The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

Jimmy kicked the Inferi in front of him and pulled Lupine back.

Although his friend has superb magic skills and very powerful magic power, when it comes to physical combat, people like him who have been around ferocious beasts for a long time are more skilled.

"Le...John, let Mr. Lautner evacuate, we can't stop him!" Jimmy shouted worriedly.

Lu Ping looked at the densely packed Inferi. The sewage flowing under the Inferi was dark, but the water surface could still reflect light and shadow. The mottled light reflected into his eyes, with helpless sadness attached to them.

If the werewolf inferi are really allowed to cause large-scale destruction in Brooklyn, the werewolf's situation will become even more difficult. The "Anti-Werewolf Act" may be about to become the first bill passed by this International Federation of Wizards.

But they are powerless. The current werewolf companions are basically exhausted, and many of them are injured. If they stay here, they will only be swallowed up by the Inferi.

"Besides leaving, there seems to be no other choice..." Lu Ping observed the surrounding situation, with a faint hope in his heart.

Professor Dumbledore...

Looking up to the right, Taylor Lautner can knock down an inferi every time he punches or kicks. He is not the tallest, but his physical strength is reassuring.

Avoiding the surrounding Inferi, Lupine gradually moved towards him: "Mr. Lautner, while everyone still has some strength left, we should consider evacuating."

The nearby Inferi was kicked to the ground, and splashes of sewage splashed on the face. Taylor Lautner spat, looking a little different from her usual taciturn image.

He looked around slowly and clenched his fists tighter: "John, take them away first and let Jimmy inform the people at other pipeline entrances to evacuate."

"how about you?"

"I..." Taylor Lautner exhaled and said calmly, "I still have energy, stay a little longer."

Lupine, whose muscles were already starting to feel weak, looked at him for a few seconds, nodded to him, turned around and walked towards Jimmy, notifying the other werewolves to withdraw from the battle, without any change in his expression.

Lupine didn't know whether the werewolf leader had any plans to leave. Maybe he wanted to leave, or maybe he never thought about leaving from the moment he decided to join the battle.

If a werewolf was sacrificed in this incident, then the magical governments participating in the International Confederation of Wizards should be more tolerant of innocent werewolves.

"Then... remember to come back to the community to find us."

Lu Ping felt that the sadness in his heart seemed to dissipate, and a great calm enveloped him.

I have experienced this kind of calmness when looking at Hogwarts Castle in the dead of night, and on wandering thunderstorm nights when I saw the dark clouds dispersing...

The Aurors on the outer circle of the encirclement slowly gathered together, and those with physical strength supported those who were too tired to walk, waiting for the captain to disapparate.

The metal deactivator in the corner of the alleyway emitted a faint light, and Loren was not sure whether his plan could succeed. The cold gray light source was the magic power of petrification. It was separated from the basilisk's eyeball last year. Judging from the experience of the secret room incident, even lifeless ghosts can be petrified.

He had been researching it for a while, and Flamel said it needed other magical eyes as vessels to function.

I don’t know if my transformation is a kind of container.

No matter it, let’s talk about it later!

Loren exhaled and put away the wand, then gently picked it up with his index finger. The cold gray magic light source swayed out of the deluminator, and floated to the orbit of his right eye like a firefly taillight. He stepped forward to meet it, and his whole body was full of energy. The outline gradually blurred, and the figure was twisted like a concave and convex mirror. The head and neck continued to stretch, and the legs below the abdomen were joined together and extended backwards.

Within a few seconds, a nearly ten-meter-long basilisk appeared in its original position, with gray-white scales and two blue-black snake eyes. In the vertical eye on the right, a cold gray magical flame burned slowly.

Hermione, who kept walking closer to the battlefield, faintly heard a strange noise coming from behind. She didn't take it to heart at first, thinking it was Loren brewing some kind of curse, but the hissing and rubbing sound of the scales on the masonry became more and more intense. It was getting closer and clearer, and it sounded like some living creature was approaching.

"Loren, what are you doing-"

Hermione looked back, stunned.

A gray-white basilisk was approaching quickly. Anyone who saw a basilisk with unfamiliar crawling movements in the thick fog would be stunned, especially this basilisk that turned a blind eye.

