Chapter 391 389. Voldemort's Attitude
Hearing this question from Snape, Little Barty was taken aback for a moment, and then said in a low voice with a gloomy face.
"Do you think that my previous investigations on him in the orphanage were all for nothing? Wouldn't it be a man or a woman who abandoned his biological father?"
Of course what Barty Jr. said made sense, Snape just put forward a hypothesis, and he didn't confirm it.
"Then since you have no problem, my medicine has no problem, and Jon Green's gender can be fully confirmed, what is the problem now?"
His question caused the atmosphere to fall into silence again. After a long time, the two suddenly raised their heads and looked at each other, as if thinking of something together.
The huge explosion shattered the one-handed sword armor on the spot, and the magic that kept the dead objects alive could no longer be maintained. The knight's sword fell to the ground, and the armor that was put together also scattered on the ground.
Only the glove with the hole in it was still slightly moving its fingers, but that alone was no longer a big threat to Hermione.
The other two armors seemed to have been shocked by Hermione's atrocities. They held their weapons and stopped charging, but stood facing her like this.
Hermione's breathing became obviously more rapid, and the bun on her head was also washed away by the aftermath of the explosion, and her long chestnut hair was scattered behind her.
There were tiny cracks like spider webs on the light blue iron armor spell, but the spell was not completely destroyed by the sword that slashed down on the armor, and still retained its basic effect.
The explosion just now was obviously quite loud, but there is no way around it. The blasting spell alchemy bomb developed by the Weasley twins is actually much less powerful than the original blasting spell. If the effect continues to be weakened, there will be no Way to carry out an effective attack again.
That is to say, Hermione successfully threw the bomb into the inside of the armor. Of course, this kind of magic armor has no strong defense against it. If you just throw it at random and let the bomb explode outside, it will basically not hurt this kind of armor. What kind of effective damage does this kind of armor with amazing defensive power do.
Moreover, the sound of this kind of movement has actually been reduced a lot by Hermione's deceleration and anti-shock spell on the armor in advance, otherwise the sound would be louder and attract more people's attention.
Soon the remaining two armors did not stay silent for long, and they launched a new round of attack again.
But this kind of attack strength is much lower than the three sets of armor just now. Of course, Hermione is not as good as Jon in the mastery of advanced spells and black magic, but her advantage lies in her extremely solid learning of basic spells.
In the situation where the Hogwarts carriage is already accompanied by danger and everyone is compressing their spare time and studying hard, Hermione can be called the well-deserved king of papers.
Even if she lost one and a half years of study, she still caught up with the normal pace of the fourth grade students on the carriage with her own efforts, and even ranked among the best among them.
It's just that Hermione's performance on the carriage was relatively low-key, and she didn't have any active performance in class. In addition, due to the ups and downs in the past few years, no serious exams were taken on the carriage, which left many people with her Not such a good illusion.
Freezing spell, Binding spell, Slowing spell, Transfiguration spell
Hermione is very clear that her attack direction is to limit the actions of the two armors as much as possible. After blowing up a pair of armor to relieve her defensive pressure, the rest does not require her to have any offensive pressure. Just use the shorthand quill to completely copy the magic text on the desk.
Things went smoothly after that.
The two sets of armor didn't even touch the corner of Hermione's robe, and the movements of those Aurors were obviously much slower than she expected before. They just came from the second floor to the third floor in about two minutes. .
Because they only heard the sound of movement from the upper floors of the castle, but they couldn't know exactly which room on which floor the sound was coming from, so it was extremely time-consuming to check layer by layer.
After the shorthand quill completely stopped its nib and lay quietly on the parchment where the ink was not completely dry, Hermione did not stop for a moment. She immediately dodged the big ax raised by the armor again, and then grabbed Lived the parchment on the desk.
"Fox."
Fawkes is always reliable, and when Hermione calls its name, it glows golden and red.
The flash of golden light illuminated the window glass of the principal's office, and Li, who had been watching the window on the seventh floor, must be able to see it.
"Okay, okay, Hermione's signal has arrived, her mission in the castle is over, hurry up, we're going back to the carriage!"
Li immediately had no intention of pretending to be with Jon anymore, and Jon knew very well that the moment they started pretending was the countdown to the revelation of the matter.
So Jon didn't hesitate. After hearing Li's words, he immediately stood up from the bench, and the two didn't stay any longer.
Little Barty is not an idiot, since there is no need to doubt Jon's gender, and they are in a hurry to leave now, even if he is really an idiot, he will know what is wrong at this time.
"You said, is it possible that your plan failed at the beginning, and they are now pretending to us from beginning to end?"
Snape's words were full of sarcasm. He didn't seem to have much sympathy for Barty Jr.'s failure. Originally, he was only playing a supporting role in this plan, doing everything he should do as Voldemort's second in command. If you do it, you have fulfilled your duty. The biggest beneficiary and responsible person for this matter, whether it succeeds or fails, is only Little Barty.
Little Barty's face was livid, and he had obviously thought of this.
"What are you gloating about? Haven't you thought about why they want to accompany us to perform such a scene? To attract our attention, there must be something wrong in the castle!"
"No matter what kind of problems you have, don't they all come from your arrogance, Mr. Crouch." Snape said contemptuously, "I just did what I should do, and all the consequences are of course You bear it alone."
Of course Little Barty knew this, but he didn't know that at this moment he had drawn his wand out of his cuff, staring closely at the backs of Jon and Li and stood up from the shadows.
