Chapter 494
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Po Sui Tai Di
Chapter 494
Except for Scott and Dumbledore, almost everyone finished their breakfast in a hurry.
When one of them put down the knife and fork, the others quickly followed suit.
All eyes were on Dumbledore.
Perhaps it was because everyone had guesses in their hearts, so the atmosphere at the long table was a bit heavy at this time.
But Dumbledore didn't let the heavy atmosphere last.
He announced what happened the day before with a relaxed tone.
"Just yesterday, Voldemort led his Death Eaters to attack the British Ministry of Magic, and ordered the dark creatures loyal to him to besiege Hogwarts."
Hearing this news, although most of the people present had expected it, they still showed terrified expressions.
Before everyone was amazed, Dumbledore immediately announced the result of the war.
"Voldemort has failed."
"We had early news that he was going to attack."
"Whether it's at the Ministry of Magic or at Hogwarts, all he can gain is failure, and he has no choice but to leave in the end."
At this moment, Scott heard everyone heaving a sigh of relief.
Before anyone could ask any more questions, Dumbledore had already stood up.
"That's all I have to say."
he said with a smile.
"Now, I'm going to visit Madame Maxime."
With that said, he left the table directly, and then walked out of the tower.
Scott, who was left behind, had to face the "siege" of the crowd.
"Scott!"
Fred rushed over and put his arms around Scott's neck tightly.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Roger also asked, "When something like this happened, why didn't we know that Professor Dumbledore took you?"
Cedric didn't even bother to read Qiu's letter to him, and quickly asked, "Is the Ministry of Magic okay? Is Hogwarts okay? The most important thing is... Has anyone died?"
Evidently he was worried about Mr Diggory, who served at the Ministry of Magic.
Hearing his words, Fred also reacted instantly, and the arm around Scott's neck suddenly became tighter.
"Any news from my dad?" he asked. "Well, and Percy."
The others also asked questions in a hurry.
"OK OK!"
Scott wrenched Fred's arm away.
"I'm almost out of breath..."
He reached out and rubbed his neck.
"Well, don't worry, Hogwarts has not been breached at all, but as far as I know, the Ministry of Magic did sacrifice a few Aurors..."
Hearing that someone sacrificed, everyone fell silent for a while.
"Of course, don't worry too much, Cedric, Fred, and everyone."
he said again.
"Since Dumbledore didn't remind you, it proves that your family members are still safe."
"You're right, Scott." Cedric said happily, "Since Dumbledore didn't mention it, it proves that my father must be fine."
"I'm not too worried."
Fred said very bluntly.
"My dad is strong, even if he still needs to protect a useless Percy."
Roger patted him on the shoulder, "I have to say, based on his previous performance in the Dueling Club, Percy is stronger than you."
"No, that's just because I didn't give it my all."
Fred started bragging.
"If I beat Percy, I will lose his dignity as the head of the Boys' Union, and he will definitely write a letter to Mom in tears..."
No one paid attention to his big words. Although Percy's personality was not very pleasing, his excellence was obvious to all.
At least in most people's minds, he is much more reliable than the mischievous twins.
Next, Scott briefly recounted the experience of the previous day.
Of course, he made some changes in many places.
He did not reveal that he could remotely monitor Voldemort and the Ministry of Magic battlefields, nor did he reveal that he possessed special portkeys.
Although he had personally registered with Voldemort in the battle to defend Hogwarts, he was cautious not to let Voldemort know that he could use remote monitoring to obtain information.
It's not that Scott can't trust the classmates present, but that one more person knows the risk of exposure.
He just mentioned that he happened to be in his room when Dumbledore received the news, so he asked Dumbledore's phoenix to take him back to Hogwarts to fight.
This of course caused displeasure among others, especially Fred and Roger.
"You should have called us!"
"Hogwarts was under siege, and we missed it without knowing it!"
Scott didn't explain, just laughed at Roger.
This guy also said before that if there was a war at Hogwarts, he would run away, and had an argument with Fred about it.
Now as positive as Fred, regretting not being able to fight.
But Roger didn't admit his heart, but said bluntly: "This is because I already know that Hogwarts has not been captured, and the enemies are blocked outside the castle by protective magic, that's why I said that..."
"Shut up! Roger Davis!" Caccini stared at him contemptuously. "Speaking like this will only embarrass you even more!"
Roger shut his mouth embarrassingly.
Scott tried to briefly describe what he did, and described the battle at Hogwarts in detail.
Especially Voldemort's personal appearance, and everyone's action of repairing the magic barrier with the Iron Armor Curse.
