HP Starlight

Esther had already finished a large glass of butterbeer when Dumbledore arrived.He glanced at the bar and quickly walked over to Esther to sit down.The bar owner snorted dissatisfiedly and went behind the bar.

"So you've found another one?" asked Dumbledore.

"Yes, Professor. But from..." Esther was about to say, when Dumbledore interrupted her with a raised hand.He got up and said something to the barkeeper, who grunted angrily and cleared the bar.

"Come with me." Dumbledore nodded to Esther.

Esther got up to follow, around the bar and through a door.Dumbledore had already climbed a rickety wooden staircase, and she followed.At the end of the stairs was a living room with worn carpets and a portrait of a person hanging on a small fireplace by the wall. A blonde girl looked at the room blankly and tenderly.

Dumbledore waved his wand across the room, adding some protection to the room.

Esther sat quietly and waited, and found that Dumbledore seemed to have a flash of emotion when facing the portrait.

She never sensed Dumbledore's emotions, although he seemed cheerful most of the time.Therefore, although Esther respects Dumbledore very much, he always feels that he is far away from him.

But today Esther felt real for Dumbledore for the first time.She looked carefully at the characters in the painting. They looked about fourteen or five years old, fair and tall, and she was a lovely girl.I don't know what relationship she has with the bar owner, she will hang the portrait in his private domain.And Professor Dumbledore seems to have a lot of affection for her too.Esther was thinking wildly in his mind.

"She is a very important person we all know." Dumbledore's blue eyes looked at Esther, returning to his usual state, which made Esther feel familiar and strange. "But today is not a good time to discuss her. Can you tell me what you found?"

"Okay, Professor." Esther looked away, looked at Dumbledore, and unconsciously started Occlumency. "It was in a cabin not far from Voldemort. I was going to track Avery, but I found it by accident. There were many protective spells outside the door, and it looked dangerous. I tried to break the spell, But it didn't work, and he was afraid that the noise would attract Voldemort's attention, so he didn't dare to act rashly."

"Can you Apparate right up to the cabin?" Dumbledore asked.

"can."

"You take me there." Dumbledore said decisively.

Esther stood up and held out her arm for Dumbledore to grab.She carefully recalled the hedge in front of the cabin, and the scene was clearly engraved in her mind.With a snap, Esther disappeared from the living room with Dumbledore.

In the bushes outside the cabin, Esther and Dumbledore appeared exactly at the intended destination.

"So it's here." Dumbledore suddenly realized.

"Have you been here?" Esther asked.

"I haven't been here in person, but I'm familiar with it." Dumbledore winked at Esther and pulled out his wand. "Let me see what spells Tom cast on this."

Dumbledore released layers of protective spells around them, isolating them from the entire valley.Then he chanted some obscure words, and one golden or silver light after another flew towards the cabin.But before it touched the cabin, the light shattered in mid-air, as if it had touched an invisible wall.

Esther found a stone beside him and sat down, watching Dumbledore cast a spell seriously.She knew she couldn't be of much help, she'd felt it since Dumbledore started casting spells.This is a confrontation between the most powerful wizards. Voldemort has built a complex defense network here with profound spells, and Professor Dumbledore is trying to cancel or destroy every spell.Esther could only see the curse hitting the invisible wall more and more violently, bursting out with dazzling light.

After a long time, Dumbledore finally stopped waving his wand.Esther stood up and walked to him and asked, "Will Voldemort not find out if we destroy so directly?"

"Probably not, I have already taken precautions just now. And after his resurrection this time, he is not so sensitive to many things." Dumbledore said after a breath.

"Then I'll try it first, and if it doesn't work, remember to save me." Esther smiled mischievously, ready to go inside.

"Let's give this opportunity to the old man." Dumbledore held Esther back with a smile, "You will have plenty of opportunities to take risks in the future."

