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Recommended BGM: Stereophonics-《Maybe Tomorrow》

"There is no exit here." I watched Ron groping along the walls of the dungeon like a headless chicken, as if hoping that there would be some secrets that would suddenly appear when he touched a certain brick like Hogwarts Passage, "We have tried countless methods but there is no way to escape."

Though I knew he was just doing it to make himself feel better, because Hermione was still screaming - and Neville and Harry joined Ron in blindly touching the damp walls.

"What else did you take? What else? Answer me! Cruciatus!"

Bellatrix's growl and Hermione's voice, which had begun to become hoarse and feeble, reached all of us clearly through a thick floor, and Ron began to sob intermittently, helplessly Keep pounding on the door of the dungeon with your fists.

"How did you break into my vault?" Bellatrix's voice sounded completely insane. "Did that dirty goblin in the dungeon help you?"

"What a goblin, we've never seen—" Hermione sobbed feebly, "we've never been in your vault...it's not the real sword! It's just a replica, and we want to carry it for self-defense— Just a knockoff, please!"

"Imitation?" Bellatrix shrieked. "Humph! It's a fake!"

"Let that goblin take a look and see, aunt." I suddenly heard Draco's voice, why is he at home at this time?Could it be that our time calculation is a few days late, and it is already the Easter holiday? "Why are you so nervous today, I don't understand."

"Shut up, don't use this tone—"

Bellatrix's voice was quickly overwhelmed by another angry female voice: "This is my home anyway, Bella, you actually talk to Draco in this tone!"

Neville, who was still touching the stone bricks with Ron just now, staggered a bit, and almost jumped to the side of Griphook who was curled up in the corner, and said to the goblin's pointed ears, "Griphook, you have to say that the sword is fake. Don't let them know it's true, Griphook, please—"

"It's because we wizards...have never given up on treating you for so many days." I saw the eyes of Griphook looking around at the rest of us even though he was weak, although I haven't fully figured it out until now. What happened, why did Gryffindor's sword fall into Neville's hands again, I still tried to help Neville convince Griphook, "Although you said that you will not have any biases, but—"

"Stand back, stand in a row against the wall, and if you act rashly, I don't mind killing you." Before I could speak, Draco's voice came from outside the cell door.

The others immediately followed suit.When the keyhole turned, Ron pressed the extinguisher, and the ball of light flew back into his pocket quickly, and the dungeon fell into darkness again.Draco strode in, found Griphook by the glimmer of the wand tip, grabbed his arm and dragged the weak goblin roughly.The cell door slammed shut, and at the same time I heard a pop in the air.

"Did you hear—" before Neville's hesitant voice finished, Ron pressed the Deluminator, and three balls of light flew from his pocket into the air again, illuminating Kreacher who had just Apparated among us.

"K-" Harry covered Ron's mouth to keep him from shouting.Ron nodded with trembling pupils to show that he realized his mistake, and Harry let him go.There were footsteps on the ceiling accompanied by the sound of something being dragged, and it seemed that Draco had brought Griphook to Bellatrix.

"Master Talus ordered Kreacher to rescue the people in the dungeon." The old house elf puffed up his chest, "Kreacher is here to carry out Master Talus' order."

"Talus? Where is he? How does he know we—"

Hermione's horrified screams drowned out Harry's questioning. He shook his head, probably realizing that it was not the time to ask questions, and asked Kreacher as fast as he could: "You can use Apparation to guide people?" Get out of here, eh?"

Kreacher nodded.

"How many people can you take away at one time?" Neville asked.

"I haven't tried the limit, Master Longbottom, but the more people you bring, the greater the movement will be." Kreacher tilted his head, "Kreacher is confident that he can save all of you."

"We can't all go," said Ron immediately, "Hermione is still up there, I'm going to stay and try to save her."

"I know." Harry nodded, "Kreacher, I hope you take Alice, Luna, Dean and Mr. Ollivander—"

"I can't go." I shook my head. "My mother and I were imprisoned in different places by the mysterious man. When he took me away, he threatened my father. No matter who escapes, he will kill the other."

"We can wait until we escape to find a way—"

"There's no time to argue about this now." Neville's voice was tense, as if he was suppressing great pain, "Alice, I suggest you follow them."

I shook my head: "It's okay, the mysterious man thinks he has to kill all three of us at the same time, so as long as you two are safe, I'm safe."

"Then—then take Luna, Dean and Mr. Ollivander first." Harry took a deep breath, "Take—"

"Bill and Fleur's," said Ron. "Shell Cottage, on the outskirts of Dingworth."

Kreacher nodded: "Then Kreacher will come back and help Master Tallus escape."

