The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The bodies of prisoners who have been imprisoned in Azkaban for a long time are extremely weak. Death Eaters like Bella, who floated in the sea for a while and could kill two crew members after a while, were just an exception.

Tom's analysis made sense, and Dumbledore was also a little moved. Although he did not want to have a rash conflict with Voldemort, he had to admit that this might be the best window period to solve the prison robbery problem.

The rescued Death Eaters needed a place to recuperate. Although Voldemort is powerful, he is not so rampant that he directly commandeers St. Mungo's Hospital of Witchcraft and Wizardry, so Malfoy Manor is a very suitable location.

First of all, it is called "Manor", and the area must be quite large, so it is not a problem to accommodate a few recuperating patients. Secondly, as the old home of the Malfoy family, its location is secluded enough. If it weren't for Dumbledore's "terrorist" here, it would be impossible to find Malfoy Manor.

With these two advantages, it is very likely that the rescued Death Eaters will be placed in Malfoy Manor. If Dumbledore could take the initiative and seize this stronghold, it would deal a heavy blow to Voldemort's power.

Although Tom's analysis was sound, Dumbledore still had reservations about his suggestions. Perhaps because of his age, Dumbledore tends to act conservatively. He often needs to "make a decision and then act." Dumbledore is very uncomfortable with Tom's behavior of taking action as soon as he slaps his forehead.

If we take tourism as an example, Tom is the type of traveler who says “the world is so big and I want to see it”. He decided to travel today and arrived at his destination the next day. Dumbledore is the kind of person who prepares a complete strategy before going out, and even plans the time to go to the bathroom during the trip.

It is perfectly normal for two people to have differences.

Hermione on the other side was mesmerized. She didn't expect that Tom would dare to scold Fang Qiu so freely and express his feelings in front of Dumbledore. The relationship between Tom and Dumbledore greatly refreshed Hermione's understanding. She originally thought that Tom and Dumbledore had a relationship between elders and juniors, with Dumbledore being the respectable elder and Tom being the favored child. But now it seems that Tom and Dumbledore are more like partners. Tom is not exactly a yes man, he can put forward his own ideas and influence Dumbledore's attitude.

Seeing that the two of them were at an impasse, she didn't even dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing their thinking. While she was holding her breath, she suddenly realized that Tom seemed to mention house elves when talking to Dumbledore?

Are there house elves at Hogwarts? !

Hermione's mind suddenly became erratic. She also knew what a house elf was. In her opinion, this is simply a shameless act of slavery. Are there actually slaves in Hogwarts?

This shocked her no less than when Voldemort captured Azkaban. She decided that after Tom and Dumbledore had finished dealing with the matter at hand, she would check with them about the house elf problem.

After a moment of silence, Tom couldn't help but remind Dumbledore: "Professor, we must at least put on a show, otherwise what will outside wizards and students on campus think of us? We must find a way to reassure them."

This sentence touched Dumbledore very much. He knew very well that he had to give an explanation to the magical public.

Can't Voldemort slap the Ministry of Magic and the Ministry of Magic won't give a shit, right? That would be a huge blow to our own morale.

"Yordle, what you said makes sense. I will summon members of the Order of the Phoenix and lead them to raid Malfoy Manor - but I want to say it first. The main purpose of going to Malfoy Manor this time is to kill the escaped prisoners. To arrest the gangsters instead of confronting Riddle..."

Although Dumbledore approved Tom's decision, he also stated not to escalate the situation, which made Tom curl his lips: What would you do if Voldemort chose to escalate the situation?

He watched as Dumbledore summoned his Phoenix Patronus, and then asked the Patronus to inform the members of the Order of the Phoenix. At this moment, Hermione, who had been acting as a backdrop, spoke.

"It is said that the impact of prison robbery is extremely bad, so how many prisoners have escaped?" Seeing that the two of them had reached a consensus, Hermione asked weakly. She didn't see the specific number of escapees in today's news, and she couldn't help but feel a little curious.

Dumbledore lowered his eyes and said: "In the first prison robbery, nine prisoners were missing. We found seven corpses and one seriously injured and comatose prisoner, and a female prisoner was missing. As for this time..."

Having said this, Dumbledore sighed heavily: "Nearly thirty prisoners were executed, and ten Death Eaters successfully escaped."

When Voldemort first robbed the prison, he opened the doors of all the cells and let the prisoners run out in droves. When the Dementors came back, many prisoners panicked and chose to jump into the sea to escape. Most of the people fell to death on the rocks near the waters of Azkaban, and only a few escaped.

"The prisoner who survived was Rabastan of the Lestrange family. He was the younger brother of Rodolphus Lestrange - this man was also taken out in the second prison robbery. Rodolphus His wife is the missing female prisoner, her name is Bellatrix, and she is one of Riddle’s most loyal followers.”

Tom raised his eyebrows: Does that mean a descendant of the Lestrange family fell into the hands of the Ministry of Magic?

"How much inheritance rights does this Rabastan have in the Lestrange family?" A bold idea suddenly appeared in Tom's mind.

Before Dumbledore could answer, a lazy voice came from the wall behind him.

"He is the only heir to the Lestrange family!"

Tom looked towards the source of the sound and found that the speaker was Phineas Black, a Hogwarts headmaster from the Black family.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he attracted the attention of Tom, Dumbledore and Hermione.

"Phineas knows much more about the pedigree of pure-blood families than I do." Dumbledore said humbly, "Tom, if you have any questions in this regard, you can go to Phineas. He will definitely be able to answer you. .”

Phineas suddenly felt proud after being praised by Dumbledore.

"This is natural, I am a member of the ancient and noble Black family!"

He glanced at Tom and showed off his knowledge. It can be seen that although he is just a portrait, Phineas has never relaxed his study of pure-blood family genealogy, and he has been updating his knowledge reserve.

After his introduction, Tom clarified the status of the ancient Lestrange family. He was now very sure that his idea was theoretically feasible.

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