HP Starlight

After seeing Harry off, Esther returned to the Pig's Head Bar from the secret passage.As soon as he got out of the door of the cave, he saw Snape was reporting Voldemort's situation with his back to himself and Dumbledore.Hearing the movement on the wall, Snape turned his head and looked at Esther with Dumbledore.Esther couldn't help thinking of the memory just now, and lowered her head guiltyly to tidy up her wizard robe.

"How is Harry doing?" Dumbledore asked with concern.

"It started off fine, but the last time—" Esther paused, "Harry said he couldn't help himself. I was kicked out of my head by him after I was stung by a pair of red eyes."

"And then? How is Harry?" Dumbledore seemed to be very concerned about this matter.

"He's okay, he doesn't seem to feel it himself - but for a moment I think he is sneering, as if he is a different person - maybe it's just my illusion..." Esther recalled.

Snape moved, but said nothing.

"I see, you go back to Grimmauld Place first, and apparate directly to the door. Stay there for now and don't go out," said Dumbledore.

Esther nodded and said goodbye to the two professors.

Back at Grimmauld Square, Sirius couldn't wait to ask Esther about his godson.It had been a long time since Harry had used the two-way mirror to contact Sirius since Hermione had supervised the OWLs review program.He had to get some news from Este.

After entering June, the actions of the Death Eaters became less and less, and they seemed to be dormant and plotting some kind of conspiracy.The members of the Order of the Phoenix also returned to the headquarters more and more frequently, so that they could adjust the mission deployment at any time.Although Kreacher still didn't like the members of the Order of the Phoenix, he now knew that what they were doing was exactly what Master Regulus wanted to do, so he stopped speaking ill at each other.It was just that when there were many people, he would hide in Regulus' room, as if this would calm his dissatisfaction.

Esther's main task now is to brew some standing potions.This was originally Snape's job, but the exam season at Hogwarts left the dean and professor of Potions alone for Snape.Anyway, Dumbledore didn't allow Esther to go out, so she could just share the burden for Snape.

Esther found a separate room dedicated to making potions.Besides Esther, Tonks was also a frequent visitor to this room.She hadn't been very happy lately, and it made her very sad that Lupine had been refusing to accept her feelings.She often chats with Esther to relieve her depression.

"Why don't you give up." Esther suggested to Tonks for an unknown number of times.

"No, I love him, and I know he loves me!" replied Tonks for the umpteenth time.

"Then I can only wish you good luck. By the way, good luck, do you want me to make you some Felicity Potion?" Esther said.

"Does my love depend on potions to succeed?" Tonks said discouragedly.

"No, I don't think there is any chance of success with potions." Esther couldn't help becoming pessimistic when he thought of Snape's ability to resist pushing himself away every time.

Just when the two were sad, Snape's eager voice suddenly sounded in the whole house, "Esther, are you at the headquarters? Get back to me as soon as possible."

Esther froze for a moment, then waved his wand and summoned a ball of silver light, which flew out of the window.

"What's the matter?" Moody, Sirius, Kingsley and Lupine also heard the voice, and hurried to Esther's room.

Esther shook his head, saying that he didn't know either.

Just when everyone's anxiety reached its peak, Snape sent a second message, "Potter saw the image of you being captured through a mind connection. He and a few students from the DA Army are likely to go to the Department of Mysteries Saved you. Immediately notify the others to go to the Ministry of Magic to stop him. You stay at the headquarters and don't move, Dumbledore will be there soon and tell him the news."

"Quick, let's go to the Ministry of Magic right away." Moody was the first to react.

The others filed out after him, Esther walking behind.Passing by Regulus' room, Esther and Kreacher told him to tell Dumbledore about the current situation, and then hurried out to follow everyone's actions.

Moody, Sirius, Lupine, Kingsley, Tonks and Esther appeared one by one in the Ministry hall.The hall was empty, and to their hearts sinking, it was clear that this was a trap.They headed down the stairs as fast as they could and rushed through the door of the Department of Mysteries.Like the parchment they had seen, the circular room inside had twelve identical doors.They knew that every time one of the doors was opened, all the doors would rotate, making it difficult to tell which door was opened.But Moody has magic eyes, so it's not too difficult to find someone.

"In the Hall of Death." Moody said after looking at each door one by one with his magic eyes. "The situation is not good. Those children have been caught. They are threatening Potter to hand over the prophecy ball."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go in! Which room?" Sirius said grumpily.

"Wait, listen to me." Moody stopped Sirius' impulsive behavior, "There are ten Death Eaters, and six of them are taking hostages. Potter is at six o'clock, Sirius, you are responsible for protecting him; Tonk You are in charge of twelve o'clock, Kingsley, there are two hostages there; Lupine, one at ten o'clock; Esther, one at seven o'clock; Dead Apostles, save the children first, and then support me as soon as possible." Moody quickly finished the task, and made a ready gesture in front of the door leading to the death hall.

