HP: Embrace the Darkness

Finding Harry and Cedric's location took longer than Artes expected.

The alchemy badges on the two men were affected by the portkey, and the location left was looming, and he could only barely find the approximate location.

Having determined his direction, he began to disapparate.

The night is endless, and the pale moonlight reflects the eerie tombstones and deserted grass. The wind whistles by, and the mysterious and ferocious tree shadows spread their teeth and claws, as if they want to devour everyone who breaks into their world.

"There are footsteps!"

As soon as he landed, he heard Cedric exclaiming and subconsciously looked at his feet.

Was he exposed?

so fast?

No, it's not him.

Aces quickly realized that he had been stupid, and the corner of his mouth twitched, and then he hid in the shadow of the tree as if nothing had happened, covering himself with a magic spell, covering himself tightly, not wanting to be stupid again.

"who are you?"

This time it was Harry's voice.

Arthur's eyes faintly circled around the man in black opposite Harry and Cedric. After thinking for a while, he waved his hand and released colorless magic power.

A transparent magic pattern flew toward Harry, split into two parts, and was engraved into the alchemy badges on Harry's and Cedric's shoulders.

At the same time, Harry's urgent questioning voice suddenly came from the curtain above the maze.

"Who are you! What are you going to do!"

Everyone looked anxiously at the curtain. Dumbledore's eyes flashed with light, and his heart was half relieved.

Rowena's expression changed drastically as she had been acting as an invisible person. She knew that Asseth wanted to verify Merlin's words, but she didn't know that Asses would do it himself!

Didn't Merlin talk about the difference between indirect intervention and direct intervention?

That's a fatal difference!

Rowena took out the mirror used to communicate with Merlin and did not move for a long time.

She remembered that the conversation that day seemed like she had never said anything about it.

Did Merlin do it on purpose or accidentally?

Rowena held the communication mirror tightly and looked worriedly in the only direction where authority could be sensed.

"Take off the badges on their chests." The voice, cold to the core, ordered as if he sensed something.

Then everyone only heard a harsh sizzling sound. After a while, the sizzling sound disappeared, but the sound that came over did not disappear.

"Kill that person who is in the way." It was still the same voice, and the content of what he said made everyone shudder.

The one in the way is Harry Potter... or Cedric, no one can guess the answer.

Digory fell to his knees in embarrassment and crawled toward the maze desperately, shouting miserably: "No, my son, don't hurt him, don't..."

"Avada Kedavra!"

"boom--"

The sound of chanting curses and the sound of falling to the ground drove the father crazy. He jumped up, grabbed his wand and rushed towards the maze.

His child, he was going to find his child.

Professor McGonagall and the other referees scrambled to stop him.

"Hurry! Catch Harry Potter." The unknown object held by the man in black issued a sharp command.

Artes watched them calmly as they approached Harry, secretly using magic to check Cedric who fell on the ground.

Protected by the badge, Cedric was still alive, but breathing weakly, barely inhaling.

As soon as he confirmed that Cedric was still alive but seriously injured, heartbreaking pain burst out from his heart and spread densely.

At the same time, Snape in Hogwarts felt his heart suddenly skip a beat.

All the quarrels in his ears disappeared. He seemed to be drowning in water and couldn't hear anything clearly. After a few seconds, the sound reappeared.

Like a drowned person breathing urgently, he looked anxiously at the curtain, his heart once again overwhelmed by regret.

Knowing that something had happened to Cedric, everyone felt very heavy, and many of them were shouting in sadness. No one noticed the Potions Master's momentary lapse.

In the shadow of the tree, Asseth was breathing heavily, gritting his teeth and not making any sound. He carefully leaned against the tree and waited for the pain to pass.

It hurt, he could hear the vigilant voice of snakes squeezing across the grass, and the scene in front of him of Harry being caught by the man in black. He knew he was in trouble this time.

After the man in black caught Harry, he tied him up and threw him aside, and went to prepare other things.

The unknown object twisted a few times, and the black cloth wrapped in it fell apart, revealing a humanoid object inside that was unbearable to look at.

He was not as tall as a child, with his legs bent in a ring-knee shape. The exposed skin on his feet, hands and back was red and black, with sticky liquid on it.

Harry's eyes widened in horror. At this moment, he no longer had the mind to pay attention to what the men in black were doing. This group of people appeared, and his forehead began to hurt violently.

He slumped over and rolled on the ground in pain.

"Ah-"

Screams of pain reached Hogwarts intermittently through the damaged alchemy badge.

Hermione covered her mouth with red eyes and choked, "It's Harry's voice."

Ron couldn't bear to look straight and lowered his head, and punched the wall next to him angrily.

Sirius struggled in the hands of the two ravens, his eyes fixed on the curtain where the voice came from, "Harry, Harry, no, Harry."

"Tsk, it's so noisy."

To make matters worse, Harry's screams made Artes have a headache, the pain in his body became more severe, and all kinds of bizarre scenes suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Green light, Cedric, Voldemort.

The pain made his eyes red, and the bright red bloodshot intertwined with the green he saw.

how so.

Aces clutched his heart in discomfort.

Within an hour, Cedric died in the same way as before, at the hands of another person.

Why so fast?

Is it because of indirect effects?

Aces endured the pain and analyzed the current situation.

The man in black, who had been tinkering for a long time, brought out a large crucible, used a wand to light a fire underneath, and then kept adding things to it.

"Master, you are ready."

After checking that there was nothing wrong, the man in black walked to the humanoid object and reported the situation to him.

"Start when you're ready, I can't wait to see my old friends."

"Yes."

The man in black leaned over and picked it up, came to the big crucible, and carefully put it in.

The steaming mist rose instantly.

The man in black waited there for a while, and then turned around and came to a tombstone half a man high when he heard the sound of the pot coming into contact with the bottom.

He raised his wand and pointed it at the tombstone.

"The bones that come from a father who takes and asks for anything give his son a chance to be reborn."

The tombstone buzzed and swayed, then exploded after a moment, and a cloud of ashes floated out and fell into the large cauldron.

The cauldron began to boil.

The man in black stood next to the big crucible, stretched out his hand, and held a shining knife in one hand.

"The flesh that comes from the willing servant gives the master a chance to be reborn."

The knife fell from his hand, and a severed hand fell into the big crucible.

The cauldron boiled even more violently.

The man in black finally came to Harry. Face to face, Harry realized who the person in front of him was.