Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 432 Ming Wu
--really!
Just as Harry expected.

They waited outside Honeydukes for a long time, and no 'heroic wizard' or 'a younger version of Harry's father' came to rescue them.

Harry already understood,
——They saved themselves.

So he pulled Hermione, Ron and the others into [Honey Dukes] wearing an invisibility cloak.

(the store is empty, and there is a card notice that the door is closed,

Harry waved his wand to open the door, looked around carefully, and led Ron and Hermione into it),

At this time, the fog hadn't spread to the street, but it just flowed from the cellar to the ground of the front hall.

Harry counted the time and recalled the scene at that time.

——Now, it is estimated that McGuffin and Hermione have just entered the cellar and saw the tortured Froome couple and Voldemort in that state.

"Harry, what the hell are you doing? Didn't you listen to me? We can't have direct contact with ourselves..." Hermione tried to hold him back.

Ron didn't want to enter here either, he trembled and wanted to escape, "There are so many Death Eaters down there, and Voldemort...Harry, we're looking for Scabbers! Don't meddle in your own business!"

The two gasped in Harry's ears with the faintest of voices, like a buzzing.

"No, I'm saving our lives—" said Harry, "come with me... don't you wonder why Dumbledore insisted on sending the three of us here?"

"He already knew that the three of us went back in time through the [Time-Turner]... Think about it... the wand under the invisibility cloak, and the figure that looks so much like me... I always thought it was my father... Oh, yes, you don't know! Anyway, anyway-listen to me!"

"—Shh! Be quiet!"

Harry didn't have time to speak clearly now, he decided to act directly.

After breaking free from the restraints of Hermione and Ron (holding hands tightly), he took off the invisibility cloak, and came to the door of the cellar in two steps.

Harry pricked up his ears and listened to the faint movement in the cellar. Compared with his memory, he felt that it was almost the same, so he took out his wand and whispered, "Call God to protect you!"

A dazzling silver animal emerged from the tip of the wand.

—a stag!
"Go!"

With a wave of the wand.

【Guardian】Holding his head, pointing the antlers upwards, he jumped in mid-air and swooped down to the cellar below.

Harry stepped into the door of the cellar, stood at the top of the wooden stairs, and then, relying on his vague memory and the scene he saw in a trance, ordered the [Patron Saint] to attack Voldemort's form.

Before those guys could react, he casually cast two spells that he remembered, and then hurriedly retreated, pulling Hermione and Ron to put on the invisibility cloak again, and quickly left [Honeydukes], and came to the streets of Hogsmeade outside.

"Get out of here quickly, I remember Voldemort will rush up later!"

Harry pulled the two of them as far away as possible.

"I understand too!"

"I can't believe all of this! It turns out we did it ourselves..." Hermione lowered her head and exclaimed.

She went on to ask,
"Has anyone seen you?"

"Yeah, didn't I keep telling you guys that I thought I saw my dad? It was me..." said Harry.

"And that magic - you summoned the Patronus who nearly defeated Voldemort! This is beyond the reach of a MacGuffin and most adult wizards... It's very advanced magic..."

"I know I can do it!" Harry said. "You should understand too! What happened just now was bound to happen. Dumbledore sent us here not for Scabbers, but for this...!"

He was a little frustrated, which meant that Dumbledore thought there was a high probability that they would not find Wormtail, which also meant that Black he...

Hermione also thought of this, "Don't worry, we'll wait for Voldemort to attack Hogwarts later, and then we'll go back to the [Honeydukes] cellar to save ourselves, and keep an eye out for any mice to slip out... No matter how I think about it, I guess it was after the explosion, when McGuffin also passed out, that Scabbers might sneak away."

"What do you mean? Do we have to go back later?" Ron yelled loudly with a pale face.

"Shhh! - Keep your voice down! Ron!" Harry pushed Ron, "We have to avoid Voldemort, and other wizards... Wrinkle, go to the Three Broomsticks, there are many people there, and there probably won't attract the attention of that fellow Voldemort, go... Hurry up!" he urged.

