The dementors in the valley almost lost their courage to resist at this time, and the sporadic Death Eaters had been wiped out. Some of the dementors began to futilely attack the Patronus Charm enchantment set by Dumbledore, and some began to Begging for mercy loudly with magic: "We are willing to surrender! Willing to accept the constraints of the contract! Please let us live!"

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"Hmph, these **** don't want to be merciful when Britain **** the souls of Muggles everywhere." Fudge was a little moved, but then he remembered the trouble the dementors had caused him, and the dementors attacked him. The case has put him under tremendous pressure from the entire magical world and even the Muggle Prime Minister, so he can't be soft-hearted this time!

"That team of wizards over there! Give this valley a silence spell, I don't want to hear the dementors' howls." Scrimgeour commanded loudly to the wizards not far away, and sentenced the dementors to death: " Not a single one!"

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Dumbledore nodded with satisfaction, he also supported this decisive and somewhat cruel approach, and at the same time was very fortunate that he didn't have to give such an order that might leave a legacy of eternal infamy.

"Gildrow!" Lockhart was complacent that he could make soy sauce when Dumbledore called his name out of nowhere. His legs were so weak that he almost couldn't step on the brackets on both sides of the broom.

Shit, it's fine for you old guys to talk to each other, why are you talking about me? Lockhart was very dissatisfied, but obviously he could no longer hide in the crowd, so he had to take off his mask and floated in front of the group of bosses with his broom.

"What's your order, Mr. Headmaster?"

"Gidero, why are you here?" Fudge was also very surprised when he saw his granddaughter's boyfriend here, "Are you also an Order of the Phoenix?"

"I'm so sorry for keeping this a secret from you, Mr. Minister." Lockhart greeted him and apologized. "But my relationship with Pandora is real and I only recently joined."

"Little Gilderoy, what do you think Albus is going to give you this honor?" Moody looked at Lockhart with a smile on his scarred face, like a cat looking at a fish, "This is enough to make your name in history. !"

"I don't care about fame!" Lockhart wanted to struggle a bit, but consciously told him it was too late.

"I'm not forcing you, Gilderoy. But you're the most suitable person, your strength is enough to deal with some revenge, and your title of 'the man best at dealing with black magic' is enough to deter some minor characters. The most important thing Yes, you are a professor, you can always stay in Hogwarts, or the headquarters... this kind of safe place." Dumbledore didn't seem to care about Lockhart's attitude, but what he said was to let Lockhart Te couldn't continue to refuse: "Of course, if you insist, then let the Granger child enjoy this honor by himself."

If the newspapers are published in two days, it is a Hogwarts student, Hermione Granger, who gave the Ministry of Magic a good idea to find the Dementors and destroy them, it is estimated that Hermione I won't be able to come to Hogwarts next semester alive.

So vicious, this old man! "I've carried this pot!" Lockhart called out in grief and despair, "I'll never leave Hogwarts again!" ? Transformed into the planner of this event?

There was a weird smile on Scrimgeour's face: "Very well, you are now more famous than the Savior, Gilderoy..." What he didn't say was that he didn't need to beg Harry Potter anymore. Special words for the Ministry of Magic, because Lockhart's glory as a former Auror (though he didn't do it for a few years) is, in a sense, the Ministry's achievement.

Now the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix were very happy, Dumbledore smiled and nodded: "Then it was so happily decided, the dementors below are almost killed."

At this point, whether it was the enchantment set up by the Ministry of Magic or the Scope Patronus Charm cast by Dumbledore, they all began to shrink into the valley, forcing the remaining Dementors to have no other way to escape. They could only hide back. A hole to hide in, or a desperate attempt to break out.

Seeing that the support of the Death Eaters and the mysterious man was impossible, the Aurors and the strikers also began to go off the field to surround and suppress the dementors. After the final battle for more than ten minutes, the active dementors were no longer visible in the valley. The ground is littered with mutilated corpses, pieces of cloth, some from Death Eaters, and some from dementors slain by spells—dementors, though they look like ghosts, are actually creatures. Of course it can be killed with normal spells.

"Okay, let them come back." Dumbledore took out his wand leisurely, "Expelling life!"

The familiar feeling of seeing Voldemort came from Dumbledore, and the surrounding wizards felt a sharp discomfort, but it was only psychological and did not cause any harm.

Some of the dementors hiding in the cave were frightened out by the Life Expelling Curse and were immediately killed by the wizards riding on brooms, but a large number were still hiding in the cave.

"Burning flames." Dumbledore used his most familiar flame spell again. The golden-red flames shot out from the top of the elder's wand and rushed down. The temperature was so high that it ignited in a moment. Snowy woods.

"What are you doing?" Moody was inexplicable. "It is completely possible to force out all the dementors by manual search."

"That's a waste of time, Alastor." Dumbledore held his wand and continued to shoot flames, "and the woods below have long been plagued by dementors, and have lost their vitality. I will now give the saplings that are about to grow. , a chance to soak up the sun."

"It's just you old guy..." Moody stopped talking, watching the wizard below ride a broom away from the fire, and then the roaring flames swept the entire valley, steaming the snow into a large white fog. Like an apocalyptic scene, the firelight dimmed the several fluorescent techniques used to illuminate the sky.

Under the command of Scrimgeour, the wizards began to use magic to stop the spread of wildfires on the edge of the valley. The flames swept the place, and from time to time, dementors could be seen flying out of their hiding places full of fire. More Dementors smothered or scalded in caves...

The flames lasted for more than half an hour, during which they talked for a while about the bad things the Dementors did in the UK this year, but all this is about to pass. After feeling almost the same, Dumbledore put away the flame, and then brought a huge amount of water from the ice lake not far away and poured it onto the fire. With the help of hundreds of wizards, the fire was quickly controlled and extinguished.

The wizard from the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures descended to the scorched-black valley floor and began to clean up the final battlefield, while the bosses above were still chatting lightly and happily.

"The mysterious man really didn't appear, hehe." Moody smiled while pulling the corners of his mouth.

"Dumbledore, you left the Ministry of Magic and decided to deal with Voldemort's Horcrux alone. How is it going now..." Scrimgeour couldn't help asking, "How many have been destroyed?"

"Actually, we still don't even know how many of Voldemort's Horcruxes are in total," Dumbledore didn't want to say more, but he didn't lie. "Why, does the Ministry of Magic have any news on this?"

"Hmph, the Order of the Phoenix is ​​so awesome that you don't even know how many Horcruxes there are?" Scrimgeour said sharply, "Unfortunately, I don't have any sources of information here, and I can't help."

Dumbledore did not argue with Scrimgeour, but turned to look at Moody and Lockhart: "We have nothing to do with us here, we can now go back and study that Slytherin locket."

"What?" Scrimgeour's expression changed, and he immediately looked at Lockhart, as if he wanted to ask clearly, but his reason immediately made him turn his eyes back to Dumbledore: "Oh, okay, you guys walk slowly, no deliver."

Lockhart breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Scrimgeour was a smart man and didn't reveal the secret of their exchange of information. At this time, the Floo network here has been restored to supply power. Under Dumbledore's signal, Lockhart and Moody, both Apparated back to Hogwarts with Dumbledore.

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