Chapter 527: Moody's Death

Chapter 527: Moody's Death
December 12th, five days until Christmas.

In the evening, Dumbledore's Army held their last meeting before the Christmas holiday. Instead of learning new spells, they reviewed the Barrier and Stunning spells.

Among the few people, Neville's improvement was the most obvious - admittedly, Neville knocked out Padma Patil instead of Dean Thomas as he was aiming at, but his accuracy was much better than before, and the others also made great progress.

That night, Harry's scar suddenly started to hurt, waking him up from his sleep with the pain, and he vomited all over the bed.

He heard Voldemort's arrogant laughter. He would never forget that terrible voice. He also vaguely heard that Voldemort seemed to say a name...

Who is that?
"Harry! Harry!"

Ron stood in front of the bed, looking terrified, and there were several figures at the foot of the bed. Harry held his head tightly, and his eyes went black in pain... He rolled to the edge of the bed and vomited again.

"Harry! Harry!"

Harry took a deep breath, propped himself up from the bed, and ordered himself not to vomit. His vision was blurred by the pain. He pounded his head, as if trying to remember the name.

"Harry, mate," Ron said worriedly, "are you all right?"

"Moody... it's Mad Eye Moody. Something's happened to him."

……

Mad-Eye Moody is dead.

The cause of death was the Killing Curse.

Due to the advice that Shalling had previously passed on to the Order of the Phoenix through Snape, the person on duty at the Ministry of Magic was replaced by the most powerful Moody.

But what was unexpected was that Moody did not survive.

When the Order of the Phoenix received this news, it fell into chaos.

Molly broke down and cried on the spot because her husband Arthur was supposed to be on duty that day, but Moody was taken over by mistake. As a result, Arthur was fine, but Moody died. She fell into a complex emotion of guilt and relief.

Sirius, who was in a bad mood, made the same mistake as in the original book. He seemed to vent his emotions and shouted at Kreacher to let it go out. Kreacher, who was disgusted with Sirius, deliberately understood the "get out" from the former's mouth as allowing it to leave the Black ancestral house.

So, at this moment, Kreacher's figure appeared in Schelling's dormitory. He bent down and respectfully reported the whole incident to Schelling.

Xie Ling's face was cold.

Unexpectedly, even though the Order of the Phoenix had made preparations, the situation became worse.

"Who killed Moody? Did Dumbledore find out?" asked Sherin.

"Master Sherin, Dumbledore is still investigating this matter. Once there is any new information, Kreacher will report to you immediately." Kreacher said respectfully.

"What about the other members of the Order of the Phoenix? How are they doing?" Xie Ling asked casually.

"Miss Black's magical abilities are becoming more sophisticated, and her position within the Order is becoming more important. Many of the Order's missions are now implicitly led by her, and her opinions have a great influence on the rest of the Order," Kreacher said.

Xie Ling showed a satisfied smile. The so-called Miss Black was none other than his servant "Thousand Charms" Nymphadora. After his training, her strength experienced a period of explosive growth. As her position in the Order of the Phoenix became more and more important, it would be more helpful for him to grasp the movements of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Remus Lupin, he seems to have been driven out of the werewolf tribe. He has now returned to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix and is temporarily responsible for assisting Sirius in coordinating the tasks and communication of various members." Kreacher reported mechanically without a trace of emotion.

Schelling declined to comment. Lupin's mission in the Order of the Phoenix was to infiltrate the werewolf tribe. As the ownership of the werewolf forces was settled and they fell into his hands, there was naturally no need for Lupin to stay in the werewolf tribe. Therefore, under Schelling's arrangement, he was expelled from Knockturn Alley by Ulfric.

"As for Sirius, this prodigal son..." Kreacher said gritting his teeth. Although Sirius was its nominal master, it had no awe of Sirius. Instead, it hated him very much, because in its heart, it always believed that Sirius had tarnished the glory of the Black family and was not qualified to be its master.

"What happened to Sirius?" Shalling asked curiously. He couldn't say whether he liked or disliked this character. Although he was his cousin, Sirius was not close to his mother. Moreover, according to the development in the original book, in the near future, it was because of him that the Black family's property would fall into the hands of Harry, an outsider.

"He almost squandered all the Black family's fortune. This damn prodigal!" said Kreacher.

