Chapter 407： Funeral

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

His mood is very complicated at the moment.

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

Dumbledore, who is eager for his relatives, will surely be unable to resist the temptation of the resurrection stone, and will step into the trap of Voldemort.

Even Dumbledore's attitude towards Harry was exactly the same as Mike expected. It can be said that everything is developing as Mike planned, but even so, Mike just can't be happy.

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

Mike fell into deep doubts.

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

Of course it is worth it!

Otherwise, what are your 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 kind of person.

In order to eliminate Voldemort and restore peace to the wizarding world, Dumbledore was willing to sacrifice Harry, the son of the old man, and Mike was also willing to sacrifice the lives of two old friends, Dumbledore and Harry, for the greater good.

Of course, this is not to say that Mike has been ruthless enough to decide to trade the lives of Harry and Dumbledore for victory.

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

Mike will also do his best to avoid the sacrifices of his friends, just as he persuaded Dumbledore to retire Lupin so that he and Tonks can have a good ending, Mike hopes from the bottom of his heart that every one of his friends will be able to There is one.

But, who can know the future? All I can do is to do my best.

Thinking like this, Mike, who had regained his fighting spirit, took a deep breath and sat down at his desk to start post-war statistics.

After communicating with Dumbledore, he has another detailed understanding of the battle of this trip to the Ministry of Magic.

In this battle, the Los Santos Wizarding Corps had few casualties, with only 6 casualties, including one lightly wounded, four severely wounded, and one killed.

The original casualties should be smaller. After all, there were only two severely wounded people injured in normal combat, and the remaining one minor injury, two severe 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.

It’s just that Mike didn’t punish him too much. After all, these Los Santo wizards were trained by Mike for a lot of money. Mike will never be casual until they help Mike earn more than their cost. Expelled them.

But the punishment that should be there is still necessary, otherwise it is difficult to convince the public, so Mike subtracted his one-year bonus and all the proceeds of this operation as punishment.

For this punishment, the defensive captain naturally raised his hands in favor.

After all, his life was left, and a fine of money is nothing.

The rest of the members are also very satisfied, because Mike promised to give the team leader a monthly bonus of up to 500 gold gallons, and the bonus for this action was as high as 1,000 gold gallons, which means that Mike fined him 1500 gold gallons at a time. Long's huge sum!

And this Qian Mike didn't take it into his wallet, but instead gave it all as a pension to the family of the sacrificial team member.

In general, the loss of the Los Santos Wizarding Group this time is much less than Mike expected. After all, wars are always deadly. Mike has even prepared for the loss of more than half of the entire Wizarding Group, so he can now obtain He is very satisfied with such results.

Looking back at the Death Eaters, it's not ideal.

Although Voldemort succeeded in taking the Prophecy Orb, 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 the human wizards were also very serious. After the first strike of the Los Santo wizards and the Aurors' later encirclement and hunting, Mike estimated that most of the Death Eaters were already in the Ministry of Magic.

And even if the remaining small part is not dead, there will only be very few who dare to continue running to Voldemort.

In other words, Voldemort nowadays, except for Bellatrix and other key core members, his Death Eater army has almost been killed and wounded.

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

This action organized by himself was undoubtedly a blow to Voldemort, which greatly hindered Voldemort's subsequent notification of the progress of the magic world.

It's just that the loss to the Order of the Phoenix is ​​equally serious.

The whereabouts of Kingsley, the official of the Ministry of Magic, who had colluded with them, was unknown. There was nowhere from beginning to end during the entire operation, and he was suspected to have been captured by Death Eaters.

Then it was Black, Lupin, and Moody who were all seriously injured, and in a short time there was no fighting power at all.

However, Mike estimates that even if they recover from the injury, they are unlikely to return to the Order of the Phoenix.

After all, Lupin has been arranged to retire, and Blake has mistrusted the Order of the Phoenix because of Moody’s affairs. It is not impossible for him to work hard 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 when they were evacuated, which led to a coma and he was successfully given sufu by the Aurors. !

According to Dumbledore, he also went to the Ministry of Magic to rescue Moody afterwards, but the Ministry of Magic relentlessly refused his request.

and said that after experiencing the treatment they provided, Moody was awake, but he himself did not want to follow Dumbledore back to the Order of the Phoenix.

In this regard, Mike strongly suspects that Moody’s has been bought. After all, he was originally a senior Auror, and he knew the senior officials in the Auror’s office (although the relationship was not very good). He has a great deal in this critical moment. Probability will rejoin the Ministry of Magic, instead of returning to the Order of the Phoenix, an organization where someone will throw a black gun in the back.

Mike is naturally happy to see it happen, after all, he doesn't like the old guy Moody.

As for you, the Phoenix society will not decline after losing so many capable officers?

