Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 285 Convergence
Harry was lying on the ground retching, his intestines almost twisted into a ball.

After all, he and McGuffin had played countless times in the sky just now.

Compared to Albert, his current situation is pretty good,

The guy was completely unconscious, and above his head was a finger-sized miniature gold scale... The scales on both sides were constantly swinging back and forth, and the two hearts on the scales had completely disappeared.

They landed safely from that state of spinning in circles, thanks to...

"Thank you!"

Harry looked at Phoenix Fox next to him and thanked him.

It was still as beautiful and gorgeous, with golden and red feathers swirling not far away.

It was the one that used those golden claws to grab the clothes of Harry and McGuffin before, and put them on the ground smoothly.

There was something uplifting, calming music in the air as Fox whizzed by.

What made him even more relieved was that...someone finally rushed over.

"Harry!"

A figure twice as thick as ordinary people is running from a distance (ton-ton-ton).

There are two dark shadows behind him.

It's Hagrid.

How did he find here?
Shaking all over, Harry barely managed to stand up.

He felt his brain spinning in his skull, as if he'd fallen into a never-ending Floo powder tunnel.

Slowly, he hugged the notebook and the sorting hat tightly, stood his legs steady, and looked at Hagrid, Mr. Weasley, and...Snape Severus who hurried over under the guidance of Ms. Gray in the distance.

Suddenly, he seemed to see a worried look on Snape's face.

But when he got closer, this expression disappeared immediately.

Maybe it's because I didn't wear glasses and saw it wrong.

—Harry naturally thought so.

(When the glasses were rotated in the previous 360-degree free body, they no longer knew where they were thrown, and even if they were found, they would have been smashed to pieces.)
Hagrid rushed over and came to Harry's side with a look of concern on his face.

He hugged Harry hard.

He almost passed out Harry Tale.

"Harry, are you all right! It's all my fault... I handed you over to that 'Dark Wizard'... Gerald Lockhart"

He was crying loudly intermittently, his black and dense beard covered with tears.

Under the anger and guilt, the poor rooster in Hagrid's hand was shaken constantly with white eyes...the chicken feathers were all over the place, and finally - cluck, its neck was cut off, ending this painful and powerless journey.

"Hagrid...Hagrid!"

Harry cried out weakly, rolled his eyes and resisted weakly, fearing that he would end up like this too.

It was Mr. Weasley who hurried over from behind and saw something was wrong, and pulled the two of them apart.

"Hagrid, Hagrid, . . . let go of Harry!"

After seeing that Harry was fine, Snape slowly let go of his secretly worried heart, and then looked at the guy who was the culprit behind this incident.

—McGuffin Albert. (No reason, all these things that happened must have something to do with this little wizard... Snape was quite sure)

Snape walked over, watching carefully.

The little wizard looks very bad now, the black snake-like scales on his face flicker and appear with his breathing.

Snape squatted down and pushed McGuffin's eyelids away, and it was exactly as he thought...

Has turned into some sort of amber serpentine (vertical) pupil.

Finally, he looked at the top of McGuffin's head, the thing with the most different reactions,
—that miniature golden scale.

Snape's finger touched it, and... straight through it, but as he approached with his wand, the golden balance receded slightly, twisting.

"Unbelievable, unbelievable..." Mr. Weasley repeatedly marveled. What he also noticed was this golden scale, and he seemed to have figured out what it was.

"This should be a very precious and rare Egyptian magic rune engraving, something left by the ancient wizard century..."

"Even for those pharaohs, it is very difficult to find such things in the magic pyramid of the high priest..."

Suddenly a voice sounded from behind them, startling them.

—It was Dumbledore.

In the first few seconds, the phoenix flew into the sky and then turned into a stream of flames and rushed straight to the "boundary of this mid-air (ground)", forming some kind of straight flame...

Dumbledore walked out of it.

He stared at the changes on McGuffin with a serious face.

"Professor Dumbledore!" Harry exclaimed, both surprised and delighted.

(Hagrid finally put him down, and the tears stopped rushing)
"Professor!" Snape stood up and greeted coldly, with a very dissatisfied tone.