Esther didn't insist anymore, followed behind Dumbledore, and walked into the door with dried snakes.It was cold and dark inside, and exuded a smell of corruption.Dumbledore released a ball of light floating in mid-air, making the room barely bright.

After Esther entered the room, he listened carefully to the rustling sound.She followed the sound cautiously inside, through a rickety, moth-eaten door, and into the stone room behind.The voice seemed to be coming from the ground. She looked at the thick dust on the ground and frowned. After a moment of hesitation, she bent down and put her ears on the ground, looking for it bit by bit.Finally she found a floor in a corner that seemed to be different from the surrounding ones.

She was about to dig the floor, but Dumbledore stopped her with a voice, "Wait, let me see." Esther turned sideways and pointed at the floor, Dumbledore checked it with a wand, and lightly With a light flick of the wand, the wooden plank bounced off the ground, bringing out a lot of debris and dust.

There is a gold box in the hollow in the floor.Dumbledore levitated it out and set it on the table and lifted the lid to reveal a gold ring with a large black gemstone set inside.

Dumbledore suddenly became very excited when he saw the ring clearly.He grabbed the ring from the box and held out his right hand at the same time.

"Disarm!" Esther yelled.She has been watching Dumbledore's actions, and the ring has not communicated with her, but based on past experience, black magic is deceptive.She was wondering why it didn't confuse herself this time, when she felt Professor Dumbledore's emotions suddenly hit her like a flood.Before she could dissuade him, Dumbledore had already started to act.She had no choice but to block her perception with Occlumency and attack Dumbledore with the most direct and least harmful disarming spell, hoping to stop his actions.

Fortunately, the spell worked, Dumbledore took two steps back, the ring flew into the air, was caught by Esther, and threw it into the cloth pocket without thinking.

"I'm sorry, Professor. Are you okay?" Esther asked worriedly.

"It's okay, I'm fine, thanks to you." Dumbledore showed a bleak smile.

"You don't seem to be in a good mood..." Esther said carefully. "No offense, but if I can be of any help, feel free to say so. Sometimes it's better to let your emotions out than to hide them. You know I've always been sensitive about it."

"Thank you, Esther. My emotions just now must have made you very uncomfortable." Dumbledore recovered a little, "But this is not the place to talk, let's leave first."

Dumbledore restored everything to normal with a wave of his wand and led Esther out of the house.He waved his wand again outside to roughly cover the defensive spell he had broken. "Just in case." He said wearily.

Esther asked Dumbledore to save his magic, and took him back to Hogsmeade with the apparition.Then send him back to the headmaster's office in the castle.

"Get out the ring," said Dumbledore.

"Are you sure you don't want to wear it again?" Esther said, looking at Dumbledore cautiously.

"Of course." Dumbledore forced a smile.

Esther took out the cloth bag and dumped the ring on the table, "I want to see it destroyed with my own eyes, Professor. I don't feel at ease with long nights and dreams."

"It seems that my performance today disappointed you." Dumbledore said.

"No, professor. I'm just worried about you. Everyone has their own weaknesses. I don't feel disappointed, but it makes me feel that you are very real. To be honest, I thought you were far away from me before, which made me not want to get close to you. But today you finally let me feel that you are a real person, full of emotion, and real. Instead, it gave me a sense of intimacy. If it was before, I would never ask you to destroy it in front of me , I don't care if you are cursed or not."

"I'm honored." Dumbledore smiled, his silver beard trembling.

He took out the Gryffindor sword from the drawer, and slashed at the ring on the table, and the ring gave out a piercing scream.Esther took a step back and covered her ears, watching streams of black liquid flow out of the gap in the ring, and the black gemstone inlaid on it fell from the ring with a clatter, cracking a crack.

Dumbledore sighed softly.

Esther picked up the dull black stone, remembering Snape's dark eyes when he was running Occlumency.They're also dark, deep, and lifeless like this.She looked carefully, and there was a pattern engraved on the gemstone.

"What's this?" Esther showed me Dumbledore.

