Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 65 Rabbit, Fox and Hunter

Dumbledore walked out of the castle gate alone. He rejected Fudge's opinion and asked all the Aurors who had just arrived to stay in Hogwarts.

He wants to go to the Forbidden Forest alone to find Bourne.

And soon after the principal left, Quirrell ran back to his office on the grounds that he had to go to a specific bathroom to go to the toilet smoothly.

Quirrell closed the door, untied his turban with his backhand, and couldn't wait to advise his master: "Master, now is a good opportunity. Dumbledore left, and several other professors were busy cleaning up the mess. , we can go find the magic stone now!"

However, Voldemort, who always urged him to find the Philosopher's Stone in the past, did not show the same enthusiasm as before.

"Quirinas."

Rarely, he did not use the word 'idiot' instead of 'Quillo', and even called Quirrell's name tenderly.

"Yes, yes, yes, master."

Being called this by him, Quirrell unconsciously stuttered again, which was exactly the effect Voldemort wanted.

Fear is Voldemort's only means of controlling him. He must keep Quirrell in awe of him at all times.

Especially in his current state, if Quirrell loses his fear and dares to risk everything, there is still a way to completely eliminate his remaining soul.

Therefore, he must act strategizing and inscrutable, and can only live as a solid actor until he is resurrected.

"Have you ever seen a fox catch a rabbit?" Voldemort asked.

"Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit?" Quirrell was puzzled.

"When a fox finds a rabbit hole, if it is stupid enough to put its head directly into the hole, it will either get stuck there directly, or it will get lost in the messy underground passages dug by the rabbit..."

Voldemort spoke vividly, as if he had actually seen a similar scene.

"...However, if the fox is smart enough, it will bark a few times at the entrance of the hole. If a rabbit emerges from another hole, it will block the rabbit back, and then bark a few more times at the new entrance.

The cycle starts again and again, causing the rabbit to run away exhausted.

After a few times, the rabbit will be so frightened that it will become dizzy, run away, and may even scare itself to death. At that time, the fox can easily catch the rabbit and enjoy the fruits of his victory. "

Quirrell seemed to understand.

Voldemort simply made it clear: "Now, all you have to do is be a smart fox and let the rabbit come out to die on its own."

Quirrell's eyes lit up. He completely understood this time and understood what his master wanted him to do next.

However, the story Voldemort told him about "the rabbit and the fox" was only half of the complete story.

In the remaining half, the protagonist is the "hunter". When he was in the orphanage, in order to earn pocket money by catching and skinning foxes, Voldemort often went out to dig fake rabbit holes and lured "smart foxes" to run back and forth between the fake holes...

When the fox is tired, Voldemort will come over with a wooden stick to recuperate the hard-working fox, and collect its fox skin at the same time.

Feeling Quirrell's thoughts pop up, just like seeing a fox working hard, Voldemort couldn't help but say "Hey hey" happily.

"Yes, yes, that's it, very good, very energetic..." Voldemort encouraged all the thoughts of his slave fox.

Quirrell, on the other hand, seemed to be suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome". Instead, he felt a trace of gratitude from the bottom of his heart to Voldemort, who had been persecuting him. He even looked at the spiked whip hanging on the bedside - Voldemort used it to punish him. His props - none of them are as dazzling and scary as before.

……

"This pair of shackles is made of cast iron. I weighed it, and it's exactly fifteen pounds, no more, no less. Hanging up the person who made the mistake and wearing it, the feeling is, tsk tsk."

"This stick is imported from the Caribbean. It is made of poisonous lacquer wood, and the spikes on it are all natural. Use it to hit the prisoner's body, and the toxins of the poisonous lacquer wood can penetrate into the skin. Causes heart-wrenching pain."

"This is a soldering iron, this is a pin board, this is a vise for tooth extraction, this is... well, this is Mrs. Lorris's cat teasing stick, you can put this aside."

