Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 203 The Protector in the Dark Night

Hogwarts Castle was torn apart with a hideous gap vertically, where the dragon's breath passed, bricks and stones shattered.

James and Lily hurriedly raised their wands, and together they conjured up four pillars, supporting the crumbling ceiling.

"Retreat!" Ms. Burns ordered, "Get those who are still upstairs to retreat!"

Everyone retreated to the auditorium, and Mad-Eye Moody drove the students with a cane, forcing them to hide at the end.

The Inferi held their wands and poured into the castle like a tide. Two Aurors who couldn't dodge were hit by the Stunning Spell. Tonks and Mrs. Maxime dragged the wounded and unconscious man under the college dining table together, hoping Provide them with a little protection from the dining table.

Andonova propped up the Iron Armor Curse for everyone. At the same time, Professor McGonagall waved his wand, turning the flames in the auditorium into a huge firebird, burning the Infernal Corpse that rushed to the front. Professor Flitwick Several dense iron chains were created between the two walls to make it easier for the ghouls to be burned to death.

The bone dragon's wings swept across the castle again, and James released a precise eye sickness spell, but the spell was easily deflected by the tall man on the dragon's back.

James screamed, "My God, it's Sirius!"

"He must be under the Imperius Curse," Lily said tremblingly, "We can knock down the dragon first—"

"call--"

Another burst of powerful dragon's breath hit, and people hurriedly lowered their bodies to avoid it.

The castle became more and more shattered, and the stones poured down like a waterfall. Immediately afterwards, the air wave from the explosion toppled the ceiling. Fortunately, the ceiling was caught by the pillars conjured by James and Lily and did not fall down. However, several people guarding the second floor and The broken pieces fell to the ground together.

"Percy!" Ron yelled.

In the billowing smoke, Ron picked up Percy, who was unconscious, and Percy's head was covered with blood.Fred and George struggled to their feet and gathered around their brother.Ron tested Percy's snort with trembling hands, "He... he's still breathing... come on, who of you brought white fresh—"

"Bang!" Before Ron could finish his sentence, another multiple explosion spell hit the castle, and glass shards flew around. In the dark night, there was a blurry figure blown into the air along with the glass.

Professor Flitwick waved his wand and conjured up a magic rope, trying to trap the person who was about to fall to death, but the sharp claws of the bone dragon passed by and grabbed the person who was blown away. Hermione covered her mouth.

But Dragon Claw caught nothing.

The man turned into a black smoke and flew in the air, avoiding the fatal blow.He turned around and observed the bone dragon carrying Sirius vigilantly—in the dark night, the people in the castle could only see a pair of glowing blue eyes.

"...there is an Inferi in the castle!" Seeing this flying guy, the Aurors were horrified, and hurriedly raised their wands to shoot.

"Don't attack!" Harry stopped them, "That's Professor Snape!"

While avoiding the Aurors' spells casually, Snape cursed in the direction of Sirius.

"Sev?" Lily said in an uncertain tone, "Aren't you recuperating in the school hospital? Your eyes...are you infected by them?"

Hearing his own name, Snape froze for a moment, and looked down at Lily.

"Ah——I'm fine, yes... Maybe I was infected..." His words flickered, "Thanks to Black, the school hospital has been bombed, and I was directly blown to the sky just now. When I woke up, Black Already joined the Dark Lord? Interesting..."

"No, he was accidentally controlled by Voldemort," Lily explained painfully, "Come in quickly, don't let those ghouls below hurt you..."

Snape flew into the auditorium like a big bat, far away from the flames that Professor McGonagall had conjured up, and from the darkness into the bright firelight, he narrowed his eyes in disgust.

Ms. Burns took a few steps back, walked up to him, and looked at his glowing eyes, "What the hell is going on? Professor Snape, you have been transformed? Then you—"

"Dear Amelia!" Professor McGonagall interrupted her sternly, "Let's deal with these ghouls that ran into the auditorium first, this is not an academic seminar!"

The entrance hall was full of dueling people, the castle was opened wide, and the guards could no longer prevent the Infernals from rushing in. Fortunately, Dumbledore's barrier was still working, helping people block most of the people from outside. Otherwise, the castle has completely fallen by now.

One of Flitwick and McGonagall was responsible for controlling the living corpses, and the other was responsible for burning them, and they cooperated seamlessly.

James shot at Inferi desperately, his face was scratched by the cutting curse; while Snape was not active, he had been hiding behind, avoiding Professor McGonagall's fire magic, looking very weak.

Andonova was dueling the remains of Karkaroff, a tall but timid guy, and after just a few rounds, Andonova tied him up from head to toe.

Madame Maxime was in close combat with a female Inferi, who outstripped her in strength even though she was taller than Hagrid.She was thrown to the ground and her throat was nearly bitten off, but Snape kicked it away and added a Stunning Charm.

"Don't try to wrestle with Inferi." Snape said each word, "their strength doesn't match their appearance."

Harry, along with Ron, Fred and George, took care of Percy, who was seriously injured and unconscious. The number of wounded people had increased to more than 20. I don't know how many people upstairs were injured—or, dead.The bone dragon was still roaring in the night sky, and the breath of the dragon struck the castle again and again. Dumbledore endured everything alone.

Snape sat back in a dark corner of the Great Hall, away from the heat of the duel.He bowed his head, his glowing blue eyes half-closed, and his right hand dropped to the ground, motionless.

Harry came to him and half knelt down, at eye level with him, "Professor," he said cautiously, "does your wound still hurt?"

Snape shook his head restlessly.

"Can you tell me what it's like to be controlled? My godfather, Xiao Tian... Will Sirius ever come back?"

Snape's face twisted at the sound of Sirius' name, the muscles in his neck twitched, and he was about to lose his temper - but Harry's green eyes looked at him sincerely, as if he was the only one Someone who can help.

"Inferi were created to serve their masters. Black's situation is another matter," Snape said impatiently. "The easiest way is to kill him. Anyway—"

Snape opened his eyes.At some point, Lily came up behind Harry, her ankle hurt badly, and she walked with a limp.Sitting cross-legged next to Harry, she looked exhausted.

Two pairs of identical green almond eyes looked at Snape.

"... there are other ways to stop Black," Snape whispered, "if anyone dares to go up to the dragon at close range—like jumping on its back—and then duel with Black, and finally knock it down." That dragon, let it fall into the Forbidden Forest."

"No! This is death!" Harry cried, "Professor Peddie went out to look for him, but he hasn't come back until now, no one should be in danger again... Is there any magic that can wake Sirius up? Just like you did to yourself."

Snape shook his head. "It's impossible for Black to suddenly learn a decent Occlumency."

"Sev, were you really... dead?" Lily asked suddenly, she had roughly guessed the truth.

"Yes." He said bluntly.

With a bang, the castle vibrated, dust fell, and half of the magic ceiling of the auditorium was damaged. Through it, people could see the magic starry sky and the real starry sky at the same time.There were many men and women upstairs screaming, and they must have been hurt.

Snape stood up with difficulty.

"Sev?" Lily hurriedly stopped him, "Don't move, you've lost too much blood..."

"It's not just blood I've lost," his voice was hoarse and deep, "I have almost nothing left to sacrifice."

He turned into black smoke, soared into the sky, and melted into the depths of the night.

(End of this chapter)