Hagrid and Mr. Weasley were also very surprised at Dumbledore's sudden arrival. After they greeted each other, they immediately asked, "Professor Dumbledore, are you so..."

Mr. Weasley realized something immediately, and he shouted anxiously, "Professor, Albus...how are Ginny and the others?"

"It's all right, Weasley, it's all right now - Ginny Weasley is safe and sound, and has been taken to Madam Pomfrey by Minister Fudge and the Auror professors,... all right!"

Dumbledore said calmly.

After Mr. Weasley breathed a sigh of relief, Harry realized that something had happened to Ginny too, ... but it sounded safe.

While he was relieved, he also saw the changes in McGuffin,...

"Professor, is MacGuffin okay?"

"Severus, what do you see..." Dumbledore asked Snape, who had just checked.

"It seems that the magic power is out of control... Lost too much magic power in an instant, and then got too much magic power that doesn't belong to him... As a result, the... in the body... was stimulated again..." Snape said vaguely.

"You all also realized that when the shock happened for a moment just now... the magic power was temporarily out of control... I guess it was caused by this..."

But at this time, Hagrid and Mr. Weasley had noticed a very unusual change in McGuffin.

"It seems to be closely related to this magic engraving...Harry Potter, what happened to you here?"

Snape pointed at the scales on McGuffin's body with his wand, and slowly turned his head to ask.

"Hermione Granger told me... The Mysterious Man, that is, the Dark Lord is here... We also encountered that kind of extremely evil black magic on the way... It is related to a series of terrorist attacks in the wizarding world... You'd better give us a clear and detailed answer, otherwise..."

He sneered.

This topic that ignited everyone's attention temporarily diverted Hagrid and Mr. Weasley's attention away from McGuffin.

"By the way, Professor! McGuffin told me I had to destroy this notebook...he said it was the culprit of everything, and that Voldemort wouldn't disappear until this thing was destroyed."

After listening to Snape's words, Harry remembered the notebook tightly held in his arms, and said hastily.

"He said... what is this [Horcrux]? Only the silver sword I got just now and the basilisk's venom can destroy it!"

The moment Harry finished speaking, the expressions of the people present (except Hagrid) changed drastically.

It's almost like pulling another face off.

Mr. Weasley stopped talking, his eyeballs almost popped out, his forehead was instantly covered with sweat, and he stared at the old notebook in Harry's arms with an extremely terrified look.

Snape took two steps forward and stretched out his hand, looking as if he wanted to snatch the notebook from Harry's hand and examine it carefully.

His sallow face turned livid, and fear and hatred were revealed in his eyes, that intense gaze could almost penetrate Harry's skin.

Even Dumbledore... He was shocked when he heard the word [Horcrux] with his originally calm face, and stepped to Harry's side in two steps.

"Can you show me, Harry..."

Dumbledore was eager to figure it out carefully, holding the notebook in his wrinkled hands, and touching it with his wand from time to time.

Maybe it was a mistake, Harry found that the notebook seemed to be shaking slightly.

"[Horcrux]? Professor Dumbledore... Is what Harry said true?"

Mr. Weasley asked in a panic as he watched Dumbledore study the notebook from afar.

Hagrid also felt that something was wrong with this atmosphere, and he shouted loudly, "What is [Horcrux]?"

Harry was also very curious to hear about the others' return, waiting for them to return.

"Harry, this thing is too dangerous, leave it to me for safekeeping for now..."

After a while, Dumbledore created a box with his wand, carefully put the notebook in it, and said to everyone.

"After we leave here, I will explain to you slowly...I can't stay here anymore... After all, there are a lot of things to talk about!"

"But...McGuffin said it was... Voldemort...and the basilisk's venom..." Before Harry could finish his sentence, they sank a lot below.

The ankle fell directly 'below that layer of interface', which made several people jump.

"We'll talk about it later," Dumbledore said quickly.

"As for the basilisk... Indeed, the... venom and blood on it are useful..."

