The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 400: Battle and After-school Activities (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan and Hermione naturally did not answer Dolohov's questions. They probably knew that talking nonsense would often be overturned. So they just kept casting magic to attack Dolohov, especially Hermione. Because it was her first time fighting a wizard from this world, she was very nervous and did not stop the attack magic in her hands.

In such a dense spell, Dolohov could not make any effective defense. The battle was over in less than two minutes. After two blood-red lights hit Dolohov, Dolohov fell forward and could not move.

"Is he dead?" Hermione asked quietly. She was not used to this battle, which was different from the previous trials. This was the first enemy she killed in her own world, so naturally she felt differently.

"Yes. He's dead." Ryan said after checking with life magic. "Be happy and think about how good Mrs. Weasley was to both of us during the holidays. And this scum killed Mrs. Weasley's brother."

"That's right." Hermione's expression relaxed immediately. "At least if he lives, no one else can. What we are doing today is to allow more people to survive."

After making sure that the Death Eater was dead, the leading unicorn bowed slightly to Ryan and left. Ryan habitually went forward to touch the corpse.

"Take this." Ryan threw Dolohov's wand to Hermione. "Our wand has trace thread, you can try this later. Blackthorn wood and snake nerves are quite suitable for combat."

"Apart from this, what else is there?" Hermione quickly began to collect spoils after the battle. "But I don't think there will be anything good. These Death Eaters are just here to get some unicorn blood. They probably won't take all their belongings with them."

"You guessed right." Ryan finally found only a few coins from Dolohov. "Okay, let's go, but before that we'd better clean up this place to avoid any trouble for the centaurs."

After saying that, he waved his hand and a beam of blood shot into the corpse on the ground. The corpse immediately began to melt rapidly and then turned into a blood-red liquid. The blood-red liquid seemed to be highly corrosive, and after it stained the clothes, even the clothes were corroded. In the end, everything disappeared, leaving only a pool of blood.

From today's battle, we can see that the backbone of the Death Eaters also have their strengths, because Ryan and Hermione mainly used the Blood Burning Curse and Shadow Blade in the battle, and the Blood Burning Curse will ignite the blood, life and soul of the person hit. If there are too many hits, the human body will feel no worse than being hit by the Cruciatus Curse. In this case, Dolohov can still fight to the last moment of the battle, even though his previous injuries made his resistance relatively weak. But from this, we can also see that the fighting will of the core Death Eaters is indeed not bad, and it is amazing that the Order of the Phoenix could survive back then.

When they returned to the battlefield where the centaurs and werewolves had fought, they found that the werewolves had fled in all directions, and several centaurs were there collecting the arrows they had shot. After telling them that the dark wizards had left, Ryan and Hermione went straight back to the school castle.

"Why do you think the Death Eaters would attack the unicorns?" Hermione asked thoughtfully as they walked out along the path in the jungle. "Didn't the You-Know-Who choose to lie low for the time being because of the problems he encountered during his last resurrection? Why would he take the risk of sending out the few core Death Eaters who followed him to do something like this?"

"Maybe it has something to do with the potion I made last time." Ryan thought for a moment and said, "I heard from Harry that the You-Know-Who's original body was made from a mixture of cursed unicorn blood and Nagini's venom. He may now want to obtain these ingredients to solve his problems. As for why he doesn't buy them on the black market? It's probably because he has a group of wanted criminals on his hands, and it's too dangerous to show up in public. Besides, things like unicorn blood are closely watched, and it's easy to expose yourself if you're not careful."

Today's night tour ended just like that. Originally, I just planned to take Hermione for a run in the Forbidden Forest after the transformation to get used to it, but I was inexplicably involved in a battle. Fortunately, the final result was still good: I successfully killed a senior Death Eater and weakened the power of Voldemort's side. However, this also made Ryan feel a little tired, and he went straight to bed and fell asleep after returning to his dormitory.

The days that followed seemed somewhat calm, even somewhat lifeless, because Umbridge's control over the school became increasingly strict. As revenge for Umbridge putting truth serum in the drinks last time, Ryan and Hermione took turns to teach the members of the reading club how to fight in one-on-one combat after they mastered the Stunning Spell.

"It's a good feeling, but I don't think the Ministry of Magic would want this." Zhang Qiu said during a practice session. "So I don't dare to tell anyone about all the knowledge I learned here, for fear of affecting my mother who works at the Ministry of Magic."

"Learning these things in the current atmosphere does involve some risks." Ryan spread his palms. "But I think this risk is worth it. After all, there are still ten Death Eaters wandering around outside, and each of them is killing people without mercy. If we learn some methods of fighting, we can at least ensure that when we encounter them, we can buy enough time for ourselves and our families to escape." "Right." "You're right." "That's right, this is why we stay here." Several classmates also made similar voices, "They neither have the ability to catch those Death Eaters back, nor do they allow us to learn defensive magic by ourselves. What should we do if we encounter those murderers? Wait for death?" Hannah Abbott's final summary expressed the thoughts of everyone here.

As a club organized by Gryffindor students, it was naturally a key target for surveillance. However, Ryan had set up secret alchemical detectors at both ends of the corridor in advance, which would sound an alarm as soon as a stranger was detected. Therefore, during Umbridge's two surprise inspections, she only saw people discussing their paper assignments or practicing the Vanishing Charm with mice. Nothing important was seen.

"Very good, children, please continue practicing." Umbridge closed the door and after making sure she had left, Fred said a little depressed: "Ah, this kind of life is really bad. How can this old woman continue to stand firm? Recently, except for the Daily Prophet, there are news everywhere criticizing him and Fudge."

"There's nothing we can do. Those pure-blood families would rather see Dumbledore go. So Fudge and others who insist on opposing Dumbledore will always be an eyesore. Not to mention that for them, a tainted Minister of Magic is easier to control. We miscalculated a bit." Ryan shrugged.

This is the case for all legally organized reading clubs, and it is even more difficult for Harry. Even though Ryan provided him with a very good venue for the event, they still had many difficulties in organizing it. For example, Harry found that it was almost impossible to fix the DA's gathering on a certain night of the week because it had to avoid the training of the three Quidditch teams, and they were often changed due to weather conditions. This made it difficult to notify everyone, and people from different colleges frequently walked through the hall to talk, which was easy to arouse suspicion.

"Harry, I have something to give you." That day, when Harry had confirmed the activity time for next week and was about to leave the dormitory to inform others, Neville stopped him.

"What is it?" Harry was a little curious, because he couldn't figure out why Neville wanted to give him something.

"Actually, Ryan asked me to give it to you. He felt that you couldn't just post notifications on the bulletin board like we did, and that notifying one by one would be too easy to be exposed. So he made this and asked me to give it to you." After saying that, Neville took out a steel stamp with a dial on it that could change the time.

"How do you use this thing?" Harry said after taking it.

"First, drop a drop of blood on the handshake to make the prop belong to you. After that, you can give each participant a note after each activity with a Hogwarts emblem printed on the end of the handle." After hearing this, Harry looked at the handle carefully and found that the end of the handle was flat, with a Hogwarts emblem the size of his little fingertip on it.

"And then?" Harry asked.

"After confirming the time of the next gathering, you turn the dial to that time and print it on one of the slips of paper. The same thing will appear on all the slips of paper. Remember, each slip of paper can only be displayed once." Neville warned.

"Thank you so much!" Harry put away the seal, "but I think it's a bit complicated to use."

"Please! You are an underground organization, safety should come first." Neville said to Harry.

"Yeah, you're right." Harry showed a helpless expression. "I really hope that toad will go away soon."

(End of this chapter)