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Therefore, he made a risky plan, using his own aging life to create an opportunity for Harry Potter, allowing Harry Potter to secretly become the master of the Deathly Hallows Elder Wand, and then let Harry Potter die in Voldemort's hands.
When Voldemort dueled with Harry Potter, he was hit by the Elder Wand and lost to Harry Potter. He also lost all his Horcruxes and could not be resurrected again.
After Voldemort's death, the remaining Death Eaters were vulnerable. Most of them left England and disappeared. Only a few so-called pure-blood families were able to pay money to guarantee their safety.
After defeating Voldemort, in order to prevent anyone from coveting the power of the Elder Wand, Harry Potter buried the Elder Wand in Dumbledore's tomb. Only Hermione and Ron knew about it.
The Resurrection Stone that helped Harry come back to life was lost in the Forbidden Forest. Even Harry himself couldn't remember where he had lost it.
In recent times, the magical element has been on the rise, and wizards' spells have become more magical. The Department of Mysteries can even capture the fluctuations of the Resurrection Stone.
After receiving the report from the Department of Mysteries, the new Minister of Magic attached great importance to the matter and immediately sent Aurors to retrieve the Resurrection Stone to prevent the Deathly Hallows from being lost.
Kingsley led the team personally and invited Harry Potter, the only person who had used the Resurrection Stone and who now worked in the Auror Office, to confirm the authenticity of the Resurrection Stone.
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"I actually found it. The Department of Mysteries actually has this ability. It's getting more and more mysterious."
Kingsley clicked his tongue in amazement, then nodded slightly, signaling his men to install the Resurrection Stone.
The Auror closed the lid of the box, and Kingsley took a coin-sized dragon egg from the words "Common Welsh Green Dragon's Nest on the Side of a Mountain" engraved on the lid.
The green dragon that lost its egg roared to the sky, the lock on the edge of the treasure box locked automatically, the leaves of the acanthus grew wildly, hiding the gap in the lock behind the leaves, and an angry emerald green poisonous dragon was crawling among the flowers.
If someone opens the lock violently, an angry mother dragon will burst out from the leaves, spewing poisonous flames. At the same time, cursed gold will flow from the inside of the box, wrapping the Resurrection Stone, and then immediately solidify, sealing it.
Once the cursed gold solidifies, it will become extremely active. Even a trace of magic power or a spark touching it will cause an explosion.
It can only be peeled off bit by bit by physical methods. The process is extremely slow and takes a long time, which will give the Ministry of Magic time to investigate and recover the lost items.
This is the new alchemical work of the Ministry of Magic's Logistics Department, the Green Dragon's Treasure Box. The greedy dragon will protect the treasure in its lair.
The Auror handed the locked Green Dragon's Box to Harry Potter for safekeeping.
Kingsley put the golden egg key into his wallet which he had made with the traceless extension spell, and kept it close to his body: "Come on, Harry, let's go and say goodbye to Headmistress McGonagall."
Apparition is prohibited throughout Hogwarts. If you want to leave, you can only use the Floo network connected to the school's fireplace.
Since I am going back to my alma mater, how can I not visit my mentor?
Kingsley led the team back to Hogwarts, carefully lowering his footsteps to avoid disturbing the students who were in class.
Due to changes in the environment in the past two years, the number of new students admitted by Hogwarts has increased every year. This year, it is no longer possible to have the same classes in the four colleges, because there are too many students in each grade. With a hundred people in the same class, the professors can no longer pay attention to each and every student as before.
Each college had no choice but to teach classes separately, the class timetable had to be rearranged, and the four colleges could not hold classes at the same time, which meant that each professor had to teach several times more classes than before.
Before Professor McGonagall found a new professor, the heavy workload made the professors very heavy and tiring.
If they dared to interrupt students' classes without permission and increase the professors' burden, Professor McGonagall would never let them go.
If Professor McGonagall gets angry, even the current Minister of Magic would be frightened.
Who among the new generation has not been yelled at by Professor McGonagall in Transfiguration class, especially Gryffindors.
"Password!"
The dripping stone beast at the door of the principal's office said lazily.
