Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 417 News from Moody

MacGuffin and the others walked slowly into the darkness.

【Honeydukes】The cellar is filled with the same smell now, it is all kinds of things-sugar, cloth, flour, the smell of burnt wood...even the smell of barbecue is mixed together...it smells like being in hell.

The breathable air here is also very scarce, and the soot permeates the entire space. After taking a deep breath, he will be choked and coughed again and again.

Several people had to cast [Bubble Head Curse] on themselves.

Under the effect of the [Fluorescent Curse] (improved version) cast by McGuffin, all the walls here glowed slightly, allowing them to see the current situation at once.

The wooden ladder was extremely dilapidated, and there were traces of patchwork on it... It was repaired by those Death Eaters earlier.

McGuffin finally understood why the cellar of [Honeydukes] hadn't collapsed, why it hadn't been blown up.

In the middle of the four walls of the cellar, there are four load-bearing wooden pillars, on which are engraved a series of ancient Latin magic runes. The golden light is shining, very weak, and it is about to go out.

—It was these magic runes that kept the house from collapsing.

(Of course, although the cellar has not completely collapsed, the structure here is already incomplete. After the [Luminescent Curse (improved version)] passed across the wall, they could clearly see the various cracks and gaps on it.

The rectangular stone beams erected on the ceiling of the cellar also shattered and fell, smashing all over the ground. The ground was covered with head-sized irregular stones, as well as clods, cracks, and various burnt ashes, making it difficult to get off.

Many Death Eaters were injured by the smashing, some were directly crushed half of their bodies, or their skulls were shattered. )
Although the Death Eaters were only injured, the condition of those who survived was not much better.

No wonder there were only three Death Eaters and the ghoul-like Bellatrix up to carry out the plan (to kidnap Harry to complete Voldemort's mission)

The remaining Death Eaters were lying in the gaps between the rubbish debris (those embers were still slightly red, feeling the heat), many of them kept moaning weakly, and the better villains only had arms and legs broken, their stomachs were almost melted, and their intestines were ripped out.

Although these Death Eaters were seriously injured, many stone fragments were inserted into their bodies, and there were scorched marks all over their bodies, but from the faint groans, it could be known that most of them were not hung up yet.

--Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

The flashing lights flickered back and forth in the cellar, making people dizzy, and clusters of purple smoke permeated the room for a long time, unable to dissipate.

Bozo holds up the camera, — click, click, presses the button.

"Have you taken it yet? Hurry up and take it..."

"The more the merrier... Great! That's right, that's it."

Rita Skeeter urged the photographer Bozo, applauded repeatedly,

She was quite satisfied and happy with the situation (Death Eaters being beaten).

This guy seemed to be playing with small animals in a pet store, posing for various vicious or miserable photos of the faint-breathing Death Eaters, and he didn't know which guy was the one who was so scared that he pissed his ass just now.

Snape frowned, but he didn't say anything about it.

His attention is now focused on the increasingly dangerous little wizard in front of him.

Such a violent explosion, the horror of these Death Eaters... He couldn't believe that Harry and his idiots did it, and only this little wizard could do these things.

This guy Albert is getting more and more affected by the [Blood Curse].

Snape knew he had to watch out for the little wizard.

At this time, the voices of Aurors coming in came from above.

"What about people?"

"Didn't it say there were werewolves?"

"Didn't it say that there were dark wizards, or Death Eaters?"

"You, you, and you, search for me... Hurry up!"

"Cast [Appearance Curse] and see where they went with [Apparition]?"

"..."

The buzzing sound from the Aurors upstairs made Lupine, who was following in the werewolf form at the end, a little frightened. He took two quick steps, as if he had noticed something——

When he came to a lot of ruins, he stopped and gestured with a 'claw' gesture.

McGuffin glanced at it according to the impression in his memory,
—This is the entrance.

I hope the tunnel doesn't collapse directly due to the impact of the explosion just now, then it's game over.

Fortunately, I don't know if it's because it's underground, or because it's protected by unknown magic... In short, McGuffin and the others cleaned up a lot of ruins, clods, stones, and wood at the entrance of the secret passage, or because of various burned wastes.

The dark stone staircase passage was exposed below.

After lighting up the tunnel below with the [Luminescence Curse], McGuffin did the same again (using the 'werewolf ball') to pack up these Death Eaters who were lying here unable to move, and then took the lead into the underground passage.

