Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 494 Disobedient Dumbledore
"Hello, my lord."

The respectful voice of the ant queen Lilith rang in Mike's mind.

As an ant queen who has lived in the deep underground for many years, Lilith does not have so much scheming, this is the true expression of her heart.

When Lilith signed the contract with Mike at the beginning, she thought that a new round of miserable life was coming. After all, human beings were such greedy and cruel creatures in her impression.

But what happened next surprised her.

Although the Los Santos Group employees sent by Mike are essentially the same as the original Avery family, they are all desperately making the ants work.

But the Los Santos Group is much more generous than the Avery family. They will never withhold the rations of the ants, nor will they abuse or kill the ants at will!
Of course, the employees of the Los Santos Group did not give those ants too much preferential treatment, but this was enough.

People who have never been treated with tenderness are always easy to satisfy, and this is the case with the current queen ant.

"Lilith, I need your help."

"As you wish, my master, all my soldiers have been dispatched to the target area."

There was joy in Lilith's tone. She was happy to help Mike, but she didn't care much about the fact that her people were being driven by Mike as cannon fodder.

This is not to say that she doesn't love her children, on the contrary, she loves her children to the bottom of her heart, but these children come too easily, and it is a legitimate reason to fight for Mike, the master who treats her well. That's why she was so indifferent.

This kind of thinking is incomprehensible to humans, but it is a reasonable thing among ants.

After bidding farewell to the ant queen Lilith, Mike finally came to the battlefield carefully selected by Benjamin and others, a U-shaped closed valley.

While Mike was visiting Avery's Secret Realm, Franklin who stayed in Hogwarts had already completed his mission and moved the disappearing cabinet in the Room of Requirement to the innermost part of the valley.

When Mike arrived, fortifications were being built on the cliffs on both sides of the valley. It was a building similar to a bunker, and a circle of low walls made of rocks was erected around the periphery.When the battle begins, Mike's wizards will attack the Death Eaters below under the protection of these fortifications.

The ants would pour in through the gap in the front of the canyon, and stand together with the Death Eaters.

As for whether the spells fired by the wizards above the canyon will accidentally injure those friendly ants, this is not within the scope of Mike's consideration. In his opinion, these ants are used as cannon fodder to attract firepower.

To be honest, although these defensive fortifications built with magic in a hurry are already very strong at the level of Muggles, they are still not enough for wizards.

But these fortifications are extremely useful in the current ambush and sneak attack campaign. Under their cover, the wizards on the cliff can launch attacks unscrupulously, and the bottom-up attacks of the Death Eaters are a threat to them. negligible.

While Mike was in full swing, there was a problem with the troops sent by the Muggle Prime Minister.

The first is the 70 ground troops. Mike's original intention was to arrange 50 of these people on the cliffs on both sides of the ambush site, using the precise shooting ability of snipers and the barrage of artillerymen and machine gunners Coverage abilities serve as fire support for the Wizard's combat troops.

But Mike's arrangement encountered unexpected difficulties when it was actually implemented.

Although Franklin had explained to them as much as possible when receiving the ground troops that the world they were about to arrive was a fantasy world composed of monsters and wizards, but when those ground troops were actually transported into the Avery Secret Realm, they encountered those huge monsters. The ants still had an overreaction.

Those soldiers screamed and took up their guns and launched an attack on the ant colony who were carrying mushrooms. Many young soldiers even regarded the worker ants as Zerg in a certain hegemony game, and yelled at some Mike to listen If you don't understand, go ahead!

It has to be said that the people sent by the Muggle Prime Minister are real combat elites. They showed excellent combat qualities in the battle with the ants and killed dozens of ants in an instant.

But those are all friendly troops!

Mike is speechless to these soldiers!
Fortunately, these soldiers were the product of rigorous training and frequent brainwashing. When Franklin, as the interim commander, roared and issued an order to stop firing, they still stopped.

But they are still full of vigilance to everything around them. All kinds of weird scenes that appeared in front of them completely shattered their three views. Many of them even thought that they were sent to fight on alien planets.

Obviously, it is basically impossible for soldiers in this state to cooperate with wizards to fight together. In desperation, Mike can only divide them into a team independently and guard a section of the cliff alone.

But these ground troops are easy to deal with, but the air troops on the other side are in trouble.

You must know that the task that Mike wants to give them is to bomb Malfoy Manor and provide air support to the friendly forces who counterattacked into Malfoy Manor.

But judging from the situation shown by the ground troops, those airmen who are more pampered in comparison will obviously have poorer psychological acceptance, and I am afraid that they will carry out indiscriminate attacks at that time.

This made Mike unacceptable. You must know that each of the battle wizards of the Los Santos Group was carefully cultivated with a huge amount of resources. It is okay to let them die on the battlefield, let them die under the indiscriminate attack of friendly forces. Mike But I don't want to.

In desperation, the day before Christmas, Mike could only ask Professor Flitwick.

In the villa in Godric's Hollow, Professor Flitwick stared at Mike with a strange expression after listening to the story Mike made up and the description of the current predicament.

This made Mike feel a little uncomfortable, thinking that Professor Flitwick had discovered his lie.

And just when Mike couldn't help but want to confess to Professor Flitwick, he sighed and said angrily:

"Mike, have you never learned about Hogwarts' process of recruiting new students?"

"Uh, that's true." Mike said in confusion, "But...does this have anything to do with the problem I'm encountering now?"

Professor Flitwick was furious when he heard the words, reached out and patted Mike on the forehead and said:

"Because if you knew anything about these things, you wouldn't ask me such stupid questions!"

Mike rubbed his head and looked at Professor Flitwick innocently, he still didn't understand what was the connection.

