The years of welding at Hogwarts

His junior fellow apprentice Stephen Charlotte Holmes Strange is an expert in this area. He often studies in the soul while his body sleeps late at night. He can be called the King of Kamar-Taj.

The defect of Voldemort's soul meant that he was unable to put up any decent resistance when faced with attacks from the soul level.

It's like Uncle Snake, who has performed the Reincarnation Technique many times, and suffered irreversible damage on the soul level, causing his resistance to illusions to be almost zero.

Ever since Noah mastered the method of entering the Twilight Zone and was able to use it to directly attack Voldemort's soul, Voldemort was no longer a threat to him.

Since Voldemort's golden cup is missing, he must have made a plan for resurrection.

Thinking of this, Noah spread out his palms and took out the two soul fragments belonging to Voldemort that he had captured before from the magic circle.

Before Snape could even stop him, he saw Noah's palms clench suddenly, and two bright balls of soul light shattered into starlight in his palms.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be..."

Noah's tone was full of disdain for Voldemort, a town-level terrorist. "He is just a coward with a broken soul."

"Since I can beat him once, I can beat him a second time and a third time."

At this point, a murderous look appeared on Noah's face.

"I don't believe that his soul can be split infinitely. As long as we keep killing him and destroying his soul fragments, there will be a day when he consumes all his Horcruxes."

"That will be the time when Voldemort will truly die."

Chapter 257: Restoring the Glory of the Aurors

Nowadays, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is basically under Noah's control.

The grand goal of building a magic temple and using it to set up a magic circle covering the entire world was also accomplished...

Um, what percentage of the world's land mass does London occupy?

Noah had lost any interest in getting involved in the trivial matter between Harry Potter and his arch-enemy Tom Riddle.

The premise is that Voldemort, the sewer rat, hides obediently in the sewer where he should be. Even if he wants to come to Hogwarts to cause trouble, he will only target Harry.

As for using the basilisk to attack innocent students one after another like Harry Potter did in the second grade in the original time and space, Noah absolutely could not tolerate that.

After prying open the doors of three vaults in succession, Noah lost interest in settling the standard errands of Gringotts. Only an old bat who was interested in the potion materials stored in the vaults

, still working tirelessly to dismantle the vault door.

So far, Noah has three of Voldemort's Horcruxes in his hands.

Ravenclaw's diadem, the Gaunt family ring, Tom Riddle's diary from his youth.

Including the main soul fragment destroyed by Noah, now four of Voldemort's seven souls have been broken into Noah's hands.

The only Horcruxes left in the wild were Hufflepuff's gold cup that mysteriously disappeared from the Lestrange family vault, Slytherin's locket hidden in the Black mansion, and the most important living Horcrux.

That is Harry Potter.

As for the beautiful snake that Voldemort kept with him, Nagini, the companion of Aurelius Dumbledore, might become the niece-in-law of the old bee.

At the current point in time, it is not known whether Voldemort has found Nagini and deposited part of his soul into Nagini.

Even if there was, Noah wouldn't care too much.

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Ministry of Magic.

Although it was already after get off work, there should be only a few guards on duty in the Ministry of Magic.

But today's Ministry of Magic was uncharacteristically normal.

From the main hall on the eighth floor underground to the minister's office on the top floor, almost everywhere is a busy scene with people coming and going.

In the office, Amelia Bones's eyes were fixed sharply on Rufus Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror Office.

Just several hours ago, the Ministry of Magic received an alert from Gringotts.

At first, the Ministry of Magic did not take this matter too seriously, because the security of Gringotts was so strict that even the Ministry of Magic was slightly inferior to it.

Otherwise, Gringotts would not have become the largest financial services institution in the wizarding world, nor would it have won the trust of so many wizards.

There are usually some impoverished dark wizards who want to get rich overnight by robbing Gringotts.

But for Gringotts, these petty thefts don't even require the deployment of their guards. The defensive measures in the underground vault alone are enough to deal with them.

