A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 579 Make an appointment to fight, never die

Chesterton Avery was out of breath, turning a deaf ear to the sounds inside and outside the castle, and the world in his eyes was only a tiny bit bigger.He was hiding in the broom closet under the spiral staircase on the first floor, spying on the movement outside through the keyhole.

This is where Filch used to store buckets, mops, brooms, and various cleaning tools, but Filch hadn't been here in a while.Avery immediately fell in love with this place. The location of this broom room has many advantages: it is hidden enough and inconspicuous; it is also very close to the foyer—meaning it is easy to escape; and he can also observe other floors coming down through the keyhole people.

Avery thinks his status is far higher than Umbridge, because he is a pure blood 'Avery', and Umbridge is only a 'relative' of the Selwyn family, his cousin put this matter Tell him a joke.

Just like this time, the Dark Lord gave him a 'weapon' for the face of the Avery family, and because of this, his task was much easier.

He heard a high-pitched, sonorous cry, followed by Umbridge's screams echoing through the empty hallway, as she yelled, "Avery! I've got it! Come out, come save me!" "

Avery wanted to kill her.This woman is hopelessly stupid...

He quickly rushed to the brooms piled against the wall, picked out two of them—they were broomsticks he had hidden away, and then—he opened the door angrily, ran towards the direction of the sound, and immediately To be taken aback: Umbridge was followed by a beautiful phoenix, which was hot on its heels, spitting out clouds of flames from its mouth.

"There are many obstacles!"

Avery yelled, passing his wand over Umbridge's shoulder.A red light hit Fox, but slid away.Although it didn't work, it also slowed Fox down, and it raised its wings and hung in mid-air.

Umbridge rushed over on her short legs. She had already returned to her original appearance, and the Polyjuice Potion had failed, which meant that her plan to use Mafalda as a scapegoat had completely failed.

"You got it?" Avery asked eagerly.

"got it."

"Both are in the principal's office?"

"It's all there! I didn't expect Snape to be—" Umbridge said as she ran, her voice hoarse, and she didn't stop when she passed Avery, but snatched him from his arms A broomstick.Then leave him alone.

Avery almost got his nose twisted. He cursed Fox a few more times, then turned and ran.As he caught up to Umbridge, he growled, "Give me the things, you've been exposed!"

"No!" Umbridge yelled.They ran to the foyer, where many people gathered—some were students returning to the castle to rest after cleaning up the corpses, some were little wizards who sneaked out to watch the excitement, and there were a few staff members of the Ministry of Magic, standing in the oak wood doorway.

"It's remarkable," said Vikki Tecrosse, looking out into the distance.Then he heard hurried footsteps and looked back to see Avery and Umbridge running towards them, followed by a very beautiful bird.

"Where did you go?" He immediately stood up angrily, and the dissatisfaction accumulated for a long time suddenly burst out, "You two lazy cowards, the face of the Ministry of Magic is covered by you—"

"Go away!"

Avery swung his wand and the spell landed on Tecross's chest, and he leaned against the wall and passed out without a word.

There were screams in the hall, some people reprimanded loudly, some people looked blank, obviously not sure what happened.But there were also a few who reacted faster—both people from the Ministry of Magic and students who had participated in the battle and were now resting—raised their wands vigilantly.

Avery thought, this is the time!
He took out a small wooden box from his chest and threw it high.The box paused slightly under everyone's gaze, and then, the lid popped open, and a man in a black robe appeared just like that.

He was tall and thin, without a trace of hair, and his extremely oppressive red eyes slowly scanned everyone. Everyone was stunned, backed up uncontrollably, shoved, screamed, and no one had the courage to look at him.

As incredible as it is, that's Voldemort.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Umbridge and Avery slipped out of the hall, as relaxed as if they were on a green walk.

'Voldemort' let out a high-pitched, grim laugh as he raised his wand, the tip of which was glowing with green light.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a shape-shifting Boggart!" Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom suddenly appeared and shouted, this is the moment they've been waiting for, Frank raised his wand and shouted: "Funny funny !"

'Voldemort' just waved his hand lazily, and the spell didn't work at all.

Frank was shocked. At this moment, 'Voldemort' stretched out his wand and pointed at him. The huge sense of oppression made it difficult to distinguish reality. A whispered voice appeared in his ears, "Voldemort transformed this Boggart, Its state is fixed into its own image, and some condiments may have been added, but it is still a Boggart in essence, just looking bluffing..."

Green light strikes.The scoring hourglass with red gemstones in the corner suddenly jumped up and stood in front of Frank Longbottom. The green light hit it, smashing the hourglass into pieces and scattering the rubies all over the ground.Alice Longbottom's face was tense, her wand raised.

Frank Longbottom quickly joined Alice, explained the situation, and vaguely pointed out that Felix did not intend to show up.