"Peverell's crest." Dumbledore said casually, without taking the gem.

"Peverell? Is this the Resurrection Stone?" Esther said in surprise.

"You know?" It was Dumbledore's turn to be surprised this time.

"I heard from Aunt Connie. His wife is from the Shafik family, and the two of them researched this stone together. But it's not a good thing. The undead brought back affected their thoughts and emotions. In the end Both committed suicide." Esther said, playing with the stone in his hand.

"This is slightly different from what I have heard, but since it is a secret of the Shafik family, it is also possible. After all, no family can keep their mouths shut like they do." Dumbledore said.

"It's just something they summoned the undead for information, and Voldemort got it. Wait... this is..." When Esther turned the stone over for the third time, a human figure more tangible than a ghost appeared in front of her In front of you, "Mom?"

She looked for help to Dumbledore, who looked at her thoughtfully.

"Hasn't it been destroyed? Am I bewitched again?" Esther asked Dumbledore.

"Silly boy, I'm your mother." Wendina Shafik said to her with a loving smile.

"You... how do you prove it?" Esther asked tremblingly.

"You have been very well-behaved and sensible since you were a child, and you will do what your father tells you to learn... You only cried once when you were five years old. When we first moved to Aunt Connie's house, you cried secretly in your own room, I pretended not to notice..." Wen Tina recounted Esther's trivia from childhood to adulthood.

"But you...you...you were...just..." when I was seven years old, Esther felt his eyes tingle.

"Although I can't live with you every day, I pay attention to you all the time. I haven't left you. I'm here." Wen Tina reached out and touched Este's heart .Esther didn't feel the touch, but she wasn't as cold as when the ghost touched her, but she felt a warm feeling.

"Is this the function of the resurrection stone?" Esther whispered to himself.

"You can use it to summon the person you want to see the most. You just used it unconsciously just now, so it summoned me. If you have a strong goal, you can also summon other people. But remember, the summoned undead will be in your imprint on your spirit and become a part of you. Those strange or hostile souls will become a curse, although they will also help you under the effect of the resurrection stone, but those imprints will continue to affect you until you Take it out of this world." Wen Tina said to Este with recognition.

"So the resurrection stone can still be used now, has your mother appeared?" Dumbledore asked suddenly.

"Can't you see?" Esther asked in surprise.

"It seems she comes from within you, I can't see it," said Dumbledore.

Esther thought for a while and said, "Professor, since it was co-produced by Peverell and Shafik, I think I also have a part of the inheritance rights. Can I take this resurrection stone?"

Dumbledore looked at Esther sharply, and finally nodded.

"Great, we'll see you later, Mom." Esther said happily, and put the Resurrection Stone on Dumbledore's desk, and Wendina disappeared.

"It's your turn, you must have someone you want to see, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be so eager to put it on. Try it?" Esther said and pushed the stone towards Dumbledore.

Dumbledore opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.

"I'll wait for you outside." Esther happily walked out of the principal's office and closed the door intimately.

It was past midnight, and Esther dozed off by the door.Suddenly the stairs spiraled up, startling Esther.

Snape stepped out of the stairs and raised his eyebrows when he saw Esther, "I thought Miss Collins was still guarding outside Avery's house."

"I thought someone with a Cruciatus Curse would be resting tonight," Esther said with a shrug.

"You followed him to the Dark Lord?" Snape frowned.

"Yeah, I also saw your wonderful performance. It really surprised me." Esther said eccentrically.

"Did you see it all?" Snape's voice was a little nervous.

"Almost." Esther replied.

Snape stood there stiffly, and Esther said nothing.

The door of the headmaster's office suddenly opened from the inside, and Dumbledore stood at the door, his eyes seemed moister than before.

"Severus, you're back, come in. Esther, return this to you, thank you!" Dumbledore said.

Esther took the resurrection stone, said goodbye to the two professors, and disappeared into the spiral staircase.

