The sharp claws passed through the chest, and the huge inertia flew out with the bat's body, finally nailing him directly to the top of the statue in the middle of the church.

Pettigrew's body twitched and returned to its human form, with blood flowing down his body, and soon the entire statue was soaked in blood red...

"Hee hee..." But at this moment, Pettigrew, who had died not long ago, suddenly laughed.

"You can still laugh?!" Harry couldn't help but stare angrily when he saw this.

"Of course I can laugh," Pettigrew said intermittently, but there was always a contented smirk on his frail face, "What's the use of killing Wu? That crazy girl's father is dead. And it died at your hands! Hee hee, Harley Pott, do you think that after torturing Uu, Uuu will confess to you? You suffer! Now that we have done it, not only Lovegood, you will definitely lose more and more important people in the future!"

"asshole…"

"Harley Pott...you will always be in pain, you bastard, you will definitely be in pain forever! Hahahaha...uh!"

The stern laughter stopped abruptly, Pettigrew's life came to an end, his head drooped involuntarily, but the venom before death was always on his face!

"Bastard... drink ah ah!!"

Seeing the face of the other party who would not let him die, Harry could no longer restrain his emotions, and roared like crazy in the already dilapidated church.

Gathering and dispersing, they hovered around silently, crazily destroying everything around them, and Harry was also tortured by the spreading grief, and finally gradually lost consciousness.

...

"Mr. Lovegood?! Mmm... hoh~huh~"

As if suddenly returning to his senses, Harry subconsciously opened his eyes, and then gasped heavily, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead.

"Little master... are you okay?"

"Eliezer? How did you...wait, here?"

Hearing his familiar voice, Harry subconsciously turned his head, and sure enough, he saw the house-elf with a worried face.

And what was in front of him at this moment was the falsely concealed gate of the Wettenhurst mansion... as if he had never stepped in!

Could it be that... everything just now was just a dream?

Chapter 480 The second defense arrangement in the school is finally launched

Hogwarts in the afternoon, because the exams are over, even the heat will look extraordinarily bright.

But in the office of the vice-principal and the dean of Gryffindor, the atmosphere at the moment seemed extremely oppressive.

Hermione found Professor McGonagall shortly after Harry left, and told him everything about the previous situation.

Dumbledore will be ambushed at the Ministry of Magic, Harry has single-handedly rushed to rescue Luna's father, and the impending crisis at Hogwarts...

But after listening to these, Professor McGonagall did not express his position immediately, but fell into hesitation.

"Miss Granger, I know that Miss Lovegood may have really seen something; and you are really worried about the safety of Albus and the whole school, but...what you just said is really true. It makes people feel unbelievable.”

At this moment, Professor McGonagall's brows were completely twisted into the word 'Chuan', and her lips were still trembling slightly. She kept pacing around the room, obviously struggling with thoughts.

It can't be blamed for her having doubts, it's because the things Hermione mentioned are too shocking!

The Ministry of Magic had caught an imposter, and that guy had taken control of the Ministry, waiting for Dumbledore to fall into his trap.

But the real Peter Pettigrew captured Luna's father, so Harry had to go to the rescue alone.

But doubts belong to doubts, and Professor McGonagall dared not deny it at all, because it was Hermione Granger who said these words, the student she valued most and who would never mess around!

It is also because of this that Professor McGonagall is so entangled, unable to make up his mind.

"Professor, please make a decision quickly, we are really running out of time!" Seeing that Professor McGonagall was silent, Hermione could only anxiously persuade, "You should also know about last year's divination class, Trelawney The professor's predictions about Harry were all wrong. Now she made two predictions about Harry, and this prediction pointed Professor Dumbledore to the Ministry of Magic, which will definitely cause big problems in the end!"

"The second prophecy?" Professor McGonagall raised his eyebrows, "Why is it the second prophecy?"

"You don't know?" Hermione was also stunned at this moment, "Professor Trelawney predicted in 1980 that one of Harry and Neville might defeat Voldemort!"

"I see." Professor McGonagall nodded suddenly, "I finally know why Sybil got the job of divination professor."

"This...Professor, don't you want to say that Professor Dumbledore...didn't tell you about this back then?!"

To be honest, Hermione couldn't even believe what she had just said.

Because she always felt that Dumbledore trusted Professor McGonagall so much that he should never hide such an important matter!

But...Professor McGonagall obviously doesn't know like this!

"I really don't know, but if there is such a prophecy, it can indeed explain why the mysterious man had to hunt down and kill the Potters." Professor McGonagall nodded indifferently, as if he didn't care at all, "I I believe that the reason why Albus didn't tell me is that he thinks that the time has not come yet. And for a secret like that, the less people know about it, the better."

In fact, Professor McGonagall did not know about the prophecy, because Dumbledore had already protected Trelawney after discovering that the prophecy had been leaked, and at the same time made the prophecy into a prophecy ball and placed it in the mysterious in the Affairs Department.

