Hogwarts Fire and Ice

Chapter 707 I killed Dumbledore?
After the tragic news of Dumbledore's murder spread from Hogwarts Castle, the entire British wizarding community was in an uproar.

People couldn't believe that Dumbledore, who once led people to defeat two generations of Dark Lords and was known as the greatest white wizard of this century, would be murdered in his own headmaster's office.

Who can kill Dumbledore? Who dares to kill Dumbledore?!

People in the British wizarding community couldn't believe that a small professor at Hogwarts could kill Dumbledore, a demon-level wizard. They would rather believe that Voldemort had made a comeback than believe that Dumbledore was killed by his professors.

Because that means that the professors in Hogwarts Castle will no longer be trustworthy, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will no longer be trustworthy, and Hogwarts, which has a large amount of munitions from Weasley's Arms Shop, will replace Voldemort as the biggest threat to the British wizarding world!

Therefore, rumors spread throughout the British wizarding world that Voldemort had broken into Hogwarts Castle and escaped after killing Dumbledore. What was even more outrageous was that this rumor was firmly believed by the vast majority of wizards in the British wizarding world!

This caused the British wizarding community to once again feel panic since the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts Castle purchased large quantities of arms.

With Dumbledore dead, who could lead them? Who could protect them?

For the wizards in the British wizarding world, especially the older generation, Dumbledore is their Optimus Prime. When Dumbledore dies, their sky will fall!
Meanwhile, at Avery Manor.

Looking at the worshipping and admiring eyes of the Death Eaters kneeling on the ground in front of him, and McNeill who was telling him the rumors that had spread throughout the British wizarding world, Voldemort widened his scarlet eyes.

Voldemort stretched out his hand in disbelief and pointed at himself: "Me? I killed Dumbledore?"

Voldemort was confused. He had been hiding in Avery Manor these days to accumulate his strength and plunder the power of the stars for his own use. How could he kill Dumbledore? !
At this moment, Yaxley, who had just returned from the Forbidden Forest, approached Voldemort and whispered, "There is another story in Hogwarts Castle. It is that your servant, Severus Snape, killed Dumbledore and then escaped from Hogwarts."

Hearing Yaxley's words, Voldemort's brows relaxed.

Although it was also unbelievable that Severus Snape, the former Death Eater who had betrayed him long ago, killed Dumbledore, he would rather believe that it was the traitor who killed Dumbledore than to believe that it was the traitor who killed Dumbledore.

"Severus Snape..." Voldemort lowered his eyes slightly and asked in a deep voice, "Has he contacted us recently?"

Yaxley said respectfully, "No, we have long lost contact with Severus Snape, and he has long since moved away from the Spider Alley we know of. The only way for him to contact us is through the Dark Mark to contact you, my master."

Hearing Yaxley's words, Voldemort frowned again.

Since his resurrection, he has never sensed the Dark Mark on Severus Snape, which made him certain that Severus Snape had betrayed him.

But if Severus was not loyal to him, why did he kill Dumbledore? !
Did he also want to become the Dark Lord? The third generation Dark Lord? !

This absurd and ridiculous guess made Voldemort couldn't help but chuckle. He said lightly: "Severus Snape has not contacted me. He is still a traitor, a traitor who betrayed the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord."

Yaxley nodded and said, "Understood, my Lord."

...Hogwarts Castle.

Ever since the tragic news of Dumbledore's murder came out, the entire castle has been in a state of depression. The professors seemed to have lost their backbone, and the young wizards were even more distraught.

Lynn and Irina wandered around the sealed principal's office more than once, looking for a way to get in, but still found nothing.

They found Professor McGonagall, the vice-president, but she told them helplessly that even though she was the vice-president, she did not have the authority to enter the principal's office without permission.

What's more, when Dumbledore was murdered, she was outside the boundaries of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in charge of conducting Irina's Apparition test!
This made Dumbledore's death a completely unsolved mystery. They couldn't even find Dumbledore's body, and the identity of the murderer all came from people's speculation.

Old Barty contacted Lynn through the two-way mirror more than once to ask about Dumbledore's murder, but Lynn could only helplessly tell Old Barty that he knew nothing about it either.

Dumbledore's death made many people depressed.

Maybe other people can be bad and decadent, but not Professor McGonagall.

As the deputy headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, after Dumbledore's death, all matters piled on her. She needed to take on the responsibilities of deputy headmaster. There were so many things she had to deal with that it almost overwhelmed her!

The day before Dumbledore's funeral, Lynn found Professor McGonagall.

Lynn said, "Professor McGonagall, if possible, I would like to give a speech at Professor Dumbledore's funeral."

According to Western tradition, the person who gives a speech at a funeral is usually a priest in the church, but since the witch-hunting movement in the Middle Ages, the relationship between the magic world and the church can be imagined.

At a wizard's funeral, the person responsible for the speech is no longer a priest, but an elder who is highly respected in the magical world, or the relatives and friends of the deceased.

Staring at Lin En's dark red eyes, Professor McGonagall hesitated, nodded, and said softly: "Okay..."

Soon, the day of the funeral arrived.

The atmosphere in the auditorium was very depressing. The long tables of the four major colleges were removed and replaced with chairs.

All the teachers and students of Hogwarts Castle were present, but after they were all seated, they only occupied one-third of the chairs in the auditorium.

The people sitting on the remaining chairs were of all kinds, a mixed bunch, some in rags, some neat and respectable. They were wizards from the British magical world, they came to mourn the dead Dumbledore, so they came.

Sitting in the front row of the auditorium were staff of the Ministry of Magic headed by Old Barty, professors of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry headed by Professor McGonagall, members of the Order of the Phoenix headed by Sirius Black, and core members of the DA Army headed by Neville.

(End of this chapter)