New Professor at Hogwarts - Chapter 265

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Harry is one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, and there is a fragment of Voldemort’s soul in his body. If he wants to save Harry’s life and destroy that fragment of soul, then Voldemort can only do it himself.

Only Voldemort himself can destroy the Horcrux fragments he inadvertently created without harming Harry himself.

If Xia Ran and the others were to come, they would certainly be able to eliminate the fragments of Voldemort’s soul, but Harry would also be killed by them at the same time.

This is something Xia Ran and the others don’t want to see.

Thinking about the plan that had been agreed upon for several months, Xia Ran sighed leisurely, hoping that Harry could hold on.

“Alas.” Bill also sighed, “Gringotts is almost in chaos, and those goblins are even more yearning for the promise given to them by the mysterious man to give them freedom! Now the relationship with us curse breakers has begun to gradually deteriorate.”

“Yes, there was almost a conflict the day before yesterday. Fortunately, both parties tolerated it in the end.” Fleur said. She and Bill also worked at Gringotts.

Mr. Weasley warned: “You must be careful. The situation is deteriorating. Those goblins may riot at any time. You are in the most danger when you work in Gringotts.”

Bill and Fleur nodded.

Xia Ran looked at Lu Ping and asked, “How are you now?”

Lupine looked more haggard than before, and his clothes were full of patches. He was among the werewolves, and his life was much worse than that of others.

Tonks stared at Lupin with her big eyes, concern evident in her words.

Lupine coughed unnaturally and deliberately ignored Tonks’ concern and said: “It’s okay, I can always accept it. There are some dangers, but it’s okay and it won’t endanger my life.”

“But I see that you are looking very haggard.” Tonks said anxiously, “How about I go apply to Dumbledore, but don’t…”

“Don’t be like this, Tonks!” Lupine said with a bitter smile, “I volunteered for this job. I hope to do something for the Order of the Phoenix. As for the lurking werewolf group, except for me, no one else can complete this task. ”

Harry and the others finally understood why Professor Lupine had experienced so many vicissitudes after not seeing each other for a while.

They all knew that Professor Lupine didn’t like his werewolf identity.

They couldn’t help but feel a little resentful towards Dumbledore.

“You’d better not write to me. It’s almost impossible to receive letters where I live, let alone write. It’s easy to expose myself.” Lu Ping said.

Talking about the current situation and personal tasks, the atmosphere in the kitchen suddenly became heavy and depressing.

The entire magical world now has such an atmosphere.

Fred and George took Harry and Ron upstairs to get some fireworks they made themselves, and they exploded in the kitchen, colorful and crackling, finally giving them a bit of a festive atmosphere.

Everyone deliberately forgot about other things and enjoyed the tranquility and peace of this moment.

…

After Christmas and New Year, Harry and others took the train back to Hogwarts to go to school, only to find that there were not as many students returning as those who left before the holiday.

Many children from wizarding families are no longer allowed to leave their families and go all the way to Hogwarts.

The atmosphere inside the train also seemed dull, and no one seemed to be in the mood for fun.

“Have you heard that Hufflepuff’s Hannah Abbott has not returned?” Neville said worriedly.

Luna pushed up her self-made glasses and said ethereally: “I heard that Hannah’s mother was killed by Death Eaters, so her family didn’t want her to return to Hogwarts. The Leaky Cauldron is closed. .”

Seeing the confused expressions on Harry and others’ faces, Luna explained briskly: “Old Tom from the Leaky Cauldron is Hannah’s relative.”

This was the first time Harry knew about this, but thinking about another familiar classmate leaving, his heart always felt heavy, as if a big stone had been weighed down on him.

Hermione turned her head and saw a group of owls flying towards her, and said, “The newspapers are here.”

Opening the window and letting the owls fly in along with the rain, Ginny and Luna fed the owl that delivered the letter some food.

“Open it quickly and take a look. Who was killed again?” Ron asked.

Hermione rolled her eyes at Ron, glanced at the newspaper, and said happily: “Good news!”

“What?”

“Tell me quickly.”

The other people in the box immediately looked excited, and Harry urged: “Hermione, read what’s in the newspaper.”

“This morning, through the cooperation between the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic and the strikers, as well as the participation of some enthusiastic wizards, we successfully ambush a group of Death Eaters…”

It turned out that the Order of the Phoenix cooperated with the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic to stage a beautiful ambush, killing more than a dozen Death Eaters, and temporarily suppressing the Death Eaters’ arrogance.

For the magic world, which has bad news every day, this is the rain after a long drought, and they finally achieved an unusually significant victory!

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville, and Luna all laughed happily.

“That’s great!” Ginny said, “I just said… they will definitely get results!”

Cheers also came from the nearby train carriage.

This good news boosted the mood of people in the magical world. For a long time, newspapers were filled with reports of various ambush and counter-ambush. Sometimes the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix ambushed the Death Eaters and won a great victory; The Death Eaters took advantage of the situation and killed a group of Ministry of Magic Aurors and wounded Order of the Phoenix wizards.

The two sides seemed to be engaged in a tug-of-war, and no one was willing to back down and show weakness at this time, even if it cost them blood.

For this reason, Dumbledore and Ms. Bones wrote letters and communicated every day to come up with a way to break the situation.

Unfortunately, Voldemort’s whereabouts are still difficult to grasp, and Dumbledore needs to stay at Hogwarts, unable to leave school frequently and for long periods of time.

But he finally figured out where the Hufflepuff Gold Cup was hidden.

“Where, Dumbledore?” Snape asked urgently.

Xia Ran seemed relatively calm and collected because she had expected it.

Dumbledore slowly uttered one word: “Gringotts!”

“Gringotts??” Snape was stunned.

Xia Ran said: “Are we going to do it now? We might alert the enemy. There is no problem if we break into Gringotts, but Voldemort will definitely know our plan.”

“There is no other way. The situation is deteriorating now. Innocent lives are being brutally killed every day. We must end this war as soon as possible.” Dumbledore said tiredly.

“Then… is Harry ready?” Xia Ran said softly, “Can he really accept his fate?”

Dumbledore was silent for a long time, then smiled bitterly and said: “I don’t know, but I believe Harry, he is a man with power that Voldemort has never had.”

“Love?” Snape seemed to want to sneer, but in the end he held back.

“Yes, it’s love.” Dumbledore nodded, as if he knew Snape’s thoughts, “It’s because of love that Harry becomes hostile to Voldemort. Even if he can peek into Voldemort’s brain, it will only make him angry.” He was in agony, not in the ecstasy of a Death Eater.”

“With the protection of love, his will has been strengthened. I believe he can defeat fear!”

“I hope so.” Xia Ran sighed.