Alice's Travels

Snape pursed his lips and looked at Draco unfathomably.

Draco stood there stiffly like a wooden man, tightly hugging the gradually icy body of the girl in his arms, his extremely pale face was completely buried in the shadows.

"Get out of here," Snape whispered, "don't be impulsive, and also for...Alice..."

Draco trembled for a moment as if he couldn't control his whole body, and his body trembling followed Snape's pace and walked slowly outside.

Draco carefully pressed his lips to Alice's face, breathing warmly as if to warm the girl up.He carried Alice back to his room step by step.

Snape stood silently in the living room, watching his back with deep eyes.The burning fireplace made a slight sound from time to time, and the red firelight reflected the surrounding darkness.

The huge Malfoy Manor is no longer bright and luxurious as it used to be, but full of eerie and biting loneliness.

Draco gently placed Alice on the warm and soft big bed, and reached out to hold her cold hand against his lips.

In a dead silence, drop after drop of water slid down onto the bed, gradually forming a blurred imprint.

"You promised not to leave me—" Tears kept pouring out of his eyes, and Draco finally couldn't help sobbing, "You're lying to me again, aren't you—"

"You can't leave me—we'll always be together..." Draco leaned down, kissed Alice's face indiscriminately, and sobbed, "I've been waiting for you for so long—I watched You have been so long—open your eyes, look at me—Alice..."

His breathing trembled, the position of his chest seemed to be suffocated, his face was as pale as Alice's, only his eyes were flushed with tears constantly rolling down.Draco cried bitterly beside Alice.

Hatred instantly occupied his atrium.

He hated his own powerlessness, and hated the Dark Lord's cruelty even more.

"No one can separate us..." After a long time, Draco raised his head and said softly, his gray-blue eyes gleaming with cold fire.

The usual tranquility of Hogwarts was disturbed by the sudden attack of Death Eaters.

Except for the escape of Snape and Malfoy, the professors only discovered the disappearance of one student, Alice.

Hermione looked worried, she didn't think Alice would be the one to leave school with Malfoy at this time - she was worried that something happened to Alice.

Harry agreed with Hermione's idea.He had made up his mind to choose Hermione's side at all times - trust her firmly.

Hermione smiled at him.

Ron avoided them for a while - after Hermione was with Harry.He found that his heart was stuffy, and there was an indescribable discomfort and sourness-and he didn't want to always stand beside them like a superfluous person.

Dumbledore convened the teachers and students of the school the next day, announced the news that the Second Wizarding War had broken out, and said that Hogwarts would resolutely fight against the Dark Lord.

Students can voluntarily decide whether to stay or not—a small number of students chose to leave voluntarily, either because they did not want to face the war and were preparing to flee, or because they did not want to fight against the Dark Lord.And most of the students still decided to stay at Hogwarts and chose to follow Dumbledore.

On the same day, a group of Death Eaters who had just escaped from Azkaban launched an attack in the Muggle world, and the Order of the Phoenix led by Dumbledore immediately sent Aurors to rescue them.

Together with Harry, Hermione told Dumbledore about the speculation about Alice's possible accident, and asked him to find out Alice's whereabouts.

"Is Alice—" Dumbledore said slowly, a flash of light seemed to flash across the lens of the glasses, "She is a talented little girl, I think you may have discovered something special about her Yes or no?"

"Well...Alice is very talented in learning spells," Hermione said after a moment of hesitation, "and she works very hard, so her spells are always better than others..."

Harry turned his eyes to Hermione, and quietly put his hand on her arm.Feeling the warmth from her arm, Hermione's frowning eyebrows gradually smoothed away.

"More than that, in fact she has been able to use silent spells for a long time, right?" Dumbledore said mildly, "Even wandless magic has been mastered - far beyond what an ordinary student should have. And Alice's spells work a little differently, don't they, children? She's special, it's her special talent."

"You mean you already knew it before?" Hermione calmed down and said, "Then Alice should be all right?"

"When the Death Eaters tried to attack Hogwarts, it was Alice who set up the protective barrier," Dumbledore said after a moment's pause, "it was precisely because she had an extremely strong desire to protect Hogwarts." It will be successful—and all those intruders will be cleared out. The attack of the Death Eaters was interrupted just after it started, and their plan to kill me was also disrupted and they had to retreat. But unfortunately, Ellie Silk was caught."

"What—" said Hermione tremblingly, "was she taken by the Dark Lord?"

"Haven't all the Death Eaters been kicked out?" Harry asked.

"I'm not too sure about the specific situation," Dumbledore said, shaking his head, "but——Alice should have been brought before the Dark Lord."

Hermione frowned and exchanged glances with Harry, and said in a low voice, "We have to save her quickly, Professor, I think you should understand the danger of the Dark Lord better..."

"That's what I mean," Dumbledore said seriously, "The Dark Lord's stronghold is now heavily guarded, and a group of Death Eaters who have just escaped from prison have launched an attack on Muggles. I need to go to the Muggle world first. .Hogwarts is still safe at present, you will deal with Alice's matter with me."

"Yeah." Hermione nodded.Harry reached out to take her hand and nodded in return.

In 2024, the conference hall of the XX Research Institute in S City, China.

Under the spacious and bright light, everyone looked solemn and focused on the data analysis and case information displayed on the light screen.Almost all top experts in physics, life sciences, biomedicine, etc. are gathered here to conduct secret investigations on the mysterious radiation incidents that have occurred.

Just a few days ago, relevant departments detected that mysterious rays from the universe radiated the entire city. At the same time, it was discovered that 50 people of different ages and identities in different places fell into a coma.After less than a week, only two people still had vital signs, and the rest died.

An investigation of the demographics, past history, and physiological data of the 50 individuals has yet to find any relevant connections.