When Yaxley led that grumbling group of Dark Wizards around the sealed-off corridor, he still had no idea that the house-elves Albert had left in the kitchen to monitor the entire castle had already discovered their movements.
No matter how hard they racked their brains, they would never have imagined that someone had set up their headquarters in the kitchen.
That was precisely why it was quite safe there.
"How did it go? Did it work?"
After Hermione and Ron were Apparated back to the kitchen with the house-elves' help, they hurriedly asked about the results.
Just moments ago, the two had used the magical items Albert had left behind to try to cut off Yaxley's group's path, preventing Bill's team from being caught in a pincer attack and wiped out.
After all, they were not Albert. The outcome of charging headlong into a force of over a hundred Dark Wizards was obvious.
"It worked. They took a detour," Shanna said, turning to Hermione and Ron. "But you'll probably need to go out again."
"What happened?"
Hermione immediately turned her gaze to the large map before her and quickly understood the reason as she followed Shanna's wand.
"A group split off from that main force earlier and formed three teams. They seem to be planning to attack our blocking teams from behind and open up those three routes to let the enemy in," Shanna explained.
"Those people are actually planning to attack from both sides." Hermione stared at the red dots on the map and murmured, "If Albert hadn't prepared for this in advance, things could have gone very badly."
"How did those people become so underhanded?" Ron said, somewhat disgruntled.
"Everyone is improving," Shanna said flatly.
"You call that improving?"
"I already informed them about it. They'll probably ambush