The Admiral of Hogwarts

"Now, keep an eye out for me," Veneto said, taking out a Carcano rifle with a scope from her ship装 space and holding it in her hand. Then, with her wine-red eyes, she slowly scanned the entire Quidditch field.

"I'll be able to find that house-elf named Dobby very soon, and then—"

"Wait, Dobby really doesn't deserve to die," Hugo immediately劝 said, looking at Veneto's small face and hawk-like gaze as she surveyed the field.

"I know that what Dobby did this time was indeed a bit dangerous, and could have cost Harry his life, but there's really no need to kill him."

"Admiral, can you stop overthinking things?" Veneto turned her face to Hugo and shook her head, saying, "Who said I'm going to kill Dobby just because I took out a rifle?"

"Then what are you going to do with this rifle?" Hugo asked, pointing to the rifle. "Don't tell me you're just going to fire a warning shot at Dobby."

"Actually, those magical creatures have some magical defense abilities to varying degrees," Veneto said, seemingly changing the subject.

"Wizards, because they often use wands, have the worst reaction in this regard. But for magical creatures like goblins or house-elves who don't usually use spellcasting tools, they often actively deploy magical defenses when attacked."

"Oh, I see," Hugo nodded, then suddenly thought of something. "Wait, how did you guys come to this conclusion?"

"Of course, through experiments," Veneto said casually, inserting a clip into the rifle.

"But the test subjects we found weren't innocent. At least in America, goblin gangs are quite common. Massachusetts has already had more than one firefight with them."

As she spoke, Veneto raised the rifle, placed the butt against her shoulder, and aimed at the center of another platform, pulling the trigger.

Just as she pulled the trigger, Hugo noticed several mysterious runes appearing on the gun.

"Poof—" Unexpectedly, the sound of the gunshot sounded like popping a balloon the size of a palm.

As the bullet was fired, Hugo, who was watching the situation on the field with binoculars, immediately noticed that the Bludger that had been chasing Harry paused slightly, then began to fly in another direction.

Clearly, the rifle in Veneto's hand had been simply modified with magic. At least the sound of the shot had been greatly reduced. Otherwise, even with all the noise on the Quidditch field, at least half the people would have heard the gunshot.

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"Did we succeed?" Hugo asked, a relaxed expression on his face as he watched the situation on the field. "I see that ball is no longer fixated on Harry."

"No, the situation isn't that simple now," Veneto said to Hugo, activating all the reconnaissance equipment on her body to observe the entire arena.

"After being hit by a bullet, that house-elf's body feels about the same as being punched hard in the chest. Although painful, it shouldn't cause serious damage."

"So, there's still a possibility that the other party will continue to cause trouble," Hugo's expression became serious again after hearing Veneto's words.

Because he remembered the various self-inflicted injuries that Dobby had told Harry about in the original text. Even if only half of what he said was true, Veneto's shot wouldn't affect Dobby's Harry rescue plan.

Sure enough, Dobby's ability to withstand various blows far exceeded normal humans, and even most sadomasochistic house-elves.

Therefore, in less than two minutes, Veneto once again caught the magical power that Dobby was using to control the Bludger.

The reason she was able to catch this magical power was simple. After all, Dobby didn't just cast a spell once to achieve his goal of controlling the Bludger, but needed to keep an eye on it and manipulate it with magic, similar to the way Voldemort cursed Harry's broom last year.

So, when Veneto and Hugo were together, they were able to discover and lock onto the magical connection between the caster and the object being cast upon through the amplification of the Admiral's abilities, and then find the caster's location.

"Poof—" Another silenced gunshot rang out, and then Hugo saw the Bludger, which had circled around and chased after Harry again, lose control once more and crash into the person closest to it.

In the following time, the two sides were deadlocked in a cycle of shooting—stopping interference—recovering—continuing interference—shooting.

However, possibly because of Dobby's special masochistic attributes, Hugo and the others soon discovered that the time between the two manipulations was becoming shorter and shorter.

Clearly, the house-elf had slowly adapted to the feeling of being hit by bullets, so he recovered faster and faster after being hit.

In addition, although Veneto used these bullets, which belonged to Jianzhuang weapons, she could remotely control them to make them disappear. However, after being hit by several bullets, Dobby also realized that he was being attacked by some kind of physical means.

So, after another attack, Dobby began to set up some magical defenses around himself against physical attacks.

In this case, Veneto had to activate more runes on the gun to enchant the bullets, in order to counteract the portion of the newly cast magical shield on Dobby that was aimed at physical attacks.

At the same time, she also used another part of the rune to accelerate the bullet and give it greater kinetic energy, in order to cause more damage.

Fortunately, this tug-of-war finally came to an end with the whistle at the end of the game. After hearing the whistle, Hugo and Veneto both showed relaxed expressions.

Because if the two sides continued to stalemate, Veneto might have to further strengthen the power given to those bullets and let the whole incident end with Dobby bleeding.

"I've done my best this time," Veneto said, pulling Hugo as they quickly slid down to the ground along a rope that had been conjured, and running towards the location where the students were.

"Actually, if I wanted to kill him this time, I could have done it at the beginning of the game, but it's too exhausting to stop Dobby's rescue activities while controlling the intensity to avoid causing serious harm."

"I didn't expect that house-elf to be so stubborn," Hugo said helplessly.

"I thought he would find a place to hide after being hit by the first bullet, so I really didn't expect this confrontation to last for half a Quidditch match. Fortunately, Harry finally caught the Golden Snitch."

"—I think there's something wrong with this Bludger," Hugo and Veneto heard Lockhart's voice as they squeezed into the crowd huddled together on the other side of the tunnel.

"I don't think anyone here knows more about how to fix this Bludger than I do. At least last year, I fixed it for the Cannons several times—Ah!"

Hugo, who had just squeezed into the crowd, happened to see Lockhart trying to show off his skills in repairing Quidditch equipment. As a result, he unfortunately failed.

Because he leaned too far forward when opening the chain that usually bound the Bludger in the box, he was hit in the shoulder blade by the Bludger, which rose vertically at high speed after breaking free from the chain.

Accompanied by the sound of a bone breaking, Lockhart let out a soprano scream. At the same time, the whole person fell backward.