Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 228 Heartbreaking Speech, A True Blow!

After Dali said this, many students below looked thoughtful.

Some of the lion cubs who had bravely spoken up earlier stood tall and proud, their fear greatly diminished.

However, a considerable number of students did not heed Dudley's words.

Some even felt that Dudley was making things difficult for people and was just stirring up trouble to scare them.

Dealing with dark wizards is the responsibility of adult wizards, professors, headmasters, and Aurors of the Ministry of Magic; it has nothing to do with them.

However, due to Dudley's strength and power, these students simply lowered their heads slightly and remained silent.

With a good vantage point hovering in the air and enhanced by a super-sensory spell, Dudley could clearly see the expressions and reactions of nearly three hundred students.

He noticed that some students were unconvinced and understood their mindset.

It's simply that everyone is afraid, and I'm afraid too.

If something happens, there are adults to protect you; if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up.

What's the point of preaching grand principles? We don't listen to them, nor do we need to.

"Ah!"

Dudley let out a disappointed chuckle from above.

Without giving anyone any face, she bluntly exposed their thoughts and stated the harsh truth:

"Do you think it's perfectly natural to be afraid of Voldemort?"

Do you think the topic of fighting dark wizards is too far removed from your lives?

Do you really think that if a dark wizard really comes knocking on your door, you professors, Headmaster Dumbledore, and Aurors from the Ministry of Magic will help you defend yourself?

Do you think you're too young to bear such heavy pressure and responsibility?

Let me emphasize a few facts that you've always known but consistently ignored!

Ten years ago, Voldemort broke into the Potter family, which was protected by powerful magic, killed my aunt and uncle, and cast the Killing Curse on my cousin, who was just over a year old and still lying in his cradle, the Harry Potter you all know.

When you're hiding at home, disaster strikes from the sky.

My cousin was still young and didn't understand much back then, but he already faced the most terrifying black wizard.

Did someone go up to Voldemort and say that Harry was too young and shouldn't be involved in fighting dark wizards?

After Voldemort killed my aunt and uncle, who could stand in front of Harry and protect him from harm?

Did Voldemort refrain from harming my cousin just because he was only a little over a year old?

The wizards in the magical world were only concerned with giving my cousin a lucky persona of surviving a great calamity, and they regarded him as the savior who defeated Voldemort.

Does anyone care whether my cousin wanted this kind of luck? Does anyone care about my cousin's deceased parents? Does anyone care about the heavy pressure and hatred he carries?

Has anyone discussed whether this pressure should be placed on a child?

Dali's series of brutal questions left everyone below speechless.

Harry himself was moved to tears, but he held them back.

Harry's friends, professors, and many students from the four houses all cast pitying glances at him.

In the area where the faculty and staff stood, Dumbledore and Snape's expressions were as if the world had been stripped of its color, filled with self-reproach and guilt.

A little further away in another direction, Sirius, hiding behind a tree along the playground and observing silently, had a similar expression.

In this atmosphere, Dudley hardened his heart and spoke again:

"What are you pitying? It is true that my cousin's background is tragic, but is his background an isolated case?"

Voldemort and the Death Eaters ruled the wizarding world for a full ten years, from twenty to ten years ago!

How many wizards did they kill during this period? How many of them were minor wizards?

Are all your wizard parents, your wizard relatives and elders, alive and well?

Those students who remained silent, not even daring to express their fear, do you all have happy and fulfilling families, and have none of your families suffered at the hands of Voldemort and the Death Eaters?

And those classmates whose elders were Death Eaters, did all your Death Eater elders fall at the hands of Headmaster Dumbledore and the White Wizard? Weren't there any who failed in their duties and were executed by Voldemort?

These are extremely real and extremely important situations, and now I, someone from the Muggle world, have to emphasize them to you. Don't you find that ironic?

You should have had more classmates!

If you could see the initial admission list recorded in the admission book, and see the names marked with horizontal lines after being accepted, you should understand that danger doesn't discriminate, doesn't care about men, women, or children, and can come anytime, anywhere!

You should understand that, apart from yourself, no one in this world can be your eternal support!

You lack the courage to overcome your fears and face reality, thinking that you are too young to bear these burdens, but you forget that you will grow up in a few years.

If you don't have the courage now and indulge yourselves, do you think courage will automatically come knocking on your door in a few years?

You take it lightly now, thinking that fighting against dark wizards is a matter for adults, for powerful wizards. Little do you know that adults are made from children, and the strong are made from the weak!

Have you ever thought that your parents and grandparents, the previous and previous generations in the magical world, mostly had the same thoughts as you do now when they were your age?

So when they grew up, they became the ones who got beaten up, the enslaved, and the weak who didn't have the courage to resist.

It is their cowardice that has created this corrupt and backward magical world. It is their cowardice that has made you, a bunch of teenagers, lose the confidence to look up in front of this tattered image!

Do you really want to follow the same path as your fathers and grandfathers, passing on this cowardice and fear to your next generation and the generation after that?

Don't even think about outlasting Voldemort. He survived being blown to bits; his methods are beyond your imagination!

Moreover, even if Voldemort is completely destroyed, wouldn't another Dark Lord emerge, and the next one after that?

The only good news is that you don't have to worry about the next Dark Lord being one of your classmates, or even one of you.

Because the Dark Lord isn't someone like you cowardly wimps can be!

Dudley's words, delivered with a truly devastating impact, turned the already turbulent hearts of the Hogwarts students and teachers below into a raging storm.

Language is just a tool for communication in the mouths of ordinary people, but in Dudley's mouth, it is a sharp weapon that cuts to the heart.

These reasoned and insightful words would leave any wizard with a conscience unmoved.

Soon, the silent lambs below transformed into a horde of excited, red-hot wolves.

They all raised their heads with a howl, staring at the huge black magic mark that kept hissing, and excitedly uttered incoherent sounds.

The sound was incredibly noisy and incoherent.

Dudley couldn't make out what everyone was saying, but he knew very well that it was an emotional release after everyone had suppressed their fear.

The fact that they roared and howled at the Dark Mark, which symbolized Voldemort and the Death Eaters, was not enough to prove that the students of Hogwarts had been transformed.

But at least it shows that most Hogwarts students have undergone a transformation.

"Now, I'll ask you one more time, are you still afraid?"

After the noise from below subsided slightly, Dudley activated the 'loud voice' spell and asked the same question again.