[hp] Pure White Age

In my own impression, he is not a person who is good at using brains (people who know him will have no objection to this), but now look at what he has done.If he could, he really wanted to pour out everything in his head to Hermione and ask her for her opinion.

A lot has happened in school recently. The DA party went on as usual; most of Ron's class had paid the 12 Galleon entry fee for Apparating; Umbridge had been promoted in the Ministry of Magic and was now replaced by a male official from the Ministry at Hogwarts. The atmosphere in the school has become a little more lively because of Ci's position; Fred and George are working on ways to let the owl fly into the secret passage to avoid Filch, good luck to them.Outside of Hogwarts, the Ministry of Magic is gradually being taken over by Voldemort, and more and more officials who believe in pure blood theory have the right to speak (this can be seen from Umbridge's promotion).According to Hermione, this is just the first step in the infiltration of dark forces. Anyway, everyone is ready to see more Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic.The life of mixed-race officials has become particularly difficult, and they are "identity checked" from time to time.As well-known pure-blood traitors, the Weasley family has a pessimistic judgment on the future fate, so that at many times, a sentence that Draco used to say harassed Ron's nerves.

time is limited.

"We should try the third door first."

"I haven't thought about it," Draco said. "If we want to do this, it's better to inform Dumbledore first, maybe he already knows the identity of the space owner."

"Even if he doesn't know, we can verify for ourselves. Now we know a lot more than in the past." Ron stood up. "Only people who have suffered tragedy in the real world will have enough space for integrity... And these people must have a connection with Voldemort."

"Don't say that word any more these days."

Ron looked at his lover suspiciously, "What does this mean?"

"He's considering putting a spell on the title."

Ron quickly understood that the world outside of Hogwarts was already so harsh.He nodded with difficulty: "I'll remind Harry of them. So...about the third door..."

This time Ron didn't wait for Draco's response.It wasn't until he walked in front of Draco that the other party shook his head.

"What's wrong with you today?" The red-haired boy was staring at him, "You don't look right."

Draco didn't know how to answer.Not long ago, the Dark Lord assigned him and Nott a new mission.They needed to find a way for the Death Eaters to gain access to the school under Dumbledore's protection.As soon as Draco got the news, he told Dumbledore.But neither the Dark Lord nor Dumbledore revealed more ideas to him.The last thing Dumbledore left him was a meaningful sentence: "Many of you may not have the chance to graduate from Hogwarts."

The current public opinion in the Daily Prophet is not good for Dumbledore, and Dumbledore has suffered injuries that seem to be incurable, all of which are worrying enough.The only consolation was that Dumbledore was still the same quiet Dumbledore, and he didn't look surprised when Draco told him that the Death Eaters might be planning to break into Hogwarts.

"Don't upstage Knott on this," was all he reminded him.

"But what if we can't figure out what to do?"

Dumbledore closed his eyes, which was an obvious signal, and he could only keep his mouth shut.

"...Is the injury on your hand better?"

Dumbledore seemed to be studying the bright chandelier on the ceiling. "The students will be safe." He said without thinking, "although many of them may not have the chance to graduate from Hogwarts."

It was not until a long time later that Draco knew that the reason why Dumbledore entered Regulus' space in advance was to take advantage of the repeated reincarnation characteristics of the space to slow down the spread of the venom on his arm.The old man is well aware that the end of life is irreversible, but at least it is enough for him to do one last thing for this world.

"I had a strange dream last night," Harry said to Ron and Hermione on the way to Apparation class. "I heard the mysterious man threatening a person and telling him to tell where something is hidden." When he said that name, he was obviously reluctant, but he still obeyed Ron's reminder.

"Is this what the mysterious man is busy with?" Hermione frowned. "Because he was busy looking for something, he handed over the Ministry of Magic to the Death Eaters, but his whereabouts are unknown?"

