HP: Embrace the Darkness

After that day, Karkaroff, who could visit Snape three times in one class, disappeared for three whole days.

When he reappeared on the third day, he still had obvious bruises on his face and a sinister look in his eyes. The little wizards were so scared that they took a detour when they saw him.

This time, Karkaroff didn't look for Snape anymore. He stared at Susanna all day long and thought about how to get back.

Where Suzanne was around, he was definitely like a ghost staring at him, waiting for an opportunity.

After staring at him for two days, Susanna impatiently grabbed him and beat him again.

Then the little wizards were surprised to find that Principal Durmstrang, who was first attached to Snape and then to Susanna, disappeared again.

This time it disappeared for a long time, and it didn't appear until the night before the third game.

quidditch pitch

At this time, the Quidditch field had undergone tremendous changes compared to before - a hedge two people high stood in the open field, blocking people's sight, and a large hole suddenly opened in the middle as an entrance.

The entrance is deep and bottomless, and the darkness is like a devil that chooses people to devour, waiting for its prey to walk into its belly.

In this darkness where his fingers could not be seen clearly, Dumbledore in the white wizard robe was extremely conspicuous.

He is doing a final safety check for tomorrow's game.

It is said to be an inspection, but in fact it is just to take a look at the layout.

This inspection was supposed to be conducted by the three headmasters together, but Madam Maxime claimed to be unwell and did not come, so now it was just Dumbledore and Karkaroff.

"Karkaroff, I heard that you are doing well during this time?" Dumbledore asked maliciously while checking.

Karkaroff gets a toothache when he mentions this.

He always suffered a loss every time he met Susanna, and now he didn't want to mention, hear, or see anyone, anything, or anything related to Susanna.

"It has nothing to do with you." Karkaroff said coldly, rejecting Dumbledore's seemingly caring but actually gossiping greeting.

"You can't say that, Karkaroff. This is Hogwarts. You can tell me anything you want. I'm the principal."

headmaster……

Now that Karkaroff heard the principal, he thought of Susanna, and his whole body seemed to feel pain, and his tone couldn't help but become tougher.

"I'm... fine!"

"Okay, okay, it's okay if you say it's okay." Dumbledore nodded perfunctorily and finished checking the last place, "No problem, we can go."

"Headmaster Dumbledore! Headmaster Dumbledore!"

The shouts came from far and near. Dumbledore narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the figure running out of the darkness.

It was Harry who came to learn about the third game mission.

"Headmaster Dumbledore!"

Seeing Dumbledore, Harry stepped a little faster and raised his hand to point behind him.

"Mr. Barty, something happened to him. Over there, Krum is watching him."

Karkaroff's casual expression turned solemn, he stepped forward and grabbed Harry's hand, and said sternly: "What did you say! Krum is here too?"

"Lead the way, Harry." Dumbledore pressed Karkaroff's hand and said to Harry.

Harry nodded and turned to lead them.

They followed the path Harry had run across, across the paddocks, and to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where Beauxbatons' pink-blue carriage was parked.

The carriage was illuminated by a weak blue light, and Harry followed the path of memory and walked around the carriage.

"Krum! Where are you?"

The Forbidden Forest remained quiet, and no one answered.

Karkaroff impatiently scanned the empty surroundings: "Did you remember wrongly, where is Krum?"

"Krum?" Harry ignored him, frowned and shouted again, looking back at Dumbledore helplessly, "You were here just now."

Dumbledore raised his wand and pointed it toward the grass in front of him. A light burst out from the tip of his wand and fell to the ground. Glowing footprints instantly appeared on the ground.

The footprints spread all the way to behind a big tree, where a foot stuck out.

Karkaroff recognized the pair of thick snow boots, was shocked, and quickly walked around the tree.

"Krum! What's wrong with you?"

The person behind the tree was Krum. He was unconscious and lying there with his eyes closed.

Dumbledore and Harry also came over.

"He's just unconscious." Dumbledore checked Krum's condition and said softly.

"Damn it, who is it?" Karkaroff cursed angrily, waving his wand to levitate Krum up, and looked at Dumbledore, "Dumbledore, I want an explanation."

"of course."

Dumbledore was very satisfied with Karkaroff's current knowledge and directly agreed to his request.

Karkaroff took Krum away.

Harry looked at his angrily walking away, a little worried that Karkaroff would cause a havoc in Hogwarts in his anger.

And what Mr. Barty said - Voldemort will be more powerful, if it is true...

it's out of the question!

Harry forcibly comforted himself that they still had Principal Dumbledore here and everything would be fine.

He looked at Dumbledore: "Headmaster Dumbledore, what should we do now?"

"Wait for me." Dumbledore said, raising his wand and sending out a silver signal.

Not long after, the dense trees were forcibly separated into a wide road, and Hagrid emerged from it. A carefree voice instantly filled the Forbidden Forest.

"Professor Dumbledore, I'm here, what do you want from me - oh, Harry, why are you here?"

Meanwhile, Moody limped out from the other direction, followed by Grindelwald, Snape, and Artes.

Seeing the four people arriving together, Dumbledore frowned slightly.

"you……"

Artes smiled gently and took over his words: "Professor Bagshot and I were chatting about something, and we happened to meet Professor Snape, and also happened to see Professor Moody in a hurry. We were worried that something would happen, so we came over together. .”

Is this really the case?

No.

Aces was indeed chatting with Grindelwald, but as soon as the signal took off, Grindelwald realized it was Dumbledore's signal.

He walked towards the Forbidden Forest without hesitation.

Artes originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but Snape and Moody, who were on night patrol, met in a narrow road.

In order to maintain his own persona, the fake Moody inevitably said some harsh words.

For example, what happened over there is absolutely inseparable from Snape, and maybe it was Snape who did it and so on.

At that time, Grindelwald hadn't left yet, and Artes responded to him a few words when he saw the injustice. After two or three sentences, the four of them decided to go together to see what happened.

"That's a coincidence."

Dumbledore felt that Artes had deceived him into thinking he was a fool.

It was almost like chatting with Snape late at night, and also chatting with Gale, which was... not impossible.

Dumbledore's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he quickly covered it up calmly.

"You came just in time, ha...Mr. Potter said something happened to Mr. Barty, and we are still looking for him."