Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 400 face to face

It's the Froomes of Honeydukes.

—and that name!

When the twins heard the name, they took a deep breath.

Even if they can't see each other, they can know how panicked each other is now.

—the escaped Death Eater!she is here!
Then, another exasperated voice came from inside.

"That's enough, Bella! You idiot, if anyone else hears about it, we'll be finished... Dumbledore doesn't need to do anything, just the three fire dragons brought by the Romanian dragon tamer... and the Aurors sent by the Ministry of Magic are enough to deal with us!"

"Listen, who will hear it!?"

"This basement has been cast with the [Silent Protection Curse], and no sound can be transmitted outside. As for this underground secret passage corridor, you have heard what these two idiots said... It is at least tens of meters deep in Hogwarts, and no one will hear it at all."

"Dolohov, what are you afraid of? Has your 12 years in Azkaban made you as cowardly as a mouse?" Bellatrix laughed wildly.

"Me! Scared? — Cruciatus!" shouted Dolokhov excitedly.

The screams from the Froome couple almost tore their throats.

Cursing, screaming, laughing wildly, mixed with the sound of evil curses, just like those B-grade bloody movies of serial killers,
There were terrifying noises from above.

The twins trembled in fright, and kept groping and retreating step by step.

"enough!"

"We still have tasks!"

It was the roar of a strange man again. After this sentence was finished, it seemed that there was some terrifying magic power. All the sounds... curses, cursing were directly strangled, and all of them disappeared at once.

Only a faint painful humming sounded in the air.

Then, one or more footsteps came from above.

George and Fred immediately stopped their movements and froze in place, afraid of making any movement.

You never know how sharp your hearing will be, amidst the silence, the stimuli of extreme dread.

The twins felt that their ears could hear everything in this passage.

Not only could they distinguish each other's breathing, they could even hear clearly the sounds of the Death Eaters above stepping closer and stepping on wood chips.

Suddenly, some light was revealed from the blasted floor door.

It was vague and dim at first, but as the footsteps approached, the light gradually became clearer, and with the shadows of those people, it stretched unsteadily from the basement to the stone staircase.

The twins froze in place in fear, watching the entrance gradually appear one, two, three... Several shadowy figures, they held up their wands, and the tip shot out light to illuminate the dark underground stone staircase.

The figures began to look down,
Skeletal faces loomed above, and the Death Eaters glanced back and forth with twisted, brutal gazes.

Their eyes went straight to the twins.

George and Fred were almost fainting.

But they could only freeze, watching those evil and cruel guys standing there talking, praying in their hearts that they would not find themselves, and praying to leave as soon as possible.

"How much time is left?" Bellatrix suddenly said to a wizard nearby.

"There is still an hour and a half left! In an hour and a half, the dementors will be ready to attack Hogwarts from the front..." The wizard turned back, muttered something, and said clearly to the others.

After Bellatrix snorted coldly, she turned and left, and the others gradually left after watching it for a while.

There was only one man with a distorted and cruel face, and a man with black curly hair was pinching his chin and looking down, sniffing lightly with his nostrils, as if he had some doubts.

The twins could only stand where they were, cursing and begging secretly.

Hope this guy goes away quickly.

Perhaps it was because the subsequent screams of the Froomes' torture aroused this guy's interest, and after twisting a cruel smile on his face, he turned and left.

Then more tragic screams came continuously.

Taking advantage of the faint light from the basement floor door, George and Fred hurried down in a panic.

The footsteps are light and fast, and I dare not make a sound at all.

One hundred steps, two hundred steps... the usual short steps made him feel as if he had walked a lifetime.

When the light from the entrance of the floor door turned into a blurred circle of light behind them, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly walked up the remaining few steps and stepped onto the flat, narrow and damp tunnel.

"Quick, quick, tell Professor Dumbledore to tell them!"

After groping to confirm each other, the two discussed quietly, and hurriedly started striding forward.

But the underground passage here is winding, or you will encounter some intersections, not to mention speeding up.

Fortunately, those forks are all shallow bends, and the bottom can be seen at a glance, otherwise this place would be a maze.

"Did you hear anything?"

Ron, who was in the lead, stopped suddenly. He stopped humming and asked the people behind for confirmation with a puzzled expression.

