A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 693
Finally, Felix understood that there was another backhand arranged by Dumbledore.

Of the three Deathly Hallows, in addition to Harry's Invisibility Cloak, Dumbledore held two others in his final years of life.Felix originally thought that with the demise of the Resurrection Stone, the Deathly Hallows could no longer be gathered together, and the Elder Wand also died with Dumbledore's invincibility, meaningless.

"Dumbledore asked you to pass it to me?" Felix asked softly, he wanted to find out what Dumbledore really thought.

"He let me judge for myself." Snape's eyes struggled a bit, "He said he would prefer to see the ownership of the Elder Wand become a permanent mystery, but he was also worried that there would be major changes in the wizarding world in the future... it should be now."

Felix studied Snape's face carefully. "I don't think it's time yet," he said.Snape froze.

"The situation is not that bad-the window for dialogue has been opened, and we can be optimistic with a limit. Compared with the sporadic riots in some places abroad, this place is still stable-oh, yes, the future world company has opened a new opened two branches."

Snape looked stunned.

"Dumbledore can't predict what's going on behind him, so he needs a pair of eyes—I think he must trust you." Felix said with emotion, "You can observe for a few more years, you are sure in your heart Is there more than one choice?"

Snape stared at him for a long while, then slowly said, "You are the one in front, followed by... Potter," he paused, "I also considered Minerva and Amelia Born S."

Felix helped him analyze it with great interest. "Dumbledore knew I had no shortage of wands, remember the ebony wand? I found I could incorporate the Book of Runes into a wand, and I recently got a nice one; as for Harry - um , he still has a lot of potential, and with the Elder Wand, you can get one step closer, but you two don't like each other, and you are definitely not willing to give it to him; Minerva... well, she is not young after all; Amelia may have been Very strong, but now as the Minister of Magic, she has no time or inclination to study magic at all, and she may be the most unlucky Minister of Magic in history."

"So don't make a decision lightly. The next generation, or the next generation, should have good candidates, and the key is that they can perfectly match your wishes." He finally concluded.

Snape took a deep breath, anger showing on his thin cheeks.

"What do you think this is? Right now is the biggest crisis in the history of the wizarding world. Grindelwald is fanning the flames—"

"Do you know what Grindelwald did?"

"I read the news, Felix Hemp!" Snape panted. "There are reports that he appeared in the land of chaos. He proposed the ten laws of wizards. One of them is reciprocal revenge. Wizards are not weak and bully." Creatures; there is also a call for wizards to unite and not allow any behavior that steals wizard power; another example is the return of magic to magic... These theories are very marketable."

"And what do you think of these laws?" Felix asked calmly.

Snape frowned.

"Too radical."

"But it looks like it came from Grindelwald, isn't it? Anyway, it can be changed, and the relevant laws are still blank—" Felix said lightly, and Snape looked over in horror.

"Oh, I mean, Grindelwald can only shout slogans, and we are the ones who are really qualified to negotiate peace." Felix said: "By the way, I actually have a more important thing."

"What is it?" Snape asked sternly.

"If the negotiation goes well, there will inevitably be trade between the two sides, and potions are an important part of it, but you should know that some potions are only effective for wizards—"

"Lupine told me," Snape interrupted.

"That's right. From now on, someone needs to be responsible for the potion formulas, laws, and standards surrounding ordinary people."

"So you thought of me?"

"Yes."

"Slughorn is a better fit than me."

"He is more suitable for dealing with government departments. He is good at dancing, and he is happy to do so...I need someone who can calm down and do research." Felix said, "And obviously, I trust you more."

……

The next day, the Ministry of Magic.

"Grindelwald really made a move." Ms. Burns said with a serious expression. She spread a newspaper on the table, and Felix, senior officials of the Ministry of Magic and several members of the Order of the Phoenix stared at the magic photo. Grindelwald, who was attacked by flames and artillery fire, the woman next to him was ignored by everyone.

"What's going on?" Arthur Weasley was out of breath in astonishment, and he asked worriedly: "Is there a war?" , he was exceptionally allowed to attend the meeting.

"Not yet, he is still bound by the oath." Ms. Burns said happily: "He is to save people."

"Save people?" Ludo Bagman's round eyes widened, and he pointed at the ruins in the photo, "He did it to save people? Then who did it?"

"Of course it's the other person in the photo." Burns said with an ugly face: "Unfortunately, what I said is true, he didn't attack anyone. Muggle TV captured some pictures, which are more complete than the photos —Percy went to get the equipment."

The office door was pushed open from the outside, and Percy came in, followed by a projection set.

Percy stuffed a box of tapes into it, then deftly pressed the button, and after a while, moving pictures were projected on the wall.Everyone is staring at each other.The picture in the camera shakes constantly, but the surrounding scenery is still recorded.

