Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 1245: Great death
Chapter 1247 The Great Death
"They retreated."
Truman, who had been following the movement of the group of black wizards through the map, suddenly reminded loudly: "I mean, the group of damned black wizards retreated!"
In fact, even without Truman's reminder, everyone can notice the latest changes.
In their line of sight, the dementors that were still wandering around to harass everyone and caused troubles suddenly stopped, turned their heads to look in a certain direction, and then rushed towards the gap in the school gate like a receding tide Go, leaving only a group of irrational ghost corpses, who were abandoned by the black wizards as cannon fodder to delay them.
"Look in the direction of the Forbidden Forest!"
Cedric looked in the direction where the dementor turned his head, and was surprised to find that green sparks appeared above the Forbidden Forest, which was undoubtedly the reason for the retreat of the black wizard and the dementor.
"The guy who fired the green sparks and made the group of dark wizards retreat is obviously a Death Eater." George looked at the green sparks in the sky and frowned slightly, "How do they know that the assassination mission failed?"
After Professor McGonagall and a group of people came to reinforce, everyone already knew that the Death Eaters had spent a lot of time trying to murder Dumbledore, but the whole plan had been foreseen by Albert in advance, and he had just completely failed and invaded the school. More than a dozen Death Eaters had been subdued.
"Where did you say Albert went? I thought he was going to deal with those who slipped through the net." Fred turned his head to look at Shanna, who shook his head to express that he didn't know.
"You guys did a good job."
Professor McGonagall looked at the Weasley brothers and the group of people around them with relief. If they hadn't been reinforced in time, even they would have struggled to cope with the difficult group of dementors.
Even the professors in the school, not everyone can summon the Patronus.
"You're welcome, we play too...I mean I'm glad I could help." George smiled and changed the topic and asked, "By the way, have you seen Albert?"
"No."
Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows slightly. She was actually very curious about how Albert made them all master the Patronus of the physical body. What's more, most of them graduated less than a year ago, and they seemed to be well-trained. Su, it's incredible.
"I'm afraid it will be troublesome to clean up the mess." Cedric said, looking at the corpses everywhere, "However, I think everyone must be very happy that I can help."
They had to go through a thorough investigation and deal with all the ghouls that had invaded Hogwarts.
"Hagrid, please find an open space and gather those infernal corpses first." Professor McGonagall turned to Hagrid.
Without Dumbledore, she will have to assume the role of vice-headmaster.
"Do you want to bury them?" Hagrid raised his eyebrows and asked. He didn't think it was a good idea. There were too many infernal corpses. If they were buried directly, Hogwarts would have to become a cemetery .
"Of course not, I'm afraid they'll have to be set on fire to burn them clean." Professor McGonagall shook his head and said, most of the ghouls are made by dark wizards using Muggle corpses, and usually only flames can be used to completely destroy them.
It is undoubtedly troublesome to clean up the mess after the battle, but Professor McGonagall did not involve several deans, but asked them to go back to appease the students of their own colleges, so as to prevent the students who were woken up from each college from making further troubles. Big mess.
The work of cleaning up the Inferi was handed over to members of the Order of the Phoenix and the Defense Association.
Everything was arranged in an orderly manner, even Filch was given the task of guarding the gate to prevent other students from running out and making trouble.
Members of the Defense Society are more than happy to accept the "drudge" of cleaning up the Inferi, and they finally have a chance to enjoy the fun of fighting. Although the subject does look a little more ferocious, it does not prevent them from having fun fighting monsters.
This is a practice opportunity that I never had in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class before.
In order to ensure safety, Shanna thinks that several people should go together to pay the Inferi.
No one objected, after all, it was for safety.
Everyone will be happy to use the spells they learned in the Defense Association on this group of hideous dark creatures, which looks really joyful.
"Other spells don't seem to be able to kill them completely." Lee Jordan pointed to the headless corpse, and excitedly told his friends about his new discovery.
It's unbelievable that he can still move even though his mind has been blown to pieces by the Shattering Curse.
"That's why we need to use flames to burn them all to death." Shanna came over, used the body binding spell to knock down the infernal corpse, glanced at Lee Jordan with disgust, and complained: "Can you Don't make it so disgusting."
