the lost castle

"What did you hear... Hagrid? You can fall asleep standing up?"

"...Ah! Ha!" The half-giant scratched his head and rubbed his stomach with the other hand:

"Hermione, is it like this in the Middle Ages? Too hungry to find anything to eat?"

"..."

"Hermione, why do I think I heard crying again?"

Ron shivered, he really didn't want to recall the dark shadows all over the sky. Although it didn't look as scary as the dementors, the sharp cries and ominous omens were really something no one wanted to see!He remembered that wherever the Banshee appeared, people would die. Muggles couldn't see them but could hear their cries all the time.

In the dark night, he suddenly heard the intermittent and indistinct crying, even Professor Flitwick couldn't help trembling, his face began to turn pale.

"It's like—the sound of a baby crying!" said Molly.Weasley is definitely the most experienced judgment among this group of people, and her husband Arthur looked blankly at the end of the dark forest, a little surprised, "This is a place where you rarely see even a bird, how could it be?" Got a crying baby?"

"Let's go and have a look. It's so cold, and I don't know if a child was left here. It's so pitiful. The voice seems to have been crying for a long time." There are many wizards with soft hearts in the Order of the Phoenix.

"But we've lost our way. It was okay before, half of the night sky was full of firelight, as long as we walked in the opposite direction, but——I saw this mountain range when I was standing by the mud before. Three or four days..." Hermione was terribly worried, looking around wearily, as if Harry could suddenly appear beside them.For the past few days, she has felt pain in her head. This feeling was only felt when she was guessing Dumbledore's will before, "If I remember correctly, it seems that there are several kinds of magical creatures that imitate some magic creatures when hunting. The sound attracts the attention of other creatures, making them lean towards them unconsciously."

"Hermione, you're thinking too much," said Ginny sharply.

"you……"

"Okay, stop arguing. Maybe it's really a child, so it's impossible for a lonely baby to appear here. Maybe we can meet people who live near here, and we can get out of here as soon as possible after asking the way." Mag The professor looked at everyone with stern eyes, and now everyone who was sleepy and disapproving stood up straight.

"Don't forget, it's the end of the tenth century, so you need to be very careful...well, hold your wands and follow behind, don't just wave them around, if you meet a Muggle, it will cause misunderstandings and disputes..."

Professor McGonagall's voice suddenly stopped.

All of them were dressed in school uniforms or pullover T-shirts, especially the wizard robes worn by myself and Professor Flitwick, it was impossible not to arouse the suspicion of Muggles.

"Stay here and don't move, I'll go to that direction to have a look!"

"Professor McGonagall!"

"I must keep you safe."

"professor……"

"Hagrid, they're still kids."

The half-giant had no choice but to pat Ron on the head and Ginny stopped talking. The latter gave in reluctantly, as if he didn't like approaching the professor of protection of magical creatures.

There is no moonlight, no starlight, leaving the shimmering magic fluorescent light, stepping on the densely intertwined tree roots, bypassing the spreading vines of a tree, the deposited leaves and dust are knocked off, and countless red rays of light burst out. In the dark night now, Professor McGonagall's pupils shrank suddenly. Although the trajectory of the piercing spell was not directed at her at all, he moved his position in an instant and cast at least three Iron Armor Curses on his body.

This kind of posture of throwing the Cruciatus Curse as soon as they met each other was nobody but Death Eaters.Also for the Order of the Phoenix, there is no more experienced response than dodging this spell.

Professor McGonagall, who hid behind a big tree, saw the opposite side. It was those Death Eaters who had lost Voldemort. Bella's crazy sharp laughter came almost the next moment, and the big Lyle rushed to the front , he showed a ferocious smile and looked at the person not far away who had just avoided the Cruciatus Curse.

It was a young man wearing a gorgeous silver bust that could only be seen on portraits in the castle.

