Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 535 Teachers and Students
It wasn't just Harry's faith that had collapsed, it was felt by most of the students at Hogwarts at this time.

Because they all also received the urgent edition of "Quieter" that Penello spent a lot of money to print urgently.

The various ironclad evidence on "The Quibbler" convinced them of a fact.

That is their hero, who was captured by their most respected person in such a shameful way.

For a moment, the originally noisy auditorium suddenly became silent, and everyone's faces were filled with strong confusion.

You must know that in their impression, Mike and Dumbledore are both from the same camp. Why did the two comrades who fought Voldemort together fight each other?

Moreover, since Dumbledore was able to subdue Mike who killed Voldemort with a crushing posture, it shows that he is at least capable of fighting against Voldemort.

Then the problem is coming.

Why didn't Dumbledore take action when Voldemort and Death Eaters were rampant in the country's wizarding world?
Is it true that, as The Quibbler claims, their headmaster is submissive to evil but savage when it comes to heroes?
The thinking of most teenagers is always two points and one line, and their superficial social experience is not enough to support them to think about problems from more angles.

So when they found that they could not give a reasonable answer to this series of questions with their own wisdom alone, they chose the most direct way-to question Dumbledore.

So, after a brief moment of silence, the Hogwarts auditorium became noisy again.

The students started rushing towards the Hogwarts headmaster's office as if they were going crazy.

This startled the professors who were staying in the auditorium to maintain order, and quickly stood in front of the students to prevent them from moving forward.

Normally, the students would disperse as soon as their professors came forward to make trouble, but today is different. Under the stimulation of a series of incidents, many of the students have lost their minds, and some even took out their wands and started Attack the professors.

For a long time, the professors of Hogwarts have been synonymous with powerful, which is the reputation of the senior professors such as Flitwick, Snape and McGonagall.

But in fact, as a whole, the strength of Hogwarts professors is not high. You must know that Hogwarts is still a school in the final analysis. What they need is not strong combatants, but masters of all kinds of profound teacher of knowledge.

The professors who are now sticking to the auditorium just belong to the latter group. These scholar-type professors were stunned the first time they were attacked.

In a sense, the battle of wizards is very similar to the gun battle between Muggles. They are extremely strong on the offensive end but extremely weak on the defensive end. Although this is just an attack by students, if you really want to be hit by these spells, then They probably won't feel too well either.

Ever since, facing the menacing students, these professors who used to be high above retreated.

A large number of students directly broke through their defense line and continued to rush towards their destination.

At this moment, a huge force emerged from the stairs, directly pushing those students back into the auditorium abruptly.

Snape in black robe walked out slowly from the stairs, staring at these students silently with a pair of eyes as deep as a lake.

Seeing this, the students who were still aggressive immediately became discouraged.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree!
The name Professor Snape has left a huge shadow in the hearts of these students in the past few years, which has caused them to shrink back instinctively whenever they see Snape.

For a while, the scene returned to the previous confrontation state again!
But when the situation was at a stalemate, Chris's tall figure suddenly appeared in the auditorium.

In this auditorium where at least more than a hundred people have gathered, Chris just walked around the crowd in such a grandiose manner, looked around the Hogwarts hall, and touched the wall or tabletop beside him from time to time, feeling at ease. look.

What's strange is that these students standing around turned a blind eye to the person who suddenly appeared beside them. They just let Chris stroll through the crowd and arrived at the stairs.

Looking at Snape who was blocking the stairs like a door god, the corners of Chris' mouth suddenly rose.

He put his face close to Snape's and carefully looked at his shiny hair. After confirming some things, he frowned slightly and shook his head in distaste. He quickened his pace and walked around Snape towards the stairs behind him. mouth to go.

Snape, who was closely observed by Chris, seemed to have noticed something, frowned and looked behind him, but in the end he still didn't find Chris, he could only turn his head and continue to stare at the group of students. .

At this time, Chris had already stepped on a staircase, and let the floating staircase send him to a higher passage before walking down.

Looking back at the familiar stairs with some nostalgia, Chris embarked on the journey again.

But before he could go far, an illusory figure appeared in front of him.

That's Peeves!
I saw Peeves floating towards the auditorium while smiling strangely.

There was a gleam of joy in Chris's eyes, and he looked at Butt with great interest. Although Peeves was basically a character that everyone hated in Hogwarts, in Chris' eyes at this moment, he was more like It's an old friend who hasn't seen it for a long time.

While Chris was looking at Peeves, Peeves was also observing Chris.

Originally, Peeves didn't want to mess with this student, but as the most famous master of pranks in Hogwarts Castle, he had to go to the Great Hall to attend the 'banquet'!

But Chris's act of staring straight at him aroused his anger.

Are all the little kids these days so ignorant?

It's fine if you don't run away when you meet Uncle Peeves, but you dare to stare at him like this?
So, Peeves decided to teach this ignorant boy a lesson!
But just as Pipi Pippi swooped down with a smile, and was about to pass through Chris's body to give him a chill, his translucent body froze suddenly.

"You...you are..."

Before he finished speaking, Peeves' body trembled violently, and he turned around sharply, trying to escape into the wall.

But it's too late.

With a light hook of Chris' finger, Peeves' body was forcibly pulled in front of Chris as if being grabbed by a big hand.

"Peeves."

While whispering, Chris reached out and rubbed Peeves' phantom body repeatedly.