Then, Kreacher began to talk endlessly about Sirius's various "evil deeds". After listening carefully, Xie Ling finally understood the whole story.

It turned out that Sirius had been trapped in the Black ancestral house for too long. Fearing that his identity as a wanted criminal would be exposed, Dumbledore did not allow him to go out on missions, so he could only live miserably with Kreacher in an empty house every day.

This is also partly due to Schelling.

In his third year, Sherin tricked the Black family into revealing the code to their treasure vault in Gringotts, then took away all the savings, not leaving him even a single copper Knut.

Even after losing all his savings, he still didn't get rid of his bad habit of spending money recklessly - that's right, in the original book, he and James Potter were two rich second-generations who acted like dandy boys, so how could they know the value of money.

For example, last year, he first bought a Firebolt for Harry, and then bought an owl pig for Ron. Coupled with various other expenses, he eventually fell into poverty and could only rely on selling his property to exchange for the expenses of life, such as selling various ancient and precious silver wares collected by the Black family.

This is not the end, Kreacher continued -

As a result of all these frustrations, he became addicted to alcohol and spent his days drinking.

When Kreacher saw him, he was either drunk and unconscious, or on his way to being drunk.

According to Kreacher, not only him, but even Molly Weasley in the Order of the Phoenix couldn't stand it and had quarrels with him several times, and each time Lupin had to come out to settle the dispute.

Xie Lin secretly sighed, he didn't expect that the Order of the Phoenix was full of such people. In the original novel, because of the halo of the protagonist, Sirius, James, and Harry, these people were born without having to work to make money, and were winners in life since birth, so they always thought they were the protagonists and the whole world should revolve around them.

Once the fairy tale becomes reality, the character, will and wisdom of these people are vulnerable in Schelling's view.

……

the next morning.

Alastor Moody's death at the Ministry of Magic was not reported in the Daily Prophet.

It seems that neither the Order of the Phoenix nor the Ministry of Magic are willing to expose the affairs of the Department of Mysteries.

Fudge certainly didn't believe that any dark wizards tried to attack the Ministry of Magic. He was more inclined to believe that Moody tried to sneak into the Ministry of Magic to do something illegal according to Dumbledore's arrangement, but for some reason, Moody was killed.

The reason he was reluctant to let this matter be exposed was because he did not want the public to lose confidence in the Ministry of Magic's security forces.

Schelling scoffed at this, saying that this was the ostrich mentality of politicians, who thought they could just ignore it and pretend that the matter did not exist.

……

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the three-week Christmas holiday.

Unlike in the book, Harry and Ron went to the Burrow to spend the long vacation, while Hermione went skiing with her family.

Draco returned to Malfoy Manor, and Pansy, Nott, Goyle and Crabbe also returned to their respective families.

Daphne, Astoria, Luna, Murray, Zhang Qiu and Susan chose to stay in Hogwarts. Besides being safe here, they can also help maintain the operation of the Sleeping Dragon Society.

Although most students choose to leave school during the long vacation, the intelligence network of the Sleeping Dragon Society is operating all the time, and a large amount of intelligence is delivered by house-elves from Great Britain and all over Europe every day.

Moreover, the Miracle Alchemy Workshop also needs help in making potions and alchemy bracelets to cope with the large number of orders from all over the world.

Sirzeth's guards have arrived at Hogsmeade. They are several tall men wearing black suits and sunglasses, each of them exuding a murderous aura. They will be responsible for escorting Sirzeth back to his family in Sicily, Italy.

Before leaving, Schelling took out an alchemical blueprint he designed himself, and expressed the hope that Sirzechs could ask the Vongola family to help him create the items on the blueprint.

Sirzeth took a look at the blueprint and showed a surprised look on his face. This thing was not easy to make, and it was not something that ordinary wizards could use. However, as a loyal ally of the Malfoy family, and having established a close relationship with Sherin during this period, he gladly accepted Sherin's commission on behalf of the family.

As for Xie Lin, he plans to go to Egypt with Akabane Sakurazuki. The Alchemy Research Center in Cairo will host the International Alchemy Conference. Xie Lin and Sakurazuki are both participants in this conference, representing Hogwarts and Mahokulo Institute of Magic respectively. At that time, Eleanor, the first heir of the alchemy family, will also appear there.