"Assist who? Is Talus here?" Harry looked completely bewildered, but Kreacher didn't answer his question as he hurried over to the unconscious Mr. Ollivander and grabbed His bony wrist, then offered his other hand to Luna and Dean, but neither moved.

"We can help too." Luna said softly.

"Yes, we can't leave you in such a ghost place." Dean said.

"Come on, we'll see you at Bill and Fleur's house—I promise." Neville covered his scar with one hand, took Luna's hand with the other, and put it on Kreacher's arm.

"Alice." Harry turned around, "We will think of a way to save Aunt Lily, believe me—if they find out that other people in the dungeon have left, they will definitely use various methods to torture you—"

"Don't waste time, they may come down to check the situation at any time." I turned around and forced myself not to meet Harry's eyes, "Take them away, Kreacher."

"Let's find a way, Harry." Neville told Dean and Luna to grab the elf's outstretched hand, "You go first."

There was another pop, and Kreacher, Luna, Dean, and Ollivander were gone.

"Did you hear that?" shouted a man's voice upstairs, who seemed to be Lucius Malfoy, "is that the voice from the dungeon?"

"I'll go and have a look." Draco said in a weary voice, "It's okay mother, what can they do without a wand?"

"You don't want to let them go, do you?" Bellatrix said suddenly. "You've been refusing to identify Longbottom and Potter just now, Draco. I very much doubt—"

"That's because the master said that unless it is confirmed that Longbottom and Potter are caught, he is not allowed to be summoned—their faces have been deformed, so I can't be 100% sure. What happened to the people who summoned him indiscriminately before, You forget that I still remember. I have no opinion on how you want to behave in front of the master, aunt, but I will never allow you to drag my parents into trouble." Draco's tone was very indifferent, "I don't need to ask You show loyalty, compared to you haven't killed that family scum who married a werewolf until now, I at least fulfilled the duty my master entrusted to me to monitor Hogwarts and Snape - and, my mother That's right, the guest better be a little bit self-conscious and get your wand off my face."

"you--"

"Go and see what's going on in the dungeon, Draco." Lucius Malfoy's voice sounded, "Be careful, they're all tricksters."

Footsteps sounded across the upstairs room, and then there was a silence, and Hermione stopped shouting.I think they are listening intently to what is going on in the dungeon.

"There's got to be a way to deal with him," Harry whispered to Ron and Neville. "Let's think... don't turn off the lights, make more balls of light."

Footsteps were gradually approaching the dungeon door from the stairs outside the door, stopped for a while, and continued to move forward.The dungeon is now illuminated by more than a dozen glaring balls of light like an extremely summer day. Harry told me to stick to the corner of the wall not to move so as not to be accidentally injured. The three of them held their breath and leaned against the walls on both sides of the door.

The door opened, and I didn't see what was going on under the blinding light. I only felt three people rushing on it—and then suddenly heard another familiar voice: "Don't hit me—shh! I've already done it to him!" Imperius Curse!"

"Talus?" Harry exclaimed in surprise, and this time it was Ron who covered his mouth.

"Tsk, it's much easier than I imagined. This guy didn't even notice me hiding in the corner of the dungeon." Ron used the Deluminator to put away the extra ball of light, and I finally saw the photo of Talus clearly. With tangled hair and dirty stubble covering most of his profile, he held a wand in his hand and pointed it steadily at Draco's lifeless eyes, making him sit against the wall without saying a word.

"I knew you guys would definitely not leave, so I asked Kreacher to come back later." Tallus looked around the dungeon, and when he found me curled up in a corner, his eyes widened in horror, and he almost missed Controlling the volume, "What's going on? Why didn't you let her go first with the others?"

"My mother—" I was interrupted by him speaking very fast, he looked very annoyed.

"I asked Kreacher to take you all away! It actually—forget it, he's never been able to use his head." He scratched at his hair and pulled out a shard of glass from his pocket. "Listen, Alice, I can't explain it in detail, but you believe me, your mother and my father were imprisoned in Azkaban together, and I stayed in Malfoy Manor for so long after I regained consciousness so that I could help Harry rescue both of you mother and daughter at the same time Let's go, I use the shards of the double-way mirror to contact my dad, Kreacher has been helping me contact Snape - our original plan was a few days later, but Harry and the others were caught outside the plan, Kreacher Che told me your dad was ready to do it, and although I don't know who informed him of what happened at Malfoy Manor, we had to take a chance—"

"Draco?" Narcissa Malfoy asked upstairs, "Why have you been here for so long? Did something happen downstairs?"

Talus impatiently waved his wand at Draco, Draco looked at the ceiling with blank eyes, and replied in his usual tone: "It's okay, everything is normal, it's just that group of idiots hitting their heads on the wall .”

