In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

"Nick? What are you doing in the boys' bathroom? Does the ghost need to use the bathroom too?"

"What? You also know the story about me being the one to take down 17 life-killing curses! Okay! Although I don't think this is anything to show off, but since so many people want to know, it doesn't matter if I tell it again! "

"No, did you hear my question? I don't want to hear it! Nick, you've been talking to everyone for almost a week! Don't say it."

"When he blocked the first death curse, Jon discovered it accidentally! He was carrying me on his back, and the naughty Gabri wanted to paint a bastard on my face. In order to stop her, Jon replaced me with When I got to him, it was because of this that in return, I saved his life."

What is the most painful thing about this time for Hogwarts students?

That is to listen to Nick take the trouble to show off that he blocked 17 killing curses.

This glorious experience even exceeded the number of times he showed off his knighthood before. Whenever he saw someone, he wanted to tell it ten times.

At first, the students were happy to listen, because the shock that Jon gave them that night was really great.

In front of the Dark Lord, he personally killed two of his capable subordinates and left him helpless. Many people wanted to know about Jon's experience in the Arctic.

But no matter how much he wanted to know, he couldn't stop Nick from being like a loudspeaker, showing off to everyone he met.

Of course, this made little difference to Jon.

The experience in the Arctic maze was not a secret, so he had nothing to mind about keeping it secret from Nick.

These days, he has been paying attention to the piece of mandrake in his mouth. Compared with the last time when he accidentally drank the milk into his stomach due to lack of experience, this time it was undoubtedly much smoother.

He persisted for more than twenty days without any problem, and just when Jon was waiting for the end of this one-month cycle, he took the leaves out of his mouth on the night of the full moon and started the next step.

An early summer drizzle enveloped Lyon.

The clear night sky was obscured, and the moonlight was separated by thick dark clouds, which meant that Jon had failed again.

On the night when the leaves are taken out of the mouth, there must be a clear night sky, and there must also be full moonlight. Only when these conditions are met, can Jon put the leaves into the crystal bottle and then fill it with saliva. Full.

And even if he thinks of leaving Lyon temporarily and going to other areas with moonlight, it will not work. On the night when he takes out the blade, it must be consistent with the place where he put the blade into his mouth. The deviation cannot be too big, otherwise it will also cause The final potion failed.

With such harsh and luck-based conditions, Jon had no choice but to hold the leaf in his mouth for a month. It was useless, so he could only get a mandrake leaf from Lily again and put it in his mouth.

In just this month, a lot of things happened in the magic world.

First of all, it was the Starlight Newspaper, a subsidiary of Wuping Line, which reported the existence of the Slytherin portrait.

Even though the Triwizard Tournament is now the bet as the orthodoxy of Hogwarts, with the support of the portrait of Salazar Slytherin himself, it is possible to effectively attack the pure bloods that serve as the basis of Voldemort's rule. superiority theory.

After all, even the ancestors who once insisted on the pure-blood theory openly stated that pure-bloods should never be superior to others. This was a fatal blow to pure-bloods' high status in public opinion.

As soon as this piece of news in the Star News was published, most newspapers across Europe followed suit and quoted it.

Although on the day of the Triwizard Tournament warrior selection, many magical governments were more inclined to Voldemort, but most of the wizarding people were still overwhelmingly opposed to the policies currently being implemented by Britain.

Of course, it goes without saying that the hemp breeds cannot support them at all. As for the mixed-bloods, they are not blind. It seems that a group has become slaves, and they have also become the beneficiaries, but the pure-bloods have also become superior, no matter how Whitewashing, mixed race is also a target of oppression.

Unless they encounter the same situation as the mixed-race people in Britain and France, and are succumbed to Voldemort's powerful personal power, and can only pinch their noses to recognize the status of this second-class citizen, otherwise who would want to change from equality to inequality ?

Therefore, even if most of the top leaders of the magical government lean towards Voldemort, among the wizarding people, as long as the war has not affected their country and there is no violent oppression, no one is willing to admit that pure blood is inherently noble.

Regarding Slytherin's remarks, more exciting news is yet to come.

As the ancestor of the Slytherin family, Salazar personally admitted that Voldemort was a descendant of his own blood, but the pure-blood leader whose real name was Tom Riddle was actually a mixed-blood!

This does not require any other proof, as long as the origin of Voldemort's life experience is found out, it is enough to be considered as irrefutable proof.

Because there are more than the twenty-eight recognized pure-blood wizard families in Europe, but there is absolutely no one with the surname Riddle!

Those purebloods who had followed Voldemort since their school days had always believed that Riddle was not Tom's real surname, and believed that he must have a more noble and distinguished family background.

Even Voldemort himself always believed this until he later found his Muggle father's family.

This news caused even more uproar.

He promoted the theory of pure-blood superiority and gained a large number of pure-blood families for this purpose. The man they respected as their master was actually a mixed-race?

For this to be confirmed would be to make Voldemort's theory self-defeating.

If purebloods are truly superior, then who are you as their leader?

For a time, Slytherin sided with Dumbledore and the question of Voldemort's bloodline caused a stir throughout Europe.

Dumbledore specifically chose this time to detonate such public opinion, and also specifically found the opportunity.

Just as he and Jon analyzed, Voldemort's actions starting from this year seemed to be trying to maintain the normal holding of the Triwizard Tournament.

In such a situation, directly using Slytherin's portrait to copy his old background is tantamount to forcing him to make a choice.

Do you want to break your skin again, or continue to endure this breath and insist on waiting for the start of the Triwizard Tournament?

If he can't stand this tone and breaks his face, he will have to bear the consequences of the blood oath being broken.

