[SSHP] End of life

"Thunderbolt," Harry said, pointing to the thick ice.Although they took a lot of detours just for an idea, but now he is not at all eager to get the thing in the lake.

The spell bounced off the ice and shot limply into the darkness across the lake.Shaking his spirits, Harry recited the spell aloud again: "Thunderbolt!"

This time the light was much brighter than the first time.A visible crack appeared in the ice.Harry added a few more spells until the hole was wide enough for two people to jump down side by side.He did a final psychological construction and took off the last few clothes decisively.To avoid sudden cramps underwater, he stretched in place, then placed his wand, still lit, on the shore as a guidepost.The moment his feet touched the water, he couldn't help but let out a low curse.

The water is much cooler than expected.When diving down for the first time, Harry found that the water was very dark, and he had to come back to show his head, take a breath and confirm the position again.The second dive was much smoother. He took the sword and went upstream, but there was no such hole in the expected position.

Harry continued to hold his breath, and raised his hand to feel around.With the hard ice above his head, he couldn't see the light.He tried to say a spell, but underwater, all the bubbles couldn't form a complete sentence.As the seconds ticked by, Harry gradually began to lose his composure.He frantically knocked on the ice with his hands and the hilt of his sword, and began to lose control of his desire to breathe, thinking that maybe he would succumb to his instinct in the next second.

The cold liquid finally poured into the nasal cavity, followed by suffocation and dizziness.After what seemed like a microsecond, Harry opened his eyes and found himself lying on his back in the icy snow, the corners of his eyes were tight, and his nose and lungs were burning with pain.There was another person beside him, panting rapidly, and muttering something softly.

Harry turned his head away, and it was Ron.He slumped on the edge of the lake, and the surrounding snow had already been thrown into an irregular circle by him.His red hair clung to his forehead, his clothes were all wet, and he was in a mess.Harry turned his gaze to Ron's right hand, which held the Gryffindor sword tightly, gleaming in the moonlight.

The inexplicable disappointment almost completely defeated Harry.He lay still for a while, until he felt compelled to say, "Thank you, Ron, for saving me." As the voice came out, the windpipe hurt so badly that it hurt like his entire chest was filled with sand.

"You're awake!" Ron's voice was trembling, but sounded healthy. "I can't find where the camp is, so I'll have to wait for you to wake up. I'm freezing to death."

Harry moved his body.The half next to the snow is very cold, but not as cold as expected.His clothes had been put on indiscriminately, and they were all twisted when he stood up, and he bent down to tidy them up.

"Harry, I—" Ron paused, sounding hesitant, "I know I shouldn't have left, I regretted it when I left, and went back to you, but you've already left there. I'm sorry, I know I'm a - I'm a -"

"Never mind," Harry said, "You're back, it's better than anything." He straightened his clothes, took off the two outer sweaters and handed them to Ron.

Ron looked confused.

"Put it on, if you don't want to freeze to death. It's still some distance from the tent."

"Put it on, I forgot that I still have dry clothes." Ron muttered and walked towards the large backpack thrown on the other side of the lake. Obviously, he threw the backpack from the other side and rushed from the other side immediately after he found Harry drowning, " Hell, I haven't seen you for a while, why do I think your way of speaking is a bit strange..."

Harry's heart skipped a beat, and it suddenly occurred to him that this was not an absolutely hidden place.He took off the half-covered sweater and wrapped the sword tightly.

"Then how did you get back?" Harry asked. "You saw a Patronus in the shape of a deer?"

"What Patronus?" said Ron. "You'll never guess how I got back. It was Dumbledore's Deluminator. Just this morning, I thought of you and I felt like dying. The Deluminator glowed." , I suddenly felt like I knew where to go, so I Apparated. But by the time I got there you were gone. The point of light didn't come back on until night, and I followed its lead here. Honestly, I didn't Thinking that I can stand here fairly intact, only two fingernails are missing." Ron walked back to Harry and held up his left hand to show him, the nails on the ring finger and little finger seemed to have been chipped off at the root, and it looked It hurts.After a while, he put his hand down and muttered softly, "Forget it... I deserve it."

"Stop blaming yourself, everything you've done today has been undone," Harry said, opening his arms and the two embraced tightly.

Ron laughed silly.

"We have to go." Harry pointed in the direction and looked around. "Now that we have the sword, we have to destroy the Horcrux quickly. It's in the tent."

"Where the hell is the tent? You can't find it either?" Ron asked.He couldn't understand Harry's behavior of looking around.

"This way." Harry said perfunctorily, continuing to look around secretly while walking.On several occasions, he even thought he saw signs of people around him, only to realize to his disappointment that they were just shadows of trees.

He hoped from the bottom of his heart that bastard Snape was on their side.But he also knew caution was necessary, and if Snape was just trying to trick them into trusting them with a fake sword so they could find their hideouts, get Horcruxes and kill them all, they wouldn't be able to beat him.Given that Snape was still among the Death Eaters, it wasn't impossible that no one could tell what he was really thinking.