"Do you understand?" Talus turned around and said to me, "Come with us, if all goes well, Azkaban will be broken by the Order of the Phoenix today, and you will be able to see your mother—I should Remind Kreacher to tell you, but this incident was too sudden, I was still in the garden, and I didn't have time to think so carefully."

"Okay." I nodded quickly. "But Dad is gone, what about the students at Hogwarts?"

"McGonagall will not allow Death Eaters to harm students in the school, and neither do other professors, don't worry." Tallus cast a silent stun spell on Draco, and then took Draco's hand away The wand was thrown to Harry. "Let's think about ourselves first."

Harry thought for a while, and handed the wand to Neville: "The three of us are more sensitive Quidditch players, Neville, you hold the wand, remember to protect Alice."

"Come on." Harry came over and helped me up, I glanced at the unconscious Draco as I passed him, and followed them up the stairs, into the dark hallway leading to the foyer.The thick carpet absorbed the sound of our footsteps, and we reached the hall door, where Bellatrix could now be clearly seen pointing her wand at Griphook, whose fingers were slowly stroking Gryffindor's sword, And Hermione's face was covered by her long brown hair, and it was impossible to see if she was still conscious.

"How?" Bellatrix asked Griphook. "Is the sword real?"

I held my breath, watched Griphook hesitate for a moment, and answered, "No, this is a fake."

"Are you sure?" Bellatrix gasped and threatened, "You know what happens when you lie!"

"I see no reason for lying," said the goblin. "I'm sure it's a fake."

Bellatrix's face instantly relaxed, all tension vanished, and she started giggling to herself, brushing back her black hair, which was strewn about her ears.

"Very good," she waved her wand casually, and drew another deep gash in Griphook's face, kicking him aside contemptuously, the joy of victory was beyond words, "Let's summon the Dark Lord!"

When she lifted her sleeves and pressed her index finger to the Dark Mark on her arm, Neville couldn't help letting out a short cry of pain, which made everyone in the hall look here.

Taking advantage of the momentary stupefaction of the people in the hallway, Ron rushed towards Hermione who was lying on the ground, and Talus turned into a black dog and deftly avoided the green light emitted by Lucius Malfoy's wand , and dropped his wand to Harry with his mouth.

"Expelliarmus!" Neville growled and pointed his wand at Bellatrix, and her wand immediately flew into the air, and the black dog that was sprinted over was as stable as catching a Quaffle that flew over half a field. Grabbing it firmly, he turned and threw it to Ron.

"Stupid!" Harry stunned Lucius Malfoy who was aiming at Neville, and Neville dragged me to the ground to avoid the beams of light sprayed from Narcissa's wand.

"What did you do to my son?" Narcissa Malfoy yelled at us like mad. "You killed him! I won't let you-"

"We're not that nasty." Harry was hit by a beam of light bouncing off the wall in order to get close to Hermione, and he staggered a few times and spit out a mouthful of blood.

"You don't care what your son does now, if the Dark Lord comes and they run away, we'll all die!" screamed Bellatrix, pulling out a sharp silver knife out of nowhere, An ominous dark light shone on the blade, "Stop! Or I'll let this knife taste how dirty the blood of the Mudblood is!"

"Put down your wand." Bellatrix looked at the stunned Ron and Harry, who was still in a vigilant posture, with satisfaction, and then turned her eyes to Neville who was blocking me, "This is a tradition passed down from generation to generation in the Greengrass family." A cursed blade that can drain a wizard's blood in an instant—do you want to bet on whether it will suck the blood of a mudblood?"

"I said, put it down!" she screamed, pressing the blade to Hermione's throat.

"Don't touch her!" Ron yelled, turning to look at Harry and Neville pleadingly.

"Very good." Bellatrix saw that both Harry and Neville had dropped their wands on the ground, "Very good, Sissy, go and pick up their wands—I'll let you pick them up! Didn't you Hear them, Draco is fine!"

Narcissa shoved her sister away with a shoulder, passed by us, and only hurriedly kicked two wands a little farther, before disappearing at the top of the dungeon stairs.

"It's okay, it's okay," Bellatrix said in a soft, sensual tone, "It's enough for me to take care of you little darlings, until the Dark Lord comes—"

When she said this, there was a strange rubbing sound above her head, all of us subconsciously raised our heads to look at the gorgeous crystal chandelier in the foyer of the Malfoy Manor, it was trembling visibly, and then With a creak and an ominous clank, the chandelier fell at breakneck speed, and Bellatrix was right below it.

Bellatrix flicked her arms hilariously - and then realizing she didn't have a wand in her hand, she shrieked and pushed Hermione away and flung herself the other way, the crystal and chain clattering on Hermione and the still-clutching The goblin with the sword of Gryffindor.Glittering crystal shards splashed everywhere. Harry, Ron and Neville took advantage of the chaos to get back their wands. Neville turned around and used the Shattering Curse to destroy the stairs leading to the dungeon. Tallus, who was still in the form of a black dog, ran over Help Ron pull Hermione out of the mess.

