But before Ted and Hermione finished their first glass of butterbeer, there was a bell outside the window!
"Huh? Is it so late already?" Ron thought it was already dinner time.
But Ted and the others knew otherwise!
"What clock is ringing at this time?" Jerry asked confused.
He reminded Ted with one sentence: "No, it's a wake-up call!"
I said before that this bell might not have been rung for ten years, but now it is being rung.
Ted rushed out of the tavern first, wand already in hand.
When the friends saw Ted like this, they immediately followed him.
When the other students saw this scene, their blood immediately boiled, and they pulled out their wands and shouted: "Hurry and help Ted!"
Six or seven people rushed out of the tavern like a swarm, startling other drinking guests.
Boss Wife: Fortunately, I always collect the money first, otherwise I would have suffered a big loss!
…
Time goes back to last night.
Basel cried and stumbled out of the forbidden forest while holding his swallow-tailed dog Sangji.
His Sanchi was an experienced hunting dog and was familiar with the Forbidden Forest.
Basel, on the other hand, does some small business of buying and selling.
As I said before, the basic life of wizards is considered worry-free, so there are many such wizards who have no real business.
When they are short of money, they usually do some small business or work part-time, and then sleep peacefully again when they have nothing to do.
Basel planned to renovate his house before winter came, and planned to collect some herbs in the Forbidden Forest to sell.
When he was in school, he did well in herbal medicine. In recent years, when he was short of money, he got by just by picking herbal medicine.
Although the Forbidden Forest nominally belongs to Hogwarts, such a large area of magic forest is definitely not like a feudal lord who hangs anyone who goes in for hunting!
Generally speaking, as long as you are not maliciously poaching magical animals on the protection list, the school will not care about other behaviors.
For example, collecting medicinal herbs, catching legal magical animals, etc. are all possible.
Mainly because he couldn't control it even if he wanted to. Hagrid had enough trouble playing hide and seek with those poachers.
Generally, this kind of behavior is ignored at all, and even if it looks pleasing to the eye, one will help.
Because of the swallow-tailed dog Sanghi, Hagrid helped Basel twice.
It was the same this time. When Basel came out of the Forbidden Forest in a mess, with dirt mixed with blood, and holding the swallow-tailed dog Sangji who was no longer breathing, he was discovered by Hagrid not long after.
After seeing Hagrid, Basel cried loudly while holding Sangji.
According to him, he was attacked by a crazy Tebo warthog while stepping on moonflowers in the woods!
Sanji was stabbed in the abdomen by the Tebo warthog in order to protect him.
Although Basel has applied whitening essence to Sanchi, it still failed to survive.
Hagrid felt the same way. The magical animal group in the Forbidden Forest had indeed seemed a little nervous recently, and something might have happened.
"Poor Sanji..." Hagrid also shed a few tears the size of grape grains.
After Basil returned to his home in Hogsmeade, he reluctantly buried Sanchi behind the house and erected a monument.
However, what he didn't expect was that just this afternoon, when he went to the grave to pay homage to Xander, who had not yet recovered from the pain, Xander actually crawled out of the soil!
Then he attacked Basel, who was filled with joy and sorrow, and was shocked...
Basel didn't even have time to take out his magic wand before he was knocked down and bitten by Sanji.
His cry for help alerted the neighbors, and the "resurrected" Sanchi bit his owner like crazy.
Even after being hit by three consecutive spells, he still crawled towards the nearby villagers, his sharp teeth clicking together.
In the panic, I don't know who used the magic wand to stir the alarm bell, attracting more people's attention.
By the time Ted arrived, the "Resurrected Sanchi" had been subdued. Behind him were eight or nine young wizards from Hogwarts, and the number suddenly increased.
There were already six or seven wizards surrounding the scene before, and two of them were bitten.
One had multiple wounds and a lot of blood, and the other had a bite on his arm.
The wizards onlookers were talking a lot:
"what happened?"
"Sanchi is crazy?!"
"But I heard that Sanchi died last night. Basel buried him in his backyard!"
"Now what is this?"
