Hogwarts acted quickly.
The teachers who were awakened by the Dark Mark immediately gathered all the students in the hall. Then Voldemort sent a message over a thousand miles away, demanding that they hand over Harry Potter in exchange for the safety of Hogwarts - Dumbledore naturally refused.
"I'm still here, Tom. This college doesn't belong to you. It never will."
"Ah, Dumbledore..."
Voldemort's snake-like hissing sound echoed in the hall, making many students tremble.
"I can sense the weakness in your words. I originally wanted to kill you and then come back, but now I think I should let you witness it with your own eyes and see how your school is destroyed. Maybe... this will make you feel a little regretful."
“I’ve never regretted it.”
Sitting on the chair, Dumbledore could hardly hide his fatigue. In fact, although Snape gave him some potions, the damage caused to Dumbledore when he went to destroy the Horcrux was difficult to recover. Now he was almost exhausted just by sitting here.
"I think not letting you be the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class is the smartest decision I have ever made in my life..."
"…Good. I hope you'll still say that when you see your beloved students being killed and your school being destroyed."
As Voldemort's angry words fell, the entire hall fell silent again, and Ellie raised her eyebrows and looked at Dumbledore.
"You did it on purpose, didn't you?"
"Hahaha, I'll leave it to you from now on, Miss Ellie."
In response to Ellie's question, Dumbledore smiled but did not answer.
"The old man who refuses to die is a thief, which is true."
Ellie shook her head. She knew very well that Dumbledore had obviously tricked her again. The government behind Ellie was eager to infiltrate and control the wizarding world, so naturally they could not let the only school in Britain that trained wizards be destroyed. But obviously Dumbledore didn't know that this was part of Ellie's plan.
The others didn't know this, but they still drove all the first-year wizards back to their own houses. As for Slytherin, they were all forbidden to go out, and students from the other three houses stayed behind to fight and protect other students...including Harry Potter, of course.
The professors took action first, they raised their wands, pointed them into the air, and chanted spells. Soon, white light flew out from the top of the wands, shot into the air, and turned into a huge translucent oval barrier, covering the entire Hogwarts.
The original sculpture began to move, holding spears and sharp blades to block the gate and the city wall, turning into the most loyal guard.
At the same time, Voldemort stood on a high ground not far away, looking coldly at the brightly lit Hogwarts.
“It’s a shame they’ll never learn their lesson.”
However, just as Voldemort finished speaking, another voice suddenly emerged from the sky.
"Interesting, shouldn't you say this to yourself, Voldemort?"
Hearing this voice, Voldemort's expression changed slightly. He looked up and saw a little witch in a long robe and a tricorn hat sitting on a broom in the dark night illuminated by the moonlight, looking at him leisurely.
"It seems that you are really determined to win."
As she spoke, Ellie looked up behind Voldemort. There, thousands of Death Eaters in black robes stood there, and not only that...
"Werewolves... vampires... giants..."
Ellie cast her gaze towards the thousands of burly men and women in ragged clothes on the other side, then towards the group of people next to them who were dressed as nobles with red eyes, and at the last one, there was a monster standing at the end, with a burly and tall figure that could only appear in fairy tales and legends.
"It seems you really do have influence, Voldemort."
"Who are you?"
Voldemort stretched out his hand, signaling his men not to act rashly. He could sense that the little witch in front of him was unusual, not only because of the power contained in her body, but also because the way she looked at Voldemort made Voldemort feel uncomfortable - it was not like Dumbledore's eyes that saw through everything, but rather like a child curiously looking at his new toy.
"Nice to meet you. Hello. My name is Ellie, and I'm the current Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... Oh, by the way, I've been in this position for three years."
"……you?"
Hearing this, Voldemort was stunned for a moment, and then immediately revealed a cold smile.
"Ah, I remember... I did hear that old fool Dumbledore recruited a little girl to be a teacher at Hogwarts. I never expected that he would rather let a little girl take this position than let me..."
Having said this, although Voldemort's tone remained calm, the coldness and murderous intent emanating from it made the Death Eaters behind him feel a little bit of fear.
"Dumbledore is indeed quite a thief. You have to admit that the older a person gets, the more shameless he becomes, and the harder he becomes to deal with."
Ellie also sighed, and it was indeed true, and Voldemort chuckled when he heard this.
"It's really interesting. This is the first time I've heard someone comment on Dumbledore in this tone... But let's not talk about this anymore. What exactly do you want to do? Could it be that Dumbledore sent you here to delay time?"
"Of course not, I just wanted to show you something interesting."
As she spoke, Ellie reached out her hand and took out a shiny object from her robes, then waved it in front of Voldemort with a smile. After seeing the object, Voldemort's expression changed slightly.