Then Snape Black and the others also took Harry and the others (transferring horizontally in the air) into it.

Although McGuffin walked with confidence, 'with confidence'.

But thinking about the labyrinth below, he felt a little guilty, and could only hope that the [Traceless Space Stretching Curse] had disappeared due to the expiry of time.

(Because the duration was specially shortened when casting the spell like that, McGuffin was able to form a secret labyrinth here in a short period of time.)
In the dark tunnel, several people walked farther and farther towards Hogwarts.

……

at the same time,

In the Hogwarts library, Dumbledore Fudge and the others finally escaped from that [endless maze].

(When Percy told them what happened, Fudge was shocked. He immediately wanted to go back to 'take charge of the overall situation', but then they realized that several people were temporarily trapped here. Even with Dumbledore, they had a lot of effort to leave the [secret library].)
When we came outside, the battle between the fire dragon outside and the giant dementor (that is, Voldemort's possession form) was about to tear down the west tower of Hogwarts.

Fudge didn't greet Professor McGonagall and the others, and hurried to check the situation outside the lobby on the first floor.

Once out the oak door--

The scorching air, the scorched grass on the grass outside the castle... or the dead grass that is still burning... all of them are telling that the situation here is far worse than Fudge imagined.

Not to mention the huge black-robed monster that occupied a large part of his line of sight,

The thing sweeps icy fog through the air, wielding a huge black scythe... sowing fear.

The three fire dragons spewed flames from all directions, but even this top-level predator was exhausted after such a long battle. Among them was a small fire dragon with red and shiny scales that perched on the top of the west tower, spewing out a fireball from time to time to help the other two fire dragons.

What was even worse for Fudge was - the thick fog appeared and disappeared along with the stream of flames spit out by the fire dragon, and the airflow rolled up when the pounce flew over. When it gradually separated, he saw the opposite side, which was the edge of the battlefield...

The big guy, Hagrid, was standing with some guys in black robes and holding wands.

(There are some shorter ones in the distance... It looks like a student-like figure watching the fun. Hagrid turns around and yells at those guys from time to time, lest some brain-deficient guy really sneak up under this situation.)
And Fudge clearly saw that one of them was wearing a black suit even in this kind of weather. Even from this distance, he could feel that the suit was well-organized and meticulous, which was very in line with the Muggle dress code.

And the gelled hair, which glistened even at this distance in the firelight of the dragon's breath.

That's right!

It's Crouch.

That rascal!I obviously transferred him to London to hunt down the escaped Death Eaters with Moody, and deal with the werewolf follow-up.

Cornelius Fudge thought bitterly.

This guy!Is he so eager to seize power?
After retracting his gaze, he happened to hear footsteps behind him and the sound of breathing.

Dumbledore, Professor McGuffin, the Aurors with Fudge, and some of the Hogwarts staff have already arrived.

"quite splendid!"

Dumbledore stopped, stood next to Fudge and sighed.

It made the veins in his forehead twitch.

At this time, what is this old guy talking about?

"Albus, don't you...don't you do something?"

Fudge urged eagerly, he had to deal with this matter before Crouch intervened.

"—breathing the wind!"

Dumbledore waved his wand softly.

Fudge looks forward to,

(O_O)? ?
Fudge stared,

(all)! !
Fugui frowned,

Gan! —He finally couldn't bear it.

After Fudge drew out his wand,

A gust of wind came from the sky, and the branches and leaves in the Forbidden Forest rubbed against each other, making rustling noises. Those burned black grass branches, black ashes, mixed with soil were swept towards the sky by the increasingly fierce wind.

The dense fog that was sometimes thick and sometimes light was finally blown away at this moment, revealing a night sky full of stars and a full moon.

And this also makes the battle between the dragon and the dementor over the castle more clear.

Every time Professor McGonagall saw a little rock being scraped off Hogwarts Castle, a little crack was shattered, and some outer walls were blackened, he took a quick breath of distress.

This has just been refurbished!

——I can’t read any more!
Professor McGonagall waved her wand at once, but she wasn't alone...

"Call God Guard!"

"Gushen Hushen... Hushen..."

Standing here, the wizards over there used the [Guardian Charm] almost at the same time, trying to drive this dementor-like monster away from the school.

The silver light was like a shooting star (many animals were jumping in the sky), they streaked across the night one after another, rushing towards the giant black shadow floating in the air.

