Chapter 222: The Price of Prophecy
With the addition of fresh blood, the Order of the Phoenix is more powerful than ever, and Voldemort is greatly annoyed by its repeated actions to sabotage the Death Eaters.
The Ministry's rhetoric has gradually changed, and they used to be forced by Voldemort's power to hype up the legitimacy of pure-blood wizards, but now thanks to the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix, the Death Eaters have relented slightly, and they have begun to advertise that real wizards don't need proof of blood.
Someone asked Dumbledore why he didn't let their sparring hood man go against Voldemort? Dumbledore replied meaningfully, "True courage comes from within oneself, not from the security of another's majestic body." Moreover, your practical professors have no intention of engaging in these petty battles. ”
In fact, Li Huan hadn't considered defeating Voldemort since he didn't recognize the ancient group magic he had unleashed.
UU is not a serious student, a wizard who only focuses on immortality and dark magic is not really powerful.
Time flies, James Potter and Lily Evans get married, and Li Huan also goes to their wedding banquet, only to be dissuaded by the unpalatable slug rolls.
That night, Li Huan passed by the pig's head bar, planning to ask the bearded boss to help him get some top-quality ingredients, and the Welsh blue dragon meat last time was very chewy.
As soon as he entered, he saw that the room had fallen into a gloomy darkness, and the diners inside had stopped talking and focused on a certain table.
There was a woman in a shabby shawl, thick glasses under a wine bottle, the whites of her eyes turned up, and her whole body trembled slightly.
She made a hoarse voice, and muttered:
"The man with the power to conquer the Dark Lord approached...... Born into a family that defeated the Dark Lord three times...... Born at the end of the seventh month...... The Dark Lord has labeled him as a fierce enemy, but he has an energy that the Dark Lord does not understand...... One must die at the hands of the other, because neither can both live, only one survives...... The one who has the power to conquer the Dark Lord will be born at the end of the seventh month......"
Next to him was a frowning Dumbledore, as if pondering the meaning of this prophecy.
"Hey, Albus, are you interviewing a professor of divination?" Li Huan knew who she was when she saw this witch at the bottom of the bottle.
"Huh? Yes. Dumbledore came back to his senses and said, "Congratulations, Professor Sybil, you will be Professor of Divination at Hogwarts next year." ”
"Thank you...... Thank you. Sybil Trelawney was so excited that she couldn't speak, although she didn't remember what she had predicted after she quit the Shinto state just now, but as long as she passed the interview, she didn't care what she said.
An excited Sybil stays at the Pig's Head Bar, where the house-elf takes her into the room.
Dumbledore followed Li Huan, who had placed the purchase order, to the "Muggle Grocery Store".
As soon as he entered, he asked, "Lee, you heard the prophecy just now, who do you think the boy who can defeat Voldemort will be?" ”
Li Huan thought about it, the family that had defeated the Black Lord three times, which one was this? Who did Voldemort never lose?
"I have a bit ......of a clue about this," Dumbledore said, "Both the Potters and the Longbottoms have escaped Voldemort's death three times, and of course your training has helped them a lot. ”
"What? Survive the dead? Li Huan was taken aback, could this be "if you can't beat me, even if you lose"?
It's a powerful logic.
"If you want to say that, I think the Albus family is also counted, after all, you have already defeated one, a third more than anyone else." Li Huan said.
"Do you think I'll be able to have children?" Dumbledore said speechlessly.
"Oh, that's true, you can't do that." Li Huan nodded.
Dumbledore didn't care about the strange meaning of his words, and continued, "To be on the safe side, we need to protect the Potters and Longbottom. ”
This meaning was also passed down to the other members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Due to the prosperity of the Longbottom family, there is basically no need to worry about the safety of the Longbottoms; Although the Potter family is also pure-blooded, there is not much left in the family, so the members of the Order of the Phoenix find a way to hide them.
Somewhere in the wizarding world, Voldemort listened to his whistleblower tell Sybil Trelawney's prophecy with a somber face. A cruel smile appeared on his face, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Good. We've done so little over the years, and the Order of the Phoenix and the Aurors are getting less and less interested in us, and now even the ones who dare to kill me are about to be born......"
Voldemort personally planned a terrorist attack in order to remind people of his ten-year peak, first destroying the Aurors' headquarters and then assassinating the families of nineteen members of the Ministry of Magic.
For a while, everyone in the wizarding world panicked.
The Ministry of Magic urgently summoned Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix to ask him what he should do.
Dumbledore hesitated, believing in prophecy that Voldemort's destined nemesis would be born at the end of July.
But he didn't know who the boy was, Longbottom or Potter.
Li Huan reminded him that the Potter family was more rebellious, and maybe the children born would inherit this, and he also reminded Jaime that Peter Pettigrew was a coward.
But tragedy struck, and the Longbottoms were taken by Death Eaters at their family's gathering place and tortured for a long time.
Harry Potter still had a lightning-bolt mark on his forehead.
Voldemort, on the other hand, was defeated, lost his physical body, and lost his legend as the Dark Lord, becoming a mysterious but dead man in people's mouths.
Dumbledore was very remorseful, and he asked Li Huan, "If I had asked you to help protect them in the morning, would they not have suffered this?" ”
Li Huan shook his head: "It's not that simple. The Longbottom family gathering place won't let me in; I'm just immune to magic, and Voldemort has a way to stop me if he's smart. I think you might as well review divination and prophecy, that thing is really useless, I've read several ancient divination books, and it's all nonsense. ”
No one asked why Li Huan didn't make a move to defeat Voldemort.
They didn't believe that Li Huan was stronger than Dumbledore, and of course they wouldn't ask him to deal with Voldemort; Before Voldemort's lightning raid on the Aurors, Longbottom, and Potter, the wizarding world was gradually overpowering the Dark Lord, and they didn't need a sudden hero to interrupt the process.
Voldemort has been in the wizarding world for decades, and there are so many tragedies that Longbottom and the Potters don't deserve much grief from people, and people are more celebrating the fall of another Dark Lord.
This is not a children's book after all, but a harsh reality.