Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 215 Giant Rafflesia Flower

This—Nima is endless, right?

McGuffin's legs went limp and he fell to the ground in a 'rear style'.

- Woo!

The top of the Rafflesia flower that covered the sky began to bloom slowly, and it began to emit a whistle-like sound that was magnified tens of thousands of times.

This sound almost covered the thunder above the sky.

At the moment when the lightning flashed, McGuffin and the others saw greenish-yellow gas rising continuously from the opening at the top, straight into the sky.

The rancid stench wafts everywhere.

After recovering from the shock, Professor McGonagall looked back to see McGuffin struggling to get up.

Professor McGonagall was very surprised. She stared at McGuffin, and it took a long time to realize, "Albert, how did you come out... Hurry back, this place is too dangerous!"

She couldn't help saying that she wanted to drive McGuffin away from here.

When McGuffin left here, he heard Professor Sprout say loudly in distress, "This is impossible, the Rafflesia flower has passed the breeding period and entered the breeding period... And those precious herbs in the greenhouse..."

"Professor Dumbledore, we must act quickly..."

"Don't worry, Professor Sprout, look..." Dumbledore prevented Professor Sprout from rushing into the rain, and he pointed not far ahead.

The giant Rafflesia flower seems to be still growing, and the gas emitted seems to even affect the weather.

The rain may turn greenish-yellow under the influence of that or that gas...falling from the sky, falling on the ground drop by drop, emitting traces of white gas.

The lawn is slowly withering and charred, giving it a corrosive look.

"This..." Everyone present widened their eyes.

"Albert, why are you still here...you must hurry...get out of here!" Professor McGonagall yelled again.

When McGuffin left, he looked back at the professors and the nightmarish figure from time to time, and slowly left here with his huge three-layer [Bubble Head Curse] protection.

The last thing he saw was that after Dumbledore cast some unknown spell, the rain couldn't fall on them, and the ground under their feet began to rise high, forming a certain stone platform, moving forward at full speed, with muddy water churning on both sides, and mud splashing out from behind.

Like a skateboard, take them to quickly slide to the former third greenhouse, which is now the huge monster of the "Ultraman Godzilla version".

……

When McGuffin returned to the Gryffindor common room, it was already crowded with all kinds of anxious little wizards, and he almost didn't even have a place to stay.

The doors and windows here...or the whole house is completely closed by a round translucent shield...like a large [Bubble Head Curse], so there is no such rotten smell here.

When McGuffin came in, it was easy.

But when he saw George and Fred wanting to sneak out, the spell turned into a hard transparent colorful shield to stop them from sneaking out.

In the middle of the whole room - the sound of hustle and bustle, like a vegetable market.

All the little wizards, even those senior students who are about to graduate, have anxious and uneasy faces on their faces, but some little wizards, such as George and Fred, have expressions of curiosity, inquiry, and excitement.

When McGuffin came in, the entire lounge fell completely silent for a second or two, and then many hands... pulled him staggeringly to the center of the room.

And the whole house boiled even more than before.

Everyone is asking the same MacGuffin question:
--So what happened?
Seeing those expressions of anxiety, fear, worry, and excitement, McGuffin opened his mouth, but had nothing to say.

He can't just tell all the little wizards that there is a 'Godzilla' version of Rafflesia outside!
……

Dumbledore took several professors (Snape, McGonagall, Sprout, etc.) to the third greenhouse not far away on the dirt surfing spell.

When they came here, they had to stop.

Because the original smooth road has turned into a greenish-yellow swamp filled with dense mist, and the trees and plants in front of it were all withered, twisted, and mutated. .

Even the Whomping Willow (which they had just passed) seemed to be yellowing and wilting in the foul-smelling rain.

Professor Sprout stared in dismay at all the greenhouses that had disappeared...it seemed that when this place turned into a swamp for some reason, they had already fallen into it...all the rare plants that Professor Sprout had collected and cultivated over the years were destroyed, and it didn't take a second to know that these plants were almost impossible to survive.

And more importantly, the shadow of this unknown monster almost completely enveloped them wizards.

All the professors could feel the malice and chill that this monster brought them.

Dumbledore frowned at the weather, and the huge monster.

Dumbledore knew that he couldn't wait any longer. This monster didn't exist for a second, and it was a great threat to the environment, Hogwarts property, and the lives of the students.

But the first thing to do, Dumbledore looked at the green-yellow rain and fog in front of him.