Dumbledore glanced at him, and it was only at this moment that Harry recalled that the magic material for the [Blood Curse] on McGuffin's body seemed to need these two things.

So they hurried to find the basilisk.

——However, there has been no response from the basilisk for so long, could it be...

Sure enough, the basilisk seemed to be too close to the center of the explosion just now... It has been broken into several pieces.

Now it is definitely not alive, and there is no threat.

The snake's head was lying on its side a few tens of meters away from their upper left corner, slowly and lifelessly.

The rest of the body was in bits and pieces... Even a large section of the spine rolled out of the flesh and blood, exposing the outside... Red, white, and black blended together, and the ground was covered...

The black and red blood seeped into the ground (the boundary in the sky) bit by bit,... the flesh and blood of the ground covered the 'ground' they wanted to walk over.

It makes people very hairy.

Especially Harry... Although he has experienced enough scenes (the previous bloody abyss, the tide of skinless slime and blood corpses, it is disgusting enough), but this scene...

—It was still too exciting for him.

Even Mr. Weasley was stunned for a long time before rushing over to collect the blood.

A group of people hurriedly pulled out the broken teeth from the basilisk's mouth to collect blood before the 'ground' supported by their feet sank.

In the end, Dumbledore simply floated the snake's head with his wand, froze it (including blood, so as not to flow out), and then shrunk it into it with a very exquisite [snuff bottle] (some kind of magic prop that casts the space stretching spell)...

Then he left the weird room with several people.

Phoenix and Ms. Gray led the way in front of him. Professor Dumbledore seemed to be familiar with the way. He led a few people through a stone staircase with hundreds of steps (he cast a certain spell on a few people so that they could jump long distances with a single step)

Soon they passed through the last spiral stone road (this stone road is after the stone ladder), and came out from the giant eagle-shaped portal last time.

"I'll go and see Ginny first...Professor Dumbledore, are they at the school medical office?"

After coming out, Mr. Weasley still wanted to see the current situation of his family first...

After waiting for Dumbledore's answer, he left several people and went to the school doctor's office.

Then Ms. Gray was also ready to drift away.

"Ma'am!" Dumbledore stopped her temporarily, he cleared his throat, and said softly, "I hope you can keep what happened below..."

"Oh! This is natural... After all, some of the things below are also about my mother's secret... I won't tell others!"

Ms. Gray said coldly, and after she finished speaking, she went into the ground and disappeared.

After they came out, they walked in the empty corridor. Most of the magic portraits on the walls fell to the ground, and the sound of curses from the magic figures came from inside... Candlesticks, magic lamps, fell, and smashed to the ground; cracks appeared on the glass windows, and some even shattered into pieces.

In some corridors, especially on the walls below the windows, there are even some fine cracks and gaps...

This worried Harry very much.

Especially in the process of walking... Hogwarts Castle shook from time to time.

Fawkes rested on Dumbledore's shoulder.

Professor He led the way, as if he knew where he was going.

(The MacGuffin is floating, being held by Hagrid)

They walked along the corridor.

Moments later, Harry found them standing outside Professor McGonagall's office.

Professor Dumbledore knocked on the door, then pushed it open.

There was a noisy debate inside.

There are a lot of wizards crowded here.

Cornelius Fudge was arguing loudly with Professor McGonagall about something...

Gilderoy Lockhart sat by the fire, thrusting his bald head into the flames.

And the two Aurors beside him pressed his shoulders hard, trying to control the fool.

Harry, Hagrid, Professor Dumbledore, Snape, and the hugged McGuffin entered it... They were all very sloppy, their clothes were stained with bad-smelling basilisk blood, a bit like the bloody Baron.

Especially Harry and McGuffin, they were covered in foul-smelling sludge and slime... a sort of sewer smell. (Of course Hagrid and Snape weren't much better.)
The debate stopped.

For a while, there was silence.

--what!

Suddenly, a scream broke the silence——

Gildero, who turned out to be in a 'new look', took advantage of the time when the Auror was in a daze, and finally poked his head into the fireplace and roasted it, screaming in pain again and again.

(End of this chapter)