"More than 3,500 people, how could Voldemort have so many subordinates?" After his subordinates finished reporting to Ryan, Sirius exclaimed in a low voice, "Especially in this war, dark creatures such as vampires, werewolves and giants
None of them joined him."
"Don't worry about it for now," Lupine said, interrupting Sirius's complaint, and then turned to look at Ryan. "Are your investigation results sure? Will there be any big errors? Of course, that's not what I said.
I have doubts about your ability, but this number is a bit too high——"
"I can confirm this number, and the number can only be more or less." Ryan interrupted Lupine with a serious expression, and then said to him. "But you don't need to be overly nervous. The 3,500 detected
The number can only indicate how many individuals came, but it does not mean that all the people in this number are wizards."
"The situation is terrible, but fortunately we still have ten minutes of warning time." After Luping finished speaking, he turned around and said to the werewolf following him. "Retreat everyone outside the town wall, the opponent
There are too many people, so give up the plan to stop the enemy outside the town."
Just when Lupine gave the order, Hermione also gave the retreat order to the peripheral guerrillas through the metal plate and began to prepare for war. When Ryan and the others climbed onto the wall of Hogsmeade to set up defenses, they saw 30 to 50 percent
A group of wizards rode on their brooms and withdrew from the surrounding ambush locations and joined the town's preparations for war after verifying their identities.
"By the way, where are the non-combatants in the town?" Ryan suddenly thought of the ordinary people living in Hogsmeade and those in the hospital who have not participated in the battle for the time being. "I don't think our power can
Block all those guys outside the town."
"Don't worry, we moved them yesterday." Lupine said to Ryan, "We moved them to the open space where the Quidditch World Cup was held. Because at that time we were worried that Voldemort would take advantage of Principal Dumbledore.
I made a sneak attack while I was away, but I really didn’t expect there would be so many enemies at that time.”
"Penello, why are you here?" Just as Lupine was talking to Ryan, a large group of ordinary people in the town also came out of the house here and walked to the street, and then divided into groups under the leadership of several people.
The small team walked towards the city walls in all directions. And it was seven or eight people led by Penello who came to the wall at the entrance of the town where Ryan and his friends were about to face the enemy's attack direction.
Among these people, Ryan recognized various people such as the waiter from the Three Broomsticks and the waiter in the elegant wizard robe. He was a little surprised and a little surprised as to why these non-combatants would take the initiative to show up here.
"Because we want to protect our homes." Penello smiled and said, "Some of us are unwilling to give up the homes where we have lived for generations, and some feel that we have already evacuated here from London and really don't want to retreat anymore. So one
We started training more than a month ago on how to defend our current home, Hogsmeade. And today is when our training comes in handy."
"Okay, everyone's strength is useful at this time. I hope you can follow our command and make the most of it." Ryan nodded and said, "By the way, what have you learned during this period of training?"
What is it?"
"It's the simple combat magic you taught in the newspaper before." Penello replied. "Everyone here will use those magics correctly, and at the same time, they can use the designated magic in the marked places according to the order."
"Very good." Hermione smiled and hugged Penello and said, "You just stand in a group behind us, and after hearing the order, just use the designated magic to shoot in the designated direction."
After simply arranging the town's defenses, abnormal noises were heard outside Hogsmeade: a large group of birds suddenly flew out of the woods, like a dark cloud. At the same time, many branches in the distance began to sway, and it seemed that
It looked like a swarm of something was rushing toward Hogsmeade from under the trees.
"Steady," "Steady," Seeing the movement outside the town, the townspeople who had just entered the city and some professional combatants made a little commotion. But they were quickly calmed down by other people on the city wall. At the same time,
At the same time, a transparent protective shield slowly rose up and enveloped the town of Hogsmeade.
"Look," suddenly someone on the wall pointed in the direction of Hogwarts on the hill. Just when Hogsmeade raised its protective shield, Hogwarts Castle also upgraded its magical shield.
"Hogwarts is ready for battle, and so is Azkaban." Sirius, who was about to contact others just now, hurried up the city wall, then walked to Ryan and the others and said, "But what about London?"
It's very troublesome. Five minutes ago, Professor Dumbledore entered the Ministry of Magic and all contacts were cut off. The staff staying outside guessed that the Death Apostles stationed inside the Ministry of Magic had activated the Ministry of Magic's defenses. Even Dumbledore
I won’t be able to get out for a while.”
"How is that possible?" Ryan asked with some confusion, "I remember that the defense of the Ministry of Magic cannot stop the phoenix. Principal Dumbledore can definitely use his phoenix to fly out."
"Not at the moment." Sirius smiled bitterly. "There are a group of die-hard fans of Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic in London. They are ready to completely destroy the Ministry of Magic in London at any time. Only Dumbledore can guarantee that these people will be killed before they use magic.
Or subdue them."
"Why are they waiting for Dumbledore to subdue them - this is deliberately stalling for time." Hermione reacted immediately. The group of Death Eaters had no intention of guarding the Ministry of Magic.
Instead, the lives of everyone in the Ministry of Magic, including the lives of the Ministry of Magic staff and the attacking wizards, were used as bargaining chips to hold back Dumbledore.
"Damn, it seems we are the only ones here." Ryan gritted his teeth and summoned the pair of pink wings, then flew over the city wall and shouted. "All defenders, this is for all of us to defend our homeland.
Fighting is also a fight to protect hope and the future. So let us fight today. I am very honored to fight side by side with you."
After boosting the morale of the Hogsmeade defenders and landing on the city wall, a large blue fire suddenly lit up in the distant woods. With the snapping sound of trees snapping, a head made of obsidian, with joints and facial features popping out.
A giant wolf with blue flames came out of the forest.
The giant wolf stopped immediately after leaving the cover of the woods. It glanced at Hogsmeade Town and the defenders on the city wall in a humane way, then raised its head and let out a sharp howl like fingernails scratching glass.
.
This howl was a signal. As the sound fell, huge figures appeared one after another at the edge of the forest. There were various obsidian monsters, as well as obsidian giants wearing metal armor and holding big sticks.
. And Death Eaters wearing pointed hats, silver masks, and black robes stood among these obsidian puppets. But compared to these huge puppets, they looked like dolls.
"Fortunately, we have evacuated all non-combatants." Looking at the giant obsidian puppets that were still coming out of the woods in a steady stream, Professor Luping said happily. "Otherwise, there would definitely be a large number of people this time.
Innocent people were harmed."
The group of puppet monsters and Death Eaters walked out of the woods quietly, and then stood there forming one square formation after another. There was still a little sound of talking on the city wall, but then as the number of square formations increased,
The sound gradually became quieter, and finally the whole town became dead silent.
"The number of Death Eaters plus puppets is at least 5,000, and there are many very powerful guys among these puppets." Ryan communicated with Hermione through the Phoenix Brand. "This is really troublesome."