After settling the matter with Karkaroff, Zhang Xu and Percy left the pig's head bar together.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw Ron and Neville tearfully carrying a stretcher covered with white cloth from a house that served as a medical point to the temporary resting of the victims not far away, followed by Harley and the three girls.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xu was stunned for a moment, he turned to look at Percy beside him, and found that he was also looking at himself with a surprised face.

So Zhang Xu and Percy followed in unison.

At the end of Hogsmeade's main road, not far from the Hogsmeade Bar, two rows of stretchers covered with white cloth lined up neatly on the ground.

A grim-faced staff member walked over and whispered a few words to Ron, then he pointed to one of the rows of stretchers on the ground and motioned for Ron to put the stretcher there.

In this section of the street, there is only the whirring of the north wind and the occasional sobbing mixed with the sound of the wind.

Ron and Neville gently placed the stretcher in their hands in the row of Auror victims, and another member of the Ministry of Magic approached with a notepad and a quill pen.

They all know this staff member, Zhang Xu, and she is Gemma Farley, the female prefect of the Snake Courtyard in the same class as Percy.

When Gemmafari lifted the white cloth covering the victim's head, he cried out in surprise: "Canning! At the same time, the notepad and quill in her hand fell to the ground with a "click" at the same time.

At this time, Zhang Xu and Percy also recognized the victim.

George Canning, a former Hogwarts Snake student, also served as President of the Male Student Council in 1992-1993. In that basilisk-infested school year, it was he, together with Zhang Xu, Percy and others, who formed Hogwarts' first student self-defense force from scratch. In the final battle with the basilisk, he also brilliantly commanded the evacuation of the students in the castle. In addition, it was only with his efforts that the students of the Snake Academy changed their attitude of "they can't die anyway, they can't die as purebloods" and threw themselves into the fight against the basilisk together. After graduating, he joined the ranks of the Aurors along with many of his classmates who had participated in the Battle of the Basilisk.

"Bloodline is our glory, but it should not be a shackle to our old ways. Going back three thousand years, which of our families dares to claim that their ancestors must be shamans? Our bloodline should give us the motivation to be angry and strive for the peak, not a reason for us to be arrogant. ”

This was the view that George Canning had always adhered to, and it was his view that influenced many of the students of the Snake Academy, and made them put aside their prejudices and join forces with the students of other houses to fight the enemy.

It's just that the high-spirited student council president has now turned into a cold corpse, lying under a white cloth.

Percy walked over and patted Gemma Farley on the shoulder, softly comforting the old classmate who was covering his face and crying.

Today, this sad scene is repeated here, and the other staff members who are responsible for registering their identities and sorting out their remains just glance this way, sigh, and continue with the work at hand.

Zhang Xu looked around and saw an acquaintance sitting on the stone steps in front of a house not far away, so he walked over and sat down beside him.

Rejecting the cigarettes handed over by Bell, Zhang Xu took out two cans of beer, froze them and handed them one to Bell.

The two touched one, and after pouring a small half can of beer, they quietly looked at the victims in front of them.

Zhang Xu didn't know how many once-familiar people like George Canning would lie under the white cloth like the person in front of him, now and in the future.

Sometimes the dead are just a number, but for some people, the presence of the dead is a part of their lives that has been poached alive.

At this time, another person sat next to Zhang Xu.

Soon after, the smell of burning cigars wafted from the side.

"Is this what you want?" Horatio Rodney pointed to the deceased person in front of him with a cigar and asked Zhang Xu.

"If it were us, today there would be an artillery battery for fire support, two machine gun platoons on the flanks for fire support, and three infantry companies for a roundabout interspersed encirclement." Zhang Xu said calmly, "When Dumbledore and I made our plans, although we didn't say it explicitly, we had already taken your firepower advantage into account. So I don't understand, why do you still use the thin red line tactic when you have a way to reduce casualties? Maybe Saddam Hussein will be in command and he will be more optimistic than the current situation, at least he will use artillery and air force. ”

Old Rodney's throat moved a few times, trying to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh.

Having said that, there is no way to say any more. Old Rodney was silent for a long time, and after smoking the cigar in his hand, he got up and left.

Bell, who was sitting on the side, said at this time: "There are some things that we don't want to, but we can't. ”

Zhang Xu guessed half of the reason, but this is not something he can change.

So all Zhang Xu could do was sigh.

Not far away, Harley and the others found several acquaintances under the white cloth, and the hands and feet of the group were already shaking.

This is the reality they have to face, and today Zhang Xu brought them here in order to let them understand what the next battle will be.

The era of disarming spells, petrification spells, and stun spells is over, and what they will face next will be a bloody and cruel world.

If Harley doesn't make it through, then Zhang Xu will have to give her to the remaining Dementors.

After drinking the beer in his hand, Zhang Xu stood up and walked towards the outside of Hogsmeade Village.

The bodies of the Death Eaters killed today have been collected and lined up in a neat space outside the village.

The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic and Percy and members of their "Rainbow Squad" are recording the traits of the dead Death Eaters before passing them on to the International Aurors to determine the identity of the Dark Wizards from various European countries.

After taking a walk around Hogmodri, Zhang Xu took Halle and the others back to Hogwarts, and then returned to the Rockwell Hotel in Edinburgh without dinner.

After returning to the room, Zhang Xu wrote a detailed report on today's experience, which was encrypted, packaged, and re-encrypted and sent back to China.

After all this, Zhang Xu took a hot shower and didn't want to move when he lay on the bed.

His head had been swollen since the afternoon, and now he needed to get some sleep after he had eaten enough to recuperate.