Harry was shivering, feeling the air grow colder and colder to the bone.He took Ron in a big circle in the forest, until he felt that if a large number of Death Eaters came, he would not be able to drag his stiff body to make an accurate response, and then led Ron in the right direction.

Maybe guessing who Harry was guarding against, Ron didn't complain along the way.But when he was within range of the protection spell and could see the tent, Harry noticed that he flinched visibly.

"Do you think Hermione will kill me?" Ron asked softly.

"No. She'll torture you until you kill yourself," joked Harry, who wanted to hurry back to the warmth. "Her wand is in my hand."

"She could kill me without a wand, I believe."

"You'll have to face it sooner or later, don't run away," said Harry. "I'm sure she'll forgive you. Maybe she's going to make your body suffer for a while..."

Harry walked into the tent without hesitation, and Ron took a deep breath behind him.

Hermione is reading a book.Hearing someone enter the door, she closed the book and said dissatisfiedly, "Harry, I told you to change shifts in an hour, so that your body—"

The words that followed turned into a roar.Hermione jumped up and threw the book on the bed. Her hair had grown a lot during this period, and because of neglect of grooming, it regained its previous hay look.With that hairstyle and her expression, Harry thought Hermione looked like an angry lion.

"Get out—!!" shrieked Hermione, rushing to the tent entrance with such agility that Harry had never seen her before.He quickly stepped aside, thankful that his skills had not become dull, and looked at Ron sympathetically.It was warm in the tent, and Harry felt his lungs ache, and his windpipe was still hurting, and the big handful of sand he felt was still inside.He moved his body, ready to help Ron when it was obvious that he was losing the wind.Honestly, Hermione's rage was a real nuisance.

After half a minute, Ron's wailing stopped, and it seemed that he had given up on the strategy of eliciting Hermione's sympathy for forgiveness.He hugged his head and kept walking backwards, but Hermione pushed hard, and Ron and his backpack fell out of the tent with a heavy sound.

Harry was startled, and hurriedly chased him out to see the situation.Hermione seemed to have just remembered his existence, turned around and stretched out her hand to him, ordering: "Wand!"

"What?" said Harry. "Calm down, Hermione, I think you—"

"Wand!" Hermione screamed, kicking Ron as he was trying to get up.Around the tent under the Silencing Charm, she could vent her anger as best she could without being noticed by the Death Eaters: "I won't be calm! Give me back my wand, Harry Potter!"

Harry stuffed his wand into his pocket, raised his free hands in a reassuring gesture, "Hermione, please—"

"Don't command me!" Hermione roared. "You want to protect him? Protect this, this—"

She froze for a moment, as if unable to find the right words, and suddenly turned her head and stared at Ron fiercely, as if she wanted to eat him in one bite.Ron had thrown off his heavy backpack and stood up. He was peeking at her tremblingly, and took several steps back in fright.There was a red mark on the side of his cheek where Hermione must have punched him.Harry figured he'd have to watch for a while, even if Hermione seemed to calm down after a while.

"Hermione, I'm sorry, I know I'm a bastard, I know I'm wrong, I left and wanted to come back, but I ran into a search party! They also confiscated my wand, and then I found a chance to snatch someone's My wand, I cast a disarming spell on the person holding my wand, I managed to get away, and when I wanted to hurry back to the camp, I fell a little far... By the time I got back to the river, you had already left there! "

Harry was about to ask about the Snatch Squad when Hermione continued her angry accusation.

"Yes, we shouldn't go, we should wait for a stupid teammate who left without permission, and then appease you. You must be terrified, it's really dangerous, fortunately, such a dangerous thing didn't happen to us. What replaced it , a snare from a trustworthy person, a hunt by a Death Eater, aha, and the big snake in Godric's Hollow, who almost killed us, and You-Know-Who caught us in seconds .”

Harry looked at Hermione's face flushed with anger, and rationally closed his mouth that wanted to say that the You-Know-Who had just set off at that time.

As Hermione spoke, she turned her head and returned to the tent.When Ron and Harry followed, she was sitting on the edge of the bed, arms folded, stiff as a statue.Ron knew he was wrong, so he didn't say anything.

"And you, after all these weeks, think running back and saying I'm sorry will cover your guilt? We're all alive, if we're dead—"

"I know you're alive!" Ron said loudly, for the first time since they reunited, "I found the wizards channel, I listen to it every day, I read the papers, I know you're all alive I also know that even if you decide to never forgive me, I will still come back! No matter how you punish me!"

"So you came back just to say a gentle apology to us, and then leave to live happily." Hermione said coldly, "I need to hear how you found us tonight. If you know this, you can Make sure we don't get disturbed by people we don't want to see. That's important."

"Don't say that, Hermione," Harry whispered, "Ron saved my life just now."

Ron stared at Hermione and gasped for breath, then took out the Deluminator from his jeans pocket.Hermione glanced casually at Ron, staring in surprise at what he was holding.

"Deluminator?" she asked.

"It's not just lighting on and off," said Ron.

Harry knew Ron had come back with the Deluminator, but didn't know the exact details.Seeing Hermione's delay in asking, and Ron's delay in speaking, he couldn't help urging: "Then what else can it do?"

