New Professor at Hogwarts

"Come with me." Dumbledore said and was the first to walk through the doorway. Sirius was the second to go in with an anxious look on his face, Xia Ran was the third, and the others, including Kreacher, followed closely behind.

As he left, Moody extinguished the fire in the cave outside.

Everyone entered, holding their wands high. Under the magic spell "fluorescent flash", a few bright lights shone through this deep cave. In fact, there was almost no light here before, and they could only rely on the wands in their hands, which were like desk lamps, to illuminate the darkness. cave.

Xia Ran looked around with interest. The scene was quite strange. They were standing on the shore of a large black lake. The lake was extremely wide and endless as far as the eye could see. It seemed as if this place was not in a cave, but on a plain wilderness. There was a large lake on the plain. In that way, because the distance is too far, the other shore in the distance cannot be seen.

The cave they were in was very high, and the roof could not be seen when looking up. Even with the dark barrier, Xia Ran felt that it was at least 180 meters.

In the distance, as if in the center of the lake, there was a hazy, green light, reflected in the dead water below. Except for the green light and the bright light from a few wands, the surroundings were completely filled with darkness that could not be broken away, and the penetrability of these bright lights was not as strong as everyone expected. The darkness here seemed to be darker than ordinary darkness. Denser and thicker.

After entering here, Kreacher sobbed in a low voice: "Master Regulus...Master Regulus, he was dragged to the bottom of the lake by countless hands in the lake."

Sirius recklessly wanted to dive into the lake. He felt that he was still good at swimming and could sneak to the bottom of the lake and bring up his brother's body.

"Sirius, calm down, don't be stupid." Xia Ran stopped Sirius. He knew that Voldemort had cast various protective spells in the cave, and the bottom of the lake was not as peaceful as the outside world.

"You want to stop me, Xia Ran?" Sirius asked angrily.

Xia Ran said calmly: "I just don't want to see you die in vain. There are countless inferi in this lake." After a pause, he continued: "Of course, if you insist on doing so, you are free to go. ”

"Sirius, you really need to calm down. We are here to take away the corpses, not to get ourselves involved," Lupine said.

Sirius pointed his wand at the lake and said, "Then I will burn this big lake first."

The flames are blazing!

A string of flames burst out from the top of the wand, and then a big white thing jumped out of the lake. Before everyone could see clearly what it was, it disappeared again with a crash, splashing on the calm water. Ripples to far away places.

Everyone was slightly shocked.

At the same time, the flame at the top of Sirius' wand also went out.

"What is that?" Mrs. Weasley asked hurriedly, with a slightly unnatural expression on her face.

Dumbledore said softly: "I think if we don't find the key to breaking the situation here, that thing will appear again to interfere with us, or attack us."

"What should we do?" Tonks asked. She had taken two steps back just now, but now she boldly stepped forward to take a look at the calm lake.

"Observe and observe first, don't act rashly."

Dumbledore was observing something around the shore of the lake, and the others were also looking for ways. Their footsteps echoed on the narrow rocks by the lake.

A mysterious green light flashes in the middle of the lake, giving people a very depressing and uneasy feeling.

Moody was walking on the edge of the lake, his magic eye staring motionlessly into the depths of the lake. His face was particularly dark, as if he was angry and sad.

Mr. Weasley asked, "Did you find anything, Alastor?"

"There are so many corpses, I can't even count them. Which Voldemort, how many people did he kill here?" Moody replied in a deep voice, leaning heavily on his crutches.

His magic eye has the ability to see through illusions as well as reality.

"Oh my God!"

Several people couldn't help but whisper. Although they came here for this purpose - including taking away Regulus's skeleton - they had already been mentally prepared, but when they came closer and heard Moody's words, they still felt angry.

These people were all innocent lives. Just because Voldemort wanted to make Horcruxes and had to kill lives to split his soul, they were all slaughtered by Voldemort. Even their bodies were not allowed to live in peace after death, and they were reduced to guarding Voldemort's Horcruxes. Inferi!

Xia Ran also had anger burning in her chest.

"Aha!"

At this moment, Dumbledore touched the void with one hand, grabbed something, and said, "I think I found something."

Others were immediately confused and didn't understand what Dumbledore meant. In their opinion, the dark lakeshore in front of Dumbledore was no different from anywhere else, but Dumbledore seemed to notice something special.

He moved one hand slowly through the air, as if he wanted to find and grasp something invisible.

"Okay." After a few seconds, Dumbledore said happily. He closed his hands and grabbed something in the air that no one else could see.

Dumbledore slowly moved towards the lake. Others watched Dumbledore nervously - except Xia Ran, who knew that Dumbledore had found something - Dumbledore still held the hand in the air, and the other He held the wand in one hand and tapped his clenched fist with the wand.

Wow——

Immediately, a thick green copper chain suddenly emerged from the depths of the lake and jumped towards Dumbledore's clenched fist. Dumbledore tapped the chain with his wand, and the chain began to slip through his fist like a snake, coiling into a pile on the ground, clanging against the rock wall with a loud echo.

The chain pulled something up from the dark bottom of the lake. Everyone watched in amazement as the bow of a small boat suddenly emerged from the lake like a ghost. Like a chain, it emitted a green light and floated towards the lakeshore where everyone was standing. , barely causing a ripple.

"A ship?" Professor McGonagall asked in surprise.

Tonks asked curiously: "What is the purpose of this ship?"

"Obviously, to get to the small island in the center of the lake, you need to pass through this boat." Dumbledore said, and with a soft bang, the boat hit the lake shore, "But our target is not that small island." Island, but countless innocent people in the depths of this lake.”

Dumbledore said, shook his head again, threw away the copper chain in his hand, and said: "Are the passers based on the wizard's magic power? Tom is still doing the same thing. Of course, I have to say, it does have a certain value."

Mr. Weasley looked at the boat, then at the lake, and asked: "How do we take away the corpses of those innocent people? I think the mysterious man must have cast some vicious magic spell on them to prevent anyone from breaking into this place without permission." ."

"How about we use the fire spell together?" Tonks waved her wand and said eagerly, "Sirius's fire spell alone has no effect, but with so many of us chanting the spell together, it will definitely have a very outstanding effect."

Xia Ran smiled and said: "It's better to use the Fire Curse, which is much more effective than the Fire Curse."

The method he used to destroy Marvolo Gaunt's ring at Gaunt's old house in Little Hangleton was the Fire Spell, which is a very powerful black magic.

So the group of people turned to look at Xia Ran with strange expressions.