The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

Chapter 493 Prison Break Incident

The centaur prophet Hui Yi is actually quite large compared to humans, so in order to make himself appear humble enough and to allow Link to take the crown more conveniently, he had to curl up quite a bit.

However, Link has no intention of taking the crown.

He just looked at the centaur prophet Hui Yi with a half-smile.

It wasn't until Hui Yi, the centaur prophet, couldn't stand it any longer and started sweating on his forehead and trembling all over that Link took over the crown made of woven rattan and put it on his head.

"I will reluctantly accept your allegiance." Link raised his head slightly and said, "Next, the support materials you need will be gradually transported to the centaur villages, but if you want more, you need to see your performance. .”

"We will not let you down, Lord Venus." Huiyi's eyes flashed with a light of joy, but his face still managed to maintain a serious expression, "In addition, Lord Venus, I noticed last night that in the West There is a magic star rising, far away from the morning star you represent. This may be some kind of new victory for one of your enemies, and I hope this can be helpful to you."

"Ah, I understand."

Link seemed to have lost interest in communicating with the centaurs again. He nodded, and then left this room with Newland and Sigrifen without even shaking their heads. In terms of centaurs' style, it was so luxurious that it was unbelievable. wooden house.

The three of them refused the centaurs' request to be escorted, and headed straight through the Forbidden Forest towards Hogwarts Castle.

The three of them maintained an extremely strange silence along the way.

It wasn't until Hogwarts Castle, covered with heavy snow, vaguely appeared in their field of vision that Si Gefen approached Link and asked in an extremely tangled voice:

"Sir Foley, can I ask what the support materials you mentioned earlier are?"

Link kept walking, but turned to glance at Si Gefen and the equally curious Newland, and then said with a smile:

"It's just food, tools, drinks and other Muggle utensils."

Newland, who was born into a Muggle family, had no reaction when he heard that, but Si Gefen frowned and said:

"But they are centaurs! As far as I know, centaurs don't care about these things. They don't even care much about their own death. After all, it is a part of nature. Moreover, you also said before... "

"Yes, I did say before that the centaurs are a race that follows nature and their living habits are similar to those of the legendary elves." Link said with a faint smile, "But what I said are all the centaurs before the goblin rebellion. . At that time, the centaurs were indeed selfless creatures. As for now..."

Link did not continue speaking, but just shook his head contemptuously.

"Why such a big change?"

This time it was Newland who spoke. There was a bright light in his eyes, and he seemed to be very interested in this topic.

"It's simple, because all the centaurs who truly respect nature have been killed by wizards. The centaurs who are still alive are all the descendants of deserters and traitors." Link said, "Especially these centaurs in the Forbidden Forest. Dumbledore's preferential treatment over the years gave them a sense of superiority that they were the masters of the Forbidden Forest. In the name of protecting the balance of nature, they expelled and hated the wizards who took them in. At the same time, nature already considered itself the master. . Then they feel that it is natural for them to enjoy some beautiful things."

"They are asking for death."

Si Gefen said slowly, his expression extremely disappointed.

Link smiled and nodded when he saw this.

He was very satisfied with the understanding ability displayed by Si Gefen and Newland.

What the centaurs are doing now is indeed seeking their own death.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing a better life. This is human instinct. The fact that the centaurs can develop in this direction just proves that Dumbledore's subtle influence on them is successful.

If they can engage in production work peacefully, Link believes that Dumbledore will give them what they want sooner or later.

But unfortunately, they were too greedy.

He was so greedy that he even tried to rely on Link to join the upcoming Third Wizarding War, and obtain huge benefits and privileges from it, such as becoming the true master of the Forbidden Forest.

This is undoubtedly seeking skin from a tiger!

Anyone who is familiar with the history of magic will understand that wizards, or humans, are the most unreliable allies in the world.

Giants, dementors, goblins, house elves, mermaids...

Almost every intelligent creature that had ever cooperated with wizards was eventually tricked and almost exterminated, especially the so-called war alliance.

