Chapter 199: Encircling and Suppressing Dementors (Part I)
In the last few classes before Christmas, Lockhart casually gave the students some book knowledge, and then hurriedly ushered in the holidays. And the holiday, I didn't enjoy it for a few days, and I ushered in a big event-
This is one of the largest combat operations in wizarding history, and the largest number of wizards in a single country. In the war to exterminate the elves, the entire wizarding world participated, facing the elves whose single strength far surpassed that of wizards, as well as the elves' other intelligent creatures allies, humans relied on the newly invented magic wand and numerical superiority, and through a lightning sneak attack, won the war, and the suppression of the elven uprising was also attended by wizards from several countries.
This time, however, Britain was the last country in Europe to declare the Dementors exterminated, as the previous Minister of Magic accepted the surrender of the Dementors and assigned them to guard Azkaban. Now, this batch of hapless wizards is going to pay for that guy's mistake.
The most interesting thing, however, is that most of the wizards involved in this operation still considered it a drill until the battle began. Why did the drill be scheduled in the evening, this was the most dissatisfied part of the hearts of most of the people present, and people gathered together to discuss and complain to each other.
Lockhart reluctantly hangs out with several members of the Order of the Phoenix, all of whom are the Aurors, the head of the Department of Magical Execution, Scrimge, and the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who are among the few people in the Ministry of Magic who know the truth about the event.
"Why do you want to hunt down the Dementors at night?" said Lockhart, who had been on holiday on this cold winter night, and who could carry some young and beautiful little witch under the covers to do what he loved to do, was told to gather here. "Aren't Dementors nocturnal creatures? ”
"Be quiet!" Moody snarled under his breath, "It's just a common sense mistake that Dementors are nocturnal creatures, but it's the same for them day and night, they don't rely entirely on sight to hunt. ”
"Then why do we act at night?" Tonks interjected in confusion, "Day and night are still a little different for us wizards, after all, except for the Aurors, no one in the other departments is trained in night combat. ”
"Wizards can turn night into day with the power of magic!" Moody glanced at Tonks with disdain, "but there's no way to use the power of magic to make Death Eaters let their guard down or sleep during the day, understand?"
"Have you talked enough?" Louise Mountbatten interjected angrily, "can you respect Mr. Minister, who is speaking on stage?"
"Okay, stop talking. Moody nodded.
"Are you nervous, Gildero, something to eat?" said Fat Joe, handing over something in a friendly manner.
Lockhart waved his hand impatiently: "Nervous, Dumbledore will also be there, let's listen to the minister's speech first." ”
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"I'm sure after a lot of drills, everyone already knows how to deal with the Dementors, so I won't talk nonsense now. Cornelius Fudge sweated profusely in front of hundreds of wizards and magically displayed a map, "The location of today's event, in the valley marked on the map, everyone will apparilate into the field, watch the signal and start moving. ”
The wizards in the audience were still whispering, but the next sentence of the Minister of Magic immediately made the audience silent: "Now, the operation begins, this time it is not a drill, repeat, this time it is not a drill!"
After a moment of silence, the wizards on the field began to stir up like a pot, but under the pressure of the heads of various departments, everyone was not allowed to talk nonsense, and under the unified arrangement, the departments were the units, and the phantoms were neatly apparitioned to the gathering place of the dementors.
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The forest on a winter night was dead silent, with a thin layer of snow on the ground, the moon in the sky obscured by clouds, and surrounded by conifers as thick as the pillars of the Parthenon. The unusual weather forced the animals to start hibernation weeks early, and now, there is no movement except for the sound of cold winds and snow crushing branches.
But this tranquility was shattered in an instant. After a continuous crackling sound, dozens of wizard apparitions moved here, some of them were rarely apparitions, stumbling and almost bumping into others, and some of them held on to the trees to stand firm. Under the command of the chief, the wizards began to form a team, ready to cast a super-sized spell.
The same was true in every corner of the forest, where a large number of wizards had apparitions into the forest, surrounding an inaccessible valley.
In this operation, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement dispatched more than 100 strikers and more than 40 Aurors to deal with possible Death Eaters and Mysteries, the Department of Accidents and Disasters dispatched dozens of staff to clean up the battlefield and erase the memories of Muggles within a radius of dozens of miles, and the Magical Creatures Management Division dispatched the largest number of people, more than 200 wizards, all of whom were fully armed. Professionals who have been trained to use the Patronus Charm and know how to kill and injure the Dementors in the most numerous, and the Department of Transportation and other departments have dispatched nearly a hundred wizards to handle some of the larger spells to keep the Dementors from escaping.
There was no doubt that the moment the Minister of Magic announced that this operation was not a drill, some moles informed the Death Eaters, but it was to no avail: most of the Death Eaters had fallen asleep by this time, and after all the wizards of the Ministry of Magic had apparitions in a minute, the Ministry of Magic had cut off the network of Floo paths in this large area, and the large spatial solidification and confusion charms that the Aurors had planted around them were immediately activated.
In an instant, the entire valley was shrouded in a thin layer of magical enchantment; then, a large group of wizards joined forces to release a super-large fluorescent spell, and launched a ball of light into the sky above the valley, after several consecutive spells, the entire valley was illuminated as bright as day by several small suns in the sky; finally, a huge "M" symbol, the Ministry of Magic mark, appeared in the sky above the valley, and was cast by several wizards, which was even larger than the black magic mark that appeared in the World Cup, occupying a small piece of the sky. Declared that this was a large-scale Ministry of Magic case, and demanded that unrelated wizards and intelligent beings stay away immediately.
A powerful masked wizard, suspended in mid-air, casts a massive range patronus spell that hangs over the entire valley. Any Dementor who tries to fly away will have their speed limited by the Space Solidification Charm, and then have to go through a layer of Patronus Charm to burn it.
"Why is Dumbledore masked?" Lockhart and a group of Auror apparitions disfigured into the forest, "A fool can guess it's him." ”
With no one answering Lockhart's doubts, Gadwin Robaz, the current head of the Auror Division, began to command the Aurors and assign tasks.
"One team east, two teams south, three teams west, and four teams north!" Gadwin Robaz shouted, "everyone's main goal is to stop the Dementors who want to escape, kill the Death Eaters immediately, and signal immediately if the mystery man appears!"
"Yes!"
PS: I'm really beeping what the hell is.,It's hard to be able to climb to the top with a fantasy click.,Two books were airborne.,I can only ask for a recommendation vote to comfort me......