Chapter 148 Initial
September [-]st is not only the day when Muggle middle schools in many countries start school, but also Hogwarts in the wizarding world will enter a new school year on this day.
The only difference is probably that one has already started studying and the other has just entered school.
But this has nothing to do with adult wizards. If they can take time off, they can act as they please, just like now, a group of people is ambushing the Hogwarts Express on the only way.
This place is probably at the entrance of a tunnel in the middle. No one would be stupid enough to ambush next to the school. Although they are from other countries, Hogwarts is the best magic school, and many of them are from I graduated from here and didn't think much of it when I was in school. Now that I think about the professors there, they are all very powerful and cannot be compared to a bunch of rookies like me.
That lunatic who appeared out of nowhere, his base camp is in England. As long as he can hijack a few hundred children on this train, the intricate kinship caused by the small number of people in the wizarding world will, even if it cannot make his power collapse on the spot. The vitality is severely damaged.
A thick but clear whistle came from the other end of the distant tunnel, and more than fifty adult wizards clenched their wands at the same time.
The tracks have been processed in advance. As soon as the train enters the tunnel, it will start to brake without human control. When it comes out again, it will almost stop.
As expected, there was a sound of wheels rubbing against the rails in the tunnel. This was because they were held to death by magic.
Not long after, a car painted in black and red slowly appeared at the entrance of the tunnel, and its speed became slower and slower with a harsh sound. It happened to stop when it reached their ambush position.
Before the group could be happy, they saw a kid in wizard robes, who looked about twelve or thirteen years old, jumping out from the front of the car with a phoenix on his arm.
This is... everyone is looking at each other, doesn't it mean that he has returned to school early?
"You're finally here," the little wizard sighed, "I've had a hard time waiting for you..."
Red and yellow light flashed in the pupils, and then turned into black. After a sharp pain, they knew nothing.
The phoenix landed on the front of the car, and the express set off slowly again, but the little wizard was nowhere to be seen.
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"I really can't imagine that it's almost the year 2000, and our famous express and slow train is still burning coal. Even if they use magic flames, it doesn't take much manpower. It's just two people, even if they arrange two people What about the shift?”
Ma En took off the wizard's robe and threw it into the dirty clothes basket, while muttering to himself.
Just when I was about to put on new clothes, I looked down and saw that the trouser legs and shoes that were leaking out were all covered with coal dust. I sighed and simply changed into another set.
Esther casually took a new set of clothes from the hanger nearby and threw them on the changing couch: "Are you sure they won't attack a second time?"
"I left Patrick there. If anything happens, he will come and take me back as soon as possible. The wizard's anti-Apparition can't stop a phoenix, you know." Ma En pointed at his empty space Said a bird's arm.
"That's good." Esther nodded and went downstairs to find Margaery and Hermione. The three of them would follow Professor Sprout and Professor Flitwick to greet the senior students who did not need to take the boat. Well, I will go with Snape and Hagrid to pick up the new little wizards who have enrolled this year.
Today is a little busy, and the reason has to be mentioned earlier.
The sparse population of the wizarding world is not only in the UK, it can be said that it is like this all over the world. Except for the fresh wizards born from Muggles, most of the wizards visible to the naked eye are almost all relatives and blood relations if you go back several generations. As intricate as a tangled mess.
This has also led to the proliferation of the special profession of espionage. Sometimes it is not leaked intentionally, but just casually chatting, and some information that seems unimportant to oneself but seems very useful to someone with a heart will be spread.
For example, Ma En has returned to school early.
To the leaker, this was just a simple itinerary for a child who returned to school early, but in the eyes of the traditional wizarding nobles of France and Germany, this represented a return to normal levels of fighting between wizards.
Once the deadliest threat is gone, what's left on the train?
There are only a few professors who will return to school with their students, and a large group of children who have never seen the world.
Among these children, those in fifth, sixth and seventh grade may have some fighting ability, but compared to the young and middle-aged wizards, it is good for three to be able to stand up to one. This is as long as they do not panic. Once these adult wizards are prepared in advance, Once the formal establishment appears, these little guys can basically be ignored.
As for the students in grades one to four...it's okay not to mention a bunch of happy kids who didn't face grade exams.
Of course, they can get information from Old Walder, and Walder can also figure out their plans, and is even more professional than them.
So in the morning, he notified Ma En to wait on the train one step ahead. Instead of letting him appear in the ordinary carriage, he hid directly in the cab, which was a smooth trick on this group of people.
Unlike Voldemort, who was good at hiding and looked more like a mouse than a normal person, Walder made the war more transparent from the beginning, either not triggering it, but once it started, it would be an all-out war until one side was completely defeated.
When Ma En was on the phone with him, he asked how to deal with the attackers, whether to keep them or not. Old Wald was silent for a long time, and finally said that if Ma En didn't mind, he would teach these idiots of the old era a bloody lesson.
Walder didn't say it clearly, but Ma En understood.
He didn't think there was any problem with this. After the Barty Crouch Jr. incident last semester, Ma En understood one thing.
Just a battle between rights and selfish desires will lead to death, just like the three wizards who fought against Esther at that time. He never asked where these people went in the end, let alone a more dangerous battle of ideas, bloodshed in It was inevitable, and he agreed with Wald from the bottom of his heart.
The wizards had indeed been hiding for too long.
Having lived a life of more than twenty years, he knew very well how terrifying the future technological era would be. Those Muggles could come up with a new trick almost every day.If the wizards continue to be conservative like this, the outcome will either be to change from living in scattered places to huddled together for warmth, or to simply self-destruct.
In the past, he naively thought that magic could solve everything and could even control Muggles at will, but Old Wald only had one comment on this:
"The Muggles have launched a witch-hunting campaign that lasted for centuries. Who can ensure that there will not be a second time? Don't say they can't find us. The painful lessons of history tell us one thing. As long as they think, there will always be a way. Made it happen.”