[HP] Aunt of the Savior
Chapter 236 Simultaneous Battles
Harry rubbed the scar on his forehead as he told his dream.He is still nauseous in pain, and it took him a lot of effort to describe this.He endured it, not calling the attention of his friends around him.Compared with his headache, the safety of the Longbottom family is undoubtedly more important now.
"We have to find someone!" Neville said in panic as big beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.Suddenly being woken up from sleep and hearing such things, it was impossible for anyone to calm down, let alone Neville who had been worrying about the safety of his parents recently. "Find someone to help, to save them... I knew they might be in danger..."
"Harry, do you think what you're seeing is real?" Ron's face turned pale nervously, and he didn't forget to comfort Neville next to him: "Harry may really be just dreaming this time. Those people shouldn't Taking the initiative to attack the home of two Aurors..."
"No, you don't know, Ron." Neville shook his head in horror, "You don't know, my parents used to belong to an organization - they stopped hiding it from me when I went to school, but they wouldn't I just said it to my friends, uh, bragging. That organization is called the Order of the Phoenix. It's led by Dumbledore. It's joined by wizards who dare to fight Voldemort. Harry, I heard that your parents were in Phoenix at the time Society. Now that Voldemort is alive, he will definitely deal with these people first. And Nina... oh, Merlin..."
Concern for his family overwhelmed all his fears, and Neville easily said his name that he had never dared to mention before.
Ron grabbed Neville's arm, not knowing what to say to comfort Neville.And he's starting to worry about his family now, he finally understands where his father met Sirius, and for a moment he feels disappointed that he didn't know, but it's followed by a sense of pride.
Harry now finally understood who Jody and Snape had been spying for all this time. Of course, it wasn't the Ministry of Magic, which was stupid and refused to admit the reality, but the Order of the Phoenix organized by Dumbledore.
Although the Ministry of Magic still insists that Azkaban's escape was just a coincidence, the changes at Hogwarts in the past few months have made Hogwarts students gradually believe in Dumbledore's words.There was much less talk about Harry in the past, and everyone was always talking about where Dumbledore was now, hoping that Dumbledore's return would change everything.
"Actually, I saw Sirius and Moody go to help. But I didn't get to see the end of the battle..." Harry couldn't bear to keep insisting that he wasn't dreaming, so he said, "Maybe I can try to use my Mask to confirm with Sirius to see if it is my dream."
In fact, Harry knew the answer before picking up the double-sided mirror, and Sirius naturally didn't respond, obviously he wouldn't wear the double-sided mirror on his belt during the battle.
Harry regretted his decision to wake Ron and Neville in a hurry.In his sleep, when he saw the woman hugging Nina, he seemed to have changed his perspective, as if a new photo was suddenly inserted in front of his eyes, but he didn't wait for himself to see clearly what was going on. , he was eager to break free from that dream, which might make him miss something.If possible, he hopes to continue watching...
As soon as Harry thought of this, he felt his consciousness become a little trance, as if his spirit had been cut open like Voldemort's soul.It felt familiar.
One of them was still in the Gryffindor Tower talking to his friends, while the other was moving leisurely. The strange feeling made him finally realize that "he" seemed to be a snake, his body was close to the ground, and he moved with his abdomen , He climbed over a hedge, and climbed into a luxurious mansion, the hallways in that mansion were covered with luxurious carpets... He felt as if he was still continuing the dream just now.The strange thing is, some other pictures flashed before his eyes from time to time, some strange and bloody pictures, he subconsciously didn't want to look at them, feeling disgusted and disgusted.
Harry knew that if he used Occlumency himself he could keep all this out of his mind and relieve the pain.But he was reluctant to do so.He has an intuition that as long as he maintains this state, he will be able to get very important information.
"We can go to Aunt Jody." Although Harry didn't get any more news about the Order of the Phoenix from Jody, he still suggested, enduring his headache and drowsy consciousness, "She must be a member of the Order of the Phoenix." Yes, let's go to her to find out the news."
"O-okay!" Neville nodded reluctantly.Like the vast majority of students in Hogwarts at this time, he was almost as afraid of the current Professor Bubbaji as he was of Professor Snape. Harry's trust.
The boys quickly changed their clothes and left the dormitory. They were all silent during the whole process, and no one spoke anymore.Harry took out the Invisibility Cloak, covered himself, Ron, and Neville under it, and the three of them slipped out of the Gryffindor Tower quietly and walked towards Jody's room in the cellar.
Walking in the corridor of the castle, Harry's consciousness was still divided into two parts, and the scene just now continued.He could feel the snake crawling to Voldemort's feet, and he remembered the snake, which he had seen the night Voldemort came back to life.They were in a luxurious room. The room was spacious and decorated with gold and gold everywhere, but now the room felt very gloomy, with no lights, and the only light came from the fireplace behind Voldemort.The original furniture in the room was piled up in the corner, and there was a long table and many chairs in the middle like a conference room, which was almost full.
Harry walked to the door of Jody's office with Neville and Ron as if he was sleepwalking.But it turned out to be their disappointment. No one in the room responded, and Jody didn't seem to be in her room now.They had no choice but to go to the headmaster's office to find Professor Snape.
