The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Tom naturally wanted to take Harry and Ron with him. Because this is the request of the big boss Dumbledore, he hopes that Tom will train these two people, so if he takes them around London and stays in a luxury hotel for one night, can it be called experience?

This is not how you fool a fool!

At this last moment, Tom couldn't send these two people back, he had to take them with him. But at the same time, he also has to make his own countermeasures.

The most common rule in Japanese business management is called the spinach rule, which means "report", "liaison" and "discussion". These three words are pronounced the same as spinach in Japanese, so they are also called the spinach rule.

Although this rule has been used by the Japanese as a weapon to deflect blame, resulting in extremely low corporate efficiency, it still has certain positive significance. What Tom has to do is "report", and Dumbledore needs to know their progress. However, Tom decided to only regard Dumbledore's instructions as a reference.

Because Dumbledore was far away in the Scottish Highlands, commanding remotely from thousands of miles away, it always reminded people of a certain founder of military logistics.

Tom first took Harry Ron to the Leaky Cauldron, sent all the information they had discovered and his next plan to Dumbledore via owl, and then drove straight to Bristol.

Why not choose train? Because there are fewer trains at night, and Bristol is only 190 kilometers away from London, it can be reached in three hours by car.

The word "midnight" is representative of late night, but in fact, "midnight" refers to the period from 11 pm on the same day to one o'clock in the morning the next day. Midnight and "midnight" have the same meaning. There are five shifts in a night, and "third shift" is exactly the same. It is in the middle, so the third watch is midnight. Think about it carefully, the middle of the night is not considered late at night to modern people, right? For modern people, the real late night is "cock crow", which corresponds to one to three o'clock in the morning.

Tom and the others set out in the middle of the night and arrived in Bristol at rooster crow.

However, the three unfamiliar people did not find Burnham Manor at 514 St. Michel Road until dawn.

"Merlin!" Ron looked at the well-designed manor, the exquisite wrought iron gates and fences, and his mentality collapsed: My Weasley family is also a pure-blood family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, why are we so poor!

You can't be poor for more than three generations - because after being poor for three generations, you will die because you can't marry a wife. Because the Weasley family is a magical family, they broke this curse: you can still find a wife after being poor for three generations, and continue to be poor~

There is also a fountain in the garden of Burnham Manor!

But now that the sun is rising, the manor is silent, which is a little unusual.

Ron stopped the car, got out of the car with Harry and Professor Lockhart, and peered into the manor through the wrought iron gate.

"Something feels weird." Ron leaned on the wrought iron door and stuck his head in. "Harry, what measures will Muggles take against criminals' homes?"

Harry was stunned. He knew where the contradiction lay: the home of a criminal who was actually involved in terrorist activities had not been sealed up? At least put a seal on the door?

Even they, fledgling wizards, knew that there might be clues in this manor. How could the MI6 agents not think of it? The detectives wrote it in the report!

Harry was a little worried that the agents would get there first and take away all the key evidence.

The manor in front of me looks completely normal, which is the biggest abnormality.

Tom pushed the iron door, and it opened very smoothly.

Tom:…

"Be safe, go in!" He stood in front of Harry Ron and took the lead into the manor.

Outside the manor is a large garden, more than fifty meters wide, and the length is endless. In the center of the garden is a three-story villa, behind which is a hill less than a hundred meters high. The hill is covered with fruit trees.

"People who live in such a luxurious house would actually choose to travel by train." Harry didn't understand Burnham's psychology.

"There are many possible reasons, such as his driver being unavailable, or his car having trouble - and of course the most likely reason: sitting in a car for three hours straight is too uncomfortable, unless he has That kind of extended luxury Lincoln, but this kind of car is also prone to motion sickness." Tom rubbed his sore lower back and gave himself a quick recovery to relieve fatigue. "Believe me, traveling this kind of distance is the most comfortable. The only way to get there is by train.”

