Hogwarts: Who uses a crowbar in wizard duels?

"What are you doing?"

When Hermione entered Kevin's workspace, she saw a strange scene.

Kevin sat on the far right sofa, reading a book while adjusting his collar.

Harry sat on the far left sofa, frantically straightening his disheveled clothes.

Ron sat on the sofa in the middle, burying his face in the newspaper, pretending he hadn't seen anything.

"What? What are you doing? We didn't do anything."

Harry immediately defended himself when he saw Hermione enter.

Seeing Harry's attempt to cover up his misunderstanding, Hermione looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, but still moved closer to Kevin first.

"Kevin, have you read today's newspaper?"

"No, is there any big news?"

Kevin put down his book and asked curiously.

When Ron ran in just now, he seemed to be holding a newspaper, as if he wanted to tell them something.

"The Death Eaters stormed the Ministry of Magic and released all the prisoners they were temporarily holding."

Hermione also took out a newspaper and handed it to Kevin.

Upon hearing that the Death Eaters had appeared, Harry, who was standing nearby, also became alert and immediately came over to look at the news in the newspaper.

The Ministry of Magic has been invaded by Death Eaters!! Voldemort has appeared at the Ministry of Magic!!

[Ministry of Magic prisoners riot!]

The front page of the newspapers clearly reported these two major events.

There were several photos inside, the scenes of which were very chaotic, and even the camera angles were crooked.

It wasn't just a battle between Death Eaters and Aurors; many Dementors, golems, and werewolves also joined the fray.

Due to a series of reasons, including the Death Eaters' previous prison break and sabotage, as well as the Soul Eaters' collective defection, Azkaban's ability to imprison prisoners has been greatly reduced.

So the Ministry of Magic temporarily set up a large detention facility within its headquarters.

This place is home to Britain's most elite Aurors, making it far safer than the current Azkaban.

But they still didn't expect that Voldemort would actually lead his men in and rescue a large number of criminals.

Most of them were Death Eaters.

"No, how dare Voldemort? And why didn't the Ministry of Magic notify the Order of the Phoenix for backup in time?"

Harry said in disbelief after reading it.

This happened just a few hours ago in the early hours of the morning, and they only found out about it now through the newspaper.

Where is the principal now?

Kevin was quite surprised to receive the news so late, so he asked about Dumbledore's whereabouts.

They don't have many people in the Ministry of Magic. The only ones who can be considered core members of the Order of the Phoenix are Mr. Weasley, Tonks, and Shackleton.

They all had the Order of the Phoenix badges they had prepared beforehand, but there was no movement at all last night.

Either they just happened to be away from the Ministry of Magic last night, or the incident didn't affect them.

"Professor McGonagall said he went out to deal with this in the early hours of the morning, and he should be back soon."

Hermione happened to run into Professor McGonagall before she arrived, so she asked her about her.

"Ron, is there any news about your father?" Kevin asked Ron again.

"Well, actually, that's what I came here to talk about."

Ron also unfolded his newspaper. He had originally intended to tell Kevin about it, but Harry and Kevin's actions had been so ambiguous that he had forgotten about it...

Then Ron took out an opened letter.

"My dad said he wasn't at the Ministry of Magic last night, so he didn't find out the details right away."

"But according to the information he gathered, it was learned that everything last night was premeditated."

"The Death Eaters had infiltrated the Ministry of Magic beforehand for this prison break operation. Their people had been infiltrated all the way from the prison to the Ministry of Magic's exit."

"Finally, the plan began with Voldemort leading his men into the Ministry of Magic, and his intrusion attracted everyone's attention."

"And almost at the same time Voldemort broke in, all the Death Eaters in the prison revealed their true forms and released a large number of criminals at an extremely fast pace."

"Then Death Eaters were there to help them all the way to the exit of the Ministry of Magic. Voldemort led a group of them away, while the remaining criminals caused chaos at the Ministry of Magic to cover for them."

"The entire prison break took less than 15 minutes, and they all escaped unscathed, leaving behind a group of rioting criminals. The Ministry of Magic did not completely quell the unrest until this morning, and they are currently compiling a list of names and assessing the extent of the damage."

After Ron handed the letter to the others to read, he slowly spoke.

The contents of the letter were almost identical to what Ron had said.

After reading it, Kevin stroked his chin and began to think.

Voldemort's actions this time are truly incomprehensible.

They brought a group of people to rescue another group, but the number of people rescued was probably less than the number of people lost in the operation.

This was completely unnecessary and only increased the tension of wartime, which was clearly not conducive to the growth of the Death Eaters.

Voldemort's true purpose was probably to rescue a certain, or some, important criminal.

But Voldemort had previously broken into Azkaban and released many Death Eaters.

If there were Death Eaters who were important to him, he should have been rescued by then.

Why wait until now to rescue them?

It could be for some reason that he didn't want to attract attention, but Kevin thought that was unlikely.

Either they were Death Eaters who were released and then re-entered.

Kevin immediately thought of Bellatrix.

When Kevin led a group of Death Eaters to attack Hermione's parents, all of them except Bella were killed by Kevin.

Bella, the only survivor, was imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic.

However, more than half a year has passed since this incident, and Voldemort is only now going to break him out of prison.

"Ron, write a letter to Uncle Arthur and ask him to help me find out the list of recently arrested Death Eaters, the list of Death Eaters who are about to be executed, and the list of criminals who escaped this time. I want to make a comparison."

Kevin thought for a moment, then spoke to Ron, who nodded in agreement.

"Kevin, are you trying to find out Voldemort's motives for this prison break?"

The clever Hermione immediately guessed Kevin's idea when she heard about his arrangement.

"Hmm, Voldemort's actions this time are definitely to rescue someone."

"Either they are recently captured Death Eaters, or they are Death Eaters who are about to be executed."

"Find this man. The more Voldemort tries to save him, the more we must catch him."

The group quickly understood Kevin's meaning: perhaps they could obtain some important information from that person, so important that Voldemort would not hesitate to break into the Ministry of Magic.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. When they opened it, it was Professor McGonagall.

"Kevin, the principal wants to see you in his office."

Professor McGonagall spoke to Kevin.

"Professor Dumbledore is back? I want to go too!"

Harry, who was standing to the side, was the first to stand up and speak.

Dumbledore calling Kevin over at this time must be because of Voldemort, and Harry naturally didn't want to miss it.

"Then you can all go together."

Professor McGonagall did not stop them; Voldemort's affairs were already closely related to them.

So the group set off together for the principal's office.