Chapter 293: Department of Mysteries Incident

After Voldemort was resurrected, many things gradually changed.

Dracula left Hogwarts, taking his assistant Riddle with him. Snape temporarily worked as a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the last few days of the semester and assigned summer homework for Dracula, causing the little wizards to complain endlessly.

Fudge was transformed into the lowest level vampire by Dracula, and returned to the Ministry of Magic to pretend to be normal. However, he could not hide it from the insiders present, and the news still spread.

There was almost a change of government in the British Ministry of Magic, but it was suppressed by Fudge and his loyalists.

Dumbledore completely parted ways with Fudge, publicly announcing Voldemort's return at the end-of-term dinner and warning students to be vigilant.

Cedric became a vampire and chose to graduate from Hogwarts early and went to Brown Castle to learn the "Code of Conduct for Highly Qualified Vampires" compiled by Serena and the vampire's innate abilities.

He is a vampire who was first embraced by Dracula himself. His physical fitness and magic power have been greatly improved in a short period of time. He really needs to systematically learn how to control his power.

Of course, how to face his friends and classmates in a new identity is also something that worries Cedric.

Cedric finally confirmed his relationship with his girlfriend at the Four-wizard Tournament. Qiu Zhang cried so sadly that he had no choice but to promise that she would return to Hogsmeade to meet her from time to time...

Fortunately, there is a precedent in the wizarding world for the famous vampire singer Lorcan Deis to live in harmony with wizards.

After Dracula gave a few instructions, Deis took the initiative to keep in touch with Cedric, enlightened him with his own personal experience, and gave him reasonable suggestions. So Cedric wasn't too confused.

Hogwarts issued him a diploma in advance, which was equivalent to Cedric officially graduating in the sixth grade instead of dropping out of school - in fact, he was indeed better than almost all the graduating grade students.

As for Harry, his life has become a little confused.

After Harry luckily escaped from Voldemort through the flashback spell created by the same-core wands held by himself and Voldemort, he was regarded as the center of discussion at Hogwarts, and his classmates all wanted to ask him what he had done. What happened before the maze came out.

However, although Harry took the trouble to tell his classmates how Voldemort was resurrected, he believed that Harry only accounted for part of it.

After all, their many years of classmate relationship have allowed them to know the savior of the wizarding world very well. Everyone knows that Harry is just an ordinary person. Many people are unwilling to believe that he can escape from that terrible savior for the second time. escaped from the hands of the Dark Lord.

Moreover, there are two types of people who are willing to believe Harry -

One group is dominated by ardent fans such as Colin Creevey and Harry's good friends in Gryffindor. They are willing to believe Harry and more willing to believe Dumbledore's warnings.

The other type, on the other hand, is mainly pure-blooded students from Slytherin. They seem to be excited about the return of the Dark Lord and feel that pure-blooded students will become more powerful under the leadership of Voldemort.

However, it is a bit strange that Draco Malfoy, who should be the most excited, is not as happy as his two followers. Instead, he looks a little frightened and uneasy, and his pale face becomes even more colorless. This makes many Si The students who came to Trin thought he was sick.

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When the summer vacation came, the unhappy Harry left Hogwarts Castle and spent an unpleasant summer vacation.

In addition to his aunt and uncle still treating him like a bug, his cousin Dudley used him as a punching bag to practice boxing, and there were even two dementors who lived on sucking souls and escaped from the Ministry of Magic. Take control and come to Privet Drive to ambush him.

Fortunately, under Dracula's training, Harry had long been able to skillfully use the Patronus Charm and easily drove away the Dementors.

These two dementors were arranged by Umbridge.

She gave Fudge an idea to force Harry to use magic outside of school, falsely accusing Harry of violating the "Reasonable Restraint of Minor Wizards" by using magic outside school, and expelling him from Hogwarts.

A savior who is expelled from school will surely have his influence in the magical world greatly weakened.

And Fudge can step on Harry, whose reputation has plummeted, to further strengthen his political reputation——

Fudge, who was turned into a low-level vampire by Dracula, needs to strengthen his reputation to prevent himself from being squeezed out of the position of Minister of Magic by other officials.

In fact, Fudge basically stays in the office every day and doesn't go out. When he has extremely important social events, he uses the transformation technique to modify his appearance to prevent others from seeing the clues.