Wizards are completely using other allied races as cannon fodder.

The centaurs actually dare to actively cooperate with the wizard. This is simply asking for death!

But this actually cannot be blamed on the centaurs.

After all, I've said it before.

The ancestors of this group of Forbidden Forest horse people were originally deserters and traitors. Hundreds of years ago, they survived by cooperating with wizards, or working as dogs for wizards.

If you haven't been beaten, you won't learn a lesson.

In addition, the wizards they have come into contact with over the years are either peaceful people like Dumbledore or young wizards who are not deeply involved in the world. Naturally, they do not realize the danger here.

What they didn't know was that Link had already regarded them as beings similar to long-term workers and 'colonial natives'.

In the days to come, Link will use those cheap Muggle creations to continuously exploit the centaur villages until they drain the remaining value of the centaurs, and then decide according to his mood whether to push the centaurs onto the battlefield and serve as cannon fodder.

But what made him a little concerned was the prophecy that the centaur prophet Hui Yi told him when they parted just now.

Horses are natural astrologers.

Their thousands of years of star worship have allowed them to develop an extremely mysterious and efficient astrology. It is said that even the existing astrology of wizards draws heavily on the knowledge of the centaurs.

Although in the final analysis this is still just metaphysics.

But at least it should be much better than Trelawny's old liar's divination.

Therefore, Link feels that this prophecy should have good reference value.

It's just...what does the magic star Hui Yi said represent?

……

Link's question found the answer two days later.

When the owls flew into the Hogwarts auditorium as usual in the early morning and dropped copies of the Daily Prophet and various packages like bombs on the students' dining tables, there was a burst of cheers in the auditorium. A burst of exclamations.

At first, Link thought it was because some unlucky guy got hit on the head by a package.

But when he opened the Daily Prophet, his expression immediately darkened.

I saw the headline on the front page of the "Daily Prophet" clearly written in enlarged and bold fonts - "Multiple Prison Breaks from Azkaband - The Ministry of Magic Worries that Black is the "Caller" of the Death Eaters".

Below the title are ten neatly arranged black and white photos.

The faces of nine wizards and one witch, some laughing silently, others arrogantly tapping the edges of their pictures with their fingers.Each photo was labeled with a name and the crime for which he was imprisoned in Azkaban.

Antonin Dolohov - a pale, twisted wizard who sneered at Link, was accused of killing the brothers Gideon and Fabian Prewett.

August Rookwood, a wizard with greasier hair than Snape, was leaning against the edge of the photo with a helpless expression. He was accused of leaking Ministry of Magic secrets to a mysterious person.

……

The most eye-catching of all the photos is undoubtedly the witch.

Her long black hair looked disheveled in the photo, her thick-lidded eyes stared at Link, and a haughty and contemptuous smile appeared on her thin lips.

Bellatrix Lestrange - Accused of torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom, leaving them permanently disabled.

Link had seen this portrait in No. 12 Grimmauld Place earlier.

As a former member of the Black family, she looked beautiful and proud in the portrait, like a rose with thorns.

Now, although there are still some traces of the past beauty on Bellatrix's face, they are just traces.

After being tortured by dementors for more than ten years, all the beauty in her has faded away, leaving only madness.

Looking further down the photo, there is a written report about this incident in the Daily Prophet.

However, the credibility of these reports is not high because the information was proactively disclosed by the Ministry of Magic.

Fudge revealed that the fugitives had escaped from prison the night before, and expressed suspicion that they were inspired by the time Sirius Black escaped from prison.

He even hinted during the interview that the prison break was secretly planned by Sirius Black, with the purpose of rescuing his fellow inmates.

After reading the entire report, Link dropped the newspaper with a gloomy expression, not even interested in eating the breakfast in front of him.

He was not surprised that Fudge wanted to put the blame on Sirius. After all, Sirius was indeed a good candidate to take the blame in every aspect.