[The Three Broomsticks] didn't close early like other shops, and it wasn't as crowded and noisy as when they came last time... Now it's very empty, and it can even be described as barren.

The door is wide open, and one can see inside at a glance. There are only seven or eight wizards from the local area sitting there, or one or two travelers and wizard traders who come to rest temporarily.

Ms. Rosmerta was waving her magic wand with a bored expression on her face. She poured the purple wine in a goblet like a fountain... flowing back and forth in two other big wine glasses floating in the air, flashing colorful fluorescent lights.

It was a wonderful performance.

Harry and the others carefully avoided the seats and hid in the corner near the door, carefully watching the others so as not to be discovered.

A black wizard with a headdress full of feathers, dressed like an aborigine in Indian, was chatting casually with a wizard dressed as an ordinary old woman with a strong London accent, and from time to time chatted with Ms. Rosmerta at the counter next to him.

"Excuse me, Ms. Romsta...give me another cider!"

"Your taste is still weird! Ma'am!" the black wizard gulped down the white coffee with sugar and wine in front of him, and said to the old woman wizard.

"--Humph!"

Although the old lady hated to be polite, she didn't pay attention to this broken-mouthed black wizard.

But obviously this acquaintance didn't take it seriously, he said to himself.

"Have you heard? It is said that [Honey Dukes] has a secret passage leading to Hogwarts."

"Otherwise, why is the entire Hogsmeade store cutting costs and preparing to close down? But the Froome couple of [Honeydukes] even bought a lot of raw materials instead."

"As far as I know... honey syrup from Europe, chocolate from the Mediterranean, wheat flour from Iran, and magic cane sugar from South America... These raw materials can only be stored if there are enough customers. I don't believe that the Froome couple can find other markets besides Hogwarts."

"I have long heard that Hogwarts has many secret passages leading outside the school, one of which leads to [Hogsmeade]....It is rumored that this secret passage played a decisive role in the goblin rebellion..."

Seeing that his conjecture aroused the interest of the wizards present, the black wizard became even more excited, so he said loudly, "Wait, that idiot Fudge... The Hogwarts magical defense network mechanism arranged is completely full of loopholes... I'm sure the Death Eaters and those dementors will find opportunities to attack. He doesn't even know the existence of these secret passages..."

Speaking of rising, this guy actually stood up, raised the wine and coffee in his hands, and shouted, "Let us congratulate the great idiot Minister of Magic Fudge... I hope that mentally retarded man will end all this soon... Or simply step down and hand it over to a more capable wizard!"

Most of the people still drinking at [Three Broomsticks] are local residents. Their business has plummeted due to various orders from the Ministry of Magic, and most of them are very dissatisfied with Fudge.

So the wizards in twos and threes immediately laughed, and they raised their glasses together and followed the guy loudly, "——I wish our idiot Minister."

Even Ms. Romsta, who had been grimacing, curled her mouth, raised the glass of purple wine, and took a sip.

For a while, the atmosphere in [Three Broomsticks] was very joyful.

At this time, the white mist finally began to surge onto the streets of Hogsmeade. It was cold and pierced into the bone marrow. The feeling like the arrival of a dementor came again after a few months.

The white mist surged, like a flood, rushing in from the opened door, entering the [Three Broomsticks], submerging half of the wizards.

"What's going on?" People were talking.

"Is it a dementor?"

"Damn it, I have to..."

Ms. Rosmerta finally couldn't bear it anymore—seeing that there were only these few guests, they still came?
She picked up her wand and was ready to go.

"and many more!"

The black wizard, who seemed to be a native Indian, hurriedly grabbed the witch, and shouted, "Rosmerta, don't you remember that the dementors have escaped from Azkaban together with the Death Eaters...?"

"Could it be?" The look of the witch dressed as an old woman changed drastically, and she immediately waved her wand and disappeared in place.

Soon, several other wizards cast spells and disappeared in place, but at the same time... a few people rushed in from the thick fog outside.