Seeing that there was really no way for Hermione to say even one more word to him, Ron could only reply, "I don't know why it is like this today, because I always wanted to come back after I left." He observed Hermione's expression, Seeing that she still didn't respond, she turned to Harry and continued, "About this morning, I was listening to the radio, and for some reason, I suddenly heard your voice, Harry."

"What did I say?" Harry asked curiously.

"You talked about wands, combat power, etc., and then you couldn't hear them at all."

Hermione was thinking.Harry frowned, and it occurred to him that his feeling was right: they hadn't said the name, consciously or not, since Ron had left.They hadn't mentioned him for the first time until this morning.This is where his sense of strangeness comes from.

"Your voice came from my pocket. I took out the extinguisher, but it didn't make any sound. I pressed it, and a ball of light appeared beside me. The ball of light was blue and seemed to be pulsating , and it looks very bright in the daytime too. Like the light around the portkey, you know?"

Hermione and Harry nodded together.After nodding, Hermione gave Ron a hard look.

Ron didn't react at all, he was still immersed in the wonder of magic.His face was full of memories, and he raised his finger to point to the position of his heart: "The ball of light floated towards me, and then entered my body. I felt warm, as if I suddenly knew what I should do." What's up. I apparated to a hillside, full of snow. But your tents are enchanted and well protected, I can't find you, and I dare not shout, so I can only keep walking."

"Maybe you weren't far from us then," said Harry. "That's why I feel like there's always someone around."

"I thought, maybe I'll bump into your tent as I walk around. Or you'll have to pack up your tent when you need to go."

"Not necessarily," said Harry, "we're all Apparating under the Invisibility Cloak."

"Anyway, I stayed there all morning, and then I felt that if you were going to leave, you must have left long ago. I missed it again. It was already dark at that time, and I pressed the extinguisher again, and the light ball appeared again I followed its guidance to this forest. Then I saw Harry was beating under the ice. Merlin's beard, I thought you committed suicide."

"So you didn't see the deer at all?"

"What deer?" asked Ron. "That Patronus you were talking about?"

"Yes." Harry didn't continue.He imagined himself telling his friends excitedly that Snape was still theirs, that Hermione would definitely ask for the sword to be examined first, and that Ron would turn pale.Then they would take a short truce and take turns pressing him for details.He's not feeling well and doesn't want to be in trouble at all.

"I do seem to see the silver light," said Ron. "I wouldn't have seen you so soon otherwise. I always thought it was the reflection of your sword raised out of the water."

"Obviously not," Harry said, changing the subject abruptly, "I think we need to destroy the Horcruxes quickly." He paused, and said a little hesitantly, "I don't know if this sword is real. This method of testing."

"No." Hermione said, "It's too dangerous now. Someone knows we're here. I think we'd better change to another place, rest for a while, and then do it during the day? What if that Horcrux glows or makes another one?" The soul or something is too conspicuous at night."

"Good idea," said Ron.Harry agreed, he probably couldn't lift a heavy sword right now, let alone split a metal box.

"Let's switch places, then," said Hermione, glancing at Ron again.Ron flinched visibly.

"So she forgave me?" Ron whispered to Harry. "She didn't say she'd dump me... remember those birds she let out to peck me?"

"Don't think you're safe!" Hermione seemed about to get angry again, "I cry, I beg you, I've never begged someone like that before in my life! How dare you leave! If this happens again, you Just wait!"

"No, I swear." Ron said, and stepped forward to clean up the sundries in the tent.

"Also, you said you took a wand with you when you fled from the Snatchers?"

"Yeah," said Ron, "I thought it would be nice to have an extra spare, and give them some trouble. Mr. Ollivander isn't in Diagon Alley anymore, is he?"

"You're right." Harry held out his hand. "It just so happened that my wand broke."

"What did you say?" Ron asked in surprise.

Without answering, Harry took his wand from Ron's hand.He held the wand in his hand and tried a few moves before stuffing it into his trouser pocket.The wand is short and black, and feels very different from the familiar holly wand.Harry didn't even want to look at it if he didn't have to.

The author has something to say: Actually, I thought about the beginning of this chapter.In the original book, Xiao Ha went down with a spell and the ice cracked completely, because the Horcrux almost strangled him so he couldn't get up.But here Xiaoha is not wearing a Horcrux, so what should I do? Later, I thought about it, since the wand is set to be extremely difficult to use, then the spell is not powerful enough.If Xiaoha wants to break the ice on the entire lake, he may have to chant spells until morning, so he can only knock holes.That's why I made it a lake instead of a pond, lol.

As for the tree that is suitable for peeping, I think I have already met it before, and it would be superfluous to add it, so I won’t add it, you can do whatever you want.I'm okay with thinking that SS is there, and I'm okay with thinking he's not there.laugh.By the way, why didn't the original SS use the Disillusionment Curse, and let Ron see something moving there.

Then, why did Ron feel the Deluminator the second time, I don't know about this, lol.Maybe Xiaoha yelled underwater, maybe Hermione chanted something.Feel free.

I used my eyes too much yesterday, and now my eyeballs hurt so much, I feel that my whole body is not well, and I cry.Double update today.