In the dark night, it is not clear, it is about bright blond hair, and a noble thorn sword is held upside down in the left hand, which is still half broken, and the long hair and clothes are full of stains. Facing so many people who were approaching, they didn't retreat. Instead, they threw away the scarlet armor and cloak, and stepped forward to block the person behind him. Under the surprised eyes of Professor McGonagall, he pulled out a wand .

——Looking at this outfit, I thought it was a Muggle, so it turned out to be a wizard?

A wizard of this age?

Reminiscent of the baby crying just now, Mag looked behind the wizard in knight armor. There were two girls indistinctly, one of them was wearing a dress, like those noble girls depicted in oil paintings who were exquisitely wearing gorgeous jewels. The other one is wrapped in a cloak and long clothes, she is tall, she can only be judged to be a young girl from the exposed long red hair and figure, but at this moment, her hair looks disheveled and her attire is messed up, as if she is walking away in a hurry in this dense forest After a long time, there seems to be another person behind them, but the night is too dark, and the distance is too far to see clearly, but the crying of the baby can be heard clearly, it seems that these four people are leading a child. Walking through the forest, he was also unlucky, and ran into a lost Death Eater first.

"It's not a dirty Muggle, so let you live for a while." Lyle licked his lower lip, his greedy expression made people sick, "Before you die, tell me quickly, what is this place?" ? Where is the nearest city... village?"

Professor McGonagall raised his wand slowly.

She was now struggling to decide whether to step forward and help the four wizards deal with the Death Eaters.

But obviously, the students who were not far away successfully dispelled her idea of ​​going out or making a sneak attack. After all, before the Death Eaters made their move, it seemed that they wanted to ask about the situation in the vicinity. messed around.

"There is no fresh food, and fresh blood is not bad..."

Bella's tousled black hair might have been scary or too Muggle-speak twisted-pop in the 20th century, but thank you, it's the Middle Ages, and this weird but not shabby look would just be considered a madman.And the black magic and nourishment about the girl's blood appeared after the 15th century, so——

"Miss, if you tell me that you come from an ancient blood race, even Melville will not believe it. Maybe you just crawled out of the soil?"

The knight turned his head and said the above words in a very serious tone. Although the effect was not comparable to the poison of a certain potions professor, it instantly made Bella scream with her pale face twisted:

"Kill him, Lyle, there are four of them anyway!"

Before Lyle could refute something unhappy, she raised her wand first, and it was a death curse.

The dark green light directly broke several branches. This dodge almost made Professor McGonagall and all the Death Eaters stare at him—that knight was standing in front of the other three, if only he dodged it with agility, it wouldn’t matter. It's nothing, but the two girls behind him will be hit, so a weird smile appeared on Bella's face, but the smile froze as soon as it appeared, and the blonde who looked like a knight was actually The wizard's young man neither released a spell to resist, nor used any magic items (in fact, it was too late...), but jumped directly to the side, and it was completely different from what Bella thought, the two looked 20 years old. Girls under the age of [-] avoided the Avada curse faster than the knight, and as soon as they stood still, the wands immediately slipped out of their cuffs and cloaks:

"Soul out of body!"

"Shattered and shattered!"

Bella finally reacted quickly, fell on the ground when she looked up, and rolled away from where she was standing very quickly. There was a loud explosion, and all the soil, dead branches and leaves were thrown into the air. It was stained with terror before it faded.

Of course she knows and is very proficient in the Imperius Curse. It belongs to soul magic. If it doesn't hit the target, it won't blow the whole place where she is standing, but that girl who is wearing a complicated and cumbersome dress with a beautiful and childish face will definitely not What kind of spell is this "homogeneous shattering" thrown by the full girl with a magic wand?dark magic?Why has she never heard of it.

(Basically, the powerful wizards of Harry Potter's era classified unheard of spells as housework magic...if not then it was dark magic==)

Is it because the wizards of this era are so powerful, or——

The same idea appeared in the minds of everyone who passed through, but unlike Professor McGonagall, who breathed a sigh of relief and decided not to come out and continue to watch the follow-up situation, all the Death Eaters who were originally in a slump got serious, and before they attacked, that is, Not long after Bella fell and rolled out, she hadn't gotten up from the ground when the big Lyle's hideous and greedy smile just froze on his face.