"They're already disgusting enough." Lee Jordan swung his wand and dragged several infernal corpses bound by spells to Hagrid's side.
"This number is really amazing."
Hagrid threw the corpse brought by Lee Jordan onto the hill piled up in front of the corpses. "There are at least hundreds, or even thousands, of the corpses that invaded Hogwarts. Those guys are really crazy!"
"Those guys are lunatics. The Ministry of Magic should have hanged them all." The brutality and cold-bloodedness of the Death Eaters made Shanna feel inexplicably chilled.
"The Ministry of Magic does not have hanging, it should be said that there is no death penalty, if the soul is sucked away by the dementor. However, now the dementor has fallen to the mysterious man!" Lee Jordan said in a broken voice He said, "If other lower grade students see it, they will have to be scared out of their psychological shadow."
"They are not as fragile as you think." Angelina dragged a few Yin corpses over, and reminded: "Don't be lazy, we have already dealt with eleven Yin corpses."
"We have more than you, thirteen heads."
"You are so boring."
"Who is where!"
When Hagrid threw the Inferi into the pile of corpses, he seemed to notice something, and suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the Forbidden Forest and shouted.
Hagrid's shout immediately raised everyone's vigilance, and they all raised their wands and pointed at the strange figure appearing from the Forbidden Forest.
"It's me."
"Harry? Why are you here, and what's behind you?"
After Hagrid saw clearly that the person walking from the Forbidden Forest was Harry, he was slightly taken aback, because he saw that Harry seemed to be dragging a few Inferi corpses behind him.
No, that thing doesn't seem to be an Inferi, but... a Death Eater.
Yes, Death Eaters.
They were tightly entangled in vines, and Harry dragged them all the way like dead dogs.
"Death Eaters..." Harry seemed to take a long time to react, and said softly, "The Death Eaters Albert just caught...let me bring them back along the way."
"Look, I just said that Albert will definitely bring the Death Eaters to the same pot." Lee Jordan said with a smile to the others, "Now there are a few more Death Eaters that the Ministry of Magic needs to execute. , It’s really gratifying.”
"According to your calculations, there are dozens of Death Eaters who have been captured. This is the lair where the mysterious people were stabbed. Is it possible to catch all their Death Eaters?" Angelina couldn't help it. Tucao said, she felt that some of the people caught must not be Death Eaters, and those guys were not Chinese cabbage, so how could they catch a lot of them.
"Very likely." Shanna was not surprised. This incident was originally intended to attack the minions of the mysterious man, and it was not the first time Albert had done so.
Hagrid had never seen Harry so lonely, and asked worriedly, "Are you okay, Harry."
"Not so good."
Harry dragged the Death Eaters and continued towards the oak gate, where there was a small commotion for some unknown reason.
"What's the matter over there?" Hagrid asked suspiciously.
"They probably know that Dumbledore is dead." Harry said hoarsely, she saw Mrs. Weasley, if she had followed before, she must have seen Dumbledore's body.
"Dumbledore is dead?" Hagrid stared down at Harry, and retorted loudly, "What are you talking about, Harry, didn't Professor McGonagall say..."
"Hagrid, Dumbledore is dead."
Harry shook his dry lips, and said in a hoarse voice: "Snape killed Dumbledore, and not long after Professor McGonagall left, Snape killed Dumbledore in a surprise attack. "
Harry didn't care about the astonished gazes of others, and said slowly, "When I rushed over, they had already jumped directly from the Astronomy Tower, trying to leave from the Forbidden Forest, but they were still given by Albert. Blocked in the Forbidden Forest."
Not only Hagrid, but even the others were completely stunned by the news Harry provided.
"This, this is impossible, impossible, how could Dumbledore die!" Hagrid murmured. "Where's Snape? Where's that bastard? I'm going to wrench every bone in him with my own hands."
"He ran away!" said Harry.
"How could Albert let that beast run away!" Hagrid's eyes widened in disbelief.
Harry didn't intend to tell Hagrid that it was Albert who let Snape go, and he didn't know how to tell them that all of this was arranged by Dumbledore.
