Chapter 31: Going Back to their homes

Chapter 31: Going Back to their homes

The Train Journey back to the platform was the most silent and depressing train journey in the history of Hogwarts. No kid was in the mood to chatter or most of them were injured and in hurry to leave this dreadful place.

As the announcement of the station came, kids hurriedly grabbed their luggage and the minute the train stopped, it was a flood of kids escaping the station.

As Nev and his friends made their way out of the crowd, they found many kids hugging their families and crying their eyes out or some dragging their families to leave the place. It was not a beautiful sight.

"Who knew, the black wizard you fought Neville was the Dark Lord himself! I don't even know how you are alive Neville!" Dean whispered among the trio.

"Yeah, man! I mean I loved that magic. Those explosions were simply awesome, but I don't think I want to face that kind of man as an enemy. I don't think any of my tricks can do any damage to that guy." Seamus whispered this time.

"Well, it's the holidays. The HOLIDAYS. Now, let's spend some time with our families and in our homes and you guys can come to my manor later when your parents agree. I will send my house-elf to bring you directly. Second, my birthday will be on July 30th. So, you and your family are invited. I will send the formal invitations via owls. Just keep this in mind."

Neville finally finished their conversation before Seamus found his mum and they parted their ways. Neville knew one of his House-elves would be waiting for him somewhere in the crowd and after looking for some time, he finally found Dufus in not so comfortable dress waiting for him.

"Welcome master! Dufus is here. Dufus was waiting for the master in front of the crowd, but Dufus is wearing this dress and other wizards were giving Dufus strange looks. Hence, Dufus moved back. Dufus is truly sorry. Dufus will punish himself once we reach the manor master!

"No need Dufus. No need to waste time on others. Let's go to the manor." Nev simply ignored all the blabbering of Dufus and Dufus apparated with Nev to their family manor.

Inside the manor, lady Augusta was teaching her son, Frank Longbottom, and his wife Alice Longbottom, how to pronounce some words. The recent improvements in their condition is a blessing of Merlin for her. Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

"Great! Now try to say Apple!...AP-UHL".

"I am back Nan!" Suddenly a loud voice came, startling her and disrupting her afternoon lessons with her kids. A huge smile bloomed on the old face, and she headed calmly towards the voice at a brisk pace.

"He is back!"

What happens when the news of the return of one of the most feared wizards, the second dark lord gets leaked by every student who ever attended Hogwarts in the past year.

Chaos! Total Chaos!!

The ministry even if they wanted to suppress the news or hide the news had no effective means to deal with such a crisis. The news was out there. There was a battle between the wraith of the dark lord and the professors of Hogwarts which was witnessed by all the students.

A lot of students were even injured. So, the ministry was now focused on containing raging panic and hysteria among the wizard population.

"Next!" The Auror sent the next professor inside the memory hall where a group of most respected and oldest Aurors, wizards and even some of the Wizengamot leaders were sitting here.

"Please, madam. Share the memory of the attack with us!" An old wizard Auror made a request to the professor sprout and considering the crowd that was around her, Professor sprout knew that the request was more of an order.

After half an hour later, Professor Sprout left the ministry with a relieved face. She was happy that she was not blamed for the attack of Voldemort. She knew the ministry wants to find a scapegoat to somehow minimise the damage and thankfully she was not the one.

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