Chapter 359 357. Prelude to Death
The atmosphere became weird.
It's not that people's memories cannot be tampered with, it's just that no matter how superb Occlumency is, it's only easy to change long-term memories, and if it happened not long ago or it's less than three days since it happened, There is no way to manipulate the memory at all.
Especially since Jon pulled out this memory of himself in front of everyone around him.
Matthew's face was still so calm, he took a deep breath, and walked to Jon's side, still holding a transparent glass bottle in his hand.
"Leave it to me. Someone from the referee team will verify this memory. If we really find any clues in it, we will definitely give you and Dumbledore an explanation."
Jon looked up at Dumbledore, and Dumbledore also looked at him and nodded slightly.
So Jon shrugged and sent this memory into the bottle in Matthew's hand.
"Well, I hope you can afford this explanation after you discover something."
The matter about the fire dragon going crazy in the Forbidden Forest has just come to an end. Of course, Matthew will not directly start checking this memory in front of so many people at the scene. Some things need to be avoided for the sake of fairness.
At this time, everyone looked at the lost Emil who was still standing on the edge of the silver line, and Matthew asked again.
"So, are you going to continue the game, Mr. Lestrange?"
Emil raised his head to look at his vice principal helplessly, but Boster didn't look at him at all, but lowered his head with a gloomy face, not knowing what he was thinking.
Now, the boy finally had no way to hold on any longer. Holding the cloth bag with the golden snitch in his hand, he walked out of the silver line on the edge of the Forbidden Forest dejectedly.
And the moment he stepped out, countless flashing lights took pictures of this scene, which also represented the end of the first event of the Triwizard Tournament.
The three federation referees present did not waste any time. They came to Jon, Diane, and Emil respectively, took the bags from them, and began to check their results of the competition in front of everyone. .
In the end, Jon naturally had no surprises. He was the one who gained the most. He found a total of 216 golden snitches.
In fact, if it wasn’t for those fire dragons chasing after him, he should have gained more, but no matter how much he got, there was no way to add half a point to his score, and it didn’t matter whether he got it or not.
Emile's harvest is actually not bad. A total of 148 golden snitches were found. He must have received some unknown help in the Forbidden Forest. Otherwise, based on his and Diane's actual strength, he would not be able to do this at all. degree.
Needless to say, Diane, after joining Jon, she rushed directly towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest. When she saw Jon, she caught 86, and now naturally only 86 after the game.
According to the ranking in the results, Jon scored 70 points in the first place, counting his 30 points at the end of the second game, and now ranks first with a total score of 100.
Diane ranked third in terms of results and only scored 30 points, but at the last minute Jon pushed her, allowing her to finish the game first and score 40 points, ranking second with a total score of 70.
Emil scored 50 points in the second place and 20 points in the third place, with a total score of 70, tied for second with Diane.
Although it is not bad, it is certainly not the result that Emil expected. According to his initial thinking, the worst ranking is that he and Jon are tied for first place.
The bottom one is of course Draco who was eliminated at the beginning of the game. Even though he was eliminated at the beginning, he still got 20 guaranteed points and is now the bottom one.
However, what happened in the Forbidden Forest is not a bad thing for him, if he hadn't planned to get any good results in this Triwizard Tournament from the beginning.
Just when Matthew finally announced the results of the first competition event, suddenly, the sky suddenly lit up with a miserable green light!
The light shone on everyone's face, and nearly ten spells representing death shot straight at a huge fire dragon at the top!
Little Barty is going crazy!
His arm was obviously burned by the dragon's breath, and there was still a burnt smell there.
Fire dragons have never been scary creatures in the eyes of wizards. For wizards who have been domineering in the magic world for thousands of years, there are almost no magical animals in the world that can scare them, just like normal social paralysis. The melons have also reached the top of the food chain.
But these are all based on the fact that the wizards have already raised these species in captivity in the name of protecting fire dragons, and even when controlling the number of wild dragons, there are groups of professional dragon slayers to hunt kill.
But now in Hogwarts Castle, there are only more than 30 adult wizards, and there are 17 or 18 fire dragons attacking the castle. On average, two people are a bit reluctant to deal with one, and none of them have experienced special dragon training. Things will only get tougher.
Alecto was lying on the ground, howling like a **** pig.
Her body was tattered, with burns everywhere, and she hadn't recovered from Barty's Cruciatus Curse, so she could only lie on the ground and roll.
But Little Barty didn't allow her to leave this dangerous place. The reason is very simple, whoever retreats will die!
He has really practiced this point. Just three minutes ago, a teacher who taught the first-year flying class of the Half-Blood Academy flinched and wanted to escape from the Astronomy Tower, but Little Barty cast a death curse without saying a word.
It's both horrifying and a little natural that this kind of crazy behavior happened to him.
Anyone who is absolutely loyal to Voldemort is basically a lunatic. If he is not crazy, then he would not be called Barty Crouch Jr.
But no matter how hard they tried, they had little effect against these fire dragons, and there was no way to do much effective damage to them.
Even if some professors and Aurors from the pure blood academy can use the death curse, the death curse they release can kill people without any problem, but it can only make them nosebleed or become more crazy for fire dragons.