The basilisk stumbled forward. To be honest, compared to the two-legged walking of ape erectus, the walking method of reptiles without limbs is much easier to learn. Within a short distance of more than ten meters, Loren had already mastered this strange creature. body.

He closed his right eye to prevent the basilisk's magic power from leaking out, quickly jumped past Hermione, wrapped Hermione's waist with the base of his tail, and lifted it up and placed it on the platform above the basilisk's head.

"hiss……"

Hermione was not a Parseltongue, so she didn't understand what this sentence meant, but she knew what the person who said it meant. So Hermione bent down and stood up, picking at the gaps between the scales, and cast a disguise spell on herself to hide her figure.

The pipe mouth closest to the water outlet gate is crowded with werewolf inferi stumbling around. It's like a subway station during rush hour. The inferi in front have occupied the space, but there are still a steady stream of inferi emerging from below the pipe mouth. Tightly packed.

In the inner circle are the werewolves who are injured and sad in their hearts. In the outer circle are the Aurors who have exhausted their magic power and are waiting for the captain to take them away. At this moment, they were all staring blankly at the monster that sprang out from behind, too horrified to move.

In a Brooklyn neighborhood shrouded in thick fog, a basilisk with gray scales is hidden in the fog, looming.

Loren saw Professor Lupine from a distance and bowed slightly to greet him.

To outsiders, this was just a normal ups and downs in the basilisk's journey, but facing this approaching basilisk that turned a blind eye, Lu Ping felt an absurd sense of familiarity in his heart.

As a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, he certainly recognized it as a basilisk. As a 5X-level dangerous creature, a basilisk would die on the spot and turn its body to stone if you look directly into its eyes.

But he's fine now.

The basilisk passed over the Aurors and werewolves and stood in front of the Inferi. Loren raised his neck and took a long breath, then exhaled. The thick fog in the nearby area blew away, and his vision became clearer.

"hiss……"

Attracting the attention of all the Inferi, Loren suddenly opened his right eye.

Invisible gaze replaced the thick fog that enveloped the Inferi, and an invisible magic swept forward. A withered pale color filled the werewolf's dark hair. The hair lost its elasticity, the joints and muscles became stiff, and finally the eyes gradually became stagnant. .

The Aurors who were watching fell silent, looking up at the towering figure.

The werewolf corpses were like building blocks, falling to the ground piece by piece.

Then the giant snake with gray scales and different eyes disappeared in the thick fog, and its rustling crawling sound disappeared in the direction of other pipe mouths.

…

The conference seats of the International Federation of Wizards are located on the 13th floor of the Woolworth Building. The 12th floor below are seats for reporters from newspapers from various countries and some observing wizards.

Loren and Hermione sat on the inconspicuous seventh floor, looking up at the wizards attending the conference above.

As the president of the International Confederation of Wizards and the British representative, Dumbledore sat at the head of the meeting. Representatives from other countries were arranged on both sides according to their influence. Some countries were attended by the Director of the Department of International Affairs of the Ministry of Magic, and more Many countries were attended by ministers of magic. The main reason was that the venue of this meeting was special and many ministers wanted to witness it in person.

In addition, British Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge has his own considerations. He believes that if Dumbledore appears at the International Federation of Wizards and Wizards, but he, as Minister of Magic, is absent from the conference, many people will think that Dumbledore He is the actual person in charge of the fight for magical power in Britain. Fudge will never tolerate Dumbledore using such despicable tricks to expand his influence.

As the host of this conference, the Magical Congress of the United States of America had slightly more attendees. Intelligent humanoid magical creatures sit further back and generally do not express their opinions.

"The first issue of the conference is the werewolf issue!"

Niedander, the leader of the Human Magical Species Protection Organization of the Magical Congress of the United States, said loudly: "As a vulnerable group of wizards, the werewolf group has been troubled by werewolf disease for a long time, and it is difficult to maintain normal life and work..."

For the next half hour, he introduced the basic status of werewolves in a passionate and loud voice. The newspaper reporters below each held an automatic writing quill and scratched on the parchment.

But Loren felt extremely bored, so he reached out and grabbed the girl's hand, put it on his lap and played with it slowly.

Knead the palm of your hand, it's soft and soft.

Squeeze the belly of your finger, it's tender and bouncy.

By the time he came to his senses, the topic of werewolves had come to an end.

