Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

Edgar shuddered, "You mean to say that the dark wizards of the Crow Party had already planned to replace one of their 'own' as the minister a few years ago?"

Golov curled his lips and raised his hand to knock Edgar on the head. "What are you thinking about? They probably just wanted to drive a few new nails into the Ministry of Magic as usual. It's just Fudge's one." The law on werewolves just gave them a perfect opportunity to make such a decision and try to 'change the sky' for the Ministry of Magic."

"This is why Moon and I both think they will attack Diagon Alley or Muggles - in fact, the focus is Diagon Alley, where wizards gather and is close to Knockturn Alley. They can use Knockturn Alley to sneak into Diagon Alley , there are a lot of wizards there even at night, it is convenient for them to cause trouble, and at the same time, they can arrange their own battlefield and lure people from the Ministry of Magic over."

"Compared to directly breaking into the Ministry of Magic, this is obviously much more convenient. Moreover, the destruction of Diagon Alley can aggravate the grievances of the wizards. Secondly, it can also prevent the werewolves from going too crazy and damaging the Ministry of Magic too much. George Sargent was left with a huge mess. After all, the repairs to Diagon Alley were made with the merchants' money, while the damage to the Ministry of Magic was made with the Ministry's own money."

"Of course... it is not ruled out that they will attack Hogsmeade frantically, or even target Hogwarts, but that possibility is too small. The Crow Party people should not be stupid enough to plan it. Hogwarts challenges Albus Dumbledore head-on."

"Okay, okay..." Edgar breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to rub his head. "Then, what exactly are we going to do? You and Munn have already made arrangements?"

"Yes, it's all arranged." Golov responded. "I'm telling you this just to ask you to help with something - can you kill the two Aurors outside the door? Just knock them unconscious."

Edgar grinned and laughed, "If you want to say this, then I'll get excited..."

Chapter 94 The war ends

From dusk on January 1th, London seemed particularly quiet, even exaggeratedly quiet.

At four o'clock in the evening [Note 1], the Prime Minister announced the imposition of martial law in London. The reason for martial law was "serious underground gas pipeline leakage." Although there was no fire that shot up into the sky, and no one was heard of it. When it came to building collapses and pipe explosions, the Prime Minister took matters into his own hands. He also arranged for a large number of police and fire trucks to patrol the streets over and over again, and hired many professionals to rush around London to carry out inspections of gas pipelines. examine.

Countless people are stuck on the road, at work or at home, complaining about the old gas pipes and wondering how to solve the missing dinner.

At the same time, there was also a lot of noise in the office at No. [-] Downing Street. Many people were accusing Major, the Prime Minister, of thinking that he was so smart that he actually made a gas pipeline leak without confirming that there was a leak. Martial law must be declared.Although there were many people helping Major speak, Major still felt a little exhausted.

In fact, martial law should have been implemented earlier. Among the two Aurors arranged by Fudge, there was a big black man named Kingsley Shacklebolt. He looked gentle and gentle, and spoke very calmly. But he kept urging him all day long.

To be able to postpone it until four o'clock in the evening, Major had really exhausted all his abilities.Almost every hour he had to be on tenterhooks, fearing that the next second he would see a bunch of bastards on broomsticks flying around in the sky with big mouths and throwing nuclear warheads on the ground.

What Major didn't know was that Kingsley was also very helpless when urging him.Because even a fool knows that since the black wizards of the Crow Party and the group of werewolves have been delayed until the 19th, the day of the full moon, how can they launch a surprise attack before night falls and the werewolves have not yet transformed? ?

But Kingsley really couldn't guarantee that his minister knew about this, because Fudge's previous instructions to him were for him to tell Major that it would be best to start martial law at six in the morning.

Kingsley didn't quite understand how Fudge's brain circuits grew. Why did dark wizards and werewolves attack London at six in the morning?Robbing those fast food restaurants selling cookies and coffee?

In fact, Fudge also knew very well that the dark wizard and werewolf were unlikely to launch an attack during the day, but he just wanted to be safer and safer.For example, not only did he hope that London would be under martial law at [-] a.m., but he also sent all the Aurors from the Ministry of Magic to patrol around London before [-] a.m., leaving the safety of the Ministry completely to a few other people. A department and office whose combat effectiveness is much inferior to that of Aurors.

