Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 177: The Great Revolution
"Is there an earthquake?"
This is almost the first thought of all the students.
Of course, it was also Matthew's first thought.
But this is not reasonable--
From a geographical point of view, the British mainland is outside the two major volcanic and seismic belts, the surrounding plates are quite stable, and there are very few earthquakes in history; the largest earthquake that occurred around the British mainland in the past thousand years occurred in 1933 The earthquake on Doger Sandbank in Beihai was only magnitude 6.1...
What's more, as a magical building, Hogwarts Castle must have enough protective magic, it is impossible to have such an obvious shock so easily!
"Everyone, please leave Hogwarts Castle in an orderly manner under the leadership of the prefects!" The voice of the vice-principal, Professor Vita Rozier, rang in their ears.
The entire auditorium quickly calmed down.
"Students of Slytherin, please follow me!" Gemma Farley, the prefect of Slytherin House, was already familiar with the road, she said loudly...
First, she started organizing the freshmen.
Matthew glanced over there, and he frowned instantly.
Because he didn't see Elaine Shafik among the small group of Slytherin first years.
In the castle, the students of various colleges began to evacuate in an orderly manner under the leadership of the prefect...
As a sophomore, Matthew was the second batch of students to leave.
They left the castle, and there was a lot of noise.
"Let's go to the Quidditch pitch first!" Gemma shouted.
But it's a bit strange to say that in the Hogwarts castle, you can feel the extremely obvious tremor; but once you leave the castle, the tremor completely disappears... It's as if there was no earthquake at all!
Obviously, everyone feels a little strange about this.
Could it be that...it's not the earth that shakes...
Rather... Hogwarts Castle itself!
……
The first and second grade students began to evacuate towards the Quidditch pitch, led by several prefects.
The third grade students also started to come out of the castle in an orderly manner.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the third grade crowd... as if something unexpected happened there!
The third graders who had already left the castle ran toward them like they were dying.
"What's going on?" Percy Weasley, the prefect of Gryffindor, stopped the third-year students.
"Those house-elves, they're crazy..." a girl in the third year of Gryffindor said, somewhat breathlessly; Matthew remembered her name, and she seemed to be called "Alia Spinnet ".
"They suddenly attacked us..." a Ravenclaw boy next to him added, "hitting us with their kitchen utensils and bowls... the students behind were blocked by those house-elves , they can't come out now..."
Percy Weasley's face changed suddenly.
"Damn it, my two younger brothers are still in the castle..." After that, he ran towards the castle like crazy.
"Weasley!" Gemma tried unsuccessfully to hold him back.
He broke into the castle quickly, and then didn't know what happened there.
"Damn it, what should we do?" Gemma said helplessly.
So did Penelope Clearwater, the prefect of Ravenclaw, and they jumped in a hurry.
Now here on the Quidditch pitch, there are only a few of their prefects, and a large group of first and second grade students, as well as some third grade students.
As for Hogwarts, there seemed to be some turmoil.
"We have to find a teacher and let him protect us," Cedric Diggory, the prefect of Hufflepuff, still remained calm, and he said, "no matter what happens in the castle now, What..."
"Children, follow me!" As soon as Cedric finished speaking, a familiar voice sounded from behind them.
Matthew looked back, and it took him a lot of effort to recognize that the person who spoke was actually Professor Silvanos Kettleburn!
This is the first time Matthew has seen the teacher of the Protection of Magical Animals class since the Christmas vacation.
Professor Kettleburn's appearance seems to have changed a lot compared to before.
One of his eyes was covered with an eye patch, and he seemed to be blind; this old professor, who had been disabled many times, made things worse again; superior.
I have long heard that the teacher of the protection of magical animals was seriously injured in the centaur rebellion, and it turned out to be true after seeing it today...
But this is not something to be ashamed of. It is an honor in itself to be able to escape among hundreds of horsemen, especially when he was responsible for cutting off the rear in order to protect a few students.
However, his eyes looked sharper than before, and the previous cynical look had completely disappeared.
"Follow Professor Kettleburn," Cedric said without hesitation, "By the way, Professor, where are we going?"
"We have to leave Hogwarts as soon as possible!" Professor Silvanos Kettleburn said with a heavy face, "The campus is no longer safe... hurry, hurry!"
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On the other side, in the Hogwarts auditorium.
The situation seems to be worse than that on the Quidditch pitch.
Dozens of house elves suddenly swarmed out of the kitchen... Like crazy, they smashed the kitchen utensils, tableware and even kitchen knives at the students and teachers.
Of course, it happened that the students in the third grade were about to pass through the oak gate and leave the castle... Some of the students escaped from the castle in a hurry, while others were blocked back.
The small group of third-grade students fled back into the auditorium in fright, and a few smart children closed the door.
Those crazy house elves were intercepted by them.
This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
During the previous chaos, many children were slightly injured.
Thankfully, these riotous house-elves don't seem to have the guts to use magic against wizards, or things could have gotten worse.
"Percy, why are you back?" Fred, George Weasley, and Lee Jordan were the ones who just came up with the idea of closing the auditorium door. One of the twin brothers said in surprise, because She saw his brother came back again. He should have left the castle with the junior students as the prefect.
"Thank God, you're all right!" Percy glanced at the two younger brothers, looking relieved.
"How could something happen." Fred said.
"We just need to close the door." George added.