"Didn't you hear something?" Ron's heart was pounding.He and Draco had just destroyed a Horcrux some time ago, and if You-Know-Who was busy looking for something, it at least meant he hadn't noticed the Horcrux's absence.

"I didn't," said Harry. "All I know is that the man he was threatening was very old... very old... as if he was dying. Then I saw a young man about to jump out of the window, and someone told him to stop , but he didn't."

"Maybe the old man knows who took the things, and the mysterious man is inspiriting him," Hermione said.Her words won the approval of two people.

"It's hard to imagine what else the mysterious man needs, he already has so much..."

"What, Ron?"

"Ahem, I mean, he already has so many things." Ron turned his head in embarrassment. Harry was smiling and waving to Cedric opposite. Weird idea.

Harry is also a Horcrux of You-Know-Who.So Harry can speak Parseltongue, and can access Voldemort's mind, and Voldemort can use a disguised idea to trick Harry into the Department of Mysteries.Maybe Harry could tell him the name of the owner of the space too... No, Harry could do more, if he didn't just passively accept Voldemort's thoughts, but actively instigmatize the one who couldn't name...

no, stop.Ron was taken aback by his own thoughts.What he was thinking was exactly what Dumbledore was trying to prevent.Dumbledore wanted Harry's mind to be protected.If it wasn't for this purpose, Dumbledore could have sent Harry and Draco to find the Horcruxes instead of him...

Love is the greatest magic.Although fewer and fewer people believe it as they grow older.Ron has gradually realized that this is the core of the "Dumbledore's Army", and he must not go astray on this point.

So the only thing to do right now is to wait.Waiting for the locket to merge with Regulus' space, waiting for Dumbledore to tell them the clue of the third door.

What Ron never expected was that Dumbledore's order to them a week later was to get Harry's blood.

☆、Chapter 117 The Charm of Fidelity and Loyalty

"I ask you to grind the mandrake root into a powder. The powder must be very fine, otherwise you won't be able to get usable foam after boiling..."

Draco met Snape's gaze, and the line on the head of Slytherin's forehead deepened.He closed the textbook with a snap, walked from the podium to the students, "Okay," Snape said, "Next, take out the pig's blood that was prepared earlier, and pay attention to the dosage."

Today Draco deliberately chose the seat behind the Gryffindor trio, and when he heard Hermione's surprised voice: "Harry! It's pig's blood, not your own!", he knew that Snape's plan had succeeded up.

"But the book says human blood is more effective," said Harry.

"Oh, this prince's notebook taught you again!" Hermione said angrily, "Did it remind you that if human blood was used every time to make saffron ointment, St. Mungo would have stopped using it. "

"Potter," Snape walked quickly to Harry, snatching the blood he had just collected, "did I not make it clear enough? Pig blood."

"Look." Hermione was satisfied.She turned her head and began to concentrate on adding saffron oil to her cauldron.

Ron and Draco's eyes met in the air.Ron raised his eyebrows at him, and Draco knew that what he wanted to ask was whether to enter the third space tonight, he shook his head and gave the other party a soothing look.

He has other plans tonight.After Potions get out of class was over, Draco stayed behind to help the professor clean up the pig's blood that the students had dripped on the floor.When the classroom was empty, Snape handed Harry Potter's blood to him.One of the things Draco admired most about Snape was that he trusted Dumbledore's instructions unconditionally and rarely asked more questions.

"Thank you, Professor."

"Dumbledore told me about Nott." Snape's quill paused. "If you need a witness..."

"That's just a delay, Professor." Draco said immediately, "I don't want to drag you into this matter...one shouldn't be burdened with too many unbreakable vows, should you?" After Pu made a vow to protect him, subtle changes took place in the relationship between the two.Draco knew that as the only two undercover agents within the Death Eaters, the farther they were from each other the better they could protect each other.

Snape stopped talking, and only waved to him after finishing grading the paper at hand. "Go."