Even if you encounter organized and premeditated bandits, you don't have to worry too much. The guards inside Gringotts can handle the matter themselves.

Their Auror Office only needs to send out a team of Aurors to check out the situation.

Basically, every time the Aurors arrived at Diagon Alley, the robbers who had evil intentions towards Gringotts had already been punished by the Gringotts guards.

They don't look like professional detectives from the wizarding world, but rather like a group of professional thugs who are trying to cover up Gringotts' scandals.

But this time something seemed a little wrong.

In just three minutes, Gringotts sent three requests for help to the Ministry of Magic, and each time was more urgent than the last, as if if they were one second late, Gringotts would explode on the spot.

That's why Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror Office, personally led a team to the scene.

Then, they saw someone they never wanted to see again in their lifetime.

Voldemort.

No matter how unwilling they were to accept the fact that Voldemort had returned, when they saw each other's faces clearly, the fear that made the blood in their bodies seem to stop flowing could not be faked.

And Scrimgeour wasn't the only one who felt this way.

There were Aurors and strikers present, as well as the goblins from Gringotts and the wizard guards employed by Gringotts, totaling more than a hundred people.

They all witnessed the appearance of that figure.

Voldemort's resurrection and comeback, something that could easily become a calamity for the wizarding world, has become a foregone conclusion.

Amelia Bones turned her gaze away from Scrimgeour and looked around at the circle of high-ranking Ministry officials sitting in the Minister's office.

"I summoned you here at this time not to discuss with you what measures you should take to deal with the mysterious person, but to inform you."

"Bati." Bones directly called the name of the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

"The Dementors in Azkaban can no longer be trusted. We all know what those filthy dark creatures did during the war."

Even though Barty was very unhappy with his new boss, who was promoted from the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to Minister directly under Dumbledore's appointment.

But in such a situation, Batty still has a clear mind.

He did not disobey the order conveyed by Bones, but just nodded obediently and then fell silent again.

Seeing Barty nod, Amelia turned her gaze back to Scrimgeour.

She spoke again, "In addition to the need to replace the guards of Azkaban from Dementors to trusted wizards, we are also making reforms to the Auror Office."

"Starting tonight, the Ministry of Magic will enter the first level of combat readiness, and the Auror Office will be directly under the Minister's Office instead of being under the former Department of Magical Law Enforcement."

Before Batty could say anything against it, Amelia raised a hand, blocking Batty's words in his throat.

"At the same time, the Ministry of Magic will allocate a large amount of resources to the Auror Office and the Striker Force, striving to expand our strength in the shortest possible time."

A hint of delight came over Scrimgeour's face.

Compared to the period of Voldemort's reign of terror, the combat effectiveness of the Aurors in the Auror Office is now much weaker than before.

Although that war was brutal, it was precisely because of the brutality of the war that the Aurors at that time possessed extremely powerful combat capabilities.

In that war, every Auror who survived the battle with the Death Eaters became an elite through cruel training.

Wizard Duel is just the most basic skill to ensure their survival rate.

Reconnaissance, tracking, vigilance...

Deciphering magic traps, making healing potions, removing black magic curses...

Tactical coordination between teams, large-scale magic deployment by multiple people...

Every Auror who was able to survive that terrifying period when one could be killed at any time and anywhere would be regarded as the king of special forces in today's magical world.

Especially Alastor Moody.

In that era when talented people emerged in large numbers, it was not only the Auror corps that had strong combat effectiveness. The Death Eaters under Voldemort were also elite wizards with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

Faced with such a group of powerful terrorists, Alastor Moody was still able to defeat and capture them with his extremely strong attitude.

He was the one who captured half of the Death Eaters in Azkaban.

Unfortunately, the glory of the Auror Corps is a thing of the past.

It has only been a little over ten years since Voldemort's downfall, and the Ministry of Magic has already fallen into a state of disrepair during this brief period of peace.

