Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

After solving Karkaroff's matter, Zhang Xu and Percy left the Pig's Head Bar together.

As soon as he walked out of the door, he saw Ron and Neville, with tears in their eyes, carrying a stretcher covered with a white cloth from a house used as a medical point to the place where the victims were temporarily placed not far away. Followed by Harley and the other three girls.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xu froze for a moment. He turned to look at Percy beside him, and found that he was also looking at himself in surprise.

So Zhang Xu and Percy followed at the same time.

At the end of Hogsmeade's main road not far from the Pig's Head pub, two rows of stretchers covered with white cloth were neatly arranged on the ground.

A staff member with a gloomy face came over, asked Ron a few words in a low voice, and then he pointed to one of the rows of stretchers on the ground, signaling Ron and the others to put the stretchers there.

In this section of the street, there is only the whirring of the north wind, and the weeping mixed with the wind from time to time.

Ron and Neville gently placed the stretcher in the row belonging to the Auror's victims, and another member of the Ministry of Magic walked over with a notepad and a quill.

They all knew this staff member, Zhang Xu. She was Gemma Farley, the headmistress of the Snake Academy in the same class as Percy.

When Gemma Farley lifted the white cloth covering the victim's head, she shouted in surprise: "Canning!" At the same time, the notepad and quill in her hand fell to the ground with a "click".

At this time Zhang Xu and Percy also recognized the victim.

George Canning, a former student of Hogwarts Snake House, also served as the President of the Boys' Union in 19921993.In that basilisk-infested school year, it was he, Zhang Xu, Percy and others who formed Hogwarts' first student self-defense force from scratch.In the final decisive battle with the basilisk, he also brilliantly directed the evacuation of the students in the castle.In addition, it was only because of his efforts that the students of the Snake Academy changed their attitude of "I can't die with my pure blood anyway" and joined the ranks of fighting against the basilisk.After graduation, he joined the ranks of Aurors along with many of his classmates who participated in the Battle of the Basilisk.

"Bloodlines are our glory, but they should not be the shackles of our self-styled shackles. Going back 3000 years, which of our families dare to claim their ancestors must be a wizard? It is the driving force for us to strive for strength and strive for the top forever, rather than a reason for our arrogance."

This is the point of view that George Canning has always insisted on. It is his point of view that has influenced many students of the Snake Academy, and made them let go of their prejudices and join hands with students from other colleges to fight against the enemy.

It's just that the high-spirited president of the student union back then has now turned into a cold corpse, lying under a white cloth.

Percy walked over, patted Gemma Farley on the shoulder, and softly comforted his old classmate who was covering his face and crying.

Today, this sad scene is repeated here, and other staff members who are responsible for registering identities and arranging remains just glanced at this side, sighed, and then resumed their work at hand.

Zhang Xu looked around and saw an acquaintance sitting on the stone steps in front of a house not far away, so he walked over and sat down beside him.

Rejecting the cigarettes offered by Bell, Zhang Xu took out two cans of beer, frozen them and handed one to Bell.

The two bumped into each other, and after drinking half a can of beer in one gulp, they quietly looked at the victims in front of them.

Zhang Xu didn't know how many familiar people like George Canning would lie under the white cloth like the person in front of him now and in the future.

Sometimes the dead is just a number, but for some people, the appearance of the dead is to poach a part of their life away.

At this time, another person sat beside Zhang Xu.

Not long after, a smell of burning cigars wafted from the side.

"Is this the result you want?" Horatio Rodney asked Zhang Xu, pointing at the dead in front of him with a cigar in his hand.

"If it were us, today there would be an artillery company providing fire support, two machine gun platoons on the flanks providing fire support, and three infantry companies making roundabouts and encircling them." Zhang Xu said calmly, "Dumbledore and I are formulating When planning, although you didn’t say it clearly, you have already taken your firepower advantage into consideration. So I don’t understand why you guys still use thin red line tactics when you clearly have ways to reduce casualties? Maybe Saddam Hussein Come to command, he is more optimistic than the current situation, at least he will use artillery and air force."

Old Rodney's throat moved a few times, trying to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh.

Having said that, I can't say any more.Old Rodney was silent for a long time. After smoking the cigar in his hand, he got up and left.

Bell, who was sitting on the side, said at this time: "It's not that we don't want to do some things, but we can't."

Zhang Xu guessed half of the reason, but this is not something he can change.

So all Zhang Xu could do was sigh.

Not far away, Harry and the others found a few more acquaintances under the white cloth, and the hands and feet of the group were already shaking.

This is the reality they have to face. Zhang Xu brought them here today to let them understand what the next battle will be like.

The era of the Disarming Curse, Petrification Curse, and Stunning Curse has passed, and what they will face next will be a bloody and cruel world.

If Harley fails to survive this level, then Zhang Xu can only give her to the remaining dementors.

After finishing the beer in his hand, Zhang Xu stood up and walked outside Hogsmeade village.

The corpses of the Death Eaters who were killed today have been collected, and they are all neatly arranged in the open space outside the village.

The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic and Percy's "Rainbow Squad" members are recording the characteristics of the dead Death Eaters, and then passing them on to the International Auror Organization to determine the identities of these dark wizards from various European countries.

After going around in and out of Hogsmeade, Zhang Xu brought Harry and the others back to Hogwarts, and then returned to the Rockwell Hotel in Edinburgh without having dinner.

After returning to the room, Zhang Xu wrote today's experience into a detailed report, which was encrypted, packaged, and re-encrypted, and sent back to China.

After finishing all this, Zhang Xu took a hot bath, lay down on the bed and didn't want to move.

His head has been aching since the afternoon, and now he needs a full night's sleep to refresh himself.