Hogwarts: Harry Returns from the Witcher.

Chapter 377 Letter
Not very strong bad alcohol smell.

It is mixed with food rot, soil rot, and even goat manure and sheep mutton.

"The sheepfold at the end of the secret passage?" Snape sneered.

Harry realized where it was, and without speaking, he raised his hand and poked Dumbledore, motioning him to turn around.

Dumbledore looked.

Behind them, what was pushed open just now was not a door or a window, but a painting, shaking slightly, on which a young girl with a faint smile was drawn.

"Arianna." He whispered the name of the girl in the portrait.

Snape's expression changed slightly, and his mouth was tightly squeezed.

He had heard the name.

"The pig's head bar is at the end of the secret passage in the Room of Requirement?" Dumbledore couldn't take his eyes off the portrait. He walked up to the portrait, raised his hand, and carefully placed it on the frame, "Haha Li, you should have been lighter just now."

"Sorry." Harry said politely.

"Aberforth shouldn't have put her here." Dumbledore touched the frame vigorously, "It's too dangerous here."

The remaining two people did not speak, listening to Dumbledore complaining.

The people in the room were finally woken up.

He came out holding a dim oil lamp.

"Thief? Mundungus?" The voice that just woke up was slightly hoarse, and the footsteps seemed heavy and hurried.

Aberforth stepped out and saw the only thing he cared about, three people standing next to the painting, the voice became furious: "Get off that painting, you three are dirty."

His words were not finished.

Realizing who these three people were, the voice stopped abruptly.

I met Harry Potter once in a while, and occasionally came to the Pig's Head Bar for a drink.

That annoying Severus Snape.

And
Albus Dumbledore, the elder brother whom he had not seen or even corresponded with for decades.

"Rare customers." Aberforth looked at them, and after a long while, he opened his mouth with difficulty, "It's really an honor for three famous people to come to me instead of the Three Broomsticks."

"But sorry."

"Now is not the business hours of our store."

"You are not welcome here."

Dumbledore bowed his head and said nothing.

Snape frowned slightly.

Harry replied, "We're not here to drink."

"Actually, we just found a secret passage at Hogwarts. It just so happens that the exit of the secret passage is at the Pig's Head Pub."

Aberforth nodded, "I see."

"I was thinking, how could the greatest white wizard, the chief wizard of the Wizengamot, and the busy headmaster of Hogwarts find time to come to see me? Although the timing is very inopportune."

Dumbledore turned his head away and said nothing.

"Has anyone come out of this secret passage these days?" Harry asked him.

Aberforth shook his head: "I saw you, you were the first batch. In fact, it was the first time I knew there was a secret passage here."

"I haven't seen anyone come out of here before."

Without speaking, Harry waved his wand, carefully removed the portrait, and put it on the bar counter beside him.

Behind the portrait is a mirror.

"This mirror has been there since I bought this store." Aberforth explained, "It seems to have been permanently glued on it, and there is no way to take it off, and I am too lazy to redecorate it, just the right angle It's also very good, just hang Ariana's portrait over there."

Harry looked at the mirror and said the spell.

"Hurry up!"

But the mirror didn't respond and hung quietly on the wall.

Dumbledore and Snape also came over and, in their own way, examined the mirror.

Harry even walked back and forth in front of the mirror three times with the idea of ​​"I need a secret passage to Hogwarts"-after all, the secret passage is part of the "Room of Requirement", and the mirror is used as an exit, so it should be It's an extension of the Room of Requirement, but still nothing happens.

Mantras and thoughts cannot be used as keys to open the secret path.

Even no matter how they experimented with the mirror, there was no clue to open the secret passage.

Aberforth didn't participate in the decryption, and kept complaining about the three of them destroying his dream, but still prepared water for them.

"It seems that we have to decide for the time being that there is no way to open the secret passage leading to Hogwarts from the outside." Harry held the cup in his hand, watching Snape open the door, and the crisp wind blowing in, lingering in his mind The dull air was blown away, "This is good news, we don't have to worry about him coming in through this secret passage."

Dumbledore took a sip, he couldn't get used to the weak white water, just about to take out his wand and add sticky honey to himself, he turned his head to look at Aberforth, but still forced himself to stop the thought Zhu: "After I go back, I will block the remaining secret passages."

"Is Crouch's accomplice going back to Hogwarts?" Snape shook the glass, and the ice cubes hit the glass wall, making a tinkling sound.

Harry shook his head: "Not sure, but it's possible."

As he spoke, he paused to summarize the news he had inquired during this period.

"Crouch said that Voldemort still has two Horcruxes. This is unbelievable. Maybe he will have more."

"Ravenclaw's crown is in the hands of the Wild Hunt, and it can't be fully believed."

"But there is no doubt that Voldemort will rise again."

"And this time, Voldemort may not be as easy to deal with as before."

Voldemort is very powerful, undoubtedly powerful. At his peak and heyday, his magical ability could even faintly surpass Dumbledore.

At least not weaker than Dumbledore at the time.

Harry had never faced Voldemort at his peak.

The first grade is a remnant soul, the second grade is a horcrux that has not been fully revived, and the fourth grade is a group of weak souls.And when Voldemort was resurrected last year, he wasn't in full shape. He had just been resurrected, and he had a smart brain that had just graduated from Hogwarts, but he didn't have the combat experience, magical knowledge, and magical power of the time of complete victory.

That time at Malfoy Manor.

Voldemort just added combat experience and magical knowledge.

Magic power is also critical when wizards fight.

But this time it was completely different.

Voldemort and the Wild Hunts work hand in hand, combat experience, magical knowledge, magic power... all of these can be supplemented, and maybe even become stronger.

Dumbledore was also very aware of this, and nodded slightly: "So we have to find Crouch's accomplice as soon as possible."

"Albus, I know." Snape gripped his glass tightly, "I'll try to convince Crouch as much as I can."

There was a flutter——

Harry raised his head and looked at the source of the sound. There were two owls flying from outside the bar in the cold wind. They landed at the door, shook off the snowflakes on their bodies, approached obediently, and stretched out their claws.

It is a letter.

Two letters from the Ministry of Magic.

(End of this chapter)