Science and magic at Hogwarts

Chapter 57 Absurd and Inhuman Comedy ([-])

Although the attack has passed, the atmosphere of the whole school is still steeped in sadness and fear.

The little animals were either confused about the future, fearful and lacked a backbone, or went crazy and found trouble with Slytherin.

The latter is mainly based on Gryffindor.

Abusing, provoking, pushing and even fighting, the antagonism between the colleges suddenly increased, and the old teachers seemed to have returned to the school during the war.

The entire Hogwarts is like a huge gunpowder keg, it only needs a fuse, and it will be completely detonated.

This mood lasted until the morning of the third day after the attack.

Potter is back.

Everyone knows that Potter led his partners to stop the Dark Lord and disintegrate the Dark Lord's conspiracy, but Dumbledore kept silent about what happened.

Granger, who returned to the academy without injury, also kept her mouth shut. No matter how her classmates asked her, she never revealed a word.

The students saw that Granger's expression had been depressed and sad, immersed in sadness and unable to extricate themselves, and couldn't bear to ask her the truth.

Although I was so curious to death, like a kitten scratching an itch in my heart, I had to endure it and couldn't get any answers.

Finally, another protagonist of the incident, the savior Potter, returned.

Except for Slytherin, the other small animals gathered around like sharks smelling fishy, ​​and threw the question to Potter in a hurry.

"Harry, what conspiracy of the Dark Lord have you solved?"

"Harry, did Dumbledore teach you powerful magic and then you defeated the Dark Lord?"

"Harry, tell me what's going on!"

"Harry..." "...Harry..."

The children surrounded Potter tightly, and Potter, who had just been discharged from the hospital, couldn't figure out what happened. He stood on the spot with a dazed expression, not knowing whose question he was going to answer.

It was the appearance of the Weasley twins in Gryffindor that finally saved Potter.

The two squeezed into the crowd, escorted Potter to the dining table, and then asked Potter impatiently.

Fortunately, the owls surrounded Potter, and a large number of owls flew into the auditorium. Letters and packages fell on the dining seats like rain, which diverted the eyes of the small animals.

There are not a few little wizards in Hogwarts who subscribe to the Prophet. Soon, the headlines of the newspaper spread all over Hogwarts:
Recently, a rumor that Hogwarts was attacked by an unknown person began to circulate in the wizarding world. In order to report the truth completely, our reporter finally restored the complete story of the incident after two days and nights of hard work.For this reason, our reporter interviewed Professor Dumbledore, the principal of Hogwarts, Mr. Fudge, the Minister of Magic, Ms. Dolores Umbridge, the Senior Deputy Minister of Magic, and the famous adventurer Gilderoy Lockhart gentlemen.

According to people familiar with the matter, in fact, as early as last year, this conspiracy had already begun to take shape. Mr. Nick Lemay's residence was attacked several times by unknown black wizards, and the target of the black wizards was precisely the victim of this attack. The goal of the competition - the Philosopher's Stone.

In order to protect the Sorcerer's Stone from being snatched by the dark wizard, Mr. Nicolas gave it to his best friend, Professor Dumbledore.

The professor hid the Sorcerer's Stone in Hogwarts, and put in place numerous protective measures. It is reported that besides Dumbledore himself, the professors involved in the arrangement of the protective measures included the deans of the four Hogwarts colleges, as well as various professors. .

However, Professor Dumbledore obviously did not consider the safety of many students in Hogwarts when fulfilling the entrustment of his old friend, which also paved the way for the tragedy that happened later.

During the year when the Sorcerer's Stone was kept at Hogwarts, Dumbledore had been away from school for a long time to deal with personal affairs. During this period, he neither fulfilled the principal's obligations, nor took his old friend's entrustment to protect the Sorcerer's Stone to heart. ——Obviously he is very relieved of the heavy protection he has set up.

It was this negligence that gave the dark wizard who attacked Hogwarts a chance to make a move.

According to the information obtained by this newspaper, the dark wizard swaggered into Dumbledore's well-prepared protection, and walked unimpeded to the Sorcerer's Stone - because this dark wizard has been lurking in Hogwarts for a year. After a while, I completely figured out how to deal with Dumbledore's protection!

It is simply that not everyone at Hogwarts is as careless as Professor Dumbledore. The great savior vigilantly discovered Dumbledore's defense loopholes, and warned the professors at the school in time, and finally got the Philosopher's Stone from the dark wizard arrived at the scene earlier.

Unfortunately, what the savior's warning brought was not a happy ending, but the beginning of a disaster.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the powerful attacker immediately ran away while fighting with the professors—Ernie McMillan and Terry Boot were affected by this battle and died tragically on the spot.

But even after paying such a heavy price, the professors still failed to bring the attackers to justice.

With no way to escape, the assailant used a spell to blow up the corridor between Hogwarts and the Great Hall. It was this spell that Rich Goode died, and Roger David behind the wall Si was crushed to death by the collapsing wall on the spot.

According to eyewitnesses, the attacker who blew up the wall laughed and walked into the auditorium. At the same time, he looked at the professors at Hogwarts with disdain, and fled away in a puff of black smoke.

According to Ms. Dolores Umbridge, the senior deputy minister, this is obviously a variant of the flying spell, which allowed the attackers to quickly get rid of the pursuit of the professors.

The arrogant assailant also released a death curse on an ignorant little wizard on the way to escape, causing Oliver Wood to die on the spot.

The above is the story of the Hogwarts attack restored by our reporter through unremitting efforts.

Given the power of the spell the attackers used to blow up the wall, it is reasonable to believe that this was a Death Eater on the run.Because this spell reminds us of the spell that Sirius Black, the number one Death Eater of the Dark Lord, used to blow up the entire street 11 years ago.

Reminiscing that Hogwarts was blasted through the walls even though it was protected by powerful magic, this gives us reason to believe that this is the effect of the same spell.

It is well known that Sirius Black learned the powerful Dark Arts from the Dark Lord.

But when our reporter interviewed Mr. Arnold Pisgood of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters, he got a different guess.

"We can't arbitrarily attribute the attack to the Death Eaters. There are many powerful black magics that can achieve the same effect. We all know that whether it is the Dark Lord or the Death Eaters, they are used to leaving behind crime scenes. Put the Dark Mark, and we did not see the mark at the scene of this attack. So there is reason to believe that this attack has nothing to do with the Death Eaters or the Dark Lord."

So said Mr. Arnold Peasegood.

In order to get to the bottom of the attacker's identity, the reporter of this newspaper invited Mr. Fudge, the Minister of Magic, Ms. Dolores Umbridge, the Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic, and Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart, a famous adventurer. A joint interview.

(End of this chapter)