Chapter 407
After returning to Hogwarts from Dumbledore, McC stayed alone in the dormitory for a long time.
His mood is very complicated at this moment.
Overall, the purpose of his journey to the villa in the forest has been achieved. First, he can use Dumbledore's power to solve the problem of Slytherin pendant without bloodshed, and soon Dumbledore should set out to find the resurrection stone.
At that time, Dumbledore, who longs for his loved ones, will definitely not be able to resist the temptation of the resurrection stone and thus step into Voldemort's trap, and there will be no time left.
Even Dumbledore's attitude towards Harry was exactly the same as Mike expected. It can be said that everything was developing as Mike's plan, 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 entanglement did not last long. After some thought, he quickly came to the conclusion.
Of course it's worth it!
Otherwise, what would your previous efforts be considered?
At the same time, he also had a clearer understanding of himself in his heart.
In some ways, he and Dumbledore are the same kind of people.
In order to eliminate Voldemort and restore peace to the wizard world, Dumbledore was willing to sacrifice Harry, the son of the old friend, for greater benefit, and Mike was willing to sacrifice the lives of two old friends Dumbledore and Harry.
Of course, this does not mean that Mike has become so ruthless that he has decided to trade Harry and Dumbledore's lives for victory.
Just as Dumbledore tried his best to find the best of both worlds in the original work, and finally successfully destroyed Voldemort while also saving Harry's life.
Mike will also do his best to avoid the sacrifice of his friends around him. Just as he persuaded Dumbledore to retire Lupin so that he and Tonks can have a good end. Mike hopes from the bottom of his heart that every friend of his can have a happy end.
However, who can know the future? All you can do is do your best.
Thinking of this, Mike, who had regained his fighting spirit, took a deep breath and sat at the desk to start the post-war statistics work.
After communicating with Dumbledore, he had a detailed understanding of the situation of the trip to the Ministry of Magic.
During this battle, the Los Sanctu Wizards' Legion had little casualties, with only 6 casualties, including one slightly injured, four seriously injured, and one person killed.
The original casualties should have been smaller. After all, there were only two seriously injured people in normal combat. The remaining one was slightly injured, two serious injuries and one was killed due to the negligence of the defense team.
To this end, the leader of the defense team voluntarily resigned from his position as team leader and expressed his willingness to accept any punishment.
But Mike did not punish him too much. After all, these Los Santa Maria wizards were cultivated by Mike for a lot of money. Mike would never fire them at will until they helped Mike earn more than their costs.
But there must be punishments that should be there, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public. So Mike subtracted his bonus for one year and all the benefits of this action to punish him.
The defensive captain naturally agreed with this punishment.
After all, his life is left, and a fine of some money is nothing.
The other members were also very satisfied because Mc promised to give the team leader a monthly bonus of up to 500 Jin Jialong, and the bonus of this operation was up to 1,000 Jin Jialong, which means that Mike fined him a huge sum of 1,500 Jin Jialong at one time!
And Mike did not collect the money into his wallet, but gave it all to the family of the sacrificed team member as a pension.
In general, the Los Santo Wizards' losses this time were much less than Mike's expectations. After all, war always kills people. Mike had even prepared for more than half of the losses of the entire Wizards' team, so he is very satisfied with the ability to achieve such results.
On the other hand, the Death Eater is not ideal.
Although Voldemort successfully took away the prophecy ball, his Death Eaters suffered heavy losses.
First of all, the entire werewolf army was wiped out, and even Commander Fenriel did not survive.
Then the human wizards were also very serious. With the advance attack of the Los Santo wizards and the later encirclement and pursuit of the Aurors, Mike estimated that most of the Death Eaters were already in the Ministry of Magic.
Even if the remaining small number of people are not dead, they will only be a very small number of people who dare to continue to defect to Voldemort.
In other words, Voldemort today, except for the main core members such as Bellatrix, his Death Eater army has almost been killed or injured.
Mike slowly wrote this conclusion on his notepad, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose.
This action he organized undoubtedly gave Voldemort a heavy blow, which greatly hindered Voldemort's next notification of the magic world.
However, the losses of the Order of the Phoenix are also serious.
The whereabouts of Kingsley, an official from the Ministry of Magic who colluded with them, was unknown. There was no such thing as the entire operation from beginning to end, and it was suspected that he had been captured by the Death Eater.
Later, Black, Lupin and Moody were all seriously injured and had no combat power in a short period of time.
However, Mike estimated that even if they recovered from the injury, they would not be likely to continue to return to the Order of the Phoenix.
After all, Lupin has been arranged to retire, while Black has distrust of the Order because of Moody's affairs. It is not impossible for him to pull him to the Los Angeles.
As for Moody, he should be the worst one in this operation, because when he was evacuating, Mike and Black both ignored Moody's existence, which led to his unconsciousness being successfully fermented by the Aurors!
According to Dumbledore, he also went to the Ministry of Magic to try to rescue Moody, but the Ministry of Magic refused his request without mercy.