"It's impossible for those house-elf kitchen knives to open the door of the auditorium!" Fred said triumphantly.
Suddenly, a rumbling sound came from outside the oak gate.
The twin brothers, who were still complacent just now, suddenly changed their expressions.
"What's that sound?"
"Sounds...like a troll?"
"Maybe it's a giant too?"
"Are you an idiot, with the size of a giant, how can you walk in the corridor?"
"You two idiots, run," Percy Weasley angrily grabbed the twin brothers and led them away from the oak gate.
Almost ten seconds later, there was only a "bang", and the door of the auditorium was smashed open.
Not a troll, let alone a giant...but a stone statue and armor!
The stone statues and armor that were supposed to be placed on the first and second floors of Hogwarts now appear here strangely!
They actually help those crazy house elves to attack Hogwarts teachers and students?
"Impedimenta!" Muggle studies teacher Professor Travers walked up to them suddenly, raised his wand towards the door, and shouted at the same time.
Whether it's armor, stone statues, or house elves, they are all blocked by his spell.
"Children, this way!" Professor Flitwick, the head of Ravenclaw, yelled at the Weasley brothers.
Only then did they realize that they were the few remaining students in the entire auditorium.
Principal Rozier opened the door between the auditorium and the garden, and the other students began to rush through there, fleeing the castle.
"Go!" Percy Weasley yelled.
Then, he, his twin brother, and Li Qiaodan fled into the garden in a hurry.
……
Those junior students followed Professor Kettleburn and the three prefects worriedly.
Although they don't know what happened, everyone's heart is very heavy.
"Those dementors from the Ministry of Magic and the Aurors, what are they doing?" Draco Malfoy said angrily, "Shouldn't they be protecting us at this time?"
Matthew glanced at the sky, and it was true.
According to the normal situation, there was such a large-scale "turmoil" in Hogwarts, the sky should be filled with the dark bodies of those dementors.
Should those dementors appear in the sky, they will definitely feel uncomfortable... But at least it will also give people a sense of security.
But now, the clear sky is extremely clear, blue sky and white clouds, and there is no trace of any dementors.
There are also those Aurors who usually appear at Hogwarts, but now they can't see any of them.
"They left this morning," Professor Kettleburn seemed to have heard Malfoy's complaints, and he explained softly, "A temporary notice from the Ministry of Magic to evacuate all Aurors and dementors Hogwarts... It seems to say that the three fugitives from Azkaban were found in Aberdeen..."
"Damn it!" Malfoy yelled loudly, "This is obviously a hoax!"
"That's right, this is indeed a scam!" A voice suddenly came from their side.
It was a tall and familiar figure... If Matthew remembered correctly, he should be one of the Ministry of Magic's resident Aurors at Hogwarts, and his name was "Dawlish".
Dawlish explained with a serious face: "The goblins did it... The goblins bribed the officials of the Ministry of Magic and issued this false order to the Aurors and dementors in Hogwarts... let My companions and dementors left Hogwarts early in the morning!"
"Then why are you still here?" Matthew asked curiously.
Dawlish didn't answer Matthew's words, but continued: "I've sent them an owl letter, but it will take at least an hour to contact them and get all the dementors back... ...Professor Kettleburn, take the students and leave, I will go to the castle to support!"
After finishing speaking, he hurried to the castle without looking back.
Matthew glanced at Dawlish's back curiously.
"Let's move on!" Professor Kettleburn said loudly, "Go to the gate first, there is a Thestral carriage, which can take us to Hogsmeade... Once we get to Hogsmeade, we should be safe ..."
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This is a huge team.
Including Professor Silvanos Kettleburn, three prefects, and more than a hundred junior students.
However, judging from the current situation, their escape journey has been smooth... They have not encountered those "rebels".
Just as they were getting closer to the gate of the castle——
"What's that?" Theodore Nott suddenly let out a strange cry.
Two black spots appeared in the sky, approaching them rapidly.
With a solemn face, Professor Kettleburn raised his wand towards the black spot in the sky, and his wand was held in the hand of the prosthetic limb.
The two red lights flew towards the black shadow in the sky one after another, but they missed the target and were easily dodged by them.
At this time, they can also see the true colors of the two shadows——
Not some magical flying creature, or a wizard on a broomstick, but two statues.
To Matthew Wakefield ~IndoMTL.com~ these two statues are very familiar...
They are two warthogs with wings. They fought for Grindelwald in the duel between Grindelwald and the black witch Morgana a year ago; Fight back.
"Kids, go away!" Professor Kettleburn roared, and at the same time he ran towards the two statues.
Rays of light shot out from the end of the Care of Magical Creatures teacher's wand... and the two flying pigs in the sky were more flexible than they thought; the spells weren't so easy to deal with them.
A flying pig slammed into Professor Kettleburn. If it weren't for the quick response of the prosthetic limb of the teacher of the protection of magical animals, he might have been knocked to the ground by it.
After finally stabilizing his figure, another flying pig statue began to attack.
Obviously, the only teacher in the crowd quickly fell into a disadvantage under the pressure of the two statues.
The students were at a loss, almost all of them were lower grade students; there was no doubt that they were useless in this level of battle.
And soon, the sound of horseshoes behind him suddenly sounded——
"It's a centaur!" Draco Malfoy screamed suddenly.
That's right, the centaurs, and they're back at Hogwarts.
A large black mass came rushing here from the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
Soon, they surrounded this large group of Hogwarts students!