Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

After leaving Hogwarts, Mike returned to the secret realm of Freemasonry, and used the fireplace built there to take the public floo network directly to Norwich in the eastern part of the country.

This is a peaceful city, and its buildings have a feeling of the coal country in the 1980s. Of course, these are somewhat outdated in this era.

The floo network node set up by the Ministry of Magic here is located in an abandoned villa on the edge of the city. When Mike walked out, he found that the yard of the villa was already overgrown with weeds, and the sign at the door except for the name of the road was written on it. The outside was carved with skulls and simple figures of various ghosts and monsters with a knife - needless to say, this must also be a 'haunted house' full of ghost legends.

Mike did not stay here longer, summoned the Firebolt and flew towards the west.

There are relatively few forests in the country. Mike took advantage of the night wind to search in the air for only half an hour before he found the forest that Dumbledore wrote on the note.

But when he landed by the river in the middle of the forest, an accident happened!

I saw a large number of vines wrapped around the trees near the lake in the middle of the forest. These vines twisted their bodies and swept towards Mike the moment after he landed.

‘Devil’s Net! ’

With the bright moonlight in the sky, Mike immediately recognized the identities of these vines, and then he pulled out his wand!

"boom!"

There was an explosion in the air, and a large ball of crimson flames ignited from the blackthorn wand. The devil's nets that were sweeping towards this direction began to retreat when they sensed the heat of the flames!

However, they did not give up on Mike as their prey. They shrank back and stopped ten meters away from Mike. They stayed in the darkness and were ready to move, ready to swarm up after the flames disappeared.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and while observing the surroundings vigilantly, Mike walked towards the three huge elm trees growing side by side not far away.

This is the forest where Dumbledore's safe house is located. Although Mike can easily turn this forest into ashes with his current strength, it is foreseeable that Dumbledore's safe house will definitely be destroyed by the flames by then, even if it is not destroyed by the flames. will be affected by the image.

When he came to the three elm trees, Mike only saw the same forest full of fallen leaves and trees as the surrounding ones, and did not see the shadow of the house at all.

However, he was not in a hurry, but closed his eyes and silently recited the address given by Dumbledore.

'Twenty miles west of Norwich, on the west side of a small lake in the middle of a forest, at three parallel rows of elm trees. ’

After repeating it silently three times, when Mike opened his eyes again, he found that the forest in front of him had changed dramatically!

The space in front of him suddenly became distorted, and a dilapidated villa suddenly emerged, twisting and squeezing all the surrounding trees, including the three huge elm trees, to both sides!

Although he was used to seeing various wonders in the magical world, seeing such a huge Loyalty Spell for the first time made Mike temporarily lose his mind.

When he came back to his senses, he found that the space in front of him had stopped twisting, and a dilapidated villa with a garden opened its door to him.

Taking a deep breath, Mike held up a wand like a torch and walked towards the villa. The garden of the villa was already filled with thick fallen leaves. These fallen leaves rotted wantonly in the humid forest, forming a black patch on the ground. The brown mud felt like walking into dog feces when stepped on, which made Mike very unhappy.

But the dissatisfaction ended, and now Mike could only move on.

However, in retaliation for the lazy behavior of the garden owner, Mike did not rub the mud off his feet on the stone slab at the door when he stepped into the villa. As a result, as Mike strode into the villa, the foyer of the villa was filled with dust. There were a series of black footprints on the stone floor.

There was a house elf with twitching ears standing in the foyer of the villa. Mike guessed that he was sent by Dumbledore to greet him, but he seemed to be very dissatisfied with Mike's behavior of bringing in the mud from outside. He was so angry that he was shaking all over.

Unfortunately, as a house elf, he did not have the right to beat guests.

So after glaring at Mike for a moment, he gritted his teeth and pointed to the stairs leading to the second floor.

"You are a bad house elf," Mike suddenly got excited and said to the house elf as he passed by the house elf heading towards the stairs. "This villa is extremely dirty, especially the garden outside. It can be seen that you usually Not working hard at all!”

After saying that, Mike walked up the stairs with a smirk on his face, leaving the house elf staring at Mike in shock.

I don't know how long it took, but it wasn't until Mike disappeared around the corner that the house elf reacted.

He snapped his fingers to conjure a broom, then gritted his teeth and walked to the garden outside the villa.

At this time, Mike walked into the only room on the second floor with an open door.

This is a room filled with all kinds of books. Compared with the outside, it is relatively clean. Although it is still a bit messy, at least there is no dust everywhere.

The only thing that can be called furniture inside is a desk placed right in front of the window, and the person Mike is looking for on this trip, Dumbledore, who is wearing an orange nightgown with white spots, is facing away from Mike. , looking through the transparent glass window at the small lake not far away reflecting the moon.

"You shouldn't tease Little Teacup. He is a very good house elf. The reason why this place is so dirty is not because he doesn't work hard, but because he was just borrowed from my friend's house and I haven't had time to start cleaning it. .”

Dumbledore's iconic voice came slowly, and Mike didn't speak harshly. His behavior just now was indeed a bit wicked and childish, and those words were likely to cause immeasurable psychological damage to the house elf, so he continued He said expressionlessly:

"Sorry, Headmaster Dumbledore. I will apologize to Little... Little Teacup later for what I said and did."

"Very good," Dumbledore turned to look at Mike with a warm smile on his face, "So Mike, why did you come to me?"

Dumbledore also wore a nightcap on his head, which was an orange velvet pointed hat. It looked a bit like a Christmas hat, but there was a huge ball of snow-white wool at the end of the hat.

As Dumbledore suddenly turned around, the ball of wool shook violently, which was very funny when paired with Dumbledore's Chippa nightgown.