He also said that after experiencing the treatment they provided, Moody has woken up, but he himself is not willing to follow Dumbledore to return 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 he knew all the senior officials in Auror's office (although the relationship was not very good). At this critical moment, he had a high probability of joining the Ministry of Magic instead of returning to the Order of the Phoenix, an organization with someone throwing black guns behind his back.
Mike naturally enjoyed seeing this, after all, he himself didn't like the old guy Moody.
As for what you said that the Phoenix Society will not decline after losing so much power?
Mike said you're just joking.
Who is Dumbledore?
He is the most powerful white wizard in the world today, and there are so many noble titles on his head that you can't count them!
It would be too easy for him to replenish the personnel of his subordinates!
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When the morning sun shone on Hogwarts Castle, Mike finally sorted out the relevant information.
Although Mike's mental power was very strong, he felt a little tired after experiencing a big battle while not sleeping for two days.
In order to cope with the next exam, Mike still drank some Dolphin magic drinks for refreshing the spirit.
Perhaps because it must be sunny after the storm, the weather around Hogwarts has been very good during the week of the exam, which is very rare, especially in the UK.
The beautiful sunshine and fresh air greatly alleviated the students' anxiety about the exam, 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 a hard-working attitude of studying while eating, 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.
The three people reacted differently to this.
Among them, Ron and Harry's expressions were not very good-looking, and both expressed regret for this matter.
From their euphemistic words, Mike probably understood what they mean.
Ron felt sympathy for Lupin's injury this time, while Harry's focus was that Lupin would lose a large part of his casting ability in the future.
As for Hermione, her reaction can be said to be the most normal thing for Mike, because after hearing that Professor Lupin could finally retire and get married, she was so happy that she couldn't even take care of the review notes that were inseparable from her during this period.
Mike also sighed about this.
In his previous life, Mike once heard a conclusion that in the growth and development of psychological age, girls have always been three to five years ahead of boys.
Before, Mike thought this was nothing but nonsense. After all, his daughter in his previous life was hard to describe, but now judging from Hermione's performance, what scientists said is true!
Harry and Ron were too one-sided to see things, only seeing what Lupin lost, but not seeing what he got.
Fortunately, Hermione is still relatively mature. After Hermione broke all the uncomplexing twists and turns here and told them to the two, Harry and Ron showed a sudden enlightenment on their faces.
Finally, the four of them decided to visit Professor Lupin after the holiday began.
After making this decision, everyone's life finally returned to its original track.
This makes many people feel painful because it means they will face endless exams.
Among them, Ron even said shamelessly: 'This is more difficult than fighting and winning the eighty Death Eaters alone in the Ministry of Magic!'
Mike was speechless about this, but the thing that left him the most speechless was still behind.
Because after Ron made such shameless remarks, many Da Army members agreed with him, saying that the exam was much more difficult than fighting the Death Eaters.
With their efforts, Mike and others' performance in the Ministry of Magic that night immediately increased a thousand times, and the number of Death Eaters killed reached an astonishing 100,000!
Mike was completely confused because this number was too exaggerated. If Voldemort had a 100,000 army, he would have pushed Europe long ago, so he would have continued to tangle with Dumbledore in Yingguo.
But the melon-eating crowd just took this trick, and they even formed a chain of contempt. Among them, the Da Army was at the top level after participating in the operation that night, and the bottom level were the Slytherins who already had a little black background.
The Slytherins dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.
The anger was because to some extent the students were right, some of them were indeed shot dead by the Los Santo Wizards and Aurors in the Ministry of Magic.
The reason why they dare not speak out is because their two backers, Chris (yes, you read that right, Chris did not take the OWL exam) and Umbridge have not been in Hogwarts these days!
But the difficult days will always pass, and all the exams are finally over the last week before the semester ends.
On this day, the whole of Hogwarts was in full swing, and the students rushed to tell each other, venting their suppressed lively nature during the week.
Some graduates tore up all their books as soon as the exam is over to express their disgust for learning.
Such behavior is very irrational, because these old books should be donated to schools according to conventional procedures for use as second-hand books for other poor students.
Among the remaining graduates, at least three student couples announced their relationship as soon as the exam was over and said they would get married during the summer vacation.
Of course, everyone gave them sincere blessings, only Mike looked confused.
After asking Benjamin and others, Mike learned that it was already a tradition in Hogwarts that it was already a tradition in Hogwarts 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 with another pure-blooded girl at the graduation dinner and invited all his classmates to attend.
Of course, most of this tradition belongs to wealthy pure-blood family members, including the three couples who announced their wedding date this year.
As for ordinary students, due to face and financial reasons, they rarely follow this tradition, because they are likely to attract ridicule from pure-blooded classmates.
All students had happy smiles on their faces, even those who did not perform well in the exam.
After all, they still have a whole week of vacation. During this period, they no longer have to worry about their exam results, nor do they have to worry about their parents and teachers' discipline. They can play in the huge castle of Hogwarts at will.
However, the professors were not so happy, and even Professor Flevy, who was usually the most optimistic, had a serious look on his face.
The students did not feel anything wrong with this, or they were already crazy now and didn't care about the professors' state at all.
But this situation will not last long.
Chapter completed!