Chapter 3: The Black-robed Wizard

Hogwarts Castle is as solid as ever.

Looking at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on the other side of the Black Lagoon from Hogsmeade, there was no sign of riot. This is different from Xie An's prediction of the battle scene. Despite the fact that the Raincaller appears alone, the Quidditch players are controlled by the Imperius Charm. But Xie An didn't think that the rain caller didn't have any accomplices.

From the appearance of the Raincaller to his attack on the Quidditch pitch, it is strange that Albus Dumbledore and the professors at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have no reaction. Most likely, the Raincaller's allies are holding Albus Dumbledore and the professors back.

There was no Quidditch pitch to be seen from Hogsmeade, and Shayne didn't know what was going on there. At this point, if you fly into the castle, you may be subjected to a deadly attack.

After arriving at Hogsmeade via Floo Powder, the village was not as chaotic as it had been imagined. After the last terrorist attack, the inhabitants of Hogsmeade had taken some precautions. Instead of fleeing back to Hogsmeade, many of the villagers went directly to safety.

Just like the last Wizarding War. The wizards were ready for all sorts of retreats. Some wizards, like Shea, carry their portkeys with them so they can reach their safe house at any time. Hogsmeade, the last place where wizards in Britain could live openly, is now the focus of all the dark forces. It's really not safe here.

After leaving the clothing store, not far away was Queen Anne's apartment, and Xie An didn't mean to disturb Queen Anne. The Queen's entire energy during this time was focused on studying the power of the Doomsday. The powerful erosion effect last time, even the demigod-like queen was powerless.

After the events of Halle Black and Bellatrix Lestrange were temporarily arranged, all of Queen Anne's energy was focused on the power of doom. At this time, Xie An has already realized that it is not our world that contains everything, but the fact is the opposite: our world may be an extremely special small lake in a huge forest, and we wizards are like small fish in the lake.

Without the protection of water, the predators will not hesitate to eat all the fish in the pond. At present, it seems that our world is protected by an incomprehensible barrier, which cannot be eroded by those terrible forces of destruction, which allows fragile life to thrive.

There is now a rift in this barrier, and now the external eroders are like sharks that smell blood, frantically searching for loopholes to invade the world.

Such a danger is of course the deadliest, but the more urgent danger is the dimensional warfare that has already emerged. The Rain Summoner is already the second wizard Xie An knows to have crossed the Time Corridor and reached the present one. Aside from Mordred, the Raincaller doesn't seem to be friendly to the world right now.

Perhaps some wizards are unaware of the dangers of dimensional warfare. Every life is unique and pursues freedom, and dimensional warfare completely destroys the uniqueness of life from the dimension of time. Ordinary weapons of war may distort and destroy the body of a wizard, while dimensional war will directly distort and destroy the fate of a wizard.

The only good news is that the Raincaller doesn't seem to be strongly hostile. Xie An could be sure that at the moment when the portkey was activated, it would definitely be possible for a top-level wizard to stop it. The strange thing is that after the rain summoner said the word "YOU" to Xie An with his lips, he did not take any action, but let Xie An leave with Hermione and the others.

Xie An and the others are the targets of the Rain Summoner, but Xie An doesn't know who the Rain Caller is targeting and what he wants to do?

Among Shea's others, the ones most likely to have a huge impact on the future are Hermione and Shayne herself. Luna is a good designer and may become the face of wizard fashion in the future, but it's hard to imagine that the Rain Caller is here specifically for Luna. Ginny also has a lot of potential, maybe she will become a celebrity in the future, but she is too focused on her own world: love, looks, Quidditch. Ginny is a strong girl who deserves to be happy, but it is difficult to become Minister of Magic. As for Qiu, her shortcomings are as obvious as her strengths.

According to the dimensional war point of view, the most likely conflict with the Rain Caller is Xie An. As mentioned before, Xie An's end world has a legend about the rain summoner. In other words, the world of the end of the law will develop normally, and the rain summoner will inevitably appear normally.