It's a pity that even if most of them summoned the [Guardian God] type of spell, they would cause little harm to this monster.

It waved the long black sickle in its hand, and the speckled silver light was swept away, even the [Guardian God] disappeared after being hit.

Although the silver light hit the monster's body, it would also dilute and disperse part of the black mist in its body.

But as it let out a trembling, piercing scream, many small black dementors emerged from the windows of the corridors of Hogwarts Castle.

They scrambled to merge with the giant dementor floating in the air.

In this way, the originally damaged monster regained its vitality in a blink of an eye.

The crowd on both sides stayed put, overwhelmed by it all.

Even the Romanian wizards on those dragonbacks were a little disheartened by all this.

Fear slowly began to spread among the crowd, on the opposite side and in front of the oak gate of the castle... There were panicked voices everywhere, and many people shouted (hoping that everyone would move away from here while the fire dragon could still hold the monster), and they cast various spells in a panic, but to be honest-it was not as effective as a fireball shot by the fire dragon.

Fudge Fudge finally remembered the 'Dementor Invasion' event that happened in London before the 50s. , he stammered and asked Dumbledore next to him, "This...this thing...how could it appear?"

"Dumbledore, I remember we destroyed all the relevant materials?"

"And there's no mass emotion for dementors to grow?"

In the 50s, after the dementors suddenly invaded London due to lack of food, due to the fear generated by the Muggles in London, and those happy emotions that were absorbed were used as food for the dementors...prompted the creation of an unprecedented giant dementor.

This is also the reason for the large number of dementors witnessed by Muggles in London at the time. (This thing is visible even to Muggles)
One can imagine how flustered the Ministry of Magic was at that time.

At that time, the Ministry of Magic hurriedly retrieved all the information about the dark wizard Alexis Stice, the former original owner of Azkaban (when the Ministry of Magic found Azkaban Island, it collected all his research materials from the dilapidated ruined castle).

After re-research and analysis by many experts in the history of magic and ancient magic at that time, they discovered that dementors can grow by devouring each other.

The essence of these monsters is the gathering of broken and desperate souls and the purest dark magic power. After throwing away the corpses, they can be almost indistinguishable from each other, and they can naturally devour each other to strengthen themselves.

The environment in London at that time was due to the laissez-faire of the Ministry of Magic and the delay in dealing with it, which made the food for those monsters abnormally sufficient, resulting in an exceptionally powerful dementor.

After that, this dementor devoured other dementors one by one, and finally this giant dementor gradually caused the "London smog event" that lasted almost a week in the 50s.

It caused the death of almost 8000 Muggles, and caused many Aurors to take leave of absence and resign because they went crazy...

Cornelius Fudge shuddered at the thought.

He couldn't imagine that this kind of thing happened to the little wizards at Hogwarts.

Those parents will kill him alive...

He could replace Voldemort as the most hated wizard of the twentieth century!

If this dementor were really allowed to rush into the castle, he might as well stand in front of him and sacrifice himself, so as to gain some dignity and a good reputation.

The only way now -

Fudge looked at Dumbledore.

This old bee, who was usually smiling but often calm, also had a very serious expression. He waved his wand and fired spells of different colors at the dementors. The magic power contained in them was not much, and he seemed to be testing something.

At this time, there was a violent quarrel on the opposite side.

The yelling can be heard even from here.

That Crouch guy was waving his wand like he was blocking something.

The burly figure of Hagrid also grabbed a certain black figure, his loud voice roared amidst the roar of the fire dragon, but even his strong body and huge voice could not stop that crazy figure.

The man pushed his way through the crowd and walked towards the castle.

Limped.

He dodged left and right, snaked his way, and jumped all the way in a weird and flexible posture.

During the whole process, faced with the siege and interception of the dementors that were differentiated, the big dementor would draw cold and sweep the scythe from time to time, and even accidentally explode various fireballs of the fire dragon...

They were all resolved by this hunk.

Fudge broke out in a cold sweat for the guy.

By the time he reached the steps, he had recognized the fellow.

Deng, Deng, Deng.

It's Mad-Eye Moody.

On his arrival he gave Fudge yet another piece of terribly bad news.

"It's the Death Eaters! It's Bellatrix and the others..." Moody shouted out of breath.

"—they're here!"

(End of this chapter)