Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1201 There is an ambush

Since receiving the letter from Albert, Hermione has been in a bad mood. Even though she has decided to send her family out of the UK in a short period of time, she knows that her family may be in trouble. Still can't bring myself to calm down completely.

   There is no need to take that risk.

   As for the plan to spend the Christmas vacation with his family, Hermione directly canceled it. Albert can write to her, which means that he is really in trouble.

  As for the so-called involvement in the letter, she was still at a loss, but Hermione believed that Albert would not and did not need to joke about such things.

  So, after receiving the letter, he made a decision without thinking too long, and returned a message to Albert.

  After seeing Albert in Professor McGonagall's office, Hermione found that Albert had already arranged for her, and the leave was smooth. Professor McGonagall approved the leave without asking the reason.

   "I thought you needed to think about it for a while."

Albert is very happy that Hermione can make a decision in a short period of time. Although this is also within his expectations, he still hopes to solve the problem as soon as possible. After all, Hermione's family will be implicated by him. If it's over, his relationship with Hermione is probably going to be problematic, and there is no harm in maintaining a good relationship and doubts.

   "What's going on?" Hermione finally couldn't help asking out her doubts.

"You should know that the mysterious man captured Cassandra and asked her to perform a divination on me, and the content of the divination is likely to affect you and your family." Albert looked at the nervous Hermione and said calmly .

"Cassandra?" Hermione repeated. She also knew that Cassandra was captured by the mysterious man. The mysterious man asked her to divination Albert. Hermione was not surprised, but it just happened to affect her What about with her family?

   "Last time, you mentioned asking me to help in the stands of the stadium. This is the cause and effect." He explained to Hermione rather helplessly.

  It is really helpless to encounter this kind of thing.

   "How...how do you know?" Hermione asked again.

"I suspect that she may have predicted the time and place of my appearance, or predicted the date of my death." Albert said softly, "We found Cassandra's body, and found that she left us a code on the body, After unlocking the code, one of the clues pointed to December 27th, and you just mentioned that again."

   Now, Hermione understood!

  Because she just decided to put the time to send off her family after the Christmas holiday, it's no wonder that Albert had an association when he saw that time.

   "So, I plan to advance the time to avoid this danger." Albert briefly explained the reason for the advance, "It is easy and difficult to avoid the predicted result, but it is not impossible."

   "What are you going to do next?" Hermione wanted to hear Albert's suggestion.

   "In short, you have to be vigilant, and you have to decide the whole process in advance." Albert was very happy that Hermione asked himself the solution directly. "It's best to modify their memory directly and let them immigrate out of the UK immediately."

   "I'm going to do that too, but..." Hermione worried that it wasn't that simple.

"This matter is indeed affecting you because of me. I will help you deal with it. After the war is over, I will accompany you to find them and remove their magic." Albert comforted: "Don't Worry, this war won't last long, so don't worry, what you're doing now is just to keep them safe."

   "In fact, I sent my family out of the UK a long time ago and let them avoid a lot of trouble."

  Hermione knew that Albert probably misunderstood, but she was very satisfied with Albert's arrangement. After all, the other party had tried her best to help, so she asked, "How should we go back, Apparate or take the train?"

   "Apparition, I've got Dobby to scout for us, and it'll take us straight to a park near your house."

   After Albert took Hermione out of Professor McGonagall's office, he came to an unused classroom, where Dobby the house elf was already waiting for them.

   "Shall we go now, sir?" Dobby asked sharply.

   "Yes, let's go now, and I will trouble you this time."

   "It has been an honor for Dobby to serve Mr. Anderson," said the house-elf excitedly.

   Hermione looked at Dobby the house-elf and asked, "How have you been, Dobby?"

   "Very well, Mr. Anderson's friends all like Dobby."

   Albert took out his wand from the pocket of his robe, tapped Hermione on the shoulder, cast the Disillusionment Charm on her, and asked, "Isn't it your first time using Apparation?"

   "Yes, is there any question?" Hermione asked sideways, obviously not understanding why Albert asked this question.

"It may not be very comfortable for the first time, and hold my arm tightly." Albert stretched out his left hand towards the house elf. When the two hands were held together, the two family elves disappeared immediately in the classroom.

When they reappeared, they were already in the park near Hermione's house. Several young children around were startled by the sudden crackling sound, but Albert had already pulled out his wand to erase their memories immediately. They didn't even have time to react.

"Don't worry, they didn't see us, they just heard the sound of Apparition, and their memory has been erased, so there will be no problem." Albert looked at the backs of several children leaving, and said casually, "This is the use of phantom The benefits of the body curse."

   Seeing that Hermione didn't answer, Albert looked sideways and found that Hermione hadn't slowed down yet, so he asked, "Are you okay!"

"It's not good. I feel like I'm being squeezed out of a tube. This feeling is too bad." Hermione's face was pale, and it seemed that she was not practical to adapt to Apparation. It took a few minutes for her to recover from such a bad feeling.

"Apparition is like this. I used to be like this. You may not be used to it at first, but after you get used to it, you will find that Apparition is quite easy to use." Albert took out a salty candy and handed it to Hermione Say, "Take some of this and you might feel better."

"Thanks."

  Hermione also hopes that her future boyfriend will be as considerate as Albert.

"You need to adapt to it. If you need it, after this incident, I can apparate you a few times. I believe that with your talent, you will be able to adapt quickly. It was the same with Fred, George and Lee Jordan. "

   "Thank you, I will trouble you when the time comes." Hermione did not refuse, she knew very well that mastering Apparation is very important.

   However, she knows better what to do now,

   "Let's go." Hermione asked sideways, "Do you know where my home is!"

