Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 440 Ask Dumbledore for Advice
After leaving the underground cave using the door key found from the Avery patriarch, Mike quickly directed the Los Santos wizards and ants to conduct a comprehensive search of the entire Avery secret realm.

Since the entire Avery Secret Realm has been cast with anti-apparition, anti-apparition, and unmarkable spells, except for those high-level Avery family members who are themselves in high positions, the entire Avery family is extremely powerful. Most of the members are almost trapped in the secret realm.

The main purpose of the joint search by the wizard group and the ants is to catch the survivors hiding in the secret realm. I believe that with the help of native creatures like giant ants, these people will be found out soon.

Of course, arresting people is only one of the goals.

Another purpose of Mike is to collect the goods hoarded by the Avery family in the secret territory and the property of those wizard families.

As the highest combat power present, Mike naturally did not leave the secret realm.

It's just that he didn't stay idle, but took advantage of the fact that the time of Veritaserum had not disappeared, and conducted a more detailed and strict interrogation of Patriarch Avery.

The results of the interrogation were similar to those in the underground cave before, but Patriarch Avery also explained some other things, such as they buried a huge treasure in this secret realm named after their family.

There is the wealth collected by the Avery family for thousands of years.

Their ancestors obviously didn't believe in the Gringotts created by the cunning goblins, so they hid most of their belongings in this hidden secret place, and only scattered wealth was stored in Gringotts.

As for the value of the treasures inside, Patriarch Avery himself can't tell, because there are too many, and there are still many things whose value is difficult to estimate.

Mike then found someone to go to the location he said, and dug out a warehouse full of Galleons and various treasures there.

After preliminary inspection, the value of this treasure house exceeded 100 million Galleons!
This number really surprised Mike, Franklin and others, but Mike thought about it after thinking that the Avery family had occupied this secret place for countless years.

But this is not the most important news that Mike got from the Avery patriarch. Mike never forgot that their purpose this time was to find Chris and the locket, and from what the Avery patriarch explained, Mike speculated that One very incredible thing is that the information obtained by Kingsley is likely to be disclosed deliberately by Chris or others.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Kingsley can easily know such a hidden thing in Avery Rift, and it is also impossible to explain why the Slytherin locket that Mike was looking for appeared here by such a coincidence.

Although Mike still doesn't know why Chris or others did this, after ruling out all possibilities, there is only such a seemingly impossible option left!
As for the pendant box, Mike checked it the first time he left the underground cave.

But to Mike's disappointment, this pendant box is still not the Horcrux he was looking for, and there is no smell of Voldemort on it at all.

Mike immediately judged that it was a fake, but the patriarch Avery insisted that it was genuine.

The reason he gave was that he liked this precious magical antique very much, so when Chris gave him the pendant box, he asked many famous masters of cultural relics to come over to test the authenticity of the pendant box, and the test The result is that this pendant box is indeed genuine.

This made Mike very puzzled.

You must know that when Voldemort made the Horcrux, he hadn't traveled to this world yet.

Therefore, the appearance of the Horcrux was not affected by his time travel at all, and there would be no changes.

But now if this pendant box is genuine, where did the ghost of Voldemort go?

Could it be that it was recovered in time by Voldemort?Or did Slytherin make two lockets in the first place?
Looking at the pendant box in his hand that was shining green under the light, Mike's mind was almost full of question marks.

Now he really wants to go directly to Dumbledore with the locket, so that the knowledgeable Dumbledore can give him a correct answer.

It's a pity that he has more important things to deal with in this secret realm.

"Boss, Ant, and the Los Santos wizarding forces have completed the search of Avery's Secret Realm."

Benjamin's words brought back Mike who was in deep thought, he put away the locket calmly, nodded expressionlessly and said:

"what's the result?"

"It's generally good. After two rounds of comprehensive searches, we caught a total of 323 rats. Most of them were old people and children. There were only about 30 middle-aged men and women. In addition, we removed Avery In addition to the treasure given by the patriarch, I also searched for a large amount of property and goods. According to preliminary estimates, the total income of our first wave of this operation will exceed 110 million Galleons!"

Speaking of this, Benjamin suddenly stopped talking. Mike, who was listening to the report, turned around strangely, and saw Benjamin frowning tightly, looking constipated.

"What's wrong?" Mike asked concerned, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Benjamin shook his head quickly, looked at Mike with a tangled face, and stammered after thinking about it for a long time:

"Mike, although he is very reluctant to admit it, some very bad things happened during the search."

"They hid my Galleon?"

Mike suddenly raised his tone!

"Well, it's not. Our people are not fools. They know what will happen to them if their stash of loot is discovered. And you will give them a lot of bonuses when you go back anyway, so they don't need it at all. Do it."

"Then what can be done wrong?"

Mike was a little puzzled, he really couldn't think of anything worse than stealing the loot that belonged to him.

Facing Mike's inquiry, Benjamin hesitated and said:
"Of the 323 survivors, 110 people were killed by them on the grounds that they were threatening. But in fact they were killing innocent people indiscriminately. They were executed directly! This is not the worst, some witches were raped before being executed, this is really... this is really..."

Benjamin was so angry that he couldn't speak.

And there was a sudden realization on Mike's face.

When he ordered the Los Santos Wizarding Force to join forces with the ants to search, Mike's original words were as follows:

"Find out all the survivors of the Avery family, and then find a temporary dungeon to lock them all up. If you encounter a threatening guy, kill them directly."