And a low-level vampire like him couldn't control his desire to suck blood, so he could only secretly order a lot of blood from a merchant who made blood-flavored lollipops and blood pudding, and then he could barely suppress the emotion of attacking others...

However, Fudge and Umbridge's plan ultimately failed.

When Harry came to the Ministry of Magic for trial, Dumbledore personally attended the trial as a witness for Harry and ultimately helped him get rid of the accusation.

Poor Harry, after experiencing a series of changes during the summer vacation, he finally waited for the start of school.

But during the opening ceremony, he discovered that Fudge's assistant, senior executive of the Ministry of Magic, and acting deputy minister Umbridge had become the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year.

She came to rectify the "bad atmosphere" in Hogwarts on behalf of the Ministry of Magic, and was a compromise made by Dumbledore in order to free Harry from the accusation and allow Hogwarts to continue to receive the support of the Ministry of Magic.

This is because, after Dracula left, there was a break in the funding chain provided by the school board for the school——

Originally, Malfoy and other pure-blood families were the largest donors of Hogwarts' operating funds, but after Voldemort was resurrected, Lucius naturally wanted to draw a clear line with Dumbledore and use every means to embarrass him.

Students at Hogwarts are free of tuition, and the school does not have many ways to make money. Hogwarts must have external sources of funds to operate.

In addition to the school board, the remaining funds are provided by the Ministry of Magic. Fudge forced Umbridge into the teaching staff at Hogwarts by threatening to cut funding.

Umbridge's teaching method is nothing like Defense Against the Dark Arts. Instead, it requires students to read from a nonsense textbook without any practice and practice. Even the dueling club has been discontinued.

The students at Hogwarts have completely lost the opportunity to practice combat, just because Fudge stubbornly believes that the wizarding world is extremely stable, and students do not need to be wary of any dark magic...

In the first class, Harry had a conflict with Umbridge because he was angry at her teaching methods, and was eventually placed in solitary confinement.

The huge gap caused other students to complain about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and they looked forward to Dracula returning to Hogwarts, even if he led them to jump out of the window again...

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In order to oppose Umbridge's control over the students, and to let everyone learn more knowledge about defense in order to cope with the coming storm in the wizarding world, Harry and a few good friends organized a small Defense Against the Dark Arts Club. , gathered in the Room of Requirement.

The club was named Dumbledore's Army, for short.

The connotation of Dumbledore's Army is actually inherited from the Duel Club hosted by Dracula, which is all designed to train students' practical combat abilities.

Therefore, many more students responded than Harry imagined.

However, due to the large number of people involved, there were still traitorous members inside. Umbridge relied on the traitors to discover that Harry was teaching everyone Defense Against the Dark Arts behind her back.

Everyone escaped in a hurry, but in the end only Harry was caught for cutting off the queen. Umbridge was overjoyed and finally found a way to weaken Harry's reputation, and was ready to expel him from Hogwarts on the grounds of illegal association.

However, Dumbledore took the blame on Harry's behalf and was deliberately kicked out of Hogwarts to make other preparations against Voldemort.

During Dumbledore's absence, Harry's scar hurt even more.

One day, in his hazy fantasy, he saw Sirius being captured by Voldemort in a black door underground in the Ministry of Magic. However, at this moment, Principal Dumbledore was no longer in school——

"We must save Sirius." Harry said anxiously to his friends, "He is being tortured by Voldemort!"

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"You're sure the message is accurate, right?"

In the most luxurious booth of Bai Feilong Bar, Dracula and Lucius sat face to face on the sofa.

"It's accurate. The Dark Lord has invaded Potter's mind and wants to trick him into getting a prophecy ball." Lucius's face was pale, and his expression was so tense that his facial muscles were trembling. "He seemed to be saying, that prophecy The ball hides the fate of him and Porter..."

"It doesn't matter to me what he wants to do." Dracula shook his head. "All I need is an opportunity to stop him... If it is at the Ministry of Magic, this opportunity may be feasible."

He raised his eyes to look at Lucius and handed over a double-sided mirror. "Thank you for your hard work this time. When the time comes, you can always find an opportunity to use this to contact me."

Lucius put away the mirror, a look of hesitation on his face.