Mr. Burnham was the man who was cursed by the gold coin and died on the train. It was obvious that he was very rich. So his train journey may be a little different from other people's. Most people take crowded buses to go to the high-speed rail station. Those who are a little better off may take a taxi or a family member to drive you. Then you wait in the bustling waiting hall for half an hour before boarding the train. Next, you need to pray, pray that there will be no crying children, overbearing seat tyrants, or idiots who play certain music or hands in your car. Sitting on a train, I feel like my life has been shortened.

It's different for rich people. The driver will drive him to the high-speed rail station, where he can wait peacefully in the VIP room. There will be no noise or other worries in the first-class carriage. When the train arrives at the station, another driver will pick him up...

Going back and forth is much more comfortable than sitting in a car. Of course, if it’s too far, it’s better to fly. Of course, there is no need to fly for a trip of 180 kilometers.

"That's right!" Harry nodded, "But what about the service staff of this house? Where did they go after Mr. Burnham died?"

With such a big garden, plus the supporting mansion and the mountain behind it, you need a chef, a maid or manservant, a gardener and a driver. The minimum would be four, which might swell to ten if Mr. Burnham's finances were good.

But now the house is obviously in a state of neglect.

"Look there!" Ron shouted, pointing to a place where he had just seen a white thing. Several people walked over and found that it turned out to be a skull, half submerged in the grass. The black eyes were staring at them, and there were still dark red blood stains on it. Although the sun was rising and the sun was shining brightly, the three of them still felt their hairs standing on end and their hairs standing on end.

An ominous atmosphere permeated this exquisite garden, and whether it was psychological or not, Tom always felt like something was staring at them.

Tom observed it and felt that the skull seemed to be that of a canine. The head was as long as a thermos cup. It seemed that the dog itself was not small. They found some scattered bones nearby, presumably belonging to the hound.

"It looks like it was eaten by some kind of wild beast, and these beasts were not big." Ron looked at the remains carefully. Large beasts couldn't chew them so cleanly. He pointed to the tooth marks on one of the ribs and said, "There are no teeth either." It’s big, it feels about the same size as a human’s.”

"What kind of beast ate this family's dog?" Harry was a little confused. "Professor Lockhart, what do you think?"

"Go to the house first and have a look." Tom decided to go first to the house to have a closer look and find out the whereabouts of the servants.

The door to the mansion was also unlocked. The moment Harry opened the door, he was dumbfounded: the hall seemed to have been splashed with dark red paint. He knew very well that these things were not paint, but blood.

Tom drew his wand and walked into the hall. Harry and Ron followed suit, wands in hand.

The furniture in the hall is also very elegant: solid mahogany tables, crystal chandeliers made of thousands of crystals, oil paintings by various famous artists - not abstract paintings that ordinary people can't understand, but real scenery, In addition to the oil paintings of figures, it can also be seen that there should have been some "antiques" placed in the living room before. Now these "antiques" have been knocked to the ground and mixed with fragments of tables and chandeliers.

Stepping on the sticky floor, Tom looked around. He also saw a string of bullet holes on the wall. He could tell that a fierce battle had taken place here, as evidenced by the remaining bullet casings and bone fragments on the surface of the carpet.

Tom took out the palm-sized doll [Senior Sister] from the small bag on his waist and placed her on the ground, and she instantly returned to normal size. This is a new function added by Dumbledore to make it easier for Tom to carry [Senior]

In the current environment, Tom must keep his spirits high.

Squeak!

A door on the left side of the living room suddenly opened, and a skeleton wearing a tuxedo with black flames in its eyes came out of the house. It could be seen that a Roman gold coin was embedded in its hand bones. As it traveled, bullets fell out of the bones of his body.

"Stand back!" Tom asked Ron and Harry to stand behind him, cast an iron armor spell, and took out the handle at the same time.

The skeleton rushed towards me——

bass!

A flash of silver light flashed, and the skeleton was cut into two pieces. The flame in the skull's eyes fluctuated and went out like a candlelight encountering the night wind. The tip of the long sword of [Senior Sister] on the side is pointing to the ground. There is bright red blood flowing on it, but it is more like liquid flame than blood.