In the office, Filch took off pieces of his collection from the wall like treasures and introduced their uses to Snape in detail.

Although Filch is just the janitor of Hogwarts, his office is very spacious, and his office is also the only faculty office located in the corridor on the first floor.

And according to legend, this office was actually the principal's office arranged by a certain Gryffindor principal more than 600 years ago (that's why it's so spacious). The reason why the principal didn't want to work on the eighth floor was because Because he proposed a slogan: The principal guards the school gate.

Of course, there is no way to know the authenticity of this legend now, because when he was in office, the headmaster thought that compiling "Hogwarts: A School History" was troublesome and a waste of money, so he only selected a few things during his tenure. "Big Event" was written into the school history.

However, if you just look at the "waste style" decoration style of this office, it is difficult to believe that it is real - this office does not even have a window - there is a side where the window should be. Against the thick wall, there is a row of iron filing cabinets, which contain files on students' disciplinary records.

In the middle of this row of cabinets, there is a large drawer painted red, with a nameplate "Confiscated Materials, Highly Dangerous" hanging on it - this is what Filch prepared alone for the Weasley twins two years ago. freed up.

In addition to filing cabinets, this office, which is even larger than half a basketball court, only contains a single bed, a small bedside table, and a desk made of wood replaced by student desks. , and a rattan cat climbing frame that almost touches the ceiling.

A simple iron-framed oil lamp hung from the ceiling of the office, a fire was burning in the hearth of the fireplace, and there were many roasted dried fish hanging on the shelves above the fireplace. Perhaps because he often made grilled fish for himself and Mrs. Lorris, the whole office was filled with the smell of grilled fish.

The most numerous things in this office are the execution props that are hung neatly on the walls and are in excellent condition.

As Filch continued to introduce, Snape just kept an expressionless face. But Compaoré and the three vampires, after hearing these words that were infinitely close to the "404 warning", their faces turned pale as if they had been put on a wall.

"Please go out first."

Perhaps because he was tired of Filch's chattering, or perhaps he was disdainful of the torture tools used by Muggles, Snape finally spoke and "invited" the janitor out.

He was left alone.

Facing being fixed - yes, not "tied" but "fixed", because Snape thought it was too troublesome, so when he used the transfiguration to create three sets of frames, he did not create a rope along the way, but directly Conjuring a few iron nails to nail them to the cross - the three vampires dared not move. Snape raised his wand and recited a spell.

"Crucio!"

The three vampires were all so frightened that they couldn't care less about the pain of being nailed and kept twisting back and forth on the cross like maggots. However, they did not realize one problem: Why did Snape look into their eyes one after another when using the Unforgivable Curse?
"...expelled from Ouagadu Magic School."

"...I had an encounter with Fu...the mysterious man."

"...Hunted by Aurors from the French Ministry of Magic."

"...I used magic potion and 'self-transformation' to transform into a vampire, but in fact the transformation was not successful and the sequelae were very serious."

"...I got the news from the newspaper and wanted to use the Philosopher's Stone to solve the sequelae of my body, so I came to Hogwarts."

"... bribed Umbridge to become a magic projection team and sneaked into Hogwarts Castle to prepare for theft at night."

“……@#￥%&*.”

Snape was not a perverted dark wizard who was addicted to torture. Even though he had just punished the three vampires because he was too angry, he actually didn't like torturing others.

He wanted to know more about the reason why these three vampires came to Hogwarts and why they suddenly went crazy.

However, combined with verbal threats and using Legilimency to forcefully read their memories, he only found half the answer to the question.

The more critical second half of the question - why they suddenly went crazy - in their memory, Snape only "saw" some images of snowflakes similar to those when a TV malfunctioned.

This is not normal.

This also gave him some bad guesses.

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

Just as he was considering whether to give these three guys some "truth serum", there was a sudden knock on the door of Filch's office.