“...In view of the significant contribution made by the werewolf group in this magical crisis, we propose to repeal the "Anti-Werewolf Act" proposed by the British Ministry of Magic, and we will take the lead with the French Ministry of Magic and work with werewolf leader Taylor Lautner and John Moon cooperated to form a werewolf special operations team to deal with werewolf-related incidents."

"Now let's ask the werewolf to speak on behalf of John Moon."

Lupine, who was dressed in ill-fitting clothes, stood up slowly, and his seat automatically floated to the center of the venue. Hearing the applause that resounded throughout the building, he felt a little dazed for a moment.

The Brooklyn Werewolf Inferi incident obviously happened just yesterday, but he felt that a long time had passed, from the time when the group was preparing to flee into the wilderness to about to join a decent special operations team. Taylor Lautner said he was not used to the situation, and the job of speaking fell to him.

Before the meeting started, he had met Dumbledore in the side hall and learned the truth about the strange basilisk.

Lupine lowered his head to read the manuscript, and caught a glimpse of the pair of little wizards below. The girl was taking her hand away from the boy with some annoyance, and patted him on the shoulder. The boy pretended to be in pain, and his acting was very poor. The little witch who was first in grade probably saw through him, but she still rubbed his shoulders with a funny expression.

Really, youth is as beautiful as the morning light.

Those subtle emotions seemed to be far away in an instant. Lu Ping took a breath and began to speak.

"Thank you to MACUSA for the invitation..."

Lupine spoke unhurriedly, his voice was gentle and calm, and his manner was even more polite than that of many pure-blood wizards. Many reporters' eyes lit up when they saw this. In their impression, werewolves were completely different.

"...We have explored a treatment method for werewolf disease. We believe that in the near future, all werewolves will be able to run around under the moonlight with sanity and clarity."

There was louder applause than before the speech began, and the flashlight of the magic camera illuminated the venue.

The gentle smile of the werewolf leader John Moon was fixed.

…

CNN: Recently, the gates of Brooklyn's underground pipelines failed, causing sewage to backflow. A large amount of unknown gas surged up the underground pipelines, forming thick fog and causing serious traffic congestion. According to sampling and analysis by the monitoring laboratory of the New York Environmental Protection Agency, the main component of the gas is water vapor, which is not a harmful gas. Residents are asked not to panic... The New York mayoral candidate said that the accident was caused by the long-term lack of maintenance of underground pipelines. The facilities have been in disrepair for a long time. After he takes office, he will raise funds to initiate renovations of the city's underground pipelines and ask voters to cast their key votes...

CNN: Yesterday, a fire broke out at the torch of the Statue of Liberty. According to the New York Fire Center, the incident was caused by some plastic garbage remaining on the surface of the bronze statue, which was ignited by sunlight focused on the glass. No casualties or property were caused by the incident. loss……

The TV in the luxury hotel is playing a calm press release, and the table in the living room of the suite is covered with paper bags from cheap fast food restaurants in Brooklyn. The hotel waiter is probably depressed when cleaning the room. Obviously the hotel provides more delicious and high-end dishes from various countries. There are people who are willing to eat such junk food.

Not even a chain fast food restaurant.

Two cheese beef burgers, two sandwiches, and the drinks were a large Coke and a large orange soda.

When you bite into the beef patty, the milky and fragrant cheese stretches out slender threads, and you are completely satisfied after taking one bite.

Loren chewed the burger and said vaguely: "The International Wizarding Conference is much more boring than I thought. Do you still want to attend it in the next few days?"

It was very difficult for Hermione to open her mouth wide and use force to bite off all the layers of the burger, so she ate slowly and swallowed the food in her mouth. The little witch muttered in a low voice: "You obviously didn't listen carefully and you kept pinching me. hand……"

"Pinching my hands doesn't affect my ability to listen to the speech..."

Loren retorted bravely and took a sip of orange soda: "What about Grandpa Bates and your parents? We agreed to meet again in a week, but now that the matter is over, when will we let them come back?"

Hermione glanced at the junk food in front of her with some hesitation: "Tomorrow...or tomorrow tomorrow?"

She bit down on the straw and took a big sip of Coke, feeling the caramel and bubbles dancing on her tongue. She breathed out a sigh of relief: "It means my mother hasn't been here these two days, otherwise she would definitely be scolded..."

Before he finished speaking, the hotel phone rang.