I, Hogwarts Week Two

Chapter 554 Hermione's Plan

Listening to Hermione's description, everyone present felt a chill.

If Voldemort used to be known as the defender of pure blood and maintained cooperative relations with some pure blood families, then now Voldemort - relying on [Dead Root] he can get the most loyal servants - at this moment, does he really need cooperation? Does he still need support from others?

As Hermione said, they couldn't gamble - and didn't dare to gamble.

"This is an opportunity." Hermione continued to explain her opportunity, "Now that the Ministry of Magic has fallen, the Federation will also be affected and will lose its ability to control Britain.

We could reopen Hogwarts at Thornfield Castle. A temporary base for the rebels. We could even invite the royal family and Downing Street in for sanctuary. It could serve as an underground fortress for the government.

I don't know how long this war will last, maybe a year or even longer, but I believe we will eventually win, and when that happens, wizards and Muggles, who have experienced both suffering and war, will usher in a brand new future. We will realize our long-awaited wish of merging wizards and Muggles, and merging magic and science."

Hermione said excitedly, her eyes shining.

Maybe she was deliberately trying to motivate everyone because they had been too depressed for the past week, or maybe she really thought this would be an incomparable good opportunity. But no matter what her purpose was - at least after Dumbledore fell asleep forever in the garden of Thornfield Castle, this was one of the few moments when their spirits were lifted.

"Great plan," Owen commented. "It will probably work."

He knew Dumbledore's plan better than anyone else. After thinking about it for a week, he had almost guessed the plan except for the part about the Outer Gods and Voldemort.

The old headmaster was giving Harry a chance to live.

Before this, because Voldemort's body was reshaped, they didn't know whether the magic of love remained in Voldemort's body.

But that day - after Harry's wand automatically resisted Voldemort's spell, everything came to fruition.

Yes - the magic of love still exists.

In this way, subsequent plans regarding the Elder Wand can be carried out.

Harry then had a chance of winning.

Instead of perishing together with the soul fragments in the body.

As for whether Voldemort would fall for it - from the fact that Harry had connected to Voldemort's consciousness in recent days and knew that he was torturing Ollivander, Owen knew that he would definitely fall for it.

"You should discuss this with Moody Kingsley. I think they will probably agree, but it won't be easy."

"I also think so."

"After all, the more people there are in the safe house, the easier it is to be exposed." Owen said, "Then I plan to leave for a while."

"You're leaving?" Hermione suddenly became nervous.

"Well..." Owen nodded, "Bella needs me, and there is also the God-granted Tower in the cave. Finally, according to the bas-relief in the God-granted Tower in Canada, Dumbledore should have found some truth and made some plans."

"I'll go find them and look into the report," said Hermione.

"What about us?" Harry began. "I don't want to stay here at all."

"Well - Harry, follow me to find Bella. Nothing can go wrong with the last Horcrux. It must be destroyed as soon as possible."

"What about us?" Ron asked nervously.

"I don't know," Owen said. "We're seriously missing some information right now."

"You can help Fred and George renovate Thornfield Castle. Or work with them to recruit people. We definitely need people to do this."

"I won't leave immediately. At least we have to wait until September, when everything is settled in Thornfield Castle. In the next world, in addition to actively seeking intelligence, we will repair Thornfield Castle. Dobby and Kreacher will help us purchase materials. As for food, I think we should buy it in the Muggle world. I have people to help me over there. According to the plan, a few weeks will be enough."

"Um--"

Others nodded.

Although Ron, Ginny and Koyalt were almost deeply worried about Hermione, having a plan was better than having no plan at all. At least they knew what to do next.

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In the following week.

They began to focus on repairing Thornfield Castle. Dobby and Kreacher could find most of the materials needed, because one of the two elves was once loyal to Malfoy and the other was Black's elf. These two pure-blood families would spend a lot of Galleons on the manor and ancestral home every year for maintenance. Black had only fallen into decline in the past twenty years. Before that, their luxury was even greater than Malfoy's.

So the two elves quickly found a supplier of these materials.

As for food - Dobby said he could handle it.

This surprised Owen a little.

After learning more about it, he realized that the mysterious North American tycoon who had previously invested in Dobby's movie and provided a cruise ship to the twins was still in contact with Dobby.

Dobby sold many magic gadgets and magic storybooks to the other party.

After the Statute of Secrecy became a dead letter, he provided a lot of things about the magical world.

The trading relationship between the two parties continued for several years.

Owen was a little worried about the rich man, but considering that he had already been in touch with Dobby before the rise of Voldemort and the fall of North America, and was a Muggle, he did not have too many concerns.

As for Hermione, she got a picture book about bas-relief from the Federation and began to study it intently.

As for the Muggle government - she is still arguing with Kingsley and others.

They never agreed with Hermione's plan.

And he behaved very tough.

After all, how could a traditional wizard agree to this?

Until a man appeared - Theseus Scamander.

<divclass="contentadv">Currently, several organizations against Voldemort lack someone who can take charge of the situation.

Moody and Kingsley still have a conversation in the Order of the Phoenix.

But it is not good enough in the Union and Saints.

Similarly, the Saints and the Union lacked prestige in the Order of the Phoenix. Moody was worried that Death Eaters might have infiltrated the Union. He was familiar with the members of the Order of the Phoenix, but he was not sure about the members of the Union. At present, they had to be cautious and avoid any measures that might expose them.

So after the death of Dumbledore, the glue, the anti-Voldemort alliance was destined to split.

At this time, Theseus Scamander appeared.

As a war hero, he is the most qualified person to be the commander of this loose alliance. No one is more suitable than him, unless it is Grindelwald himself, but at present, no one knows where Grindelwald is.

