Admiral of Hogwarts

162 Cat and Mouse Game

"Now help me take a look." Veneto said, pulling out a Carcano rifle with a scope from the ship's installation space, holding it in his hand, and then slowly scanned it with his burgundy eyes. covering the entire stadium.

"I'll find the house elf named Dobby soon, and then"

"Wait a minute, Dobby's crime is really not worthy of death." Looking at Veneto, who had a small face and looked at the stadium with hawk-like eyes, Hugo immediately persuaded him.

"I know that what Dobby did this time is indeed dangerous, and it may kill Harry, but there is really no need to kill him."

"Admiral, can you stop thinking about it?" Veneto turned to Hugo and shook his head and said, "Who said I took out the rifle just to kill Dobby."

"Then what are you going to do with this rifle?" Hugo pointed at the rifle and asked, "Don't tell me that you were just going to use this gun to fire a warning shot at Dobby."

"In fact, those creatures that master magic have more or less magic defense capabilities." Veneto seemed to be a little off topic at this time.

"Wizards have the worst reaction to this because they often use wands, but for magical creatures like goblins or house elves who don't usually use spell-casting props, they will often take the initiative to pop up magic defense when they are attacked by such attacks."

"Oh, that's it." Hugo nodded and said, and then he suddenly thought of something. "Wait, how did you come to this conclusion?"

"Of course it passed the test." Veneto said with an indifferent expression while inserting a leaky clip into the gun chamber.

"But the test subject we are looking for is not an innocent person. Goblin gangs are quite common at least in the United States. Massachusetts has already had more than one fight with them."

As he spoke, Veneto raised the rifle and put the butt on his shoulder, then aimed at the t position in the middle of the other table and pulled the trigger.

Just when she pulled the trigger, Hugo noticed that several mysterious-looking runes appeared on the gun.

"Poof" Unexpectedly, the sound of the gunshot sounded like popping a balloon the size of a palm.

As this bullet was fired, Hugo, who was watching the situation on the court with a telescope, immediately discovered that the Bludger that had been chasing Harry paused slightly, and then began to fly in another direction.

Obviously, the rifle in Veneto's hand has been modified by simple magic. At least the shooting sounds have been greatly improved. Otherwise, even if the gunshot is heard on the Quidditch pitch now, at least half of the people will hear it.

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"Did we succeed?" After looking at the situation on the field, Hugo showed a relaxed look. "I see that ball is no longer biting Harry."

"No, the situation is not that simple now." Veneto said to Hugo while activating all the detection equipment on his body and observing the entire arena.

"The house elf's body feeling after eating a bullet just now was actually similar to being punched in the chest. Although it hurt, it should not cause serious damage."

"In other words, there is still a possibility that the other party will continue to cause trouble." After hearing what Veneto said, Hugo's expression became serious again.

Because he remembered the various self-abuse behaviors Dobby told Harry about his previous actions in the original text. Even if only half of what he said was true, Veneto's shot would not affect Dobby's plan to save Harry.

Sure enough, Dobby's ability to withstand various blows far exceeds that of normal humans, and even exceeds that of most house elves who are good at masochism.

Therefore, less than two minutes later, Veneto once again captured the magic power that Dobby used to control the Bludger.

The reason why he was able to capture this magic power is also very simple. After all, Dobby's control of the Bludger does not mean he can achieve his goal by casting magic once. Instead, he needs to keep an eye on and control the magic power, similar to Voldemort's curse on Harry last year. broom method.

Therefore, when Veneto and Hugo are together, they can discover and lock the magical connection between the caster and the object being cast through the ability increase given by the Admiral, and then find the location of the caster.

"Poof" there was another silenced gunshot, and then Hugo saw that the Bludger that had circled and chased Harry once again lost control and crashed into the person closest to him.

In the following time, the two sides remained in a stalemate in a cycle where the shooting stopped to interfere and resumed to continue to interfere with the shooting.

However, probably because of the special attributes of Dobby's masochism, Hugo and the others soon discovered that the time between two manipulations was getting shorter and shorter.

Obviously, the house elf has slowly adapted to the feeling of bullets hitting its body, so it recovers faster every time after being hit.

In addition, although the bullets used by Veneto are construction weapons, they can be controlled from a distance to make the bullets disappear. But after taking several bullets, Dobby also realized that the attack on him was some kind of physical means.

So after another attack, Dobby began to arrange some magical defenses around himself against physical attacks.

In this case, Veneto also had to activate more runes on the firearm to enchant the bullets, in order to combine Dobby's new magical shield against physical attacks.

At the same time, another part of the runes accelerates the bullet and gives it high kinetic energy, which is used to cause more damage.

Fortunately, this tug-of-war finally came to an end with the final whistle. After hearing the whistle, Hugo and Veneto showed relaxed expressions at the same time.

Because if the stalemate between the two sides continued, Veneto might have to increase the power given to those bullets again and let the whole incident end with Dobby bleeding.

"I tried my best this time." After he and Hugo quickly slipped to the ground along a conjured rope, Veneto said while pulling him and running towards the location of his classmates.

"Actually, if you want to kill him this time, you can do it at the beginning of the game, but it is too labor-intensive to prevent Dobby's rescue activities without causing serious damage."

"I didn't expect that house elf to be so stubborn." Hugo said helplessly.

"I thought he would find a place to hide after he was hit by the first bullet, so I really didn't expect this confrontation to last for half a game. Fortunately, Harry caught the Golden Snitch in the end."

"I think the Bludger must have malfunctioned." Just as Hugo and Veneto squeezed into the crowd along the other side of the passage, they heard Lockhart's voice in the center of the crowd.

"I don't think anyone here knows how to repair this Bludger better than me. At least last year, I repaired it several times for the Artillery Team!"

Hugo, who had just squeezed into the crowd, happened to see Lockhart wanting to show off his skills in repairing Quidditch props. This scene turned out to be an unfortunate failure.

Because his whole body was too far forward when he opened the chain that usually bound the Bludger in the box, the Bludger that rose vertically at high speed after getting rid of the chain hit his shoulder blade.

Accompanied by the sound of cracking bones. Lockhart let out a soprano scream. At the same time, the whole person fell backwards.