"We can handle it," he said, and the students ran into the auditorium in one go, with a few brave ones looking back as they ran.

Felix stared for a moment, and after realizing that the Longbottoms could handle this mutated Boggart, he rushed towards the distance.He was trying to minimize the number of hands-on actions, so far he hadn't shown up in public at school, and Remus was also cooperating with him, blurring his time trajectory, only in this way could he show up at the critical moment 'just right'.

Umbridge and Avery climbed onto their broomsticks and couldn't believe their luck that they actually escaped.The two brooms quickly passed the stone steps and flew towards the outside of the school.The professors and students who were still cleaning up the corpses halfway up the mountain saw them, but they didn't stop them. At most, they secretly despised them.They thought the two men were deserters.

"Give me the things, Umbridge, I'm in charge of the operation." Avery yelled as he flew on the broom.

"Dream!" said Umbridge, and she tried to move away from him with the handle of the broom, but Avery kept coming closer.Umbridge's eyes rolled wildly. She had already figured out that as soon as she left the school grounds, she would immediately disapparate and hand over the things to the Dark Lord herself.

No way, Mafalda was rescued by someone, and that damn phoenix was chasing her too closely, she was completely exposed.

The mysterious man once promised to help her clear up the stumbling blocks in the Ministry, and helping her to get the position of Minister of Magic has naturally come to naught. Now she has no choice but to fall to the mysterious man, but how to seek refuge is also a matter of knowledge. If she can personally Offer him what he desires most, and he will undoubtedly become an important figure among the Death Eaters.

In doing so, Avery becomes an obstacle...

Boom!There was a loud noise in the distance, and the ground shook. Harry's body tilted and almost fell on Sirius.Although it was a little blurry, he still realized what happened, it was too much movement——

A mountain collapsed.

Harry's eyes were wide open, stunned like everyone else, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Umbridge and Avery on broomsticks in the sky.

Without thinking about it, he picked up the Firebolt on the ground and rushed out.

"Harry?"

Felix, who was chasing unhurriedly, looked in the direction of Hogsmeade village, smacking his tongue inwardly. The fight was really fierce. Voldemort wouldn't be killed by Dumbledore, right? What did he do? What?
No one can take into account all the details and surprises of the plan.

Dumbledore can't do it, and neither can Felix.After repeated deliberations with Dumbledore, he finally came to a conclusion: Voldemort's purpose is very clear, which is the Horcrux, and everything else is a cover-up, so the school is the top priority.

At least one of the two of them must keep an eye on the situation in the school all the time, ready to support at any time.

But the two of them can't decide who to choose, it depends on where Voldemort appears, so when Felix found out that the besieging of Sword Castle was just some cannon fodder, he knew that Dumbledore would not be back in a short time.

Voldemort chose to hold back Dumbledore, and in fact Dumbledore also wanted to hold back Voldemort, so that Felix could calmly lead things as they wanted.

Cutting off Voldemort's wings was just a matter of course. The most difficult thing was how to convince Voldemort that his two Horcruxes were intact and in Dumbledore's hands.And Dumbledore's life is not long in his eyes...

Once Voldemort accepted the 'setup', with Horcruxes fishing ahead, his options were extremely limited.

Both Felix and Dumbledore like to take the initiative. They cannot always passively wait for opportunities and spend the next ten or 20 years on how to prevent Voldemort from plotting and tricking. At least Felix himself is quite unhappy .

……

"Is that the battlefield between the Mysterious Man and Dumbledore?" Umbridge looked into the distance with a look of shock on his face, and the speed of the two subconsciously slowed down.

"You should call master!" Avery yelled.

Umbridge didn't respond, she heard a muffled, piercing voice, she thought she had heard it wrong, a red light brushed against her hair, she gasped, and leaned her squat body on the broom up, and looked back.

It's that Potter!
He was flying towards them on a broomstick, and there were several others behind him, but Potter was the fastest.He was extremely dexterous, controlling the acceleration of the broom while shooting spells one after another.In the blink of an eye, Avery was stunned and fell off the broom.

Umbridge was terrified, and she pointed her wand at her back frantically, "Quickly imprison! Quickly imprison! Quickly - imprison!" Then she gritted her teeth and turned the direction of the broom, flying towards the direction of Hogsmeade village. To go, she had only one thought in her mind: to leave the range of anti-apparition and seek refuge with the mysterious man.

She had already figured out how to report in her mind, as for Dumbledore?Don't worry at all, as long as the mysterious man still wants to get the locket and crown, he will do his best to protect her.

Another stun spell hit her, and although it missed, it also woke Umbridge from his dream.

Haunted Potter!
Exasperated, she turned to see Harry very close to her, aiming his wand at her.A silver stag flew out from the tip of the staff, and Umbridge was stunned for a moment. Did Potter lose his head? Use Patronus on her?What do you think?

She's not a dementor.