"Soul piercing!"

There was no light or sound as the spell should have been issued, but the suffocating pressure hit his face, and Lyle almost jumped away in fright, but it was useless.He felt as if he was facing a fire dragon, no, it was scarier than a fire dragon. Terrible creatures like five-legged monsters or sphinxes were snorting and approaching, and he couldn't do anything except instinctive fear to pull away immediately. Without the slightest resistance, he retreated desperately, bumped into the tree trunk, and scrambled and scrambled to avoid it, but felt that the suffocating terror was still following behind.

"what--"

In the dark forest, where is there enough room to hide.

Lyle stumbled and finally fell on the side of an old tree, which happened to be the one where Professor McGonagall was hiding. McGonagall clearly saw Lyle's frightened expression suddenly froze, the whole person leaned back, and then his face There was a strange blank blank expression.He opened his eyes and looked at the Death Eaters who were still tensely confronting each other, but there was no reaction at all, and the bent and ferocious expression disappeared, and what appeared was a kind of bewilderment and surprise.

It was as if in an instant, he had forgotten who he was, what he had done, and where he was.

He even looked at the wand in his hand strangely, and dropped his wand with a scream, with a panicked expression on his face.

"Lyle, damn—"

It is obviously black magic, the kind that controls the soul more thoroughly and terrifyingly than the Imperius Curse.

Lucius and Narcissa, standing at the end, have unconsciously grabbed Draco's clothes. They are not valued by the Death Eaters, but it can be seen that this time they have definitely bumped into a wizard who can't be messed with. Don't look at them. There are so many people on the side of the Dead Apostles, maybe it's hard to tell which side will win in a real fight.Malfoy always valued the family itself and relatives. As for the Death Eaters, since Voldemort was not around, it was nothing to abandon them and flee first.It's just that you can't act rashly now, otherwise not only the Death Eaters, but even the wizards over there will directly attack them because of their vigilance.

Lyle's dazed and terrified expression shocked everyone's backs. That terrifying black magic, enough to turn an excellent wizard into an idiot, wasn't the first blond knight, nor the two just The girl who uttered the spell and attacked Bella was undoubtedly the last one.

None of them saw it, and they stood at the end, protected by the other three intentionally or unintentionally.

The thick smoke blown away by the wind was still billowing in the night sky, and the crying of the baby began intermittently.

Maybe it was tired from crying, or it didn't smell too choking, but the child seemed to be falling asleep, making indistinct bubbling and squeaking sounds.

In the darkness where the shadows of the trees are indistinct, the figures slowly appear, like ghosts in the dark night, separated from the darkness. That invisible pressure has taken away all the mystery and fear of the night, and I haven't seen it clearly yet, Ya Kesley and Dolohov's attack had already arrived. They were the fastest reacting among the Death Eaters. After seeing Lyle's strange appearance, they immediately threw the death curse.

The dark green brilliance instantly illuminated the long black hair, the dark robe with thorn patterns embroidered with magic runes, the clear and clear lake green pupils that seemed to reflect nothing, and even the pale skin under the pale skin. The thin and bluish blood vessels were also clearly visible. They looked over indifferently, but before they could tell what it meant, everyone's souls seemed to have been hit hard by something.

There was a slight pop.

One of the sapphires wrapped with a golden rune on the man's cuff shattered and turned into a pile of powder that shone with a beautiful and cold brilliance, and the green light that represented death had disappeared without a trace.

He walked from the shadows, his slender white fingers lined on the dark red blanket, showing a thrilling pale elegance, without a wand, holding the baby wrapped in the blanket with one hand, and resting his hand on the child's cheek.

"How did Mia calm down?" The girl in the same complicated and gorgeous dress touched her forehead in frustration, "Oh, you put your finger in her mouth, what a good idea, why didn't I think of it all the way!"