What really made Link angry was that he had already warned Old Barty when Snape leaked the news to them, asking him to strengthen the security of Azkaban, and even directly eliminate all the enemies if necessary. Dementors, send in Aurors and Strikers.

But the result?

They are still jailbroken!

This made Link wonder if there was something wrong with Old Barty's thinking during this period.

Maybe it’s time to have a good chat with each other again!

Link narrowed his eyes slightly, having already made a decision in his heart.

At the same time, the report in the "Daily Prophet" finally fermented in the auditorium.

The first is the professors on the faculty bench.

It was as if someone had pressed the pause button. They all looked at the newspapers in front of them, their expressions serious but motionless.

Sprout didn't even notice the mayonnaise dripping from the half-raised spoon onto his thigh.

Not to mention the long student table below.

The other three colleges were relatively calm. After all, they had already experienced the Azkaban prison breakout a few years ago. To be honest, they didn't have much real experience.

But it can be said that the Gryffindor table exploded at once.

After reading the newspaper, Neville screamed and hid under the long table. He huddled up while crying and refused to come out despite the persuasion of other students.

The other Gryffindors also looked sad.

They all knew that Neville's parents were victims of the Bellatrix incident.

To this day, those two poor people are still lying crazy in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries. Bellatrix's long-term Cruciatus Curse has completely destroyed their souls.

Cedric looked away from Gryffindor with a complicated expression, looked down at the newspaper again, and then said to Link:

"Link, maybe you should take a look at this."

As he spoke, Cedric helped Link turn the pages of the newspaper.

I saw that behind the report about the Azkaban prison break, there was a small space recording another report that was equally sensational - "Ministry of Magic Staff Died Unexpectedly".

St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries has announced a full investigation into the death of Ministry of Magic employee Broderick Bird.

Mr Bode, then 49, had been injured in a work accident a few weeks earlier and had been admitted to hospital.

And just last night, the night nurse found him strangled to death on the hospital bed by a pot of plants.

Meliam Straw, the therapist in charge of Mr. Border's ward on the day of the accident, has been suspended with pay. St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Magic said that he will be further held accountable in the future, and at the same time expressed its deep regret for Mr. Border's death. Feel sorry.

"We have strict rules about decorations in the ward, but in the busyness of Christmas, Therapist Straw overlooked the dangers of Mr. Bode's bedside plant. As Mr. Bode's speech and mobility recovered, she Encouraged to tend the plant himself, he failed to see that it was not a harmless crabgrass but a devil's net. As soon as the recovering Mr. Border touched it, he was strangled to death."

……

"This report is obviously nonsense," Cedric said softly. "Although devil's ivy and crab claws look similar in appearance, no one can mistake the two plants because of the liveliness of devil's ivy! So this It must have been a murder!”

Link didn't speak, just looked at Cedric quietly.

Seeing this, Cedric stopped being impatient and pursed his lips and continued directly:

"And I know this Mr. Bode, he is..."

"He's the Silent Man of the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic!"

Before Cedric could finish speaking, a familiar sharp voice sounded from the side.

When Link and Cedric heard the news, they saw Ron looking at the "Daily Prophet" with a horrified expression. Harry and Hermione were standing beside him.

Cedric immediately shut his mouth when he saw them arriving, and there was a hint of less obvious panic on his face.

Fortunately, Ron and others did not notice anything strange. Harry frowned and asked:

"What is a silent person?"

"You can understand it as the scientific researchers of the Ministry of Magic. They usually only appear in the Department of Mysteries and are responsible for studying various mysterious props contained in the Department of Mysteries, such as the time twister. Because they are The work they do is usually extremely confidential, so they are called silent people. It is intended to remind them to pay attention to confidentiality at all times. "

Harry said "Oh" as if he suddenly realized something, but Link looked at Ron and said again with a strange look on his face:

"What I'm curious about is, Ron, how did you know this Mr. Bode? Logically speaking, your father, a clerk in the Department for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Items, would have no contact with these people."