However, Xie An's purpose of reincarnating from the end of the Dharma world to the current world is to lead the direction of the entire world to another path. Regardless of how Xie An himself thinks about what he is in, whether the purpose is to save the world or not, it will lead to the same result: the time when the Raincaller is located may disappear because of this, and the Raincaller himself may not appear in the future world.

Such a situation is equivalent to murdering people from one world and forcing them to become people from another world. Faced with such a situation, there are naturally people who are willing and some people who strongly oppose it. From this point of view, the contradiction between Xie An and the Rain Summoner is almost irreconcilable.

Judging from this situation, it is very likely that the Raincaller's so-called "I know who you will be in the future" was addressed to Shea and Hermione: not only did he want to announce his arrival, but he also wanted to tell the wizards that mortals should not rebel against their fate!

Of course, this is just an inference. At the moment, Xie An knows too little information. Even if he knew about the situation of the dimensional war, for the Rain Summoner, Xie An could be said to know nothing except his name.

Fortunately, at this time, there was still a staunch ally in Hogsmeade Shean, and Barty Jr. was still screaming at the shack. The streets are sparsely populated, and despite the fact that it is broad daylight, it gives a sense of desertion. Xie An put on the hood of his wizard's robes, making himself look similar to those strangely dressed wizards who suddenly appeared.

After walking for more than ten minutes, I soon arrived at the screaming shack. Barty Jr. has been recuperating since he rescued his mother from the wound of the world, Azkaban. Xie An didn't ask little Barty for anything, his identity is very sensitive, and he always has to use compound decoction when he goes out.

During this time, there seemed to be some signs of dΓ©tente between Barty Jr. and Barty Sr. Xie An tapped his wand on the fence four times, and the magic pattern formation of the alarm protected the screaming shack, and once an intruder appeared, little Barty could get the news in time.

Through special magical identification, Shay An entered the screaming shack, and after passing through a vague film, Shay An saw that little Barty was already waiting at the door.

It turned out that the hair that looked yellow due to poor nutrition had become golden at this time, and it was very dazzling in the sun, and the pale skin that had not seen the sun for a long time had also turned into a healthy slightly yellowish color, and the nervous and crazy look at any time had completely disappeared from the face. At this point, Barty Jr. has become a handsome boy, and there is no indication that he was once a crazy Death Eater.

"Andrew, how do you have time to be here. It's been a long time since I've seen you, and I thought you forgot what you promised me. "Mrs. Crouch, little Barty's mother is still in the Soul Stone, and Shea Ann once promised to give Mrs. Crouch a body. But there are so many things to do during this time, and I haven't had time to do this.

"Barty, I have never forgotten your affairs. It is very difficult to find a suitable body. I've had a lot of trouble again during this time. Once I've taken care of that, I'll look for the right materials. Xie An explained calmly.

"Haha," Barty smiled heartily and motioned for Xie An to please enter the house, "I believe you." In previous situations, you were willing to help me, and I am very grateful. Please come in and have a cup of tea. ”

Shea noticed an elf standing behind Barty Jr. This is the elf Sparkle that serves the Crouch family. The connection between Old Barty and Little Barty is mostly because of this kind elf.

"No, Barty, I need your help now. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has been attacked, and I need your help to find out what is going on. Shea Ann rejected Barty's kindness, and now he is back to save people.

Barty Jr. frowned slightly, "Terrorist attack, is it the Death Eaters again?" But this place is so close to Albus Dumbledore, aren't the Death Eaters afraid of being caught by Albus Dumbledore? Or?"

"Don't guess, it's not what you think. A Dark Wizard who calls himself the Raincaller has taken the souls of more than twenty Quidditch players. Attacked the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who were preparing to watch the game. Xie An explained briefly.