Early the next morning, Esther went to Diagon Alley to buy a birthday present for Harry, and asked the owl at the post office to deliver it.Then another day of tracking began.

Two more uneventful days passed.At night, Esther watched Avery secretly trade a batch of illegal drugs in a dim bar.He'd done this before, but since Voldemort had punished him last time, he seemed more interested in the business of trafficking than in Voldemort's mission.

Esther took a sip of the rum in front of him.She knew she couldn't handle alcohol, but it would be weird not to drink something in a bar.Just as he was about to put the quilt back, a fiery red feather suddenly appeared on the empty table.

Fox's feathers, Esther recognized immediately.This is the news that the Order of the Phoenix urgently summoned members back to the headquarters.Esther put the feather in her pocket calmly, and she disappeared the rest of the rum and left the bar in a hurry.

When she walked into 12 Grimmauld Place, the tense atmosphere made her tense too.Dumbledore sat there with a rare look of anger on his face.The other members either bowed their heads in thought or whispered.

Tonks came earlier than Esther, saw her come in, and beckoned her to sit down.

"What happened?" Esther asked.

"Dementors attacked Potter and his cousin two hours ago. Mundungus went AWOL for a shipment of smuggled cauldrons. Harry used the Patronus Charm and was caught by the Ministry of Magic. They want to expel He, who wanted to destroy his wand, was stopped by Dumbledore, but there was still a hearing." Tonks told Esther in a low voice.

"What!" Esther's voice was a little loud, attracting the attention of other members.Snape gave her a stern look, calming her congested brain a little. "Then where is he now?"

"Still at his aunt's house, Dumbledore called us here to discuss transferring him."

Esther stood up and was about to go out. She was not only worried about Harry, but also her aunt.They lived so close, did the dementors attack Auntie?Has she been affected?Esther didn't have time to think, and wanted to go back and take a look as soon as possible, even if she was outside the house, it would be good to see that she was fine.

"You can't find her. She concealed the house with a spell. This attack did not affect her, I'm sure." Dumbledore suddenly stopped Esther's actions.Although he didn't say it explicitly, Esther knew he was referring to his aunt.She stared blankly at Dumbledore's blue eyes, not believing her ears.My aunt has gone into hiding, and even she doesn't want to see her.

Esther sat back on the chair dejectedly, regretting her choice for the first time.She was not as determined as before, she was insignificant in the Order of the Phoenix, her mission could not protect Harry, and she had her aunt cut off contact with her.

The members of the Order of the Phoenix who were summoned soon arrived.Everyone began to discuss the issue of transferring Harry.

The time was set in three days, and although Sirius insisted on picking up Harry immediately, Snape vetoed it sarcastically.It was the Ministry of Magic that ordered the dementors to attack Harry, but there were Death Eaters involved in the planning behind it, and the transfer tonight was likely to be attacked by them.

There are many ways to transfer, but most of them cannot be realized.There are traces on Harry, and Apparation will be followed; the Floo network is directly controlled by the Ministry of Magic; if an unreported Portkey is used quietly near Privet Drive, Death Eaters or the Ministry of Magic may do something on the road. hands and feet.

"How about a broomstick?" Bill said.

"The risk of transferring in the open air is too great, and you may be attacked at any time along the way." Mo Li objected.

"I think this method works," Lupine continued. "Harry's flying skills are excellent. And the broomstick will not be detected. If you are worried about being detected, you can wear an invisibility cloak. Harry has one."

"Invisibility cloaks don't work very well when flying. If you show an arm or a leg in mid-air, you'll be spotted right away. The Disillusionment Charm would be better. A floating broom probably wouldn't be so conspicuous," Moody said loudly. , "So who is involved in this mission?"

The room immediately became lively, and almost everyone was willing to be Harry's bodyguard.

In the end, Moody, who was in charge of this mission, divided everyone into two teams, so that even if the guards of the first team were attacked, there would be substitutes to ensure that Harry was brought back safely.Esther was included in the first team.