Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 628 Black Rain
This nightmare is finally over for the time being.

Fudge looked at all this in front of him, very confused.

He didn't know why he pushed everything up.

Voldemort didn't have a single hair left, and these monsters he created... fought for so long, wasted effort, sacrificed so many Auror wizards...is it over?

Merlin!
Fudge cried out in despair.

He froze in place, staring at the messy battlefield relying on the fluorescent spells emitted by everyone's wands.

"Professor Dumbledore! Where did Voldemort go? What the hell is that guy doing? He made these things. And on Moody... On Christmas Eve, what did you, that little wizard, and Moody see and find..."

Scrimgeour brought back the unconscious Moody, pointing to the golden rings in the eye sockets of the mad-eyed man, he asked sternly.

The others also stared at Dumbledore, expecting him to explain what was happening.

As for Fudge, he doesn't care about all this...

Dumbledore didn't explain much, he raised his hand, made a gesture, and directly signaled everyone to follow him.

They followed Dumbledore in confusion, and came to the strange wreck left by Wormtail.

Under the influence of Aha Said and Aginbad's ancient magic spells, even the monsters that Dumbledore had put to death with the Death Curse... the surviving forms turned into some kind of grayish-yellow gravel statues.

Everyone looked at the monster statue in front of them with disgusted expressions.

Apparently, the battle just now still left them with lingering fears.

The situation where they are always worried about being infected makes them feel too sick.

It's just that they still don't understand...why Dumbledore led them here.

"gentlemen?"

Dumbledore waved his wand with a smile, directly breaking the surface of the monster, peeling off the sculpture it left behind layer by layer,
Gravel, fine grains of sand continued to fall, splashing to several people's feet.

They saw Dumbledore reach into it, rummaging with his wand...

Soon, he found a gray-white stone beetle.

Palm-sized, covered with cracks...

No, that's not a crack, it's clearly an extremely small relief of human faces,
All kinds of skeletons and facial expressions of people in pain and despair... make up this Ukiyo-e.

"This is?"

"Sure enough!"

Aha Said, and Akinbad showed the expected expressions.

They nodded, reached out to Dumbledore for this thing, and observed it carefully.

In the end, Scrimgeour asked directly,

"This is not...the cursed polluted body of the Egyptian brain-eating worm...what?"

He said hesitantly, not sure.

"Could it be?" Scrimgeour suddenly thought of something, and he immediately turned around to look at another person who should know the inside story of this matter.

Fudge also recovered at this time, but obviously he didn't want to pay attention to this matter at all.

Under Scrimgeour's sharp gaze, he had no choice but to answer for Dumbledore weakly, "That's another thing that the Dark Lord took away from the Ministry of Magic back then...an ancient magic gold bear from the inverted pyramid of Egypt."

"Because 20 years ago, the Reticent judged that the magical creature with the highest threat level was sealed inside, and this itself is also an extremely dangerous magic alchemy item...so it has been sealed at the bottom of the Department of Mysteries."

"So, just now Said and Akinbad... your magic..." Jessida Gray, a wizard from New Zealand, also roughly understood.

"That's right, it's a kind of magic that dispels evil spirits and curses from the ancient Egyptian magic empire. Especially at that time, the ancient Egyptians concentrated the power of all the people in the ancient wizard empire in order to dispel this horrible brain-eating worm infected with the cursed disease. Many people think that the predecessor of the death curse is this spell." Aginbad said.

"Also... the original magic... a few years ago, it could only drive away mosquitoes, lizards and mice, and remove acne...but I didn't expect it to have such an effect." Aha Said saw the unbelievable eyes of everyone, and interrupted to explain.

Dumbledore reached out and took the gray beetle into his hand, and carefully stuffed it into a small snuff bottle.

Then he went on to explain what Jessica Gray said,
"You should also know the notorious 'Egyptian brain-eating worm disease'?"