What surprised many people was that under such circumstances, Fudge did not leave the Ministry of Magic - although he was restless, nervous and depressed, and his whole body was tense, he was at least willing to sit in his office .

Many officials from the Ministry of Magic thought that he would run away immediately after all the Aurors left. But looking back now, at least their minister still has some merit.

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"The moon is about to appear, sir." The woman who had been following Rodriguez lowered her head and stood up straight. "The werewolves may transform at any time. In addition, the spies have also returned and brought a very important message. news."

Rodriguez slowly filled his long pipe with tobacco and whispered: "Dear Debra, you seem...very nervous."

Debra didn't look up and just answered Rodriguez calmly, "Yes, sir, I'm nervous."

"why?"

"Because... I am very afraid of you, sir, and the news brought back by the spies is very unfavorable to us."

"Well..." Rodriguez did not use a stuffer, but used his fingers to press the tobacco in the pipe little by little. While pressing, he said with a slight smile: "Don't be afraid, Debra, I'm not I will kill you, at least not now, not today."

He pressed his finger gently in the pipe for the last time, and then when he raised his finger again, the tobacco in the pipe was already glowing with a faint red light.Like a fairy who has seen gold, Rodriguez puffed gently with greed and restraint, and the curls of black smoke escaped from his mouth and nose, lingering around him for a long time.

"Okay, Debra, tell me, what did the spy say?"

Debra felt that her lips were very dry and her throat was burning, but she did not dare to make any other unnecessary movements.At this time, Rodriguez finally asked about the spies, and Debra finally felt like she was being pardoned. She quickly said: "Sir, the situation in Diagon Alley... is not right, it is empty, there is almost no one there. Although the lights are on in the shops, the doors are locked."

While she was finishing speaking, Debra finally swallowed again, trying to slightly relieve the discomfort in her throat.

She thought that this news would make Rodriguez, a man who kept his emotions secret, lose his temper - because it was almost equivalent to telling Rodriguez that the most hidden part of his plan had been seen through.

But it turns out Debra couldn't be more wrong.

"Oh?" Rodriguez's smile disappeared. He held a pipe in his mouth and leaned on the sofa. "It seems that there are smart people among the enemies. That's good... If we find out that our target is Diagon Alley, then it's probably Can guess the true purpose of this attack. Ha, Debra, who do you think is the person who saw through my plan?"

"Could it be Fudge, sir?"

Rodriguez laughed dumbly. "Don't act stupid, Debra. Fudge is probably thinking about me wanting to capture London."

"Then...it should be Dumbledore."

"I told you, don't act stupid, Debra." The smile in Rodriguez's voice became more obvious. "Ah... Dear Debra, why don't you tell me that answer?"

Debra took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "It's the Shafiq family."

"That's right, Debra, that's great~" Rodriguez nodded with satisfaction, "Ah, I like this family more and more. Back then, Voldemort sent Death Eaters to hunt down Ann Fox and her little boyfriend. At that time, I was very sad, thinking that the Shafiq family would probably go to war with Voldemort, and then be directly killed by the powerful Death Eaters at that time. I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it..."

"Okay, go tell those werewolves that it's time for them to take the stage. I guess they can't hold it in anymore, right? Let them all out and let them smash Diagon Alley to pieces. I guess they'll wait until the Aurors When they arrive, it’s time for them to officially transform.”

Debra responded and was about to turn around and go out, but suddenly thought of something and asked quickly, "What about our people?"

"Our people?" Rodriguez took another puff of cigarette and closed his eyes comfortably. "It's enough to send a small team to show up and throw a few spells. The others are ready to evacuate."

Debra looked at the black smoke that had filled the entire house in just a short time. She suppressed the fear and panic in her heart, agreed with a trembling voice, and quickly walked out of the room.

It wasn't until this moment that she realized that Rodriguez had only wanted those werewolves to die from the beginning - yes, without the help of the dark wizards of their Crow Party, no matter how big the trouble those werewolves made, they would be nothing in the end. It's just to die.

No wonder Rodriguez never mentioned turning his target from Diagon Alley to Muggles.

She forced herself to calm down, regained her expressionless expression, closed the door, and headed straight to the hall where the werewolves were.