This made Professor Flitwick furious. He raised his hand and was about to hit Mike again, but when Mike turned his head to dodge, he saw that Professor Flitwick suddenly remembered something, and his face that was originally full of anger disappeared. It became distressed, and then the raised palm lightly fell on Mike's head, rubbing it gently.

"Sorry, Mike."

Although he didn't understand why Professor Flitwick wanted to apologize, Mike still nodded.

After that, Professor Flitwick's attitude changed drastically. He sighed and said slowly:
"Mike, the Hogwarts recruiting process is like this. Every spring, a magic book in the headmaster's office of Hogwarts will automatically detect children who meet the Hogwarts admission standards from all over the country, and then list The list, and then the principal will make and send the admission letter.

Among them, because the prospective freshmen in Muggle families do not have the ability to purchase teaching materials, Hogwarts will send professors to the homes of those Muggle students to explain to those students and their parents.This is a very necessary behavior. After all, parents always love their children. Hogwarts professors can't just take their children away from them. It's too cruel to do so. "

Professor Flitwick paused suddenly when he said this, and this pause also made Mike understand the reason for Professor Flitwick's previous apology.

You must know that Mike is an orphan, so he didn't explain the process to his parents when Dumbledore came to him in person!

"Although Hogwarts' approach is very humane, it is almost the best choice for those students to enter Hogwarts. But in the actual work process, professors often encounter the same problems as you. Problem - Some Muggles like to be in their own world and don't want to accept reality.

And when facing these people, simple persuasion is useless, so when the prospective freshmen have agreed to enroll but their parents do not agree, the professors who are sent will take some measures..."

"you mean……"

"That's right, you're a smart kid, so you should be able to guess it." Flitwick nodded with a smile, "It's a small spell improved from the advanced Legilimency spell, called 'Muggle Transformation' Curse', through this small spell, the caster can make Muggles accept the fact that the wizarding world exists in a very short period of time, so that they can better negotiate with each other."

With that said, Professor Flitwick took out his wand, and personally demonstrated the release of the Muggle Transformation Charm for Mike.

It has to be said that this is indeed a very simple little magic spell. It only took one whole night for Mike to fully master it and use it on those Muggle soldiers.

And according to the feedback, the effect of this little spell is indeed very good. Now the attitude of those Muggle soldiers has reversed 180 degrees compared to when they first came, and they are full of curiosity and never tired of exploring This whole new world.

But their behavior actually didn't make much sense, because Mike had already decided to erase the memories of all of them after the battle was over for reasons of confidentiality and safety.

It's just that they obviously didn't know about it yet, so a weird scene happened, those Muggle soldiers pestered the wizards all day long asking questions, which made the wizards tireless!
That is to say, the group of wizards under Mike are all Muggle-born. If they were pure-blood wizards, these Muggle soldiers would have died a long time ago.

And just as the Avery Secret Territory was in chaos, Christmas finally came.

……

Inside the Hogwarts castle, Snape, who was covered in black robes, passed through the corridor with a gloomy expression, and quickly entered Dumbledore's office.

The sound of the closing of the office door awakened Dumbledore, who was sleeping on the desk, and the portraits of the principals on the wall.

Seeing that it was Snape, the latter muttered dissatisfiedly, and then fell asleep again.

But Dumbledore looked at Snape curiously, and then said in surprise:

"Severus, it's really strange that you came to spend Christmas with me!"

Snape frowned across the desk.

In previous years, he basically didn't attend Hogwarts Christmas dinners. Compared to staying at Hogwarts and celebrating with a group of stupid students, Snape preferred to go to the cemetery to present a bouquet of flowers for Lily, and then Drink a bottle of starlight wine alone in front of Lily's tombstone, so as to get drunk and remember the good times when I was with Lily.

But this year is different, a sudden news broke his grave-sweeping plan.

"Dumbledore, there's no time for jokes! The Death Eaters are preparing to attack Hogwarts tonight!"

As soon as this remark came out, most of the magic portraits on the wall woke up immediately, staring at Snape below with unbelievable eyes.

And the smile on Dumbledore's face disappeared, he frowned and said:

"Can you confirm the authenticity of this news?"

"This is what Narcissa told me personally. Her son Draco found a disappearing cabinet in the Room of Requirement, and the other sub-cabinet matching the disappearing cabinet is now in the hands of that person. Eat tonight The gangsters will launch a raid on Hogwarts through the Vanishing Cabinet! And the reason why Narcissa told me these things is because Draco was also forced to participate, and she wanted me to protect her son! "

Dumbledore's face became extremely dark, he glanced at the afterglow of the evening sun outside the window and whispered:
"Since you didn't bring the disappearing cabinet, can it be explained that the disappearing cabinet in Hogwarts has disappeared?"

"You guessed right," Snape said. "I've been to the Room of Requirement before coming here again, and the Vanishing Cabinet is no longer there."

"It seems that today is the time for my old bones to dedicate themselves to Hogwarts."

Dumbledore said calmly while removing the straps on his arm.

But Dumbledore's words startled Snape, and he said hastily:

"Dumbledore! You can't die here! You're..."

"There is nothing wrong with it. I am the headmaster of Hogwarts. It is my responsibility to protect the students. From the first day I sat on this seat, I was ready to sacrifice for this school." Dumbledore looked at the many portraits of former headmasters hanging on the wall and said, "What do you think?"

The portraits all nodded in relief to Dumbledore, but this made Snape very angry. He glared at the portraits, and just about to continue to persuade Dumbledore to escape, but the latter was the first to One step said:
"Snape, do what you have to do. Draco is not bad in nature, protect him, you have already promised Narcissa, haven't you?"

After saying that, Dumbledore showed a kind smile to Snape, while the latter stood there blankly with a gloomy expression.

After a while, Snape snorted coldly, flung his sleeves and left!

(End of this chapter)