A small crystal bottle was thrown to the ground by [Senior Sister]. The bottle contained the blood of Phoenix Fawkes, and I don’t know how Dumbledore got it.

[Destroy a cursed skeleton and a magic stone +100]

There was an unexpected surprise. Tom didn't expect that there would be magic stones available for clearing such skeletons. This time the system was extremely generous.

"Tsk, I didn't expect [Senior Sister]'s movements to become so fast and violent after Dumbledore's improvement." Tom was surprised. After Dumbledore's improvement, [Senior Sister]'s movements became even faster and smarter. The [Senior Sister] that Tom made himself would definitely not be able to draw the sword, enchant it, and kill it all at once, and it would take at least twice as long.

"The agents should have been here..." Harry was also dumbfounded, and finally he could only hold back this sentence.

Judging from the traces at the scene, it seemed that the cursed gold coins had contaminated the servants of the mansion. Then the agents who came to investigate collided with the servants. After a fight between the two sides, all the agents were wiped out.

"Don't they have that strange little box? Why don't they ask for help?" Ron was a little curious. He remembered that it was very convenient for Muggles to contact the outside world.

Harry found a mobile phone under the sofa, only to find that it was malfunctioning.

"Muggle electronic products will also malfunction in Hogwarts. The same is probably true here." Tom explained. He also picked up an empty submachine gun from the corner. "It seems that the times have not yet passed." Completely changed, at least these thermal weapons are not of much use to the skeletons - of course, these weapons are not powerful enough."

Tom didn't believe it. He bought a 381mm naval gun, but it couldn't cure these skeletons? After one shot was fired, the crater alone was several meters deep...

Can I catch one and try it? Tom suddenly felt a little excited.

There was a gust of wind behind him.

"All petrified!"

"Retreat the enemy three feet!"

"There are many obstacles!"

Harry and Ron reacted quickly, and each used the spells they had prepared. The reaction speed of the two of them was very fast. It took less than half a second from the newly appeared skeleton to their counterattack. It can only be said that they are good candidates for a duel.

But it didn't matter if they didn't react. Tom used a barrier spell in time, which could buy them one to two seconds to react.

The two skeletons in maid uniforms were frozen on the spot, and were killed by [Senior Sister] in the next second, and the soul fire in their eyes was extinguished.

Tom is good at killing heads.

[Magic Stone +80]

[Magic Stone +50]

The value is different...

There was a rustle in the mansion.

Tom raised his wand, "You control them and let me kill them - only [Senior] can effectively destroy these monsters."

Tom didn't want to monopolize the magic stone. He was telling the truth: For someone who is not skilled in using the three explosive spells, it is wishful thinking to cause damage to the skeleton. It is better to be an auxiliary and control the skeleton. [Senior Sister] comes to harvest.

Skeletons appeared in front of them one after another, some dressed as chefs and some as gardeners, six in total.

"Potter, look, all the servants are here."

The three of them formed a triangle formation.

Skeletons swooped over one after another, trying to tear Tom and the others into pieces like the previous agents, but the spells of Tom and the others could always hit these skeletons accurately and freeze them in place, followed by a white light.

The skeleton was cut in two and turned into a pile of withered bones.

[Magic Stone +90]

[Magic Stone +40]

…

A series of magic spells shot out from the tips of the three people's staffs quickly. The slower skeletons were frozen in place, but a skeleton in front of Ron suddenly accelerated and even escaped Ron's obstacle spell and rushed in front of Ron.

At the critical moment, a white light flashed, and the skeleton stopped in front of Ron. It was Tom who controlled [Senior Sister] to add a barrier spell and saved Ron.

After taking care of all six skeletons with the knife in hand, Harry and Ron relaxed a lot. In their opinion, everything was over. But Tom's face became more solemn: he saw that some skeletons did not have the cursed gold on them.

To make matters worse, he heard more rustling sounds outside.

A rabbit jumped in from the window and looked at Tom and the three of them blankly.