Of course, he also mentioned the four students who were expelled.
"...That's how it happened, and then, early this morning, I came here with Dumbledore."
Scott thought that his "report" should be over, but everyone did not let him go, and kept asking for various details.
Especially Voldemort, although everyone is afraid of the Dark Lord, but they are extremely curious about him.
Since Scott said that there was only a magic barrier between him and Voldemort recently, everyone wanted to ask more information about Voldemort.
From Voldemort's appearance, magic, even the voice of speaking, and even clothing, they all want to find out one by one.
Obviously, most of the people here have already seen the Dark Lord during the Quidditch World Cup final.
On a whim, Scott turned a stack of plates on the table into a large figurine of Voldemort.
The appearance of the lifelike figurines instantly scared most of the people present. Several students even left their seats and took a few steps back.
Scott stretched out his fingers and flicked "Voldemort"'s bald head.
"Voldemort is like this, you can take a closer look."
"Oh……"
Fred was the first to come over.
"Sure enough, it's not that I remembered wrongly, he just doesn't have a nose!"
After all, it was just a figurine, and other people became more courageous, and began to comment on "Voldemort" one after another.
"He...his eyes and skin color aren't human either."
"He's not wearing shoes!"
"His clothes don't seem to be ordinary clothes, they seem to be made of black mist."
"So, he is naked at all, only wearing a magical robe?"
"what……"
"nausea."
In this way, the students of the Hogwarts delegation collectively skipped class this morning.
Scott suddenly felt that this kind of activity was very good. After there were more behaviors like this, it might reduce everyone's fear of Voldemort.
At the same time, he suddenly remembered an evil video he had seen in his previous life.
A video of a man wearing Voldemort makeup and doing a sexy dance in women's clothing.
Oh, by the way, the actor who played Harry also danced that kind of dance, which is very eye-catching.
If Voldemort's "sexy dance" is widely spread in the wizarding world, what will be the consequences?
For a while, Scott's heart was ready to make trouble.
But he was very afraid of Voldemort's curse.
Voldemort can even curse the position of a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, so it's hard to guarantee that he can't directly curse the person who spread the video.
Forget it, here is still a safe hand.
Scott regrettably abandoned this interesting idea.
After lunch, Scott and his classmates came to Beauxbaton Castle.
They discovered that what had happened in England the day before had by this time reached France.
This morning's "Furstenberg Daily" has reported on the war in Britain.
Scott saw the paper from a classmate in France.
Although the description of events in the report is not very detailed, it also summarizes the two wars that almost occurred between the British Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.
Under such a premise, the appearance of Scott and others undoubtedly attracted the attention of many people. Even the students of the Durmstrang delegation were curious about what happened in the UK.
"Oh shit, we should have waited a few days for class," Roger said.
He was obviously uncomfortable with the eyes that were focused on them for such a reason.
"Are you ashamed?" said Fred, "but that's the way things are in England."
Cedric said: "They can't just watch the show from the sidelines. The war more than ten years ago affected not only Britain."
"But mainly in England." Fred said again, "After all, the power of the mysterious man is not as powerful as that of Grindelwald."
Scott said: "Grindelwald really wants to change the world, Voldemort is only for himself."
This is a different pattern.
Grindelwald wants to represent wizards to conquer the world and let wizards become the masters of this world. This is not an unacceptable proposition.
This is also because he predicted that Muggle wars might destroy the world.
To be honest, Scott has no aversion to his ideas.
It's just that wizards are a minority among human beings after all, and it's really difficult to achieve such a goal.
Would Voldemort have the courage to do such a thing?
Probably not.
Of course, Scott didn't have one himself.
In the days that followed, Voldemort fell silent again.
Yaxley Castle on the Isle of Man is still under Scott's surveillance, but that castle has also been completely silent.
In this regard, Dumbledore commented, "Voldemort should have realized it."
"The last time he launched a war, he wanted to take it by surprise, but he didn't expect that we had already made some preparations."
"That's what led to his failure."
"This means that either we have monitored his movements, or his men have our undercover agents."
"Voldemort is conceited, he is extremely confident in his magic."
"He is a master of insanity, he will not believe that someone under his command can fool him."
"So, changing to a more secluded residence will be his choice."
Scott asked, "So, we really have undercover agents in the ranks of the Death Eaters? After all, Medea put undercover agents in. Or did you win the cooperation of Mrs. Roll?"
In this regard, Dumbledore nodded, "For the safety of the undercover personnel, I will not mention the other party's name."