"Raincaller, I've never heard of it!well, shall we go now?" Hearing that it was not a Death Eater, Barty's complicated feelings disappeared in an instant, and he was eager to try.

"Young Master, are you going out, do you want me to prepare a compound potion?" Shining suddenly said in a shrill voice. She bowed slightly towards Xie An. As a star in the elf world, a unicorn wizard, Xie An can be courteous to elves wherever he is.

"By the way, you do need a polyjuice potion, I remember you made some last time, and put it on the fireplace. The polyjuice potion!" Barty waved his wand, and a transparent test tube flew from inside the room and fell into his hand.

After drinking the polyjuice decoction, little Barty turned into a neutral-looking, slender young man. The figure does not change much before and after the deformation, and there is no need to change clothes.

"We'll have to get into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry through a secret passage under the shack, it's safer." I don't know the purpose of the rain summoner, so it's better to be cautious at this time. Xie An had been wondering where Albus Dumbledore was at this time. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the home base of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, seemed to be a little slow to react to such an attack.

The two open the trapdoor and enter the tunnel beneath the screaming shack. After the basilisk attacked, the secret passage became a mess. The other beating willow has been completely sealed. Later, after Xie An and the twins studied the map of the living spots, they found that this passage was not far from another abandoned tunnel, and the three of them used magic to connect the two passages together and turn them into a new passage.

This passage is usually a special passage for elves and Xie An, and few wizards in the school know about it. Barty Jr. once walked through this passage, but he was afraid that Albus Dumbledore would find him through the barrier, so he did not dare to show his head in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The two entered the tunnel, and Twinkle closed the trapdoor above, and the surroundings went dark. Barty Jr.'s wand casts a lighting spell. "Your elf will configure a compound potion?" Xie An suddenly asked. Pokemon have a lot of magic in their hands, and the level of magic is generally not low, but due to the requirements of the Ministry of Magic, many sensitive magic pokemon cannot be touched, and potions are one of them.

Little Barty was slightly stunned and said, "Of course, the level of the sparkle can catch up with those potions masters." Her favorite thing to do is to grow all kinds of potions at home. Twilight knew about the Kirin Wizard, and she wasn't afraid that the Kirin Wizard would go to snitch. As an ally of the elves, Xie An's reputation among the elves is excellent.

There are so many things that elves can do, and Luna's clothing store has hired some elves through Elder Dora, who are responsible for making magic robes with magic, and Luna's ingenious and beautiful designs are transformed into real objects through these elves.

Elves wield a great deal of practical magic, but they are strictly forbidden to use wands. And in the past hundred years, with the rapid decline of the magic family, many house-elves have also become homeless, and finally died tragically. The number of pokemon is also decreasing rapidly.

Elder Dora, as the last elf elder in wizarding Britain, knows this very well. According to Elder Dora, the elves have reached the point of life and death.

Xie An didn't continue to ask, he didn't know enough about elves. He was unaware of the complicated relationship between wizards and elves, though Shea had heard some secrets from Elder Dora.

Xie An asked Barty a few more questions, all about the situation in the wizarding world during this time. Barty Jr. would go out for a walk every day when he had nothing to do, and he would get some strange news for a few drinks at the Leaky Cauldron Bar.

"The Aurors sent to the Far East Sea haven't returned yet, the Ministry of Magic has sent a deputy director, and you warriors seem to be in trouble and haven't been in contact with their mentors for days. The two talked in a low voice as they moved forward quickly.

"It's just a child's game, what news do you have about the Wizard Army?" Xie An paid less attention to the situation of the tournament, firstly because the second phase of the tournament was in the Far East, which was too far away from the wizarding Britain, and secondly, because this kind of game-like competition really couldn't give Xie An any sense of crisis.

"Gellert Grindelwald defeated Ukraine's Chief Minister of Magic a few days ago, and now all of Eastern Europe is completely under the control of the wizarding army. The entire European continent is now completely controlled by wizards, with the exception of several large powers in Western Europe, as well as the Russian Ministry of Magic, and the Ministry of Magic of two neutral countries. At this point, Barty Jr.'s pace slowed down a bit.

