Chapter 409 Chaos
Finally, Lupin and Tonks' wedding was scheduled for July 1, and the location was set in an old manor in Fort Combe.
Strictly speaking, this is not a good day. The traditional auspicious day of wedding in Yingguo is to have sufficient food after autumn harvest before Christmas. This is because if a woman gets pregnant at this time, her child will be born in the autumn harvest season with abundant food, and the survival rate will be greatly increased.
Although modern society no longer has to worry about food, this custom has been preserved due to traditional reasons.
The reason why Lupin and Tonks set the time at this time was entirely because Voldemort would invade the wizarding world in a large scale and the war would begin again. Of course, this was also to facilitate Harry and the others to attend the wedding smoothly.
After all, if the time is set on July 1, Mike and the others will not need to go home after the holiday in Hogwarts, and can go directly to the wedding scene.
In addition, the wedding location they chose is also very interesting.
Although Combe Castle is called Castle, it is not a castle, but a small town.
It is located in the south of the Cotswolds of Yingguo and is the best preserved medieval town in Yingguo.
All the buildings in the town maintain the style from the 12th to 15th centuries, with beautiful environments and simple folk customs. Although they are not famous now, they have become one of the best tourist attractions in Yingguo in later generations.
It is also for the above reasons that the overall painting style of Fort Combe is very unique, like a small town in a fairy tale.
Of course, that was the result of the renovation and maintenance of the buildings here in later generations. Now, Fort Combe is still a remote town that no one wants to go to at all. Most of the buildings inside are dilapidated due to disrepair, and the permanent residents are even less than two hundred.
Such a remote and backward town is now completely a place where birds do not shit.
The manor used by Lupin and Tonks to marry belongs to the Black family. Of course, it has been given to Lupin by Black for their use for their marriage and future life.
In fact, Black wanted to donate another property in London to Lupin and Tonks, because it was more prosperous and closer to him, but was sternly rejected by Lupin and Tonks, because they wanted to live in seclusion in the future. In order to reduce the probability of being discovered by Voldemort and the Death Eaters, this remote town is their best destination.
After learning the news, Mike's expression was very strange because he knew very well that the place would become a famous tourist destination. Lupin and his friends' wish to live in seclusion might be bleak.
Of course, Harry didn't know anything about this.
Everyone maintained a tacit understanding, that is, to prevent Harry from knowing everything about Lupin and Tonks' marriage.
This seems a bit cruel, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Harry has not yet mastered the brain closure technique. If he rashly tells Harry the specific time and location of Lupin and Tonks' marriage, it is equivalent to telling Voldemort, then the wedding scene is likely to become another battlefield.
Harry knew this very well, so he was not dissatisfied with it at all. After all, he didn't want to see the tragedy happen.
After discussing the matters related to Lupin and Tonks' wedding, Mike and others stood up and returned to the school, but the school had already been in chaos at this time.
At this time of previous years, Hogwarts was always full of laughter and joy, and everyone was playing in the castle freely, and the professors turned a blind eye to the students' violations.
But now Hogwarts Castle is silent. Almost all students in the academy hide in their college lounges, not daring to go out except for the necessary food.
Since Mike and others concealed the fact that Voldemort had also appeared during the Night of the Ministry of Magic, many people still naively thought that Night of the Ministry of Magic was just an ordinary terrorist attack organized by the Death Eaters.
As for the man who can't even mention his name, he should still be lying in the grave.
But now they were all panicked as soon as the report from the Prophet Daily came out. The consequences of the collapse of beliefs were quite serious. The entire Hogwarts was instantly occupied by the atmosphere of panic. Many students cried to the professor's office as soon as they knew the news, saying that they were going home now.
Professors certainly do not allow this requirement.
You should know that at this time, there is no safer place in the entire wizarding world than Hogwarts. After all, this is guarded by Dumbledore, the strongest white wizard in the contemporary world.
If possible, professors and even students should not leave Hogwarts throughout the summer vacation.
Of course, this is impossible. Parents of students will not allow them to do this, especially in this uneasy period, when parents always have to see their children with their own eyes to be at ease.
However, no matter which era or group, there are always idiots. Although the professors have tried their best to explain, their behavior of refusing students to leave school early has caused further panic among the student group.
The students had no choice but to turn to their parents for help. So in just one morning, Dumbledore's office was filled with fiery red roaring letters, all of which were sent by the students' parents.
And just as the whole of Hogwarts was in panic, there was a group that seemed particularly comfortable, the Slytherins.
Looking at the faces covered with fear around him, the Slytherin's students were so happy that they could hardly breathe.
Others are afraid of Voldemort, but they are not afraid.
You should know that Voldemort comes from their Slytherin, not to mention that the elders of many of them are former Death Eaters. In their opinion, the fierce Voldemort is actually their own people.
The first time they learned that Voldemort was back, the students of Slytherin started a carnival, wandering around Hogwarts Castle, celebrating Voldemort's return, and terrorizing everyone they met, and even the objects they intimidated included some not so powerful professors.
As several major professors were all busy dealing with the yelling letters, the Slytherins' behavior was temporarily ignored by the professors.
However, Slytherin obviously did not think that the professors' behavior was considered to be fear of Voldemort, which made them begin to bully other students even more violently. The Slytherin even blocked the door of Hufflepuff Academy.