His hands seemed to have a magical power, and under his rubbing, Peeves quickly turned into a ball, and he walked forward while bouncing.

Chris seemed to be in a better mood after getting the Pippi Gui brand ball. His footsteps were much lighter, and he arrived in front of the principal's office in a short while.

Unlike usual, the huge and ferocious monster stone statue was not guarding the office door at this moment, and the dark fan-shaped corridor was just exposed in front of Chris, as if the owner inside had already expected that there would be guests Arrival, so opened the door ahead of time.

Seeing this, Chris smiled at the distorted and frightened grimace on the ball in his hand, threw it aside and walked in with big strides.

As he expected, the ancient ornate wooden door at the end of the corridor was also wide open. For some reason, he seemed a little nervous at the moment. He hesitated for a moment, then adjusted his clothes and entered the office.

As soon as he entered the office, Chris smelled a rotten smell, which made him frown.

But soon his brows relaxed, because looking around, the situation in the principal's office was almost the same as when he first came, even the positions of the portraits of the old principals on the wall had not changed.

"Oh!"

On a wooden shelf in the corner of the office, Phoenix Fox yelled vigilantly at Chris.

Unlike everything else, Fox's body was significantly smaller than when he was last here.

But Chris was not surprised by this. He knew very well that a creature like a phoenix would be reborn from the ashes every once in a while, so changes in body shape were very common.

He smiled at Fox, and turned his gaze to a recliner behind the planetarium in the middle.

At the moment, on the reclining chair, there is a figure lying - Dumbledore.

Now Dumbledore has become even thinner, with almost no flesh all over his body, and that layer of shriveled and wrinkled skin is so tightly wrapped around his skeleton, which is much thicker than normal.

The long white beard and hair on his head are extremely messy, coupled with the dry and slender body, it makes him look like a large brush that has been fried for writing.

If the angry students downstairs saw Dumbledore's current appearance, they would firmly believe that Dumbledore had been dead for many days, because at this moment he looked almost indistinguishable from a mummy.

But Chris knew that Dumbledore was not dead yet. Although he was not far from death, at least he was still alive.

Taking a deep breath, Chris slowly came to Dumbledore, squatted down cautiously and called softly:

"Professor, Professor Dumbledore."

"Ok?"

Dumbledore opened his eyes with difficulty and looked towards the source of the sound. His originally beautiful blue eyes had disappeared at this moment, and a thick layer of white cloud covered his cornea, which made people very suspicious Can Dumbledore still see at this moment?

Chris was also deeply puzzled by this, so in order to allow Dumbledore to see himself as clearly as possible, he deliberately put his face closer.

"Tom, so you're not dead yet."

A hoarse, rock-like voice came out of Dumbledore's parched throat, and upon hearing that, a smile bloomed on Chris's face.

"Yeah, Professor Dumbledore!" Chris said with a smile, "Of course I'm not dead."

Dumbledore nodded, and continued to say with difficulty:
"Are you here to kill me?"

As soon as Dumbledore said this, the expression on Chris's face immediately froze, and he stood there without saying a word.

At this moment, the portraits on the wall who were still sleeping soundly opened their eyes, looking at the pair of teachers and students below with vigilance.

What is surprising is that among the magical portraits of the old principals, there is a portrait belonging to Dumbledore.

Different from the mummy on the deck chair, Dumbledore in the portrait is full of red, tall and straight, with the same smile, and looks full of vitality.

And in this eerie silence, Chris suddenly spoke.

"Professor, there is a question that has been bothering me, can you explain it to me?"

Chris asked, but didn't give Dumbledore a chance to refuse at all, and continued:

"Why did you refuse my application to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts?"

As soon as he said this, Dumbledore's gray eyes seemed to become clearer. He looked at the expressionless Chris and shook his head slowly:
"Because of your gaze at that time."

"look?"

"Yes, I'm familiar with that look. It's the look of a resentful person. Although I don't know what you went through before you returned to Hogwarts, it must be a period that made you heartbroken and became cynical. Experience." Dumbledore said with some emotion, "I have also been there, so I know very well that you are not suitable to be a professor at Hogwarts in your state at that time. Every student is a blank parchment , your extreme emotions at that time will infect them, and eventually make them become as extreme as you. So... I rejected you, and I expected you to improve and come back here again. The result..."

"It turns out that I did come back, but in a more extreme way?"

Chris interrupted Dumbledore, and a hint of ferocity gradually appeared on his expressionless face.

Dumbledore was silent.

Seeing this, Chris seemed to be unable to suppress his emotions anymore, stood up and pointed at Dumbledore and roared:
"You clearly saw it back then! You clearly saw it! Then why didn't you want to help me? Hmm!? As a professor, isn't it your duty to help students out of their predicament?"

"You always... look down on me like this! You burned my locker when we first met! Later, when we came to Hogwarts, you kept targeting me! Is this how you hate me?"

Accompanied by Chris' roar, a terrifying magical power suddenly emerged from his body.

The portraits on the wall immediately closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep. Even Fox, the phoenix, hid in a corner and covered his eyes with his wings.

As for Dumbledore, as the direct target of Chris at this moment, the pressure he is under is almost several times that of Phoenix Fox.

But he looked at Chris's scarlet eyes as if he didn't notice it at all.

After a long time, a line of turbid tears slipped from the corner of his eyes, his withered lips were slightly opened and closed, and he said with a sob:

"You have suffered, Tom, and I am sorry for you."

(End of this chapter)