Chapter 414 Funeral arrangements

After returning to Hogwarts from Dumbledore, Mike sat alone in the dormitory for a long time.

His mood was very complicated at this moment.

Generally speaking, his purpose of this trip to the forest villa has been achieved. First, he can use Dumbledore's power to solve the problem of Slytherin's pendant without any blood. Dumbledore should set off to find the resurrection soon. stone.

When the time comes, Dumbledore, who longs for his loved ones, will surely be unable to resist the temptation of the Resurrection Stone and step into Voldemort's trap. His time is numbered.

Even Dumbledore's attitude towards Harry was exactly as Mike expected. It can be said that everything developed as Mike planned, but despite this, Mike just couldn't be happy.

Is it really worth sacrificing the lives of two old friends, Dumbledore and Harry, for those cold interests?

Mike fell into deep doubts.

Fortunately, Mike's confusion did not last long. After some thinking, he quickly came to a conclusion.

Of course it’s worth it!

Otherwise, what are my previous efforts?

At the same time, he also had a clearer understanding of himself in his heart.

In a way, he and Dumbledore are the same person.

Dumbledore was willing to sacrifice Harry, the son of an old friend, in order to destroy Voldemort and restore peace to the wizarding world, while Mike was also willing to sacrifice the lives of two old friends, Dumbledore and Harry, for the greater good.

Of course, this does not mean that Mike is so ruthless that he decides to use the lives of Harry and Dumbledore in exchange for victory.

Just like in the original book, Dumbledore tried his best to find the best of both worlds, and finally succeeded in destroying Voldemort while also saving Harry's life.

Mike will also do his best to avoid the sacrifice of his friends. Just as he persuaded Dumbledore to let Lupine retire so that he and Tonks can have a good ending, Mike hopes from the bottom of his heart that every one of his friends can There is a happy ending.

However, who can know what will happen in the future? All you can do is do your best.

With this thought in mind, Mike, who had regained his fighting spirit, took a deep breath, sat down at the desk and started the post-war statistical work.

After communicating with Dumbledore, he already had a detailed understanding of the situation during this trip to the Ministry of Magic.

In this battle, the Los Santos Wizard Legion suffered few casualties, with only 6 casualties, including one slightly injured, four seriously injured, and one killed.

The original casualties should have been smaller. After all, there were only two seriously wounded people injured in normal battles. The remaining one minor injury, two serious injuries and one death were all caused by the negligence of the defense team.

For this reason, the leader of the defense team voluntarily resigned from his position as team leader and expressed his willingness to accept any punishment.

But Mike didn't punish him too much. After all, these Los Santos wizards were trained by Mike at a huge cost. Mike would never do anything casually until they helped Mike earn more than their costs. Fire them.

But there must be some punishment, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public, so Mike deducted his bonus for one year and all the proceeds from this operation as punishment.

Naturally, the defense captain was in favor of this punishment.

After all, his life was spared, and a small fine was nothing.

The other members were also very satisfied, because Mike promised to give the team leader a monthly bonus of up to 500 gold galleons, and the bonus for this operation was as high as 1,000 gold galleons, which meant that Mike fined him 1,500 gold galleons at once. Long's huge sum of money!

And Mike did not keep the money in his wallet, but gave it all as a pension to the family members of the sacrificed player.

In general, the loss of the Los Santos Wizarding Group this time was much less than what Mike expected. After all, people will die in war. Mike had even been mentally prepared for the loss of more than half of the entire Wizarding Group, so now he can obtain He was very satisfied with this result.

On the other hand, the Death Eaters were far from ideal.

Although Voldemort successfully took away the prophecy ball, his Death Eaters suffered heavy losses.

First, the entire werewolf army was wiped out, and even Commander Fenrir did not survive.

Then the casualties of human wizards were also very serious. After the early attack by the Los Santos wizards and the later encirclement and suppression by the Aurors, Mike estimated that most of the Death Eaters were already at the Ministry of Magic.

Even if the rest of the small group is not dead, there will only be a very small number who dare to continue to defect to Voldemort.

In other words, today's Voldemort, except for the main core members such as Bellatrix, his Death Eater army has almost been wiped out.

Mike slowly wrote this conclusion on his notepad, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised.

The operation he organized undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Voldemort and greatly hindered Voldemort's progress in notifying the wizarding world.

But the Order's losses were equally serious.

First, the whereabouts of Kingsley, the Ministry of Magic official who colluded with them, was unknown. He was missing from the entire operation from beginning to end. He was suspected to have been captured by Death Eaters.

Later, Black, Lupine and Moody were all seriously injured, and they were completely unable to fight in a short period of time.

However, Mike estimated that even if they recovered from their injuries, they would be unlikely to return to the Order of the Phoenix.

After all, Lupine has been arranged to retire, and Black has distrusted the Order of the Phoenix because of Moody's incident. It is not impossible for him to try his best to bring him to Los Santos. .

As for Moody, he should be the worst one in this operation, because both Mike and Blake ignored Moody's existence during the evacuation, which resulted in him being unconscious and being successfully cured by the Aurors. !

According to Dumbledore, he also went to the Ministry of Magic to try to rescue Moody afterwards, but the Ministry of Magic ruthlessly rejected his request.

He also stated that Moody had come to his senses after undergoing the treatment they provided, but he was unwilling to follow Dumbledore back to the Order of the Phoenix.

In this regard, Mike strongly suspected that Moody had been bribed. After all, he was originally a senior Auror and knew all the senior officials in the Auror office (although the relationship was not very good). In this critical moment, he had a lot of leverage. There is a chance that he will rejoin the Ministry of Magic, rather than return to the Order of the Phoenix, an organization where there are people behind his back.