What Mike and others saw when they returned from St. Mungo was such a chaos. Hogwarts was empty, with various patterns painted with green paint everywhere on the walls and floors. The most common one was the snake pattern representing the Slytherin Academy. But that was nothing, because Mike even saw Voldemort's skeleton logo in some hidden corners!
"Oh my God!" Hermione, who had witnessed the green patterns, was so angry that she even trembled in her voice. "How dare they... how dare they do this? What about Felch? In the past, even if a student brought mud and water into the castle, he would be furious. What's wrong now?"
Mike patted Hermione's back as comfort, and Harry and Ron on the side were also very angry.
They even began to use clear springs, water spells and other cleaning spells on those patterns, but unfortunately, these cleaning spells that used to be obvious in the past actually had no effect on those patterns. Obviously, the group of Slytherin rich people used magic ink with waterproof and curses.
In desperation, the few people had to continue walking towards the auditorium. As soon as they arrived at the auditorium, they knew why Felch had not cleaned up the damn graffiti.
I saw Felch's whole body being hung upside down by a wonderful force, and around him were five or six senior Slytherin students, some of whom were applying something on Felch's body with a quill stained with green ink, and some were laughing.
Felch was in a bad state at this moment and could only float in the air and let the students do whatever they wanted.
If it weren't for the constant tears flowing in his eyes, Mike and others would almost think he was dead!
Although Felch was indeed an annoying guy, and he even helped the evil during Umbridge's time, at this time, Harry and others were not gloating at all when they saw this tragic situation. Hermione couldn't help but cover her mouth.
The Slytherins also discovered Mike and others at the first time. They were all stunned, as if they were surprised that they dared to have people from other academy wandering around outside at this time.
Then they were almost instinctive, and they began to approach Mike and others while smiling, but after getting closer, they finally found Mike standing in the front position.
In just a moment, the smile on their faces froze. Mike's reputation had spread throughout Hogwarts, and it was even circulated in some circles outside the school. They dared not provoke him.
The tradition of Slytherins is to judge the situation. It can be said that every Slytherin is a human being, except for a certain emotional Malfoy, so those Slytherins who seemed to be very high-grade almost immediately turned around and ran out of the auditorium.
It seemed like I felt a bit embarrassed to leave like this. Before I was about to disappear into the auditorium, one of the Slytherin even pointed at Mike at a fast speed and compared a middle finger.
Mike was speechless, while Harry and Hermione walked up quickly to free Felch, who was hanging upside down.
Only then did everyone see Felch's miserable situation clearly, but his face turned red due to excessive blood congestion, and his clothes were torn and vaguely, he could even see the black bruises inside through the holes in the clothes.
"Why do they do this? Are they not the same as Felch?"
Harry asked with a frown, and it seemed to him that Filch and Slytherins were a bunch of bad guys, no difference.
"The reason is very simple." Mike said calmly, while taking out some white freshness from his package and smearing it on Felch's wound. "Because Felch is a squib, and they are pure blood."
As soon as these words were spoken, Ron was pretty good, and Harry and Hermione showed confusion on their faces of incomprehension.
"It's because of this?"
Hermione said with a frown.
"That's right."
"This is simply unreasonable!"
"No, this is easy to understand." Mike said, "Vodemort's theory of pure blood supremacy will further improve the social status of pure blood, so that they can squeeze mixed-blood and Muggle wizards more easily. As vested interests, it is very understandable that some pure blood support Voldemort unconditionally, after all, this is good for them. You must know that due to the passage of time, many ancient pure blood families have fallen, and Voldemort's actions are likely to regain their glory!"
Hermione's expression suddenly became complicated. As a top student, she easily understood Mike's meaning, while Harry next to her was still confused.
But Mike didn't want to explain it to them further at this time. Others didn't know it, but he knew it very well.
The Slytherins who had just left did not simply escape. With Slytherin's temperament, they were likely to go back and call people. So after initially applying some medicine to Felch to keep his life, Mike looked up and said:
"Okay, it's time for us to leave."
After saying that, Mike waved his arm, allowing Felch to float behind him and began to walk towards Ravenclaw's lounge.
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In the Ravenclaw lounge, Mike's return suddenly eased the originally tense atmosphere in the lounge. Everyone walked out of the dormitory and gathered in the lounge to look at Mike in the center.
As the academy where Mike is located, almost everyone in Lavencluy has a mysterious confidence in Mike.
This confidence made them feel that as long as Mike was there, they would not be hurt, even if Voldemort came in person!
In a sense, Mike's prestige at Lavenclaw College has even reached the level of Professor Dumbledore Fleevey.
Of course, this is exactly what Mike wants, and it is the result of his continuous efforts over the past five years.
After arriving at the Ravenclaw lounge, Mike handed Felch, who was still in a state of confusion, to other students for treatment, and he himself learned about the changes in Hogwarts this morning from his classmates.
"How are they...how dare they..."
Hermione said over and over again, her body trembling constantly, obviously being angry.
To be honest, Mike thinks she looks really like Professor McGonagall now, which is very funny.
But at this time, he obviously wouldn't make such jokes.
So Mike coughed and pressed down the corner of his mouth that had been slightly raised, pretending to be serious and said:
"It seems that it's time for the Da Army to work again!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Harry and others were confused, and excited smiles appeared on the faces of the rest of the people around them.
Chapter completed!