The place looks like a chemical factory, the surroundings are a bit desolate, barbed wire is hung on the tall fence, the gate is closed, the propeller of the helicopter makes a loud noise, a hand appears in the picture, and then disappears, accompanied by haste and excitement voice: "Over there!"

Then the camera glances to the corner of the factory.

Black flames soared into the sky, pouring out from a row of windows and gaps in a huge flat floor similar to a workshop. These black flames seemed to come from hell. The huge flames twisted like the palms of giants. Burning things are drawn into the flames.

"Is this - Fiendfyre?" said Mr. Weasley feebly.

The window suddenly broke open, and a figure jumped out rolling and crawling. It was a woman covered in pitch black, her hands and face were bruised, her hair was messed up, and she looked very embarrassed.But she laughed maniacally.Those present recognized her as the woman who stood with Grindelwald in the newspaper.

Everyone watched this scene in shock. The woman waved her wand desperately, and the flames shot up high following the command of the wand, and tended to spread to all directions.Looking down from a height, it's like smashing an ink bottle to the ground.The reporter's breathing sound came from the screen.

"Edith Pandolani." Ms. Burns said, "According to the news from the Magical Congress of America, her daughter mysteriously disappeared not long ago. She asked the Magical Congress for help, but the Congress has already made a decision. The decision to completely hide it will naturally not change for her. She disappeared for a few days, and no one knew what happened during that time, except that she suddenly appeared here at five o'clock this morning, releasing the terrifying Fierce Flame."

"Her daughter... is dead?" Sirius asked, his eyes widening.

"Not sure yet—"

"Don't fool me!"

"I really don't know," Ms. Burns sighed, "but there—" she pointed to the huge factory building, "is a secret laboratory, which should be built for wizards, so her daughter The probability didn't survive, otherwise she wouldn't..."

The people in the office were solemn and silent, and the atmosphere seemed to be frozen.Everyone looked at the screen silently.

Edith Pandolani swipes her wand so widely that her emotions are felt, even though she is only a small part of the frame.Fiendfire seemed to be alive, and gradually began to deform. Groups of flames were thrown away, scorching the ground into black, and some of them almost hit herself, but she had no intention of avoiding it at all. Instead, she kept manipulating the flames to make it become more massive.

"She wants to destroy this place." A senior official of the Ministry of Magic saw the clue.

"She can't do it! She is not skilled in magic." Someone said.

"Unless she dies," yelled another.

"Where did she learn this magic?"

"The investigation shows—" Ms. Burns said with a straight face and an ugly expression: "Edith Pandolani has never learned the Fiercefire Curse before, and the investigation by the Magical Congress of America found that she is an ordinary wizard who is best at It's household magic."

"Could it be that Grindelwald helped her?" Someone asked, thinking of the two people in the same frame in the photo.

"There's also no answer to this question, but—well, Grindelwald didn't appear for the first time, and he seems to have seen it through live TV. Keep watching."

A troop the size of an ant emerges from the edge of the shot, and Edith Pandolani turns back to fight back, but she is quickly wounded and takes cover behind a gray metal can.Someone in the special operations team shouted, but what responded to them was a series of red lights, so the team dispersed in an orderly manner, surrounding her from all directions.

There was a burst of flying sand and rocks.

Edith Pandulani seemed to have released an immature hurricane spell, a [-] to [-]-foot-high whirlwind spread out from the center of the gray metal tank, the offensive was suspended, and the figure of the woman was temporarily invisible from the screen .Suddenly, a hurried voice came from near the camera: "It's a military helicopter, great!"

Two helicopters brushed past them and warned the reporter to evacuate immediately through the radio, but the reporter ignored them, "They don't even have a fuselage number." The two armed helicopters went straight to the target, and their bodies were covered with missiles .Immediately afterwards, two machine guns protruded from the cabin, and dense flames spewed out from the muzzles.For a moment, everyone thought that Edith Pandulani was finished.

The smoke and dust dissipated, and she was intact, but there was one more person beside her—Grindelwald.Grindelwald propped up a huge shield and blocked all the attacks.But he didn't continue to do it, but lowered his head to talk to the woman.

The scene on the magic photo coincides with what is happening now.

"Quickly pull in! Pull in the camera!" The reporter yelled loudly, the screen shook for a while, and then Edith Pandolani's face of despair appeared, but the despair was immediately replaced by joy, and then became hideous again , unless it is difficult to understand these changes in it, she pointed to the factory and said something fiercely.

Grindelwald shook his head slowly, he raised his palm to show her, and then looked at the black Fiercefire, his lips squirmed.They seem to have struck a deal.