"What's going on?" Bellatrix jumped up, her long black hair flying in the air, she waved a small silver knife, "Who—"

"Long time no see, old witch." Tallus, who recovered his original form with the wand in Ron's hand, said in a mocking tone. "Kreacher, come here and help, pull that goblin out—"

"Come on," Neville said staccatoly, clutching his scar, "he's going to-"

"Give me the wand!" I felt that Neville had reached the limit. The moment I took the wand from his hand, I felt a warm current flow through my fingertips. Harry was holding Kreacher and the goblin, Talus, out of the corner of his eye. With Ron and Hermione, they were all ready to Apparate. "Bill and Fleur's house—"

"What's going on, I heard upstairs - Mrs. Lestrange, that knife is dangerous - no -!" As I struggled to spin Neville in place, it led to the second floor A girl's exclamation came from the stairs, and her words were swallowed by the ensuing darkness into a strange coda, which sounded like a sharp cry to my ears.

Bill and Fleur's home, Dingworth suburb... Bill and Fleur's home, Dingworth suburb... It's been too long since I have this feeling of my whole body being squeezed into a small spot. The feeling of reclaiming the magic is both exhilarating and debilitating.I can still hear Neville's muffled voice next to him, he seems to be dragged into Voldemort's monstrous rage again, but it's okay, I escaped, my father will rescue my mother, maybe later I can see them--

Then we hit solid ground, and the crisp, salty air almost made me swoon.I pulled Neville and fell to the ground in embarrassment. There was a burning pain in my knee, but this feeling was nothing compared to the joy in my heart.

"Neville, are you okay?" I tried to get up, and I was relieved when I saw a few familiar figures not far away. It seems that I didn't take him to other places by mistake.Neville forced a cry from his throat to show that he was still awake, his brow covered with sweat.I raised my head and looked at the vast starry sky above my head. The sound of the waves was close at hand, and the chaos just now seemed to go away in an instant.

"No...no—" But not far away, there was a wild roar similar to that of a seriously injured beast, which sounded even more desperate in the quiet wilderness. "Think of a way—help!"

Talus was still kneeling when I walked over, staring down at the knife that had been stabbed deep in his heart.The smile mocking Bellatrix in the Malfoy Manor hadn't completely disappeared from his face, looking at the hilt of the knife that was glowing red because of greedily sucking his blood, he only slightly widened his eyes. Looking into the eyes of an unknown number of young witches.

"Don't tell my dad." His lips had already started to turn abnormally purple due to lack of blood. After uttering this sentence from his squirming lips, he began to fall backwards. I don't know if it was because I was too shocked. When I realized it, the whole process was very slow in my eyes. It took at least half a minute before he completely fell on the cold ground, but Harry, who rushed over, didn't have time to hug him.

"Think about it, Alice, think about it..." Harry tried to pull the knife away, but it seemed to be rooted in Talus's chest, "Shenfeng Wuying Curse, or some potion , anything is fine, Alice...Kreacher, this is your master! Think of a way! Break to pieces—break to pieces! Heal quickly—to pieces!”

The God's Shadowless Curse could only cut through the clothes on Talus' chest. The moment the light hit the knife, it was bounced off at a strange angle, and it flew away and cut off a big tree not far away.Ron, holding the unconscious Hermione, looked completely stunned.

There was a gurgling sound in Talus' throat, and he looked more like a shriveled sheet of paper now.He was talking to Harry, but when he realized he was completely out of his mind, he turned to look at me.

"The wand, it's not mine." He raised his hand with difficulty, pointing to the only intact pocket on the tattered robe, "If it's possible...give it back together...say...sorry."

I could only nod mechanically, tears blurred my eyes, he didn't actually say who this person was at all, but he seemed to be relieved, looking at the bright starry sky above his head with scattered eyes.

"It's okay, hey, buddies...it's okay, I...rescued you." He finally looked at the bright and dim stars and whispered, "but actually I... still want to... Traveling around...with Mom."

With trembling hands, I tried to put his wrist, which was frozen in mid-air, back to his side, but Harry didn't allow the rest of us to get close to Tallus, he didn't believe what was happening in front of him, and didn't care about his own Whether the roar would attract others, he kept calling Talus' name like crazy, and kept begging to all kinds of people who were here, not here, still alive, and dead.

A small ball fell out of Talus' pocket, and nothing could be seen clearly in the moonlight and tears. It seemed to be just a few blue flowers that had been crumpled up.

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Somaybetomorrow,

I'll find my way home.