Harry Potter and Shafik

Chapter 191 Armistice
"Can you eat it without the head?" Bell looked at the grilled spider on the ground and murmured.At this moment, Bell wanted to try the wilderness survival that he had heard about recently.

On the hillside, Voldemort, holding the Elder Wand, let out a roar. The wand in his hand released a powerful blasting spell, which shattered the protective cover.Professor McGonagall stared wide-eyed at the fragments of the shattered protective shield burning and falling from the sky, his eyes were full of shock and disbelief.

"Attention all units, some Death Eaters have broken through the defense line! Be careful..." The walkie-talkie on Hilbert's waist made a sound, but the person on the other end didn't finish speaking, but it was more ominous.Hilbert asked Mr. Gellert and Cedric to defend this side, then silently recited the formula and fled towards Hogwarts Castle.

Hilbert jumped out of the ground and looked around, his heart sank: Death Eaters had already invaded Hogwarts.Fred and Percy stepped back and emerged, both dueling the hooded masked man.Screams, shouts, and distinct fighting sounds resounded throughout the corridor.

"How many Horcruxes are left?" Hermione said loudly, "I don't know if there is still that snake... Lie down!" A green light hit several people, and Hilbert raised his hand and a boulder shot at one of them. The Death Eater slammed into it.

"Run! Go to a safe place!"

Percy hits a Death Eater, killing it.

A bomb hit the wall, and a large number of broken stones and plank fragments fell down and a white light blocked their heads. Hilbert looked back and saw that it was the protective shield cast by Nangong Yingying.

"Quick! Hilbert! Take Harry to a safe place!"

"Come with me!" Hilbert grabbed Harry Potter's wrist and dragged him to a house that was still safe.

"How did the Death Eaters break through the defenses?"

"Voldemort cast a powerful blasting spell."

"Can you sense where Voldemort is? Harry!" Hilbert knelt down and asked Harry.

"I can! Try." Harry Potter was trembling all over, and his twisted expression showed that he was in pain.Immediately, the shouts of battle, the sound of impacts, and all kinds of chaotic and harsh sounds seemed to be drowned out, becoming indistinct.He seemed to be standing very, very far away from them...

None of the three dared to make a sound, the only sound left in the room was Harry's panting.

Screaming Shack.

The surrounding wallpaper was peeling off, and the windows were boarded up except for one.The sound of the attack in the castle was faint and distant.Through the only unsealed window, he could see the distant place where the castle was located, but the room was dark, with only one oil lamp burning.

He twirled a wand between his fingers, his eyes fixed on it, but his mind was thinking of that room in the castle, the secret room that only he had discovered.That room was like a chamber of secrets that would have to be discovered by someone extraordinarily clever, clever, curious...he was sure the boy would never find the diadem...although Dumbledore's marionette was far more powerful than he Dumbledore had expected... ...much better...

"Master." said a desperate and hoarse voice.He turned around, and Lucius Malfoy was sitting in the darkest corner, in rags, with marks on his face from the last time he was punished after the boy escaped, one eye was swollen and couldn't open open. "Master... Please... my son..."

"Lucius, if your son dies, it's not my fault. He didn't come to me like the other Slytherins. Maybe he decided to help Harry Potter?"

"No—impossible," Malfoy whispered.

"Preferably not. But who sent Draco to America? Lucius?"

"Master! Please forgive me."

"I forgive you, Lucius, bring him back. Bring Draco back!"

"Yes! Master. Master, are you—are you not worried that Potter will die at the hands of others?" Malfoy asked in a trembling voice, "If... please forgive me... if you order the battle to end, dear —wouldn't it be safer to go to the castle and find him in person?"

"Don't do this with me, Lucius. You want the fighting to stop so you can find out what happened to your son. I don't have to look for Potter. Before tonight, Potter will come looking for me."

"How do you have the face to live?" Voldemort slapped Lucius across the face.

"I do not know."

