94 hp Diagon Alley

body, rushed towards the direction of the medical wing.

It was the first time Gwen saw George's face pale like this. He seemed to be fainting on the ground in the next second, and even his lips were trembling horribly.

"Where are the others... There were others on the ground at the time..." Harry asked as they walked.

"Neville is in the hospital too, and Madam Pomfrey thinks he'll make a full recovery. Luna and Professor Flitwick were also knocked out, but they're all right, just a little weak. Flitwick insists on taking care of La A student of Winclaw. Dead a Death Eater, hit by a Killing Curse flying around from the big blond Death Eater - Harry, if we hadn't had the Felix you gave me, I think We must all be dead, the spells seem to just miss us—”

When they arrived at the school hospital, they opened the door, but Neville and Luna were still asleep.Ron, Hermione, Tonks and Lupine gathered around the innermost bed.They all looked up when they heard the door open.Hermione ran over and hugged Harry.Lupine also walked over with a worried face.Gwen and George pushed through the crowd to the hospital bed.

"Are you all right, Harry?"

"I'm fine... how's Bill?"

No one answered.Gwen saw a disfigured, disfigured, unrecognizable face lying on the pillow.Madam Pomfrey was wiping his wounds with a pungent green ointment.Gwen remembered that Snape flicked his wand lightly, and Malfoy's wound cut by Shenfeng Wuying healed.

"Is there any spell that can cure him directly?" she asked Madam Pomfrey cautiously.

"There are no spells that can heal these wounds," Madam Pomfrey said. "I've tried all the spells I know, and none can heal a werewolf bite."

"But didn't he get bitten by a werewolf on the full moon?" said Ron, looking down into his brother's face as if he could heal his wounds with his eyes. "Fenrir Greyback didn't become Wolf-shaped, so Bill certainly can't turn into a—a real—”

He looked at Lupine uncertainly.

"Yes, I don't think Bill will turn into a real werewolf," said Lupine, "but that's not to say nothing has changed. These are curse wounds. They can't heal completely, and—and Bill may in future Some werewolf traits."

"Dumbledore might know what to do," said Ron. "Where is he? Bill was on his orders to fight those madmen, Dumbledore is responsible for him, he can't just let it go—"

"Ron, Dumbledore's dead," said Ginny.

"Impossible!" Lupine frantically turned his gaze from Ginny to Harry, hoping he would deny it, but Harry didn't, and Lupine slumped in the chair next to Bill's bed, his face in his hands.Harry had never seen Lupine lose control.Harry felt as if he had seen some unseemly privacy, and he turned around, but met Ron's gaze.They exchanged silent glances, confirming what Ginny had said.

"How did he die?" Tonks whispered. "How did it happen?"

"Snape killed him," said Harry, "I was there, I saw it. We went back to the Astronomy Tower, because the Dark Mark is there... Dumbledore was sick, he was weak, but I think he realized it was a trap when we heard someone running up the stairs. Dumbledore put a spell on me and I couldn't do anything, I was wearing the Invisibility Cloak - and then Malfoy came from Come in at the door, hand over his weapon—"

Hermione covered her mouth abruptly, Ron sighed, and Gwen's lips were quivering.

"—more Death Eaters came—and then Snape—Snape did it, Avada Kedavra." Harry broke off.

"Did you see his wand?" Gwen asked sharply, "Is it really a Kedavra? Is there any possibility..."

Harry gritted his teeth and shook his head: "Avada Kedavra hit his chest, Dumbledore... fell off the Astronomy Tower..."

Gwen whimpered and covered her face, "Oh...then George and I saw...his body on the lawn."

Madam Pomfrey burst into tears.After a long time, Professor McGonagall opened the door and walked into the ward.Like the others, she has battle marks on her body, with a few scrapes on her face and torn robes.

"Molly and Arthur are coming this way," she said, and they all turned to look at Bill. "Harry, what's going on? I heard from Hagrid that you were with Professor Dumbledore when he - when that happened. Hagrid also said that Professor Snape seemed to be involved in something - "

"Snape killed Dumbledore," said Harry.