Umbridge didn't care about it, and tried her best to speed up the broomstick. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her head, as if she had been hit by something hard. Her vision went dark, and she almost fell off the broom like Avery. When I touched the back of my head, it was full of blood.

"hiss!"

Umbridge was resentful and shocked again, the Patronus could hit someone?For a moment, she wondered if she had never learned this magic... A silver light appeared from above her side again, and she quickly moved the broom sideways, the patron saint's hoof stepped on her hand holding the broom handle, causing her pain screamed and almost fell off the broom.

After she managed to control the disobedient broom, the sound of the Patronus's hoofs stomping the air sounded behind her again, and Umbridge turned her head in despair. It was over for herself, even though she had been so close to Apparating.

"boom!"

The Patronus was suddenly scattered, and Umbridge looked back in disbelief - Potter was not far from her, her face was full of surprise, she looked past him behind him, Snape on the broom, He raised his wand with a grimace.

If one only looked at the result, one might think that this was an oolong, Snape's spell just hit Potter's Patronus by accident, which didn't help.

But Umbridge, knowing that Snape was a spy, was overjoyed and flew the final distance, skimming the walls of Hogwarts.

She smelled the smell of freedom and rights, of course, she didn't care who gave the rights, as long as she could occupy a high position.She stared at the distant battlefield of Hogsmeade village, preparing to Apparate.

She hadn't yet attempted to apparate while flying at high speed, but she was confident.At least for this moment, Umbridge's desire for power and his desire to be next to You-Know-Who are completely synonymous.

"Horcruxes are coming," said a young, gentle and calm voice, which Umbridge sounded familiar to her, but she didn't realize for a moment who was speaking and what was being said.Horcrux?What is a Horcrux?

Then she felt the pocket lighten up, and she watched the locket and crown flying out of the pocket, drew two almost identical arcs, and landed in the hands of the man who suddenly appeared outside the school wall——

It's Felix Hemp!
Umbridge didn't even have time to feel afraid of him, but had an unbelievable thought: So the diadem and the locket are Horcruxes.In the next moment, she completely disappeared, and successfully used Apparition to escape.

Felix stuffed the locket and the diadem into his pocket silently, "Professor Hype?!" Harry controlled the Firebolt to circle twice in vain at the place where Umbridge disappeared, and finally landed in front of him.

"Harry." Felix nodded at him. "You've done well, and you've been brave. Brave, all of you."

"It's a pity that Umbridge escaped." Harry looked quite regretful, and then he seemed to think of something, and asked eagerly: "So her target is really a Horcrux? You and Principal Dumbledore haven't ruined it yet." Drop it?" He complained, "It's too dangerous, fortunately you arrived in time, if she takes you away—" He shuddered, unable to imagine what would happen.

A few more brooms fell.As soon as their toes touched the ground, Moody, Tonks, and Sirius vaguely surrounded Snape.

"What's wrong?" Felix asked in mock surprise.

Moody, Tonks, and Sirius didn't speak, just glanced at Snape out of the corner of their eyes, and Snape said coldly, "Maybe it's because my spell missed, it missed the enemy, but hit Potter's Patronus..."

"Are you sure you didn't mean it?" Sirius glared at him.

"So that's what happened," Felix said, and the others were surprised by the understatement in his tone, and all looked at him.

Harry also stared at the professor. His mental activities were more complicated than that of everyone present, because Snape had prevented him from entering the principal's office to find out. As a result, Umbridge successfully obtained the Horcrux.If it hadn't been for Professor Happer's sudden appearance - yes, how did he appear by such a coincidence?

Harry didn't say a word, anyway, the Horcrux was not lost, but Umbridge escaped, and he could accept this result.He thought of a possibility he had drawn up before: that was the case where Snape was undercover...

Felix explained: "Harry's Patronus is very special, and has even surpassed the Patronus in the general sense. Severus didn't know much about the Patronus, and he might have mistakenly thought that his spell could pass through... it should be a Accident."

Snape stood there with an expression on his face, without opening his mouth to explain.

After a while, Mad-Eye Moody said harshly, "Let Dumbledore handle it. He's in Hogsmeade now?" He asked Felix.

"It's a lot of movement, isn't it?" Felix looked into the distance, and he figured that the battle was going to be over - because of Umbridge.He quietly buried a big hole for Umbridge, I don't know if it will be useful...

Hogsmeade village.

Voldemort and Dumbledore confronted each other, billowing smoke and dust came towards them in the distance, there was the battlefield before the two, a mountain collapsed, and the smoke and dust were just the aftermath of the battlefield.

"Is there anything worse?" growled Voldemort. "Looks like I've hit you where it hurts. Is that your brother? He's like a wild child left unattended. Look at his dirty laundry!"

