Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 353 Collapse
— This is bad!
When the MacGuffin woke up to hear the dementors scattered halfway across Britain, he knew things couldn't get any worse.

I don't know how Cornelius Fudge will treat himself as the culprit?

There were so many wizards in the stands at that time, no one was a fool, just think about it for a while, you can know that the dementors came for MacGuffin himself, and it was also his responsibility to completely defeat them and flee all over the world in fright.

Shir!
McGuffin knew that he could use less fame than Harry as a talisman...

And Sirius... No wonder that old mouse is in Ron's hands now, this guy can really hide...

However, Sirius is with Hagrid, so he won't be found!
Although few people know that he will become an Animagus, at least Lupine knows all about it, and Dumbledore, an old bee, can hardly say that he doesn't know about Sirius...

Afterwards, Madam Pomfrey asked McGuffin to stay in the hospital until the weekend to confirm that the [Blood Curse] in his body had stabilized.

And Harry Ron and the others had already been kicked out.

According to what they later said, all the little wizards spent another night in the Great Hall for the Ministry of Magic Aurors and professors to conduct inspections and patrols in the school. Even Hagrid patrolled the Forbidden Forest five or six times.

"You know McGuffin, Bigfoot helped a lot... This little guy is much more useful than Fangya, at least under his leadership, Fangya has the courage to patrol the Forbidden Forest!"

Hagrid looked at the MacGuffin carelessly, and sent him a bouquet of centipede flowers, which looked like a Chinese cabbage, yellow and moving, but according to Neville who came to see the MacGuffin, it was in its infancy.

It is said that when it grows up, it will become a carnivorous plant with many legs and many roots.

Forehead!
After getting rid of the indescribable images in his head, McGuffin was temporarily relieved of Sirius.

Send Padfoot to find Sirius, - indeed Hagrid 'helped'.

It looked like Black would not be found.

The next morning, the Gryffindor team members also came to see McGuffin. The twins had been trying to extract the cool spell from McGuffin, and Madam Pomfrey immediately drove them away angrily.

Wood didn't look as decadent as McGuffin imagined, just a little depressed.

However, after this guy learned that McGuffin knew Jordan Mandela during the chat, his whole face immediately flushed, his eyeballs were motionless and glowing, and he stared at McGuffin.

"Can you introduce Mr. Mandela to me? He...he is the greatest Quidditch player in the wizarding world of the twentieth century, hardly one of them! In his era, he almost dominated the entire Quidditch World Cup...and he promoted the Quidditch broom, making the profession more regular...he is almost the father of the reform of the entire magical sport of Quidditch today..."

Wood flushed.

When he heard McGuffin say that Mandela had watched them play Quidditch, Oliver was so excited that his head was smoking, and he was about to faint on the spot.

He immediately forgot about the losing game, but began to frantically try to pry every bit of Mr. Mandela out of McGuffin's mouth, especially about the tactics and formation of the Gryffindor team in that game... Of course, the most important thing is the arrangement of the Gryffindor captain... Barabara's.

McGuffin had to say a lot about Mandela.

"Oh, his black and white hair...so handsome with character!"

Knowing that he was in the same court as his idol, Wood's IQ plummeted sharply.

In the end, under the double pressure of the twins and Madam Pomfrey, this guy was pulled away from here.

This did give McGuffin a big sigh of relief.

Apart from the Gryffindor team and Sirius, it was the dementors that worried McGuffin the most.

Or it could be said to be a series of incidents after the dementor riot.

Just like what Snape said, in that stand, with many wizards witnessing it, it was inevitable that McGuffin killed a dementor.

It's not just at Hogwarts...even in the wizarding world it's causing an uproar.

Not to mention the dementors scurrying across half of Britain afterwards.

This had nearly crippled the Ministry of Magic, and everyone...including Mr. Weasley was hunting down the monsters, trying to get them back into Azkaban.