"How did Gellert Grindelwald suddenly become so strong?!" Shea only heard that Gellert Grindelwald seemed to have mastered a great magic, and his combat power had far surpassed that of ordinary wizards, and now that wizards had re-called Gellert Grindelwald the Dark Lord, Voldemort had become a not-so-glorious codename.

"Gellert Grindelwald seems to have mastered an Animagus form, and once transformed into an Animagus, his magical power multiplies!" Barty Jr. said.

"I've never heard of Animagus increasing magical combat power. "The werewolf form may be stronger than the average wizard, but for the top wizards, there is no form better suited to magic than the human form. The so-called dragon magic is completely absent in this world. Even whether the dragon has formed its own language is still debated among wizards.

Wizards like Albus Dumbledore certainly don't fight with his Animagus form, and Professor Minerva McGonagall teaches the cat form, which has almost zero combat effectiveness except for camouflage. Xie An's own Nightmare Beast form is only much faster, and he has a special ability to break seals, and his combat power has barely improved.

Both were puzzled by Gellert Grindelwald's increased combat prowess and had never heard of this method before. If the only thing that can make Xie An feel that it is possible, I am afraid that it is the evil god Animagus hidden in the wound Azkaban of the world.

In order to rescue Mrs. Crouch, Shea fought a Dementor King and a three-headed evil god, Animagus. If it weren't for the magic of Queen Anne's demigods, Xie An naturally didn't have any chance of winning.

The evil god Animagus he saw that time was also the most peculiar Animagus Xie An had ever seen: an Animagus monster with a lion's head, a wolf's head, and a leopard's head, which really showed a completely different way of fighting.

However, the evil god Animagus is a permanent form change, and once a wizard and an evil god become an animagus, they can never change back. This is clearly not the case with Gellert Grindelwald.

After turning a zigzag corner, you have entered another abandoned passage. This is what Xie An and the twins are connected by magic. Entering this abandoned passage is already considered to have entered the magic enchantment of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. If you look at the map of the live spots, the two will be marked at this point.

"Use anti-tracking magic. Xie An whispered.

After a few more minutes, a small staircase appeared in front of it, and there was no sign of a door, which required a specific magic to open. Xie An looked back at Little Barty, and the compound decoction made Little Barty a completely different person.

"Holy Elephant!" Xie An also tapped the wall with his wand, as if a biscuit had been torn open, and an irregular semi-circular doorway appeared in front of him. On the other side of the door was a passage near the elf logistics department, and there was no one here at this time.

"So quiet. Barty Jr., who had been under house arrest and had never been to Hogwarts since his freedom, muttered in a trembling voice.

It's a little too quiet. With the warrior's intuition, Xie An felt as if something was wrong. The two made their way quickly down the hallway, and Xie An speculated if all the students were asked to assemble in the auditorium. During the last Basilisk Crisis, Professor Minerva McGonagall had asked all of the students to get together.

As soon as the two of them turned a hallway, they heard someone shouting in a low voice, "Master Qilin, this way!" Turning to look, the Minister of Logistics, the son of Elder Dora, who was wearing a pillowcase embroidered with the pattern of sending a child Guanyin, was hiding behind a pillar and calling in a low voice.

A hint of strangeness flashed in Xie An's eyes, "What happened?"

"The students had all been gathered in the Great Hall, where the Aurors were guarding and it was safe now. Seeing Xie An coming over defenselessly, the logistics minister also walked out from behind the pillar and explained anxiously.

"It turned out to be..."Without saying a word, there was a low bang, and a white light came out of Xie An's hand, accurately hitting the logistics minister. Barty Jr. hurriedly took out his wand and looked around vigilantly.

