knew Remus would make himself sick if he ate it
all himself.
"And right you should!" Umbridge declared, her voice going up two octaves.
"Minister Minchum has been wonderful, but elections are just a year away, and I hear that
Millicent Bagnold is trying to weasel her way into the running," she said with disdain. "Did
you know her mother is a Mud—Muggle-born? Can you just imagine?"
"A Muggle-born?" Mia finally interrupted, her comment laced with sarcasm on the
end of a horrified gasp. "Merlin, how positively atrocious!"
Vexed by the mocking tone, Dolores turned her focus to its source, her beady eyes
landing on Mia. "Quite. So you're the file girl?"
"Quite," Mia echoed. "And you must be Madam Umbridge, Head of the Improper
Use of Magic Office."
"Oh, I daresay I do more than monitor underage sorcery these days." The annoyed
look fell from her face as though Mia had just praised her by the mere mention of her
position. "Speaking of which," she said, dropping the stack of parchment on Mia's desk. "I
have several papers for you to put to rights."
Mia looked at the top one and felt her blood begin to boil in her veins. She
swallowed back bile and looked up at the woman, her jaw tightening as the image of a
bloodied and broken Remus lying in her bed, dying, came to the forefront of her mind.
"You're trying to pass legislation to prevent werewolves from seeking medical treatment?"
"Not just werewolves, dear. All filthy half-breeds," Umbridge replied, either missing
the flare of fury in Mia's eyes or ignoring it entirely. "They're a danger to the rest of the
population. Did you know that a werewolf broke into St Mungo's a year or so ago and tried
to maul an entire floor of injured witches, and the Aurors just let him loose in the end?
Honestly, what is the government coming to?"
Mia narrowed her eyes at the witch.
She did, in fact, know about the event in question considering she had been there.
The werewolf was Remus who had just found out his mother died. He had not broken into
the hospital, he had not attempted to maul anyone—let alone a floor of witches—and the
Aurors had no need to let him loose as her friends and family had not let them even come
close to capturing Remus.