HP Polar Night

Harry, who spent Christmas at Black's old house, followed Dumbledore to meet an old man, former Slytherin head and Potions professor Horace Slughorn.These two positions at Hogwarts are facing vacancies for the new academic year due to the ouster of Severus Snape.Although Harry didn't know exactly why Professor Dumbledore insisted on having Slughorn back to work, he was glad he could help.

I learned from Professor Slughorn that Harry's mother was once a student he admired very much, and that Lily's Potions scores were very good, which was consistent with Harry's idea of ​​her.

Originally, Slughorn had already rejected Dumbledore's invitation. At such a special time, he was unwilling to return to Hogwarts Castle and stand in the opposite camp with the mysterious man.But when Dumbledore was about to leave with Harry, he suddenly changed his mind—Harry just listened to the other party tell some students' past stories from the beginning to the end, and said a few words with him, but Dumbledore But he said he was a great help, which made Harry half understand.

In short, no matter what, the Potions Society has a new professor in the new semester, so it must be a worthwhile trip.

During Christmas, Snape stayed with Voldemort, but the Dark Lord did not take any action until he accidentally learned that Voldemort had given Bellatrix something very important.

This was revealed by Bellatrix herself during the Death Eaters gathering, so it must have a certain degree of credibility.

Snape found a way to pass the news to Dumbledore.

Bellatrix, as a married Black, is unlikely to inherit the property of the Black family, and the Lestrange family has long since declined, and even the ancestral home has been taken away by the Ministry of Magic.If she wanted to keep what the Dark Lord gave her, she would either put it in the ancestral house like Lucius, or it could only be placed in another safest place in the wizarding world besides Hogwarts—the ancient Ling Pavilion.

So the Order of the Phoenix set up a trap to draw out Lestrange and several Death Eaters. Of course, their ultimate goal was to catch Bellatrix.Because only the wizard himself can open the vault of Gringotts, if the wizard dies and there is no heir, the goblins will mercilessly embezzle the vault.

The Death Eaters got false news that they saw Harry Potter, and without receiving Voldemort's instructions, Bellatrix and others made arbitrarily assertive plans to capture Potter.

When they arrived at the scene, they did indeed see "Harry Potter", but before they could react, their side was already surrounded by the Order of the Phoenix.

"Siris Black!" Bellatrix immediately confronted his cousin when he saw an ambush, and made a ruthless move. The Killing Curse and Cruciatus Curse greeted Sirius directly.In comparison, it is more like treating a father-killing enemy rather than a blood relative.

Sirius didn't give up too much. He didn't like this crazy Voldemort supporter, or even the whole Black family.

This corner became the battleground for the Black siblings.

After a hard fight, Sirius finally hit Bellatrix with a stunning spell, ending the fight.

"Let's go!" Looking around, seeing that the Order of the Phoenix had captured all the Death Eaters, Sirius took the unconscious Bellatrix with him, and the group left the scene immediately.

Ten minutes later, several members of the Order of the Phoenix used Polyjuice Potion to dress up as brothers Bellatrix and Lestrange and headed to Gringotts.Under the influence of the Ignoring Curse, they successfully entered Gringotts, and with the help of insiders, they successfully entered the vault.In the vault, they found the cup that most closely resembled the description.

After leaving Gringotts, Sirius immediately handed over the things to Dumbledore.

The news of the arrest of Bellatrix's Death Eaters reached Voldemort's ears, and he almost immediately thought of the things he asked her to keep.And when he knew that Bellatrix had appeared in Diagon Alley today and came out of Gringotts, Dang even realized that this was a game set up by Dumbledore.

His gold cup is likely to be lost!

Voldemort was furious!

Why would Dumbledore know that he gave Bellatrix something for safekeeping?

Are there traitors among the Death Eaters? !

Voldemort summoned all the Death Eaters, and except for those who had been arrested, the remaining Death Eaters appeared in front of the Dark Lord one by one—those who betrayed him had already died shortly after the Dark Lord's resurrection. lost their lives, like Karkaroff.

Snape hadn't expected to see a familiar figure at the Death Eaters' party.

Agares stood quietly in a corner, wearing a hood but not a mask.He naturally felt someone's gaze on him, but at such a moment, he would not make any attention-grabbing movements.I believe that the other party also thought of this, so his eyes quickly moved away.

Voldemort was probing the loyalty of his Death Eaters, trying to find out who had betrayed him, but to no avail.

When Voldemort was furious, Agares stood up.

"Lord, I have a message to offer."

Snape frowned.Heart said: It really is him.

Blood red eyes glanced at Agares.

"Horace Slughorn will return to Hogwarts as the new Potions Professor and Head of Slytherin," Agareth said.

