Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 512 Dumbledore’s long-cherished wish

Because Sirius and Harry made so much noise at the door, Lupin and Tonks on the sofa were naturally woken up and joined the celebration of Harry's return.

Looking at Harry and others hugging each other, crying and laughing for a while, Dumbledore always had a happy smile on his face. Perhaps because of his age, he always liked to see this kind of happy reunion. scene.

On the other hand, Mike was different. He just glanced at them lightly and then stood aside and watched coldly.

For him now, how to deal with Dumbledore's next cross-examination is the most important thing, because Dumbledore seems to have bad intentions.

Thinking so, Mike looked to another corner.

There, Snape was staring at Mike with his wand in hand, as if he was ready to attack at any time.

Seeing this, Mike's eyes became dangerous, but at this moment, a person rushed over from the side and held him firmly in his arms.

"I'm sorry! Mike! I lost my temper with you, please forgive me!" Sirius choked and said, "I was just... just too anxious. I should have believed you, thank you!"

"Okay, I get it. And can you let me go? I'm about to be strangled to death by you!"

Mike held his hands up and said while holding his breath, the smell of Sirius was really horrible.

"Oh! Oh! Sorry!"

"I'm feeling better now."

Sirius stood aside and rubbed his hands awkwardly. He also knew that he smelled bad now.

He looked quite happy, and both Dumbledore and Lupine laughed.

After the laughter, the expression on Dumbledore's face finally became serious. He looked at Harry and said:

"Harry, what is going on? Who kidnapped you?"

As soon as these words came out, not only Sirius, but also Lupine and Tonks on the side pricked up their ears.

You must know that the couple searched outside for a full day and night. They tried almost every method but could not find Harry.

However, Harry had a troubled look on his face when he heard this. He looked at Mike with pleading eyes, while still stammering:

"I...actually I don't know very well, why don't you ask Mike?"

Everyone's eyes turned to Mike again. In desperation, Mike could only roughly tell the story of the incident.

Of course, Mike didn't say anything about the fact that Voldemort's soul had disappeared from Harry's body. In his opinion, there was no need to tell the matter. People who needed to know, like Dumbledore, had long ago You should have figured it out the moment you saw Harry.

After listening to Mike's story, the office fell into silence. Except for Snape who was still staring at Mike and Harry who looked confused, everyone else looked thoughtful.

Obviously like Mike, they were also puzzled by this matter, but at the same time they also noticed the strangeness in it.

After a long time, Harry, who was a little impatient with waiting, couldn't help but let out a big yawn.

Dumbledore, who was deep in thought, was awakened by the yawn. He looked up at the sleepy Harry, then touched his beard and said sheepishly:

"Sorry Harry, I got distracted accidentally. It's getting late now, why don't you go back and rest first?"

Hearing this, Lu Ping and others were also awakened. Under their agreement, Harry, who was still a little embarrassed at first, could only walk out of the office in three steps.

His godfather, Sirius, desperately wanted to stay with Harry.

What happened in the past two days had frightened him, and he could hardly imagine his life without Harry.

However, his request was cruelly rejected by Dumbledore.

At Dumbledore's insistence, Lupine, Sirius and others were kindly invited out of the office. Seeing this, Mike also planned to leave the place among them, but when he had already reached the door, Dumbledore's kind words The voice rang again.

"Mike, I'm sorry, but can you please stay here for a while? I, an old man, have something else I want to talk to you about."

Dumbledore said very politely, but Mike did not feel the slightest friendliness, because Snape, who had been standing in the corner, had moved to the door, and his meaning was already obvious.

Glancing coldly at the wand in Snape's hand, Mike said expressionlessly:

"Can."

"This is really great, please sit down, Mike." Dumbledore took the first step to sit behind the eagle-legged table, and then took out a lot of candies from the drawer and said, "Our conversation may be a bit long. Just now I noticed that you didn't eat much at the banquet, so if you're hungry, you can grab some candy to cushion your stomach. Of course, it's not good to eat sweets at night, but...who cares if you're really hungry? ? But I don’t recommend that you eat cockroach piles. There is coffee in it. If you eat too much, you will not be able to sleep at night."

Dumbledore kept talking, and he seemed very excited that Mike was willing to sit down and talk to him. However, Mike was extremely cold and turned a blind eye to the mountains of candies on the table.

"Let's get down to business, principal. It's getting late."

Hearing this, Dumbledore hesitated for a moment, then his expression became serious and he asked:

"Okay, Mike. Do you know what happened on Christmas night?"

"If you mean how I spent Christmas Eve, of course." Mike said, "Franklin and I traveled to the United States and spent a wonderful Christmas there with Abbot."

"Abut? Are you talking about Abut Fuli? Oh, I still remember him, a handsome young man. Has he gone to the United States now? Well, that's right. Going to the United States is quite good now, but …”

Seeing that Dumbledore was tending to go off topic again, Snape, who was standing behind Mike, couldn't stand it anymore and covered his mouth and deliberately coughed a few times.

"Sorry, I digressed, I'm very sorry." Dumbledore said, "Let's get back to the business. Mike, on Christmas Eve, I received news that Voldemort was preparing to pass a message in the Room of Requirement on Christmas Eve. The Vanishing Cabinet raided Hogwarts. But he didn't come later, which was very strange, because we did find a lot of werewolves and dementors lurking in the Forbidden Forest at that time, and they also admitted that they were Voldemort. He ordered them to hide here and prepare to attack Hogwarts at any time. Can you tell me why Voldemort didn't come that night?"

Dumbledore stared closely into Mike's eyes, seeming to want to read something from the changes in Mike's expression.