   "I don't know, I'm afraid I need your guidance." Albert made a gesture of invitation.

"Come with me!"

  Hermione smiled and led the way ahead. Along the way, the two chatted while walking, and Hermione seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked, "Cedric was also sent directly to Hogwarts by Dobby?"

   "Yes, this is faster, safer and more concealed." Albert nodded directly and admitted, "However, remember to keep this matter secret, and don't let others know."

  Hermione nodded, and heard Albert continue to reveal her curious news.

"Although Hogwarts prohibits Apparation, the magic of house elves is different from that of wizards, so it will not be affected." Albert said softly, "This is actually a small loophole, but many people don't like it." I didn’t expect that, if they were to know about it, many people would take advantage of this loophole.”

   "There shouldn't be many families with house-elves!" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"Not much, but not too little. Sometimes, what you see is only the surface." Albert reminded, "The magic world has more bloodlines than you believe. If they were put in the past, they would be equivalent to Muggles." There are a lot of nobles and rich pure-blood wizards, so they value blood more than you expected, especially the power center of the Ministry of Magic, basically it is difficult to sit in a high position if you are not pure blood."

   "What about you?" Hermione frowned deeply and asked, "I heard that you have become a member of the Wizengamot."

"That's because my connections are wide enough, my fists are hard enough, and my strength is strong enough. I beat everyone who got in the way, and trampled on their so-called pure-blooded best fallacies." Albert said calmly Said shocking words: "That's why those pure bloods are so hostile to me, and the mysterious people want to kill me so much, it's not without reason. However, you don't need to be too pessimistic, your luck is actually not bad."

   "Good luck."

  Hermione was a little stunned. She really couldn't understand why she said she was lucky to catch up with such a bad thing as the wizard war.

"As long as we can win this wizard war, the arrogance of pure blood will be severely damaged, and the situation of pure blood controlling the rights of the Ministry of Magic will be greatly eased." Albert looked at Hermione's stunned expression and said calmly Explained: "You don't think it's because of the mysterious man, this war is actually a contradiction between pure blood and Muggle wizards, but the mysterious man is too eye-catching, covering everything up. Of course, you can also think that this is a war provoked by the mysterious people, but you can’t just look at many things one-sidedly, you need to have a deeper understanding of its essence, otherwise, even if you enter the Ministry of Magic in the future, it will be difficult for you to move forward.”

   This is also the problem that since Kingsley became a minister, he has been committed to abolishing the laws supporting pure blood and striving to eliminate the discrimination of blood on both sides.

  Hermione opened her mouth slightly, she didn't expect to hear terrible news from Albert. She didn't think Albert would lie to her, but she still couldn't understand some things, and couldn't think deeply about the reasons.

   "Don't think about it now, you will know later."

  When the two came near Hermione's house, Albert stopped suddenly, reached out his hand and took out his detection pocket watch from his pocket, and the thing actually responded.

  Hermione also stared at her detection pocket watch, holding her wand tightly in one hand, looking very nervous.

   There is no doubt that the presence of a dark wizard here is not a good omen.

  This almost means that Albert's worries are right. The mysterious man is likely to be eyeing Hermione's family, planning to use them as bait, waiting for his big fish to take the bait.

   "Your family should be fine. If the mysterious person wants to use them as a trap, at least make sure they are alive." Albert glanced across the street, quickly looking for the whereabouts of the wizard in charge of monitoring this block by detecting his pocket watch.

   "You wait here now, I will deal with the enemy."

   After speaking, Albert gestured to Hermione, and then moved forward alone.

   After a while, Albert passed through the wall without a sound, and directly knocked down the dark wizard who was hiding under the disillusionment spell and was in charge of monitoring Hermione's house from behind.

   After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Albert asked the Patronus to notify Hermione.

"solved?"

  Hermione was a little surprised at Albert's efficiency.

  After confirming that it was safe, she went home immediately, only to find that there was no one at home.

   This made Hermione's blood run cold, and countless bad possibilities appeared in her head. If her family members were taken away by mysterious people, it would be almost impossible to rescue them.

   "Don't worry, maybe your family members just went to work." Albert patted Hermione on the shoulder lightly and comforted, "After all, it's working hours now, you can't expect them to stay at home and not work, can you?"

   "Oh, oh, you're right." Hermione was indeed a little panicked, but still felt that what Albert said made sense, and planned to find her family.

   "Don't worry, I'll look through the memory of that guy just now." Albert pointed to the nearby house and said, "It will be beneficial for us to move forward by finding out the specific situation first."

  After returning to the house across the street, Albert used Legilimency on the dark wizard who was knocked down by him.

   "They're fine." Albert took back his wand and said, "This guy is in charge of surveillance and doesn't know much."

   "Legiliency is really a terrible magic." Hermione muttered, "Can you also see through me directly?"

   Last time, when Harry was practicing Occlumency, Hermione had read similar books and understood what kind of magic Legilimency was.

"No, I can only judge whether you are lying." Albert shook his head and said, "Of course, if I look directly into your eyes, I can also see part of your mind, but there are actually very few wizards who can do this. "

  Hermione quickly looked away.

   "The difficulty is actually not high, you need some talent, and you need someone to help!" Albert directly said the problem in Hermione's heart, "Of course, mastering him actually has something to do with people's personality."

   "Can you teach me? I mean Occlumency, if you have time." Hermione asked tentatively.

"That was never a pleasant process, I think Potter should have mentioned it to you." Albert glanced at Hermione and said, "Someone flipped through your memory, and then you tried to resist, and in the process you slowly Grasp Occlumency slowly, but it also means that many of your secrets will be known to others, which is by no means a pleasant thing.”

   "Okay, we should go, I already know where your family is."

  (end of this chapter)