Most of Hermione's plans were supported by Theseus Scamander.

The long time allowed this war hero to clearly know where the future of the wizarding world lies. Since it can no longer be concealed, and since both sides have a common enemy, there is nothing wrong with cooperating with Muggles.

They cannot push potential friends to enemies, which is very foolish.

As for Hermione's desire to convert Thornfield Castle into a temporary Hogwarts, this was not blocked. Everyone agreed - Voldemort was really too wicked, and if Hogwarts fell into his hands, who knows what kind of hell it would become. Although only Owen knew that Dumbledore had left Snape as a backup, Voldemort would most likely make him the new headmaster of Hogwarts for his merit of "betraying" Dumbledore. In this way, Snape would still protect the young wizards within his ability, but he was afraid of accidents. At present - the reputation of the young wizards of Hogwarts was too good - the golden generation of the magic world had been boasted by the Ministry of Magic for more than a year. Maybe Voldemort would intervene in the affairs of Hogwarts.

In short, most of them, including the professor, suggested closing the castle directly.

Hogwarts is no longer safe and will even become a target of public criticism. Parents will choose to keep their children at home because it is safer.

But in reality the school board, which is controlled by the Death Eaters, would never agree to close Hogwarts.

Some professors, including Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout, expressed their willingness to stay in school, even if they might encounter danger. At least they could still look after some little wizards in school - even though the only little wizards coming to school after school started this year were from Slytherin House.

Some other professors, such as Professor Flitwick and Slughorn, were more inclined towards Hermione's plan and started a new one.

The two sides argued for a long time, and finally made a decision in the third week of August. That was to approve Hermione's plan, and most professors would come to Thornfield Castle. Only Professor McGonagall - for her, Hogwarts was her home, and she spent her whole life in the castle.

In Professor McGonagall's own words.

Without Hogwarts, she would not be able to find home.

No one else forced her to do it, so the matter was settled.

On the last day of August, the castle began to get busy.

Hermione contacted many young wizards through the DA medal. Among these people, there was Justin, who was already at a loss and had nowhere to hide. After learning about Hermione's plan, he immediately agreed.

But there are also people like Zacharias Smith, whose parents have forbidden him from contacting people like Irving and have already evacuated the UK.

In fact, the latter are in the majority.

The professors' guess was right. Not many young wizards were willing to return to school, let alone come to Thornfield Castle. Because once they came here, it meant that they were standing on the opposite side of Voldemort.

On the Muggle side, things were progressing much more smoothly.

Both the royal family and Downing Street agreed to move to Thornfield Castle without much hesitation.

They have no right to choose. If they don't do this, they will die.

Voldemort might not kill all government officials, but he would definitely kill this group of them.

Moreover, Muggles see much further and naturally understand the benefits of this plan to them.

After the Queen came to Thornfield Castle, she often went to the young wizards to chat with them or help young Muggle-born wizards like Justin and Colin with their families' hiding problems. After a few days, hundreds of young wizards including Harry who had come to Thornfield Castle before, as well as the Order of the Phoenix and some professors, got used to the Queen's presence. It must be said that although the Queen herself could not do anything, this attitude was much better than the Ministry of Magic. Especially the royal family, which sounded very high and mighty, but was very approachable after actual contact, was really comforting.

And if we compare it horizontally with the Ministry of Magic - the gap is immediately apparent.

On the Hogwarts side, Professor Sprout led the team personally, and most of the professors including Professor Flitwick and Slughorn rushed to Thornfield Castle.

With the participation of the professors, Hermione no longer needed to worry about most of the plan, including notifying the young wizards in England, planning a safe route to get here, and identifying the identities of the young wizards, etc. - a series of problems could be left to the professors.

It is the end of August.

Perhaps their actions attracted the attention of the Ministry of Magic, or perhaps they had already prepared to take action.

Anyway, a host of new magical policies flowed out of the Ministry of Magic in the last week of August.

The policies were announced on the front page of the Daily Prophet.

The first one was a wanted notice for some people. Almost all the adults in the Order of the Phoenix, including Harry, Hermione, Ron and Owen, were on the newspaper.

The crime was the ridiculous murder of Albus Dumbledore.

"They might as well just declare that we are the Death Eaters. They have always been the defenders of justice."

After hearing this, Ron complained fiercely.

The degree of magic and shamelessness of this matter has exceeded most people's imagination. After all, the Death Eaters attacked the wedding that day, but hundreds of wizards saw it with their own eyes - of course - as long as Voldemort labeled everyone present as rioters, there would be no problem.

"The coup was very smooth, almost silent." Kingsley told them about the day when the Death Eaters attacked the Ministry of Magic. "The official reason for Scrimgeour's murder was that he resigned. He was replaced by Pius Thicknesse, who was previously Deputy Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. After the death of Amelia Bones, he became Director. Now that Scrimgeour is dead, he was controlled by Voldemort and came to power."

"After Scrimgeour and the Aurors loyal to him were killed or injured that day, the Ministry of Magic surrendered easily without any resistance."

"Surrender?" Harry said through gritted teeth.

"That's normal, Harry." Kingsley said sadly, "Not everyone has strong determination. Most employees of the Ministry of Magic are just ordinary employees. You can't ask those officials in the Gobstone Club of the Department of Magical Games and Sports who can't even use an Shield Charm to fight the Death Eaters. They have their own families and their own lives - most of them are unlikely to even resign, because if they lose their jobs, they will starve."

"But" Hearing that, Harry, Ron and the others opened their mouths, wanting to say something, but nothing came out of their mouths.