94 hp Diagon Alley

from our academy! "

In Professor McGonagall's puzzled and angry voice, Harry heard a hint of pride, and his heart immediately filled with admiration for Minerva McGonagall.

"He just told us Potter was coming!" Carroll said. "I don't know what's going on?"

Professor McGonagall stood up, her piercing eyes scanning the room, twice past where Harry and Luna stood.

"We can push it on those fur kids," Amycus said, his fat pig face suddenly turning sly. "Yeah, that's it. Let's say Alecto was attacked by a Those fuzzy kids up there," he looked up at the location of the dormitory, at the star-studded ceiling, "let's just say they forced her to press the marker and the Dark Lord got false information...he can punish them. Much What difference does it make if there are a few fur kids and a few fur kids?"

"It's the difference between truth and lies, between courage and cowardice!" said Professor McGonagall, turning pale. "Anyway, it's a difference you and your sister can't understand. But I must make one thing clear: You must not blame Hogwarts students for your many stupid actions. I will not allow it."

"What did you say?"

Amycus moved forward, looking aggressive, his face within inches of Professor McGonagall.Instead of flinching, Professor McGonagall looked at him with disdain, as if he were a disgusting thing glued to the toilet seat.

"It's not something you allow, Minerva McGonagall. Your days are over. We're the ones in power here now, and you've got to support me, or you'll get away with it."

He spat in Professor McGonagall's face.

Harry tore off the invisibility cloak, raised his wand and said, "You shouldn't have done that!"

The instant Amycus turned around, Harry yelled, "Crucio!"

Suddenly the Death Eater was suspended, twisting and turning in the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain.With a loud crash and the sound of shattered glass splashing, he slams on the door of a bookshelf and falls unconscious.

"I see what Bellatrix means," said Harry, the blood pumping and roaring in his brain. "You need to be really hard-hearted."

"Potter!" whispered Professor McGonagall, grasping her chest, "Potter—you're here! How—how could—?" She tried to calm herself down, "Potter, this is so stupid !"

"He spit at you," said Harry.

"Potter, I - you're - you're really - really brave - but don't you think of - ?"

"Oh, I know," Harry reassured her.For some reason, her nervousness calmed him down. "Professor McGonagall, Voldemort is coming."

"Why, can I say this name now?" Luna asked with great interest, tearing off the invisibility cloak.Professor McGonagall couldn't take it anymore at the sight of yet another student breaking the rules. She staggered back a few steps, sank into a nearby chair, and clung to her old plaid The neckline of the dressing gown.

"I guess it doesn't really matter what we call him anymore," Harry told Luna, "he already knows where I am."

In some far corner of Harry's mind - the corner connected to the burning, raged scar, he saw Voldemort speeding across the dark lake in an eerie green boat... Arrived at the small island where the stone basin is located...

"You must escape," said Professor McGonagall softly. "Quick, Potter, the sooner the better!"

"I can't," said Harry, "I have one more thing to do. Professor, do you know where Ravenclaw's diadem is?"

"Ra—Ravenclaw's diadem? How would I know—wasn't it missing for centuries?" She straightened up slightly. "Potter, you were so stupid to enter this castle, so stupid—"

"I've got to do it," said Harry. "Professor, there's something hidden here and I'm going to find it. It might be the diadem - if I can tell Professor Flitwick -"

Suddenly there was movement and the crash of broken glass: Amycus had woken up.Before Harry or Luna could react, Professor McGonagall stood up suddenly, pointed at the wobbly Death Eater with his wand, and said, "The soul is out of the body."

Amycus got up and walked over to his sister, picked up her wand, shuffled obediently to Professor McGonagall, handed it along with his own wand, and then on the floor beside Alecto Lie down.Professor McGonagall waved his wand again, and conjured a silver rope out of thin air, which went around the Carlos like a snake, binding them tightly together.