Hearing this familiar name, some pictures of his school days also appeared in Voldemort's mind. "Slughorn?"

Agares said again: "Also, someone from the Order of the Phoenix is ​​contacting the scattered werewolves in the forest."

Voldemort's werewolf Fenrir Greyback, who was also the one who bit Remus Lupine and transformed him into a werewolf, yelled, "Master! Let me tear him apart!"

Greyback is an extremely crazy and violent werewolf. As the leader of the tribe, the werewolves under his leadership are almost as evil as he is.What he likes most is to bite the wizard and transform him into a werewolf when he was young, divide his family, let the child grow up in an environment full of hatred and discrimination, and become a member of his "werewolf army" , to take revenge on other normal humans together.

Others, including Death Eaters, disdain and reject Greyback and his werewolf tribe, but Voldemort regards werewolves as one of his servants.

Voldemort ordered Greyback to go to the woodland to capture the Order of the Phoenix and destroy those werewolves who did not obey the Dark Lord.

After the party, Snape tried to stop Agares, but Agares had already Apparated away.He wasn't sure if the news was going to be passed on to Dumbledore.

The news delivered by Agares turned out to be true. Greyback took the werewolf to the woodland, and not long after arriving, he met Remus Lupine and several wandering werewolves.The two sides fought directly, and Lupine hated Greyback to the bone. Unfortunately, the enemy was outnumbered, and he gradually fell into a disadvantage, and finally had to retreat and leave.

Greyback swept the woodland straight away.

After the Christmas holidays, on the first day back to school for the students, another big event happened in the wizarding world.

All the Death Eaters who were originally imprisoned in the underground prison of the Ministry of Magic were released, oh, except for a few who dared not return to Voldemort, including Lucius Malfoy.

This prison robbery went very fast and smoothly. The Death Eaters lurking inside the Ministry of Magic took advantage of the fact that most of the Aurors were outside to catch the Death Eaters, and used compound potions and the Imperius Curse to control the guards and put them in prison. The Death Eaters let go.

After his predecessor, Fudge, the new minister, Scrimgeour, also felt the public's anger because of this matter-his office was almost flooded with letters.

Snape, who did not participate in this prison robbery operation, suspected that it had a lot to do with Agareth Black. At least judging from Voldemort's reaction, he was very satisfied with this underage Death Eater, and even secretly Teach Agares.This is a treatment that even the most loyal Death Eaters have never had.

Because of the restraint of his status abroad, the contact between Snape and Dumbledore was also very inconvenient.When Voldemort suspected that there were traitors among the Death Eaters, he could only be more careful.

After this incident, Snape wanted to inform Dumbledore or the Order of the Phoenix, but he found that there would always be a Death Eater by his side, and he quickly realized that this would not be Voldemort's method, Then it's probably Agares.He put his hand in the Death Eaters...

Things weren't as bad as Snape thought.

At least, whether it was the Order of the Phoenix contacting the werewolf, or the Ministry of Magic's jailbreak incident, they were all carried out with Dumbledore's knowledge.So in the two operations, neither the Order of the Phoenix nor the Auror Division lost manpower.

It's a gamble.

Only when Voldemort sees that the Order of the Phoenix is ​​increasing its manpower (the woodland incident), will he realize that he also needs Death Eaters, then he will not suspect that there is fraud in rescuing the Death Eaters imprisoned in the Ministry of Magic, such as Some Death Eaters, maybe others in disguise.

In addition, the few people Agares instigated among the Death Eaters will distract Voldemort's attention at the right time, so that he will not pay too much attention to these escaped people.In this way, they successfully put a lot of people around Voldemort.At critical moments, these people can affect the entire situation.

In this case, Agares once again delivered an important message.

It can be said that this news is more important than anything else, because it is related to the victory and defeat of the two camps-Dumbledore has been cursed by an unknown, and his strength has been greatly reduced!

After school started, many people saw Dumbledore's charred right hand with their own eyes.While many thought it was his new look or the result of a prank, someone like Agares would not have mistaken it, it could only be the damage done by the spell!

He didn't know what spell could make Dumbledore unable to remove it, but it didn't affect him from passing the news to Voldemort.

As for whether this curse really made Dumbledore weak, it depends on whether Voldemort has some kind of guess...

The author has something to say:

Recently, Kavinka was in ecstasy, and I wrote a chapter intermittently for several nights

I really want to end the war quickly~

Horcrux:

Notebook, Ring, Cup - Dumbledore

Locket - Agares

The Crown - Room of Requirement

Nagini - Voldemort

Harry - Harry

Alright, I'm going to the Room of Requirement soon, and get the crown by the way

Also, when Slughorn returns to Hogwarts, will the secret of the Horcrux be far behind...