Voldemort's eyes fell on the wand in his hand again.The wand confused him... and what confused Lord Voldemort had to be rearranged...

"Go get Snape."

"Snape, lord—master?"

"Snape. Quick. I need him. There's something I need him to do for me. Go ahead."

Terrified, Lucius stumbled across the dark room and left.Voldemort was still standing there, twirling his wand between his fingers, keeping his eyes on it.

"This is the only way, Nagini." He said softly, turning his eyes to look at the big thick snake.The serpent hung in midair now, writhing gracefully in the magically protected space Voldemort had made for it, a starry, transparent sphere that was part shining cage and part water tank.

Harry gasped, pulled his thoughts back, opened his eyes, and immediately his ears were filled with battle cries, screams, thuds and booms.

"He was screaming at the shack. The snake was beside him, and there seemed to be a magical protection around the snake. Voldemort just sent Lucius Malfoy to find Snape."

"Snape? Not good!" Hilbert rushed out of the door suddenly.

The stairs and the foyer were packed with gladiators, and as far as Harry could look, there were Death Eaters everywhere.Yaxley was wrestling with Flitwick near the front door.Beside them, a masked Death Eater took on Kingsley.Students ran around, some hugging and dragging their injured friends.Harry cast a Stunning Spell at the masked Death Eater, knocking him unconscious, and Hilbert kept bumping away from them, running in the direction of the Shrieking Shack.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed down the marble stairs, and there was a sudden sound of glass smashing on the left. Slytherin's hourglass, which recorded the college scores, was shattered, and the emeralds inside were scattered everywhere, and the running people The soles of the feet slipped and wobbled.As they ran to the ground floor, two human figures fell from the upper balcony, and a gray figure - Harry thought it was an animal - ran across the hall on all fours, aimed at one of the fallen figures and bit them down. .

"No!" shrieked Hermione, her wand exploding with a deafening bang, and a werewolf was knocked back from Lavender Brown's throbbing body, crashing into the marble railing and struggling to stand. get up.Then, there was a flash of dazzling white light, a crackling sound, and a crystal ball fell on top of his head, and he immediately collapsed to the ground and never moved again.

Professor Trelawney held up a crystal ball and shouted "I still have it! Who else wants it! Give—"

Hilbert muttered the mantra silently and fled away. Harry, Ron and Hermione were being chased by a huge giant. The giant kept waving the big stick in his hand and smashed many buildings, almost hitting Harry. They are gone.

"How do we get out?" Ron yelled amidst the screams, and Harry and Hermione were knocked aside before they could answer.Hagrid came roaring down the stairs, waving his pink flower umbrella.

"Don't hurt them, don't hurt them! Come to me! Polik!" he yelled.

Hagrid rushed over, but was overwhelmed by a huge number of acromantula.

"Hagrid, come back!"

Harry ran towards Hagrid, but before he was halfway there, the scene happened before his eyes: Hagrid disappeared among the spiders.Facing the powerful attack of spells, the densely packed and smelly giant spiders retreated one after another, and Hagrid was buried among them and disappeared.

He vaguely discerned a huge arm waving in the spider swarm, and was about to chase after it, but was blocked by an extremely huge foot.The foot came out of the darkness, and the ground trembled.Harry looked up to see a giant standing in front of him, a full twenty feet tall, with its head hidden in the shadows and only its tree-trunk, hairy calves illuminated by the light from the castle door.With cruel and fluid movements, the giant slammed a massive fist into an upstairs window, raining glass shards on Harry and forcing him back to the door.

"Oh, god—!" shrieked Hermione, and she and Ron caught up with Harry, looking up at the giant who was trying to grab someone out of the upstairs window.At this time, a shorter giant hugged the giant and threw him to the ground. Gropp's crooked mouth opened, revealing yellow teeth as big as half a brick, and then the two giants looked like lions. Generally, they rush towards each other wildly.

