The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 634 School and War (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After leaving the principal's office, Ryan and Hermione didn't know what to do for a moment. It was past lunch time, but Ryan and the others didn't know what class they should go to at this time. Because they were not in Hogwarts for the previous week, so naturally they didn't know what the class schedule was for this semester.

"Why don't we go to the dormitory and pack our things first? We can't leave it in a mess." After standing stupidly at the door of the principal's office for a while, they finally decided to go back to the common room first.

What they didn't expect was that after they crawled into the Gryffindor common room, several students who stayed in the common room without classes immediately surrounded them and greeted them warmly, calling them heroes.

"What on earth happened?" After squeezing out from a group of enthusiastic classmates, Ryan directly pulled over his acquaintance Colin Creevey and asked. "Why do people call us heroes?"

"Don't you know?" Colin seemed a little surprised. "Now almost everyone here knows about your previous fight on the Hogwarts Express and your perseverance in Azkaban. You are now the most powerful heroes on our side since the start of this war. By the way, can you tell us about the specific situation in the previous battle? It's not clear in the Hogwarts Light-"

"Wait, what is the Light of Hogwarts?" Hermione asked as she came up. "Percy also mentioned the Light of Hogwarts when we walked in just now. It sounds like the name of some kind of promotional program or magazine or newspaper."

"Oh, by the way, you were in Azkaban before." Colin made a look of sudden enlightenment. "Hogwarts Light is a wizard radio station created by senior Lee Jordan and several classmates. They are on the second floor of the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade Town at the bottom of the mountain. If you stand on the Astronomy Tower, you can still see the antenna of their radio station."

Is this a war of publicity? Ryan thought that the reason why he and Hermione became the focus of publicity was definitely because they had lost so badly in the previous battle with Voldemort, so they had to find some so-called heroes to boost morale.

"What about the Death Eaters? Have any Death Eaters attacked this area recently?" Ryan asked. "They can't just stay in south London after taking over the Ministry of Magic."

"I'm not sure about that," Colin said. "I'm just a student, and the only channels for me to get in touch with outside news are Hogwarts Light Radio and the Daily Prophet. The Daily Prophet is full of nonsense now, and Hogwarts Light Radio doesn't broadcast many programs every day."

At this point, he looked at Ryan and the others who were somewhat disappointed, thought for a moment, and then added, "But on the night we arrived at the school, there were sporadic explosions from the direction of Hogsmeade all night long, and we could hear them in the Gryffindor bedroom. The next morning Dumbledore told us that it was just a sporadic attack by Death Eaters."

"After that, many wizards arrived one after another. Hogsmeade and Hogwarts also formed patrol teams. Since then, there has been no news of any attacks nearby. But according to reports on the radio, many places in the south have experienced attacks and even murders."

"It sounds terrible." Ryan shook his head. "Now I can only pray that things get better."

"It will get better in the future." Colin Creevey seemed very confident. "We have Headmaster Dumbledore, the savior Harry Potter. Oh, and even heroes like you. I believe we can defeat the You-Know-Who and win the final victory."

"Yes, we will win." Hermione said. She and Ryan both felt that as long as everyone could maintain this optimistic attitude, the war would definitely not fail.

By the time lunchtime came, some of the consequences of the war were clearly evident. There were only a dozen people sitting around the Slytherin table, and the number of people sitting around the Ravenclaw table was noticeably reduced.

The whole hall was silent. Everyone tried to keep their voices low when they spoke. Occasionally, a few people laughed loudly, which was so harsh. In the silence, the people who laughed soon stopped laughing, lowered their heads and continued to eat. "Here--" Just when Ryan and Hermione were halfway to the long table, a deliberately low voice came over. Looking in the direction of the voice, Ryan found that Ron was waving to them, and Harry and Ginny were sitting next to him.

"Nice to meet you guys." Ryan put a piece of chicken on his plate as he sat down and said as he ate. "I was on patrol last night, and I came back this morning after I ran into Moody. Then I went straight to the headmaster's office. I was on the go for 24 hours, and I only had some sandwiches and cake in Dumbledore's office this morning. I'm starving and exhausted."

"That sounds terrible, especially in a place like Azkaban." Ron shook his head. "I can't imagine you could spend a whole week there and just feel a little tired."

"Oh, right." Harry said after swallowing the food in his mouth. "Everyone is whispering that you and Hermione killed a lot of Death Eaters when the Hogwarts Express was attacked last time. Isn't that true?"

"It's true." Ryan looked at the people around him who were some distance away, and said to Harry. "Hermione and I worked together to kill 18 Death Eaters. We can be sure that they were all mercenaries hired by the You-Know-Who from abroad. Because at that time, all the elite were taken by the You-Know-Who to attack the Ministry of Magic."

"Well done." Ron slapped his thigh and said after hearing Ryan's words, "We should have taught those damn Death Eaters a lesson long ago."

Ron's voice attracted a lot of people's attention, but unlike what they had imagined, many people did not distance themselves from Ryan and his men because of their killings. Instead, they gathered around him and Hermione with excitement and asked about the details of the time. There was even a Hufflepuff girl who ran over to shake their hands and thank them.

"What's going on?" After spending more than ten minutes, Ryan roughly talked about what happened to him this week. After everyone left, he looked at Ron who was sitting across the table and asked.

"This is a terrible thing." Ron said, "On the morning of the second day of the attack, the students in the hall received a total of four letters notifying them that their relatives had died in the attack, and the families of more than a dozen people were injured in the attack. For example, the girl who just shook hands with you, her father was an Auror and also Scrimgeour's guard. He died in the same group as Scrimgeour during the attack that day."

"Damn war!" Ryan understood it all at once. Many people tend to be saintly, and the more they grow up in a peaceful and prosperous environment, the more serious this tendency is. But once a war breaks out, and the flames of war are close at hand, or even involve their loved ones, they will immediately wake up and take the right path.

This is why after learning that Ryan killed so many Death Eaters, most people were not afraid but instead thought that Ryan and his companions were heroes.

The impact of the war was not just a change in everyone's mood. For example, the dishes on the table were now fewer in number and quantity than in the past. And according to Ron, the operating requirements for everyone in Potions and Herbology classes had become more detailed, and they no longer provided almost unlimited materials for experimentation as before.

From these things, it can be clearly seen that after losing the grant from the Ministry of Magic and the donation from the school directors, the funding gap of Hogwarts has become very large. Ryan only hopes that the overall situation will improve after the injection of his own money.

(End of this chapter)