"I've been caught by the Imperius Curse too!" Xie An squatted down to check on the logistics minister's condition and found that he had traces of the Imperius Curse on his body. "The elves won't show up in the castle on their own initiative, so are the elves also being attacked now?"

Wake him up and ask. Barty Jr. suggested.

"Wake up quickly!" The previous attack spell had already interrupted the effect of the Imperius Curse, and at this point Xie An tried to wake up the elf. The effect is not bad, and the logistics minister slowly woke up.

Seeing the Qilin wizard in front of him, the elf hurriedly said, "Quick, quick, my lord, go and save my mother, she is trapped in the Demon Pattern Formation." ”

As mentioned before, many of the prohibitions that work for wizards may not be effective for elves, such as the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry enchantment, in which wizards can't apparition, but elves can.

The only way to deal with powerful elves is to use a special magic pattern formation. Elder Dora's magic power is not below that of top wizards, plus she is a little elf clan, and the magic pattern formation that can trap her is definitely not to be underestimated.

"Where?" Xie An asked briefly?

"It's in the back office, in my office. The Minister of Logistics said with difficulty, the after-effects of forcibly interrupting the Imperius Curse made his whole body feel like the world was spinning and his headache was splitting.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Barty Jr.

"I don't know what's going on. In the middle of last night, a few black-robed wizards suddenly appeared in the logistics department, and they attacked all the elves. Due to the ban of the Ministry of Magic, we cannot resist at will. Soon all the elves were knocked down, and the mother wanted to raise the alarm, but the black-robed wizards seemed to be prepared, and the entire logistics department was cut off by spatial magic. Mother fought with the most powerful wizard among them, and they had no way to defeat it, so they used a strange formation to seal Mother away. "The Minister of Logistics described what happened in a weak and slight voice.

Xie An's brows furrowed, the rain summoner was really not alone! Albus Dumbledore must have been held back by something. More than ten hours have passed since the early hours of this morning, and it is impossible for Albus Dumbledore not to receive the alert of the enchantment. If you can hold off the Headmaster for so long, I'm afraid that the strength of the Rain Summoner's allies is not under Voldemort.

"Where are the students?" Xie An asked again.

The logistics minister was slightly stunned, "I can't remember, in the haze, it seems that those black-robed wizards controlled us to add some magic potion to breakfast, and that magic potion seems to be poisonous!"

Breakfast is poisonous! So all the students and professors who have eaten breakfast at Hogwarts have been poisoned!How quiet is the school, is it because...?!

"No way!" said Barty Jr., "it is impossible that all the students were poisoned. Let's go and see now. ”

"Not really, I also had breakfast, not without anything. I need to save Elder Dora. "Shea Ann has never experimented with whether the Hell Picture is immune to poison. All spiritual magic, for Xie An, had almost no effect. However, the effect of normal attack magic has not diminished in the slightest.

Qiu Hermione, who had also eaten breakfast, didn't seem to have any symptoms, and Xie An himself didn't feel abnormal.

"Well, you go find the professors and students now and see if they're all poisoned. I went with him to save Elder Dora. Xie An picked up the logistics minister, who was in a weak state, and now he couldn't walk.

Barty Jr. nodded in agreement, and the two men split up and began to move.

Let's start with little Barty. The logistics department is located in the most remote part of the castle, and wizards are rarely visited. After turning a few corridors, Barty saw a little wizard lying on the ground. He hurriedly stepped forward and touched their necks, and found that there was still a pulse, and it seemed that he had just fallen asleep.

"Susu wake up!" little Barty hurriedly cast a spell, and soon the third-year male student woke up.

"What's wrong with me? My head hurts! It's like drinking a barrel of butterbeer. "Now is not the time to think about butterbeer, your classmates and professors are poisoned, now go and help them wake up, quick!" Barty Jr., who had also been a prefect at Hogwarts and had a leadership temperament, spoke very believably at this time, and the third-year student regarded him as an Auror.