"what?"

"Footsteps, someone is running over!" McGuffin said affirmatively after listening for a while.

"No way! Who?" Harry asked.

Several people were a little flustered.

How could anyone run in a place like this?
They all raised their wands and held their breath.

The sound is getting closer,

boom! boom! boom!
—someone is indeed running!

McGuffin could even hear two gasps of varying length.

"George, Fred, is that you? Don't try to scare me! I know this is your purchase channel!" Ron boldly stepped forward and shouted.

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Let me do it!"

"I said you Ron, have you forgotten that you are a wizard? What are you afraid of! Really..." She walked around Ron and leaned over to check the corner, but found nothing.

She rolled her eyes at Ron, but before she could say anything more, she felt something bumped from the side!
boom! --boom!After making several noises.

Hermione was knocked to the ground. (The twins probably also fell to the ground)
She jumped up in fright, turned and fled, uttering a series of piercing screams.

--ah!ah!

The scream echoed continuously in the tunnel, amplified and spread.

Surprised, McGuffin and the others turned around and ran after Hermione.

"Wait! Wait a minute!" A gasping voice came from behind.

"Don't run! Is it a MacGuffin?"

Very familiar voice.

"Is that George?"

McGuffin reacted, grabbed Harry and the others,
"What are you doing, McGuffin?"

"It's George and Fred...

"what!?"

"What the hell are they doing!" cried Hermione angrily. "It's too much!"

"Stop the curse!"

"Fluorescent flashes!"

A faint blue light shot from the tip of Hermione's wand, illuminating the dark tunnel.

Not far away, the voices of the twins were slowly struggling to get up from the ground in the fluorescent light.

Their faces were pale, terrified, and out of breath. Both of them were constantly swinging, their whole bodies were constantly shaking, and they tried to get up again and again but always fell down.

"Ha! I caught you!"

cried Hermione and Ron almost simultaneously.

But the purpose of the two is obviously different.

Hermione wanted to threaten the twins to join the 'House Elf Rights Promotion Association', and Ron wanted to share this 'purchase channel'.

Without MacGuffin and Harry, even after the two of them looked at each other, they immediately found out that they were competitors.

After a cold snort, Hermione Ron hurried over, controlling the twins one by one.

Lifted up, George and Fred recovered at last, crying out anxiously.

"Run! There are Death Eaters at Honeydukes..."

"Go and report to the professors, there will be a dementor attack, just over an hour later..."

After the two took a deep breath, they pulled Hermione and Ron to run towards McGuffin Harry, shouting in a panic as they ran.

"what?"

Their words frightened the four of them for a moment.

"Those wanted criminals are right behind...the yell just now will definitely be heard by them, and they will chase after them...run!"

"It's fake! You didn't lie to us because you were caught by us!"

Ron couldn't believe it, and asked Fred.

Obviously, the "character" accumulated by the twins made him very suspicious of this statement.

"Run!" Fred was about to die of anger.

"I don't think they're joking."

Harry looked at the extremely frightened and panicked expressions of the two and said to Ron.

McGuffin pinched his pocket... Wormtail was petrified and trapped like a rice dumpling, and he was about to go mad with anger.

What the hell is this!

My first step of "perfect plan" died halfway.

While he was furious, he was a little surprised——Sirius should still be in Hagrid's hut now, and even if he wanted to hide, he would only be in the Shrieking Shack. How could he go to Honeydukes?
Is it?

—really those Death Eaters who later escaped?

Not long after, when they were in a mess, there were other voices in the corridor.

Very faint, but barely audible.

"It must be a pure-blood traitor... a Weasley brat."

"Didn't we hear from the Pig's Head that someone was buying magic candies and stuff to go to Hogwarts? If it wasn't for this news... wouldn't we be able to find this undiscovered tunnel?"

"Either the Froomes have confessed that the person who buys and sells magic candy is the Weasley boy..."

The voice of a cruel witch came from the tunnel, and quickly approached.

"Did you hear that? Little wizard... run! Yes, hide!"

"Yaomei knelt down to join the great Dark Lord and return to the glory of pure blood, maybe we will spare your life..."

The hoarse threatening voices of wizards and witches continued to come.

Now everyone understands that it is not a joke.

They looked at each other.

