Hogwarts: Oops, I'm Voldemort - Chapter 190
c190 A mere grain of sand is not even half as good as me
“Wait!”
A wizard with a hideous scar on his face walked towards Cyrus with several people.
His goal was clear, and it was obvious that he was coming for Cyrus.
Graves frowned on his serious face, turned around and looked at the newcomer, and turned his body slightly towards Cyrus, protecting Cyrus behind him.
“What do you want to do, O’Brien?” Graves’ voice was filled with anger, as if he didn’t expect the other party to appear here and attack Cyrus.
“Of course I want to see if the so-called successor is worthy of the name.” O’Brien had a gloomy face, and behind him were all wizards who were dissatisfied with Cyrus’s appointment as Ilvermorny.
In fact, these few people are just the tip of the iceberg. Looking at the entire Magic Congress, there are many people who have opinions on this matter. However, due to the “death” of Nurmengard and Grindelwald, and Bella’s involvement, the focus of the Magic Congress has not been on Cyrus during this period, and O’Brien obviously knew that Cyrus would come to the Magic Congress, so he had been waiting here in advance.
“What do you mean?”
Graves was not very happy, and of course he understood what O’Brien meant.
Cyrus looked young. Although he was the heir of Slytherin, he was a young boy who came out of nowhere. How could people accept that he became the principal of Ilvermorny inexplicably?
More importantly, Cyrus was a person from the UK.
If a wizard from any magic regime in North America took the position of principal, I’m sure those people in the Congress would not be so excited. After all, Ilvermorny was originally a school in North America. The little wizards of the three magic regimes grew up together and could be said to be close.
But what about Cyrus?
A British wizard, even if he is orthodox in terms of blood, is still an outsider.
Not to mention O’Brien, even Graves himself actually had doubts about Cyrus. The United States is different from the United Kingdom. The wizards here don’t care so much about bloodline, because if you really want to trace it back, almost all the wizards in North America come from Europe.
From this point of view, Cyrus’s identity as a descendant of Slytherin is actually not important, and it can even be said to be a debuff.
“The person who made this decision is Professor Booth.” Graves said firmly. He took a step forward and blocked O’Brien like a wall. The two people’s sight collided, and their eyes seemed to jump out of sparks!
“You should know that this is not the time to talk about this!” Graves gritted his teeth.
For him, the exchange of the headmaster of Ilvermorny is far less important than Grindelwald’s matter. Half a century ago, Grindelwald disguised himself as his ancestor and lurked in the Magic Congress. This incident brought shame to his family. From that time on, the shame has been nailed to this surname!
Now, Grindelwald is suspected of escaping from Nurmengard by faking his death. He proved his family’s name!
For this reason, Graves did not hesitate to bring out Boot, trying to use the identity of the old headmaster to suppress O’Brien.
Boot has a lot of say in North America. After all, he is an old headmaster who has been watching the young wizards in the school grow up for so many years. Now almost three-quarters of the administrative staff in the Magic Congress are his students, and the remaining quarter are his peers.
Graves and O’Brien are also students of Boot.
O’Brien was indeed moved for a moment, but he quickly put this emotion aside, so fast that his expression hardly changed at all.
“Even if the professor agrees, we will not agree!” O’Brien said stiffly, “Not all of the four founders of Ilvermorny are from the UK, not to mention that even Esther Sayer broke off his relationship with Slytherin and fled to North America.
“What really makes Ilvermorny great is never the bloodline of Slytherin, but every wizard who has walked out of Ilvermorny in the past three hundred years! They are the ones who are fighting against the Purgers and Grindelwald with their lives! Not Slytherin! ”
O’Brien’s voice became louder and louder. After each sentence, he took a step towards Graves until he was almost close to Graves. His expression was stiff, the muscles on his face were tightly stretched, and the hideous scar was like a twisting centipede!
Graves seemed to have forgotten how to speak. His brown eyes looked at O’Brien in astonishment. He didn’t expect O’Brien to be so tough. At this moment, the only thing he remembered was to draw out the wand to prevent Cyrus from clashing with O’Brien.
But O’Brien was faster than him. At that moment, the rough hands grabbed Graves’s hand before Graves pulled out his wand, and the two of them were in a stalemate. The air seemed to be frozen for a few seconds.
Catherine’s eyes widened, her bright mouth opened, her hands clenched and then opened again, as if she wanted to do something to prevent Graves and O’Brien from really fighting, but she didn’t have the courage to move forward.
As for Cyrus, his face was calm, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and his red-gold eyes saw everything, as if he was just an outsider.
“Humph!”
After a moment, O’Brien exhaled heavily, then pushed Graves away with force and came to Cyrus.
Cyrus raised his chin, looking relaxed, even contemptuous, with a smile on his face, as if waiting for O’Brien’s next move.
O’Brien is very tall.