The other Harry felt like he was looking at everyone in that big room, he saw the fake Moody who kidnapped him (he now knew this man was Mr. Crouch's son Barty Jr.), saw Lu Xiu Malfoy and his wife, they sat together, both of them looking ugly, paler than usual.There was also the black-haired woman who was holding Nina just now, her swollen and thick eyelids were drooping, and she looked sullen and unhappy.
Nina wasn't in the room, and they seemed to be waiting for someone...but he didn't see Voldemort...which was weird...maybe they were waiting for Voldemort to show up, Harry thought.
Harry felt his eyes finally fall on Lucius, and he suddenly spoke in a vicious tone he had never used before: "Don't you like me staying in your house, Lucius? I remember you in the past I really like that I come to your house as a guest..."
"No, of course not, my master." Lucius lowered his gleaming golden head, and now even his hair seemed to be eclipsed.
Lucius' embarrassment gave Harry a pleasurable pleasure that didn't belong to him.Then, suddenly, Harry realized: he was Voldemort now!He could see what Voldemort was looking at, he could feel what Voldemort was feeling, and he had succeeded!
He restrained his excitement and tried to stay calm to maintain this state and not let his emotions pass to Voldemort.He was so engrossed in doing this that he didn't know that he suddenly stopped in a daze, which made both Neville and Ron nervous involuntarily.
"Of course, I can understand. I killed your father and occupied your home. You want revenge and drive us away, don't you, Lucius..." Voldemort's voice was full of undisguised malice . "If Jody hadn't said that you helped her a lot..."
"No, I mean... yes..." Lucius said incoherently.
"That's an honor!" the dark-haired woman yelled, over Lucius. "It is an honor to give everything for the Dark Lord."
"My dear Bella, not everyone is as loyal as you." Voldemort smiled. "By the way, Bella, I heard you brought back the little Longbottom girl?"
Harry's heart clenched.He dreaded hearing what misfortune had befallen Nina.
"Yes, Nott insists on bringing her back." Bella glared dissatisfiedly at a hunchbacked man diagonally opposite.
The man wiped his sweat, "I think this is more useful than killing that child. The Phoenix Society wants to save people. We can use that child as bait to set up a trap."
Voldemort nodded slowly.
Just then Harry saw Professor Snape walking in, and strangely, he didn't see Aunt Jody.
Harry was somewhat disappointed: the clue that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were hiding at Malfoy Manor was of little value anymore, as Aunt Jody and Professor Snape must have known.
"Sit here, Severus." Voldemort pointed to the seat on his right.Some of the Death Eaters immediately cast envious and jealous looks at him.Snape was quite calm. "Our guest has returned to Germany?"
"Yes, everything is ready now, Master," said Snape. "They've left Hogwarts, too,"
them?Harry was bewildered as he tried to parse the information in the brief conversation.
"Okay, then let's go! Go to the Ministry of Magic, get some of what I want, and... kill Harry Potter and tell everyone... Dumbledore is over, Harry Potter It's over too, Voldemort has returned." Voldemort's icy voice sent chills down Harry's body.
Harry took a deep breath.Something is wrong, very wrong.How could he possibly be running to the Ministry of Magic at this hour?But he was surprisingly sure that he would never make a mistake, it was not an illusion, it was a fact.
Harry was sure that now, Narcissa Malfoy was the only one left in the Malfoy Manor, and Voldemort had left with the other Death Eaters, including Professor Snape—no, there was still the snake, but It was just a snake, though Harry didn't understand why he could sometimes look around through the snake's eyes...
"Why is Malfoy here?" Ron's voice brought Harry's consciousness back to reality even more.
Most of the Slytherins have been cocky lately, and Malfoy is particularly prominent among them. He seems to have returned to his first year, no, more proud and arrogant than his first year, just like now—Harry and the others saw Draco Malfoy was arguing with Administrator Filch with an arrogant expression on his face.
"Students don't sleep, they are wandering in the corridors at this time..." Filch was as proud as usual for catching the night-swimming students. "I'm going to hand you over to the professor who watches the night...the first one caught tonight..."
"I just went to see the headmaster, and I'm planning to go back to the common room—speaking of which, if I were you, Filch, with your status," Draco raised his eyebrows, not caring that he was caught in the night tour. Grabbing it, he looked at Filch contemptuously, as if he saw something dirty. "I will be more cautious. The current world is not like the past. You should know who you can't offend, right?"
Harry whispered to Ron and Neville from under the cloak, "Malfoy is lying, Professor Snape isn't in his office."
He took a deep breath, and then said in a low voice, "I just saw that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were hiding in Malfoy's house, and Nina was there too."
Neville and Ron almost let out an exclamation.They covered their mouths and calmed down for a while, before Ron muttered angrily: "I knew it!"
"Is Nina okay?"
"She's fine." Harry reassured Neville, "They're going to use her as bait to attract the Order of the Phoenix to rescue her."
"Even so, we have to save her!" Neville clenched his fists.
