Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 441 A Reasonable Way to Let Voldemort and the Death Eaters Escape and Be Expelled!

"Forget about the Aurors, let's all attack! Kill that Dursley brat!"

The heavily wounded Voldemort shouted loudly using the Amplification Charm.

The pure-blooded Death Eaters immediately risked having their magical shields broken by the Aurors, shifting their attack target and unleashing a barrage of attack spells at Dudley.

The mixed-race and Muggle Death Eaters hesitated for a moment, but did the same.

From the moment they became Death Eaters, they not only received the Dark Mark bestowed by Voldemort, but also a terrible curse that penetrated to their very bones.

They've already boarded Voldemort's pirate ship; there's no turning back.

Dudley, who had been observing Voldemort's thoughts, naturally knew what kind of scheme Voldemort was plotting.

He was happy to see Voldemort go so that it would be a reasonable thing to do.

Moreover, to make his decision to let Voldemort and the Death Eaters go more believable, he needed to secretly orchestrate another wave of events.

Therefore, Dudley's true form released ghostly clouds to form a shield that disrupted vision, pretending to be having some difficulty as he resisted and dodged the attacks of nearly a hundred Death Eaters.

They watched helplessly as Voldemort used the Smoke Flight Charm, turning into a cloud of black smoke, quickly reaching the Aurors, binding them with magic, and taking several hostages.

"Dalsley, you brat, let us go, or I'll kill these Aurors right now!"

Voldemort transformed back into human form, and the tip of her elm wand struck the neck of the Auror who had just spoken, the tip of the wand shimmering slightly with green light.

Dudley remained silent, and under the cover of dark clouds, he unleashed a fiery phoenix that hurtled into the Death Eaters, instantly burning more than a dozen charred corpses.

"Pfft—Stop! If you don't stop, I'll really kill them!"

Voldemort coughed up blood and roared fiercely.

At the same time, the green light on the tip of her elm wand shone even brighter, and the talkative Auror who was being held hostage immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

The Aurors who were bound by magical ropes nearby were also quite frightened.

But none of these Aurors begged for mercy.

"Don't be naive, Voldemort! Once they're in your hands, how could they possibly survive?"

Dudley stopped casting powerful attack spells and hovered in mid-air.

While wiping away the attacking Death Eater curse, he replied with an amplification spell, "Moreover, although this is a cruel statement, which is more important, eliminating you, this fiend, or saving the lives of a few Aurors? I don't think I need to say more."

"Aurors, rest assured, I will not let your sacrifices be in vain. Voldemort will not escape tonight!"

"Dursley, go ahead and do it! We're not afraid to die!"

One of the Aurors who was being held hostage, remembering his duty, shouted without hesitation.

"Shut up!"

Voldemort yelled at the Auror, and just as things were getting tense, a sudden inspiration struck her, and she had a new idea.

She continued, "Dersley, you little devil, let us go!"

To tell you the truth, I have several hundred men hiding elsewhere. If I die here, the curse on them will break out, causing them to go mad and kill indiscriminately.

If you let us go, I will not only release these Aurors, but also lead all my Death Eaters out of Britain, giving you a magical world without any threats.

"I can make a magical pact with you. If you let us go, we will leave England within three days. If we break this pact, we will be cursed to death!"

Upon hearing Voldemort's words, Dudley fell silent, displaying a complex expression of inner turmoil, struggle, resentment, and reluctance to gamble.

Although it was dark and they were some distance apart, Dudley knew that with Voldemort's mental perception, she could see his performance clearly.

After a long while, Dali pretended to be extremely unwilling and gave in.

“You are not allowed to harm anyone during the evacuation from Britain, and this is also written into the magic contract!” Dudley said.

At this point, the Death Eaters had already stopped fighting at Voldemort's prompting.

Sirius, Regulus, and some other Aurors took the opportunity to wipe out more than a dozen Death Eaters while the Death Eaters were focusing their attacks on Dudley.

They all stopped at this point, but their expressions were different.

"it is good!"

As Voldemort agreed to Dudley's loosely worded supplementary clause, she waved her elm wand, sketching a magical contract in mid-air.

After the contract was formed, he first marked it with his own magic mark, and then pushed the contract toward Dudley from a distance.

Dudley pretended to read the contents of the contract several times before hesitantly affixing his magical mark.

"Release them and get lost!"

After signing the magic contract, Dudley said without any politeness.

Voldemort had no energy left to argue with Dudley. She shoved the Auror she was holding aside, turned into black smoke, and led the Death Eaters, who had suffered more than 40% casualties, to retreat quickly.

Once they left the area restricted by the Anti-Apparition Charm, Voldemort and the Death Eaters immediately transformed into a twisting spiral and teleported away.

All that remained was a devastated battlefield.

Thanks to the covert intervention of Dudley's clone, all Aurors survived the battle; no one died, but everyone was wounded, with more than a third seriously injured, requiring treatment at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries.

On Voldemort's side, besides Voldemort herself being seriously injured, nearly forty of the hundred Death Eaters she brought were killed, and those who survived were all seriously injured.

Not long after the battle ended, the Ministry of Magic's reinforcements, the Aurors, arrived. Seeing that the battle was over, they helped transfer the seriously wounded and repair the battlefield.

Grimmauld Place is a Muggle neighborhood; no trace of the Great War should be left there.

Previously, the lurking Aurors had laid down anti-Apparition Charms, Muggle Expulsion Charms, and soundproofing and light-extinguishing spells around the Black family's ancestral home.

By temporarily driving away the Muggles and avoiding the risk of them noticing, there was no need to deploy the memory erasure team to clean up the mess.

However, what happened today was far too significant for the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic.

Therefore, when the Aurors were carrying out the cleanup work, several senior Auror captains came to Dudley and asked for his opinion.

The issue is--

Should today's battle be made public?

If this result is to be made public, how should it be explained to the outside world?

“I understand your concerns.”

Dudley said calmly, "Today we wiped out dozens of Death Eaters, severely injured Voldemort, and even achieved the remarkable feat of getting Voldemort and the Death Eaters to leave Britain within three days."

Judging from today's signs, those mixed-race and Muggle dark wizards who used to be active in Knockturn Alley have probably all become Death Eaters.

In this way, once Voldemort and the Death Eaters have left, the British wizarding world can rest easy for the time being.

But this outcome was a reluctant compromise under Voldemort's threat.

If everything is made public, those Aurors who were captured by Voldemort might be pointed at and gossiped about by some ignorant people, who would think that they were the ones who ruined things and forced me to let Voldemort escape.

However, once the news was made public and became known to wizards in other countries, we inevitably faced suspicions of shifting blame.

In fact, as long as Voldemort led the Death Eaters to other countries, even without my compromise tonight, wizards in other countries would inevitably have complaints about the British wizards, thinking that we had not dealt with our own dark wizards well and had affected other countries.

This is similar to how the ghost cultivator Mo Xuan's travels to Western countries damaged the reputation of the Chinese magical community.

"So, Assistant Professor Dursley, you mean..."