Draco walked out of the Potions classroom.The sunlight outside hurt his eyes, but he was more worried about the night.

"How are you going to solve this?" Dumbledore in memory asked him.

"I don't know," he answered in his memory, "he came to me twice later, the first time I used out-of-body on him... and sent him back, but Nott is not Crabbe and Goyle, I dare not fool him too much. What's more, the mission of their family is to test the loyalty of the Death Eaters for the Dark Lord. This has not changed because of his father's loss of power. As far as I know, his uncle's family Still holding a position at the Ministry of Magic."

"So... the second time I thought of a way," Draco's eyelashes trembled, "I said... unless he promises to form an unbreakable vow with me, vowing that even if he receives the Killing Curse from within the Death Eaters Threats, and not revealing our cooperation to anyone... Only then will I teach the Dark Lord the magic that he taught me."

"The unbreakable oath requires the presence of a third party. Even if he agrees, you still need a witness. This is not your private cooperation." Dumbledore calmly raised the key.

"That's right." Draco buried his face in his hands, "I just... hope he can let go of his thoughts. After all, finding the Horcrux is the most important task. The Dark Lord's suspicions."

"It's good to be able to focus on finding Horcruxes without distraction." Dumbledore put his hand on his shoulder. "But when you are chosen by Voldemort, you should expect that the Death Eaters' view of you will change accordingly. They will fear you and desire your power at the same time."

"What should I do?" Draco asked quietly. "Now we are working together to repair the disappearing cabinet. I can't avoid seeing him, and he can't stop observing me. If he becomes angry and reveals his suspicions about me to his family...Merlin..."

Although obtaining the information of the Nott family would be of great benefit to Dumbledore's army, he was now on the tip of his knife every step of the way and dared not take the risk.Noether's ambition undoubtedly put him in a dilemma.

"Change your mind, Draco." Dumbledore's voice was like a river flowing in front of the valley.He waved his wand, and an Advanced Charms Course flew in front of Draco.

"I have this book at home." Draco said bitterly, "If you have a solution, why don't you just tell me?" Aren't you afraid that my mistake will affect the progress of finding the Horcrux?Don't you really... don't care about my life at all?

He really wanted to ask that question, but he resisted knowing the answer.At this time, he even began to envy Harry Potter.Although the other party's death sounds more doomed than his, but at least he doesn't have to go through all this shattering before death.

"Oh, I should have thought of that. Your father has been collecting books since he was a child." Dumbledore waved his wand again, and the book flew back to the tall shelf. "Read it well, boy," he said. , "Don't let the fixed use of a spell limit your thinking."

He later read that book carefully.In the chapter on secrecy, he reads the following passage:

【Unbreakable Vow】UnbreakableVow

This spell is used when a wizard needs to ensure that another person will keep a promise made to him.The following ceremony is required for the spell to take effect: the two parties to the oath hold hands together and say the oath, the witness provides the wand and makes the wand spit out fire snakes, and the number of fire snakes is determined by the number of oaths.After the ceremony is complete, those who do not keep their vows will die.

【…】

【Faithful Charm】FideliusCharm

The magic of this spell is that the caster will completely entrust his safety to the caster.The caster of the spell is called the "Secret Keeper", and the caster of the spell must choose the Keeper carefully, because only when the Keeper is absolutely reliable, others will never know your secret.The spell works by saying the secret you want to keep in front of the Secret Keeper and saying the spell to him.It is worth noting that the Secret Keeper who breaks the Fidelity Charm does not suffer himself.

He had never thought of using the latter spell before.Because there is no price to be paid for betraying the Fidelity Charm.Usually, wizards use this spell to hide a specific existence.For example, Draco knew that Dumbledore was the secret keeper of 12 Grimmauld Place, which was why the Death Eaters had been monitoring around the square for so long without finding that house.

However, this is a spell used to keep secret after all, as Dumbledore said, he should not only consider its common use.

night.