Cyrus is over 1.8 meters tall, about the same height as Dumbledore, but O’Brien is almost half a head taller than Cyrus. His body bulged under his windbreaker, as strong as an orangutan!
This comparison made Catherine, who was standing aside and a little overwhelmed, a little worried that the well-proportioned Cyrus might be hit in the head by O’Brien’s fist!
Of course, if O’Brien was really stupid enough to use his fists to deal with Cyrus, O’Brien’s hand would definitely be broken first.
But O’Brien didn’t do that.
He said half-threateningly: “The snakewood wand does belong to Slytherin, you can take it away. But Ilvermorny has nothing to do with Slytherin! I hope you will step down from the position of headmaster immediately, return it to Mr. Boot, and then leave the United States. Otherwise, I will arrest you according to the law!”
He used both force and kindness, and even promised to let Cyrus take the snakewood wand away. Those who didn’t know would think he was a good person!
But in fact, the snakewood wand did not belong to him or Ilvermorny. It was the wand stolen by Isolt. Now it was a matter of course to return it to Cyrus. In O’Brien’s mouth, it became his generous charity.
It was simply funny!
Cyrus did laugh. He lowered his head, as if he had heard an interesting joke, and his shoulders shrugged.
This attitude obviously annoyed O’Brien and the wizards who came with him. They were very annoyed on their faces, and they wanted to poke the wand into Cyrus’ eyes immediately!
“O’Brien, why bother talking to such a guy! He’s just a brat!”
“That’s right, I think not only should he give up his position as headmaster, but he should also not be allowed to take his wand with him! Although the snakewood wand originally belonged to Slytherin, it has been branded with the mark of Ilvermorny for three hundred years, so it is naturally Ilvermorny’s property!”
“And he doesn’t even have a wand license, so it’s reasonable to arrest him as a criminal.” The wizard said, even taking out his wand and pointing it at Cyrus!
The next moment, a red light pierced into the eyes of every wizard who stopped to watch.
The red spell streaked across the hall of the Magic Congress like a meteor, hitting the back of the wizard who pointed his wand at Cyrus!
“Fainted!”
The clear and angry voice kept echoing in the hall of the Congress, attracting everyone’s attention.
O’Brien didn’t expect that his partner would be knocked down from behind. He looked back hastily and saw a beautiful black-haired witch approaching with a wand in anger.
She raised her chin and raised her wand above her head, like a venomous snake that stood up after staring at its prey!
“How dare you!” Bella’s eyes seemed to be filled with blood!
Those bug-like things dared to raise their wands to their masters? With them, they actually tried to challenge the dignity of the Dark Lord?
She seemed to have turned back into the crazy Bella, and at this moment she just wanted to chop off the heads of these disrespectful people one by one, and then hang them all on the gate of the Magic Congress like house elves!
But she didn’t do it, and didn’t even recognize Cyrus.
“How dare you commit murder in the Magic Congress?” Bella didn’t get angry, because she knew that she couldn’t ruin Cyrus’ plan because of her emotions. Now is not the time for her to reveal her identity.
So after she approached, she took the lead in blaming the other party before O’Brien.
This made O’Brien, who was originally going to hold Bella accountable, lose the opportunity to speak. The big guy paused for a moment, and then said: “I just arrested a criminal without a license according to the law.”
“Sorry, I think one of the reasons why Mr. Cyrus came to the Magic Congress is to apply for a certificate.” Bella stared at him and asked aggressively, “I’m afraid the license is just a lie of yours. The real purpose is to deliberately make things difficult, right?”
“This matter has nothing to do with you.” O’Brien did not give in at all.
His identity is here, even in the Magic Congress, his status is very high. O’Brien is also one of the twelve Aurors. In fact, he can be said to be one of the founders of the Magic Congress and a founding hero!
Although Bella’s identity at the moment is an important member of the Magic Congress, it is not as noble as O’Brien after all.
“Get out of the way!”
Bella seemed to want to say something, but Cyrus reached out and pressed her shoulder.
“Thank you for your help, beautiful lady, but let me solve it myself.”
Cyrus did not point out Bella’s identity. He walked in front of O’Brien, as if he was looking at a giant ant. Even the questions he asked were so contemptuous, as if he never took O’Brien seriously.
“Who are you?”
“O’Brien! Don’t you understand when you hear this surname? Just based on you–uh–” It was not O’Brien himself who answered Cyrus, but a wizard behind him. However, before he finished speaking, his mouth seemed to be glued by super glue and could not be torn apart!
Cyrus did not even look at the wizard, but just said with a little annoyance: “I’m not talking to you, sir, you are so rude.”
He only gave a small warning, but O’Brien’s eyes widened.
Because he was standing right in front of Cyrus, he could see every move of Cyrus clearly. But the young wizard neither uttered a spell nor waved his wand, nor even waved a gesture, but just cast a curse over him!
