Chapter 662: Catch and Kill Anyone Who Shows Up
"Does it smell like blood?" Slughorn looked at the scarlet liquid on the wall thoughtfully. He waved his wand lightly, and the fake bloodstains disappeared. "I didn't think it through, but it's too late. I just finished decorating the place and you came in."
Slughorn sighed heavily.
But soon, Slughorn looked at Harry with a probing look and asked curiously, "I really want to know, you are a student who grew up in Hogwarts Castle, not a battle-hardened Auror, how can you find these problems so quickly?"
Hearing this, Harry scratched his hair embarrassedly.
He glanced at Dumbledore beside him. After Dumbledore showed an approving look and nodded slightly, Harry said honestly: "It was the illusion array made by Linn. In the illusion test of the 'difficult' mode, we often need to complete different tasks under various conditions."
"In a 'difficult' mode illusion test, I played the role of an Auror, and my task was to complete the investigation of 100 homicides. In these investigations, many houses suspected to be murder scenes were forged by dark wizards, and those forged Blood is not human blood, but the blood of fire dragons or other magical animals, and those bloods are different from the blood of human blood. "" Because I ignored this, I did not find the abnormal bloody smell. This made me die dozens of deaths in the illusion. After smelling the bloody smell here, I discerned that they were not human blood. If I guessed it well, this should be a dragon blood! "Harry said. Sraton said in surprise:" Phantom test? With a smile forward, he looked around the house around the wolf around him, and asked politely: "Do you want me to clean up?" Slagkhorn said indifferently: "Please." So Dumbledore and Sraton waved the magic wand almost simultaneously. The scattered furniture on the ground jumped back to their original positions one by one, the decorations restored their original shapes in mid-air, the feathers returned to the cushions, and the damaged books automatically repaired themselves and were neatly arranged on the bookshelf.
The oil lamp flew to the small table by the wall and lit up again. A pile of broken silver photo frames flew to the end of the room and landed on a desk. The clock became bright as new again.
Even the broken, torn and split places in the room were restored to their original state.
After cleaning up the room, Slughorn had a sad look on his face.
He looked at Dumbledore, with a bit of helplessness in his tone, and said: "If I am not mistaken, Dumbledore, you should want me to return to Hogwarts Castle to teach, right?"
Seeing Slughorn speak so directly, Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and immediately said: "Yes, Horace, I hope you can return to Hogwarts Castle and serve as our Potions professor."
"You know, Horace, no one is willing to apply for our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, so I have to appoint our original Potions professor, Severus, as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and this also means that we have a vacant Potions professor position."
Dumbledore said so.
Slughorn said, "Dumbledore, I'm glad that you thought of me first when the position of Potions Professor was vacant, but you also know that person whose name cannot be mentioned."
Without waiting for Dumbledore to answer, Harry frowned and said, "Sir, why don't you dare to mention that person's name? Voldemort, what is there to be afraid of now?"
"Voldemort?" Slughorn was stunned, then smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, with the two new demon king-level wizards, Voldemort no longer makes people dare not even mention his name."
Compared with Voldemort in the original book, who made the entire British magic world panic after his resurrection, Voldemort is now like a rat in the gutter, and cannot see the light.
As the magic government, the British Ministry of Magic immediately sent a large number of Aurors to capture the fleeing Death Eaters, which put a lot of pressure on the Death Eater camp.
As soon as they showed their heads, they were captured and executed. The lessons learned from the executed Death Eaters made the remaining Death Eaters dare not appear in public.
After Barty Sr. took office, the Dark Mark that once brought endless fear to people never lit up over the innocent wizard's house again.
The suppression of Voldemort and the Death Eater camp, as well as the growing British Ministry of Magic under Barty Sr.'s leadership, made people in the British magic world feel relieved and no longer worried about whether they could live to see tomorrow.
Because of this, Slughorn did not dare to openly oppose Voldemort like in the original book. He still played the emotional card with Dumbledore and Harry, and persuaded them with the safety of Hogwarts Castle. He even tried to persuade them with thirty-six tactics, and finally succeeded in convincing them.
Slughorn was not panicked now. He looked at the two with his shrewd eyes and said calmly: "It is not a problem for me to return to Hogwarts Castle to teach. But I require Hogwarts to protect my safety and provide me with corresponding shelter."
"Even if I leave Hogwarts in the future, Hogwarts should provide me with continuous shelter and protect the safety of me, a retired old professor. In addition, I have another request, that is... I have to pay more!"
Slughorn said so.
Dumbledore naturally agreed to Slughorn's request.
Not to mention that providing security for the professors in Hogwarts Castle is an obligation of Hogwarts. Slughorn's own value alone is enough to win enough protection.
As for the extra money, that is not a problem.
Anyway, the salary of every professor in Hogwarts Castle is provided by the school board. After Lynn and Irina were promoted to the level of demon king wizards and publicly supported Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, the school board's control over Hogwarts was further weakened.
Today's school board has turned into a ruthless ATM machine. (End of this chapter)