Mike is naturally happy to see this happen. After all, he himself doesn't like the old guy Moody.

As for you saying that the Phoenix Society will not decline after losing so many capable people?

Mike said you were totally kidding.

Who is Dumbledore?

He is the most powerful white wizard in the world today, and he has so many noble titles on his head that you can't even count them!

For such a person, it is too easy for him to replenish the manpower of his organization!

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When the early morning sun shone on Hogwarts Castle, Mike finally sorted out the relevant information.

Although Mike's mental power was very strong, he still felt a little tired after going through a big battle and not sleeping for two days.

In order to cope with the upcoming exam, Mike drank some Dolphin Magic Drink to refresh himself.

Perhaps because it is always sunny after a storm, the weather around Hogwarts has been very good during the week of exams, which is very rare, especially in the UK.

The beautiful sunshine and fresh air have greatly alleviated the students' anxiety about exams, so when Mike came to the restaurant, he found that the atmosphere here had improved a lot compared to the previous two days.

Although the students still maintained their diligent attitude of eating and studying at the same time, at least their expressions were not as ugly as the first two days.

Mike easily found Harry, Hermione and others, and told the three of them about Lupin's situation and Dumbledore's subsequent arrangements for him.

In this regard, the three people had different reactions.

Among them, Ron and Harry's expressions were not very good, and they both expressed regret for this matter.

From their euphemistic words, Mike could probably understand what they meant.

Ron felt sympathy for Lupine's serious injury this time, while Harry's focus was on the possibility that Lupine would lose a large part of his spellcasting ability in the future.

As for Hermione, her reaction can be said to be the most normal to Mike, because she danced with joy after hearing that Professor Lupine could finally retire and get married, and she didn't even care about the review notes that were inseparable from her during this period. .

Mike also lamented this.

In his previous life, Mike had heard a conclusion that in terms of mental age growth and development, girls are always three to five years ahead of boys.

Before, Mike thought this was a nonsense. After all, his daughter in the previous life was hard to explain, but now judging from Hermione's performance, what the scientists said was true!

Both Harry and Ron saw things too one-sidedly. They only saw what Lupine lost, but not what he gained.

Fortunately, Hermione was relatively mature. After Hermione explained all the uncomplicated twists and turns to the two of them, expressions of sudden realization appeared on Harry and Ron's faces.

In the end, the four of them finalized the decision to visit Professor Lupine together after the vacation began.

After making this decision, everyone's life finally returned to its original track.

This is painful for many people because it means they will face endless exams.

Among them, Ron even said boldly: "This is more difficult than me fighting and winning against eighty Death Eaters alone at the Ministry of Magic!" ’

Mike was speechless about this, but the most speechless thing was yet to come.

Because after Ron made such shameless remarks, many members of the army echoed him, saying that the exam was much more difficult than fighting Death Eaters.

Thanks to their efforts, Mike and others' performance at the Ministry of Magic that night immediately increased a thousand times, and the number of Death Eaters killed reached an astonishing one hundred thousand!

Mike was completely stunned, because this number was too exaggerated. If Voldemort really had an army of 100,000 people, he would have pushed Europe to the top. How could he continue to struggle with Dumbledore in the United States.

But it happened that the melon-eaters just did this. They even formed a chain of contempt. Among them, the army members who participated in the operation that night were at the top, and those at the bottom were those with some dark backgrounds. Slytherins.

In this regard, the Slytherins dared to get angry but dare not speak out.

Angry because to a certain extent what those students said was absolutely correct. Some of their parents and elders were indeed shot to death by the Los Santos Wizarding Group and Aurors at the Ministry of Magic.

The reason for not saying anything is because their two main supporters, Chris (yes, you read that right, Chris did not take the owl exam) and Umbridge are not at Hogwarts these days!

But the hard days will eventually pass, and before the last week of the semester, all the exams are finally over.

On this day, the entire Hogwarts was in a state of excitement. The students rushed to tell each other, freely venting their suppressed lively nature during the week.

Some graduates express their distaste for studying by tearing up all their books immediately after exams.

Such behavior is very irrational, because according to conventional procedures, these old books should be donated to the school to be used as second-hand books for other poor students.

Among the remaining graduates, there were even at least three student couples who announced their romance as soon as the exams ended and said they would get married during the summer vacation.

Of course, everyone gave them their heartfelt blessings, except Mike who looked confused.

Mike later learned after asking Benjamin and others that it was a tradition at Hogwarts to announce their relationship and announce their wedding date immediately after graduation.

It is said that the beginning of this tradition was a member of the Black family hundreds of years ago. He announced his wedding date to a girl from another pure-blood family at the graduation dinner and invited all his classmates to attend.

Of course, most of this tradition only belongs to members of wealthy pure-blood families, including the three couples who announced their wedding dates this year.

As for ordinary students, due to face and financial reasons, they rarely follow this tradition, because if they do so, they are likely to attract ridicule from their pure-blood classmates.

All the students' faces were filled with happy smiles, even those who did not perform very well in the exam.

After all, they still have a whole week of vacation. During this period, they no longer have to worry about test scores or the discipline of their parents and teachers. They can have fun in the huge castle of Hogwarts as much as they want.

It's just that the professors don't look so happy anymore. Even Professor Flitwick, who is usually the most optimistic, has a serious face.

The students didn't feel there was anything wrong with this, or in other words, they had gone crazy and didn't care what the professors were like.

But this situation is bound to not last long.

In fact, the morning after the exam, a report in the Daily Prophet put a cruel reality before everyone's eyes and took away everyone's good mood.