Mike said that you are totally joking.

Who is Dumbledore?

He is the most powerful white wizard in the world today. There are so many noble titles on his head that you can't even count them!

For people like 　　, it is too easy for him to supplement the manpower of his organization!

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

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

In order to cope with the next exam, Mike still drank some Dolphin Magic Drink for refreshing.

It may be because it must be sunny after the storm. The weather around Hogwarts has been very good during the test week, which is very rare, especially in the UK.

The beautiful sunshine and fresh air greatly eased the students’ anxiety about the exam, so when Mike came to the restaurant, he found that the atmosphere here has been greatly improved compared to the previous two days.

Although the classmates still maintained a diligent attitude of studying while eating, at least their expressions were not as ugly as they were in the first two days.

Mike easily found Harry, Hermione and others, and told the three of Lupin's situation and Dumbledore's follow-up arrangements for him.

The three people reacted differently.

Among them, Ron and Harry's expressions are not very good-looking, and both expressed regret about the incident.

Mike can probably understand what they mean from their euphemistic words.

Ron is sympathetic to Lupin's injury this time, and Harry's focus is that Lupin will likely lose a large part of his spellcasting ability in the future.

As for Hermione, her reaction can be said to be the most normal for Mike, because she was so happy after hearing that Professor Lupin was finally able to retire and get married. Even the review notes that were inseparable from her during this period of time were ignored. Up.

Mike is also quite lamented about this.

In his previous life, Mike had heard a conclusion that in the growth and development of mental age, girls have always been three to five years older than boys.

Before, Mike thought this was just nonsense. After all, his daughter in the previous life was hard to say, but now from Hermione’s performance, what the scientists said is true!

Harry and Ron looked too one-sidedly. They only saw what Lupin had lost, but didn't see what he had gained.

Fortunately, Hermione is still relatively mature. After Hermione broke all the uncomplicated twists and turns and told them to the two people, the faces of Harry and Ron showed a dazed expression.

Finally, the four finalized their decision to visit Professor Lupin together after the holiday began.

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

This makes many people feel pain, because it means that they will face endless exams.

Among them, Ron even bluntly said: ‘This is more difficult than fighting and winning with 80 Death Eaters alone at the Ministry of Magic! ’

Mike is speechless about this, but the thing that makes him speechless is yet to come.

Because after Ron made such blatant remarks, many members of the Da Army echoed him, saying that the exam is much harder than fighting the Death Eaters.

Thanks to their efforts, Mike and the others’ record at the Ministry of Magic that night immediately doubled a thousand times, and the number of Death Eaters killed reached an astonishing 100,000!

Mike was stunned, because this number was a bit too exaggerated. If Voldemort really had an army of 100,000, he would have flattened Europe a long time ago, and he would continue to entangle Dumbledore with Dumbledore.

But the people who eat melon eat this set. They even formed a chain of contempt. Among them, the soldiers who participated in the action that night were at the top level, and the bottom ones were those with a little black background. Slytherins.

Regarding this, the Slytherins dared not say anything.

anger is because, to some extent, what the classmates said was correct. Some of their parents and elders were indeed killed by the Los Santos Wizards and Aurors at the Ministry of Magic.

I dare not speak because of their two backers, 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 always pass. In the last week before the end of the semester, all the exams are finally over.

On this day, the whole Hogwarts was boiling, and the students rushed to tell each other, wantonly venting their suppressed lively nature this week.

Some graduates tear up all their books as soon as the exam is over to express their dislike of learning.

This kind of behavior is very irrational, because these old books should be donated to the school as second-hand books for other poor students in accordance with the normal procedures.

Among the remaining graduates, there are even at least three student couples who announced their love affair as soon as the exam is over and said they will get married during the summer vacation.

Of course, everyone offered their heartfelt blessings to them, only Mike looked dumbfounded.

After inquiring about Benjamin and others, Mike learned about It is a tradition of Hogwarts to announce his love affair and announce the 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 at the graduation dinner his wedding date with another girl from the pure-blood family at the time and invited all his classmates to participate.

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

As for ordinary students, due to face and economic reasons, they seldom follow this tradition, because doing so is likely to attract ridicule from pure-blood students.

All the students’ faces were filled with happy smiles, even those who did not perform well in the exams.

After all, they still have a full week of vacation. During this time, they don’t have to worry about exam results or the discipline of their parents and teachers. They can play around in the huge castle of Hogwarts.

It’s just that the professors are not so happy anymore. Even the most optimistic Professor Fliviy is always serious.

The students didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this, or that they were crazy now and didn't care what the professors were like.

But this situation is bound to not last long.

In fact, in the morning after the exam, a report in the Daily Prophet put a cruel reality in front of everyone and took away everyone’s good mood.