"Run!" Harry yelled.The two giants wrestled together, and the night was filled with terrible cries and thumps.Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and ran down the steps and into the playground, with Ron at the rear.Harry still didn't give up hope of finding and saving Hagrid, he ran quickly towards the Forbidden Forest, but just halfway through, they were forced to stop again.

The air around him froze, Harry couldn't breathe, the air in his chest seemed to freeze.Something was moving in the dark night, countless rotating thick black figures rushed towards the castle like mountains and seas, their faces were covered by hoods, and their breathing was rattling...

At this moment, a silver spark erupted, appeared from behind them, and kept hitting the dementors. Aberforth summoned his Patronus. At this moment, a silver rabbit, a boar and a fox flying over the heads of Harry, Ron and Hermione.Facing these approaching spirit creatures, the dementors retreated one after another.Three more figures emerged from the darkness and stood beside them, wands outstretched, continuing to cast spells on the Patronuses: Luna, Ernie, and Seamus.

Harry nodded, and several people ran towards the Forbidden Forest again. The Whomping Willow had been chopped down by Death Eaters. Hilbert hid behind a piece of wood. The three of them extinguished the light of their wands and hid behind them, holding their breath as much as possible. , moved to the gap little by little, and looked through the narrow gap between the box and the cave wall.

"...Master, their resistance is breaking—"

"—it's not to your credit," said Voldemort in his high, clear voice, "Severus, though you are a brilliant wizard, I don't think you are of much use now. We are almost It's about to succeed... just a little bit."

"Let me find the boy. Let me bring Potter to you. I know I can find him, Master. Please."

Snape walked through the gap, and Harry stepped back a little, his eyes still fixed on Nagini, wondering if there were any spells that could penetrate the protective layer around the serpent, but couldn't think of any.He didn't dare to act rashly, once he failed, his position would be exposed...

Voldemort stood up.Harry could see him now, his red eyes, his flat, snakelike face, his pale shimmer in the gloom.

"I have a problem, Severus," said Voldemort softly.

"Master?" said Snape.

Voldemort raised the Elder Wand, holding it delicately and gracefully between his fingers, as if holding a baton.

"Why doesn't it work for me, Severus?"

In the silence, Harry seemed to be able to hear the hissing sound of the serpent coiling and stretching, or Voldemort's lingering hissing sigh in the air?

"M-Master?" said Snape blankly. "I don't understand. You--you've worked some great magic with this wand."

"No," said Voldemort, "I only cast my usual magic. I am superb, but this wand... no. It does not perform the miracles it should. This wand does not show great magic. He's not exerting great power," Voldemort repeated.

"Owner--"

"The Elder Wand will not serve me well, Severus, because I am not its true owner. The Elder Wand belongs to the wizard who killed its previous owner. You killed Albus Dumbledore. Just You live, Severus, and the Elder Wand cannot really be mine. You are a good servant, Snape. But only I can live forever, so you must die."

"Master?" Snape seemed to beg for mercy.

When Voldemort raised his hand, Snape's neck was cut.Blood flowed out in an instant, and Snape collapsed on the ground leaning against the window, outside the window was Hilbert who had been trembling.

"Nagini! Kill him."

I saw that Nagini, who was lazily lying on the table just now, suddenly sprang up and shot at Snape like a sharp sword.A fiery pain came from his shoulder, and Snape felt the magma-like venom entering his body, flowing through his blood vessels to his heart.

Nagini bit Snape several times before stopping, and blood covered the entire window.

With a terrible scream, Harry saw what little blood was left from Snape's face as the snake's fangs dug into his neck.He feebly pushed away the magic cage, and fell to the ground with his knees limp, his face turned pale, and his black eyes opened wide.

"I'm sorry." Voldemort said coldly.

Voldemort left the room quickly, without looking back, and the snake floated away with him.

Hilbert opened the barred room, and Harry tiptoed into that room.