Yes, it is such a simple sentence.

This is an order given by Mike after careful consideration, because rationally speaking, killing all these captives is the best choice for his subordinates, after all, they are strictly enemies.

But it was too cruel to do so, so Mike finally chose to lock them all up first.

Mike thought he was doing pretty well.

But he obviously forgot one thing when he gave the order, that is, to give the mission executives a threatening standard, and he did not prohibit them from doing some shameful things to the captives.

Ever since, what Benjamin said happened naturally.

Mike is not surprised at this kind of thing, because his subordinates are not rigid robots, but living human beings. It is normal to do some things to test the bottom line within the scope allowed by the rules to satisfy their own selfish desires.

And to be honest, Mike is already very satisfied with their behavior.

Because Mike has not taken back their unlimited fire rights until now.

That is to say, as long as they want, they can even directly kill all the captives.

The absence of such a situation already shows that the group of wizards under him are not considered insane.

It's just that although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't tell Benjamin that way, after all, the other party was obviously full of the heart of the Virgin now.

So after a long time, Mike took a long breath, patted Benjamin on the shoulder and said:

"It's my fault for this matter. There are loopholes in the order I gave them. I have to apologize to you. I'm sorry."

As he spoke, Mike bowed a small bow to Benjamin.

"I... I didn't mean that, Mike. I..."

Benjamin obviously didn't expect Mike to do this, he froze for a moment and then hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, but maybe the relationship was too tense, he stuttered and couldn't explain clearly.

Seeing this, Mike continued:

"Okay, the mistake has been made and we have to try to make up for it. How about this, all those captives will be handed over to you. Of course, the general direction cannot be changed. It is still necessary to clear their memory and stay in the factory Work, but the rest of the living conditions, material distribution, etc. will be left to you to handle. In addition, I will also punish the wizards who made mistakes, such as confinement and fines. Do you think this is okay? "

"Of course, it's good to deal with it this way, but..."

"That's it, I have other things to deal with, I hope you can all do your job well, after all, this is for the greater good!"

After saying that, Mike turned the door key in his hand, and disappeared into the office as a distorted afterimage.

When Benjamin heard Mike's last sentence, he straightened up like a conditioned reflex, beat his chest, and shouted at the same time:

"For the greater good!"

After shouting, Benjamin became even more confused, because Mike dropped a lot of things and ran away!

Thinking about the pile of things he had to deal with in a while, Benjamin couldn't help showing a bitter look on his face.

"He always likes to be the hands-off shopkeeper so much, I am really miserable!"

While complaining, Benjamin left the office quickly.

It is not an easy task to completely conquer a new secret realm, there are many tasks waiting for him.

On the other side, after leaving the secret realm, Mike went to Dumbledore's forest villa non-stop.

The house elf named Little Teacup or Little Teapot in the garden of the villa was very happy to see Mike coming, and greeted Mike very attentively.

It's just that Mike ignored him at all, but rushed directly into Dumbledore's bedroom.

At this time, Dumbledore had got rid of the situation of recuperating on the hospital bed, and was sitting at his desk while reading the newspaper and eating breakfast.

That breakfast looked very familiar to Mike, almost exactly the same as what he had at Snape's.

Dumbledore ate deliciously, and the morning sun shone through the thick woods and transparent glass on his face, creating a faint layer of pink on it, which represented health.

Dumbledore was obviously taken aback by Mike's sudden intrusion. He held up a fork with half a sausage stuck in it, and he was slightly dazed, and then his wrinkled face was rippling, Showing a bright smile, he said to Mike:
"Mike, you are here, Severus just came here for a routine treatment for me. At my strong request, he also made me a breakfast. I have to say, he did a really good job." Delicious, I'm obsessed. Oh, by the way, would you like some?"

As Dumbledore spoke, he reached out and wanted to hand the half of the sausage to Mike.

It's just that Mike obviously didn't have any desire to eat. He completely ignored Dumbledore's kindness, and directly took out the Slytherin locket from his arms and placed it in front of Dumbledore.

"Look at this, is this real?"

Seeing the locket, Dumbledore's expression also became serious.

He put down the fork, picked up the locket with both hands, put it in the sun and looked at it carefully. After a while, he looked at Mike with a surprised expression and asked:

"Where did you get this?"

"I thought you had already guessed it. The information Kingsley gave me led us to the depths of the Avery family's hiding place, and this is where we found it."

"Yeah, that's right, I should have guessed it, Kingsley has already told me about it..."

Dumbledore's expression was a bit weird, he seemed to be distracted, his pupils spread rapidly, and he kept his head down and murmured there.

His voice was getting softer, and gradually even Mike couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

I don't know how long it took, but Dumbledore finally recovered from this strange state.

He raised his head slowly, looked at Mike with a complicated expression for a while, and then asked in an extremely serious tone:
"May I know, the Avery family...how are they...well, how are they doing?"

Mike didn't speak, he just looked at Dumbledore blankly, just like he did when he was waiting for Dumbledore to speak.

The Avery Secret Realm is very important to Mike at this stage, so important that he is not going to reveal any news about the Secret Realm to anyone at all.

But Dumbledore obviously misunderstood Mike's reaction, and the expression on his face suddenly became very sad after waiting for a long time without receiving a response.

(End of this chapter)