— run!
A few people ran away!

In less than a contingency, McGuffin doesn't want to face several dark wizards who are more than plural.

Although it is possible that McGuffin surpassed them in the mastery of certain spells, but in terms of experience in fighting spells and his personal magic power reserve, he should still be inferior to these Death Eaters.

What's more, if you are a little careless, in this underground secret passage that you can't even hide from, you will be "on all fours".

But even though they were running desperately, squeezing out every bit of air in their lungs, almost blowing out their trachea, the threat behind them, Maniacal Laughter, still approached a little bit.

——It can't go on like this.

McGuffin reckoned that the secret passage hadn't covered half of the way they had come, and if it went on like this, they would definitely be overtaken.

Of course, part of it was because my original 'perfect plan' was ruined by these guys before it started, and I was a little mad.

A little bit of no one to take it easy.

And now he has an idea, as long as he is not entangled by those guys for a long time, under a sudden attack, he should be able to guarantee safety with his current strength.

After McGuffin made up his mind, he raised his magic spell and fired a [Luminescent Curse] backwards. Seeing that no one was chasing him, he stopped.

"You run first, I will catch up later."

After a cry, the McGuffin stood still and began to wave his wand.

"Stretch without trace!"

McGuffin cast a spell on the side roads where the end could be seen at a glance.

Those forks began to slowly stretch and spread, and under the illumination of the [Luminescent Curse], they stretched to a new underground passage that was dark and bottomless.

McGuffin knew his attempt had succeeded.

So he hurriedly cast [Levitation Curse] (light skill) on himself, making him run quickly in the underground secret passage, and every time he passed a slightly uneven fork, he cast a [No Trace Stretch Curse].

Even if he didn't, he still used the Transformation Curse to open a hole in the wall, and also used the [No Trace Stretch Curse] to create a new secret passage...

Soon, the originally blocked secret passage here turned into a densely packed, zigzagging ant nest.

"Found you! Residue!" Bellat Chris exclaimed in surprise.

After a turn, several Death Eaters in black robes appeared in front of McGuffin.

Looking at each other face to face.

However, McGuffin was already prepared.

"Wrong, I found you!"

"Enjoy it! The idiot who ruined my plan!" McGuffin's blood surged when he saw these dark wizards, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing.

"Burning flames!"

"Fierce Curse!"

Now all the blood in McGuffin's body was rushing to his brain, and his fear was completely washed away by the surging blood.

He stared at these guys who sabotaged his plan.

No matter what they wanted to do next, Hogwarts didn't look like it was going to calm down at all today.

Which meant he couldn't find a quiet place to cast that spell on Wormtail,
Shir!
However, if he dragged these guys here, he could buy some time, at least allow himself to cast that new mind-controlling spell on Wormtail, no matter what happened, it was always right to send a mole to the other side.

If the other party is careless, Nagia can even get it directly!

After gazing at the raging flames burning over there for the last time, McGuffin quickly left here.

Bellatrix looked at the little wizard who looked like a Hogwarts student standing opposite him,
This guy didn't tremble and fear when he saw them like the Froomes, but threatened them with a sneer.

But before she flew into a rage.

The little wizard waved his wand, and the two spells were cast at an unexpected speed, far exceeding the speed at which he should cast spells at his age.

——And the technique of speeding up the casting of spells, why is it a bit like the master?
The flames surged forward to form a wall of fire, filling the entire secret passage and quickly pushing across.

The scorching heat rushed to his face.

Although very quickly, the few of them cast spells together, and the wall of fire was extinguished.

But a black fire snake emerged from the flames, twisting its body and spreading over.

"Fiendfire!" Dolokhov next to him exclaimed and retreated again and again.

The fiery snake burned a zigzag scorching mark on the ground, and rushed towards them rapidly.

"Idiot! Hurry up and catch up with them. If we are exposed, the original plan will completely fail!"

"It's just a fiend that turned into a little snake, although those filthy and humble bastards have learned a little or two of black magic from somewhere..."

Before Bellatrix finished speaking, the little snake twisted its body and showed its fangs. Its body suddenly swelled three to five times, and it opened its mouth like a black flame python, and rushed to bite.

The black flames burning all over their bodies twisted the air, trying to burn them to ashes.

(End of this chapter)