"Sizzle honey candy."
Harry Potter blurted it out.
"Correct. I asked Professor McGonagall to change the password a long time ago. The girl who came last time also guessed it, but she always refused to listen."
The dripping stone beast complained as it moved its body and opened the door of the principal's office.
Kingsley said, "So Professor McGonagall told you the password a long time ago."
Harry Potter looked nostalgic: "No, Professor McGonagall didn't tell me the password, but Professor Dumbledore liked to use this password back then."
"I just said it subconsciously."
Kingsley suddenly realized: "I see."
In the headmaster's office, Professor McGonagall's comforting voice came out: "I am glad that you have not forgotten Albus, Mr. Harry. You know, you haven't been back to school for a long time."
When Professor McGonagall heard the sound of the dripping stone beast moving the door, she knew who was coming and went to the door to greet them.
The professor is still in good spirits, elegant in manners, firm in eyes, decisive in actions, and still the brave lion of Gryffindor.
Harry bowed and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Professor. I just joined the Auror Office and have too many things to learn. I really don't have time to come back to visit you and my classmates."
Kingsley also praised: "Harry has helped us a lot. He can cast spells easily. Many dark wizards have been captured by him easily. Many veteran Aurors are no match for him. He is worthy of being Harry Potter."
Professor McGonagall was not happy to hear this: "Harry, I'm glad that you work hard, but your life cannot be filled with only work. I heard that you broke up with Ginny. Ginny is very sad, and Ron is upset with you because of this."
"I really can't bear to see you become all alone."
Professor McGonagall said sadly.
Harry turned his head away, not daring to look Professor McGonagall in the eye: "Sorry, Professor, I don't have any feelings for Ginny anymore. I have someone I like in my heart."
'It can't be Hermione.'
Kingsley, who takes his work seriously, couldn't help but feel a little curious when he heard about the trio who defeated Voldemort.
Professor McGonagall said disappointedly: "I know you want to be a good Auror, but don't change yourself while pursuing your dream."
Harry looked down and said, "Yes, Professor."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little depressing, Kingsley said, "I'll take my leave first, Professor. We still have to take the Resurrection Stone back to the Ministry of Magic."
Professor McGonagall was still reminding Harry: "Okay, Harry, don't forget what I said."
Harry lowered his head and hurried away, being the first to leave Hogwarts through the Floo Network.
The Aurors followed closely behind, and only Kingsley was the last to leave after exchanging a few words with McGonagall.
"Ministry of Magic."
Kingsley scattered the Floo powder and disappeared in an explosion of fire.
After passing through the Floo Network, what awaited Kingsley was not hot tea and a soft chair, but cold arrows and evil eyes.
Chapter 464 Darkening
As soon as he came out of the Floo Network, he was hit by a vicious green light. Kingsley was like a white-collar worker who was hit by an electric cannon for no reason just after getting out of the elevator. He was shocked and angry, but also a little confused.
What happened? Is Voldemort alive again? The Ministry of Magic was captured? Where are the people in front? Where is Harry?
The badge on Kingsley's chest flashed with a lonely light, and the badge popped out and quickly enlarged, turning into a huge iron shield the size of a door panel, engraved with the emblem of the Ministry of Magic.
The malicious green light hit the iron shield, and after a burst of sparks, it failed to penetrate the iron shield.
Pure magic protective shields like the Iron Armor Charm cannot defend against the Avada Kedavra, but the Avada Kedavra cannot penetrate dead objects. Based on this principle, after graduation, Miss Hermione, with the help of her oriental pen pal Hu Xiuwu, developed a simple badge magic weapon to protect against the Avada Kedavra.
The badge draws on the technology of Professor Moody's peephole that can detect malicious intent, and is engraved with a magic that rapidly amplifies the senses. If malicious intent is detected, it will immediately transform into an iron shield to protect the wearer behind it.
The iron shield cannot move after being enlarged, so this badge can only be used once, but the three unforgivable curses cannot penetrate dead objects, so this badge can indeed effectively prevent evil curses. Hermione named it the one-time protection against evil curse badge.