Their conversation was enough to startle Filch, but Filch seemed too excited by Malfoy's words to pay attention to anything else.The muscles of his wrinkled face trembled, and he seemed to feel that he had been greatly humiliated.Harry knew what Malfoy was referring to - Filch was a Squib, and it was a caricature of pure-blood excellence that this happened, so of course people like the Malfoys looked down on Filch.For the only time, Harry felt some genuine sympathy for the obnoxious administrator.
"Of course, Master Malfoy." Filch weighed the pros and cons, answered hoarsely, and walked away with his Mrs. Norris.He was so shocked that he didn't even notice that Mrs. Norris had sensed Harry's presence with her animal sense.
Harry, who was almost caught by Filch, heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at Draco's smug face, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Who else is more suitable than a Malfoy to lead them to Malfoy? What about Fu Manor?
Yes, of course he was curious about what had happened to the Ministry of Magic.He wanted to know what the conversation between Voldemort and Snape meant, why Voldemort planned to deal with him in the Ministry of Magic, how to get back in front of everyone in the wizarding world, why Voldemort said that Dumbledore was "finished"...he had a stomach full of questions .
However, Harry also knew very well that by rushing in front of Voldemort and a group of Death Eaters, he could only die.He must not do this.Although he still can't look through Voldemort's memory to find out the answer, at least he can occasionally see Voldemort and what the snake experienced, which has helped him a lot—for example, he can Find a way to save Nina in no time!
"Let's see what Malfoy wants," Harry whispered to Ron and Neville. "Maybe we can sneak into Malfoy Manor and bring Nina out through him."
They tiptoed along not far behind Draco, only to find that he was walking in the direction they had come—that is, Jody's office.
"What is he doing?" Ron couldn't help asking strangely as he watched Draco chant a spell towards Jody's office door.
"I know the spell..." Harry frowned. "It's a detection spell to see if anyone is in the room. Professor Snape taught me."
Of course, no one was in the room, which Harry and the others had confirmed just now.Draco's expression looked very complicated, Harry hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't bear to get out from under the invisibility cloak. "What are you doing?"
Ron and Neville were still hiding under the cloak, wands in hand.This is Harry's plan, he decided to talk to Draco himself first, if Ron shows up, he and Draco are likely to escalate from quarreling to throwing spells at each other, which is obviously not suitable for the current situation The way of negotiation at the time.
"Harry Potter?!" Draco was taken aback. He lowered his voice and looked at Harry who suddenly appeared behind him in surprise. "You are here?!"
"I need your help with something." Harry aimed his wand at Draco relentlessly, but he tried not to look too aggressive.
"Ask me for help?" Draco showed an expression as if Harry spoke some other biological language, and repeated sarcastically: "Saint Potter, ask me for help?"
"Of course, this is actually an exchange, and it's also good for you." Harry remembered what Professor Snape said in the past about dealing with Slytherin.He stared Malfoy in the eye emphatically. "I think you should now..."
"Wait," Draco was taken aback, interrupted Harry, and showed a smile that Ron hated when he saw it. "...Exchange, Harry Potter, I'm glad you've finally learned a little Slytherin way. So, what do you want? I don't think you have anything to trade with me - yours Scarhead?"
"If I were you, I wouldn't have time to laugh at others," Harry said unmoved, "but try to find a way to go home and have a look."
"Go home?" Draco stared at Harry warily, "Why should I rush home?"
"Voldemort desperately wants your allegiance, but your parents don't seem to want you to be a Death Eater..." Harry shrugged, deliberately pretending to be nonchalant.He was satisfied to see Draco's flustered and timid look when he said Voldemort's name. "I think you should be very aware of this. Voldemort killed your grandfather and took over the Malfoy house. I can't see how your parents would follow Voldemort willingly. Besides, you lost Voldemort's diary. "
It wasn't until this evening that Harry realized for the first time that he seemed to have Rita Skeeter's talents.What he said to Draco was completely made up based on what he had just seen.He tried his best to make his lying look more natural-not to mention that these words were not all lies, at least he knew the part about the notebook, learned part of it from Voldemort's mind, and judging from the expressions, the Malfoys are now very interested in Voldemort. It's really not as exciting and crazy as other Death Eaters.
Harry didn't hold out particularly high hopes, but apparently his lie worked better than he'd expected.
"You..." Draco's lips trembled after hearing Harry's words.It had never occurred to him that Harry would know that Voldemort was living in his house.And the cause of his grandfather's death was related to Voldemort-even he had only heard about it from his father this year!
Draco Malfoy looked at Harry Potter in front of him for the first time, wondering how much the boy who survived knew, and where he learned so much.He finally understood a little bit now why his father was so contradictory in asking him to maintain a not too bad but not so friendly relationship with Harry Potter.
Draco lowered his gray eyes, trying to figure out what to do in the Malfoy family's best interest.Of course he didn't come out for a night tour tonight, not because of a whim or because he wanted to take risks like Gryffindor, but because Lucius sent him a letter asking him to confirm one thing.