The students in the common room gradually dispersed.Draco was using his wand to put the crooked sofa back into place, he and Pansy were due to go on night watch, and after that, he was going to Nott's appointment.

Nott wasn't coming back tonight, and Draco knew he'd be waiting for him in the Response Room where the Vanishing Cabinet was.While Pansy more or less knew about their mission, she never said anything, even though she hadn't got that mark on her arm yet.Draco leaned against the wall, watching Pansy drive the students back to their dormitories to sleep.The girl holds a small vase of daffodils in her hands.

Draco waited for her to come to him, and they left the lounge together. "Happy birthday, Pansy."

"Oh, thank you," Pansy said, tossing back the gift in her hand, the petals of the yellow narcissus were so fragile that they were almost transparent.

"He gave you this last year too," Draco said.He recalled the smell of Pansy's pheromone, and seemed to understand the black boy's intentions, and there was a smile in his eyes when he looked at her.

"Don't mention it." Pan Xi pouted his lips quickly. "He knew I wouldn't be with him."

"Are you going to carry it on night patrol?" he reminded.

"Oh!" The expression on Pansy's face became more vivid, "I forgot to ask Daphne to bring it back for me. You wait here for me."

Draco watched her hurry back.He hadn't seen Pansy look like this in a long time, and she reminded him of when he taught her to play Quidditch when he was a child.After going through many things, their relationship seems to be back to the original point, but getting along is more natural.Blaise Zabini is a good boy, and if Pansy can let go of the airs she grew up with, things will go well.

After the night watch, he came to the Room of Requirement on the sixth floor.Ever since Dumbledore lent him Potter's Invisibility Cloak, he's used to haunting Hogwarts late at night.

Nott was fiddling with his wand when he walked in.He had heard from many young Death Eaters that Nott had already used the Killing Curse.This rumor overlapped with the casual look of the boy in front of him, making Draco's heart beat faster.

"You're here." The black-haired boy smiled at him, pointing at the cabinet in front of him with his wand, "How should we try today? Or... let's talk about ourselves first?"

Draco closed his eyes and let out a breath. "Well, you won," he said helplessly, "You threaten me with your family's mission, it's too despicable."

"But this trick is really easy to use." Nott shrugged. "Although my father, like your father, became a fencer after the Dark Lord disappeared, but he has helped a lot in the past. Among the Death Eaters, your father is not the only one who paid for it." The boy walked to him, "The Dark Lord trusted him a lot at the beginning, much more than he trusted your father. That's why he appointed my father to be the cleaner inside the Death Eaters, to help him clean up those guys who breed alien thoughts."

"When I was very young, every New Year, my house was always full of presents." Nott's voice softened, "They were all sent by Death Eaters. You know, there is no perfect person in the world. My father writes it in the report, and what awaits you will be the Dark Lord's insanity—who would want that, of course they would rather spend a small fortune in exchange for my father's trust."

"But now, you know, this position has been handed over to my uncle." Nott looked at him, "That's why I thought of working with you."

"You are worried that this position will be inherited by your cousin, although he is only four years old now." Draco picked up his words, "If you can't take back the position of sweeper, even if the Dark Lord wins, your family Your status will not be restored. You want to use powerful black magic to gain reputation among the Death Eaters, so that the Dark Lord can reuse you, and even, you want to use magic to add weight to family battles. At this point, you might threaten your uncle."

Nott stared at him in silence, looking somewhat like a young Tom Riddle.After a long time, he suddenly laughed: "I like to talk to smart people. Let's put it this way—are you sincerely willing to cooperate? Even if I can't provide witnesses?"

"I couldn't offer it either, so I thought of another way," Draco said, "We can cast the Fidelity Charm on each other."

Nott's eyes lit up. "Interesting. We can be each other's secret keeper, which is fair... But you should know that there is no punishment for breaking the loyalty spell."