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"Bang——!" A not-so-big explosion suddenly came from outside the werewolf cave in the Forbidden Forest. Munn, who was about to take the werewolves out, was startled, and then he realized what was going on. What's going on, he quickly stopped the werewolves from pulling out their wands.

But he didn't walk out rashly. Instead, he increased his volume and shouted, "Who is it?"

"I, Remus Lupin, am I Moon?" Remus' gentle voice came from outside. Moon breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to explain the identity of the visitor to several werewolves, but found this Many of the helpers are happier than themselves.

"Ah..." He patted his forehead and said with a wry smile: "You have forgotten that some of you know Remus. Come on, let's go out together."

The sky outside had almost completely darkened. Moon and a group of werewolves walked outside the cave together. Sure enough, Remus, who had put on the patched robes before, was standing outside with a look on his face. Somewhat irrepressible excitement.As soon as he saw Moon, he couldn't help but said: "Well, I went to see Professor Dumbledore today. I originally wanted to ask him for some advice, but while we were chatting, we talked about you, and then we talked about What you have to do——"

"——So, as soon as I heard that you wanted to use this opportunity to clear the werewolf's name, I came right over."

"I think... this matter should be considered, uh, obligatory for me?"

Moon, who was so excited when he saw Remus for the first time, was a little uncomfortable for a while, but he guessed the reason why Remus came, so he was not surprised at all.Although Remus was not as restless and belligerent as Sirius, for him, the identity of a werewolf was like a mountain weighing on him, and it had already made him breathless.Therefore, if he had such an opportunity now, he would definitely not refuse it.

"Then you came just in time," Moon said with a smile, "We'll set off right away."

"Speaking of this, Moon." Remus blinked. "Why don't you tell me the location and I'll go find you later."

Moon was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to ask why, Remus said directly, "The Order of the Phoenix is ​​also going to join the war. I have to go find them first. Dumbledore asked me to tell you - if you have anything, just ask me." , it is our duty to fight against the dark wizard."

"In this way..." Munn felt happy and nodded quickly: "Today's attack by the dark wizards of the Crow Party and the group of werewolves should be in Diagon Alley. After you find the other members of the Order of the Phoenix, go directly to the Golden Satin Skin. Material shop, we will wait for you there."

Remus responded, said hello to a few familiar werewolves, then turned around and disappeared in a hurry.

Werewolves, you look at me and I look at you. Their morale has obviously risen to another level.Although they didn't know what the Order of the Phoenix was, there was no doubt that it was their new reinforcements.

Just knowing this is enough to make their emotions soar.

"Everyone, it's time for us to go - by the way, I can't apparate. I can only follow you and follow you, so you may have to take me one by one." Moon turned around and said, "We have to hurry up. ”

"No problem." Rubeo stretched out his arm and motioned for Moon to grab his arm. "Ready, 3, 2, 1!"

A series of sounds rang out, and before Munn had time to see clearly how many people were unable to apparate like him, he had already disappeared along with Rubeo.Immediately afterwards, the figures of other people suddenly disappeared - but in just two seconds, there was no one in the cave.

When Moon escaped from the strong squeezing feeling of Apparition, what came into view was the narrow and crowded junk shop in Diagon Alley.There are all kinds of debris everywhere, such as tattered wands, pitted crystal balls, and old books piled to the ceiling.Before Munn could stand still, two more people appeared in front of him. Among them, the sturdy werewolf stepped on Munn's toes, which caused Munn to almost cry out in pain.

"It's so narrow here..."

"Oh my God, Galvin, please take your hand away, that's my belt, not the handle of the container in this store!"

"Ah... I suspect that one of my feet stepped into the broken crucible..."

Moon pulled out his leg and endured the pain while whispering: "Hey - there is no way, this is the only store you can all remember accurately, please keep your voice down! Mr. Galvin, please keep your eyes out. If the situation on the street is clean, we will immediately move to the leather shop, where my uncle should be waiting."

Just as Moon finished speaking, a little light suddenly lit up behind the counter of the junk shop. An old man with thinning hair poked his head out from behind the counter and looked in the direction of Moon, "Moon Fox?" "

"It's me, you are...the owner of the junk shop?"