"Dean Snape," Filch's iconic voice rang, "Aurors from the Ministry of Magic are here. They said that guy can't use lynching in Hogwarts, even if they are all bastards and monsters. …”

"Mr. Filch." Another voice also sounded outside the door, but the speaker seemed to be suppressing his anger.

"Please open the door to your office, otherwise, I will use the unlocking spell myself!" The person who spoke was Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office, and he had already taken out his wand.

"Haha," Filch said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "Rufus, when you were at Hogwarts, were you ever caught in this office? Have you ever tried to escape from here? Have you ever succeeded?"

Intrigued by the words, Director Scrimgeour's face immediately turned the color of pig liver, and he wished he could give the old guy in front of him a taste.

As a British wizard and a senior official in the Ministry of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour must have graduated from Hogwarts.

And since he became an Auror as soon as he graduated and became the director of the Auror Office, it is not difficult to tell that he is a Gryffindor.

Therefore, when they were at school, the relationship between him and Filch was...all in all, it was definitely not much better.

However, faced with Filch's ridicule, Scrimgeour really had no way to refute.

Because what Filch said was true.

When Filch reminded him, he also remembered that there was indeed no way to open the door of this office with a lock-picking spell. Even using the "gate opening" which is older than the "alaho opening" or the "open sesame opening" will not work.

He had tried these two spells when he was in school.

As for the special lock-picking technique used by Aurors when arresting dark wizards - using "Thunderbolt Explosion" to directly blow up the door - Scrimgeour thought about it. If he dared to do this, his former dean, Professor McGonagall, would He would probably be called over to have a nice chat.

Although he has graduated many years ago, every Gryffindor knows who is the leader of the pride of Hogwarts.

Fortunately, when Scrimgeour was too embarrassed to get off the stage, the door to Filch's office was opened from the inside.

"Dean Snape."

Although he was older than Snape, Scrimgeour still had to politely address the former's teaching position in Hogwarts.

"I thought Moody would lead the team here, but I didn't expect that it was Director Scrimgeour who made the trip yourself." Snape looked at the Director Auror in front of him, who was nearly twenty years older than him, and greeted him calmly. .

Scrimgeour has tawny hair and thick eyebrows, mixed with wisps of light gray. Behind his gold-rimmed glasses are a pair of sharp eyes, coupled with his long red hair, he looks like an old lion entering his twilight years. There is an aura of calmness and self-importance.

"Alastor retired this year. He is older than me. He has been fighting on the front line of Aurors all year round. He should enjoy peace and quiet."

Snape nodded. As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, he naturally knew about Moody's retirement.

However, because he now extremely doubts whether Voldemort has been resurrected and has laid a secret line in the Ministry of Magic, he deliberately said this - if Scrimgeour has a problem, then through this line, he can also use this line to report to the mysterious person. Express a message: He and the people of the Order of the Phoenix are not of the same mind. The reason why he later became a member of the Order of the Phoenix was to get rid of the suspicion of being a Death Eater.

"The three vampires are in the office. You can take them away." Snape said calmly.

Scrimgeour waved, and the three young Aurors following him walked into Filch's office one after another. However, an Auror named Delis quickly ran out, his face not very good-looking.

"Delix, why are you panicking..."

Scrimgeour thought his subordinates had seen the scene of Snape's lynching, but he actually did not want to delve deeper into this aspect. After all, a vampire's life is true, but there is also a time and place to say this.

A vampire who dared to go crazy and attack a young wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, especially when Minister Fudge was visiting...

Not to mention being beaten and tortured, even if he was chopped alive, or was shot in the back and died here, Scrimgeour felt that in the end he would have to turn this matter into a "cruel suicide case."

But then, the Auror named Delis whispered something in his ear, but Scrimgeour's expression changed drastically after hearing it.

"What! Cruciatus..." The head Auror looked at Snape nervously, and at the same time, the wand hidden in his sleeve slipped into his palm.

(End of this chapter)