According to the former Professor McGonagall, the reason why the Potters were hunted down by Voldemort was because they were young and promising wizards who had ruined Voldemort's good things several times, so they were held grudges by each other.

But hearing what Hermione said today, she was as smart as Professor McGonagall, and immediately connected the cause and effect together.

Obviously, the reason why the nagging Sybill Trelawney was able to get the position of divination professor was obviously due to the prophecy.

It's just that Professor McGonagall's indifferent attitude, in Hermione's eyes, made her very puzzled.

"Why?" Hermione frowned and asked, "You may be right, the less people know about this, the better, but even so, Professor Dumbledore should tell you! If it is changed, haha Leigh, he would have told me everything...at least the things he could think of!"

"Miss Granger, this is different." Faced with Hermione's question, Professor McGonagall shook his head, "Albus and I are old friends and also his staunch supporters, but our relationship But that's all. We need to remain separate from each other, while maintaining our privacy. But you are not like Mr. Granger, you are a family who can share all the secrets and will never be separated."

"Albus chose to hide the prophecy from me because he wanted to protect me, Sybil, and Harry; and Mr. Granger chose to keep nothing from you because he cherishes you so much. So... please don't let me To criticize Albus' behavior, he and Mr. Granger just made different choices when facing different people."

"This…"

The office that was still arguing just now gradually quieted down.

Hermione Granger, the most capable witch beside Harry, and Minerva McGonagall, the most capable witch beside Dumbledore, insisted on their own opinions and looked at each other, but neither Speak again.

"Hey!" But at this moment, some shattered glass suddenly fell from the window, and the two of them also heard a crisp bird song at the same time.

"It's Fawkes?" Seeing the firebird circling in the sky, and then quickly flying into the distance, Hermione immediately recognized that it was Dumbledore's phoenix.

"That direction...is not the Ministry of Magic, but Hogsmeade Village? It seems that something has happened." After seeing the whereabouts of the Phoenix, Professor McGonagall quickly guessed its plan.

The place Fox flew to should be the Pig's Head Bar, it is to help Dumbledore summon the members of the Order of the Phoenix!

"Miss Granger, I'm sure the situation should be very critical now. Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout will rush to the Ministry of Magic immediately!" Professor McGonagall waved down two notes and handed them over to her. Eat kittens, let them immediately notify the other two professors.

After that, she looked at Hermione seriously again: "Next, we need to determine what the Hogwarts crisis mentioned by Miss Lovegood refers to."

"I'm not too sure. Before she passed out, she only mentioned the graveyard and the corpse." Hermione responded in a low voice, as if she felt that such communication made her very tired...

And in fact it is.

After spending so much time cooperating with her, it is not as good as Dumbledore's non-talking firebird in the end?

And the one who made this choice was Professor McGonagall——the teacher I respected most...

(ps Regarding whether Professor McGonagall knew the prophecy, Sanmiao did not provide detailed research in the original work, but at the node of the prisoner volume, she thought she didn't know, but she didn't think about it. Sanmiao didn't want to take advantage of this to black boss Professor Deng or Professor McGonagall are just in the respective camps of Harry and Lao Deng. Hermione and Professor McGonagall have very similar positions, so they are selected to confirm each other.

In addition, if you check the highlights of Professor McGonagall in the original book, almost all of them appear in the fifth part and later, or after Lao Deng left, this matter...

San Miao can only say that Professor McGonagall is indeed worthy of respect and capable.But when Lao Deng was still there, like most of the teachers at Hogwarts, she lacked subjective initiative.

Of course, this is just a personal opinion. After all, when Lao Deng was around, they didn’t need to be too subjective. The above~)

Chapter 480 The Third Secret Passage Needs to be Blocked

Objectively speaking, Hermione has no complaints against Professor McGonagall.

People are always willing to trust those who are more important to them, such as Harry to Hermione, or Dumbledore to Professor McGonagall.

Therefore, Hermione felt that Professor McGonagall's choice was understandable.

She was just anxious, wondering if the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore could ever be repaired.

A person's views and emotions will subtly affect other people around him. If the relationship between Dumbledore and Harry has always been like this, other teachers in the school may gradually withdraw their favor from Harry.

And if the stalemate continues like this, one day, everyone will have to make a choice in the end.

Hermione was very reluctant to see such a scene, but...she didn't know what to do.

"The cemetery, the corpse... Could it be related to zombies or infernal corpses?"

However, Professor McGonagall had no time to take Hermione's mood into consideration at the moment. She looked sideways at the gradually setting sun outside the window, and felt more and more that the crisis at Hogwarts would most likely come after dark.

"From now on, Hogwarts is under full martial law! All students must return before dark... No, we should gather everyone in the auditorium and place defensive spells around the auditorium at the same time!"

Professor McGonagall originally planned to drive the students back to the common room of their respective colleges, but after thinking about it, she felt that it would be safer to manage everyone centrally.