This matter is very important, and it may be related to the future of the Malfoy family - Lucius told his son so carefully in the letter, and asked Draco to tell him as soon as he found the answer.
Now, Draco had his answer, but he wasn't sure whether to go along with Harry Potter's proposed exchange or to go with his father's original arrangement.
"...What do you want me to do for you?" He hesitated for a while, and decided to listen to Harry's conditions first.
"Nina Longbottom, Neville's sister, she was captured by the Death Eaters and brought into Malfoy's house." Harry said seriously, "We are going to rescue her, this matter must not be delayed, otherwise Nina may be in danger .”
"Longbottom?" Draco frowned, seemingly hesitant.But he seemed to think of the horror of Voldemort again, he folded his arms and shivered, "No, I can't, I can't help you save people, it will kill our family..."
"Don't you understand, Draco Malfoy?" Harry stroked his messy black hair irritably. "Even if you don't help us, Voldemort has no intention of letting the Malfoys go. He teases you and takes pleasure in your panic—Voldemort no longer intends to trust the Malfoys."
"Okay... okay..." Draco hesitated for a long time, then suddenly made up his mind. "I can take you back to my house, but..." he swallowed nervously, "No matter what, you can't involve me or my parents in this matter!"
"Okay, Malfoy." Harry pouted. "If I am caught by Voldemort, tell him that I took you into Malfoy's house."
Draco took out a golden necklace from his neck, and a large round gold pendant hung under the necklace, with the crest of the Malfoy family on the pattern.He took off the pendant and put it in the palm of his hand, "This is a timed door key, we can use it to go to my house."
He raised his watch to check the time, raised his eyebrows, "There are still 3 minutes, what a coincidence."
"Wait, there's us, we want to go together too." Neville ran out from under the invisibility cloak anxiously, followed by Ron who hid aside and stuffed the invisibility cloak under the robe before coming out .
Draco was not surprised that they would appear suddenly, and he would be surprised if there was only one Harry Potter now!Looking at Neville's pale face, it was rare for him to say anything annoying.
"Hermione won't be happy knowing we didn't ask her to go with her." Ron tried to find other topics to divert Neville's nervousness.
"It would be better if she didn't go with her," said Harry, casting a glance at Draco. "Ron, Neville, maybe you'd better not go either..."
Harry didn't expect Neville to come running out of nowhere, and he couldn't quite believe the coincidence that the portkey had been set exactly three minutes after he'd convinced Malfoy.Obviously Draco didn't want him to have the chance to ask other professors for help again. If Draco planned to use Harry Potter this time in exchange for the Malfoy family to win Voldemort's trust again, then at least someone should know what exactly Harry Potter was. And who went where.Moreover, Neville and Ron did not need to take such risks.
"No, I'm going." Neville said resolutely, his round face tensed. "Nina is my sister, I'm going to save her!"
"Aren't you worried that I'll betray you to the Dark Lord?" Draco, standing beside Harry, whispered as he put his finger on the edge of the pendant.
"I saved your life, Draco." Harry said with a chuckle.This was the first time Harry called Malfoy's name directly, which made Draco stunned for a moment. He froze for a moment, and before he could speak, he disappeared from Hogwarts together with the key.
Almost at the same time, Voldemort led his Death Eaters, broke into the Ministry of Magic unimpeded, and arrived at the floor of the Department of Mysteries.
Voldemort ordered: "August, take us to the room where the prophecy ball is kept."
The Death Eater named August Rookwood nodded, "Yes, Master."
He took the lead in pushing open the black door.
Voldemort saw this as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: to get the Prophecy Sphere, and to kill Harry Potter.So he ordered Jody to bring Harry Potter here tonight.Then, he could take Harry Potter's body and wait at the Ministry of Magic for those stupid officials to show up in the morning, and watch how they tremblingly begged Voldemort for mercy... Maybe it would be better if someone resisted...
There are 12 doors behind the black door, all of which look exactly the same, making it impossible to tell them apart.But Rookwood waved his wand and used a spell, and led Voldemort into one of the doors with ease.Rookwood, who had been an officer in the Department of Mysteries, knew the place well enough to tell the doors and what lay behind them.
Some Death Eaters stayed in the hall outside the room, and some followed Voldemort into the room where the prophecy ball was placed.
In the past, he was responsible for helping Voldemort find information about the Ministry of Magic. Because of Karkaroff's betrayal, he was imprisoned in Azkaban, but he returned to Voldemort in the previous Azkaban escape.Rookwood confirmed that the information Jody provided to Voldemort was correct, and only those who were related to the prophecy could touch the prophecy ball.
However, when Voldemort walked through the door, walked through the rows of shelves, and saw Harry Potter as he expected, he immediately found that things were different from what he expected.
Jody wasn't with Harry; Harry was alone in front of the shelf.
"I know you want it. Do you really think that you can get this prophecy ball?" Harry turned his head when he heard the footsteps, glanced at Voldemort provocatively, threw the prophecy ball into the air, and received it in his hand again. .
"Give it to me, Harry Potter!" Enraged by the deliberate teasing and provocation, Voldemort made a snakelike sound and pointed his wand at Harry threateningly.