But unfortunately, Mike has already turned on the Occlumency, which makes him seem to have no flaws and no flaws.

"I'm sorry, I don't know."

"Really? I understand." Dumbledore asked again, "Then do you know why Voldemort attacked the Ministry of Magic yesterday?"

This time Mike didn't answer immediately. He really didn't know about this.

But under the guise of Occlumency, he still performed flawlessly.

"I'm sorry, I don't know."

"Okay," Dumbledore nodded disappointedly, "It's getting late, so why don't you go back and rest first. Oh, by the way. Do you really don't need to bring some candy back?"

"No, Headmaster Dumbledore, good night."

"Good night, Mike."

Watching Mike slowly disappear at the door and close the door, Dumbledore sighed deeply.

It was obvious that his heart was not as indifferent as he showed at this moment.

Snape, who had remained silent beside him, became even more irritable. As soon as Mike left, he walked up to Dumbledore, slammed his hands on the desk and roared:

"He lied! He must know something! He is not even willing to pretend now!"

Faced with Snape's roar, Dumbledore not only did not get angry, but showed a look of pity and said slowly:

"Does it start hurting again?"

Hearing this, Snape was stunned for a moment, then put his right hand behind his back and said with an unhappy expression:

"No!"

Dumbledore lowered his eyes, looking a little guilty.

He knew very well that the Dark Mark on Snape's arm had been torturing Snape every moment since Christmas Eve. This was Voldemort's punishment. In Voldemort's eyes, Snape had undoubtedly been abandoned and was still the most abhorrent. of that.

This is also the reason why Snape has not received any news from Voldemort after so long.

Dumbledore pursed his lips and asked tentatively:

"Severus, maybe you should take a break and rest for a while."

"No! Absolutely not!" Snape's nerves that had just relaxed became tense again, and he roared angrily, "Harry was just kidnapped, and now you actually tell me to rest? Then who can help me after I rest?" Can you stay by his side and protect him? Is it you? Just with your half-crippled arm? "

Dumbledore didn't speak, just looked out the window silently.

And Snape obviously noticed that what he said was a bit harsh, and his tone suddenly softened and he said:

"Anyway, I won't rest. In addition, I suggest you send someone to arrest Mike Townley immediately and deal with it! He is a very dangerous person! Relying on the Los Santos Group, he has developed too many people, maybe One day your worries will come true!”

Dumbledore shook his head subtly, but still said nothing.

The weather today is quite good, which makes the moonlight tonight particularly bright, and it has a wonderful artistic conception when it shines on people.

And now Dumbledore has been immersed in this artistic conception and cannot extricate himself.

Harry's ghost was gone, and he could see it.

He even suspected that this kidnapping case was planned by Mike from the beginning, in order to quietly remove Voldemort's ghost from Harry.

After all, if the person who kidnapped Harry was Voldemort, then there was absolutely no chance of Harry surviving.

And this is why Dumbledore doesn't want to do anything to Mike.

In his opinion, Mike still has love in his heart, and this is enough.

All he cares about is the entire wizarding world. After experiencing the ravages of the Dark Lord twice, he has an instinctive aversion to war.

Can't Dumbledore see the various problems existing in wizarding society today?

Of course he can see it, but he prefers to use a gentle and subtle way to change the world.

So he didn't actually care about what Mike did. Even if Mike finally became the Minister of Magic and started to tilt policies towards non-pure-blood wizards, he wouldn't care. After all, what Mike did was exactly what he did. What we hope for is to make the world a better place.

But this does not mean that Dumbledore will absolutely trust Mike, because in his opinion, Mike has developed too fast.

In the face of such great power and power, it is difficult for a young man like Mike to control his desires.

'Don't let me down, Mike. ’

Looking at the bright starry sky outside the window, Dumbledore sighed silently.

…

"Dear Mr. Townley! Is there anything we can help you with?"

In the Hogwarts kitchen, an old house elf was bending over and talking to Mike with a face of joy.

Behind him stood a large number of house elves. They were extremely respectful and looked at Mike with admiration in their eyes. This was the result of Mike helping them out during the Clark incident.

"Um, just have something." Mike said, as if he had remembered something, and then added, "Just a little bit will be enough. I can't eat too much by myself, so don't waste it."

"Okay! Dear Mr. Townley!"

The leader of the house elf nodded excitedly, and then shouted and commanded the other house elves to take action.

For a moment, the originally silent kitchen became brightly lit again.

At this time, Mike sat in his old seat, throwing the Masonic gold coins in his hand with a serious look on his face.

After a while, the color of the gold coin suddenly began to turn red. Seeing this, Mike quickly grabbed the gold coin and pressed it hard.

"Penello, is there any news?"

"Yes, Mike, we have found out the matter." Penello's voice came clearly from the gold coin, "Voldemort did attack the Ministry of Magic yesterday, and he went alone. The time is right for us to send When people were looking for Harry, all the Aurors and Strikers at that time were transferred to support the Ministry of Magic, so they had no time to care about us."

"He went to attack the Ministry of Magic alone? Why?"

"Sorry, the reason is unknown."

Mike nodded and continued to ask:

"So, what about Ministry casualties?"

"It's very serious! Almost the entire Auror force has been maimed, and the striker force has suffered very heavy casualties. Even the Minister of Magic, Scrimgeour, was seriously injured and is being rescued at St. Mungo's. Now the entire Ministry of Magic is basically The government has been paralyzed, and Kingsley Shacklebolt, who has replaced Scrimgeour as Acting Minister, is trying to restore order, but with little effect, and not many people are willing to listen to him."

At this point, Penello suddenly paused, and then said in a trembling voice:

"But the results they achieved are also very rich!"