If he chooses to endure this tone, then this public opinion is like a sharp knife piercing his waist, and there is a problem with his bloodline. How should he maintain the foundation of his rule next?

In fact, regarding the issue of Voldemort's bloodline, Dumbledore's side has always mastered a key method.

But this kind of information was basically useless when it was exposed during the period when Hogwarts was still in exile in England, because at that time Voldemort had achieved a comprehensive and overwhelming victory.

The Order of the Phoenix doesn't have any channels to speak out. Even if they tell this matter, there is a lack of evidence. Even if some of Voldemort's own people know that their master has blood problems, they will only hide this idea in their stomachs.

But the situation now is completely different.

The war between Dumbledore and Voldemort had reached a turning point on the night when Wu Pinglin attacked the correctional facility.

Voldemort, who implemented a high-pressure policy with absolute force, began to reveal various problems in his rule after experiencing a defeat.

And that night, in front of so many people across Europe, Jon used the basilisk fang to pierce Bella's chest, which was equivalent to a heavy slap on Voldemort's face. .

In this case, of course, he wanted to beat up the lost dog, expose all the problems Voldemort had hidden before, and further force his situation.

As for Voldemort, after the issues about Slytherin and his own blood were exposed, he quickly counterattacked.

As Dumbledore had guessed at the beginning, Voldemort certainly did not want to break up with each other. He had protected the Triwizard Tournament in the past. With his current temperament, he would not be so irritable and abandon all the previous ones. layout.

But he didn't just sit there silently and wait for the pressure of public opinion to take hold.

Dumbledore has a propaganda outlet, but Voldemort, who has been operating in the UK for more than ten years, can certainly use public opinion to counterattack.

He adopted the simplest and most effective method and directly denied the authenticity of the Slytherin portrait that Jon brought back from the Arctic Maze in the Daily Prophet, saying that it was forged by Dumbledore himself and that it was a hoax. .

Regarding this point, the authenticity of the portrait of Slytherin is really not easy to prove. After all, it is not Slytherin himself or the ghost he left behind.

Of course, there is also the possibility of forgery in magical portraits. As long as the portrait that the Daily Prophet bit Wu Pingxian to death is a forgery, then no matter what Dumbledore's people say, they can't come up with better evidence. .

As for Voldemort's own bloodline, it is actually very simple to find a death certificate. Not all members of the Gaunt family are dead. Before Voldemort ruled Britain, he had an uncle who was imprisoned in Azkaban.

But after he himself took over the British Ministry of Magic, the last direct male of the Gaunt family disappeared.

No one knows whether Voldemort killed him like he killed his father's family, or hid it in private, and the orphanage where he lived before has been closed long ago.

The only person who knows Voldemort's true identity, apart from Dumbledore who brought Voldemort out of the orphanage, is the portrait of Slytherin himself.

Now that the Daily Prophet has said that the portrait is fake, of course they also emphasize that all the news coming from the Slytherin portrait is all lies!

The Starlight and the Daily Prophet started quarreling across the air. The editors of both newspapers used up countless quills and began to scold each other for their shamelessness.

Fang Fang denounced Voldemort for forgetting his ancestors and even lying to his own ancestors. The purebloods he led were a bunch of shameless villains from top to bottom.

One party yelled that Dumbledore dared to make up anything, even the portrait of Salazar Slytherin. If the real Salazar found out about this, he would crawl out of the coffin in anger and cast a death curse. Kill him.

The report in the Daily Prophet would inevitably reach the ears of the portrait of Slytherin already hanging on the wall of Dumbledore's office.

He was not a good-tempered old man to begin with, otherwise he would not have had such trouble with his best friend Gryffindor a thousand years ago because of bloodline issues.

After hearing that his identity was judged to be a fake, he cursed Voldemort directly, making Phoenix, who had never been very clean-mouthed, wince.

Public opinion in the magical world was also completely in chaos.

Now it is not a question of who scolded whom, the Daily Prophet or the Starlight, but which side the other wizards in Europe are willing to believe.

However, even though the two sides were scolding each other so fiercely in the newspapers, in reality, the preliminary preparations for the Triwizard Tournament were still going on.

The first thing is about the selection of game referees.

In previous Triwizard Tournaments, the referees were basically the principals of the three magic schools and the officials in charge of the event from the local Ministry of Magic.

And with the current situation, even if the competition is held in the UK, people from the British Ministry of Magic will definitely not be allowed to join the referee team in the end. That would be equivalent to directly handing over the championship to Voldemort's side.

After repeated quarrels and mutual concessions, the members of the referee team were determined to be one person from each of the two Hogwarts schools, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, plus three wizards selected by the International Federation of Wizards. A total of A seven-person refereeing team.

Letting the International Federation of Wizards send someone to be the referee is also a result acceptable to both parties.

The position of President of the International Confederation of Wizards has been vacant since Dumbledore was defeated by Voldemort ten years ago.

This organization actually does not have much actual power at ordinary times. It only provides a communication platform for various magical governments around the world.

It is precisely because there are all kinds of wizards within the organization's structure that it is easy to reach a unified opinion. Regarding the disputes currently taking place in Europe, most people still have a spectator mentality.

This time they chose to send three people to serve as referees, and there were identity restrictions on the wizards sent.

The rule recognized by both Voldemort and Dumbledore is that the International Federation of Wizards cannot send any European wizards to serve as referees, and can only choose wizards from other continents.

After the referees are determined, the problems regarding the competition items will naturally be solved.

Normally, the Triwizard Tournament only has three elements. Now, including people from the International Federation of Wizards on the referee team, there are exactly three parties.

The content of the competition will be selected by each force, and then people from the International Federation of Wizards will partially modify and integrate it, and finally the entire competition will be finalized.