Sirius rushed through the door first, and then Moody, Kingsley, Tonks, Lupine and Esther quickly moved to their positions.Esther used a disarming spell and was dodged by the Death Eaters on the opposite side.But he was also forced to loosen his grip on Ron in his hand.Ron hit him in the stomach with an elbow.Esther followed with a stun spell, and the Death Eater fell unconscious on his back.

After Esther pulled Ron to a relatively safe place on the edge of the stone steps, he joined the battle again to assist Moody in attracting the spell attacks of the remaining Death Eaters.Just as Esther kept releasing the spell, a noisy rustling of voices distracted her attention.

"bring it on."

"Come here."

"come here."

Esther looked strangely at the source of the sound, which came from behind the hanging curtains on the stone arch in the center of the room.

"I have a secret you want to know."

"Can I help you."

"If you ask, I'll tell."

In the split second that Esther was distracted, a Death Eater fired a spell at her.Esther hurriedly used the armor spell, but the armor was not fully formed, and the purple light had already arrived.Esther felt a burning sensation in her chest.She snorted and stepped back a few steps, leaning against the stone steps behind her.

She temporarily suppressed the wound with a simple healing spell.Then quickly hit back at the Death Eater who cast a spell on her.The Death Eaters on the opposite side were attacking Lupin, unguarded, the spell hit him directly in the face.Esther was relieved to see the figure fall.

"Harry, don't chase." Suddenly Sirius shouted.

Esther saw that Harry was chasing Lucius Malfoy.With the prophecy ball in his hand, Lucius quickly left the battlefield and ran towards the door under the cover of the remaining Death Eaters.

Esther followed Sirius to catch up with Harry.They ran all the way up the stairs to the Great Hall of the Ministry of Magic.The Death Eaters launched a fierce attack on those who came after them.Sirius threw Harry suddenly, and as soon as the green light flew past where they were standing.Esther hid in a corner of a wall, a red light hit the wall beside her, and the bouncing stones scratched her face, like being bitten by a bug, it felt hot and itchy.

Soon other members of the Order of the Phoenix and Harry's friends caught up.With aid, Esther and the others launched a counterattack against the Death Eaters.Fighting figures and cast spells shuttled back and forth in the hall.Several lights of different colors hit the magic fountain in the center of the hall, and the statue of the fountain exploded, and the centaur's arms and the wizard's head flew up.The main targets of the Death Eaters were the Aurors Kingsley, Tonks and Moody.Soon Tonks was hit by a flash of red light and fell limply to the ground. Moody's fake eye also flew out. Kingsley was hit by two spells at the same time and fell down with a yell.The Death Eaters weren't much better.Of the seven people who came up, only four remained.

In the confusion, Harry's spell hit Lucius, he couldn't dodge and was hit hard, the prophecy ball came out of his hand, fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.A white mist in the shape of a witch rose from the ground.Her mouth opened and closed as if speaking, but the hall was filled with mixed voices and their echoes, completely covering the voices from the white mist.

"No!" Lucius uttered a desperate cry, "Master, I'm sorry—I didn't mean to—please—don't punish me—"

As if responding to Lucius' words, Voldemort suddenly appeared in the middle of the hall.His red eyes flicked coldly over the debris on the floor, then fixed on Harry.

The remaining four Death Eaters stopped attacking and gathered around Voldemort tremblingly, begging their master's forgiveness in low voices.

"How many months of preparation, how many months of hard work... You have hindered me again, Harry Potter." Voldemort said softly, "You have annoyed me again and again, too many times and for too long. It should end. Adawa kills!"

"Frost shield!" Esther usually added a layer of ice shield in front of Harry conditioned by reflex.At the same time, Sirius, Lupine and Moody, who had lost his magic eye and leaned against the wall, also used an ice shield on Harry.Under the superposition of magic, the ice layer became clearly visible, forming a thick barrier.

The green light hit the upper ice layer and shattered it. Harry was shocked by the huge impact and fell backwards. Several small bloodstains were drawn on his face and body by the crushed ice.

"It seems that I am really too kind, and you have lost your respect for me." Voldemort's red eyes swept over everyone coldly. "Then deal with you first." He raised his wand again.

Just then, the statue of the Magic Fountain comes to life.Wizards blocked Sirius and Lupine; house-elves blocked Esther and Harry; witches, goblins, and centaurs charged at Voldemort and the Death Eaters behind him.

