Study Days at Hogwarts

Chapter 1500 Death is coming

While the anti-Voldemort alliance was preparing for the upcoming decisive battle at Hogwarts, Voldemort, who had just experienced a severe beating in Nurmengard Prison, was shrinking his power and planning to retract the tentacles he had previously extended back to Britain. .

Now that the death stick is in hand, continuing to stay in the European continent will easily cause endless trouble for oneself.

As for the previous grievances with the Ministry of Magic in various European countries, Voldemort believed that no country would be foolish enough to come to his territory to cause trouble.

However, this order greatly disappointed the dark wizards who were ready to cause trouble. They thought that Voldemort would cause a big storm in various European countries, but they did not expect that it would end in a playful way.

Most dark wizards are particularly dissatisfied with this. How can they, who are used to living a life of "eating a lot of meat", be willing to live a bad life of "eating chaffy vegetables"?

It's a pity that after Voldemort returned to England, there was no protection from the Dark Lord. The previous group of guys who used "Voldemort's name" to do bad things were all blacklisted by the Ministry of Magic of various countries. If they didn't run away quickly, they would be arrested sooner or later. The angry Aurors were wiped out, and the group of dark wizards who caused the most violence were directly abandoned by Voldemort, in order to alleviate the anger of European countries and prevent these guys from having nowhere to vent and really go to the UK to fight with them. .

  It is a pity that peace no longer exists since Voldemort went to Europe to cause trouble. Some people who are possessed by hatred will not allow their Ministry of Magic to compromise with the Dark Lord.

This directly caused Yaxley, Voldemort's right-hand man, to become extremely busy. Not only did he need to find time to listen to and appease the "complaints" of the dark wizards, he also needed to use the name of the Ministry of Magic to negotiate with various European countries in order to obtain use. “Peaceful” settlement of disputes.

 In fact, it is to give those guys a step down, so that they can have political achievements to calm the anger of the residents under their rule and prevent both sides from making too much trouble.

No one wants to be killed while sleeping at night.

 A verbal agreement was born.

As for the unlucky ones who were sacrificed, they did not cause much disturbance among the dark wizards. The dark wizards who are willing to join Voldemort's command are mostly selfish guys.

This can also be seen from the meeting held by Voldemort. The group of foreign Death Eaters barely agreed with sacrificing some insignificant dark wizards to relieve the crisis caused by various European countries, and were even willing to take the initiative. Pushing forward, he didn't care about the life or death of his dark wizards at all.

The reason is actually very simple. When they become a member of the Death Eaters, their own interests will be tied to Voldemort.

 As for the dark wizards under their command, they are just cannon fodder to realize their ambitions.

After the meeting on "How to Completely Eliminate the Threat from European Countries", Snape returned to Hogwarts in a particularly heavy mood.

 Because in the previous meeting, he actually felt hostility from the Dark Lord.

The Dark Lord wants to kill himself?

 Snape suddenly had a ridiculous idea in his mind.

Why?

 This is not normal.

After all, Snape was not only the man who killed Dumbledore, but also the Dark Lord's right-hand man, helping him control the students at Hogwarts and having considerable influence among the Death Eaters.

 Why did Voldemort still want to cut off his own hand?

 This is very unreasonable.

 But Snape didn't think that was an illusion.

 Because the murderous intention was too strong.

 Could it be that Voldemort discovered that he was an undercover agent?

impossible.

If the Dark Lord really discovered this secret, he would have been killed long ago without leaving any chance.

 Why exactly?

 When Snape connected the things, he immediately suspected that it was related to the Death Stick.

Voldemort's choice to shrink his power must be related to the day he went to Nurmengard to find Grindelwald, and the Dark Lord went to see Grindelwald just for the death stick.

With the Dark Lord's behavior, asking everyone to evacuate from the European continent at this time means that the death stick has been obtained. The question is, why did the Dark Lord want to kill himself after getting the death stick?

If anyone knew why - Snape turned his attention to the portrait of Dumbledore pretending to sleep on the wall. Only he and Albert could know the secret.

Moreover, it seems that they dug the hole in Nurmengard for the Dark Lord.

Faced with Snape's questions, Dumbledore's portrait chose to pretend to be asleep, as if he had no intention of answering his questions.

“It seems that I am also a tool that you just throw away after use, just like Harry Potter.”

Looking at Dumbledore's portrait, Snape laughed at himself, "I was still pitying Harry Potter before, thinking that he was a pig you raised to be slaughtered. It was really ridiculous."

 After hearing Snape's words, Dumbledore's portrait was finally willing to open his eyes.

"I am dead, Severus. Don't be too harsh on dead people."

 “What’s with that death stick? Don’t tell me you don’t know why.”

Snape is not afraid of death, but he hates being treated as a fool, and he doesn't want to be killed by Voldemort one day and die in an unknown way.

　　Yes, Snape never thought that the Dark Lord would let him go.

He didn't kill himself directly now, probably because the situation was unstable. After they resolved the threat from the European continent, Snape suspected that he would die suddenly and inexplicably.

Instinct told him that his death was probably Dumbledore's conspiracy against the Dark Lord.

To this day, Snape still believes that the death stick Voldemort is looking for is the one in Dumbledore's tomb. This is why Voldemort believed that he had obtained the death stick after seeing Grindelwald.

 The reason is also very simple.

 Grindelwald once obtained the Death Stick, but after he was defeated by Dumbledore, the wand naturally fell into the old man's hands. This is probably the secret why Dumbledore is still extremely powerful after living for a century.

The wand was taken to the grave by Dumbledore after his death and eventually fell into the hands of Voldemort.

 The question is, if the Death Stick was so powerful, how could Albert Anderson allow it to fall into Voldemort's hands?

 Wouldn't it be better for him to kill Voldemort with the death stick himself? This is why Snape determined that the wand must be a hole dug by these two insidious and cunning guys for the Dark Lord. There is no doubt that Voldemort has fallen into it.

As for why he was targeted by Voldemort, Snape still had not figured it out, but he believed that Dumbledore would tell him.

"Because you killed me." Dumbledore said softly, "That wand can only be regarded as an ordinary wand in Voldemort's hands. Voldemort who took it from my tomb is not the real owner of the Elder Wand."

"Voldemort thinks that he can gain control of the wand by killing me?" Snape wanted to understand, "But I don't believe you will let him have that kind of power, unless the wand is fake, or I He is not the real owner of that wand at all, and after Voldemort kills me, he still cannot completely control that wand."

 "So...Albert Anderson." Snape murmured softly, "He is the real master of the Elder Wand."

 “When Albert fights Voldemort…”

The expression on Snape's face was particularly exciting, and it was not difficult for him to guess what the outcome would be.

"Don't worry, I will keep it a secret. When I promised to go back, I already had a premonition that this day would come." Snape glanced at Dumbledore's portrait, turned around and left the principal's office.

 (End of this chapter)