Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

“This is ridiculous! What was Anduin thinking, letting these puppets invade Hogwarts? Where is he?” McGonagall, seeing the returning personnel, glared at Hoggs with anger. She was almost scared to death today. If anything happened to these young wizards, Hogwarts' thousand-year reputation would be ruined.

“Don’t worry,” Hoggs said with a smile, comforting Professor McGonagall. “Professor Wilson is very measured in his actions. See? Everyone is fine, aren't they?”

“That might just be luck this time,” Snape chimed in with a dark expression. “If any young wizard dies because of this, can he take responsibility?”

“If there are any problems, I'll take responsibility. Why are you so nervous?”

Just as the few were complaining, they suddenly heard Anduin's voice in their ears. When everyone turned around, they found that Anduin had arrived in the hall at some point, looking at Snape with a teasing expression.

“Humph, if something really happens, you probably couldn’t afford to pay even if you sold your entire Silver Flash Bank,” Snape cursed, feeling uneasy under Anduin’s gaze.

He was extremely unlucky today. When Snape discovered that Harry and the others were about to encounter those dark wizards, he hurried down to help, but by the time he rushed out of the castle, those first-year students had long been chased away by three steel constructs.

Afterward, Snape ran into a few more steel constructs that were invading from the main entrance. He didn't expect these puppets to be so powerful in combat, and he was caught off guard for a moment, eventually retreating to the hall to hide.

Not only did he fail to save Harry on this trip, but he also exhausted himself. Naturally, he was furious when he saw Anduin.

“You don’t need to worry about that, and you may have some misunderstandings about the financial strength of my Silver Flash Bank,” Anduin chuckled lightly, then immediately straightened his face and looked at the young wizards. “Now, everyone, line up in the morning exercise formation! Aurors to the front!”

Then Anduin took out a clipboard from his body, stood upright on the podium, and stared at everyone coldly.

Seeing Anduin strike this pose, the professors shook their heads helplessly. Dumbledore hadn't come forward until now, obviously acquiescing to Anduin's actions. Now they could only listen from the sidelines.

When the young wizards heard Anduin's order, they immediately lined up nervously. Although most of them were exhausted, they knew the consequences of disobeying Anduin even better.

After everyone had assembled and confirmed that no one was missing, Anduin announced loudly, “Okay, now I announce that the first comprehensive safety drill of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is over. I know you have many questions in your minds now, and I will answer them one by one.”

Safety drill?

Although most people realized afterward that Anduin was behind this invasion, hearing this unfamiliar term still aroused everyone's curiosity. However, since Anduin had already said he would explain, no one spoke out of turn.

“The so-called safety drill is a practical exercise arranged to strengthen everyone's awareness of crisis and improve their crisis management skills. It emphasizes suddenness and unpredictability, so even the professors did not receive notification of this drill.”

After speaking, Anduin added specifically, “Before entering Hogwarts, I communicated with Headmaster Dumbledore and several heads of the house. This is a formal exercise approved by the school.”

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips with a conflicted expression. How could she have known that the exercise Anduin mentioned would be so exaggerated? If she had known, she would never have agreed to it.

However, after Anduin's explanation, the young wizards on the scene understood the ins and outs of the so-called drill. They were wondering why the professors were in such a flustered state, since Anduin was the one who orchestrated the incident.

But precisely because of the professors' authentic performance, at the beginning of the drill, everyone thought it was a real dark wizard invasion, and everyone was under suffocating pressure and fear. Some people haven't recovered yet.

Then Anduin continued, “The drill project is the 'Death Eater Invasion', simulating the school's response strategy when Hogwarts is subjected to a dark wizard invasion like the Death Eaters, as well as the handling methods of underage wizards.”

“But the result…” Anduin shook his head regretfully. “The result is very disappointing. Out of 853 students in the school, 189 were knocked down by the dark wizards played by the magical constructs in this drill. If this were a real invasion, it would mean that these 189 died because of this! The casualty rate is as high as 22%!”

“And now, there are still people confidently claiming that Hogwarts is the safest place in the wizarding world. Is this what you mean by safety?”