"Oh come on, Voldemort, you can't hurt me, you tried," said Harry, laughing.
"We have to find someone!" Neville said in panic as big beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.Suddenly being woken up from sleep and hearing such things, it was impossible for anyone to calm down, let alone Neville who had been worrying about the safety of his parents recently. "Find someone to help, to save them... I knew they might be in danger..."
"Harry, do you think what you're seeing is real?" Ron's face turned pale nervously, and he didn't forget to comfort Neville next to him: "Harry may really be just dreaming this time. Those people shouldn't Taking the initiative to attack the home of two Aurors..."
"No, you don't know, Ron." Neville shook his head in horror, "You don't know, my parents used to belong to an organization - they stopped hiding it from me when I went to school, but they wouldn't I just said it to my friends, uh, bragging. That organization is called the Order of the Phoenix. It's led by Dumbledore. It's joined by wizards who dare to fight Voldemort. Harry, I heard that your parents were in Phoenix at the time Society. Now that Voldemort is alive, he will definitely deal with these people first. And Nina... oh, Merlin..."
Concern for his family overwhelmed all his fears, and Neville easily said his name that he had never dared to mention before.
Ron grabbed Neville's arm, not knowing what to say to comfort Neville.And he's starting to worry about his family now, he finally understands where his father met Sirius, and for a moment he feels disappointed that he didn't know, but it's followed by a sense of pride.
Harry now finally understood who Jody and Snape had been spying for all this time. Of course, it wasn't the Ministry of Magic, which was stupid and refused to admit the reality, but the Order of the Phoenix organized by Dumbledore.
Although the Ministry of Magic still insists that Azkaban's escape was just a coincidence, the changes at Hogwarts in the past few months have made Hogwarts students gradually believe in Dumbledore's words.There was much less talk about Harry in the past, and everyone was always talking about where Dumbledore was now, hoping that Dumbledore's return would change everything.
"Actually, I saw Sirius and Moody go to help. But I didn't get to see the end of the battle..." Harry couldn't bear to keep insisting that he wasn't dreaming, so he said, "Maybe I can try to use my Mask to confirm with Sirius to see if it is my dream."
In fact, Harry knew the answer before picking up the double-sided mirror, and Sirius naturally didn't respond, obviously he wouldn't wear the double-sided mirror on his belt during the battle.
Harry regretted his decision to wake Ron and Neville in a hurry.In his sleep, when he saw the woman hugging Nina, he seemed to have changed his perspective, as if a new photo was suddenly inserted in front of his eyes, but he didn't wait for himself to see clearly what was going on. , he was eager to break free from that dream, which might make him miss something.If possible, he hopes to continue watching...
As soon as Harry thought of this, he felt his consciousness become a little trance, as if his spirit had been cut open like Voldemort's soul.It felt familiar.
One of them was still in the Gryffindor Tower talking to his friends, while the other was moving leisurely. The strange feeling made him finally realize that "he" seemed to be a snake, his body was close to the ground, and he moved with his abdomen , He climbed over a hedge, and climbed into a luxurious mansion, the hallways in that mansion were covered with luxurious carpets... He felt as if he was still continuing the dream just now.The strange thing is, some other pictures flashed before his eyes from time to time, some strange and bloody pictures, he subconsciously didn't want to look at them, feeling disgusted and disgusted.
Harry knew that if he used Occlumency himself he could keep all this out of his mind and relieve the pain.But he was reluctant to do so.He has an intuition that as long as he maintains this state, he will be able to get very important information.
"We can go to Aunt Jody." Although Harry didn't get any more news about the Order of the Phoenix from Jody, he still suggested, enduring his headache and drowsy consciousness, "She must be a member of the Order of the Phoenix." Yes, let's go to her to find out the news."
"O-okay!" Neville nodded reluctantly.Like the vast majority of students in Hogwarts at this time, he was almost as afraid of the current Professor Bubbaji as he was of Professor Snape. Harry's trust.
The boys quickly changed their clothes and left the dormitory. They were all silent during the whole process, and no one spoke anymore.Harry took out the Invisibility Cloak, covered himself, Ron, and Neville under it, and the three of them slipped out of the Gryffindor Tower quietly and walked towards Jody's room in the cellar.
Walking in the corridor of the castle, Harry's consciousness was still divided into two parts, and the scene just now continued.He could feel the snake crawling to Voldemort's feet, and he remembered the snake, which he had seen the night Voldemort came back to life.They were in a luxurious room. The room was spacious and decorated with gold and gold everywhere, but now the room felt very gloomy, with no lights, and the only light came from the fireplace behind Voldemort.The original furniture in the room was piled up in the corner, and there was a long table and many chairs in the middle like a conference room, which was almost full.
Harry walked to the door of Jody's office with Neville and Ron as if he was sleepwalking.But it turned out to be their disappointment. No one in the room responded, and Jody didn't seem to be in her room now.They had no choice but to go to the headmaster's office to find Professor Snape.