Dumbledore swung his wand. The power of the spell completely changed the terrain. Every stone, every tree, every blade of grass, and even the air radiated hostility towards Voldemort. Attacks could come from all directions, and Voldemort disappeared in place. appear on the other side.

He raised the snake staff - there was a pop, a squat woman emerged from the air, Voldemort's eyes widened, it was Dolores Umbridge.Why is she here?Regardless of success or failure, she should not be here.

"Mystery, oh—Master, help me!" cried Umbridge, ecstatic, as she escaped at last, from Felix Heap!But what greeted her was a pair of scarlet snake eyes, and Umbridge's eyes became dazed and empty. Today—especially in the past half an hour—the picture of what he had experienced emerged like a lantern:

"You are too careless! Someone is coming, I will stop it, remember, the password is 'ruin'." Snape shouted in a low voice, Umbridge, who was disguised as Mafaldar, widened his eyes and froze. land.The behemoth blocking the way obediently jumped aside.

"Go!" Snape growled at her, pushing her up the spiral staircase.

She stumbled and panicked, while Snape straightened his robes and walked in the opposite direction...

Another scene: in the headmaster's office, Umbridge opened the drawer - Voldemort's snake-like nostrils sucked in a sharp breath - and in the drawer were the Horcruxes, lockets, crowns, and even And his old yew wand, along with the destroyed diary and Gaunt's ring...

This is followed by an image of Umbridge being chased by a phoenix singing high-pitched, showering golden flames.

The scene changed, she was riding on a broom, next to Avery, these two idiots managed to escape, no, with the help of Severus, how clever, his undercover work can continue... The situation took a turn for the worse , Avery was shot down, and a sufficiently different Patronus appeared...

It was Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, trying to get in his way again.

Then Voldemort heard a voice say, "Horcruxes are coming." The diadem and locket flew out of Umbridge's pocket, and he felt it, and reached out feebly, but it was just a memory, and his heart was utterly depressed. , the Horcrux fell into the hands of Felix Haipu, who else could get it from him?I can't do it myself.

Once again, Voldemort realized, he had failed, and the follow-up plan was completely useless.

He disappeared without any warning and appeared in the distance, ignoring Umbridge's pleading eyes, staring at Dumbledore, and said bitterly: "Give me the crown and locket, I know it's in your hands, Dumbledore! I swear to leave England immediately and never to return."

Dumbledore shook his head slightly, "We all know that's empty words."

"You know what I can do, you can't protect everyone!" Voldemort yelled frantically, his red eyes were so bright that he almost lost his mind, because he lost his Horcrux and missed him; Because of the curse on Dumbledore—it wasn't a curse at all, but a reminder for two Horcruxes.

Dumbledore stared at Voldemort and said softly, "You don't think such a threat will work, do you?"

"You are the umbrella of the Muggles, and if they die in large numbers because of you—"

"I can tell who is the real murderer. If someone dies, there is no doubt that you did it, Tom. This will only strengthen my determination to get rid of you." Dumbledore interrupted him, staring at I looked at my right hand for a while and said, "I always think that you are my responsibility. But I may not have enough time. I hope that before that, I can buy time for the latecomers..."

"You want to fight me to a duel without dying?" Voldemort rubbed the snake stick, his tone was a little surprised: "Why should I do what you wish? You are dead!"

"Oh, I'm afraid you can't help it." Dumbledore said happily: "You might as well think of it this way, I originally left those two Horcruxes to keep the precious relics for the school, but I just didn't think about how to separate the impurities. Delayed... But, I'm dying, and probably last a year or two? But anyway, why do I keep them?"

Voldemort's eyes seemed to be eating people, he stared at Dumbledore, his blue eyes were as calm as the endless sea, and no one could shake them.

"Just the two of us?" he asked calmly.

"Just the two of us," said Dumbledore quietly.

"Bet on the Horcrux?"

"Bet on Horcruxes."

"Hypocrisy!" said Voldemort with a sneer. "If you want to die a painful death, I'd be happy to give you a ride."

Dumbledore breathed a sigh of relief when suddenly Voldemort raised his wand, his lips twitched, and there was a flash of green light.Dumbledore turned his wand lightly, and a stone turned into a shield appeared in front of Umbridge.

The Killing Curse was blocked.

The spell was not aimed at Dumbledore from the beginning, but at Umbridge.She belatedly screamed, trembling, her face ashen.

"You're still so nosy, Dumbledore," said Voldemort coldly.

"She will be judged by the Wizengamot, but she will not die at your hands." Dumbledore said solemnly.

Voldemort sneered twice, and before he left, he still did not forget to provoke: "That Felix Hemp is your chosen heir? He is more ruthless than you. He wanted to use my hand to kill her. You saved her. He probably won't be happy..." He left all at once.

"Give you some time to arrange funeral affairs!"

Dumbledore glanced at Umbridge, who was lying on the ground, and sighed softly.

(End of this chapter)