Hogwarts Summoning Manual

Chapter 189

It was already half an hour after everyone returned to Hogwarts, relying on the horse-shaped water monster tamed by Kiki, they finally sent everyone back, except for the "lucky guy" who was stunned by the stun spell at the beginning. ", the other red-haired pirates became the horse-shaped monster's appetizer, and that "lucky one" was also controlled by Hagrid, ready to be handed over to Dumbledore.

When Hagrid approached Dumbledore and quietly told others that he had been rescued, Dumbledore's face turned serious, and he couldn't help snorting coldly. He had already realized that things were not that simple.

The Ministry of Magic apparently controlled the scene too strictly, almost to the point of a military blockade, and even Dumbledore was powerless. He was entangled by Ministry of Magic officials, and the Hogwarts professors were also asked to return to the castle early , can only "hint" Hagrid to see if he can help, and "Old Barty" obviously underestimated Hagrid. In his eyes, non-pure blood wizards are rubbish, let alone a half-giant (actually Most wizards consider half-giants to be as mentally retarded as trolls).

It was already late at night when Dumbledore walked into the drawing room with a gloomy face, but officials from the Ministry of Magic, heads of various colleges, Karkaroff and Maxim were all there. He had a lot of quarrel with "Old Barty". After all, Maxime was French, so he didn't really need to give face to the officials of the British Ministry of Magic.

"You guys are kidnapping! Naked kidnapping!" Maxim pointed at old Batty's nose and scolded. She was nearly three meters tall, like an adult scolding a child: "If Catherine makes any mistakes, I must sue her!" To the Wizengamot!"

Old Batty obviously looked down on Maxim as if he looked down on Hagrid, but said coldly: "Miss Catherine volunteered to participate in the competition as a rescue target, and Mr. Bagman (director of the Department of Sports and Sports of the Ministry of Magic) approached him personally. !"

Bagman on the side looked serious, and said to Maxim: "Please don't slander the Ministry of Magic unfoundedly. Every rescue target participating in the competition has sufficient security and has been authorized by me... "

"Where is the person? I ask you, who is the person?!" Maxim panted like an angry cow, as if Bagman's answer did not satisfy her, and she was going to kill him with his head.

Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror office, came in with Dumbledore. His face was even more gloomy, and his eyes were full of vigilance and suspicion when looking at everyone.

"Be quiet, ladies and gentlemen!" Dumbledore said in a somewhat cold tone: "The people have been rescued, they floated to the north bank, and the teachers who were feeding the Pegasus found them."

Maxim rushed in front of Dumbledore at once, Dumbledore nodded to her, pressed his hand down, indicating that she was fine, and please wait and see.

Old Barty and Bagman's faces were cloudy, but Old Barty said first: "Aha, congratulations. Although I didn't get good grades, I finally returned safely! It's amazing!"

Without saying a word, Scrimgeour looked coldly at his old boss (Old Barty had been transferred from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to the Department of International Magical Affairs), folded his arms in front of his body, and tightly held his right hand hidden inside. Wand gripped.

Snape closed the door of the living room calmly. Karkaroff watched his movement, frowned, and stepped back, tightening the crutch in his hand.

"I'm afraid they were all seriously injured. Ms. Pomfrey is now in charge of treatment. At the same time, an outsider, a dark wizard, was discovered! I'm afraid the Ministry of Magic has greatly neglected the management of the scene! "Dumbledore stared at "Old Batty" and said.

Old Batty twitched his brows slightly and said, "Is there another matter? Rufus (Scringegeour's name), then you have to thoroughly investigate this matter. This is related to the international reputation of the British Ministry of Magic!"

Scrimgeour said coldly: "The suspects have been brought under control. According to the evidence collected at the scene, at least six dark wizards pretended to be staff members of the Ministry of Magic and sneaked into the competition. The trap, five of them have been buried in the belly of the fish, Mr. Crouch, all the staffing arrangements of the Ministry of Magic are directed by you personally, I am afraid you must have an explanation for this matter!"

