After leaving the principal's office, Ryan and Hermione didn't know what they should do for a while. It was already past lunch, but when it came to class, Ryan and the others didn't know what class they should go to at this time. Because they had been there a week before
I'm not at Hogwarts, so of course I don't know what the class schedule is for this semester.
"Why don't you go to the dormitory and pack your things first? It can't be messy." After standing stupidly at the door of the principal's office for a while, they finally decided to go back to the common room first.
What they didn't expect was that after they climbed into the Gryffindor common room, several students who had stayed in the common room without classes immediately gathered around them and greeted them warmly when they saw it.
Call them heroes.
"What on earth happened?" After squeezing out from a group of enthusiastic classmates, Ryan directly pulled over his acquaintance Colin Creevey and asked. "Why does everyone call us heroes?"
"Don't you know?" Colin looked a little surprised. "Now almost everyone here knows about your previous fight on the Hogwarts Express and your persistence in Azkaban. Now you are our
The most powerful hero on the side. By the way, can you tell me about the specific situation in the previous battle? It’s not clear in Hogwarts Light——”
"Wait, what is the Light of Hogwarts?" Hermione walked up and asked, "Percy also mentioned this Light of Hogwarts when he entered the door just now. It sounded like some kind of promotional program or something
The names of magazines and newspapers.”
"Oh, by the way, you have been in Azkaban before." Colin made a look of realization. "Hogwarts Light is a wizard radio station created by senior Li Jordan and several classmates. They
It's on the second floor of the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade down the mountain. If you stand on the astronomy tower, you can still see the antenna of their radio station."
Is this a war of public opinion? Ryan thought, as for the reason why he and Hermione became the focus of publicity, this must be because their previous defeat against Voldemort was so ugly, so they must find some so-called heroes to raise the issue.
Boost morale.
"What about the Death Eaters? Have any Death Eaters launched attacks near here recently?" Ryan then asked. "They couldn't have been so obedient and just stayed in south London after taking over the Ministry of Magic."
"I don't know much about this," Colin said. "I'm just a student, and the only channels I can access external news are the Hogwarts Light Radio and the Daily Prophet. Now the Prophecy
The Daily News is full of nonsense, and Hogwarts Light Radio doesn't broadcast much every day."
Having said this, he looked at the somewhat disappointed Ryan and the others and thought for a moment, and then added. "But on the night we arrived at school, there were sporadic explosions from the direction of Hogsmeade all night long.
, we could hear it in the Gryffindor bedroom. The next morning Dumbledore told us it was just a sporadic Death Eater attack."
"After that, many wizards came one after another. Hogsmeade and Hogwarts also set up patrol teams. And until today, no more attacks were heard nearby.
But I heard reports on the radio that there were attacks and even murders in many places in the south."
"It sounds bad." Ryan shook his head. "Now I can only pray that it will get better in the future."
"It will definitely get better in the future." Colin Creevey looked very confident. "We have Principal Dumbledore and the savior Harry Potter. By the way, we even have heroes like you. I believe we can do it.
Defeat the mysterious man and gain the final victory."
"Yes, we will win." Hermione said. She and Ryan both felt that as long as everyone can maintain this optimistic attitude in the current situation, then this war will definitely not fail.
When it was time to eat at noon, some of the evil consequences of this war were clearly displayed. There were only a dozen or so people sitting around the Slytherin table, and there were even fewer people sitting around the Ravenclaw table.
A large section visible to the naked eye.
The entire auditorium was silent. Everyone tried to lower their voices when speaking. Occasionally, a few people laughed so harshly that the people who laughed in the silence quickly stopped laughing and lowered their heads.
Keep eating.
"Here -" Just as Ryan and Hermione were halfway to the long table, a deliberately low-pitched greeting came over. Following the sound, Ryan found that Ron was waving to them, and there were people beside him.
Sitting there were Harry and Ginny.
"Nice to meet you." Ryan put a piece of chicken on his plate when he sat down, and said while eating. "I patrolled all night last night, and I met Moody this morning and came back directly. What's next?
I went straight to the principal's office. I've been running around for the whole 24 hours. I just ate some sandwiches and cakes in Dumbledore's office this morning. I'm both hungry and exhausted."
"It sounds terrible, especially in a place like Azkaban." Ron shook his head. "I can't believe you could stay there for a whole week and just feel a little tired."
"By the way." Harry said after swallowing the food in his mouth. "Everyone secretly said that you and Hermione killed many Death Eaters when the Hogwarts Express was attacked last time.
Isn’t this true?”
"It's true." Ryan looked at the people around him who were some distance away, so he said to Harry. "At that time, Hermione and I cooperated to kill 18 Death Eaters. I can confirm that they were all mysterious people coming from abroad.
Mercenaries hired. Because all the elites at that time were taken by the mysterious man to attack the Ministry of Magic."
"Well done." After hearing Ryan's words, Ron patted his thigh and said, "I should have given those damn Death Eaters something awesome."
Ron's voice attracted the attention of many people, but unlike what they imagined, after hearing the news, many people did not alienate themselves because of Ryan's previous killings, but had excited expressions on their faces.
They gathered around to ask him and Hermione about the specific situation at that time. There was even a Hufflepuff girl who came over to shake their hands and thank them.
"What's going on?" After spending more than ten minutes, Ryan roughly finished talking about what happened to him this week and after everyone left, he looked at Ron sitting across the table and asked.
"This is a very bad thing." Ron said, "On the morning after the attack, the students in the auditorium received a total of four notification letters from relatives who were killed in the attack, and more than a dozen people's letters.
Family members were injured in the attack. For example, the girl who shook hands with you just now, her father was an Auror and Scrimgeour's guard. He was killed in the same group as Scrimgeour during the attack that day."
"Damn war!" Ryan understood it all at once. Many people have a tendency to have a Virgin Mary tendency, and the more people grow up in a peaceful and prosperous environment, the more serious this tendency is. But once the war breaks out, the war will be close at hand and even involved.
When they see their loved ones, they will immediately wake up and embark on the truly correct path.
This is why after learning that Lane had killed so many Death Eaters, most people were not afraid but thought that Lane and the others were heroes.
The impact of the war is not just a simple change in everyone's mood. For example, the dishes and quantities on the dining table are now much smaller than in the past. And according to Ron, the operational requirements for everyone in Potions and Herbal Medicine classes are now also different.
It's become more detailed, and doesn't offer nearly unlimited amounts of material to experiment with like before.
From these things, it can be clearly seen that after losing the funding from the Ministry of Magic and the donation from the school directors, Hogwarts' funding gap has become very large. Ryan only hopes that the overall situation will improve after his injection of funds.