"First of all, the first point to declare is that this disease is a curse spread by Egyptian brain-eating beetles... This curse is specifically aimed at wizards, and they only eat wizards' brains... They are caused by a certain beetle as the source of curse pollution, and they are constantly mutating to spread the curse."

"But those Muggles..." Jessica Gray asked.

"Well, it is certain that Voldemort must have carried out a certain degree of magical transformation on this beetle, but I don't think Voldemort can match the knowledge and research of this kind of magic by ancient wizards. He must have other functions for this Egyptian brain-eating beetle."

"You have also experienced everything just now... the twisted mutation in Wormtail that violates the laws of the world...is the latest achievement of Voldemort...

"This curse of spreading mutation, capable of creating the black magic army he needs..."

"That's what he needs..."

"However, you have seen everything here. The previous monsters, even Wormtail, were abandoned as abandoned children..."

"Why would he do that..." Fudge asked.

"I don't know too well. However, one thing that can be guessed is... Voldemort must have found something more worthy of his pursuit, something he desires more... Otherwise, he would not have avoided our attack, and even arranged a trap here..."

"Voldemort must have discovered something, and has some new plans."

Everyone looked at Fudge, it was obvious that this place was a trap, and no one expressed any objection.

And now Fudge, who has fallen into a state of salted fish, just hummed a few words without saying much, obviously he understood that this operation had completely failed.

It is impossible for him to keep the position and rights of the Minister of Magic.

Now,... anyway, he doesn't want to meddle in other people's business.

Seeing Fudge like this, the others were not interested.

Scrimgeour suddenly became enthusiastic towards Dumbledore, and he asked Dumbledore in a very enthusiastic tone, "Sir, what is going on with the magic on Moody?"

Having said that, Dumbledore came to his senses. He came to the unconscious Moody and took out a large black gemstone from his robe.

He swayed slightly in front of Moody's eye sockets, that is, in front of the golden ring,
The blood vessels all over Moody's face throbbed violently,
And the golden ring that was originally stuck in the eye socket trembled at this moment.

Dumbledore calmly raised his wand and began to pull it slowly, as if pulling something, the golden ring... began to peel off from Moody's eye sockets little by little, with countless squirming bloody tentacles... was wrapped around the tip of the Elder Wand.

Everyone watched the scene in front of them quietly without making a sound. They were even eager to see this magical ring.

Dumbledore looked at this thing carefully, and did not give it to anyone else, and finally put it... in a snuff bottle.

After taking out this weird ring (Blood Pupil Ring·Red), Moody's situation calmed down a lot.

After Dumbledore checked, he explained to everyone the coming of the new generation, the gap between the world dimensions, and the relationship between the recovery of magic power.

However, after many hints some time ago, most of the professors from other magic schools already knew about it.

Only some of the Aurors had just understood Dumbledore's explanation, and their faces were filled with disbelief.

They turned their begging eyes to Scrimgeour and Fudge,

But Scrimgeour avoided everyone's gaze, and Fudge nodded directly, indicating that all this was true, breaking their usual cognitive framework.

They still find it a little unbelievable.

Until Dumbledore returned to the ground with everyone,
When the Auror strikers looked at the shattered sky, the world was painted red, and a boundless bloody sun... After these scenes existed, they had to accept that what Dumbledore said was very likely to be true.

In the end, Dumbledore directly opened a portal with the help of the Elder Wand, allowing everyone to leave here temporarily.

This operation, it can be said that the Auror team was wounded and defeated, and the original purpose of the operation completely failed.

For the last sliver of prestige Fudge had, it was a devastating blow.

And those strange new supernatural magics shown by Voldemort have left a heavy mark on many people's hearts.

It made the magical world, which was already unable to calm down, even more undercurrent.

A flood of rumors has begun to spread to Hogwarts Castle with extreme exaggeration.

……

February 24, morning, around 08:30.

The weather was gloomy, and it was pitch black outside. It didn't look like January or February, but rather like a violent storm in August and September... It seemed that it was about to hit.

