Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 260 Zombie Dog? !

But just before Ted and Hermione finished their first glass of butterbeer, a bell rang outside the window!
"Huh? Is it so late already?" Ron was in a daze and thought it was almost dinner time.

But Ted and the others knew it wasn’t!

"What's the clock striking at this time?" Jerry asked in confusion.

His words reminded Ted: "Oh no, it's a wake-up call!"

I said before that this bell might not have been rung for ten years, but now it has been rung.

Ted rushed out of the pub first, wand in hand.

When the friends saw Ted like this, they immediately followed.

When the other students saw this scene, they immediately became excited and drew their wands and shouted, "Go help Ted!"

Six or seven people rushed out of the pub like a swarm of bees, scaring the other drinkers.

Lady boss: Fortunately I always collect the money first, otherwise I would have lost a lot!
……

Let’s go back to last night.

Basel cried and stumbled out of the forbidden forest holding his crup, Sanji.

His Sanji is an experienced hunting dog and is very familiar with the Forbidden Forest.

Basel, on the other hand, was engaged in some small business of speculation.

As mentioned before, the basic life of wizards is worry-free, so there are many wizards who don't have a legitimate livelihood.

When they are short of money, they usually do some small business or work, and when they have nothing to do, they just lie down again.

Basel planned to renovate his house before winter came, so he planned to pick some herbs in the forbidden forest to sell.

He had done well in herbal medicine when he was in school, and he made do with the money he needed in recent years by picking herbs.

Although the Forbidden Forest nominally belongs to Hogwarts, it is certainly impossible for such a large magical forest to be like a feudal lord who would hang anyone who goes in to hunt!

Generally speaking, as long as you are not the kind of person who maliciously poachs magical animals on the protection list, the school will not care about your other behaviors.

Things like collecting herbs, catching some legal magical creatures, etc. are all possible.

The main thing is that I couldn't manage it even if I wanted to. Hagrid had enough trouble playing hide-and-seek with those poachers.

Generally, people don't care about this kind of behavior, and even help if they like the person.

Because of the crup Sanji, Hagrid helped Basel twice.

This time was the same. Not long after Basel came out of the Forbidden Forest in a dishevel, with mud and blood on his body, holding the dead crup Sanji in his arms, he was discovered by Hagrid.

When he saw Hagrid, Basel hugged Sanji and burst into tears.

According to him, he was stepping on moonflowers in the woods when he was attacked by a mad Tebo warthog!

While trying to protect him, Sanji was stabbed in the abdomen by the Tebo warthog.

Although Basel had applied dittany essence to Sanji, it still couldn't survive.

Hagrid felt the same way. The magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest did seem a little nervous recently. Perhaps something was happening again.

"Poor Sanji..." Hagrid also shed a few tears the size of grapes.

After Basel returned to his home in Hogsmeade, he buried Sanji behind the house with great pain and erected a tombstone for him.

However, what he didn't expect was that this afternoon, when he went to the grave to pay tribute to Sander, who had not yet recovered from the pain, Sander actually crawled out of the ground!
Then he attacked Basel, who was filled with mixed feelings of sadness and joy and was extremely shocked...

Before Basel could even take out his wand, he was knocked down and bitten by Sangji.

His cries for help alarmed the neighbors, and as a result, the "resurrected" Sangji bit his owner like crazy.

Even after being hit by three spells in a row, it still crawled towards the nearby villagers, its sharp teeth clenching with sounds.

In the panic, no one knew who used the magic wand to ring the alarm, attracting more people's attention.

By the time Ted arrived, the "resurrected Sanji" had been subdued. Behind him were eight or nine young wizards from Hogwarts, and the number of people increased rapidly.

There were already six or seven wizards gathered at the scene, and two of them were bitten.

One had multiple wounds and was bleeding a lot, and the other had a bite on his arm.

The wizards watching were discussing:

"what happened?"

"Sanji is crazy?!"

