Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 512 Dumbledore's Long-cherished Wish

Since Sirius and Harry made too much noise at the door, Lupine and the Tonks on the sofa were naturally woken up, and then joined the camp celebrating Harry's return.

Looking at Harry and the others who hugged each other, crying and laughing for a while, Dumbledore always had a gratifying smile on his face, perhaps because of his age, he always likes to see this kind of reunion very much now scene.

On the other hand, Mike was different. He just glanced at them a few times and then stood aside and watched coldly.

For him now, how to deal with Dumbledore's next interrogation is the most important thing, because Dumbledore seems to be a bad visitor.

Thinking of this, Mike looked to another corner.

There, Snape was holding his wand and staring at Mike, as if ready to attack at any moment.

Seeing this, Mike's eyes became dangerous, but at this moment, a person rushed over from the side, holding him tightly in his arms.

"I'm sorry! Mike! I lost my temper with you, please forgive me!" Sirius choked up and said, "I'm just... just too anxious, I should believe you, thank you!"

"Okay, I get it. And can you let me go, I'm about to be strangled to death by you!"

Mike held his breath with his hands raised up and said, the smell on Sirius is really horrible.

"Oh! Oh! Sorry!"

"it's better now."

Sirius stood aside and rubbed his hands in embarrassment, he also knew that he smelled bad now.

He was quite happy with his appearance, and Dumbledore and Lu Ping all laughed.

After the laughter, the expression on Dumbledore's face finally became serious. He looked at Harry and said:
"Harry, what the hell is going on here? Who kidnapped you?"

Not only Sirius, but also Lupine and Tonks at the side pricked up their ears when this remark came out.

You must know that the two of them searched outside for a whole day and night, and tried almost every method but failed to find Harry.

However, when Harry heard the words, there was a look of embarrassment on his face. He looked at Mike for help, and at the same time he was still stammering:
"I...Actually, I don't know very well, why don't you ask Mike?"

Everyone's eyes turned to Mike again, but in desperation, Mike could only roughly tell the story about this incident.

Of course, Mike didn’t say anything about the disappearance of Voldemort’s soul in Harry’s body. In his opinion, there was no need to tell this matter at all. Those who need to know, like Dumbledore, had already He should have seen it for himself the moment he saw Harry.

After listening to Mike's narration, the office fell into a moment of silence. Except for Snape who was still staring at Mike, and Harry with a confused face, everyone else looked thoughtful.

Obviously, like Mike, they were also puzzled by this matter, but at the same time they also noticed the weirdness.

After a long time, Harry, who got a little impatient with waiting, couldn't help but yawned big.

Dumbledore, who was in deep thought, was awakened by the yawn. He looked up at the sleepy Harry, then stroked his beard and said in embarrassment:

"Sorry Harry, I lost my mind accidentally. It's getting late now, why don't you go back and rest first?"

Hearing that Lu Ping and others were also woken up, Harry, who was still a little embarrassed at first, could only walk out of the office in three steps and one step behind his back.

His godfather, Sirius, wanted very much to stay with Harry.

What had happened in the past two days had terrified him, and he could hardly imagine his life without Harry.

It's just that his request was brutally rejected by Dumbledore.

At Dumbledore's insistence, Lupine, Sirius and others were kindly invited out of the office. Seeing this, Mike also planned to mix in and leave here, but when he had already walked to the door, Dumbledore's kindly The voice rang again.

"Mike, I'm sorry, but can you please stay here for a while? I, an old man, have something else I want to talk to you about."

Dumbledore said very politely, but Mike didn't feel the slightest friendliness, because Snape, who had been standing in the corner, had moved to the door at this time, which was already obvious.

Glancing coldly at the wand in Snape's hand, Mike said expressionlessly:

"can."

"This is really great, please sit down Mike." Dumbledore took a step to sit behind the eagle foot table, and then took out a lot of candies from the drawer, "Our conversation may be a bit long, just now I noticed at the banquet that you didn't eat much, so grab a candy mat if you're hungry. Of course, it's not very good to eat sweets at night, but... who cares if you're really hungry ? But I don’t recommend you to eat cockroach piles, there are coffee ingredients in them, and if you eat too much, you won’t be able to sleep at night.”

Dumbledore was talking endlessly, and he seemed very excited that Mike was willing to sit down and talk with him, but Mike was extremely indifferent, and turned a blind eye to the mountains of candies on the table.

"Let's get down to business, principal, it's getting late."

Hearing this, Dumbledore froze for a moment, then the expression on his face became serious, and he asked:

"Okay then, Mike. Do you know what happened on Christmas night?"

"If you mean how I spent Christmas Eve, of course." Mike said, "I traveled to the United States with Franklin and spent a wonderful Christmas with Abbot there."

"Abt? Do you mean Abt Foley? Oh, I still remember him, a handsome young man. Has he gone to the United States now? Well, yes, it is not bad to go to the United States under the current situation, but ..."

Seeing Dumbledore's tendency to digress again, Snape, who was standing behind Mike, couldn't stand it any longer, covered his mouth and coughed a few times on purpose.

"Sorry, I digressed, I'm so sorry," said Dumbledore, "Then let's get back to business. Mike, I got a message on Christmas Eve that Voldemort was going to pass through a room placed in the Room of Requirement on Christmas Eve. But he didn't come later, which is very strange, because we did find a lot of werewolves and dementors lurking in the Forbidden Forest at that time, and they also admitted that they were Voldemort Instructed them to hide here and prepare to attack Hogwarts at any time. Can you tell me why Voldemort didn't come that night?"