"Mr. Dracula, I feel that if the Dark Lord finds out that his plan is exposed this time, he will probably suspect me." He said in a panic, "When the time comes, I think..."

"After this time is over, you can escape from Voldemort." Dracula said, "You want to live temporarily in Dracula's Castle, or I can help you arrange a house and be the keeper of your Loyalty Curse. It will be all right."

Lucius's eyes suddenly showed an overjoyed look.

"Okay... okay! Thank you so much, Professor Dracula!" he said happily.

For Lucius, after working as an undercover agent in fear for so long, he finally had a day to relax!

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Harry, Hermione, Ron, Rolf, Ginny, Neville and other students stood together beside the Forbidden Forest in Hogwarts.

Harry and the others managed to get rid of Umbridge, and later, at Rolf's suggestion, they prepared to ride the Thestral in the Forbidden Forest to the Ministry of Magic to rescue Sirius.

"Rolf, how do we ride on them?" Harry walked to a Thestral and looked back at Rolf and asked.

"This is not difficult, but I didn't expect you to be able to see the Thestral." Luofu said, "I heard Luna say that you saw the Thestral in front of the carriage. I didn't quite believe it..."

"Maybe it's because of what happened in that cemetery. I really thought Cedric was dead at the time." Harry said slowly, "And I also met my parents who had left long ago, and it reminded me of my childhood before I could remember anything. thing."

Rove fell silent and reached out a hand to pat his shoulder.

"Follow me, just come up." After a moment, he said to Harry gently, "Thestrals are actually quite docile. Luna and I often come to feed them, so let them do us a favor today."

Harry put one hand into the mane of the Thestral closest to him and grasped it firmly. He put one foot on the nearby tree stump and climbed awkwardly onto its soft and smooth crest.

As expected, Yeqi didn't resist, but turned his head and glanced at Luo Fu.

"I know, I know, I'll bring you more meat next time." Luofu seemed to immediately understand what Yeqi's expression meant, and said to it with a smile.

Harry sat on the Thestral's back, turned around and looked around at the others——

Neville was hunched over, lying on the back of another Thestral, trying to cross one short leg to the other side; Luna had already sat sideways and was adjusting her robe, just like she did every day. It's like riding a Thestral.

But Ron, Hermione and Ginny still stood motionless, their mouths open and their eyes open.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked.

"How are we going to ride up there?" Ron murmured. "We can't see them."

"Oh, easy." Luna said enthusiastically sliding off the Thestral and striding towards Ron, Hermione and Ginny, "Come here..."

She pulled them and stood beside the Thestrals around them, and helped them ride on the Thestrals' backs one by one.

Before walking back to her mount, she took their hands and told them to hold on to the horse's mane, telling them to hold on tight. All three of them looked nervous as hell.

"This is unbelievable," Ron muttered, carefully stroking the horse's neck back and forth with his free hand. "Incredible...if I could see it—"

"You'd better never see it." Harry said helplessly, "Let's not talk about it for now. Is everyone ready?"

The others nodded, all knees straining under their robes.

"good……"

He glanced down at Thestral's dark, smooth head and swallowed nervously.

"So, London, Ministry of Magic, guest entrance." He said uncertainly, "Well... if you know how to get there..."

The Thestral stood motionless for a moment, then suddenly spread its wings so powerfully that it almost threw Harry off.

It first crouched down slowly, and then rushed toward the sky like an arrow. The speed was so fast and the angle was so steep that Harry had to hug its body tightly with his hands and feet to prevent it from slipping off its bony tail.

They rushed through the treetops and flew into the fiery sunset, closing their eyes tightly and pressing their cheeks against the Thestral's smooth, silky mane.

They flew over the Hogwarts grounds and over Hogsmeade; Harry could see the mountains and valleys below.

The day began to fade, and they flew over one village after another, with lights dotted below, and then a lone car speeding through the hills along the winding mountain road on the way back...

"How peculiar!"

Harry could barely hear Ron's shouts coming from somewhere behind, and imagined what it would be like to gallop so high in the air without being able to see his mount.

Dusk fell, and the sky gradually turned a dull, hazy purple, scattered with small silver stars.

Gradually, a tall building appeared in the sight of the little wizards.

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