"It doesn't look normal!"
Can it be normal?
The swallow-tailed dog's hair was gray, its eyes were white, and a large amount of sticky saliva came out of its mouth. It had a faint rancid smell. Even though it was controlled by the curse, it was still smacking at people nearby!
There is no such thing as rabies!
The first time Ted saw it, he had an impression in his mind: Zombie dog? !
He was excited!
If this was the Resident Evil T virus, it would be the end!
I'm afraid magic can't control the spread of that thing!
Cold sweat broke out for a while. But soon he discovered that the "zombie swallow-tailed dog" had magical power fluctuations.
Very different magic power fluctuations that I have never seen before.
Ted waved into the air, and Anzu landed on his shoulder.
Ted whispered something, Ansu nodded, flapped his wings and flew towards the school.
…
This incident finally alarmed the Minister of Magic Fudge.
Of course, it may be because Dumbledore came forward, but a swallow-tailed dog that was resurrected after death and went crazy is indeed unusual.
Especially after the two wounded men were diagnosed by the therapist as suffering from a strange curse at St. Mungo's, things became even more unusual.
Resurrection!
Crazy!
Curse!
These three words are intertwined, how can they be ordinary?
Dumbledore has carefully examined the zombie swallow-tailed dog. To be precise, it is not a zombie, but an undead swallow-tailed dog.
Good news: It's not the T-Virus.
Bad news: It might be a natural disaster of the undead! At least a necromancer, right?
Are there any necromancers in this world? some!
Otherwise, what are the mummies of Egypt, the zombie Taoists of the East, and the psychics of Japan?
Even Voodoo in Africa is particularly good at making resurrected corpses, communicating with dead souls, and even contacting "gods"!
However, in recent decades, as wizards from Africa have also joined the International Federation of Wizards, many illegal things have become less and less.
Looking at it now, there are more in South America.
However, the undead dog in front of him is completely different from the local "death magic".
This thing is horribly contagious!
If the doctor at St. Mungo's was really high-end and discovered the residual magic power in the wounded man's wound in time, and then discovered this "curse of the undead", I am afraid that these two people would be dead in a few days.
And after death, they will become undead that go crazy and attack people, and can be infected with curses.
This is a big problem.
Europe experienced the Black Death in the Middle Ages!
Once bitten, twice shy.
Suddenly, thirty or forty Aurors and strikers came to Hogsmeade with all kinds of equipment.
Some of them sealed off the village and were not allowed to enter or exit; some of them went straight to the Forbidden Forest to find the crazy Tebo warthog that Basel mentioned.
The therapists at St. Mungo's and some curse breakers and potion masters are studying how to remove this curse, and they may even need to study prevention methods.
Now there is a very bad guess: if you are bitten, you will be cursed, and you will die within two days of being cursed. After death, the curse will continue to expand, so the number of various magical animals in the Forbidden Forest... is very scary!
This time the Ministry of Magic also realized the danger, and it can be said that it spent a lot of money.
Six giant magic devices with a diameter of more than two meters and a height of three and a half meters were placed around Hogsmeade, forming a six-pointed star array, and then opened a huge magic barrier that could wrap the entire village!
This is quite a feat.
Ted knew that Hogwarts had a similar magic barrier, but firstly it was not so large, and secondly it was built through continuous improvements over thousands of years.
Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Magic used the magic technology of the dwarfs to create such an advanced gadget.
They are not just for a living!
In addition, those Aurors and strikers all carry some standard equipment with some very familiar runes on them.
This is the rune equipment technology of the dwarves...
This is quite possible, as multiracial exchanges have improved.
But there are still problems, mainly lack of manpower.
The number of wizards has always been a big problem.
There are about 30,000 in the UK, but they are widely dispersed.
The number of people in the Ministry of Magic's violent department dedicated to fighting is even smaller.
Generally capable wizards are really not willing to be an Auror in the Ministry of Magic, let alone a striker, and their combat effectiveness is far behind.
This is probably the difference between armed police and civilian police.
Since there were not enough manpower, someone suggested dementors again...
(End of chapter)
