Some of Professor McGonagall's confusions were answered the next day.
When everyone was having dinner in the auditorium in the morning, the owl messenger brought the latest "Daily Prophet" as usual.
Many students opened the newspaper and were about to search for news about Voldemort and Dumbledore - then, everyone looked at the front page and were stunned.
"This is impossible?! How could this happen!"
Professor McGonagall said in shock, not even noticing that the goblet in front of her was knocked over.
The other professors around also looked at her, but when they saw their respective "Daily Prophet", they all showed the same shocked expression.
At the same time, dense discussions were heard in the auditorium, and a certain uneasy atmosphere quickly spread in the Hogwarts auditorium.
"What's wrong?" Madam Pomfrey turned her head and looked at Professor McGonagall in confusion.
Snape also put down his knife and fork and silently turned his head to look over.
Professor McGonagall spread the newspaper in her hand on the long table and pointed to the disturbing pictures on the front page:
Some are ruins after fierce battles, some are magic battlefields during battles, and some are busy and noisy press conferences...
Each photo has a simple annotation of time, place, and event written underneath it.
"The Ministry of Magic in various countries was attacked. The empty offices of the Ministry of Magic showed a gloomy dilapidation. Information about all wizards' residences fell into the hands of a mysterious person."
"European werewolves were wiped out. Hundreds of werewolves were wailing and turning back into human form. The international magical government arrested nearly a thousand werewolves overnight."
However, what really attracted everyone's attention were the other three photos placed in the last corner.
Three… extremely scary and uncomfortable magical photos.
Two corpses, and a scene of a fleeing man falling down after being hit by the killing curse.
When Professor McGonagall first read the newspaper, her eyes were drawn to those pictures - the "protagonists" of these three pictures were all the same wizard.
Without exception, they are pale, with skeleton-like snake faces, scarlet eyes, and almost invisible nostrils.
The wizard seemed to have suffered some kind of pain, and his facial features were twisted together with terrible anger, despair and pain.
But Professor McGonagall has seen them look more cruel and cold. To be more precise, almost all elderly wizards will not mistake the identity of the wizard in the newspaper.
——Tom Marvolo Riddle (Voldemort).
And there are small words written under each of the three pictures:
The body of Voldemort No. 2 was found in the Lestrange family mansion and was destroyed by Dumbledore.
The body of Voldemort No. 3 was found in the Lestrange family's backyard and was destroyed by Grindelwald.
In the backyard of the Lestrange family, Grindelwald killed "Voldemort 3" on the spot.
"Wait? Grind, Grindelwald?! What's the number behind this mysterious man..."
Madam Pomfrey looked at the photo in confusion, all kinds of questions exploded in her mind, and she didn't even know what to focus on for a while.
McGonagall took a deep breath, moved the newspaper, and motioned Madam Pomfrey to read the title at the top of all the photos.
[The dark forces officially declare war on the magical society]
[The Ministry of Magic releases Grindelwald and jointly suppresses the "dark creature" Tom Riddle]
"Dark...creature?!"
Madam Pomfrey repeated in confusion, "How did You-Know-Who—"
"Um."
Mag nodded seriously.
"It's the same guy - look down."
"The Ministry of Magic in various countries was attacked by dark forces on a large scale the night before yesterday."
"The British Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, confirmed in an interview in his office that the Ministry of Magic had been captured but had been successfully recaptured."
""It is a pity that a new round of magical war has broken out," Fudge admitted. "With the joint efforts of the Ministry of Magic of many countries, we successfully annihilated the werewolf legion in Europe. However, due to the reckless decision-making of the Auror Command, the dark forces
He also took the opportunity to break into the Ministry of Magic building - the Ministry of Magic government across Europe, and took away a large amount of important information."
Auror Command...rash decisions?
Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows. She now understood the official reason for Rufus Scrimgeour's dismissal.
Obviously, without the head of the Auror Command to take the blame, Cornelius Fudge would not be able to continue to serve as minister based on this alone.
For no reason, Professor McGonagall suddenly remembered Xenophilius Lovegood's classic metaphor in "The Quibbler".
Cornelius Fudge...that reflection monster has completely corrupted your soul.
She shook her head with complicated emotions and continued to look down.
"With the assistance of Gringotts and other righteous forces, after a day and night of fighting, the Ministry of Magic successfully expelled the dark wizard who occupied the Ministry of Magic, and confirmed and locked its leader... Tom Riddle, who has disappeared for many years.
The fact that the Dark Lord has resurrected and launched a war. In order to prevent the Dark Devil's forces from taking advantage of the chaos to attack ordinary people, the International Federation of Wizards decided to temporarily "bail" Gellert Grindelwald and cooperate with Dumbledore after an emergency vote that night.
Encircle and suppress the Dark Lord Tom Riddle.”
"Release a Dark Lord to encircle and suppress...another Dark Lord?"
Madam Pomfrey said with a strange expression, "Is the International Federation of Wizards crazy? Aren't they worried..."
"Grindelwald will not mess around, and he will not hurt Dumbledore, at least not now."
Professor McGonagall replied, subconsciously glancing in the direction of the Hufflepuff table below the auditorium, and whispered meaningfully.
"We should believe Professor Dumbledore and the gentlemen of the Federation. After all, they have the most and most comprehensive information. They can naturally make more appropriate and wise decisions than us. And judging from the results, it is true that
It worked too, didn’t it?”
"Well, I looked behind me - I roughly understand the concerns of the Federation and the wizards..."
At this moment, Snape suddenly interrupted and looked at the contents of the newspaper indifferently.
"The Dark Lord... I mean Tom Riddle - he is no longer a human wizard in the true sense."
"The International Federation of Wizards writes here that Tom Riddle has undergone some kind of terrible dark transformation, turning himself into a dark monster that cannot be truly killed. If the wizarding world cannot continue to kill him,
Destroy the Dark Demon Legion under him, and once he fully unleashes his terrifying magical properties of immortality, no one in the entire magical world will be able to live safely."
"You have also seen that Dumbledore and Grindelwald killed him once each, but the Ministry of Magic did not report the end of the war."
"This is an endless magical war...and Dumbledore is on the front line of the battlefield."