"Old Batty" was surprised, as if he had heard about this for the first time, and then a surge of anger welled up between his brows, and he said angrily: "Rufus! I hope you I know what you're talking about! You're actually suspecting that I'm in league with black wizards! It's blatant slander and framing!"

"The Mr. Barty Crouch I know is of course a hater, a banner, a symbol in the fight against the Dark Wizard! But the truth is always prone to be obscured by certain mists, sometimes these mists are magic, sometimes they are Potion... Please put your wand where we can all see it! Mr. Crouch!" Scrimgeour snapped.

Old Batty was furious, but he looked at Scrimgeour's eyes, it was no joke, this old lion never gave face to others, if he felt it necessary, the moment before he opened his mouth to cast a spell, Scrimgeour would cast himself an unseemly spell, make himself foam at the mouth, and possibly become incontinent.As Head of the Auror Office, Scrimgeour casts spells fast and hard, second to none in the Ministry of Magic.

"Maybe I can help a little bit." Snape, who had been silent at the side, said in his unflattering tone: "In the last two competitions, I will find that my private potion raw material warehouse has been destroyed. When it comes to the theft, the missing materials are lacewings, sapweed, and the skin of the African tree snake, which are all ingredients for Polyjuice Potion, I guess someone is making Polyjuice Potion, and pretended to be another person to sneak into us between!"

Everyone present exclaimed, looking at the people around them with vigilance in their eyes, and couldn't help guessing who was the fake, but everyone immediately surrendered their eyes to Old Batty, because only the one who became him , in order to manipulate the personnel of the Ministry of Magic to the greatest extent and allow dark wizards to sneak in.

Snape continued: "But he may not know that after the first ingredient was stolen, I added some new things to the supplementary ingredients. If someone uses my ingredients to make a compound soup, I'm very happy." It's easy to let him show his feet!"

As he said that, Snape quickly took out his wand, and said to the air with a little bit: "It's ugly!" (it should be a spell created by Snape himself)

As Snape's wand emitted a faint yellow light, it immediately shone on everyone in the living room, and everyone couldn't help feeling a little nervous, and more than a dozen eyes all focused on Old Barty.

But old Barty's expression was as usual, and he even calmed down, with a look of confidence. Just when everyone was a little surprised, thinking that Snape had failed to cast a spell or their guess was wrong, suddenly there was a scream in the spacious hall.

Mr. Bagman, who was not far from old Batty, suddenly changed his face. The muscles on his face trembled violently. Under the amazed eyes of everyone, his nose became bigger and rounder, and it actually grew into a round face. There was only a three-inch long pig nose, and then his ears also began to change, turning into two palm-sized pig ears. Although they were standing upright, they turned into Zhu Bajie.

"So it's you!" Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror office, was the first to realize, he quickly grabbed his wand, and aimed at Bagman who had turned into a pig's face, "Stop! )”

But "Bagman" also responded quickly, but instead of taking out his wand, he took out three black things and threw them around. If Bai Lin was present, he would definitely recognize it at a glance. Those are three grenades used by the Muggle army!At the same time as the grenade was thrown, "Bagman" became short and fell to the ground.

Scrimgeour's stun spell was narrowly dodged by "Bagman", but three grenades had already landed on the ground. Dumbledore suddenly had a bad premonition, and saw him wave his hand, and several defensive spells immediately enveloped him. for four weeks.

The three grenades exploded violently, but the explosion was covered by Dumbledore's defensive spell, and the shrapnel were blocked one after another, not many flew out. Otherwise, the few people closest to the grenade would have been killed on the spot.

Maxim, who was closest, was still cut through his legs and arms by a few pieces of shrapnel, while Professor McGonagall, who was closest to him, turned into a cat at a critical moment and escaped.

Although the grenade didn't hurt anyone much, three big holes were blown out of the floor, and then the whole floor began to collapse. "Bagman" jumped down and fell down along the collapsed floor.

"Catch him, don't let him get away!" cried Scrimgeour.