"We can punish each other." Draco lifted his sleeves, revealing the Dark Mark on his arm. "Just cast a spell on the sign, and bind your secret and loyalty to the other's Dark Mark, so that if one of us betrays the other, the other has the right to immediately pass the betrayer's secret to the Dark Lord. "

"Good idea." Nott's pupils dilated, "The Dark Lord really taught you a lot, didn't he?"

"Okay, come on." Draco placed his wand lightly on the opponent's arm.Nott wasn't supposed to tell him the inside of the family, or cover for him if necessary; and he wasn't supposed to teach Nott the "Dark Arts" that the Dark Lord taught him, but at least now they found a way to balance each other out.

"Fidelius Charm."

"Fidelius Charm."

"Aren't you going to let me see it?" Nott put down his sleeves and said, "Don't expect to fool me with ordinary black magic, I know the way."

"Okay, you come here and look at this." Draco waved his wand seemingly unintentionally, and whispered the out-of-body spell.It wasn't until Nott followed him into the space in the Mirror of Erised that he lifted the spell.

What unfolded in front of Nott was a room exactly like the Room of Requirement.Draco carefully looked at Nott's expression.

"...Is this what you intended me to see? A bust of a dead man?"

Draco breathed a sigh of relief. "Of course not," he stretched out his hand, chanted a spell, and at the same time used his mental power in the space.This room is a small space he temporarily remodeled, and it will present what he wants him to present—in a sense, it is indeed an exclusive room for responding to requests.

The expression on the black-haired boy's face became richer - he saw the miracle he saw on the day of the Goblet of Fire finals. Another space appeared out of nowhere in the "Room of Requirement", which was the Slytherin common room, which was shrouded in darkness and could only be vaguely outlined.

"This is unbelievable... Do you know how many things can be changed just by possessing this magic?"

"Can we make another pact?" Draco said, "don't practice it anywhere else. I don't want to be forced to betray the Fidelity Charm in a few days, and it doesn't work everywhere. This is the only place that works."

"Of course, I know how to measure, and I won't use it unless it is absolutely necessary." Nott walked around the suspended second space, "This is perfect! I knew that black magic can do more than the forbidden/book Talking a lot, the Dark Lord's wisdom is really amazing...Dumbledore's vision is too narrow in comparison." Suddenly, he turned around, "Since Little Hangleton's grave and the Room of Requirement There are time and space cracks, why do we need to repair the disappearing cabinet?"

"It's no longer available after the final in Little Hangleton." This sentence is true. "The space-time rift can move. I said it-this is the only place I've found that works so far."

Knott accepted his argument. "Okay, then I will help you find space-time cracks together." He patted him on the shoulder affectionately, "I am very satisfied with what I see, learning is a long process, let's do the work at hand first."

Since then, Draco has had to pretend to fix the Vanishing Cabinet with Nott in his own space, and then sneak into the real Room of Requirement during the day to do it alone.In the process, he gradually understood why Regulus was so interested in "dream making" that he forgot his aversion to Death Eaters.Watching your space gradually add detail until it is indistinguishable from reality, and simulate the formation of magic in it, is really rewarding.

Finally one day, he and Knott decided to test their final results.It was a sunny Hogsmeade Day (Draco wondered how many more Hogsmeade Days the students would still have to enjoy at this rate), and Nott went to Burgin Bock's shop to guard another Vanishing Cabinet, And Draco returned to Hogwarts wearing the invisibility cloak, and put a lively bird in the repaired disappearing cabinet.

Only half a month has passed, but there has never been a period of time when Draco felt that he had accomplished so many things.He solved Nott's threat, using the out-of-body spell and necklace to deceive the other party, thinking that he was really learning some wonderful black magic; he repaired the disappearing cabinet, which heralded the Death Eaters' imminent action, Dumbledore should already have a countermeasure; the locket thrown back into the space by him and Ron has also reached the moment of destruction.

