The big blond Death Eater who caused the most confusion cast a spell that hit him right in the face, he let out a painful roar, turned around and swayed twice, and struggled to escape behind the Death Eater brothers and sisters.

Gwen and Hermione cast a Leg-locking Curse on the fleeing Death Eaters, but a few people still ran downstairs quickly.

Harry got up from the ground and sprinted down the corridor.They ran into Fred and George who were looking for them, and together they stopped the blond Death Eater, Dolphin Roll, and dunked a whole box of sarcoma powder on his head, and the black wizard's face immediately became bruised. An unsightly crust.But he seemed determined not to make it easier for others, so he used several killing spells on the twins one after another.

Gwen picked up a brick beside him and threw it at his arm, and the two green lights shot away from the wall.

"What's Harry talking about? Muggle shot putter?" George was still in the mood for a joke.

"Be careful, gentlemen." Gwen shook her hands in fear, and quickly cast a disarming spell on Rolle, "Disarm you!"

The blond Death Eater, who had lost his wand, no longer wanted to fight, and slammed through the crowd to follow in his companion's footsteps.

"I warned you not to get involved," George said to Gwen. "The professor and the Aurors have their agenda."

"It seems that their arrangement didn't work." Gwen held down her trembling hand.

"Don't bicker, kids." Fred glanced at Lupine and McGonagall who were still fighting, and said to his brother, "Since there is no big problem upstairs, let's go down, and we can't let the Death Eaters run to the door." , or they could Apparate."

The three looked at each other and nodded, and rushed out of the castle together.

Leaving the gate of the Hogwarts castle, Gwen saw Snape and Malfoy running about 50 meters away. Harry was a little away from them, but he was biting behind them.Then there was the Death Eater who just ran away, got someone else's wand from somewhere, and was casting a spell on Hagrid's hut not far away. With a loud explosion-like sound, a flying orange fireball flew around. Run away.Hagrid's cabin was on fire.

Fred cursed loudly and ran to the Forbidden Forest to save his big friend's house.

Gwen stopped in her tracks, and asked George in a trembling voice, "What's that? Did you see that, George?"

"Where?" George also stood there, looking at where Gwen was pointing.Right under the Dark Mark and the Astronomy Tower, there was a vague figure lying on the ground, with Moody standing beside him.

Gwen covered her mouth, "Is that a...? Oh no..." She took a hard step, "I have to go and see, George."

"Okay," George said, turning his head to look at Fred in the distance. He had just extinguished the raging fire at Hagrid's cabin with clear spring water. "I'll go and see it with you, and you can't leave my sight for a moment now."

Moody had his back to them both, but the Eye might have noticed them long ago.

"Stand still!" he said hoarsely.

"We're students." George responded at the top of his voice, "Weasley and Ollivander, is anyone injured?"

Hearing these two names, Moody, who looked again with his magic eyes, turned around slowly and raised his wand.

A blinding white light bloomed in front of the Hogwarts castle, and Gwen couldn't see anything for a moment. She opened her eyes and ran forward.But because of the blankness in front of her eyes, she couldn't stop crying.After half a minute, Gwen, who staggered and fell several times, finally regained his sight.

In front of her was a familiar corpse.

With the last glimmer of hope, Gwen rushed to Dumbledore under Moody's gaze.

Not breathing.

Bitter-cold, full of the breath of death.

There lay the body of their greatest headmaster.

The phoenix's weeping blood and wailing came from the night, and Fox sang an elegy not far away. It hovered and dragged two long golden tails, and disappeared with a flame in the night.

The taut thread in Gwen's head snapped, and the headache that had been plaguing her tonight suddenly disappeared.

"No—" Gwen couldn't believe it, and shook Dumbledore's body vigorously, "Save him, save him."

George was also stunned, but he managed to maintain his composure, touching Dumbledore's wrist with one hand, and hugging Gwen with the other.

"Merlin...he's already... let him go, Gwen."

This is different from what was promised, Gwen thought he would see Dumbledore who was knocked out, and members of the Order of the Phoenix should have been nearby to meet him.Gwen could claim that Dumbledore had died in battle, or even say that Snape killed the headmaster as they wished.