Those present were all powerful wizards, Dumbledore of Hogwarts and the directors of the four major colleges - McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, Pomona, and Karkaroff and Maxim. A headmaster, together with several officials from the Ministry of Magic, can be described as powerful, how could this fake Bagman escape so easily?

However, during the process of falling, Bagman released the "Fiendfire Curse" directly in the air, regardless of the room on the lower floor, and immediately a burst of flames spread in all directions.

Scrimgeour and Snape jumped down first, followed by Dumbledore and Flitwick. The Fiercefire Curse may be an almost unsolvable existence for others, but for Dumbledore and Flitwick Flitwick, the two conjurer masters, naturally knew the counter-curse of the Fiercefire Curse, "End Curse".

But the next floor turned out to be the office of the castle administrator Filch. Although his office is not big, there are many cabinets piled up. Originally, there were many messy boxes and sundries hanging from the ceiling, which he confiscated from the students over the years. Some of the "prohibited items" he didn't even know were useful, anyway, they shouldn't be textbooks, so they were confiscated.

Pig Bagman's Fiercefire Curse quickly ignited the "contraband" piled everywhere, and there was a box of magic fireworks inside. It was conceivable that when the pursuers landed, they were already in a colorful environment. In the flames.

"It's over!" Flitwick yelled at the surrounding flames, but it had little effect. Some Fiendfyers were terminated by the spell, but some of the flammable things they ignited were still burning, and even burned more and more intensely. .

"Clear spring—eruption!" When Dumbledore landed on the ground, he waved his wand, but he didn't know that a spring of clear water gushed out there. It was like turning on the fire sprinkler in the room, and the spring water poured down like rain.

"Stunned!" Scrimgeour cast the Stunning Charm again in Bagman's direction, while Snape cast "Expelliarmus!"

Bagman used to be an excellent player, very agile, and this so-and-so who became him also possessed his physical fitness. After falling, he even made a juggling rolling action, avoiding all kinds of boxes, tables and obstacles It also miraculously avoided the curse of the two masters.

And old Batty jumped down from another big hole, blocking Bagman's retreat. He seemed a little out of breath, pointing his wand straight at "Bagman"'s forehead, and shouted: "Frost Arrow!"

An arrow condensed from a snow-white frost energy was heading towards "Bagman". He seemed to have never expected that old Batty would appear in front of him, or he hadn't avoided the spell. It landed on his shoulders, and before his donated blood flowed out, his upper body had already frozen into an ice sculpture.

Theoretically speaking, using the Freezing Curse to deal with the dark wizard who released the Fiercefire Curse is a targeted counterattack. There have been many successful cases in history, but "Bagman" obviously had bad luck, and a large floor just happened to collapse It came down and hit his frozen head.

With a loud bang, in the rain, the flames and lights of the magic fireworks finally went out, and Bagman's head was smashed to pieces, and even half of his body was shattered into pieces. He couldn't die anymore.

Seeing the blood flowing out from under the big rock, Snape frowned slightly, and said to Dumbledore in a low voice: "Dead... If a person who drank the Polyjuice Potion dies while the medicine is in effect, his body will not change. Go back, the corpse will remain the disguised one, I'm afraid we won't know who he is!"

At this time, a young man also jumped down from upstairs, landed beside Scrimgeour, and whispered a few words in his ear.

Scrimgeour was furious, and Dumbledore and old Batty walked towards him with doubts on their faces.

Scrimgeour said: "The red-haired pirate who was caught committed suicide in the temporary confinement cell, and smashed his head on the pillar into an exploded watermelon!"

Old Batty was also full of anger, and shouted at Scrimgeour: "Rufus, we must thoroughly investigate this matter!"

Everyone looked at the office that was almost burned into ruins and the half-collapsed roof above it, and then looked at the fake Bagman's body in the ruins. Everyone felt like a big stone was crushed in their hearts, making them breathless. .

"My God!" Maxim said, "I hope these terrible things will end!"

Karkaroff and Snape looked at each other, with very complicated emotions in each other's eyes.