The old man breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "It's you, you scared me to death. Mr. Shafiq sent someone to inform those of us who are unwilling to leave the shop before, and asked me to tell you that he will be there in Jin." The satin leather shop has been waiting for you to pass by. There are no dark wizards or werewolves outside yet, so hurry up and leave before it's too late."

"Thank you very much." Moon thanked him quickly. "People at the door, please get out quickly. Let's go to the Golden Satin Leather Shop - let someone who knows the location lead the way. Or you can go out first and I will lead the way."

The werewolf standing next to the door quickly opened it, and the others behind him filed out and came to the rare empty street in Diagon Alley.Moon walked at the end, and before leaving, he told his boss to hide it. The boss looked at the broken crucible on the ground with distress. After thinking about it, he still didn't have the nerve to open his mouth and ask for compensation. He just nodded repeatedly and extinguished the wand. Light.

"Five minutes at most." Rubeo's face turned a little pale, and he whispered: "In less than five minutes, we will transform."

"Dark wizards will definitely not equip werewolves with wolfsbane potion, which means they should be out soon. They are very close here, so they should be able to make it in time." Moon followed the others as he ran towards the leather shop. , while looking down at his pocket watch, "Knockturn Alley is in the other direction, we won't run into them."

That being said, it was obviously impossible for everyone to slow down because of this, so 2 minutes later, they arrived at the door of the Golden Satin Leather Shop.

Before Munn knocked on the door, the door of the shop was opened from the inside. Mr. Rishi stood inside the door, without bothering to say hello to Munn, and said directly: "Come in quickly, Mr. Lupine and Mr. Black and others have already arrived, and there are some other people, and Mr. Shafiq and them are all at the back where the goods are stored."

A group of more than [-] people hurriedly got into the shop. Mr. Rishi closed the door again and whispered: "Master Moon, please take the people in first. I will guard here."

Moon nodded in agreement and led the werewolves around the counter, entering through the partition door into the inner room where the leather shelves were displayed.

As Mr. Rich said, there were familiar faces and new faces everywhere here. Although the inner space of the gold satin leather shop was not small, after the 23 of them entered, it inevitably became a little crowded.In addition to Golov, Nora, and some of the Shafiq family's branches and subordinates, there were also Remus, Sirius, and many people whose names he didn't know, but whose names he could roughly guess - such as those wearing fake The eagle-eyed Moody was also waiting inside.

Adding them all together, there were at least thirty people from the Shafik family and nearly ten people from the Order of the Phoenix. Adding in the 22 werewolves, there were more than fifty people in total.

And then excluding those who are not fighting, the combat power of werewolves after taking wolfsbane potion will be weakened to a considerable extent...

The number of people is still a bit small.

Fortunately, the problem is not big. The Aurors will arrive soon, and they will still be able to fight against the dark wizards and werewolves of the Crow Party on the opposite side.What's more, the dark wizards of the Crow Party may not take action - if they want to cause trouble, the group of werewolves are enough.

Seemingly noticing that Moon was counting the number of people, Golov gave him a reassuring look, "Don't worry, there are still Aurors from the Ministry of Magic."

"Yeah." Moon responded, "Why didn't my uncle come?"

Golov shook his head, "He wanted to come, but he just cast two more powerful spells today and he couldn't breathe. He definitely won't be able to go to the battlefield."

Moon sighed, feeling his heart sinking again.

Moody looked at Moon through the crowd, opened his mouth and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a muffled hum coming from beside him, followed closely by another large muffled sound.

At the same time, outside the shop, a violent explosion sounded to everyone's ears.

Chapter 95 Werewolf Battle-[-]

Under the bright moonlight, this supposedly peaceful night suddenly became covered with a layer of blood.

A large group of more than a hundred werewolves that had turned into giant wolves rushed into Diagon Alley and were running around looking for traces of people. Four dark wizards were far behind, waiting to confirm that all the werewolves had entered Diagon Alley. Dare to show your head.Fire spells and explosive spells were thrown at the shops on both sides of the street.

As the first explosion sounded, the fire soon ignited. In the blink of an eye, the side of Diagon Alley was filled with billowing smoke, accompanied by increasingly fierce fires and explosions that continued to come out. sound.

The only good thing is that the shops over there have received special notices from Golov, strongly urging them to leave as soon as possible.Therefore, most of those shops were empty, and at most they lost some goods that were too late to take away.