"Since they use themselves as bait, then there is no poison, why can't we just keep them?"
The mockery on Snape's face remained undiminished.
At this time, Barty looked in the direction Snape pointed out. In the direction of the end of the garden path, at some point there was an old man with crescent-shaped glasses, wearing a dark purple robe, and gray hair and beard standing there. .
He was right next to the streetlight, and in the shadows where the light did not shine, Jon and Li obviously saw him, they called out to Professor Dumbledore, and then walked quickly towards the old man.
Dumbledore still had such a gentle smile on his face, he seemed to be looking at Jon and the others, and he seemed to look across them and meet Little Barty.
Little Barty's face became more and more ugly, it was gloomy like never before, but at the same time, he also rationally put down the half-raised wand in his hand, then turned around and walked towards the castle without saying a word.
Snape didn't leave with Barty Jr. He stayed where he was and gave Dumbledore a deep look. There seemed to be a lot of things in the eyes of the two, and then he turned around and returned to Hoag Watts Castle.
Jon felt a little nervous after seeing Dumbledore, and then completely relaxed.
"Has Hermione gone back yet, Professor."
Dumbledore walked beside them, and the three returned side by side in the direction of the carriage.
"Of course, I came over as soon as she got back into the carriage, and took a walk while picking you up. To be honest, they arranged this place really well."
His tone was very relaxed, and he didn't mention the scene where he met Barty Jr. and Snape just now.
"By the way, Jon, I also left you a secret Christmas present. I think you will like it very much. Li ate a big piece before he came to you."
"Please forgive me, Professor, I really don't dare to think about the picture of stuffing that thing into my mouth. If this is really the case, you might as well let me fight some Death Eater one-on-one."
"If you don't try it, you'll really regret it, Jon! It's really rare and delicious!"
"Thanks to you, I have indirectly felt the power of that thing from you just now, so let you enjoy this delicacy alone."
The figures of the three gradually disappeared under the light and shadow, and finally only a piece of Dumbledore's happy laughter came from the direction of the Hogwarts carriage.
Midnight, in the headmaster's office, Dumbledore looked at the rune on the desk that Hermione brought from the castle.
"He's actually done it."
On the wall, Slytherin's voice came over, he had obviously read the contents of the parchment.
Dumbledore didn't look up. This rune can actually reveal a lot.
"Leaving aside the question of whether he can finish it or not, what I'm thinking is that Hermione entered the principal's room so obviously, did he really not notice it at all?"
His fingers tapped lightly on the desk surface.
"I don't believe he really didn't notice it at all. Hermione said that there was a snake guarding that office, many portraits and three sets of armor. It seemed that these arrangements were perfect, but in fact it didn't need to be so troublesome at all. If he really If you care about that office, you can let one or two house elves in the castle stay there permanently, and report to him immediately if there is any sign of someone breaking in, and there is no possibility that anyone will have any thoughts about it."
Dumbledore's words caused the portraits of the headmaster on the entire wall to look at each other. They obviously couldn't understand Dumbledore's speculation.
"But if he doesn't care about the office, why do he still have these preparations? Aren't these all meaningless?" Dai Lisi asked.
After a few seconds of silence in the principal's room, Dumbledore said suddenly.
"Is it possible that he did it on purpose, that he deliberately gave us the illusion that he actually valued that office, but was actually covering up other things?"
"But his progress is about to be completed, isn't it?" Phoenix yelled loudly, "You and Slytherin have both identified this rune, and are sure that if he really follows the progress on the rune, he has actually completed it." Without control of the castle, what's the point of him making such a demonstration, is it fun to deceive us deliberately?"
His words sparked debate among many principals. Each of them seemed to have their own opinions, but in the end, no one could say why.
In the end, Dumbledore stopped their quarrel and said in a deep voice.
"Actually, regarding Riddle's questions, we only have two most critical questions now, and that is why he must start this Triwizard Tournament, and then what is he going to do to capture this castle."
"Our own appeal is also very simple. One is to take back the castle in its entirety, not just a nominal right of ownership through the blood oath, and the other is to win this Triwizard Tournament and confirm our foundation in France. foundation."
"First of all, the most important thing is to meet our own demands. I believe in Jon regarding the matter of the Triwizard Tournament. With him participating, there is no need for other people to intervene too much. So what we have to do now is how to complete To bring back this riddled castle that has been tossed by Riddle is also the purpose of my decisive promise to hold the Triwizard Tournament from the very beginning."
Dumbledore turned to look at the headmasters on the wall.
"I think everyone should know better than me that this castle may not be worth mentioning to Riddle. It is just a signboard to highlight his rule in England, but it is the root of everything for us."
Regarding this, the principals in the portraits all nodded solemnly, agreeing with Dumbledore's words very much.
Then, Slytherin's voice sounded.
"Retaking the castle completely is actually not a problem for us. Because the castle has not surrendered to Riddle from the very beginning, it belongs to us, and all we have to do is to take back what has been imposed on it. Get rid of all the influences, then Hogwarts will be able to return to the original Hogwarts castle."
Dumbledore's gaze became deep, as if he was thinking about something.
"If it's just like this, of course there is no difficulty for us, but the first thing we need to ensure is that we can't let his influence on this castle go further, otherwise I always feel that it is a burden that no one can bear. a consequence."
(end of this chapter)