The other Harry felt like he was looking at everyone in that big room, he saw the fake Moody who kidnapped him (he now knew this man was Mr. Crouch's son Barty Jr.), saw Lu Xiu Malfoy and his wife, they sat together, both of them looking ugly, paler than usual.There was also the black-haired woman who was holding Nina just now, her swollen and thick eyelids were drooping, and she looked sullen and unhappy.
Nina wasn't in the room, and they seemed to be waiting for someone...but he didn't see Voldemort...which was weird...maybe they were waiting for Voldemort to show up, Harry thought.
Harry felt his eyes finally fall on Lucius, and he suddenly spoke in a vicious tone he had never used before: "Don't you like me staying in your house, Lucius? I remember you in the past I really like that I come to your house as a guest..."
"No, of course not, my master." Lucius lowered his gleaming golden head, and now even his hair seemed to be eclipsed.
Lucius' embarrassment gave Harry a pleasurable pleasure that didn't belong to him.Then, suddenly, Harry realized: he was Voldemort now!He could see what Voldemort was looking at, he could feel what Voldemort was feeling, and he had succeeded!
He restrained his excitement and tried to stay calm to maintain this state and not let his emotions pass to Voldemort.He was so engrossed in doing this that he didn't know that he suddenly stopped in a daze, which made both Neville and Ron nervous involuntarily.
"Of course, I can understand. I killed your father and occupied your home. You want revenge and drive us away, don't you, Lucius..." Voldemort's voice was full of undisguised malice . "If Jody hadn't said that you helped her a lot..."
"No, I mean... yes..." Lucius said incoherently.
"That's an honor!" the dark-haired woman yelled, over Lucius. "It is an honor to give everything for the Dark Lord."
"My dear Bella, not everyone is as loyal as you." Voldemort smiled. "By the way, Bella, I heard you brought back the little Longbottom girl?"
Harry's heart clenched.He dreaded hearing what misfortune had befallen Nina.
"Yes, Nott insists on bringing her back." Bella glared dissatisfiedly at a hunchbacked man diagonally opposite.
The man wiped his sweat, "I think this is more useful than killing that child. The Phoenix Society wants to save people. We can use that child as bait to set up a trap."
Voldemort nodded slowly.
Just then Harry saw Professor Snape walking in, and strangely, he didn't see Aunt Jody.
Harry was somewhat disappointed: the clue that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were hiding at Malfoy Manor was of little value anymore, as Aunt Jody and Professor Snape must have known.
"Sit here, Severus." Voldemort pointed to the seat on his right.Some of the Death Eaters immediately cast envious and jealous looks at him.Snape was quite calm. "Our guest has returned to Germany?"
"Yes, everything is ready now, Master," said Snape. "They've left Hogwarts, too,"
them?Harry was bewildered as he tried to parse the information in the brief conversation.
"Okay, then let's go! Go to the Ministry of Magic, get some of what I want, and... kill Harry Potter and tell everyone... Dumbledore is over, Harry Potter It's over too, Voldemort has returned." Voldemort's icy voice sent chills down Harry's body.
Harry took a deep breath.Something is wrong, very wrong.How could he possibly be running to the Ministry of Magic at this hour?But he was surprisingly sure that he would never make a mistake, it was not an illusion, it was a fact.
Harry was sure that now, Narcissa Malfoy was the only one left in the Malfoy Manor, and Voldemort had left with the other Death Eaters, including Professor Snape—no, there was still the snake, but It was just a snake, though Harry didn't understand why he could sometimes look around through the snake's eyes...
"Why is Malfoy here?" Ron's voice brought Harry's consciousness back to reality even more.
Most of the Slytherins have been cocky lately, and Malfoy is particularly prominent among them. He seems to have returned to his first year, no, more proud and arrogant than his first year, just like now—Harry and the others saw Draco Malfoy was arguing with Administrator Filch with an arrogant expression on his face.
"Students don't sleep, they are wandering in the corridors at this time..." Filch was as proud as usual for catching the night-swimming students. "I'm going to hand you over to the professor who watches the night...the first one caught tonight..."
"I just went to see the headmaster, and I'm planning to go back to the common room—speaking of which, if I were you, Filch, with your status," Draco raised his eyebrows, not caring that he was caught in the night tour. Grabbing it, he looked at Filch contemptuously, as if he saw something dirty. "I will be more cautious. The current world is not like the past. You should know who you can't offend, right?"
Harry whispered to Ron and Neville from under the cloak, "Malfoy is lying, Professor Snape isn't in his office."
He took a deep breath, and then said in a low voice, "I just saw that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were hiding in Malfoy's house, and Nina was there too."
Neville and Ron almost let out an exclamation.They covered their mouths and calmed down for a while, before Ron muttered angrily: "I knew it!"
"Is Nina okay?"
"She's fine." Harry reassured Neville, "They're going to use her as bait to attract the Order of the Phoenix to rescue her."
"Even so, we have to save her!" Neville clenched his fists.