"Potter," said Professor McGonagall, completely ignoring the situation of the Carlo brothers and sisters, and turning his face to Harry, "if the devil really knows you're here—"

Before she could finish her sentence, a pain-like rage rushed to the top of Harry's head, setting his scar on fire.In an instant, he looked down and saw a stone basin, the potion in it had become clear, and he saw that the gold locket under the potion was gone——

"Potter, are you all right?" said a voice, and Harry came to his senses: he was grabbing Luna's shoulders to steady himself.

"Time is running out, and Voldemort is getting closer. Professor, I am following Dumbledore's orders, and I must find what he wants me to find! But when I search the castle, I must find all my classmates. Evacuate - Voldemort wanted me, but he wouldn't mind killing a few more people, especially now -" Now that he knew I was sneaking up on Horcruxes, Harry finished the sentence in his head.

"Are you acting according to Dumbledore's orders?" Professor McGonagall repeated, a surprised expression slowly appeared on his face, and he stood up straight.

"While you search for this—this thing, we will fend off that monster and keep the school safe."

"is it possible?"

"I think there is," said Professor McGonagall flatly. "You know, our teachers are very good at magic. If everyone puts their best efforts, I believe it will definitely hold him back for a while. Of course, we must pay attention to Professor Snape." Take a little action—”

"let me--"

"—if the Dark Lord is at the door, and Hogwarts is going to be under siege, it is really necessary to remove as many innocent people as possible. The Floo network is under surveillance, and Apparation is not allowed in the school—"

"There's a way," said Harry at once, detailing the passage leading to the Hog's Head.

"Potter, we're talking hundreds of thousands of students—"

"I know, Professor, but if Voldemort and the Death Eaters are focusing on the school, they won't care who's Apparating from the Hog's Head."

"That makes sense," Professor McGonagall agreed. "Come on, we must wake up the other deans. You'd better put that cloak on."

She strode toward the door, raising her wand, and out of the tip emerged three silver cats with spectacle-shaped markings around their eyes.The three patron saints ran forward nimbly, and saw that the spiral staircase was covered with silver light, and Professor McGonagall, Harry and Luna hurried downstairs.

They ran down corridor after corridor, and one by one the Patronuses left.Professor McGonagall's tartan dressing gown rustled on the floor, and Harry and Luna, under the cloak, trotted behind.

After going down two more floors, there was suddenly the sound of a person's light footsteps.It was Harry who heard it first, his scar still stinging.He fumbled for the Marauder's Map in the leather pouch around his neck, but before he could take it out, Professor McGonagall seemed to have spotted someone too.She stopped, raised her wand for battle, and asked, "Who's there?"

"It's me." A low voice said.

From behind a suit of armor, stepped out Severus Snape.

Hatred blazed in Harry as soon as he saw him.Harry remembered only Snape's heinous crimes, and almost forgot what he looked like, his greasy black hair hanging like a curtain around his bony face, and the unfeeling look of his dark eyes.Instead of his pajamas, he wore his usual black cloak, and also held his wand ready for battle.

"Where are the Carlo brothers and sisters?" he asked softly.

"Probably where you told them to go, Severus," said Professor McGonagall.

Snape approached, his eyes flicked quickly around Professor McGonagall, as if he knew Harry was there.Harry raised his wand too, ready to strike.

"I have a feeling," said Snape, "that Alecto has caught an intruder."

"Really?" said Professor McGonagall. "Where does this feeling come from?"

Snape moved his left arm slightly, where the Dark Mark was branded on the skin.

"Oh, of course," said Professor McGonagall, "I forgot that you Death Eaters have your own secret way of communicating."

Snape pretended not to hear what Professor McGonagall said, his eyes were still searching the air around her, and at the same time he was approaching her little by little, and he looked as if he didn't realize that he was doing this.

"I remember you weren't supposed to be patrolling the corridors tonight, Minerva."

"do you have any opinion?"

"I'm just wondering, it's so late, what made you get out of bed?"

"I seem to hear movement," said Professor McGonagall.

"Really? It seems pretty quiet everywhere." Snape looked her in the eye. "Have you seen Harry Potter, Minerva? If you have, I must emphasize—