McGonagall stared at him for a moment, then shook heart-wrenchingly.Madam Pomfrey ran forward a few steps, conjured a chair with magic, and placed it behind McGonagall.

"Snape was a master of Occlumency," said Lupine, his voice harsh and different from usual, "that's a fact we all know."

"But Dumbledore swears that he's from our side!" Tonks said softly, "I always thought that Dumbledore must know something about Snape, which we don't know..."

"He's always implying that he has unbreakable reasons to trust Snape," murmured Professor McGonagall, wiping the corners of his tearful eyes with a plaid lace handkerchief, "I mean...from Snape's history... ...Of course people will have doubts about him...but Dumbledore made it clear to me that Snape's confession was absolutely from the heart...he didn't want to hear a bad word about him!"

"I'd like to know how Snape convinced him," said Tonks.

"I know," said Harry, as everyone turned to stare at him, "that Snape tipped off to Voldemort, causing Voldemort to go after my parents. Then Snape told Dumbledore that he didn't realize that he In consequence of that, he is very sorry that he leaked the news, and he regrets their deaths."

"Dumbledore believed him?" Lupine asked in disbelief. "Dumbledore believed that Snape was sorry for James' death? Snape always hated James..."

"And he doesn't think my mother's worth anything," Harry said, "because she's Muggle-born...he calls her 'Mudblood'..."

No one asked Harry how he knew this, it was as if everyone, lost in horror and shock, was trying to come to terms with the grotesque reality of what had happened.

"It's all my fault," said Professor McGonagall suddenly, looking bewildered, wringing a wet handkerchief in her hands, "my fault for telling Flitwick to call Snape at night." , and I asked him to help us! If I hadn't informed Snape of what was going on here, he probably wouldn't have joined the Death Eaters. I don't think Snape knew until Flitwick told him The Death Eaters are here, didn't know they were coming."

"It wasn't your fault, Minerva," Lupine said firmly. "We all needed more help then, and we were glad to know that Snape was coming..."

"So when he got here, did he join the Death Eaters directly?" Harry asked, wanting to know every detail of Snape's treachery and crimes, desperately gathering more reasons to hate him, and vowing revenge.

"I don't know exactly how it happened," said Professor McGonagall distractedly. "It's all very confusing... Dumbledore said he was leaving the school for a while and asked us to patrol the corridors in case something happened... Lyme Sidney, Bill, and Nymphadora all joined in...so we patrolled together. All seemed peaceful. All the secret passages outside the school were blocked, and we knew no one could fly in and enter the castle. Every entrance is shrouded in powerful magic. I still haven't figured out how the Death Eaters got in..."

"I know," said Harry, briefly referring to the pair of magical passages in the Vanishing Cabinet, "so they slipped in from the Room of Requirement."

He couldn't help but glance at Ron and Hermione, both of whom looked embarrassed.

"I screwed up, Harry," said Ron despondently, "we did as you said, checked the Marauder's Map and didn't see Malfoy on it, we figured he must be in the Room of Requirement, so I , Hermione, Ginny and Neville ran to stand there...but let Malfoy slip past."

"We watched for an hour, and he came out of that room," said Ginny, "alone, clutching that disgusting withered hand—"

"His 'Hand of Glory,'" said Ron, "only the one who holds it can see the light, remember?"

"Anyway," continued Hermione, "he must be checking to see if it's safe for Death Eaters to sneak in, because as soon as he saw us he threw something into the air and it went dark—"

"—invisibility smoke/fog/bombs imported from Peru," said Ron bitterly, "from Fred and George. You're all doing business with someone."

There was a rare silence between Fred and George, and Gwen put her hand on her boyfriend's shoulder and tried to comfort him.

"We tried everything - fluorescent lights, flames," Ginny said, "nothing could penetrate the darkness, so we had to grope our way out of the hallway, and we heard someone rushing past ...apparently because Malfoy has the Hand of Glory and can see and guide them, but we dare not cast any spells or throw anything for fear of hitting one of our own. Run away."

"Fortunately," said Lupine hoarsely