He raised his wand and called out to the sky like last time, "Call the wind and rain! (Chinese)"

Then, Dumbledore began to wave his wand vigorously, very strenuously... As the wand stirred slowly, the yellow-green dark clouds above were like a whirlpool... just like the water flow from a washing machine... the dense dark clouds slowly began to roll.

The environment, that is, the wind and rain began to become irregular.

The lightning in the layers of dark clouds became more and more irritable. They entangled and shuttled among the dark clouds like a black curtain, dancing wildly like golden snakes, illuminating the world as if it were daytime, and the thunder almost rang out non-stop.

Only then were the professors able to fully see this nightmarish figure clearly.

At this time, they roughly measured that the monster was about [-] stories high and more than [-] meters high. Although it was not as huge as imagined, it was still growing at a speed that was already visible to the naked eye.

And indeed, as Professor Sprout said,
——It is a female Rafflesia flower magnified thousands of times.

Perhaps it was because of feeling intimidated by Dumbledore.

The swamp began to boil.

The ground under their feet began to undulate and sway.

--boom!Snapped!

Like an explosion, the soil splashed out, and vines of different thicknesses exploded from the ground, rushing towards them.

"Is this thing intelligent?"

Professor McGonagall screamed, and quickly waved his wand and pointed it at the ground.

As she cast the spell, the splashed soil gathered and transformed into tigers, lions, roaring in groups and pounced on them, preventing the vines from approaching.

At a time when the animal and plant worlds are fighting each other.

Snape cast a spell, and a ring of black flames lit the ground around them.

It was very weak at the beginning, but as the attacking vines were ignited one by one, the flames spread and eroded and grew stronger, becoming walls of fire, and began to counterattack, dividing those vines into ashes, and using this as fuel, the flames burned more and more vigorously.

Even if it rains heavily, the swamp will only make the black flames howl and sweep away everything around.

"Fiendfire!" Professor McGonagall yelled, and she looked at the flames warily, turning those animals into giant birds such as flying eagles in the sky, and handing over the vines on the ground to Snape.

When Fiendfire followed Snape's control and burned their surroundings into a sea of ​​flames,
"Pomona! Wake up!"

Professor McGonagall finally had time to comfort Professor Sprout, who had spent his entire life in vain.

"Back off! Stand behind me..." cried Dumbledore, his spell at last ready
With great effort, he slowly started to swing his wand downwards, the lightning in the sky split one after another, linked to the tip of his wand, and as he swung, all the hundreds of lightnings on the dark cloud collided to one point.

--boom!

The huge thunder is almost like the god of thunder in ancient mythology has turned lightning into a drum hammer and bombarded the sky.

At this time, strong winds, strong winds that could almost blow the ground and pull trees, began to hit from all directions indiscriminately.

Go up for a while, go down for a while, scrape from left to right, scrape from right to left... There is no rule at all.

Dumbledore's silver beard was swept around and the other professors had to use charms to anchor themselves to the ground so as not to be blown away.

And at this time, the swamp also began to have rough waves... Not only those that were swept by the wind, but also...

boom!
Like five or six adults hugging each other in a circle, the giant vines rushed out of the swamp, directly smashing towards Dumbledore.

"Thunder! (Chinese)"

boom!
Thousands, or tens of thousands!

All the lightning fell from the sky in an instant and directly hit the flower like a hill...

The wind and rain gradually subsided, and a large layer of the swamp was cut away. It could even be seen that the crushed fragments of the greenhouse and some fragments of other plants that had been corroded began to rise and float.

When Professor Sprout saw it, he uttered another whimper feebly.

There was a strong burnt smell in the air, and the original corrosive smell had been greatly weakened.

Only those on the ground and in the swamp not far away are still emitting yellow-green gas, and the huge black-burned Rafflesia flower reminds everyone of what happened just now.

The giant vine just now was weak, twisted and smashed to the side.

——He landed heavily.

The ground trembled twice, and mud splashed everywhere.

That huge monster... the female mutated Rafflesia flower, the scorched black skin on it continued to peel off from the sky, falling down piece by piece... Although it was only a little bit for this thing, it could only be seen when it fell to the ground or in the swamp, like a big rock, splashing and churning in all directions.

"Professor Pomona Sprout! You must see what's going on with this thing!"

"You have to figure out... what the hell..."

Professor McGonagall emphasized again and again.