The woman no longer cared about the threat from behind, and the wand commanded Fiendfire again. Everyone could see that she had no ability to control this magic at all. She just kept piling up flames with resentment. The consequences of doing so would be out of control, but since Grindelwald Being present, they were not sure about the result.

The sound of machine gunfire ceased briefly because of Grindelwald's sudden appearance, and then continued to fire.Two flames suddenly appeared below the helicopter. Grindelwald glanced back, waved his wand, and the missile exploded in the air.

Then, a tiny blue light gushed out from the tip of his wand, like a liquid flame or a burning stream of water. The blue light flew a foot from the tip of the wand and disappeared out of thin air, as if being transferred to another place. place to go.No one knows what magic Grindelwald used.

But those in the conference room saw it in action the next second.

A series of missiles were launched, and suddenly exploded automatically when they were hundreds of feet away from the two of them, as if hitting an invisible wall—"There should be an invisible magic barrier in the air!" Sirius said excitedly.

For the next half a minute, missiles exploded around the two of them, but none of them could break through the barrier.

Grindelwald seemed to do it casually, and after confirming that the helicopters and ground troops could not interfere with them, he set his sights on Edith Pandorani.Under the nourishment of extreme emotions, Fiercefire climbed to a certain climax, turning into a monster composed of black flames.

These monsters also inherited the state of mind of their masters. They appeared crazy and brutal, trampling the ground with all their might, and charging in all directions—Edith Pandolani fell to the ground, watching all this happily.

Those in the Ministry realized that the spell was out of control.

Sure enough, Fiercefire monster rushed towards the only two lives in the field, and kept attacking them, but was blocked by an invisible force.

Grindelwald pulled the woman up, raised his wand flatly, and instantly gained control of Fiendfire.The black flame became extremely well-behaved in his hands, and the flame creature was kneaded into a ball again, like a hideous monster occupying the original factory location.

Then he swung his wand violently, and a hurricane that was a hundred times stronger than Edith Pandolani's before appeared out of thin air. This whirlwind seemed to be connected to the clouds in the sky, and the black Fiercefire was also torn apart by the strong wind. It deformed and condensed into a surge towards them.

Fiercefire merged with the hurricane, and then expanded rapidly.The helicopter in the sky quickly dodged, but the target of the flames was not them. The entire factory was wrapped up and burned to the ground. Grindelwald looked at the camera in the sea of ​​flames, and then the flame vortex suddenly shrank, and the factory was wiped from the ground. Grindelwald and Edith Pandolani also disappeared.

The helicopter slowly approached, and a huge deep pit appeared on the spot.

The screen ends here.There was a long silence in the conference room.

"Both the International Federation of Wizards and the Magical Congress of the United States have assigned their personnel to collect the whereabouts of the two, but they found nothing in the end. They are worried that this matter will lead to greater confrontation and conflict." Ms. Burns said dryly.

"Then let them go to Grindelwald." Felix said disinterestedly.

……

The burning of the laboratory incident has caused a lot of repercussions around the world. The pictures they saw in the Ministry of Magic were analyzed and interpreted frame by frame by relevant departments in various countries. It is obvious that Grindelwald did not use all his strength.But the conclusions reached are still chilling.

"If this magic happened in a city, it could destroy dozens of blocks."

Grindelwald's past experience is no longer a secret, and has been reported by reporters and the media in turn.Correspondingly, the Unbreakable Vow and the Ten Laws of Wizards also openly appeared in Muggle newspapers, attracting waves of heated discussions and condemnations.

Several more newspapers have received 'Student Letters'.Two newspapers remained neutral, and the remaining ones criticized the letters, perhaps in an attempt to attract protests from disgruntled wizards, and of course they did not receive any follow-up letters.

But these are little things.

After Felix selected the students who participated in the special afternoon tea, he immediately started special training for them. The Ministry of Magic also sent special personnel to train them on etiquette and eloquence, which questions can be said and which cannot be said, and when they encounter provocation How to deal with it and so on.

The students found that Professor Haipu seemed to have developed a new habit. He often looked up at the moon, looking thoughtful.Of course, this was a red flag in Hermione's eyes.

"Professor, you don't want to go to the moon again, do you?"

"Miss Granger, do you think there are traces of ancient wizards on the moon?"

"Well, it's unlikely, right? If the ancient wizards really lived on the moon, they must have left some building debris, which can be discovered by modern telescopes..."

"What if they used magic to conceal their existence?"

"Professor, talk is empty!"

"Well, I actually read it in an ancient document..."

"Professor, your tone is weird. What's the name of the document, can I have a look?"

"...Don't show it, you will believe me when I bring back a few antiques from the moon."

Felix is ​​about to tell one big lie -- or more than one.

(End of this chapter)