Chapter 660: Countdown to the Attack
According to a BBC report on February 15, British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Hogsmeade on the 15th, accompanied by the Minister of Magic Scrimgeur, to inspect the disaster area that was severely damaged by terrorists, and went to the settlement site to comfort the victims, assist them in distributing meals, hug and kiss children and play with children, and thanked the disaster victims volunteers and field workers.
At the settlement, Blair also met with representatives of the International Coalition of Wizards' International Columns, including Tanya Adams, Yuri, Asterix, and Sukhbaru, and thanked them for their efforts in maintaining security and fighting crime.
After leaving Hogsmeade, Blair and his party arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After laying a wreath at Dumbledore's tomb, Blair had a cordial conversation with the Headmaster, Professor McGonagall, student representative Harry Potter, and international student representative Zhang Xu.
Blair carried out the campaign after he was criticized for his lack of concern for his fellow sufferers during a prime minister's questioning on Wednesday, and arrived at Hogsmeade with a large amount of relief supplies such as food and building materials.
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Voldemort put down the newspaper in his hand, got up from the stone chair, and walked outside the cave.
The cold wind howling through the mountains blew the hem of Voldemort's trench coat to the bottom of the hunt, but it didn't affect the fire in his heart at the moment.
The wizarding world was finally revealed to the world, and his name as the Dark Lord was established among Muggles.
The Hog's Head Bar finally began a full-scale cooperation with 10 Downing Street, and at the same time, foreign countries began to send wizards over on a large scale.
But so what?
Voldemort was standing on the edge of a cliff at the top of a high mountain, and the valley below him was filled with the sound of spells and boulders crashing against each other.
Looking down from the top of the mountain, the fires used for lighting the valley are like stars in the sky, illuminating the entire valley.
Ant-like Death Eaters are at work in the valley.
Spells continued to shoot at the rocky mountain, and the huge rocks were peeled away from the mountain little by little, and then smashed to the ground with a loud "boom", stirring up a cloud of dust.
Then another group of Death Eaters walked up to the rocks, and in the light of the various colored enchantments, the different rocks formed legs, hands, and heads, turning into giant stone figures.
Eventually, the stone men, under the control of the third group of Death Eaters, walked to the bottom of the valley with steps that made the ground tremble, towards the end of the valley.
By this time, Voldemort had jumped from the cave and flew from one end of the valley to the other. As he flew over the valley, there was a wave of chanting "Dark Lord" from below.
Since the last air raid on Hogsmeade and the great success, the morale of the Death Eaters, who had swept away the previous decline, was high for a while. In their eyes, the next battle would crush Hogsmeade to dust. All they had to do now was to make as many weapons as they could, and after eradicating Hogsmeade and taking control of Hogwarts, they would sweep across the island of Great Britain from north to south.
As for the news in the Muggle world, they didn't know anything about it. Because almost all of the Death Eaters had been working overtime in this valley, protected by the Dark Lord's own magic, to prepare for the next battle for a long time, they had cut off all contact with the outside world in order not to reveal where they were. No one can leave this valley except the Dark Lord himself.
Soon, Voldemort found himself in a mountain cabin.
The cabin was originally a place for tourists to vacation, but it was abandoned after the bankruptcy of the resort company, and now Voldemort used it as a connecting point, and now there are people waiting for him.
"Master!" A young Death Eater wearing a hood salutes Voldemort.
"Faraniel." Voldemort said to the young Death Eater in front of him, "How's Snape doing?" ”
As Snape's most effective stopper, Faranir was arguably the one he had the most contact with among the Death Eaters.
Originally, Voldemort had never had the slightest doubt about Snape's loyalty.
But Snape himself was surrounded shortly after leaving that night, and the battle that night resulted in Bellatrix's death.
This forced Voldemort to seriously consider whether Snape was the traitor hidden in the depths of the Death Eaters.
As the leader of the younger generation of Death Eaters, Faranier has been favored by Voldemort and shows signs of raising him vigorously.
