Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 114: The Bugbears of Knockturn Alley
For example, the Malfoy family, it was said that they had to give up more than half of their property to barely clear themselves of the charges - mainly because Lucius was rather cunning and low-key, so there was no direct evidence in the trial - he insisted that he was under the control of the Imperius Curse, and this was his only chance to get away with it.

As for those who showed their faces and did evil, they were either dead or thrown into Azkaban, where they are still suffering.

But even if they hadn't been captured, the Malfoy family had a hard time these years.

If it were decades ago, would the Malfoy family still be afraid of a search for dark magic items led by the Director of the Ministry of Magic's Department of Religious Affairs?

Some time ago, Lucius was forced to clear out a wave of dangerous items passed down from his ancestors at home, for fear of being caught.

These are all ancestral inheritance and money!
Lucius had always looked down on the Weasley family, and now he hated them even more.

Ted glanced at Ginny, who was at a loss with her head down, and the second-hand cauldron and textbook in her hands, and felt that Lucius must be taking the opportunity to take revenge.

He certainly didn't know that the diary Voldemort left in his house was a Horcrux, otherwise he would never have taken it out even if he was beaten to death.

If I mess things up this time, I may not have the chance to destroy the notebook in the future.

This Horcrux is different from the others. It is the first Horcrux, carrying Voldemort's memories and personality at the time, and has self-awareness.

Later Horcruxes were no longer effective, probably because Voldemort’s technology had improved and he would not leave such loopholes that could cause him to attack himself.

Maybe Voldemort had deceived Lucius, saying that the notebook was the key to Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

This is very possible. Using one secret to cover up another secret is an old trick.

So Lucius wanted to give the diary to Ginny in order to retaliate against Mr. Arthur's series of targeted policies.

Think about it, if Ginny opened the Chamber of Secrets and killed the Muggles, and she was of pure-blood origin, this would undoubtedly deal a huge blow to her father's pro-Muggle stance.

The more Ted thought about it, the more he found it noteworthy. Although Voldemort had been gone for more than a decade, the struggle between pure-blood and Muggle wizards had never actually stopped.

The bookstore fighting match had just been decided, and the two contestants were still exchanging harsh words before leaving the venue. Suddenly, a commotion and shouting could be heard from the street outside.

Ted and his friends turned around suddenly and saw seven or eight wizards holding up their robes and running towards them like crazy, shouting as they ran: "Run! Run! There's a monster!"

"A monster rushed out of Knockturn Alley!"

"Not just one, but many!"

"Ah~~~Run!"

"Mom, Mom, where are you~"

The wizards had been in peace for a long time and had no idea how to deal with emergencies, so they panicked. In an instant, children cried, wives screamed, and the streets were in chaos.

I heard clanging sounds of smashing and destroying things in the distance, as if the demolition crew had arrived.

There were also some sounds of wizards chanting spells, but the situation didn't look good because the wizards were still running towards this side.

The situation was no different from that of Muggles in crisis.

Ansu, who was watching the wizard boxing match, received Ted's signal and instantly took off into the air, flying towards the direction of the approaching chaos.

Ted's psychic powers connected to Anzu's spirit and he closed one eye to switch to Anzu's perspective.

At a fork in the road less than a hundred meters away, a group of wizards were crawling out. There were normal wizards, but also some with big noses and hunchbacks who didn't look like good people at first glance.

Among them was even the owner of Borgin and Burke's, whom Ted had spied on before!

They were running out of Knockturn Alley, with some strange things chasing them.

There are fish-headed monsters with green and bluish bodies, covered with scales and mucus, like long and thin arms and legs, walking upright.

This is a murloc, which is different from a mermaid. Mermaids are more human-like, while murlocs are more fish-like.

Ted had only heard of and seen animated paintings in books, but this was the first time he saw a living one.

The book says that the fish people are brutal by nature. Although they have their own language and some of them can even cast a few magic spells, they actually eat people!

These four or five murlocs, led by a taller murloc, were holding simple sticks and brooms, shouting and chasing the dark wizard in Knockturn Alley. Although they were knocked down by magic spells from time to time, they seemed to have strong magic resistance and had not lost their fighting power. They got up and continued to chase.