As Anduin said this, he swept the young wizards on the scene with cold eyes, which made everyone lower their heads in shame, and the professors behind him also showed an awkward expression.

However, at this moment, someone still tried to argue. A senior wizard raised his hand, “Professor! You can't simply deny the safety of Hogwarts through this invasion, right? Those dark wizards appeared without any warning. We didn't have time to react at all!”

Anduin smiled coldly when he heard this, “Are you saying that as long as the invaders can hide themselves well and not give you time to react, they can break into Hogwarts like today?”

“Uh… I don't mean that. If it is a normal invader, they probably won’t be able to hide their tracks completely,” the wizard stubbornly argued.

“Is that so? So you want to entrust your safety to the mistakes of the invaders? Or are the invaders in everyone's imagination very chivalrous, and they will specifically explain the time and location of the attack to you in detail before attacking?”

Anduin snorted coldly, then pointed to several trainee aurors on the side, “And you can ask them, if the invaders are these trainee aurors, can they approach Hogwarts covertly.”

After speaking, Anduin specifically nodded at Tonks, and then she honestly said, “If we are allowed to use equipment such as shielding jammers, transporting dozens of wizards to approach Hogwarts is indeed not difficult.”

After hearing Tonks's words, everyone, including the senior wizard and a group of professors, fell silent.

Indeed, as Anduin said, the invaders will not talk to you about any chivalry. Expecting to set up a battle formation before starting to fight sounds very imposing, but it is simply clownish behavior.

“Moreover…” Anduin stretched out his hand at this time and pointed to the outside of the window, “The Dark Mark was shining in the sky for a full five minutes before those dark wizards appeared on the edge of Hogwarts. Now you think the reason for the failure is that there was no time to react?”

“It's just a joke!” Anduin's voice became more and more stern. “To be honest, the reason why Hogwarts has such high casualties is because you usually lack sufficient awareness of crisis. In the end, you are just used to being comfortable! I have already conducted surprise inspections on you a month in advance, but this is still the result. It's really disappointing!”

After being reprimanded by Anduin, the young wizards on the scene understood that the surprise inspections in the previous month were actually paving the way for this drill.

Thinking about it this way, everyone realized that Anduin seemed to have given enough hints, and also gave everyone plenty of time to practice how to deal with the crisis.

However, everyone was more nervous at the beginning of those surprise inspections, and later they were even regarded as a kind of alternative prank by many people, so they failed to attract everyone's attention.

“So…” Anduin paused and continued, “This safety drill is not specifically aimed at anyone, nor is it an attempt to prank you, but a real crisis exercise. Only after similar exercises can Hogwarts truly become the safest place in the wizarding world.”

After Anduin said this, everyone nodded in agreement, and even those professors who were tortured to death were now embarrassed to complain.

“However, after this exercise, many safety hazards have also been exposed.” After unifying everyone's thoughts, Anduin began to talk about the business.

“First of all, when the Dark Mark first appeared, Hogwarts did not promptly issue a warning to all teachers and students, which was caused by the lack of an alarm mechanism.”

“You should know that when the Dark Mark appeared, apart from the teachers and students outdoors, or those who happened to be by the window, many people didn't even know what was happening in the school. Everyone's information was not circulating with each other. The professors were busy gathering students, while the students might still be busy with their own affairs in the bathroom, library, or something like that,” Anduin pointed out sharply.

After hearing Anduin's words, the professors nodded one after another. They had actually tried their best to find the lost students at the beginning, but in the end they could only find a small number of people. Many young wizards didn't realize that something was wrong at Hogwarts until the dark wizards rushed into the castle.

“Next, I will develop an alarm system specifically for Hogwarts. When someone discovers a dangerous situation in the school, they can immediately issue different levels of warnings to the rest of the people based on the degree of harm, urgency, and development trend that the dangerous situation may cause.”

“For example, a troll breaking in like before will only put a small number of students in danger, so a yellow warning can be issued. An orange alert can be issued if it affects a larger area and has a higher degree of danger, and a red alert can be issued if it endangers the entire Hogwarts like today,” Anduin explained to everyone with a clear and forceful voice.