So, he asked Faranir to spy on Snape's every move in order to find possible flaws in Snape.
Snape wasn't the only one Voldemort suspected, Lucius Malfoy was on his list of suspicions.
In the same way, he also sent a person to spy on Lao Ma's side.
In addition to exchanging information with Zhang at Voldemort's behest, Draco Malfoy is also tasked with spying on his father.
Once the pony had completed his mission to assassinate Dumbledore, Voldemort began to train him. Therefore, Pony He was able to participate in the meeting of the core Death Eaters not because of his parents' light, but on the deliberate part of Voldemort, knowing that he is not the only young man in the second generation of Death Eaters.
When Voldemort learns that Pony has run away with his cousin in anger when he sends someone to deal with Muri who has failed in his mission, he is angry but still has no intention of killing Pony. After the old horse's pleas and Bellatrix's persuasion, he found a staircase and threw the pony to Azkaban and beat it.
As for leaking out the news about Mrs. Weasley's presence in Azkaban, Voldemort doesn't really care if the ponies did it. It was only a matter of time before Azkaban was discovered after the restart, but before he could set a trap there, Azkaban was breached.
What embarrassed Voldemort was that it seemed that the old horse was suspicious of the pony, so he found an excuse to throw the pony to the United States.
So, during the fourth siege of Hogsmeade, Snape and the old horse were arranged to go on other missions early.
As a result, without the participation of Snape and the old horse, the fourth battle to encircle Hogsmeade caught the opponents by surprise.
And the pawn that Karkaroff had planted back then – the Polish Death Eater Aza Javid – was not exposed before the battle began. His exposure afterwards was also the result of his own carelessness.
That way, Voldemort could be sure that there must be a traitor between Snape and Malfoy.
It's just that Snape has returned from his mission, and Malfoy has disappeared while on a reconnaissance mission.
After Malfoy's disappearance, Voldemort made a long and covert observation of his sister-in-law. Seeing that Narcissa had been smiling outside every day, and after returning home to wash her face with tears, he finally determined that the old horse was really alive and dead.
In Faranire's report, Snape doesn't look suspicious lately. But the suspicion brought about by Bellatrix's death has always hung over his mind, and he doesn't think that Zhang can find that temporary hiding place without the help of the inner ghost.
The most important thing is that there is not much time left for me now. Now that the wizarding world has been exposed, the Hog's Head Bar has begun to fully tilt to the side of Muggles. If he wanted to accomplish his goal of ruling Muggles as wizards, he would have to take out Hogsmeade and Hogwarts as quickly as possible, and then attack the Muggle government before it could react.
Lately, he had sensed that the pure-blood families who had rallied around him after eating Gringotts' flesh had shown a hint of wavering, and if they had a decisive victory in the short term, those wall grasses would inevitably cause all sorts of trouble.
For this decisive attack, Voldemort had made a great deal of preparation.
The last time he attacked Hogsmeade, the "Magically Powered Assault Golem Technique Complex" had worked so well that he had invested almost all of his manpower and material resources in crafting these mass killers.
The giants and werewolves he had been holding back from going out were now red-eyed, and the next time they were released, they would surely vent their pent-up desires with endless destruction.
"The most important thing is that I have become the master of the Elder Wand."
Behind the window of the wooden house where Voldemort was left alone after Faranier left, Voldemort looked out the dark window and sneered to himself.
After figuring out the Elder Wand's recognition mechanism, Voldemort used various means to find out that Zhang Xu was knocked down by several Death Eaters when they broke through in front of the gate of St. Mungo's Hospital. In the meditation basin, the wand in the hand of Zhang, who had changed his appearance, was still too easy to recognize.
So those Death Eaters were later mobilized by Voldemort under various pretexts and all of them were killed by him. See Chapter 584 for details
After that, Voldemort felt that the Elder Wand was a great use.
"So, in order for the operation to succeed in a few days, just in case, whether or not he betrayed me, it is better for Snape to die."
Voldemort made up his mind.