On the surface, it seemed that the past ten years of peace had worn down the Aurors' will and made them slack off in training and learning.

But is this really the case?

The ten years of false peace were only a superficial reason why the Aurors and Striker had fallen into their current state.

The real culprits are a group of politicians including Millicent Barnold, Barty Crouch and Cornelius Fudge.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness level of Aurors and strikers, a considerable amount of Galleons is obviously needed.

If the wizarding world were still in a dangerous state of war, then this astronomical expense would obviously be insignificant.

As long as Voldemort is still alive, those pure-blood families or high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Magic who are unwilling to succumb to Voldemort's tyranny will naturally be willing to donate generously and provide blood transfusions to Aurors and Striker in a steady stream when the Ministry of Magic itself is short of funds.

After all, this is the guarantee of their survival.

If Voldemort had won, their final fate would not have been good.

And when Voldemort's reign of terror disappeared with the rebound of the Avada Kedavra Curse, it seemed less necessary for the Auror and Strike Force to continue to maintain such a strong combat capability.

They provided financial support to these two forces only to protect their own interests. However, when their interests no longer needed to be protected by the Auror Force and the Strike Force, providing funding to these two forces became a losing business.

The gold galleons in their vault were not blown directly by the wind.

With such a sum of money, they could use it to engage in business and expand their business empire; or they could use it as a political donation to build good relationships with officials in the Ministry of Magic and expand their network. Isn't this better than using it as training funds for those Aurors who only know how to fight and kill?

What benefits would it bring to Aurors and strikers to keep their combat capabilities strong in peacetime?

The answer is, no benefit.

The strength of the Auror and Striker Corps is no longer meaningful to the Ministry of Magic or to the pure-blood families who oppose Voldemort.

On the contrary, keeping these two money-eating beasts would only be a burden on their wallets.

Therefore, after confirming that Voldemort had truly disappeared from the wizarding world, the Auror and Striker Corps were immediately stabbed in the back by the Ministry of Magic.

A large number of Aurors and strikers were laid off, and the funding, which was originally unlimited, was cut to only two or three tenths.

These spare funds eventually went into the pockets of Ministry of Magic officials.

As for the pure-blood families, they no longer need to transfuse blood to these two money-eating beasts, and the money saved can be used to train their own family private army.

This wave of operations is a win-win situation for both the pure-bloods and the Ministry of Magic.

But it's not so wonderful for the Auror and Strike Forces.

After reaching its peak during the Wizarding War, the Auror Force declined to its lowest point in just one year after Voldemort's fall, a direct result of the joint backstabbing by the Ministry of Magic and the pure-blood families.

Almost all the Aurors and strikers were replaced by newly recruited rookies, and only a few veterans who had experienced the war remained on duty to serve as their instructors.

As time went by, except for the veteran Scrimgeour, no one else who had been active in the Wizarding War remained in the Auror Office.

Although Scrimgeour was very angry about the Ministry of Magic's actions, he was only the head of the Auror Office after all.

In name, he is an Auror.

He is the highest commander of the team, but apart from the command of operations, he has little say in the administrative affairs of the Ministry of Magic.

The right to speak on many matters within the Ministry of Magic is firmly in the hands of the so-called pure-bloods, who will not allow anyone else to interfere.

So, looking at the current state of the Auror's office, Scrimgeour could only accept it helplessly.

But now, Amelia Bones's orders have given Scrimgeour hope of restoring the honor of the Auror Force.

With excitement in his heart, Scrimgeour stood out from the crowd and asked, "Can we call back the veterans who participated in the wizarding war?"

If you want to gather a strong enough force in the shortest time possible, then relying solely on social recruitment and campus recruitment is obviously not enough.

Those new recruits who joined the Auror Force through social recruitment and campus recruitment, what practical experience do they have...

They have no practical experience.

Not to mention the newly recruited recruits, even the old hands in the Auror office now have very little practical experience.

In such a situation, recalling those unemployed veterans by re-employing them is obviously the best option.