"Daily Prophet", "Wizard Weekly", "North American Daily Wizard", and even "Quidditch Weekly" are frantically reporting what happened at Hogwarts.

A lot of media 'kindly' put the titles on McGuffin's head one by one.

—the second Dark Lord,
Grindelwald's successor,
black nightmare...

It's like portraying the MacGuffin and the unexplained spell he cast as some sort of world-destroying villain.

However, among them, most pure-blood families were most disgusted by this, and some wizard families even paid to express their disdain and disgust for this view on the pages of various wizard newspapers.

——They can't tolerate a Muggle-born wizard at all, and in people's minds, his achievements in black magic can be compared with the two most powerful dark wizards in modern times.

This touched the most unacceptable nerve in their hearts.

In any case, the Thestral summoned by the MacGuffin has been passed around as a long-lost 'nightmare'.

The magic spell cast by a little wizard in the third year of Hogwarts, which can scare the dementors into flight, is beyond everyone's ability to accept.

Even Professor Dumbledore later attended a press conference held by the Ministry of Magic with Connery Fudge.He also cast this spell and summoned a black phoenix with his own hands, proving that this is just another ancient spell similar to the [Guardian Charm], and it can't stop this rumor from fermenting, and can't clarify everything.

Many parents of young wizards suddenly became extremely interested in the MacGuffin.

The number of owl letters written to little wizards asking about MacGuffins has increased dramatically in the past two days.

As a result, Madam Pomfrey had no choice but to move the desk directly to the entrance of the corridor to drive away those restless little wizards who wanted to squeeze in the doorway to peek at the MacGuffin.

Not only is the wizarding world hysterical, but even the Muggle world is starting to get restless.

Letters from Albert's family during this time tell of what was happening in the Muggle world of the MacGuffins.

Dementors have filled half of Britain with a strange mist, and even Muggles can sense that something is wrong.

——This unusual fog caused panic all over the country.

That was the headline on the front page of the Thames Daily enclosed in the envelope.

From the lines in the letter, McGuffin knew that his family at this time, the Albert family, was also affected by the dementors.

The mist began to take over the entire area, absorbing the happiness and hope of the Muggles throughout the area.

McGuffin learned that most of the "experts" of the "Muggle TV channel" believed that this was the poisonous gas discharged by some chemical plants, environmentalists believed that the earth was a punishment for human beings, and religious groups wished that this was an "apocalypse"...

The chaotic parade movement is in full swing throughout the UK.

Murder, robbery, rape, vandalism of all kinds of crimes soared.

Depression, suicide, running naked in the street, all kinds of mental illnesses continue to occur in a detectable way, and those unexplained disappearances occur frequently in various places... All these make the Muggle society fall into the end of the world for a while, on the verge of collapse.

McGuffin described everything he saw from the letter to Ron, while Hermione and the others listened.

Hermione also got her approval, and she also learned about the Muggle society from her Muggle parents.

And after that, they got proof from Ron.

"Those dense fogs... are the result of the dementors' continuous reproduction!"

"Reproduction!"

Harry swallowed, in disbelief.

"They, male and female... male and female... how do they?...reproduce!" He repeated intermittently and disorganized, unable to believe that such weird and terrifying creatures could reproduce.

"Harry! Don't think so! They reproduce by sucking people's happiness and memories... even souls."

"No one knows what is under their black hoods...Only the most evil dark wizards, the Ministry of Magic, will allow dementors to take off their hoods, give them a kiss, and kill them. Then the executed wizard will become like them...There is no soul, just pure evil"

"I will only seek diligently, longing for people's happy emotions and memories, to appease those broken and distorted existences"

Ron shuddered, "That's the most horrible criminal law... Few wizards are treated like this."

"kiss?"

"Huh? People even came up with a very poetic name... what is it called Dementor's Kiss!"

Harry didn't think there was any poetry in it, just hearing the word, he thought of those greasy, rotting, cold horror creatures, which made his stomach sick.