No matter what, it's better than losing your life.

However, although the merchants have been notified, the Leaky Cauldron has also received news from Golov and has temporarily closed down. Only two members of the Shafiq family are there to prevent others from entering the opposite corner through the Leaky Cauldron. Alley, but there is still no way to make Diagon Alley really empty.Even if we don’t talk about those shopkeepers who want to “live and die with their own shops”, there are also wizards who may have something to buy temporarily and come to Diagon Alley through Apparition.

A large number of werewolves were running through the streets. After a while, they happened to encounter an unlucky wizard who had apparated to the corner of the street. Before the guy could stand still, he was pushed to the ground by two werewolves that pounced on him. A bite on the shoulder.

The fear of facing the wolf's kiss and the sharp pain on his shoulder made the wizard shout loudly, but the shout did not last for even a second before another werewolf tore his throat open and bit him to death. .

When the four dark wizards in black feather-patterned robes heard the screams, they all showed ferocious smiles.In fact, they wanted to laugh loudly, but the mission of destruction was not completed yet, and they did not dare to be too presumptuous - mainly because they were afraid of attracting werewolves. After all, these guys would not recognize their relatives after they transformed.If the werewolves were really lured here, the four of them might be thrown here.

On the other side, everyone in the Golden Satin Leather Shop also heard the explosion coming from outside. Everyone knew that there was chaos outside, so they immediately started to take action without saying anything more.

Moody, who was impatient, was the first to set off. He only said hello and quickly walked out of the store. Dedalo Digg and Ephias Dorje also followed him, and the remaining Hestgar Jones and Storge · Podmore and Emmeline Vance hesitated for a moment, and then filed out. Only Sirius looked at Moody, then at Remus. Finally, he suppressed his eagerness to try and temporarily stopped. down.

No one in the Shafiq family moved, because Golov had not moved yet, and Golov was looking at Munn with a hint of unnoticeable expectation in his eyes.

Moon was waving his wand at this time, turning the empty wooden shelf next to it into strips of bright red cloth, and then controlled these strips to be tied to the legs of the werewolves in the room.He was originally curious about why his uncle didn't move, but when he turned around and looked over, he realized what his uncle was thinking, so he composed his thoughts and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Golov, Aunt Nora, you and your family members will go directly to Set off and focus on protecting those shops whose owners have not evacuated. If you can, try to guard the direction of the Leaky Cauldron and don't let the werewolves rush past - there is no one in Diagon Alley now, and those werewolves who can't find their target are very difficult. There might be a rush over there.”

"Xiaotian..." Moon smoothly called out the name of the only person still standing here, and then realized something was wrong and quickly kept his voice, only to find that Sirius looked at him with excitement on his face, "I protect Lai Mus, ha, is there anything I can do?”

Since Sirius had said so, he had to act according to urgency. Moon didn't bother to say anything and said bluntly: "Take Remus and catch up with Mr. Moody and the others, and tell them that those werewolves tied with red strips of cloth are We must protect our own people. Then we will lead Remus to fight those werewolves and dark wizards, and let Remus show his face as much as possible."

"Ha, no problem." Sirius seemed to be on fire. He patted Remus on the head with a smile, and immediately rushed out before Remus could bite him back.

Remus looked at Moon deeply, then nodded towards Moon, and then he endured the dizziness in his head and quickly followed Sirius' pace.

In the blink of an eye, only Moon and the remaining werewolves who were not participating in the war were left in the back room of the leather shop, as well as Mrs. Rich, who was specially left by Uncle Golov to Moon.

"Rideout?" Moon called softly. This was the first time he saw these 22 werewolves transformed, and he couldn't distinguish them well.

A giant wolf with a strong physique and light gray fur took two steps forward and raised its head towards Munn.

"I know you will be very sleepy after taking the wolfsbane potion, but you must not sleep, understand? I will also go out to fight later. Here, your other friends can only rely on you to protect them." Moon warned. Said: "Remember, you can't sleep."

Rideout nodded vigorously, then whimpered slightly.

After taking the Wolfsbane potion, Rideout still maintained his human way of thinking and rationality. Moon could barely feel his thoughts - he wanted to go out and fight with Moon, but he knew he couldn't do that.