Hogwarts: The Unscientific Wizard (TL)

When Andy hurriedly returned to the tent, he found Lupin, Hermione, Harry, Ron, the twins, and the others sitting in the living room unharmed.

Apart from a few anxious expressions on their faces, there was no sign of the tragedy Andy had imagined.

Upon seeing Andy and Sirius return safely, Lupin immediately got up and asked, "What's the situation outside?"

Harry and the others got up as well.

Andy's brow was furrowed, and he felt that his intelligence was not enough.

Sirius quickly explained, "The Death Eaters only caused some chaos and did not launch a large-scale attack. However..."

After a pause, Sirius said solemnly, "However, after the chaos, the Aurors never appeared, and the Anti-Apparition charm also failed to work."

Tonight's situation was a bit unexpected.

Voldemort's attack was expected by everyone, but what happened after the attack made tonight's situation seem bizarre.

The Aurors had disappeared!

Dumbledore also did not show up.

The Death Eaters created chaos, seemingly to attract attention, but for what purpose did they attract attention?

Questions began to arise one after another.

After listening intently for a while, Lupin suddenly said, "It seems that the chaos outside has stopped."

"Hmm!"

Andy nodded slightly and said, "When we went there, the Death Eaters seemed to have retreated. They only created chaos in two places, set a fire, and released the Dark Mark."

After thinking about it carefully, Andy found that the scenes he had seen tonight could still be matched with the scenes that flashed in the crystal ball.

The divination was not wrong.

But that was only an 'edited' clip, highly misleading.

"What the hell is that Snape guy up to?"

Sirius suddenly said with a face full of discontent, "Why hasn't any news come back about such important intel?"

Andy: "?"

Who?

Snape?

Why do you know that Snape is an undercover agent?

"Professor Snape?" Hermione exclaimed.

After a while of not seeing each other, why does it feel like everyone knows Snape's identity?

"Severus is one of us; Andy should know that, right?"

Lupin explained, "He was ordered by the Dark Lord to lurk around Dumbledore, and then he infiltrated the Order of the Phoenix... But he has always been one of us."

Harry: "..."

Although he has accepted this fact, every time he hears this, Harry feels uncomfortable all over.

He really couldn't accept the idea that 'Snape was a good person'.

"Ah," Andy responded.

Not dwelling on these matters, Andy frowned after a moment of contemplation and said, "The situation is unclear, so we can only wait for news from Mr. Weasley."

After thinking about it, Andy glanced at the Fat Cat Patronus, who was playing in midair. The Fat Cat Patronus understood and immediately left the tent through the wall.

Now that Andy had returned, there was no need for the Fat Cat Patronus to stay on guard. It would be better for it to go out and gather information than to stay in the tent and get bored.

After a while, the noise outside gradually died down.

Andy learned from the Fat Cat Patronus that the Ministry officials had stepped in to calm the crowd.

Since the casualties were not serious—no one had died, only some people had been injured in the attack—the crowd was only dissatisfied, and their emotions had barely stabilised.

Well...not completely stable.

Some people were injured, and some people lost their tents in the attack.

These losses will naturally have to be compensated by the host of the World Cup, the British Ministry of Magic.

Some people directly demanded 10,000 gold galleons, citing the fact that their tents contained many valuables and that their losses far exceeded 10,000 gold galleons.

Others followed suit, as if all the tents that were burnt tonight contained valuables.

Some even went so far as to sneakily burn their own tents.

The Ministry of Magic was at a loss for a while.

"Mr. Weasley is calming the crowd..."

Andy relayed the information that the Fat Cat Patronus had seen to the group and then said with a bit of speechlessness, "The damage tonight is probably 600,000 gold galleons, and I don't know if the Ministry of Magic can afford to pay for it."

Upon hearing this, Sirius let out a sigh of relief for the Ministry of Magic: "Luckily, our tent wasn't burnt."

"Huh?" Andy was taken aback.

Sirius patted the sofa on which Andy was sitting and laughed, "The sofa is made of genuine dragon hide and is over 150 years old. It was one of the limited edition models back then, and you can't buy it even if you have the money now."

"Not taking that into account, the sofa's materials alone are worth thousands of gold galleons."

He then looked around the room and said with a headache, "If you count the other valuables, I'm afraid it will take until tomorrow morning to find out the exact value."

Andy: "..."

Got it; I'm not supposed to be sitting here.

"To be honest, the Ministry of Magic is already very lucky that it is only 600,000 gold galleons," Sirius said in a tone that suggested that if his tent was burnt, the Ministry would go bankrupt.

There was a collective silence.

To be honest, after hearing the information relayed by Andy, everyone felt that those who demanded compensation were being really unreasonable.

How could they demand 10,000 gold galleons for a tent?

They should be ashamed of themselves!

But after hearing Sirius's words, they suddenly realised that they were the ones who were ignorant.

"This, this vase..." Ron held up a seemingly unremarkable vase with trembling hands.

"That's an antique, an alchemical item at that! It's said to have been made by Nicolas Flamel when he was young."

Sirius said in a nonchalant tone. "As far as I remember, it was bought in Europe by my great-grandfather for 3,000 gold galleons."

"Well... it should have appreciated in value over the years."

Ron hastily put down the vase on hearing this.

If this thing were to break, he couldn't compensate for it, even if he sold himself.

At this time, the others also became cautious, afraid of breaking something.

This tent instantly appeared luxurious and exorbitant.

However, compared to the things placed inside the tent, this tent was worthless.

Andy almost couldn't help but think that if the Ministry of Magic is only required to pay 600,000 gold galleons, then perhaps the Ministry of Magic is actually making a profit.

Suddenly, no one wanted to speak.

Just then, a flame suddenly blazed up in the tent, and a bird with red and gold feathers appeared from the flames.

"Fawkes!?" Andy blurted out.

Sirius, Lupin, and the others also got up, their eyes fixed on Fawkes.

This is Dumbledore's phoenix!

The phoenix chirped once, and in the blink of an eye, it flew to Andy's side, the flames spread out, and it instantly engulfed Andy.

When the flames disappeared, Andy was nowhere to be seen.

"Andy!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Don't worry, that was Dumbledore's phoenix."

Lupin quickly explained, then said in a low voice, "Dumbledore sent Fawkes to take Andy somewhere. What on earth happened over there?"

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