Although it is disposable, the badge can still effectively prevent sneak attacks and is still very useful for Aurors, so Kingsley ordered a batch of disposable protection against curses in the name of the Auror Office, but the production of the magic weapon is slow and Hermione has not had time to deliver it, so only Kingsley has a sample.
After enduring a moment of confusion with a disposable badge of protection against evil curses, the experienced Kingsley immediately turned into black mist and disappeared, moving more than ten meters to the side. Although the evil curse could not break the iron wall, there were countless elemental spells that could easily destroy it.
Kingsley's experience was correct. Just as the green light was blocked, an even deeper and darker black crack swallowed up the green light. A big hole was corroded silently on the iron shield, and the upper half of the iron shield fell to the ground with a bang.
"Merlin! What happened!?"
Kingsley moved as far away from his attacker as possible, just enough to take in the entire scene, but he couldn't help but groan at the sight.
Something went wrong with the Floo Network, and instead of returning to the Ministry of Magic, they came to an exquisite and luxurious living room. Next to Kingsley, there was a large window at the same height as him, overlooking the street.
Kingsley felt that this place was very familiar, especially when he saw the tree-shaped family tree tapestry on the wall:
"This is number 12, Grimmauld Place! How is this possible!"
Kingsley looked up and stared at the assailant.
The murderer stood among the corpses, holding the Green Dragon's treasure box in one hand and a magic wand in the other.
All the Aurors who entered the fireplace before Kingsley turned into corpses, with pale faces and empty eyes. They fell to the cold ground and crawled in front of the murderer.
"Impossible, impossible, how is it possible!"
Kingsley looked at him in disbelief, too shocked to even fight back.
The man remained silent and only responded with a killing curse.
A green light flashed, and disbelief was imprinted in Kingsley's pupils, which lasted until his death.
After finding the key to the Green Dragon's Treasure Box from Kingsley's arms, the murderer who caused Kingsley to die with regret closed Kingsley's eyes:
"Sorry, this is for the greater good."
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"Director Kingsley, like the other Aurors, was killed by the Killing Curse. The Green Dragon's Chest is missing, and Auror Harry Potter is missing."
After inspecting the scene, an Auror reported to Hermione Granger, Deputy Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Kingsley had not returned for a long time, and Hermione became uneasy. After talking to Professor McGonagall, she learned that Kingsley and his group had left Hogwarts long ago. She immediately felt that something was wrong, and summoned the people who stayed in the Auror Office to look for the whereabouts of Kingsley and others.
Finally, with the help of divination from the Department of Mysteries, they finally found Kingsley who had been buried in a cemetery.
In order to investigate the truth, Hermione Granger had no choice but to order the graves of Kingsley and others to be dug up and have the Aurors examine the bodies.
"Miss Hermione, what should we do? Director Kingsley is dead and Harry is missing. Could it be that the Death Eaters have returned?"
Although the Auror next to her was older than Hermione, he was not as calm as Hermione and was extremely panicked.
Because Kingsley Shacklebolt is not only the Head of the Auror Office, he is also a candidate for Minister of Magic, and the most popular candidate, and also the candidate recognized by the Order of the Phoenix.
The previous Minister of Magic was a puppet of Voldemort. He died in the war between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters before the Death Eaters were defeated.
The war had just ended, and the Ministry of Magic was forced to invite an old wizard as the interim minister and quickly organize the election of the Minister of Magic.
Kingsley came to Hogwarts with Harry personally, and the Order of the Phoenix paved the way for him to find the Resurrection Stone.
Now that Kingsley has died here, the Ministry of Magic election has become confusing, and those wizards who thought it was just a formality will probably be ecstatic.
Hermione looked at Kingsley's body sadly and wiped away the tears from her eyes: "Send the bodies of Director Kingsley and the other Aurors back to the Ministry of Magic, examine them carefully, and then notify the family members to come and claim the bodies."
"Issue a bounty immediately to find the Resurrection Stone and the whereabouts of Harry Potter."
The old Auror hesitated a little: "Ms. Hermione, should we keep the news secret for now and discuss it with Director Bones and the committee when we get back?"