Everything was going well, and he hoped it would stay that way.That kind of feeling is like... Knowing that the night will eventually come, I still have expectations for the sunset.The face of the red-haired boy floated in front of him.They haven't seen each other for a long time, maybe tonight.

The blond boy stood in front of the disappearing cabinet, held the white and docile bird inside, and closed the cabinet door tightly.The mark on his arm looked hideous in the twilight, but the light also outlined his outline, exuding unspeakable holiness.

☆、Chapter118 Regulus' Memory (2)

Ron didn't understand why Harry's blood could be the key to the door of space.Until Draco told him that the third door belonged to Voldemort - when, of course, he was still Tom Riddle.Draco told him that on the day of the Goblet of Fire final, the Dark Lord was reborn in Harry's blood, that he had Harry's blood in his body.What's more, Harry is one of his Horcruxes.The gate of space does not only sense the blood of the original owner, and the relationship between Harry and Voldemort may be even closer than that of the Black brothers.

They all agreed that one could never be too cautious about Tom Riddle's own space.So after Draco completed the task of the Death Eaters, Ron used the double-sided mirror to summon Sirius and came to Hogwarts to continue exploring the second door.The Horcrux they threw in half a month ago is no longer in its original place, and now, the mission of the three is to find it back.

They just drop it after the last memory piece they read.Both Ron and Draco remembered very clearly the scene where Regulus and Kreacher were talking at the Black Mansion - after that night, Regulus and Kreacher disappeared from reality.

However, re-entering that memory took them by surprise.Without House Black, the house-elf and its little master vanish without a trace.What they stepped into was a mysterious territory, a mountain forest in the dark.As far as the eye can see, hides a glowing cave.

The cave is hidden deep, but compelling.Because the soft silver light rushed out from the center of the vortex, and when it approached them, it had already dispersed into fragile spots of light.

"Look carefully," Draco said, leaning closer to Ron.The individual brightness of these light spots is not strong, not comparable to the patron saint of wizards.

Ron held out his hand for the backdrop, and this time he saw it clearly.

They are bugs.

Lots of tiny, slender-winged flying insects.Their light sources are attached to the tips of a pair of wings, relying on rapid flapping to expand the light area, flickering in surprising numbers in the dark night, and the Milky Way flows around the cave.

"Why is that?"

"This is Regulus' space, only he knows the answer." Draco shrugged. "I've never seen a bug like this before."

For some reason, Ron didn't like this place, he thought it was eerily beautiful.Nothing beyond common sense appeared in Snape's dream, but Regulus was the first person to consciously create a dream, and he transformed the space according to his own imagination.This undoubtedly increases the difficulty for intruders.He subconsciously sought Sirius' advice, but he could only see the back of the man.

I don't know when, Sirius has gone far away from them.He was also watching the silent little sources of light.They also seem to be willing to gather around him, wrapping his outline like a cloud like mist.

Ron had seen similar illustrations in his Potions textbook.The flying insects may have sensed the temperature of the visitor.Thinking of it this way, the brightest place should also be the warmest place.Since stepping into this memory fragment, the temperature in the space has been dropping, and they must rush to the cave before losing consciousness.

The scenery in front of me became blurred.This place itself is not a suitable place for thinking. As far as I can see, apart from the black shadow of Sirius, there is only a spiral vortex spreading outwards, and if I stare for a while, only the deepest, deepest point remains...

"Ron!"

A roar pierced Ron's mind.The pole in front of him shrank rapidly, and he saw the haze around it again.Strangely, all the sense of being close to his eyes disappeared, and the peaceful sea of ​​insects suddenly retreated from him, as if they had never surrounded him.

Is it a hallucination?

There was another vague cry from behind. Ron wanted to turn around, but found that his body was out of control. The only thing that could move seemed to be his fingers. Falling down from the black field of vision...could it be himself who fell?Why is it getting colder and colder...