Scott didn't ask any more questions.
He volunteered, "Maybe you can tell me where those Death Eaters, I mean, those pure-blood families are stationed, and I can monitor those places and look for traces of Voldemort."
Dumbledore said with a smile: "The addresses of most pure-blood families are secrets, and they will only tell people they trust."
Scott didn't believe he didn't know, "As far as I know, the Ministry of Magic has checked them more than once in the past."
Mr. Weasley had done just that, causing old Malfoy to throw out the diary of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Of course, Scott can also go to [Book of Prometheus] to offer a reward for the answer like he found the address of Malfoy Manor, but he is too lazy to find a way to earn credits.
Fortunately, Dumbledore did know the addresses of some families here, and wrote them down and handed them over to Scott.
Scott immediately contacted Rimbaud and cast the net out.
Dumbledore didn't like it very much.
"Voldemort must have known that too," he said. "If he wanted to be really hidden for a while, he wouldn't choose to live in the homes of these people."
Scott agreed with that, but he couldn't do it any other way.
While helping Dumbledore find information, he is also preparing for his own adventure.
He didn't hide it from Dumbledore.
For he must arrive at Mellane before the sun rises on the summer solstice, June 6.
This will undoubtedly require Dumbledore's help.
After all, June 6 is the final round of the Triwizard Tournament.
In Scott's plan, he was not prepared to personally enter the so-called tower extending to the center of the earth. The legendary curse was invisible and vicious enough that he didn't have enough means to resist it.
His plan is to let the "summoned beast" go down, and he himself commands remotely from outside the tower.
This is also the premise that Dumbledore will agree to his action.
In order for this operation to go smoothly, Scott has been busy transforming his "summoned beast".
Judging from the legend, the tower extending toward the center of the earth is obviously a weird place, and Scott can't judge whether it will be a different space like Avalon.
If so, then his remote control of the "summoned beast" will undoubtedly be blocked by the different space.
For this, Scott needs to make more preparations.
And, with the help of Dumbledore and Ravenclaw mentors.
Scott didn't directly transform his "summons."
They have already been made, and the various magics used by Scott tend to be balanced on them. If they are changed rashly, this balance may be disrupted, causing them to collapse completely.
So, Scott's idea was not to rework them, but to equip them.
(End of this chapter)
Except for Scott and Dumbledore, almost everyone finished their breakfast in a hurry.
When one of them put down the knife and fork, the others quickly followed suit.
All eyes were on Dumbledore.
Perhaps it was because everyone had guesses in their hearts, so the atmosphere at the long table was a bit heavy at this time.
But Dumbledore didn't let the heavy atmosphere last.
He announced what happened the day before with a relaxed tone.
"Just yesterday, Voldemort led his Death Eaters to attack the British Ministry of Magic, and ordered the dark creatures loyal to him to besiege Hogwarts."
Hearing this news, although most of the people present had expected it, they still showed terrified expressions.
Before everyone was amazed, Dumbledore immediately announced the result of the war.
"Voldemort has failed."
"We had early news that he was going to attack."
"Whether it's at the Ministry of Magic or at Hogwarts, all he can gain is failure, and he has no choice but to leave in the end."
At this moment, Scott heard everyone heaving a sigh of relief.
Before anyone could ask any more questions, Dumbledore had already stood up.
"That's all I have to say."
he said with a smile.
"Now, I'm going to visit Madame Maxime."
With that said, he left the table directly, and then walked out of the tower.
Scott, who was left behind, had to face the "siege" of the crowd.
"Scott!"
Fred rushed over and put his arms around Scott's neck tightly.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Roger also asked, "When something like this happened, why didn't we know that Professor Dumbledore took you?"
Cedric didn't even bother to read Qiu's letter to him, and quickly asked, "Is the Ministry of Magic okay? Is Hogwarts okay? The most important thing is... Has anyone died?"
Evidently he was worried about Mr Diggory, who served at the Ministry of Magic.
Hearing his words, Fred also reacted instantly, and the arm around Scott's neck suddenly became tighter.
"Any news from my dad?" he asked. "Well, and Percy."
The others also asked questions in a hurry.
"OK OK!"
Scott wrenched Fred's arm away.
"I'm almost out of breath..."
He reached out and rubbed his neck.
"Well, don't worry, Hogwarts has not been breached at all, but as far as I know, the Ministry of Magic did sacrifice a few Aurors..."
Hearing that someone sacrificed, everyone fell silent for a while.
"Of course, don't worry too much, Cedric, Fred, and everyone."
he said again.