The two woke up four more students, three girls and one man, and Barty Jr. said, "You continue to help the students wake up, and I will go to the teacher now." ”

The teachers are stronger, but fortunately, Hogwarts Castle has not changed much, and the location of the teacher's quarters is clear to Barty. After walking a few stairs, I reached the corner, and with a "bang", the staircase handrail was blown off.

Fortunately, little Barty's strength was not weak, and he felt abnormal and hurriedly dodged, so he was not hit by the spell. Not far upstairs, a black-robed wizard attacked little Barty.

"Avada's Curse!"

"Broken bones!"

"Divided!"

.......

The two sides exchanged hands several times in an instant, and the enemy's spell seemed to be a little stiff, and Barty Jr. grabbed a gap, and the spell passed through the gap between the stairs, hitting the enemy's calf and blowing the man away.

Before he had time to rejoice, two more black-robed wizards joined the battle, and little Barty was instantly at a disadvantage with one against two, and could only fight and retreat. Instead, it is getting farther and farther away from the teacher district.

"It seems that the teachers are still resisting. Realizing that the enemy was only expelling him and not chasing, Barty Jr. immediately realized that the teacher's district was still holding back the enemy's power, and he already had a plan in mind.

Arriving at the periphery of the logistics area, Xie An put the elf down, "It's too dangerous to fight with you, now tell me the specific place where Elder Dora is trapped." ”

"Mother is trapped in the office, but there seems to be a black-robed wizard guarding it. "After being controlled by the Imperius Curse, although I can't do it myself, my memories of the things around me are still there, but these memories are like flowers in the fog, and they are not real.

"Okay, I see, you have a good rest now. Xie An tapped his poplar wand on the elf's head, "Quickly become invisible!" The elf felt as if an egg had shattered on his head, and then he found his body disappear.

After making arrangements, Xie An took out both the poplar wand and the Fusang wand, closed his eyes slightly, and the two wands quickly deformed and entangled, turning into a brand-new wand.

"Faint!" Avada's Death Spell can destroy the enemy once and for all, but for Xie An, the consumption is a bit large. Now in his body, the picture of hell is about to move, and he has to be careful.

Xie An was quick to help the fallen enemy and leaned him against the wall. This is the first black-robed wizard, hiding at the entrance of the logistics department. It's a pity that Xie An entered with stealth magic.

After the successful sneak attack, Xie An hid in the shadows and quickly scanned the surroundings. I didn't see any other black-robed wizards, and according to the Minister of Logistics, there should be quite a few guards here.

In fact, there were indeed more than a dozen black-robed wizards here, but just now, due to a mistake in the teacher's area, most of them have been transferred to the teacher's area, leaving only a dark pile at the door and two at the door of the office.

Xie An hid all the way to a place not far from the office. Seeing that the two black-robed wizards were looking around vigilantly, and after using detection magic to confirm that no wizards were invisible around, he used transfiguration to transform the stones on the ground into slender steel needles, and when he was ready, he launched an attack.

The reaction speed of wizards is generally very fast, which is related to the specificity of magic, after Xie An's steel needle was shot, when he was about to hit the target, he encountered great resistance and was stopped in mid-air, but fortunately, Xie An had no intention of relying on the steel needle.

With the brief attraction of the steel needle, Xie An, who was invisible, had already launched a spell attack first.

"Faint!" Like your weapon, Faint is one of the fastest spells to strike, and wizards who have not been attacked by steel needles are attacked by spells and fall to the ground like deflated balls. The other wizard hurriedly moved, dodging Xie An's second attack.

At this time, Xie An's strength has entered the ranks of top wizards, and if he can use all his strength, he should be at the same level as Professor Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape. It's a pity that the hell picture in Xie An's body is extremely hidden now, and every time he uses too much magic power, he will trigger the hell picture, so Xie An can actually only use two or three layers of magic power. In this case, any spell should be made sure to work.