Ron continued to say in a low voice with great interest: "Actually, I heard from my father that the Ministry of Magic has decided that if Sirius is captured this time, it will do so... But no one wants to see this scene. It is said that they have looked directly at the wizard under the black hood of the dementor—they are all crazy."

"Ah! Maybe only McGuffin knows what's going on!"

Ron suddenly remembered the scene on the train... and those dementors fleeing like crazy on the Quidditch pitch.

Speaking of the people most likely to know the true face of the dementors—

I'm afraid no one has more right to speak than this little wizard in front of him.

He stabbed a dementor to death with a wand in his hand!
Should, maybe—no, he must have seen the truth.

"Yes, McGuffin, you should have seen it!"

--indeed!
Following Ron's words, McGuffin's mind flashed, that skeleton-like,... scorched black, scabbed face, which seemed to be able to absorb souls, was an indistinct shadowy face.

The figure became clearer and clearer, and the feeling it brought to him became more and more real, as if there was a dementor in front of him, that painful feeling... once again immersive.

At that time, those miserable, painful, mournful songs and the sound of sea waves rose again immediately.

--what!

Black translucent flames burst out from McGuffin's body immediately.

[Blood curse (corrosion rate 45% → 48% → 49%))]

Black scales appeared indistinctly, spreading from the arms to McGuffin's neck.

"Pomfrey! Madam Pomfrey!" Hermione yelled anxiously.

"Ron, what the hell are you doing!"

"I... I didn't do anything!" Ron fell off the stool in fright.

"Madame Pomfrey!" Harry yelled and ran straight over, "Look at MacGuffin!"

After Madam Pomfrey ran over, she immediately understood what had happened.

She hastily pulled Harry and the others away, and fed some unicorn potion and powerful death water (sleeping potion) to McGuffin. After he fell into a deep sleep, the black flames disappeared from the surface of his body.

——[Blood Curse (46% Erosion Rate)]

The scales also gradually fade away from the skin.

"What's going on? What are you doing!"

Her eyes widened, and she directly snuck the little wizard into the office and asked sharply.

……

"So? Did McGuffin see the true face of the dementor?"

Dumbledore said calmly, banging on the table.

"Hmm! It should be like this!" Madam Pomfrey replied.

"Professor! My Professor Dumbledore, now is not the time to discuss this!"

In an armchair in Dumbledore's office sat Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.

He gasped weakly and twisted his thick lower body uneasily, as if he was checking whether there were those annoying reporters around.

Then he said quietly, "So many dementors are enough for me. I don't want to ask other countries for help. Last time, the horror of giant plants made the British Ministry of Magic lose face. I can't let this happen again."

"Professor Dumbledore, I'm here to tell you this time...we must find a way to catch Sirius Black, he failed to kill Harry this time, and will come again!"

"If next time, in case something happens to Harry..."

"I can't imagine! ... The British Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts will be shamed."

"Do you think Black is still here, Minister?" Professor McGonagall asked in a low voice, sounding tired.

"Sure," said Fudge curtly. "Even if he's not here...he'll be back, thankfully everyone's attention is now on that little wizard! No one noticed that Sirius broke into the Gryffindor common room."

Fudge was very grateful in his words.

This made Professor McGonagall frown.

"Minister, are you the one who put pressure on the papers of the Daily Prophet to make them go crazy about MacGuffin Albert?"

She asked sharply, "When I heard about this from an old friend, I thought who it was? I didn't expect..."

"How can you do this? No matter what... he is just a little wizard in the third grade! These newspapers... don't you know what kind of impact this will have on a little wizard's growth? What's more, he was born in a Muggle family, which will make him... Well! Suffer all kinds of persecution in school!"

Speaking of the last sentence, Professor McGonagall's voice was much lower, and he sounded a little guilty.

However, Fudge didn't care, he growled, holding his head, his expression collapsed.

"Him?...you have to figure it out...it's me who's going crazy now! It's me! Minerva!"

(End of this chapter)