"Since Dumbledore didn't remind you, it proves that your family members are still safe."
"You're right, Scott." Cedric said happily, "Since Dumbledore didn't mention it, it proves that my father must be fine."
"I'm not too worried."
Fred said very bluntly.
"My dad is strong, even if he still needs to protect a useless Percy."
Roger patted him on the shoulder, "I have to say, based on his previous performance in the Dueling Club, Percy is stronger than you."
"No, that's just because I didn't give it my all."
Fred started bragging.
"If I beat Percy, I will lose his dignity as the head of the Boys' Union, and he will definitely write a letter to Mom in tears..."
No one paid attention to his big words. Although Percy's personality was not very pleasing, his excellence was obvious to all.
At least in most people's minds, he is much more reliable than the mischievous twins.
Next, Scott briefly recounted the experience of the previous day.
Of course, he made some changes in many places.
He did not reveal that he could remotely monitor Voldemort and the Ministry of Magic battlefields, nor did he reveal that he possessed special portkeys.
Although he had personally registered with Voldemort in the battle to defend Hogwarts, he was cautious not to let Voldemort know that he could use remote monitoring to obtain information.
It's not that Scott can't trust the classmates present, but that one more person knows the risk of exposure.
He just mentioned that he happened to be in his room when Dumbledore received the news, so he asked Dumbledore's phoenix to take him back to Hogwarts to fight.
This of course caused displeasure among others, especially Fred and Roger.
"You should have called us!"
"Hogwarts was under siege, and we missed it without knowing it!"
Scott didn't explain, just laughed at Roger.
This guy also said before that if there was a war at Hogwarts, he would run away, and had an argument with Fred about it.
Now as positive as Fred, regretting not being able to fight.
But Roger didn't admit his heart, but said bluntly: "This is because I already know that Hogwarts has not been captured, and the enemies are blocked outside the castle by protective magic, that's why I said that..."
"Shut up! Roger Davis!" Caccini stared at him contemptuously. "Speaking like this will only embarrass you even more!"
Roger shut his mouth embarrassingly.
Scott tried to briefly describe what he did, and described the battle at Hogwarts in detail.
Especially Voldemort's personal appearance, and everyone's action of repairing the magic barrier with the Iron Armor Curse.
Of course, he also mentioned the four students who were expelled.
"...That's how it happened, and then, early this morning, I came here with Dumbledore."
Scott thought that his "report" should be over, but everyone did not let him go, and kept asking for various details.
Especially Voldemort, although everyone is afraid of the Dark Lord, but they are extremely curious about him.
Since Scott said that there was only a magic barrier between him and Voldemort recently, everyone wanted to ask more information about Voldemort.
From Voldemort's appearance, magic, even the voice of speaking, and even clothing, they all want to find out one by one.
Obviously, most of the people here have already seen the Dark Lord during the Quidditch World Cup final.
On a whim, Scott turned a stack of plates on the table into a large figurine of Voldemort.
The appearance of the lifelike figurines instantly scared most of the people present. Several students even left their seats and took a few steps back.
Scott stretched out his fingers and flicked "Voldemort"'s bald head.
"Voldemort is like this, you can take a closer look."
"Oh……"
Fred was the first to come over.
"Sure enough, it's not that I remembered wrongly, he just doesn't have a nose!"
After all, it was just a figurine, and other people became more courageous, and began to comment on "Voldemort" one after another.
"He...his eyes and skin color aren't human either."
"He's not wearing shoes!"
"His clothes don't seem to be ordinary clothes, they seem to be made of black mist."
"So, he is naked at all, only wearing a magical robe?"
"what……"
"nausea."
In this way, the students of the Hogwarts delegation collectively skipped class this morning.
Scott suddenly felt that this kind of activity was very good. After there were more behaviors like this, it might reduce everyone's fear of Voldemort.
At the same time, he suddenly remembered an evil video he had seen in his previous life.
A video of a man wearing Voldemort makeup and doing a sexy dance in women's clothing.
Oh, by the way, the actor who played Harry also danced that kind of dance, which is very eye-catching.
If Voldemort's "sexy dance" is widely spread in the wizarding world, what will be the consequences?
For a while, Scott's heart was ready to make trouble.
But he was very afraid of Voldemort's curse.
Voldemort can even curse the position of a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, so it's hard to guarantee that he can't directly curse the person who spread the video.
Forget it, here is still a safe hand.
Scott regrettably abandoned this interesting idea.
After lunch, Scott and his classmates came to Beauxbaton Castle.