Their conversation was enough to startle Filch, but Filch seemed too excited by Malfoy's words to pay attention to anything else.The muscles of his wrinkled face trembled, and he seemed to feel that he had been greatly humiliated.Harry knew what Malfoy was referring to - Filch was a Squib, and it was a caricature of pure-blood excellence that this happened, so of course people like the Malfoys looked down on Filch.For the only time, Harry felt some genuine sympathy for the obnoxious administrator.
"Of course, Master Malfoy." Filch weighed the pros and cons, answered hoarsely, and walked away with his Mrs. Norris.He was so shocked that he didn't even notice that Mrs. Norris had sensed Harry's presence with her animal sense.
Harry, who was almost caught by Filch, heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at Draco's smug face, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: Who else is more suitable than a Malfoy to lead them to Malfoy? What about Fu Manor?
Yes, of course he was curious about what had happened to the Ministry of Magic.He wanted to know what the conversation between Voldemort and Snape meant, why Voldemort planned to deal with him in the Ministry of Magic, how to get back in front of everyone in the wizarding world, why Voldemort said that Dumbledore was "finished"...he had a stomach full of questions .
However, Harry also knew very well that by rushing in front of Voldemort and a group of Death Eaters, he could only die.He must not do this.Although he still can't look through Voldemort's memory to find out the answer, at least he can occasionally see Voldemort and what the snake experienced, which has helped him a lot—for example, he can Find a way to save Nina in no time!
"Let's see what Malfoy wants," Harry whispered to Ron and Neville. "Maybe we can sneak into Malfoy Manor and bring Nina out through him."
They tiptoed along not far behind Draco, only to find that he was walking in the direction they had come—that is, Jody's office.
"What is he doing?" Ron couldn't help asking strangely as he watched Draco chant a spell towards Jody's office door.
"I know the spell..." Harry frowned. "It's a detection spell to see if anyone is in the room. Professor Snape taught me."
Of course, no one was in the room, which Harry and the others had confirmed just now.Draco's expression looked very complicated, Harry hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't bear to get out from under the invisibility cloak. "What are you doing?"
Ron and Neville were still hiding under the cloak, wands in hand.This is Harry's plan, he decided to talk to Draco himself first, if Ron shows up, he and Draco are likely to escalate from quarreling to throwing spells at each other, which is obviously not suitable for the current situation The way of negotiation at the time.
"Harry Potter?!" Draco was taken aback. He lowered his voice and looked at Harry who suddenly appeared behind him in surprise. "You are here?!"
"I need your help with something." Harry aimed his wand at Draco relentlessly, but he tried not to look too aggressive.
"Ask me for help?" Draco showed an expression as if Harry spoke some other biological language, and repeated sarcastically: "Saint Potter, ask me for help?"
"Of course, this is actually an exchange, and it's also good for you." Harry remembered what Professor Snape said in the past about dealing with Slytherin.He stared Malfoy in the eye emphatically. "I think you should now..."
"Wait," Draco was taken aback, interrupted Harry, and showed a smile that Ron hated when he saw it. "...Exchange, Harry Potter, I'm glad you've finally learned a little Slytherin way. So, what do you want? I don't think you have anything to trade with me - yours Scarhead?"
"If I were you, I wouldn't have time to laugh at others," Harry said unmoved, "but try to find a way to go home and have a look."
"Go home?" Draco stared at Harry warily, "Why should I rush home?"
"Voldemort desperately wants your allegiance, but your parents don't seem to want you to be a Death Eater..." Harry shrugged, deliberately pretending to be nonchalant.He was satisfied to see Draco's flustered and timid look when he said Voldemort's name. "I think you should be very aware of this. Voldemort killed your grandfather and took over the Malfoy house. I can't see how your parents would follow Voldemort willingly. Besides, you lost Voldemort's diary. "
It wasn't until this evening that Harry realized for the first time that he seemed to have Rita Skeeter's talents.What he said to Draco was completely made up based on what he had just seen.He tried his best to make his lying look more natural-not to mention that these words were not all lies, at least he knew the part about the notebook, learned part of it from Voldemort's mind, and judging from the expressions, the Malfoys are now very interested in Voldemort. It's really not as exciting and crazy as other Death Eaters.
Harry didn't hold out particularly high hopes, but apparently his lie worked better than he'd expected.
"You..." Draco's lips trembled after hearing Harry's words.It had never occurred to him that Harry would know that Voldemort was living in his house.And the cause of his grandfather's death was related to Voldemort-even he had only heard about it from his father this year!
Draco Malfoy looked at Harry Potter in front of him for the first time, wondering how much the boy who survived knew, and where he learned so much.He finally understood a little bit now why his father was so contradictory in asking him to maintain a not too bad but not so friendly relationship with Harry Potter.
Draco lowered his gray eyes, trying to figure out what to do in the Malfoy family's best interest.Of course he didn't come out for a night tour tonight, not because of a whim or because he wanted to take risks like Gryffindor, but because Lucius sent him a letter asking him to confirm one thing.
This matter is very important, and it may be related to the future of the Malfoy family - Lucius told his son so carefully in the letter, and asked Draco to tell him as soon as he found the answer.