McGuffin and Harry, as well as Ron and Hermione went to the auditorium together.

Some of them inexplicably found that the atmosphere in the restaurant this morning was inexplicably weird.

It's quiet, even if someone whispers... it's just talking in a low voice.

Moreover, the students from Hogwarts and other schools...almost everyone had a newspaper, and they read the content furtively, and from time to time looked at the group of them, or mainly at Harry, with a strange look.

"What are you doing!" Ron unconsciously began to lower his voice.

"Maybe it's because of this..."

George and Fred suddenly appeared from behind, carrying a newspaper, and appeared in front of several people with extremely serious expressions.

The two spread it out, and the title on it was very eye-catching:

[Affirmative reply from the Ministry of Magic: The mysterious man is back! ! 】

There was much talk about the near-disastrous emergency operation by the Ministry of Magic yesterday, in which many heroic Aurors simply lost their lives.

"We don't need to talk about it, don't ask me anything, our Law Enforcement Division did not take part in this operation... we are not responsible for it..."

A young staff member of the Department of Law Enforcement with an extremely anxious expression said this when he left the Ministry of Magic in a panic last night.

But we know from some insiders involved in this operation that Albus Dumbledore was involved in Fudge's operation, and that the devil who can't even be named... has really reappeared this time.

Since August of this year, after the two mysterious riots on the Quidditch pitch and the Ministry of Magic (it is rumored that the demon who cannot even be named has appeared at that time...)
The entire Ministry of Magic seems to have returned to the state it was more than ten years ago.

People can feel the restlessness of the Ministry of Magic. They have continuously strengthened the monitoring and restrictions on various places in the wizarding world.

This makes more and more people in the wizarding world believe that the mysterious man has returned...

In addition, not long ago, there was a prophecy that aroused heated discussions among people. Regarding the rumor that Harry Potter is the savior of the world, many people believe that only Potter can help them get rid of the devil who cannot even be named...

……

Looks like things aren't going well for Fudge.

This was McGuffin's first reaction after reading the news.

Then, George and Fred sat down next to them, and spread out another newspaper to several people.

The above title is more straightforward:
【The end of Cornelius Fudge?Who will take over as Minister of Magic...]

We have received the latest news that for the failure of this top-secret mission, Fudge stated that he will take full responsibility and will take the blame and resign.

He said that in the coming difficult period, the magic world needs a tough and powerful prime minister to unite everyone through this extremely serious crisis...

Although they did not fully express their attitude, most of the staff of the Ministry of Magic believed that,
He made it clear that he would support... Rufus Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic's Law Division Enforcement Division,

Hope he comes to take his place.

McGuffin and the others read the contents of the newspaper, and their hearts were also affected by your surroundings. Although they already knew most of the above news, they were still a little uneasy.

Although today is the start of the 'Top Ten Competition', almost all British newspapers did not report on this competition... All the topics were focused on the top-secret operation held by the Ministry of Magic yesterday.

Even if some newspapers mentioned it, it was from other countries' magic newspapers.

No wonder the students around stared at Harry with such curious and frightened eyes.

"I said... no wonder I can't see Professor Dumbledore these days, no wonder we saw them there in the Forbidden Forest yesterday..."

Ron had only finished speaking halfway, when a bright light suddenly flashed from the edge of the dark and dark sky outside,
The magic ceiling of the auditorium reflects it exactly,

In an instant, the auditorium was illuminated in a pale white.

Then, thunder exploded.

Torrential rain poured down.

Here in Scotland in February... all of a sudden it rained so much.

Even according to the experience of the wizarding world, it is extremely abnormal and extreme.

But even more surprising is not this—

"Look!" Ron took a breath and pointed outside tremblingly.

The students in the auditorium became more restless.

The torrential rain outside... blocked all light.

The windows were covered with ink, and the black scratches continued to flow down...

The rainwater seemed as black as ink, dyeing the whole world incomparably pitch black.

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