After all, in this school, there are always some brats who like to take risks out of time, and often ignore the professor's exhortations... especially in her own college.

"Then let's do this first. I have other things to do, so I'll take my leave first."

Seeing that Professor McGonagall had made arrangements, Hermione also chose to leave.

The overall layout of the school should be handed over to Professor McGonagall; as for myself, I should immediately deploy the power left behind by Harry!

While thinking quickly in her mind, Hermione immediately rushed to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor.

Harry's suitcase had been kept here for the last few months to help Lupine hide his identity as a werewolf.

In the suitcase lived Zou Wu and Norberta, and another guy that Hermione hadn't met, but knew could definitely help.

"The situation is probably like this. Now I need you and me to rush to the Forbidden Forest, contact other magical animals, and let the spiders and centaurs immediately assist Hogwarts to deploy defenses." In the suitcase, Hermione looked at Hogwarts with a serious expression. said the wolf girl.

"No problem, we can go now!" The wolf girl agreed very happily, what Hermione meant to Harry, as a member of the Forbidden Forest, she naturally couldn't be more clear.

You know, the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is named Granger, this Hermione Granger's Granger!

Carrying a suitcase and rushing to the Forbidden Forest non-stop, Hermione asked the wolf girl to gather her group to help call the police, and then successively contacted the centaur, acromantula, venomous leopard, bird snake and other magical animals, and carefully Help them arrange their respective defense zones.

While making arrangements, Hermione kept slandering in her heart that the bastards from the Ministry of Magic were really unreliable at all.

The dementors in Azkaban caused trouble for the school for a whole school year, but they didn't even catch a single rat. Now that something happened to the school, they were removed in advance.

What the hell, bah!

After arranging everything properly, Hermione hid Norberta in the Forbidden Forest, and hurried back to the castle.

She originally wanted to put Zou Wu in the woods, but Zou Wu said that he was innocent and not afraid of being exposed, so he could follow Hermione and Luna closely to ensure their safety.

In this way, intensive defenses quickly began to unfold on the campus, and all the students who didn't know why were gathered in the auditorium, even Lupine, who was extremely weak and was in the hospital, was no exception.

However, just as Professor McGonagall guessed, there will always be some supernatural beings among the students who can inquire about all kinds of gossip and quickly guess the crisis facing the school.

So soon, the administrator Filch took the Weasley twin brothers to find Professor McGonagall.

"Are you worried about the secret passages in the school?! Indeed... this is indeed a big problem." After hearing the twins express their intentions, Professor McGonagall was startled.

Hogwarts has at least seven secret passages leading to the outside world. She has also heard about this, but she accidentally ignored this problem when she was arranging defenses.

If the attacking enemy is really the infernal corpse she guessed before, then Professor McGonagall has to prepare for the worst... If the guy who manipulates these black magic creatures behind the scenes also knows where these secret passages are, then It is also very possible for the corpse to find these secret passages according to the instructions!

"Mr. Filch, what is the current situation of these secret passages?" Thinking of this, Professor McGonagall asked the administrator nervously.

"Most of them are blocked. The only thing missing now is the secret passage behind the statue of the one-eyed old woman on the fourth floor." Filch glared at the twins as he spoke, "This place was mentioned by the two brats just now. , I haven't had time to block it yet."

"Then go and plug it up now!" Professor McGonagall shouted nervously, "After that, I will let Snape guard there. By the way... and the big hole under the Whomping Willow, the same goes for it." Block it up, and I will stand guard outside the auditorium myself when the time comes!"

"I see." Filch took the order and left, holding the tools and preparing to plug the hole.

"One more question, Professor!" After Filch left, Fred suddenly shouted worriedly, "What about the villagers of Hogsmeade?"

"Village?"

"That's right, if those enemies really break in through secret passages, then the villagers of Hogsmeade will also be very dangerous, such as the boss couple of Honeydukes!" George also suggested with a serious face, "I think, We'd better inform them and let them quickly find a way to escape."

"Indeed, this is the safest way." Professor McGonagall nodded approvingly, and felt that the twins' ideas were very correct.

"Let's go!" Seeing this, Fred hurriedly asked, "The two of us, and the entire Gryffindor Quidditch team, we can help!"

"Yes! We can go out on a broomstick and concentrate on Hogsmeade village for early warning, and even if we call people from door to door, it won't take a lot of time." George also made a promise.

"Okay, I'll let Rolanda go with you. The Quidditch teams from the four colleges will set off at the same time! Before the sun goes down, you must evacuate all the villagers, or simply take them to the school for evacuation!"

"Understood!"*2

With the approval of Professor McGonagall, the two brothers hurriedly agreed in unison.

So the Quidditch players from all over Hogwarts set out, even Slytherins.

They used loud curses to keep warning above Hogsmeade village, and at the same time explained the reason to the doubtful villagers one by one, and finally evacuated most of the people in the village before evening.

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