Then she waved her wand, and conjured a stony path, or bridge, across the swamp.

Pulling Professor Sprout, I wanted to check it out...to see what it was.

And what the hell is going on with all this?

"Wait! Minerva!" Professor Dumbledore stopped her with his arms outstretched.

His face was serious, and all this was far from over.

"Dumbledore..." Professor McGonagall looked at him in amazement.

Before the words fell, the giant monster that seemed to have hung up started to move again, like the sound of hinges turning, almost hundreds of times louder.

At the same time, several people saw that the originally closed flower bud was slowly opening.

Those scorched outer skins fell off at a faster rate, revealing a new purple-green outer skin inside.

"Stop it quickly! Professor Dumbledore!" Seeing all this, Professor Sprout turned pale with fright.

"Although it's different, at the moment it looks like the female rafflesia is about to erupt seeds. No one knows what this monster will produce... And under normal circumstances, rafflesia will spew out hundreds of seeds. Although only a part will grow female rafflesia, the rest will become male rafflesia, but according to the speed of the mutation tonight... In the worst case, I am afraid that in a few days, the entire England will be covered with this horrible plant..."

As she spoke, she waved her wand, and the tip glowed with some kind of yellow light, and as the light burned through, all the vines that had just recovered and danced to attack them withered and dried up.

But as a gap opened up on the female Rafflesia flower, some dense, disgusting, penetrating white translucent flying insects crawled out along the gap... the size of a washbasin, with six limbs, and the eyes were full of holes like the honeycomb. The transparent wings vibrated, forming black and white dazzling stripes.

They fluttered their wings rapidly, and rushed down in a black mass.

Snape turned the Fierce Flame burning on the ground into a tongue of fire, spewing out into the sky and turning it into a wave of fire, saying that these symbiotic insects were swallowed up...turned into ashes, cleaned them up, and finally even turned into a huge fireball, smashing towards the giant Rafflesia flower.

But the legendary Fierce Flame that could not be extinguished just burned a big hole in the monster's skin, and then some kind of green fluorescent viscous juice flowed out from the petals, quickly extinguishing it.

And compared to that huge monster... that big hole is only equivalent to the entire human body, a place the size of a palm.

——It doesn't have that much effect at all!
"Fox!"

Dumbledore called softly.

The sound of music floated from nowhere, the sound was illusory, ethereal and mysterious, exciting.

A large crimson bird suddenly appeared in the sky and landed on Dumbledore's shoulder.

Fire golden claws, golden tail feathers, like a peacock.

After Dumbledore whispered something to it, it spread its two huge wings and fluttered in the sky.

Dumbledore pointed his wand at the phoenix and cast the spell.

First, its shiny black eyes began to ignite red flames, followed by the long, sharp golden beak... Then the fiery red head, back, and feathers on the wings... until finally the tail feathers... all turned into flames... Fox became a burning flame giant bird.

"Shoot your own magic into it, quick!" Dumbledore shouted.

Snape's face was very ugly, as if he had thought of something.

However, he still obeyed the arrangement, waved his magic wand, and a faint blue light shot into the phoenix,
The flame phoenix immediately grew in size, and continued to expand...it was already as big as a car.

With the injection of Professor McGonagall and Sprout's magic power... the flame phoenix became the size of a small house.

But it's not enough to compare it to that huge monster like a hill.

Waves of magic power also flew out from behind them and merged into the phoenix.

——It was the other professors who rushed over.

The flame phoenix expanded rapidly, and finally when Dumbledore injected his magic power into it.

It's already half the size of that monster.

After the phoenix let out a scream, it swooped down towards the giant Rafflesia flower. There was a scorching smell in the air, and the flames continued to burn along the monster's gap.

Rafflesia prevents its own destruction even if all the vines are recalled to twine to form a shield.

Instead, it hastened its own demise. (Vines turn into fuel)

In the end, like a volcanic eruption, the burned black dust fell from the sky, covering almost all areas from Hogwarts to the Forbidden Forest like snow.

After completing the task, the fire phoenix gradually became smaller, hovering over Professor Dumbledore's head,

It finally fell into Dumbledore's hand and turned into a dark, hairless, ugly little chick.

Dumbledore carefully put it into his pocket, and only then did he begin to confirm that the huge mutant Rafflesia flower had truly been reduced to ashes.

"Pomona! Come on, go and see what's going on!"

(End of this chapter)