"But I heard that Sanji died last night. Basel buried it in his backyard!"

"Now what is this?" "It doesn't look normal!"

Can it be normal?

The cruffy dog had gray fur, its eyes rolled back, and a lot of sticky saliva flowed from its mouth. It had a faint stench on its body, and even though it was under the control of the spell, it was still smacking at the people nearby!
This wouldn’t happen even if you had rabies!
The first thing Ted saw was a zombie dog?!

He felt a chill in his heart!
If this is the Resident Evil T virus, then we’re done for!

I'm afraid magic can't control the spread of that thing!
For a moment, cold sweat oozed out. But soon he discovered that the "zombie crup" had magical fluctuations.

Very different magical fluctuations, never seen before.

Ted waved his hand into the air and Ansu landed on his shoulder.

Ted whispered a few words, Ansu nodded, flapped his wings and flew towards the school.

……

This matter finally alarmed the Minister of Magic Fudge.

Of course it is possible that it is because Dumbledore showed up, but a crup that was resurrected from the dead and became crazy is indeed unusual.

Things became even more unusual after the two injured soldiers were diagnosed with a strange curse by the healer at St. Mungo's.

Resurrection!
Crazy!
Curse!
These three words are intertwined together, how could they be ordinary?

Dumbledore had carefully examined the zombie crup. To be precise, it was not a zombie, but an undead crup.

Good news: it's not the T-Virus.

Bad news: It could be the Scourge! At least it's a necromancer, right?

Are there such things as necromancers in this world? Yes!

Otherwise, what are the mummies of Egypt, the zombie Taoists of the East, and the psychics of Japan?
Even the Voodoo in Africa is particularly good at creating resurrected corpses, communicating with the dead, and even contacting "gods"!
However, in recent decades, as wizards from Africa have joined the International Confederation of Wizards, many things that are not in compliance with regulations have become less and less common.

If we look at it now, there are more in South America.

However, the undead dog in front of him was completely different from the local "death magic".

This thing is terribly contagious!
If the doctors at St. Mungo's were not really very skilled and had not discovered the residual magic in the wounds of the wounded in time, and then discovered this "undead curse", I'm afraid that these two people would have died within a few days.

And after death they will become mad undead spirits that attack people and can spread 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 various equipment.

Some of them sealed off the village and prohibited anyone from entering or leaving; while others headed straight for the Forbidden Forest to find the mad Tebo warthog that Basel had mentioned.

The healers at St. Mungo's, as well as some curse breakers and potion masters, are studying how to lift the curse, and may even need to research ways to prevent it.

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 scope of the curse will continue to expand. Considering the number of various magical animals in the Forbidden Forest... it is very scary!
This time the Ministry of Magic also realized the danger and invested a huge amount of money.

Six giant magical devices with a diameter of more than two meters and a height of three and a half meters were placed around Hogsmeade, forming a hexagram magic circle, and then propped up a huge magic barrier that could cover the entire village!

That's quite a feat.

Ted knew that Hogwarts had a similar magical barrier, but firstly, it was not so large, and secondly, it was the result of thousands of years of continuous improvements.

I didn’t expect that the Ministry of Magic would use the dwarves’ magical technology to create such an advanced thing.

They are not here to eat for free!

In addition, the Aurors and strikers were all carrying some standard equipment, which had some familiar runes on them.

This is the rune equipment technology of the dwarves...

This is very good, and it is an improvement in multi-racial communication.

But there are still problems, the main one is the lack of manpower.

The number of wizards has always been a big problem.

There are about 30,000 in the UK, but they are very dispersed.

And the number of people in the Ministry of Magic's violent department dedicated to fighting is even smaller.

Most capable wizards are unwilling to be an Auror in the Ministry of Magic, let alone a striker, as their combat effectiveness level is much lower.

It's probably the difference between the armed police and the civilian police.

Since there weren't enough people, someone suggested using Dementors...