In fact, Harry is also confused now, maybe only Albert or Dumbledore knows all the truth now.
So, Harry was going to the headmaster's office to find Dumbledore's portrait, and he wanted to ask him personally to find out everything.
When he passed the oak gate, he saw Professor McGonagall, who had just received the news of Dumbledore's death from Mrs. Weasley, wiping the corners of his tearful eyes with a plaid lace handkerchief.
"Snape ran away!"
Before Harry walked up the stone steps, he threw the dragging Death Eaters aside casually, and said to Professor McGonagall, "Snape left the other Death Eaters and ran away with Malfoy, Albert didn't stop him."
After speaking, Harry ignored the astonished stares of the others, and walked directly through the oak gate to the headmaster's office on the eighth floor of the castle.
There, a new portrait has joined the ranks of the deceased Headmasters of Hogwarts House.
Harry took a deep breath, closed the door of the principal's office, looked at Dumbledore's portrait, and said hoarsely: "Sir, I have something to ask you!"
Several other headmasters around pricked up their ears to listen. They knew that Dumbledore would die tonight.
However, Dumbledore seemed to fall into a deep sleep and did not respond to Harry's question.
"Albert told me everything, why did you let Snape kill you?" Harry asked again, "Even if you don't tell me, I can get the answer from Albert , but I hope you can tell me yourself."
"Harry, people are always going to die. Since it is meaningless to die under the curse of the curse, it is better to use the last bit of value before dying."
The person in the golden photo frame opened his eyes again, no longer trying to pretend to be asleep, he calmly looked into Harry's eyes, and said with a smile: "Remember to keep this matter a secret for now, it's very important."
"Is it really just that?" Harry didn't want to believe the truth, "But if that's the case, why did Albert reject Snape so much?"
"Snape doesn't like you either, does he?"
"Definitely not, at least not all." Harry continued to ask his own doubts, "He also said that there are better options, but you still insist on choosing the worst script, Albert seems to dislike you Sacrifice yourself to save Snape and Malfoy."
"I just made the most correct choice, Harry." There was a kind light in Dumbledore's half-moon glasses, "My death can maximize the benefits, I have to brag here, I Die great."
Harry fell silent.
"Voldemort wants me to die, and only after I die, Voldemort will relax his vigilance and become unscrupulous. At that time, he will not be far from being finished. And your chance will come. As for Severus Si, I think it is more valuable for him to be alive, he can use this to gain Voldemort's trust, he can also work as a spy, and help shelter Hogwarts students when necessary."
"Are you sure Snape is reliable?" Harry frowned and said hoarsely, "But Albert said Snape is not reliable."
"That's just a little prejudice." Dumbledore comforted, "In some things, Severus is still reliable."
"Where's Draco Malfoy?" Harry asked rhetorically, "That guy wanted to assassinate you from the beginning, and you still sided with him."
"Mr. Malfoy is just incidental. You can think that this is a little bit of selfishness as a headmaster. No one wants to see their students go astray." Dumbledore explained.
"But he almost killed Katie." Harry reminded, "If Katie was innocently involved and died, would you still favor Malfoy?"
"But Katie isn't dead, Harry," said Dumbledore softly ~IndoMTL.com~ Yes, it's a good thing Katie isn't dead. "Harry slowed down and said suddenly, "I actually think you should accept Albert's suggestion. "
"His inappropriateness may kill many people."
Dumbledore is not very optimistic about Albert's approach. After all, Voldemort is crazy. Even if his power is gradually suppressed through the Ministry of Magic, and the entire British wizarding world stands up against him, it is still very likely that the British wizarding world will be defeated. More wizards are involved in this huge vortex of war, and it will only become uncontrollable by then.
Dumbledore, who has been hostile to Voldemort for many years, knows better than anyone that it is too difficult to defeat him directly from the front.
What's more, Dumbledore doesn't know how long he can last, let alone what crazy things will happen if he pushes such a guy to a corner.
In that case, it is better to exchange one's last life for another possible victory.
Dumbledore believed that Harry would be able to complete his mission under his arrangement, and even if Harry really failed in the end, Albert would come out to clean up the mess.