Hogwarts in the shadows

"Remember our first flying lesson?" Harry said with a smile.

"I nearly knocked you off your broom."

"You must be kidding me, I let you win on purpose. Don't forget, I once saved you in a Quidditch match."

Draco retorted, a teasing smile on his face.

Harry thought of the scene at that time and couldn't help but blush shyly.

Hermione also changed her focus and patted Harry's shoulder gently.

"That couldn't compare to your 'brilliant' performance in your first Potions class."

"To be honest, I still feel a little nervous when I see Professor Snape now," Harry said frankly.

Hermione went on, "And that time we had that explosion in Potions class..."

She suddenly revealed a secret that Draco had actually known for a long time.

It was during their second year, when she secretly brewed Polyjuice Potion and asked Harry to trick Draco.

Draco looked at Harry teasingly.

Their memories came flooding back: raising dragons together, studying for exams together under Hermione's supervision.

Every story makes them feel warm and nostalgic.

Draco picked up a piece of cake and said with emotion.

"We used to be rivals, but now, we are best friends. It's really a miracle."

Harry nudged Draco's shoulder.

"This is all because of He...the guidance of fate."

Time passed quietly and it was approaching early morning.

Just as the three were about to end this warm gathering, Professor Snape hurried over.

He glanced at the time and breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he hadn't missed it yet.

"Professor Snape." The three greeted in unison.

Snape smiled, "I didn't disturb you, did I?"

"Of course not, we couldn't welcome you enough," said Hermione enthusiastically.

"Hermione, I suddenly remembered that today is your birthday. I wish you a happy birthday, even though it's a little late."

Snape said apologetically.

Hermione shook her head. "Professor, you are so busy with your work now, but you still remember my birthday. I am very happy."

Snape took out an exquisite but slightly old pocket watch from his pocket.

The case is made of exquisite rose gold and the dial is carved from a piece of natural crystal.

There are no traditional digital scales on the dial, but twelve sparkling magic gems are used to represent the hours.

As time passes, the gemstones glow in sequence, indicating the current time.

Snape said affectionately: "Hermione, according to our tradition, when a child reaches adulthood, parents will give him a watch.

This pocket watch was given to my mother by my grandfather when she came of age, and it can be considered a keepsake of the Prince family.

I am passing it on to you now.”

"Professor, this belonged to your mother...it's too valuable, I can't accept it." Hermione declined.

Snape took Hermione's hand and placed the pocket watch in her palm.

"I have always treated you as my own child, and I hope you can accept it."

The emotions that Hermione had been suppressing finally became uncontrollable.

Her tears welled up and she hugged Snape tightly, "Thank you, Professor."

After Hermione officially took over the Shadow Organization.

She knew that the battle she was participating in was not only about her own life and death, but might also affect her parents.

To protect them from harm, she used a powerful spell - Oblivion - to erase her parents' memory of her.

This meant that she disappeared forever from her parents' world, and the memories of the good times they spent together existed only in her heart.

To make this lie more perfect.

Hermione also carefully prepared a series of documents and evidence.

Proving that they were an ordinary Muggle family with no connections to the wizarding world.

She then hinted that her parents had left England and moved to the distant country of Summer, where they began a new life away from the chaos and dangers of the wizarding world.

If she died in battle, at least her parents would be able to start a new life in a safe place without having to endure the pain of losing a loved one.

Now that Hephis is not around, God knows how much pain she has endured.

Snape patted Hermione's back gently.

It's a pity for the child.

Just as Hermione had expected, after suffering a disastrous defeat yesterday, the Allied Forces no longer dared to launch a large-scale, all-out war against the Shadow.

They adjusted their strategy and adopted a tactic of using small forces to gradually clear Afghanistan.

However, this is completely useless.

The Shadow didn't even send troops to defend those unimportant resources.

In the area swept by the Allied Forces, there was actually not even a shadow of a shadow.

At the same time, the Joint Forces' bombers would fly over Shadow's new base on time every day, dropping thousands of missiles and returning, just like a routine.

But these missiles only caused slight vibrations to the main Shadow building hidden deep underground.

The underground walls were reinforced with magic, so the explosion of the missiles could not shake even a speck of dust.

Despite this, Hermione still adheres to the principle of "every fly is meat too".

Ambushes were set up in advance according to the coalition army's marching route, and these small-scale forces were eliminated one by one.

Therefore, whenever a small coalition force tried to conduct a cleanup in Afghanistan, it would be hit by the Shadow's precise strikes.

However, what confused the Shadow's top brass was...

Although they were able to completely wipe out the small forces of the Allied Forces every time.

However, the coalition forces do not seem to intend to stop this suicidal tactic.

New troops were sent in every day to die.

In fact, Hermione and the others' guess was correct.

These people were indeed deliberately sent to be killed by Shadow.

After a night of meditation and decadence.

MacArthur finally regained his composure and began to review the current war situation.

His original plan was to let the coalition forces rest temporarily and wait for the arrival of new weapons and equipment.

Then there will be a small-scale confrontation with the wizard.

Captain Johnson, however, offered a very different view.

"We need to eliminate the unstable factors in the team, and at the same time we need to take into account the impact of international public opinion."

Captain Johnson's words made General MacArthur frown.

Reports from battlefield observers and analysts clearly indicate this.

The wizard's Imperius Curse does have the ability to control people's minds, but it has many limitations.

Each wizard can only control one person at a time, and the effective range of the spell will not exceed six hundred feet.

According to the analysis of the distribution of wizards, 80% of the people who attacked their teammates at that time were not actually within the wizard's casting range.

This means that these people were not controlled by the wizard, but chose to attack their teammates on their own initiative.