Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 59 Stuffed money, but it seems not enough
"Dark Wizard Attacks Knockturn Alley, Killing Dozens"

In the middle of the front page is a very shocking headline.

William hurriedly looked at the text part of the report.

"Yesterday, the group of dark wizards who have been running around recently and caused many Muggle attacks suddenly kidnapped 9 Muggles and fled into the depths of Knockturn Alley.

Led by Barty Crouch, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, and assisted by Albus Dumbledore, president of the International Federation of Wizards and chief wizard of the Wizengamot, an elite Auror team successfully tracked down Arrived at the house occupied by them, and launched a decisive raid as they performed the black magic ceremony.

According to unknown insiders, during this conflict, the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic killed four dark wizards including its leader on the spot, and the rest of the party managed to escape the scene after a brief resistance. "

Then there are several photos that have been manipulated, but still look bloody and bloody - apparently something very horrific happened to them before they died.

"The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic are currently searching for the escaped Dark wizard. Barty Crouch, Director of Magical Law Enforcement, assures the public that this incident is just a small number of Dark wizards using the name of the Dark Lord to spread fear. Please be sure not to win the trust of some media that want to sensationalize.

About Harry Potter, the boy who defeated the Dark Lord whose name cannot be named, please check the 2nd edition, "Whispers" editor-in-chief Winter Smalls is admitted to the Department of Spell Injuries of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Sickness today. Please check version 3.

Special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports for you. "

The Daily Prophet clearly meant something.

To be honest, this whole report gave William the feeling that the Ministry of Magic definitely paid, but not enough - if they didn't pay, then Rita Skeeter's Aurors would never It would be a "successful pursuit", a "decisive raid", but a "reckless move", a "foolish decision".

But if she had stuffed enough, she wouldn't be able to write a headline that looked like tomorrow would be a dark wizard setting up a resistance organization in Knockturn Alley.
"William, do you think it will be true? That person?"

Penello asked worriedly, she was holding the magazine tightly, her knuckles turned slightly white under the candlelight in the sky - she was from an ordinary person, William remembered she said it on the train.

"I believe that Professor Dumbledore will explain later-but if you must ask me to guess, I will choose to believe more in the Ministry of Magic's statement."

William shook his head, he finally understood why Dumbledore looked tired yesterday.

That magazine, "Whispering Softly", was originally just a little-known lace magazine, but suddenly published such a news with only one photo, and by coincidence, it spread quickly, forcing the "Daily Prophet" to publish a special issue " "Refuting rumors" has only one purpose.

— to spread fear.

William looked at Professor Quirrell on the right side of the teacher's seat - he was putting his hands together in front of him, lowering his head slightly, as if he was studying the patterns on the wooden table.

"Will it be you?"

William thought, but wasn't quite sure.

Just before the "whispering" in the entire auditorium was about to turn into an "open conspiracy", and before Gryffindor and Slytherin were about to really fight, Dumbledore's figure finally appeared at the door of the auditorium.

He was wearing a dark purple robe covered with silver stars, with a serious expression, and walked into the auditorium without saying a word.

The entire auditorium fell silent.

Dumbledore walked to his seat and looked around. "I'm sure all of you are waiting for my answer," he said.

"As reported by the "Daily Prophet", I assisted the Ministry of Magic in tracking down the whereabouts of the small group of dark wizards, and successfully blocked them in one of their strongholds in the depths of Knockturn Alley—— But we arrived a step too late."

Dumbledore let out a long sigh.

"By the time I arrived, they had performed some extremely profane Dark Arts ritual at the cost of the lives of the nine Muggles they controlled with the Imperius Curse.

During the engagement, the Aurors from the Ministry of Magic and I killed three of them, but just before their defenses were overwhelmed, their leader cast a powerful black magic. "

He hesitated for a moment before continuing:
"We have no reason to suspect that the person who can't even mention his name will come back. A black mark doesn't mean anything. A crazy black wizard will use any means to scare us.

We also found no Dark Mark on the four Dark wizards who were slain—as you know, Voldemort will be on his followers."

Dumbledore suddenly mentioned the name of the Dark Lord, causing almost everyone to shudder unconsciously, "The evil mark is carved on the Death Eater's right arm as a sign of submission to him."

"I want to assure you all that you will be safe at Hogwarts. With the help of the professors, and the many guardian spells that this ancient castle itself has, I will do my best to protect you all. "

"We still have Harry Potter!"

Suddenly someone shouted loudly at the long table in Gryffindor.

William saw that the speaker was a dark-skinned boy. William had seen him during the sorting ceremony, and he seemed to be surnamed Thomas.

His words sparked many responses.

"Yes, we have Harry Potter!"

"Savior Potter!"

The auditorium fell into a sea of ​​cheers for a moment, and it seemed that no one was worried about the Dark Lord anymore—but William still noticed that Dumbledore's expression did not soften because of this, he must have something important Things were not announced.

The black magic that can make Dumbledore would rather give up the pursuit and let them escape must have both conditions of a huge range and terrifying power at the same time, so that a powerful white wizard like him has to choose to go Focus on defense.

"Perhaps something should have happened, such as a breeze, just happened to blow when only Dumbledore and Quirrell were there. Rip that garlic scarf off."

William secretly made up his mind.

In addition to exploring the mysteries of magic, completing small goals, and building "dumplings", he must find opportunities to add a little color to Professor Quirrell's life.

After finishing this speech, Professor Dumbledore sat back.The dinner was going on as usual - even though the long table of Gryffindor not far away was still discussing "Savior" fiercely, the long table of Ravenclaw had returned to calm.

After the meal, the house elf told William about the architect Mr. Anderson, which made him feel better. As for the cosmetics factory that William entrusted Scott to contact, there was also new progress.

"Mr. Buffalo, that Mr. Scott wishes me to tell you that there is a five-hour time difference between London and New York."

Lalo was a little embarrassed to report to William.

　Finally, finally, finally, the first week was successfully concluded, many things had to be paved, many clues had to be dug in advance, and in order to make the first volume more exciting, Quirrell had to be enriched.

　　Next will be the exciting part - duel club, press conference, dumplings, forbidden forest, small goals, and more undisclosed plots, etc., so stay tuned.

　　And this black magic actually appeared in the original book, but it was very inconspicuous. (Part [-])
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