Now whether Voldemort can wait until he doesn't know, but there are really casualties on the Astronomy Tower. Although he was crazy and let go of his cruel words, his few rationality also told him that the professors in the Hogwarts castle couldn't really all die in this meaningless castle guard battle .
If it reaches that level, not to mention the prestige of the British wizarding world and Voldemort himself, their entire power will suffer heavy losses!
Little Barty clenched his teeth, he couldn't even feel the pain on his burned left arm, and the hoarse roar spread throughout the Astronomy Tower.
"Those who can use the death curse, aim at the Ukrainian iron belly directly above!"
He intends to organize the existing resistance forces, at least to make the situation less difficult, and from the beginning to the present, the most active and the one that has hit them the hardest is the Ukrainian iron belly.
The professors on the Astronomy Tower heard him say that not everyone can use the death curse. This is not only about whether there is such a killing intent in the heart, but also has a threshold for magic power and will.
There were probably only eight or nine people who could use the death curse, and after hearing Little Barty's voice, they all raised their wands together!
"Avada Kedavra!"
The sound of the death curse resounded on the astronomical tower, and the nearly ten miserable green spells even suppressed the golden-red light of the dragon's breath, illuminated the night sky, and shot straight at the Ukrainian iron belly.
The threat of death stimulates the brain of this fire dragon, but its size is the largest among all dragons, and it is unavoidable at such a short distance!
Thus, none of the death curses failed, and all of them hit its world-famous iron belly.
The next second, the wings of this Ukrainian iron belly stopped. In its blood-red eyes, the brilliance of life was dying, and then the huge body fell heavily towards the ground!
Little Barty found the time to release the death curse very cleverly. It was when the fire dragon was flying away from the castle. Otherwise, even if it was killed, the impact of its fall would be enough to kill everyone on the tower. All pressed into meat paste.
After the dragon corpse fell to the ground, the entire area covered by Hogwarts school trembled violently for a moment.
The students who hid in the castle didn't know what happened, but they couldn't help screaming at such a terrifying movement. Even the surface of the mirror-like Black Lake, which was usually silent, had countless splashes jumping up, There was a splash!
Little Barty was panting heavily, and his face showed some relaxation. Anyway, now at least it means that they have the means to kill these fire dragons.
But the relaxation on his face didn't last for a few seconds, the next moment, a more violent tremor caused the whole castle to shake!
The turmoil was so great that many people even had the illusion that the castle was about to collapse!
The death of a Ukrainian iron belly made the remaining dragons even more crazy!
They collided with the center of the castle surface collectively, so that the magic guarding the castle itself became crumbling, as if it might break at any time.
And there was another Ukrainian iron belly left in the sky. After seeing the death of the same kind, it let out a violent roar, and the fiery dragon flames covered the entire astronomy tower like this!
The high temperature enveloped everyone in an instant. They had just used a death curse collectively, and they didn't have time to react before jointly using a general anti-curse to resist.
Little Barty was in despair. He couldn't figure out why things would develop to the point where they are now.
Isn't this their ploy against that little Mudblood? Why did the final bitter fruit fall on their own heads?
Just when he was about to close his eyes and wait to die, suddenly, the hot burning sensation just disappeared!
Little Barty opened his eyes blankly, and then he saw the man he regarded as the spiritual pillar standing in the center of the Astronomy Tower.
He was wearing a decent dark green robe, and the night wind blew the hem of the robe, making him look so different from everything around him.
It's just that the man's face was not pretty. He looked at the flying dragons with spread wings in the sky, and gently raised the magic wand in his hand.
No one heard the sound of the incantation, but in the next instant, the green light illuminated everyone's faces!
The Ukrainian Iron Belly, which was spraying sparks from its throat and preparing for the next dragon's breath, froze completely like this!
It took nearly ten people from Batty Jr. and his party to jointly use the Killing Curse to kill the fire dragon. He died under such a silent spell without even reciting the spell.
Among the Hogwarts professors who were still alive, none of them showed any disbelief on their faces, but only the endless admiration and admiration they contained when they looked at that man.
He is so omnipotent.
After killing the iron belly, Voldemort swung the wand in his hand, and the dragon corpse that had been standing directly above the Astronomy Tower fell towards the other side as if it had been hit by a sledgehammer.
He turned his head coldly and looked around at the people around him, then without saying anything, his whole body turned into a black mist and flew towards the sky!
The green light of death is constantly shining around the castle, those fire dragons have no room to resist at all, none of them can bear the death curse of this man at all, in less than a minute, Huo The group of dragons surrounded by Castle Gewarz kept falling from the sky like dumplings.
The dragon plague, which more than 30 elite wizards have no solution for, is not even a trouble in front of him. The crushing at the magical level has allowed him to rule the British magic world equivalent to a dictatorship, and it has also allowed him to be in this world. Almost no rivals.
And after solving the troubles facing the castle, Voldemort didn't go back to the Astronomy Tower, nor did he go to see Dumbledore, he didn't have any contact with anyone, just like this alone, he still kept the form of black mist , Came to the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle.
He stood in front of the blank wall, and soon a wooden door suddenly appeared. He flew in, opened the trap door, walked through the secret passage, and finally came to this Slytherin secret room.
Walking into the secret room, he remained expressionless, and finally opened the stone door carved with two snakes, and came to the room with the statue of Slytherin himself and the runes.
(end of this chapter)