Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 249 How Harry Didn’t Die…
This magical plant research institute in Grenoble is very important to the Wizarding World, which has already established a firm foothold in France.
Dozens of greenhouses built here are used to cultivate hundreds of magical plants, supplying nearly 70% of the herbs used in the French Hospital for Magical Injuries and Illnesses, the Potions Development Office, and Beauxbatons' Herbology Course.
Once this place is taken, the Wizarding World will be able to completely alleviate its dependence on the supplies provided by Grindelwald in Northern Europe, achieve self-sufficiency in the distribution of herbs and potions, and cause great trouble to the French Ministry of Magic.
Precisely because of the importance of this place, the operation to attack this area was led by Lily and Kingsley, who led their respective teams.
The smoke caused great trouble to the employees hiding in this greenhouse. Before coming here, Lily and her team had already set up anti-Apparition magic in advance, restricting their escape routes.
Then, together with others, they surrounded all the wizards in charge of this research institute and drove them into the same greenhouse. Finally, the two of them and others blocked the front and back exits respectively, intending to let none of these people escape.
As the largest herb cultivation base in the French wizarding world, and such a lucrative place, those who stayed here were of course from pure-blood wizard families who had gained power after Voldemort's arrival.
They were all the biggest beneficiaries of following Voldemort, and they knew very well that even if they surrendered, they would be held accountable. Therefore, even when they were forced into such a desperate situation, they did not give up resistance.
The wizard's plan to temporarily block Lily and the others by relying on the long creepers was ruined by the smoke spell. Trapped in the center of the greenhouse, the desperate wizard picked up a potted plant with broad leaves that looked very ordinary.
"Since there is no way to survive, let everyone die here!"
He roared like a madman, and then, under the horrified gaze of his companions, he suddenly exerted force and pulled out the grass roots of the plant buried in the flowerpot!
An extremely ugly baby face emerged from the soil. Its limbs were in the shape of roots, but the overall shape remained basically human.
The most important thing is that after this ugly humanoid plant was pulled out of the flowerpot, it let out a scream that seemed to be able to tear the eardrums!
"ah!!!"
A sound wave that was almost visible to the naked eye radiated in all directions with the humanoid plant as the center!
The wizard who pulled it out of the soil with his own hands, almost at the moment the sound was heard, collapsed to the ground in a daze, his body twitching continuously, and blood gushing out of his eyes, ears, nose and mouth!
The French Ministry of Magic employees who followed him could not escape the same fate. Even the smoke that filled the greenhouse was driven away by the sound waves, leaving the area around the humanoid plant empty in an instant.
However, the screams had no effect on the people brought by Lily and Kingsley. Before coming to this botanical research institute, they had rehearsed all possible situations, including this adult mandrake.
This herb is very precious, but the sound it makes is deadly enough, especially adult mandrake, which is an extremely dangerous plant.
The employees stationed here may not have any great abilities, but they can use these magical plants cultivated in the greenhouse to create some unexpected troubles.
But this mandrake was not beyond Lily and her friends' expectations. After forcing the group into the greenhouse, Lily asked everyone to wear the cotton-wool earmuffs they had prepared in advance.
Both exits have been blocked, and even if they give up their hearing, it will not affect their casting and arrest . Such preventive measures can save many lives.
Except for a few wizards on the wizard horizon who felt dizzy due to the faint sound that penetrated through their earmuffs, most of them were unharmed.
Lily cleared the smoke from the greenhouse, revealing a miserable scene inside.
The plants that were placed on the wooden racks and planted in pots were scattered all over the ground. The pots were all shattered by the extremely lethal sound of the mandrake. In the land, those plants that seemed to have their own consciousness all wanted to bury all their stems and leaves into the soil, hoping to avoid such torture.
The employees of the French Ministry of Magic had already fallen to the ground in pieces. Almost all of them were bleeding from all seven orifices and had stopped breathing . Only one or two of them were still alive because their willpower was strong enough and their bodies were still twitching unconsciously.
But even if these two people were still alive, the mental damage was permanent, basically turning them into idiots.
Lily, Kingsley and the people who followed them did not show any sympathy on their faces at the miserable plight of these people.
Perhaps in the past there were still kind-hearted wizards who would believe the words of those pure-blood wizards who, after being captured, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, saying that they were only forced to torture Muggles. However, after seeing what happened to those who were locked up in the correctional institutions, no one would have pity on these pure-bloods working in the Ministry of Magic anymore.
Even if some of them really had never oppressed the Muggle wizards themselves, as long as they were in such a position, it was a form of oppression in itself.
While someone was left behind to clean up the mess on the ground, Lily and Kingsley went together to the place where the accounts were kept in the institute, waiting for Leon to send someone to sort out and receive all the herbs and supplies in the institute.
Looking at the parchment filled with the names of various herbs, which seemed to have no end, Kingsley still felt like he was dreaming.
"We have been like lost dogs, being chased here and there for so many years, and just overnight, we have the opportunity to fight back."
Lily's face showed no expression as she listened to his emotional words, but her hands were obviously stronger than before as she summarized the accounts.
She didn't say anything, but she thought of Jon unconsciously.
Naturally, she was extremely impressed by the boy she had brought to Hogwarts, not only because of his outstanding talents and abilities.
Every time Lily saw his clear eyes, she couldn't help but think of her son.
It was precisely because of this that she half-lent and half-gave the invisibility cloak that had been passed down in the Potter family to John, although she did not express it in her normal words or emotions.
Lily sorted out the documents in her hands without saying a word, thinking silently in her heart.
If Harry were still alive, he would be about the same age as Jon, right?