Now, Draco had his answer, but he wasn't sure whether to go along with Harry Potter's proposed exchange or to go with his father's original arrangement.
"...What do you want me to do for you?" He hesitated for a while, and decided to listen to Harry's conditions first.
"Nina Longbottom, Neville's sister, she was captured by the Death Eaters and brought into Malfoy's house." Harry said seriously, "We are going to rescue her, this matter must not be delayed, otherwise Nina may be in danger .”
"Longbottom?" Draco frowned, seemingly hesitant.But he seemed to think of the horror of Voldemort again, he folded his arms and shivered, "No, I can't, I can't help you save people, it will kill our family..."
"Don't you understand, Draco Malfoy?" Harry stroked his messy black hair irritably. "Even if you don't help us, Voldemort has no intention of letting the Malfoys go. He teases you and takes pleasure in your panic—Voldemort no longer intends to trust the Malfoys."
"Okay... okay..." Draco hesitated for a long time, then suddenly made up his mind. "I can take you back to my house, but..." he swallowed nervously, "No matter what, you can't involve me or my parents in this matter!"
"Okay, Malfoy." Harry pouted. "If I am caught by Voldemort, tell him that I took you into Malfoy's house."
Draco took out a golden necklace from his neck, and a large round gold pendant hung under the necklace, with the crest of the Malfoy family on the pattern.He took off the pendant and put it in the palm of his hand, "This is a timed door key, we can use it to go to my house."
He raised his watch to check the time, raised his eyebrows, "There are still 3 minutes, what a coincidence."
"Wait, there's us, we want to go together too." Neville ran out from under the invisibility cloak anxiously, followed by Ron who hid aside and stuffed the invisibility cloak under the robe before coming out .
Draco was not surprised that they would appear suddenly, and he would be surprised if there was only one Harry Potter now!Looking at Neville's pale face, it was rare for him to say anything annoying.
"Hermione won't be happy knowing we didn't ask her to go with her." Ron tried to find other topics to divert Neville's nervousness.
"It would be better if she didn't go with her," said Harry, casting a glance at Draco. "Ron, Neville, maybe you'd better not go either..."
Harry didn't expect Neville to come running out of nowhere, and he couldn't quite believe the coincidence that the portkey had been set exactly three minutes after he'd convinced Malfoy.Obviously Draco didn't want him to have the chance to ask other professors for help again. If Draco planned to use Harry Potter this time in exchange for the Malfoy family to win Voldemort's trust again, then at least someone should know what exactly Harry Potter was. And who went where.Moreover, Neville and Ron did not need to take such risks.
"No, I'm going." Neville said resolutely, his round face tensed. "Nina is my sister, I'm going to save her!"
"Aren't you worried that I'll betray you to the Dark Lord?" Draco, standing beside Harry, whispered as he put his finger on the edge of the pendant.
"I saved your life, Draco." Harry said with a chuckle.This was the first time Harry called Malfoy's name directly, which made Draco stunned for a moment. He froze for a moment, and before he could speak, he disappeared from Hogwarts together with the key.
Almost at the same time, Voldemort led his Death Eaters, broke into the Ministry of Magic unimpeded, and arrived at the floor of the Department of Mysteries.
Voldemort ordered: "August, take us to the room where the prophecy ball is kept."
The Death Eater named August Rookwood nodded, "Yes, Master."
He took the lead in pushing open the black door.
Voldemort saw this as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: to get the Prophecy Sphere, and to kill Harry Potter.So he ordered Jody to bring Harry Potter here tonight.Then, he could take Harry Potter's body and wait at the Ministry of Magic for those stupid officials to show up in the morning, and watch how they tremblingly begged Voldemort for mercy... Maybe it would be better if someone resisted...
There are 12 doors behind the black door, all of which look exactly the same, making it impossible to tell them apart.But Rookwood waved his wand and used a spell, and led Voldemort into one of the doors with ease.Rookwood, who had been an officer in the Department of Mysteries, knew the place well enough to tell the doors and what lay behind them.
Some Death Eaters stayed in the hall outside the room, and some followed Voldemort into the room where the prophecy ball was placed.
In the past, he was responsible for helping Voldemort find information about the Ministry of Magic. Because of Karkaroff's betrayal, he was imprisoned in Azkaban, but he returned to Voldemort in the previous Azkaban escape.Rookwood confirmed that the information Jody provided to Voldemort was correct, and only those who were related to the prophecy could touch the prophecy ball.
However, when Voldemort walked through the door, walked through the rows of shelves, and saw Harry Potter as he expected, he immediately found that things were different from what he expected.
Jody wasn't with Harry; Harry was alone in front of the shelf.
"I know you want it. Do you really think that you can get this prophecy ball?" Harry turned his head when he heard the footsteps, glanced at Voldemort provocatively, threw the prophecy ball into the air, and received it in his hand again. .
"Give it to me, Harry Potter!" Enraged by the deliberate teasing and provocation, Voldemort made a snakelike sound and pointed his wand at Harry threateningly.
"Oh come on, Voldemort, you can't hurt me, you tried," said Harry, laughing.
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