Chapter 785 Phoenix Elegy

Secrets, once more people know about them, the risk of exposure will increase exponentially. Both Dumbledore and Snape have deeply understood and experienced this.

So in order to make the plan go smoothly and minimize the chance of failure, Dumbledore actually didn't even tell Professor McGonagall and the others at the beginning.

But...

Who let Fish get involved?

In fact, when he asked Cat to join the group, he was already prepared to let Professor McGonagall and Hermione know the whole plan, but Professor Slughorn and Madam Pomfrey were definitely not among them.

Professor Slughorn was okay, after all, he knew about Horcruxes and had some connection with them. As long as Dumbledore mentioned the Horcruxes, he would be embarrassed to express his dissatisfaction.

But Madam Pomfrey was more troublesome. Not only was she one of the people who worked with Dumbledore the longest in the whole school, but when St. Mungo's wanted to recruit Madam Pomfrey, she also stayed in Hogwarts because of Dumbledore's retention.

"Hey! Poppy, I have to do this for a reason..." Dumbledore coaxed Madam Pomfrey humbly, and took the time to throw a complaining look at Snape.

"They said they wanted to try to cure you, I can't stop them, can I?" Snape raised his mouth with a gloating look, "I reminded you before that the time you gave was too tight, and a powerful potion master can still see the flaws."

Fortunately, Madam Pomfrey was not a person who didn't know the seriousness of the matter. She was indeed angry because of Dumbledore's deception, but after calming down, she guessed that he probably had some plan... After all, although Dumbledore was a little crazy, he would not joke about such things.

"Albus, what exactly is it that requires you to deceive everyone by pretending to be dead?" Madam Pomfrey asked.

In fact, without Dumbledore's answer, she actually guessed the reason to some extent. Apart from the person whose name cannot be mentioned, who else needs him to spend so much effort?

Since he couldn't hide it anymore, Dumbledore could only drag Professor Slughorn and Madam Pomfrey into the water. Thanks to Harry's acquisition of Professor Slughorn's memory, Dumbledore knew that he could be trusted.

"This matter started when Fish came to me with a black diary in his second year..."

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"What's the situation? Where's Madam Pomfrey?"

When Snape and Professor Slughorn returned to Professor McGonagall's office, Hagrid, who had been staring at the door, rushed up first and asked nervously.

Professor Slughorn sighed, shook his head with regret, and said, "Albus has two powerful and ancient black magics, and it's difficult for me to deal with one alone. In this situation... I'm sorry, I can't do anything..."

"Madam Pomfrey is taking care of Dumbledore, so you should not disturb him for the time being." Snape added on the side.

The main reason was that Madam Pomfrey's acting skills were not very good. Dumbledore was worried that she would reveal her flaws, so he simply used this excuse to let her avoid other people's questions.

Hagrid wailed and covered his face with his huge palm. Tears flowed from his fingers and soon wet his beard and front. The other professors also looked sad. For a while, there was only Hagrid's sobbing in the office.

Professor Slughorn still felt a little guilty about deceiving his colleagues. He glanced at Hagrid and others with shame and whispered, "Sorry, I'll go back first..." Then he turned and left.

Others just thought he was blaming himself for not being able to cure Dumbledore, and didn't doubt anything...

After all, no one could have imagined that several colleagues, including Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall, would join forces with Dumbledore to deceive them, all the students of Hogwarts, and the entire wizarding world with things like "severely injured and dying".

As the rumor was "confirmed" by the teachers and students of Hogwarts, the news that Dumbledore was dying spread throughout England in an instant, and was also spreading to other countries.

The Daily Prophet also changed its attitude last year and took out a lot of pages to report Dumbledore's contributions in length.

Now everyone is more certain of the truth of the rumor, and the entire English magic world is in sorrow.

Dumbledore taught and served as the principal of Hogwarts for many years, and he was the absolute main force against Voldemort more than ten years ago. There are countless wizards who have benefited from him.

Even some pure-blood wizards who disagree with his ideas sent letters and gifts of condolences to Hogwarts after learning that Dumbledore was about to die.

Some people even linked the attack on Hogwarts not long ago to Dumbledore. They believe that Dumbledore was likely to have suffered an incurable serious injury at that time in order to protect students.

So angry people began to send letters to the Ministry of Magic, demanding that they hang Umbridge and others who participated in the attack, as well as the mastermind Cornelius Fudge.

In such a turmoil, the students of Hogwarts completed their final exams, and while waiting for the test results, they received the news of Dumbledore's death.

Then, Hogwarts held a very grand funeral. In addition to all the teachers and students of Hogwarts, many wizards came from all over the world to attend Dumbledore's funeral. Even Ms. Maxime took her carriage and flew to Hogwarts pulled by huge magic horses.

Naturally, there were people from the Ministry of Magic. Pierce Sinix, who was controlled by Voldemort, came in person and asked Professor McGonagall to see Dumbledore's remains.

Professor McGonagall knew the real purpose of his doing so - to confirm Dumbledore's body for Voldemort.

However, Professor McGonagall agreed to his request, because Fish had long asked Winky how Barty Jr. was replaced by Barty Sr. out of Azkaban.

This time, Dumbledore faked his death and used the same method. They found an old wizard who was really dying. After asking for his consent, they fed him the Polyjuice Potion mixed with Dumbledore's hair.

After "looking at" Dumbledore's body, Sinix was satisfied and led his men to sit by the Black Lake.

As the seats by the Black Lake were gradually filled, the funeral began.

The singing of the fish people came from the Black Lake. They sang in a strange language that no one except Fish could understand. The singing was not harsh or unpleasant, but it made people's hair stand on end.

Immediately afterwards, Fawkes, who had been standing on Fish's shoulder, raised his head high and sang a beautiful but sad song in coordination with the melody of the fish people.

However, in Fish's ears, Fawkes's singing was not sad at all, because the lyrics in the Phoenix's mouth were-

"Albus Dumbledore is a big fool~Why do I sing such a boring song~It's so troublesome! So troublesome! So troublesome!"

Fish tried to keep a straight face, and the tail behind him kept swinging, forcing himself not to sing along with Fawkes.

Finally, when Hagrid, with red and swollen eyes and tears in his eyes, carried the body wrapped in purple velvet with golden stars to the marble table in the front, the singing of the fishmen ended, and Fox naturally stopped.

A small man with thick hair and a simple black robe stood up from his seat, stood in front of Dumbledore's body, and began to read the eulogy that made Firth drowsy, but in order not to reveal the flaws, the cat still tried to keep a serious expression.

After waiting for the eulogy to be read, the small wizard returned to his seat, and Firth saw the dazzling white flames leaping out from around the body of "Dumbledore" and the table: the flames jumped higher and higher, covering the body.

The white smoke curled up into the air, showing all kinds of strange shapes: for a moment, it seemed that a phoenix flew happily into the blue sky, but then the flames disappeared, and a white marble tomb appeared there, covering the body of "Dumbledore" and the table where the body was placed.

Countless arrows flew out from the nearby woods like a shower, flew high into the sky, and then fell far away from the crowd - this was the centaur seeing Dumbledore off.

After shooting this rain of arrows, the centaur turned around and disappeared into the cool trees. The fishmen also slowly sank into the green water and could no longer be seen.

Feishi shook his ears and suddenly felt that after Voldemort was solved, Dumbledore's situation in Hogwarts might be very bad.

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