The others who hadn't left gathered around and asked, "What's going on? Death Eaters? No... Dementors? What did you see?"

People were discussing in a hurry, contradicting each other... No one could explain what was going on.

"Go to that idiot Fudge...damn it! Somebody go to the Ministry of Magic and inform those idiots!"

Among them, the owner of the owl mail shop was staring and yelling at the other wizards, and then he turned his head and said to the witch, "Sorry, Rosmerta, I have to go back and temporarily close the shop. I advise you to temporarily close the tavern for a while, and then leave here and hide! At least... Come back after tonight..."

"According to the Daily Prophet...those Death Eaters have gone completely insane and are likely to kill indiscriminately?"

"Idiot Ministry of Magic, idiot Fudge... and said that the Death Eaters have gone to North America and Eastern Europe... You are extremely incompetent! The magic tax we pay... Is it just these mentally retarded things?"

The shopkeeper, wearing a long hat with owl tail feathers, cursed and disappeared with a wave of his wand.

Harry poked Ron and Hermione with his fingers to remind them to get ready.

Because according to the situation at the time... Voldemort would rush out soon and go to Hogsmeade.

A few people moved to the door bit by bit in small steps.

Thankfully they did.

Soon, the rest of the [Three Broomsticks] tavern did not leave, and all the wizards who stayed to watch the fun gathered at the door.

The bold ones stood directly at the door, and the timid ones held their wands and hid behind them. Before the surging and rising fog covered their sight, people were trying to look around to see what happened.

"It's [Honey Dukes] there..."

I don't know what kind of magic the black wizard cast. His eyes are like telescopes... protruding from the eye sockets, looking around.

After finding out what was wrong, he lowered his voice and said proudly to people.

In just a few seconds, everyone in the tavern followed his gaze and looked at [Honey Duke].

He was right.

[Honeydukes] white fog continuously flowed out from the gaps in the doors and windows. The window originally used to display the new candies was filled with thick white fog, and it was completely impossible to see what was going on inside.

Even the chimney above the top of the second-story building was constantly billowing thick smoke.

Everyone poked their heads and looked around hard, holding their wands, ready to cast a spell at any time and ready to run.

--boom!

With a violent impact, the door of Honeydukes' store, which was originally closed, was slammed open.

Something rushed out of it.

"Merlin! What is that!"

The black wizard's two telescope eyes immediately retracted into their eye sockets in fright. He touched his eye sockets and howled, and stepped back to hide among the crowd in the tavern.

"It's a dementor, that's right, it's a dementor! It's terrifying, very weird!... Hurry up!" The piercing screams resounded in the tavern.

"Let's go! Don't stay here! Everyone, I'm going to hide at the Leaky Cauldron!"

"You guys go too!"

"By the way, if anyone can speak at the Ministry of Magic,... go there and report what happened here!"

"Something happened, something happened!"

After finishing speaking, the black wizard who wanted to break his mouth before leaving waved his wand, "Apparate!"

Whoosh, he also disappeared in place.

At this time, everyone also saw the thing that rushed out.

a cloud of black mist,
——It surged out of the white mist.

The thick white mist that was incompatible with it swept across it, making it drown in waves like waves.

That thing hovered over Hogsmeade, and all the wizards who looked at it trembled, fell into fear, and their whole bodies froze and couldn't move.

The fog was getting colder and colder. Even though Harry and the others were hiding under the invisibility cloak and lowered their heads not to look at the method, they felt the desperate wailing of the dementors echoing in their ears.

More like those guests in the tavern who are watching the excitement?
They froze in place, completely unable to move.

I don't know how long that thing (Voldemort) has been hovering... In short, when Harry and the others felt their hearts relax, and they stopped panting for ice scum, they found that there was no one on the edge of the tavern, only two or three new wizards were still eagerly poking their heads in the tavern.

And when Harry and the others looked up, above the [Honey Dukes] house, Voldemort...the black wriggling mist was changing into something like a dementor...then quickly became bigger and flew towards Hogwarts.

(End of this chapter)