He took a step back warily, picked up his wand and pointed it at the wizard whose mouth was glued together:
“The curse stops immediately!”
A ray of golden light shot out, and in an instant, the wizard’s mouth seemed to be violently torn open from two different directions by someone. The fragile lip skin was torn, and the mouth was filled with shocking blood!
The wizard was so painful that his eyes almost dropped. He covered his mouth with both hands and allowed blood to flow from his fingertips.
O’Brien was an Auror after all, so he was not frightened by this scene. However, he did not expect that his attempt to break the curse had no effect. Even after the wizard’s mouth was forcibly torn open, he was immediately struck by the power of magic. combine together.
The bloody flesh touched each other, as if his upper and lower lips were one in themselves.
In addition to being annoyed at not being able to break Cyrus’s spell, O’Brien was actually surprised! He never thought that Cyrus would dare to take action!
“You dare attack an Auror?!”
Behind Cyrus, Kathleen also reached out and tugged on his sleeve with an anxious look on her face.
“You’re crazy, don’t piss him off! O’Brien is the most powerful among the Aurors! No dark wizard has ever escaped from him!” She looked worried and wanted to persuade Cyrus to bow his head and admit his mistake, but How could Cyrus lower his head?
“It’s you who are causing trouble for me, sir.” Cyrus said a little unhappy.
What he hates most is people who want to do bad things, but end up beating them up.
“Don’t you think it’s unreasonable, Mr. O’Brien? The former headmaster of Ilvermorny agreed for me to take over. The students and professors in the school are also willing to accept me, thinking that I can lead them to glory. Even the school itself recognizes it. My magic. But you—”
Cyrus squinted his eyes, as if he was looking at a bug emerging from an unknown gap.
“Who are you?”
“What right do you have to question me?”
O’Brien immediately blushed and felt humiliated.
“The last name you are so proud of is nothing in front of me.” Cyrus’ words were very soft, but they could reach the ears of everyone in the Magic Congress. There are more and more people here, and it seems like all the wizards in the building have gathered here.
Those clear words were like a blade piercing O’Brien’s fragile self-esteem!
Then, Cyrus changed his words and suddenly laughed: “I’ll give you a chance.”
He handed the wand in his hand to Bella, spread his hands, seemed to stand in front of O’Brien without any defense, and said generously:
“You can come together. As for me, since I don’t have wand permission, I can go empty-handed.”
“Arrogant!” O’Brien was overwhelmed with anger. In his opinion, Cyrus was simply a fanatic! Not only did he attack the Ministry of Magic Auror, but he also humiliated him!
This guy even put down his wand at this moment. What is the difference between this and being killed?
O’Brien won’t miss this opportunity!
He wants Cyrus, the man who humiliated him, to pay with his life!
But O’Brien’s heart is much more cautious than his appearance. He has not forgotten how Cyrus unknowingly cast a curse in front of his eyes. O’Brien has no confidence that he can win on his own.
So he raised his wand high and pointed it at the dome of the ceiling, attracting everyone’s attention.
“Everyone!” O’Brien’s eyes were bloodshot, “This man despises the Magic Congress and attacks Aurors in the Magic Congress. Let’s take him down together!”
As he spoke, the wand he held high fell down, and the tip of the wand glowed red. Behind him, the Aurors who were traveling with him also raised their wands.
At the same time, many people stood out from the bustling crowd.
Some of them were trying to curry favor with the O’Brien family, and some were people who were originally dissatisfied with Cyrus becoming the headmaster of Ilvermorny. Now that O’Brien is taking the lead, those dissatisfactions have turned into concrete actions, and they have become glowing wands!
Both Kathleen and Graves were a little panicked, and the former wanted to pull Cyrus out of here, but Bella had absolute confidence in Cyrus.
She laughed contemptuously, then grabbed Kathleen and Graves and pulled them away from Cyrus.
“What are you doing? He’s going to be killed!”
Katherine watched in horror as the magic spells condensed on the tip of the wand, and the lights were like stars!
But Cyrus just stood there and did nothing.
If he is hit by dozens of spells at once, even if it is just a stun spell, the shock wave generated is enough to put a person in danger!
“Shut up and just watch!” Bella yelled.
The next moment, her voice was drowned out by a spell.
“Collapse!”
Dozens of sounds are added together, like a huge wave!
“boom!”
Cyrus’ figure disappeared in the red light.
Katherine and Graves were almost blinded by the spell’s light. The light pierced into their pupils and instantly took away everyone’s sight.
The hall of Magical Congress suddenly fell into dead silence.
“Is he dead?”
It was unknown how long it took before Catherine opened her eyes.
In front of her, a tall figure stood.
Cyrus patted his sleeves and laughed contemptuously:
“That’s it?”
“Just a grain of sand, not even half as good as me!”