Behind the fish-man, there were seven or eight creatures that looked very much like fairies, with similar noses, ears, and sizes.

But their eyes were even more brutal and bloodthirsty, their mouths were full of fangs, their nails were dirty and sharp, and they held crucibles and benches snatched from the street as weapons, and they howled and cheered from behind.

Is this... a goblin?

According to what is written in the book, goblins are not very courageous. A group of seven or eight like this should not dare to attack wizards with a larger number?

The reason why they are so brave is that they have a backbone - a monster that is more than two meters tall, two meters thick, covered with hair, with hands hanging down to the knees, a face like a brown bear, a mouth with long and sharp teeth, and a pig nose!

This turned out to be a bugbear!

There is still a piece of chain left on its wrist!

Level 10 Furious Bugbear Marauder/Level 2 Anti-Magic Monster…Total level 12 monsters!

According to Ted's appraisal, the magic resistance of this bear goblin is as high as level 5!
This was the highest magic resistance Ted had ever seen. Even the crippled Voldemort might not have had this high.

Perhaps, only high-level magical animals such as unicorns and phoenixes have such high magic resistance.

Basically, all beings with magical powers have a certain degree of magic resistance.

And if something is constantly under the influence of magic but doesn't die from it, it will easily develop an adaptability under the long-term influence.

That means magic resistance has been upgraded!

And this bugbear is just that.

It is an elite bugbear, one of the more capable bugbears, specializing in attacking plunderers of other creatures.

It was captured by a specialized Dark Wizard hunting team and sold to Knockturn Alley.

In Professor Quirrell's experimental memory, Ted saw him buy alien monsters from some black market merchants in Knockturn Alley for experiments.

Although the Ministry of Magic has issued relevant laws prohibiting the private capture and sale of alien monsters, there are still people who do it because it is profitable.

Bear goblins like this are not weak in themselves, but the market has been bad recently, and they have been kept in Knockturn Alley for more than a month without being sold.

So the black wizard shop owner used it to experiment with magic, and ended up upgrading its magic resistance, turning it into some kind of magic-resistant monster.

Then a small accident gave the bear goblin the opportunity to directly destroy the magic cage and shackles, and with a torn-to-pieces spell and a stunning spell, he smashed the dark wizard's head.

Then it lost its temper and smashed the underground warehouse to pieces, and some other "goods" also took the opportunity to escape.

In fact, Ted and his team are only facing a part of it, and there is still another part in Knockturn Alley!

"Ah~" The bear goblin, who had been tortured for a month, was going crazy. He howled and rushed out of Knockturn Alley, followed by a group of goblins who were temporarily attached to him.

Seeing the two spells hitting it, the bugbear only paused for a moment and had a few tufts of fur knocked off!
At this time, Gringotts, located at the intersection of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, was the first to be hit.

The goblin guard in red saw that something was wrong and shouted sharply, "Quick! Close the door, close the door!"

This sound attracted the enemy, and the bear goblin actually rushed directly towards the two goblin guards who were wearing bright red and were very conspicuous, just like a mad bull seeing a bullfighter holding a red cloth.

"Paisiasla~" An elf guard stretched out his unusually long fingers and chanted a spell in the elf language at the top of his lungs.

No one knew what effect this spell had, but it just made the bear goblin shake for a moment, and then it rushed up six or seven steps at a time.

When he raised his hand, he saw an iron rod, which should have been removed from the iron cage.

Although the goblin guard seemed to have cast a protective magic on himself, he was still knocked away like a cannonball, vomiting blood when he fell to the ground.

Before he could struggle to get up, a face that looked somewhat similar to his, but with more cunning and cruelty, appeared. A long and narrow "dagger" made of broken glass with a rag wrapped at the end was inserted directly into his eye socket, and blood gushed out.
The goblin who had killed this "respectable distant relative" by surprise laughed triumphantly, his body covered in blood, and jumped around with excitement.

(End of this chapter)