When Ron finally realized that he was sinking in the water, a strong force lifted him up.He felt the icy pull of the water against this force, and they cooperated to pull his mind into straight lines.

The pain spread from the waist up, and the lower body had completely lost consciousness.There was a heavy breathing in his ear, and he recognized Sirius, who pulled him out of the water out of nowhere.He slung him over his shoulders, letting his arms hang down.He tried hard to grab the hem of the elder's clothes, but at this moment he suddenly felt that his legs were convulsing uncontrollably, followed by a stabbing pain, and he fell to the water again.For a long second before losing consciousness, Ron saw a flying insect fall into the water with him.First the abdomen of the worm, then the hind feet, and the wings dipped in last, and a silver light that was slightly brighter than before was wiped out at the junction of water and air, and then went out.

When he woke up again, Sirius was sitting opposite him changing his medicine, and between them, the fire was burning brightly, bringing the long-lost warmth.Ron tried to move his body, but only his upper body could move.Sirius realized he was awake and came over to help him lean against the rock.

Draco also fell asleep leaning against the stone, breathing evenly in the air.Ron looked forward in bewilderment.Only now did he see clearly that there was a wide lake in front of him, separating them from the cave in the distance.His aching legs told him that was where Sirius had carried him back.

"This isn't right," he murmured.Why didn't he discover the existence of this lake when he first came in?All he could think about was going to the cave as quickly as possible. He obviously saw Sirius walking in front of him and Draco, and he obviously saw those glowing flying insects at close range...

Other than that, the whole vibe here is very quirky.The huge, universe-like picture seems to block people's senses, and the body slowly merges with it, making people too lazy to speak, only feeling that every corner of the body is infiltrated with eternal silence, and everything is infinite. Meaning, it's all about getting ready for sleep...

His soul wanted to roar, but his body was indifferent.Ron got angry and propped up a little more.He deliberately raised the volume, as if this would scare away the air and the soft laziness in his body: "I seem to be hallucinating just now, do you have any?"

"I think it's just you two," Sirius replied.Surprisingly, he didn't look cold at all, and there was blood on his face. "I have been following you since I came in, but after walking for a while, you suddenly raised your hands, regardless of the lake in front of you, and rushed straight forward. I was so frightened that I ran after you. Fortunately, I was not far away from you. Otherwise it might be..." Sirius paused for a while, then pointed to the calm lake surface: "There are ghost corpses in there, if you go a little deeper and get dragged into the bottom of the lake by them, I can't save you."

"But why are you the only one okay?" Ron forced his dead brain to work.At the same time, he was kicking his legs under the clothes hard to make them live faster.

"Try to see if you can summon the Patronus," Sirius said suddenly.

Ron froze, and took out his wand from his pocket.Thinking of happy memories, he uttered the name of God's Guardian.The expected silver hound did not appear, and the tip of his wand flickered for a moment, then faded like the hallucinated flying insect.

"It's impossible!" He couldn't help shouting. "I clearly feel happy in my heart! If the summoning guard fails, I should be able to foresee it in advance..."

"That's right, people must understand their own mental state. And to use magic, the most important thing is to control the mind." Sirius said, "So do you understand? The weirdest thing here is that even if you can Control your mind, and magic doesn't work at all. It's like the protective barrier at Hogwarts, except that the range of forbidden magic is infinitely expanded."

"Before the thought is entered into the wand, the connection is automatically severed."

"Yes."

"So... Draco and I are hallucinating... Could it be because this barrier cuts us off from the necklace?"

Sirius nodded. "Probably."

Ron watched Sirius' face.An ominous premonition rose in his heart, and he quickly understood the reason for his fear.

"Sirius," he tried to keep his voice from shaking, "go and see if the entrance is still there."

Sirius stood up almost as soon as he spoke, striding in the direction they had come from.Obviously, he also realized that the entrance is the only connection between the necklace and the space, if the owner of the necklace and the necklace