Mike suppressed his smile, forced a straight face, and said seriously:

"It's Harry. I used Legilimency on him when I was teaching him Occlumency, but I didn't expect to find that he had started to have that kind of nightmare again recently. And this time, Voldemort appeared in his dream! "

Hearing this, Dumbledore's expression changed drastically. His original warm smile suddenly disappeared, and he put on a serious expression and asked:

"What kind of dream was it?"

"See for yourself."

As he spoke, Mike took out the blackthorn wand, pressed the tip of the wand against his temple, and slowly moved the wand after a while of energy accumulation.

Following Mike's movement, a strip of light emitting bright silver light was pulled out by the tip of the staff.

Seeing this, Dumbledore also understood what he meant, and casually took out a huge marble table higher than the entire desk from a drawer of the desk. There were a large number of ancient magic scripts engraved around the stone table, among which even Mike also Unrecognizable.

There is a semicircular groove at the top of the stone platform, which contains a pool full of bright silver liquid.

Pensieve!

Mike made a judgment, then raised his wand and put the strip of light into the basin.

As ripples rippled out, Dumbledore couldn't wait to bury his head in it.

…

"Prophecy Hall, his target is that prophecy!"

The words came out of Dumbledore's mouth ten minutes later as he poked his head out of the Pensieve.

At this time, Dumbledore's expression was very complicated, including a bit of surprise, but also a bit of relief, as if he had expected that Voldemort would do this, but never dared to believe it.

Mike was secretly happy. Being familiar with the plot, he already knew that Voldemort's goal was to store the prophecies about him and Harry in the Hall of Prophecies. On the way here, he had already thought about this plan in detail.

In the original book, Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix did launch a battle with Voldemort and his Death Eaters in the Prophecy Hall, but the result was bleak, because although they prevented Voldemort's conspiracy, they also lost their lives. He found a capable general—Sirius Black!

This is unreasonable in Mike's opinion. Voldemort took advantage of Harry's impulsiveness and Dumbledore's lack of preparation, and thus gained a small victory in this war.

Mike is confident that this time with his existence, the trap set by Voldemort for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will become his own prison!

His Freemasonry and Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix join forces, and there is a high probability that they can directly fight Voldemort back to the wandering state at the Ministry of Magic.

Even if it doesn't work, then it can still kill all of Voldemort's Death Eaters!

Of course, this requires Dumbledore's cooperation, and the purpose of Mike's trip is exactly this.

"Oh? What prophecy hall?"

With this in mind, Mike pretended to know nothing and looked at Dumbledore in confusion.

Dumbledore in front of him did not be as vague and perfunctory as Mike expected, but explained straightforwardly:

"The Hall of Prophecy is a place used by the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic to store prophecies. Voldemort's goal is a prophecy stored in it."

Dumbledore stopped here, seeming to be hesitating whether to tell Mike what happened next, but after hesitating for a moment, he still said:

"I believe you also know that it is the story of Harry defeating Voldemort fifteen years ago, but that is actually because of that prophecy. It was a prophecy made by Trelawney, your divination class professor. It claimed that a day at the end of July The born child will kill Voldemort. I immediately protected Trelawney afterwards, but the general content of the prophecy was leaked and Voldemort knew it. So you should already know what happened next, Voldemort broke in. A sharp hit and ultimately death."

"Why did he have to get that prophecy?"

"Who knows? Perhaps because he was defeated by Harry, he wanted to carefully confirm the details of the prophecy and completely control Harry's fate."

Dumbledore sighed deeply and said,

"Okay, I already know the matter, Mike. You should go back to Hogwarts first and pay attention to Harry's condition. If he has any dreams again, you can use this to contact me."

After saying that, Dumbledore handed a small mirror to Mike.

Double-sided mirror, a set with two sides, the matching mirror can only be used for long-distance video calls.

Mike put the mirror away expressionlessly, raised his head and asked:

"What are you going to do?"

"This is not what you should..." Dumbledore suddenly noticed Mike's serious expression mid-sentence, so he changed his words, "Okay, I plan to inform Fudge about this first and ask him to strengthen his protection. Of course, There is a high probability that he will not believe me. So I will send trustworthy people to keep an eye on it. If there is any sign of trouble, I will rush there myself. "

"Why don't we just steal that prophecy first?"

"Because the prophecy ball has been cast with an irreversible spell, only those who are closely related to the prophecy can remove it."

"Does this mean that only Harry and Voldemort can take down the prophecy?"

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and said:

"What do you want to say?"

"I think this is an opportunity, Principal Dumbledore." Mike looked at Dumbledore with bright eyes. "Harry's brain and Voldemort are connected for some reason. They can learn some of each other's thoughts. This After a series of events, the matter has become a certainty. This means that Voldemort really wants to get the prophecy.

However, the prophecy ball can only be taken down by him or Harry, so he will either go to the prophecy hall in person, or trick Harry into going to the prophecy hall to get the prophecy ball, and then he will send someone to snatch it.

No matter which option he chooses, he must send his Death Eaters to the prophecy hall, and if the Death Eaters are in a bad situation, he may even take action himself.

So now that we know about this, why not take advantage of the situation and choose to catch them off guard in the prophecy hall? "

Mike stated his plan in one breath, and then stared at Dumbledore, waiting for his response.

Opposite him, Dumbledore stood blankly staring at Mike. Mike could tell from his trembling white beard and straight eyes that Dumbledore was extremely surprised at this time. .

After a while, Dumbledore finally recovered. He swallowed and murmured:

"I have to say that you are really an imaginative child. But what I want to say is that although your plan seems feasible, it actually has a very fatal flaw in its execution."