Chapter 406: Twenty Years Later?
When Zhang Xu returned to Hogwarts again, he was already a middle-aged man in his forties who had begun to get greasy, and he took the opportunity to send his youngest daughter to Hogwarts to attend Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express, which had been absent for twenty years, and came to Hogsmeade Railway Station.
On the train, many students curiously knocked on the door when passing by Zhang Xu's carriage and asked him if he was a new professor, and he deliberately replied: "Actually, I am the new principal." ”
When he got off the train, he saw Hagrid, with his white hair, still holding a lantern to beckon the first-year students to get ready to take the boat.
After greeting Hagrid from afar, and after watching his little daughter jump onto the boat with the new friends he had met on the train, he "biu" to the gates of Hogwarts.
He was greeted at the gate by another middle-aged man who was also starting to get greasy.
Zhang Xu stood in front of the basilisk fountain, looking at the statue based on himself standing in the pool, while chatting with Neville about the shortcomings of his parents over the years.
Just as the students arrived at the gates of Hogwarts in a carriage pulled by Thestrals, Zhang Xu rejected Neville's suggestion to invite him to the cafeteria for dinner as guests, and walked alone towards the junction of the Great Lake and the Forbidden Forest.
Dumbledore's white tomb was built in the place that Zhang Xu suggested back then, and there was not a trace of insects and birds chirping around, and it was a little eerily quiet.
Zhang Xu took out three sticks of incense and lit them and inserted them on the grass in front of the tombstone, and then stood there quietly, looking at the white tombstone through the smoke of sandalwood.
Just as he was about to come to the grave to jump, he suddenly felt movement around him, and a cat walked behind him at some point.
He subconsciously took out the small dried fish and squatted down and handed it to the cat, but the kitten's right front paw suddenly became the size of a casserole, and then exhaled vigorously into his face.
To avoid the cat's claws, he jumped backwards...... As a result, he fell off the sofa with a "bang".
Zhang Xu, who was rubbing his head, got up from the ground and found that he was unconsciously lying on the sofa and falling asleep when he was thinking about something just now, and then had a dream. The notebook and water-based pen that he had been holding in his hand for taking notes and notes fell to the floor, and he was crushed under him as he fell off the couch.
Zhang Xu flipped through his notebook after sitting back on the sofa, except for drawing a ghost drawing charm at the end because he fell asleep unconsciously, the first few pages wrote the information he got from the conversation with Dumbledore in the kitchen, and the corresponding plan for dealing with it.
Zhang Xu, who came back to his senses, saw his record full of question marks in his notebook, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, because Dumbledore's approach really puzzled him.
In layman's terms, Dumbledore was always playing a big game, from Snape to Harry's trio.
He was secretly observing, planning, laying out, and constantly scooping the wheels of history out of the ditch, only to roll the wheels into another ditch.
When he was about to carry out one of the most important actions of his life, he decided to temporarily remove Zhang Xu, who originally thought it was a powerful chess piece, but was actually an accidental machine, from the chessboard.
And Zhang Xu was very puzzled by Dumbledore's current approach, he had seen people who dared to sacrifice themselves, but he didn't think that Dumbledore would still sacrifice himself easily when he already knew what Voldemort's side was going to do next.
A while ago, Zhang Xu made it clear and hinted to Dumbledore that Voldemort might carry out a decapitation operation, and in such a situation, if Old Deng did not prepare for this, he would have nothing to say. However, what left Zhang Xu even more speechless was that Dumbledore made the decision to follow Voldemort's pace.
Dumbledore was not only the most powerful fighting force on their side at the moment, but also a symbol of opposition to Voldemort. Although Harry Potter has also gained fame after a series of recent campaigns after cooperating with the Ministry of Magic, it is still far from Lao Deng's century-old brand.
Zhang Xu thought that Dumbledore would not fail to see this, but he did not understand why the elder Deng would make the worst choice in his opinion.
In this current form, Zhang Xu is most afraid that Lao Deng will receive a bento like in the "plot", and Voldemort, who is much stronger than in the "plot", will take advantage of the other party's morale to drop and solve the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix in waves.
If Voldemort is really in power by then, the British government estimates that some of the security wars will be fought, and if it is not good, there will be a United Nations army group to brush up the copy.
And there is also a possibility that Dumbledore plans to play fake death, and then suddenly jump out to scare Voldemort. But this method is not reliable, and if someone makes up for it, it is easy to get rid of it.
Therefore, when Zhang Xu didn't understand Dumbledore's follow-up arrangements, he began to think about a reliable way back for the upcoming battle.
Early the next Sunday morning, Harry, who had just gotten up and was still lying on the bed, suddenly remembered something, he hadn't been able to ask Zhang Xu what he was discussing with Malfoy in the middle of the night, there were too many things that happened that night, and then he didn't have time to find Zhang Xu because of the confinement, so he gradually forgot about it.
It's just that when Harry finished breakfast and used the map to confirm his location before looking for Zhang Xu, he found that he was not in the castle, but saw a lot of students moving towards the Forbidden Forest at high speed on the edge of the map, and then one of the students ran into the cafeteria to say that something was wrong in the Forbidden Forest.
Harry, who realizes that something is happening, calls the two of his friends to join in the fun.
At this time, there was a commotion on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, with shouts, spells, and wounded wails, and from time to time students rushed to the castle with stretchers containing injured students.
As Harry and his party were about to walk to the Forbidden Forest, they saw Colin Creevey and another classmate carrying his younger brother Dennis Creevey out of the Forbidden Forest on a stretcher.
Harry hurriedly walked over and asked, "Colin, what's wrong with Dennis?" Who attacked you? ”
"No one attacked us." Colin said, shaking his head.
At this time, Dennis, who was lying on the stretcher, beckoned to Harry, and at this moment, Dennis's hands and face were exposed to the outside of the skin, and he was blackened by the explosion, and his hair was burned out a lot.
After Harry walked over, he said, "I was injured by two cherries. ”
Harry looked confused, and then Dennis continued, "We all met early this morning to go to the Forbidden Forest to catch sheep, but everyone didn't expect the plants on the edge of the Forbidden Forest to go crazy. ”
The corners of Harry's mouth twitched a few times, and he now knew how these guys were going to die. Yesterday, when they went to the Forbidden Forest, they took the safe route that was not dangerous, and now these guys are just going inside regardless of it.
Harry told Dennis to heal his injuries, and then told Colin to send his brother to the school infirmary, and he probably had to put him in the hallway if it was too late.
When Harry and the others reached the Forbidden Forest, they found Neville shouting as he directed the students to rescue the hapless ones who had been beaten with peas, peppers, and cabbage.
Harry and the others then saw two injured classmates who were supporting each other step on a potato that was somewhat exposed to the ground, and then exploded into the air with a "bang".