They discovered that what had happened in England the day before had by this time reached France.
This morning's "Furstenberg Daily" has reported on the war in Britain.
Scott saw the paper from a classmate in France.
Although the description of events in the report is not very detailed, it also summarizes the two wars that almost occurred between the British Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.
Under such a premise, the appearance of Scott and others undoubtedly attracted the attention of many people. Even the students of the Durmstrang delegation were curious about what happened in the UK.
"Oh shit, we should have waited a few days for class," Roger said.
He was obviously uncomfortable with the eyes that were focused on them for such a reason.
"Are you ashamed?" said Fred, "but that's the way things are in England."
Cedric said: "They can't just watch the show from the sidelines. The war more than ten years ago affected not only Britain."
"But mainly in England." Fred said again, "After all, the power of the mysterious man is not as powerful as that of Grindelwald."
Scott said: "Grindelwald really wants to change the world, Voldemort is only for himself."
This is a different pattern.
Grindelwald wants to represent wizards to conquer the world and let wizards become the masters of this world. This is not an unacceptable proposition.
This is also because he predicted that Muggle wars might destroy the world.
To be honest, Scott has no aversion to his ideas.
It's just that wizards are a minority among human beings after all, and it's really difficult to achieve such a goal.
Would Voldemort have the courage to do such a thing?
Probably not.
Of course, Scott didn't have one himself.
In the days that followed, Voldemort fell silent again.
Yaxley Castle on the Isle of Man is still under Scott's surveillance, but that castle has also been completely silent.
In this regard, Dumbledore commented, "Voldemort should have realized it."
"The last time he launched a war, he wanted to take it by surprise, but he didn't expect that we had already made some preparations."
"That's what led to his failure."
"This means that either we have monitored his movements, or his men have our undercover agents."
"Voldemort is conceited, he is extremely confident in his magic."
"He is a master of insanity, he will not believe that someone under his command can fool him."
"So, changing to a more secluded residence will be his choice."
Scott asked, "So, we really have undercover agents in the ranks of the Death Eaters? After all, Medea put undercover agents in. Or did you win the cooperation of Mrs. Roll?"
In this regard, Dumbledore nodded, "For the safety of the undercover personnel, I will not mention the other party's name."
Scott didn't ask any more questions.
He volunteered, "Maybe you can tell me where those Death Eaters, I mean, those pure-blood families are stationed, and I can monitor those places and look for traces of Voldemort."
Dumbledore said with a smile: "The addresses of most pure-blood families are secrets, and they will only tell people they trust."
Scott didn't believe he didn't know, "As far as I know, the Ministry of Magic has checked them more than once in the past."
Mr. Weasley had done just that, causing old Malfoy to throw out the diary of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Of course, Scott can also go to [Book of Prometheus] to offer a reward for the answer like he found the address of Malfoy Manor, but he is too lazy to find a way to earn credits.
Fortunately, Dumbledore did know the addresses of some families here, and wrote them down and handed them over to Scott.
Scott immediately contacted Rimbaud and cast the net out.
Dumbledore didn't like it very much.
"Voldemort must have known that too," he said. "If he wanted to be really hidden for a while, he wouldn't choose to live in the homes of these people."
Scott agreed with that, but he couldn't do it any other way.
While helping Dumbledore find information, he is also preparing for his own adventure.
He didn't hide it from Dumbledore.
For he must arrive at Mellane before the sun rises on the summer solstice, June 6.
This will undoubtedly require Dumbledore's help.
After all, June 6 is the final round of the Triwizard Tournament.
In Scott's plan, he was not prepared to personally enter the so-called tower extending to the center of the earth. The legendary curse was invisible and vicious enough that he didn't have enough means to resist it.
His plan is to let the "summoned beast" go down, and he himself commands remotely from outside the tower.
This is also the premise that Dumbledore will agree to his action.
In order for this operation to go smoothly, Scott has been busy transforming his "summoned beast".
Judging from the legend, the tower extending toward the center of the earth is obviously a weird place, and Scott can't judge whether it will be a different space like Avalon.
If so, then his remote control of the "summoned beast" will undoubtedly be blocked by the different space.
For this, Scott needs to make more preparations.
And, with the help of Dumbledore and Ravenclaw mentors.
Scott didn't directly transform his "summons."
They have already been made, and the various magics used by Scott tend to be balanced on them. If they are changed rashly, this balance may be disrupted, causing them to collapse completely.
So, Scott's idea was not to rework them, but to equip them.
(End of this chapter)
