Chapter 627: Snowball
Harry, who was eating breakfast in the cafeteria, was taken away by Scrimgeour and Professor McGonagall, along with Lupin and Blake, and soon after that was called away, Zhang Xu, Neville, and Daphne.
In the principal's office, Zhang Xu and the others, in addition to seeing the few people who had left the cafeteria before, there was also an old woman they didn't know.
Professor McGonagall first ordered Neville and Daphne to immediately organize the students to strengthen the security of the school, and if necessary, immediately organize the evacuation of the students according to the plan.
The two student union presidents, who had only been in office for a month, did not dare to slack off and immediately left the principal's office to arrange work.
On the other side, Scrimgeour looked at Zhang Xu for a minute, then handed him a parchment note.
Zhang Xu grinned after reading the note, and then walked towards the fireplace, preparing to leave through the Floo Net. That's when he heard Professor McGonagall ask Harry, Lupin, and Black if James Potter had any other brothers who looked alike of him. And when they went back to 1968 a while ago, did he the relationship between men and women.
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When he heard the second question, Zhang stumbled and fell on the fire in the fireplace.
Although Zhang wanted to stay and listen to the gossip, he still understood the reason that the military situation was urgent and could not be delayed, so he could only leave in a hurry before the Floo Powder expired.
As soon as Zhang Xu left, Cedric came out of the fireplace, and at the same time he held several bags containing documents in his hands.
Coming to his desk, he took out a photograph from his bag and handed it to the old lady in the office, and he said, "Mrs. Feige, this is the picture of the child." β
"It's too similar!" Harry's neighbors, Mrs. Feige, who watched him grow from childhood to adulthood, exclaimed in surprise, "Except that he doesn't have that scar, he doesn't wear glasses, and he doesn't look so thin, he looks exactly like Harry when he was nine years old." β
Harry also saw the picture and realized that Mrs. Figg was right.
The crowd looked at Cedric, who pulled out a stack of papers from his bag and read, "Daniel Radcliffe, born in London on July 23, 1989. His father, Alan Radcliffe, was a native of Northern Ireland and worked as a literary agent. Mother Marcia Radcliffe was Jewish. Was a BBC caster......"
Five minutes later, everyone in the Headmaster's office came to the final conclusion: the hapless boy simply looked exactly like Harry.
At the top of a mountain in the southern mountains of Peak District National Park, Walton McNeill stands on the cross branch of a large tree, peering through the snow on the treetops to observe the surroundings of the forest lodge below.
According to the intelligence, the hostess of the inn is a "mudblood" who has just graduated from Hogwarts a few years ago, and belongs to one of the targets that must be clear in this operation.
When the team in charge of the hotel launched an attack on the hotel, they not only stepped into the ambush circle, but also found Harry Potter, who was suspected of being disguised as a child, preparing to escape.
As the person in charge of this area, Walton McNeill immediately mobilized his surrounding forces to attack the hotel after receiving the news, trying to capture the suspected Harry Potter who was trapped in the hotel.
McNeil's position among the Death Eaters is delicate, belonging to the fringes of the core.
Although he had been a trusted Death Eater by Voldemort in the seventies, he had returned from the sugar cane farm several years later than Lucius Malfoy and the others due to his laziness and attempted to escape from prison. So much so that when he returned to England, he found that the entire magical society had forgotten about him. The wife went to the United States with all his possessions and little white face, and even the Ministry of Magic forgot that there was such a Death Eater who had not yet been tried.
If Malfoy hadn't been in time for a bag of Galleons, he might have been arrested for robbery or theft.
After returning to Voldemort's side this time, he found that he had not been taken seriously by the Dark Lord. When the meeting was in the background, there were almost no actions involved, and the only time I went to the Department of Mysteries to steal a fake prophecy ball.
This time, he managed to get an errand by holding Malfoy's thigh, and when a one-ton medal worth a merit could fall on his head, he decided to use all his strength to seize the opportunity.
As for whether the person in the hotel was Harry Potter or not, he was not sure, but for him, as long as there was half a chance, he had to seize it with twelve percent of his strength. Otherwise, if he continues to be on the margins, his central position among the Death Eaters will definitely not be guaranteed, and he may eventually be reduced to cannon fodder.
Moreover, even if that child is not Harry Potter after makeup and shrunken makeup, as long as he puts his body in front of the Dark Lord, his guilt can be reduced by three layers.
Now, there are more and more Aurors around the hotel, and correspondingly, McNeil is collecting the remaining strength in his hands while asking for help from Malfoy and others around him.
McNeill jumped off the tree, and the Death Eaters, who had failed in their previous attack, retreated. The Death Eaters who were able to come back were not in good shape, and almost all of them were more or less wounded.
After the first two failed attempts, he began to send his team to launch tentative attacks on the inn in an attempt to find holes in the opposing defenses.
Just as McNeil was directing the Death Eaters to launch another tentative assault on the inn, he sent several pairs of Death Eaters to infiltrate the surrounding hills, trying to reconnoiter for the siege of the Aurors and preparing to deploy a large anti-illusion of shapeshifting magic.
However, McNeil still has his own selfish intentions, and he does not tell anyone else, including his thigh Malfoy and his master, the Dark Lord, that something suspicious of Harry Potter has been found here, because he is afraid that someone else will take credit for him. So when he asked for help, he only said that there was a target that the Aurors were closely protecting and needed reinforcements.
In the London Ministry of Magic, Voldemort, who was sitting in the minister's office, also received McNeil's report.
Today's action can be said to have been planned for a long time, because his concept of pure blood supremacy makes it necessary for him to implement this concept with practical actions. And crippling the elves and then striking Muggle-born wizards, breaking their wands, and stripping them of their spell-casting powers is the core of today's operation.
It's just that the start is not good, and his opponents seem to have been prepared, and almost all of the targets are surrounded by hunters with open traps, waiting for the prey to come to the door by itself.
In such a situation, McNeil seems to have encountered a very important target, perhaps an important person, or an important node in the national defense system. But whatever it is, the more the enemy has to defend, the more we have to fight down. So Voldemort ordered his elite forces to be sent to reinforce McNeil, and he commanded the operation.
The Aurors also strengthened their forces here, but at first they were puzzled by the Death Eaters' assault on the obscure inn. When Franklombarton, who rushed to reinforce him, saw the "catalyst" of this battle, he himself was not calm. He had to gather the Aurors and report back to the leaders about the situation. Scrimgeour was stunned when he received the report, he suspected that it was most likely one of Dumbledore's plans before his death, so he got up and planned to go directly to Hogwarts to find out the situation.
Regardless of the truth, in such a situation, as long as one of the two sides thinks that this little guy may be Harry Potter, then they are bound to strengthen the power here. In this way, the other party will also call someone to help when they see the situation. As a result, the forces of both sides formed a snowball here in a short period of time.
Scrimgeour was about to leave the Hogwarts for Hogwarts when he suddenly smelled something unusual, so he ordered a series of reinforcements and requests before leaving for Hogwarts.
Soon, the forces of the Northern Ministry of Magic began to mobilize, including a team that made its debut in front of the world.