- Chapter 13 -
THE MUGGLE-BORN REGISTRATION COMMISSION
A new Ministry-decree forces all Muggle-born witches and wizards to register with the Ministry because they have allegedly "stolen" magic since they weren't born with it.
Still at the Ministry, the trio find Umbridge in an Elevator on their way to her office. She is on her way down to the cellar to try some of the newly registered Muggle-born witches and wizards, and send them to Azkaban as thieves.
Umbridge asks Hermione (who is in disguise) to help transcript the day's Muggle-born hearings. Harry takes advantage of this and goes to Umbridges office to look for the locket. Ron is forced to attend to a hexed office.
Wearing the invisibility cloak, Harry searches Umbridge's office for the locket, and finds Mad-Eye Moody's eyeball in her office door. Umbridge has been using it to spy on the people in the room outside her office. Harry takes it from the door and places it in his pocket.
Harry notices that people are looking at him (in disguise as a large, bulky Ministry worker) with respect and fear. He figures this guy must be one of the Death Eaters who has taken over the place, and Harry uses this to his advantage.
He goes down to the cellar to see how Hermione is doing, and to see if Umbridge has the locket on her since he couldn't find it in her office.
There is a long line of nervous (accused muggle-born) witches and wizards who are waiting for their turn to be tried in the court (and sent to Azkaban). Harry enters with the next one in line and watches the farce trial and feeling pity on the unfairly accused witch, he stops freezes Umbridge and the Death Eater running the trial, takes the locket from Umbridge (who was wearing it around her neck), and flees with Hermione and the witch.
Ron, Harry and Hermione decide to rescue all of the muggle-born witches and wizards who are unfairly being tried and sentenced to Azkaban.
The trio helps them all to escape the ministry and barely make it out alive.
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