"What have I done!" Gwen cried in despair, her fake wand ultimately failing to help them.The principal died in such a state of embarrassment and humiliation in his own school.All the calculations, all the preparations fell short.

Slowly, the crowd in pajamas walked out of the castle suspiciously, looking around nervously, looking for traces left by the Death Eaters who had fled in the night.They gathered at the foot of the Astronomy Tower, and there were exclamations and sobs from time to time.

"What are they looking at?" asked Hagrid as he approached the castle from a distance, with Fang at their heels. "What's that, lying on the grass?" Hagrid asked eagerly again, heading straight for the foot of the Astronomy Tower. "See that, Harry? It's right under the tower, under the marker... ah... don't you think Someone was thrown—?”

Hagrid fell silent, the thought obviously too horrible to say out loud.Harry walked beside him.

Dreaming through the whispering crowd to the front, where the petrified teachers and students made a gap.

Hagrid groaned in pain and shock, but he didn't stop, continuing to move forward slowly until he came to where Dumbledore was lying, crouching beside him.

They are still not mentally prepared to see the scene in front of them: the best wizard they have met in this life, and maybe they will never meet again, with all four limbs spread out, hands and feet broken, lying horizontally in front of them.

Dumbledore's eyes were closed, and from the perspective of his sprawled limbs he appeared to be fast asleep.Harry reached out to straighten the half-moon glasses on his hooked nose, wiped the blood on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and then stared down at the wise old face, struggling to face this unacceptable fact : Dumbledore will never say anything to him again, and he will never be able to help him...

"Who did it?" Gwen asked Harry in a trembling voice. "You see, who was it?"

"Snape killed him." Harry knelt on the ground, gritted his teeth and said viciously, tears slid down his dirty face, leaving two marks.

"How is it possible, he—" Gwen couldn't continue, she didn't even notice that the gold wire was still tightly tied around her tongue, she thought she was choked up and couldn't speak.

Nothing can compare to this moment.Because Dumbledore was literally turned into a cold corpse, and the man who cast the spell on him was Snape - the trusted Snape who was supposed to use the fake wand in the plan.Dumbledore is dead, like the tallest tower at Hogwarts has fallen, Gwen thought.What about her grandpa, what about the students, what about the great cause against Voldemort and the Death Eaters.

More and more teachers and students gathered around the lawn, and their silence made Hogwarts' calm and stagnant water even more desolate.

Professor McGonagall raised her wand high, and the silver light flew from between her wands into the dark cloud-covered night sky.Everyone raised their wands together, and hundreds of dazzling light spots slowly rose into the air like stars, dispelling the Dark Mark on the Astronomy Tower.

Good night, Headmaster.

last hope

Harry didn't want to leave Dumbledore, didn't want to go anywhere.Hagrid's hand on Harry's shoulder was shaking.Then another voice said, "Harry, let's go."

A much smaller, warmer hand took Harry's and pulled him upwards.Harry stood up in a bewildered manner, and it wasn't until he passed through the crowd in a daze that a scent of flowers wafted from the air, and he realized that it was Ginny who had been pulling him towards the castle.Inaudible words came from all sides, sobbing and shouting and wailing cut through the night, but Harry and Ginny kept going, up the steps and into the hall.Faces flickered at the edge of Harry's vision, people staring at him, whispering, stunned and bewildered.They made their way up the marble staircase, where Gryffindor rubies were scattered on the floor, glistening like drops of blood.

"We're going to the school hospital," Ginny said.

"I'm not hurt," Harry said.

"It was McGonagall's order," said Ginny. "Everyone was there, Fred, Ron, Hermione, Lupine and all—"

Fear rose in Harry's heart again.He had almost forgotten those motionless bodies just now.

"Ginny, who else died?"

"Don't be afraid, none of us died."

"But the Dark Mark—Malfoy said he stepped on a corpse—"

"He stepped on Bill, but he's fine, he's alive."

Her voice, however, is a bit odd.

"you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure... he's just - badly hurt. Fenrir Greyback attacked him. Madam Pomfrey said he won't - won't be the same again..." Ginny's The voice trembled a little. "We don't know what the fallout will be—I mean, Fenrir Greyback was a werewolf, but he didn't turn into a wolf."

George and Gwen were not far from them, and George stood up almost immediately at Ginny's words

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