Dumbledore stared closely at Mike's eyes, as if he wanted to see something from the change in Mike's expression.

But unfortunately, Mike had already activated Occlumency, which made him look calm and flawless.

"Sorry, I don't know."

"Really? I see." Dumbledore asked again, "Then do you know why Voldemort attacked the Ministry of Magic yesterday?"

This time Mike didn't answer right away, he really didn't know about it.

But under the disguise of Occlumency, he was still flawless.

"Sorry, I don't know."

"Okay," Dumbledore nodded disappointedly, "it's getting late, why don't you go back and rest first. Oh, right. Don't you really need to bring some candy back?"

"No, Headmaster Dumbledore, good night."

"Good night, Mike."

Watching Mike slowly disappear through the door and close the door, Dumbledore sighed deeply.

Obviously, his heart was not as calm as he showed at the moment.

Snape, who had been silent all the time, was even more irritable. As soon as Mike left, he walked up to Dumbledore, slammed his hands on the desk and roared:
"He lied! He must know something! He won't even pretend now!"

Facing Snape's roar, Dumbledore was not only not angry, but showed a look of pity and said slowly:
"Is it hurting again?"

Hearing this, Snape was taken aback for a moment, then put his right hand behind his back, and said with a displeased face:

"no!"

Dumbledore lowered his eyes, looking a little guilty.

He knew very well that since Christmas Eve, the Dark Mark on Snape's arm has been tormenting Snape every moment. This is Voldemort's punishment. In Voldemort's eyes, Snape has undoubtedly been thrown, and is still the most abominable the one.

That's why Snape hadn't received any news from Voldemort for so long.

Pursing his lips, Dumbledore tentatively asked:

"Severus, maybe you should take a vacation and rest for a while."

"No! Absolutely not!" Snape's nerves, which had just relaxed a little bit, tensed up again, and he roared, "Harry has just been kidnapped, and you tell me to rest now? So who will return after I rest? Can you stay by his side and protect him? Is it you? With your half-crippled arm?"

Dumbledore didn't speak, just looked out the window silently.

And Snape obviously also noticed that what he said was a bit heavy, and his tone suddenly softened and said:

"Anyway, I won't rest. In addition, I suggest you send someone to arrest McTownley immediately! He is a very dangerous person! Relying on the Los Santos Group, he has developed too many people, maybe One day your fears will come true!"

Dumbledore shook his head insignificantly, but still did not speak.

Today's weather is quite good, which makes the moonlight tonight extraordinarily bright, shining on people with a wonderful artistic conception.

And now Dumbledore has been immersed in this artistic conception and cannot extricate himself.

Harry's ghost was gone, and he could see that too.

He even suspected that Mike had planned the kidnapping case from beginning to end, in order to quietly remove Voldemort's soul from Harry.

After all, if the person who kidnapped Harry was Voldemort, then there is absolutely no possibility of Harry surviving.

And this is why Dumbledore doesn't want to do anything to Mike.

In his opinion, Mike still has love in his heart, which is enough.

All he cared about was the entire wizarding world, and after experiencing the ravages of the Dark Lord twice, he had an instinctive aversion to war.

Can't Dumbledore see the various problems that exist in wizarding society now?

Of course he can see it, but he is more inclined to change the world in a gentle and subtle way.

So he didn't really care about what Mike did, even if Mike finally became the Minister of Magic and began to lean towards non-pure blood wizards in policy, he wouldn't care, after all, what Mike did was exactly what he wanted Expected - to make the world a better place.

But this does not mean that Dumbledore will absolutely trust Mike, because in his opinion, Mike's development is too fast.

In the face of such great power and power, it is difficult for a young man like Mike to control his desire.

'Don't let me down, Mike. '

Looking at the bright starry sky outside the window, Dumbledore sighed silently.

……

"Dear Mr. Townley! Is there anything we can do for you?"

In the Hogwarts kitchen, an old house-elf was bending over, talking to Mike with joy.

Behind him stood a large number of house elves. They were extremely respectful and looked at Mike with admiration. This was the result of Mike helping them out during the Clark incident.

"Uh, just take whatever you want." Mike continued as if he remembered something, "Just a little bit, I can't eat too much by myself, so don't waste it."

"Yes! Dear Mr. Townley!"

The leading house elf nodded excitedly, and then yelled and directed the other house elves to act.

For a while, the originally silent kitchen became brightly lit again.

At this time, Mike sat in the old seat he used to sit in before, throwing the Masonic gold coins in his hand with a serious face.

After a while, the color of the gold coin suddenly turned red, and Mike quickly grabbed the gold coin and pressed it hard.

"Penello, is there any news?"

"Yes, Mike, we have already checked the matter." Penello's voice came clearly from the gold coin, "Voldemort did attack the Ministry of Magic yesterday, and he went alone. The time is when we send When people were looking for Harry, all the Aurors and Strikers were sent to support the Ministry, so there was no time for us."

"He went to attack the Ministry of Magic all by himself? Why?"

"Sorry, the reason is unknown."

Mike nodded and continued to ask:

"So, what about the Ministry of Magic casualties?"

"Very serious! The entire Auror army was almost disabled, and the striker army suffered heavy casualties. Even the Minister of Magic, Scrimgeour, was seriously injured and is being rescued at St. Mungo's. Now the entire Ministry of Magic is basically The world is paralyzed, and Kingsley Shacklebolt, who replaced Scrimgeour as Acting Minister, is trying to restore order, but with little effect, and not many people listen to him at all."

Having said that, Penello paused suddenly, and then said in a trembling voice:

"However, the results they have achieved are also very rich!"

(End of this chapter)