He didn't know why he did this, why he approached the dying man.He didn't know how he felt when he saw Snape's pale face and the fingers trying to stop the bleeding wound on his neck.Harry took off the cloak and looked down at the man he hated.Snape's wide-open black eyes caught sight of Harry, who struggled to speak.Harry leaned forward and Snape grabbed the front of Harry's robes and pulled him closer to him.

There was a horrible wheezing, clucking, clucking sound coming from Snape's throat.

"Take...go...take...go..." Hermione stuffed an ampoule conjured out of thin air into his trembling hand.Harry fished the silver substance into the bottle with his wand.The bottle was full, and Snape's blood seemed to be drained, and his grip on Harry's robes loosened feebly.

"Look... look... I..." he said softly. "The eyes are just like your mother's."

The green eyes stared at the black eyes, but after a second, something in the depths of those black eyes seemed to disappear, and they became dazed, dull and empty.The hand that was holding Harry fell to the ground, and Snape did not move.

A high-pitched, grim voice that seemed very close at hand began to speak. Voldemort's voice echoed through the walls and floor, and Harry realized that he was speaking to Hogwarts and all surrounding areas.The inhabitants of Hogsmeade and those still fighting in the castle could hear him clearly, as if he was standing beside them, his breath on the back of their necks, killing them with a single blow . "You have resisted bravely," said the high, grim voice, "and Lord Voldemort knows how to appreciate courage.

"But you have suffered heavy losses. If you continue to resist, you will die one by one. I don't want this to happen. Every drop of wizard blood is a loss and a waste.

"Lord Voldemort is merciful. I order my party to retreat, immediately.

"Give you one hour to honorably arrange the dead and treat the wounded.

"Harry Potter, now I speak directly to you. You let your friends die for you instead of facing me. I will wait an hour in the Forbidden Forest. If you do not come after an hour I, did not voluntarily surrender, then the fight will continue. This time, I will fight myself, Harry Potter, I will find you, I will punish every man, woman and child who tried to harbor you, not a single one Pass. An hour."

The castle was eerily silent, and there was no flickering of light, nor crashing, screaming, or shouting at the moment.In the deserted foyer, the stone slabs were bloodstained, emeralds were still strewn about, there was broken marble and splintered wood; part of the banister was blown off.

"Where's everyone?" said Hermione softly.Ron led the way towards the Great Hall.Harry stopped at the door.

The academy tables were gone, and the auditorium was packed.The survivors stood in groups of three and four, hugging each other.The wounded were gathered on the high platform, Madam Pomfrey and a group of assistants were treating them.Firenze was also injured. He was bleeding profusely from one side of his body. He could no longer stand up and lay there trembling.

George is missing an ear and Fred is knocked unconscious by a boulder.

Hilbert carried Snape's body back to the castle, put it on a wooden board, wiped off the blood with a white cloth, and tidied his hair and clothes. At this time, Daphne, Aleena, Ling Taoist Xu, Mr. Shafik, Mrs. Shafik and the old lady ran over and knelt down on the ground, almost crying.Aleena leaned on Snape's chest and her body kept shaking.Hilbert knelt beside Snape, his face was full of pain, his eyes were full of tears, he held onto Snape's hand tightly, and tremblingly lay on Snape's chest, stroking his hair , burst into tears.Madam Elena and cried bitterly.

Harry staggered back from the doorway, and the Great Hall seemed to fly away, shrinking and shrinking.He couldn't breathe.He didn't have the courage to look at other remains, to find out who else had died for him.He didn't dare to meet anyone, didn't dare to look into their eyes, if he had voluntarily surrendered in the first place, these people might not have died... He went to the headmaster's office, took out the memory Snape gave him and put it in the Pensieve , poured Snape's memory into it.It was a relief to escape into someone else's mind...even what Snape left him couldn't possibly be worse than his own.The memory was swirling, silvery white, and strange in shape. Harry no longer hesitated, and with a mentality of ignoring and giving up completely, he plunged into it, as if it would relieve the pain of a knife in his heart.

He kept falling... and landed on a grassy field where there was a big tree...

(End of this chapter)