That was one of his Horcruxes, the Diadem of Ravenclaw.
"Very interesting. You wouldn't say you want to use this to exchange for the safety of Hogwarts."
Staring at the Horcrux in Ellie's hand, Voldemort looked at her gloomily, and Ellie shook her head.
"I'm not that naive. In fact, I just want to chat with you. After all, it would be a pity if I ended up here without chatting with the noseless monster. Well, okay, we'll see each other later."
After saying this, Ellie tapped the broom gently, then slowly rose up and prepared to leave. Faced with Ellie's words, Voldemort was stunned for a moment, then he realized that the noseless monster she was talking about was himself!
“You’re looking for death!!”
At this moment, Voldemort was furious and he suddenly raised his wand at Ellie and shouted loudly.
“Avada…!!”
However, before Voldemort finished speaking, accompanied by a sharp whistle, the next moment, flames exploded from behind Voldemort, engulfing hundreds of Death Eaters. Then, a series of flames suddenly appeared, engulfing the entire high ground in a sea of fire.
"Foolish wizards."
Seeing this scene, Ellie, sitting on the broom, raised her lips slightly, revealing a mocking smile. Indeed, after arriving here, Voldemort and his men used a series of spells to cover their whereabouts, but unfortunately, in modern society, reconnaissance no longer completely depends on human eyes. Voldemort probably didn't know that his every move had long been under satellite surveillance. After discovering through satellite surveillance that Voldemort could actually gather such a large "army", the British government was even more determined to kill them completely.
So these wizards got their first taste of what modern saturation bombing is like.
The entire high ground was completely enveloped in artillery fire. Without exception, explosions occurred one after another. For a moment, it seemed as if the whole world was about to be destroyed.
Most wizards were wiped out in the first wave of bombing, and others such as werewolves and vampires were not much better. Ellie persuaded the British military to use white phosphorus bombs - werewolves, vampires and giants have no human rights, and wizards are not protected by regulations either.
If deploying nuclear bombs wasn't too eye-catching, I'm afraid the British military would have brought out nuclear bombs by now.
However, some wizards reacted in time, they instantly turned into black smoke, and then quickly rushed into the air to try to avoid these terrible explosions. But at the same time, Ellie also raised her magic wand and tapped it lightly.
"Expecto Patronus."
The next moment, the dazzling dragon of light appeared again. It flapped its wings suddenly, and a roaring gale instantly rose from the ground, sweeping the wizards flying in the air dozens of meters away. They screamed and waved their wands weakly, then fell to the ground in despair or crashed into the cliffs and turned into corpses.
"This is modern warfare, old-timers."
Sitting leisurely on the broom, Ellie used her magic wand to control the giant dragon of light like whack-a-mole to deal with the fish that escaped the net, and smiled as she looked at the high ground in front of her that was completely engulfed by flames.
Indeed, wizards have the ability to fly and fight in the air, but this is limited, because they do not have the outer layer of protection like magic girls, so for wizards, a few hundred meters or thousands of meters in the air is more or less acceptable, but more than ten thousand meters is beyond the reach of wizards. They do not have the power of magic girls to fight against the two fatal problems of high-altitude hypoxia and cold.
Therefore, the wizards have no power to resist high-altitude bombers above 10,000 meters and can only take the bombing.
Ellie could imagine how panicked, helpless and desperate those wizards were.
But what does this have to do with me?
For Ellie, there was just one problem.
Thinking of this, Ellie narrowed her eyes and looked at a figure that kept shuttling between the fire and the crowd and rushing into the forest - he was worthy of being the thousand-year-old turtle Voldemort, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he ran away faster than anyone else.
Thinking of this, Ellie picked up the magic wand and tapped the broom. The next moment, she turned into a white light and suddenly chased after him.
The safety of Hogwarts is no longer important. The army summoned by Voldemort was completely wiped out, and the few remaining senior officials were killed by the dragon of light controlled by Ellie. Now only the bald, noseless monster himself is left - Ellie certainly does not intend to let him go.
Two beams of light mist, one black and one white, flew up and down in the forest, weaving through it. It was obvious that Voldemort was trying his best to escape, but would Ellie give him this chance?
Of course not.
What's more, even though you've cast armor to protect yourself, magic isn't the only thing that can stop you!
Once again, Ellie Apparated and suddenly surpassed Voldemort. At the same time, a stun grenade suddenly fell out of her robe and fell to the ground while spinning.
“——!!!”
Then there was a sudden burst of light and shock, and the next moment the black smoke that was desperately rushing forward suddenly turned a corner, and then the noseless bald monster stumbled out from the ground and fell headfirst to the ground.
At the same time, a cold pistol was pointed at Voldemort's smooth oval head.
"That's it, Noseless Monster."