The Death Eaters panicked and shot spells at the statues, but the spells all grazed the statues' chests and had no effect.Soon the remaining Death Eaters were knocked over by the centaur, pinned down by the witch, and tripped over by the goblin.

"Dumbledore!" Voldemort quickly reacted, looking around for the figure of the old wizard.

"It would be foolish to come here tonight, Tom," said Dumbledore quietly, emerging from the other side of the hall, "the Aurors are coming—"

"By the time they come I'll be gone, and you - will die!" said Voldemort viciously.He shot a green light at Dumbledore.Dumbledore's robe twirled, disappeared from where he had been, and appeared behind Voldemort.

Dumbledore flicked his wand lightly.Voldemort quickly conjured a shiny silver shield to parry Dumbledore's attack.There was no violent banging of the spell, but a low, gong-like trill came from the silver shield.

Esther was a little dizzy from the sound.The elf statue in front of her turned suddenly, pushing her and Harry back, away from the fierce battle.

A series of red, blue, green or silver spells collided violently in the air, emitting a dazzling light.After yet another attack was deflected, Voldemort swung his wand violently, and a flaming python swooped down on Dumbledore with its jaws wide open.Dumbledore turned the wand in his hand sharply, and the giant python was stopped in mid-air, blowing black smoke and attacking Voldemort back.The flames slammed into other places under Voldemort's command, and Dumbledore then raised the water from the magic fountain behind Voldemort to form a huge water ball that enveloped Voldemort.

Voldemort struggled to get out of this suffocating cage in the water balloon.Suddenly the cage made of water burst, and the water splashed everywhere.Voldemort escaped from the cage and pointed at Dumbledore with his wand. Clouds of black smoke seemed to be stained with Voldemort's anger, and attacked Dumbledore rampantly.The glass window of the Ministry of Magic was shattered, and Voldemort directed Sirius, Lupine, Harry and Esther to fly from all directions.

Dumbledore released a huge silver mask with all his strength, protecting himself and the people behind him.The fragments passed through the protective cover and turned into powder, but they still hit Esther with pain.

Finally the attack stopped and Voldemort disappeared.Harry got up to go see Dumbledore.Suddenly his body convulsed and collapsed to the ground.Esther was startled, and hurried to help him.But Harry's eyes made Esther withdraw her hand in fright.She clearly sensed that the body in front of her was not Harry, but the thing that had attacked her in his brain.

Dumbledore, Sirius and Lupine also ran over and knelt around Harry and surrounded him.But Harry struggled in pain, and seemed to be strongly restraining himself from attacking those around him.

"You lost, old man." A voice that didn't belong to him suddenly came out of Harry's mouth, "Unless you kill this boy..."

Seeming to have regained some consciousness, Harry stopped talking and struggled violently again.

"Harry," Dumbledore said softly, "don't think about how much you are like him, think about how different you are."

Esther didn't understand why Dumbledore could remain so calm, he wasn't the boy anymore, he had become someone else.

"You will believe him, right?" Dumbledore seemed to know what Esther was thinking, "He is still Harry, Esther, he just needs some memories to help him realize this clearly."

Esther seemed to understand Dumbledore's words suddenly, she drew a circle with her wand, "Call for protection!" She used up her last magic power to make the Patronus bright and powerful.The silver mist sank into Harry's body, Harry shivered quickly, and stopped struggling violently.

For a second or two, Harry was still lying on the ground motionless, and Sirius and Lupine softly called Harry's name.Gradually waking up, his classmates also came to Harry's side.Finally Harry moved again, "You are weak, you will never understand love and friendship, I am so sad for you." He said calmly but firmly.

Harry started jerking violently again, but Esther felt that this time it seemed different, the thing was being pulled away gradually.Harry regained his composure.

Voldemort appeared before them again.Bellatrix broke free of the statuette and stood beside Voldemort, ready to attack.Esther clutched her wand tightly, but she knew she had no magic to cast the spell.Luckily Voldemort didn't attack anyone.

"You are a fool, Harry Potter, you will lose everything." Voldemort said with a sneer.

Suddenly bursts of green light came out of the fire, and many wizards and witches came out of the fireplace.Seeing Voldemort, they stood there in amazement, bewildered.

Voldemort disappeared with Bellatrix.The crowd rioted.

Dumbledore made a portkey for Sirius and Esther to send Harry and his classmates back to Hogwarts before the Minister of Magic, Fudge, asked questions.Arrangements were made for Lupine and a somewhat recovered Moody to send Tonks and Kingsley to St. Mungo's.

Esther and Sirius take the students to the school hospital.All were left behind by Madam Pomfrey.Madam Pomfrey took a breath when she checked the wound on Esther's chest. "You shouldn't have used a pain-relieving spell, it made you ignore this wound, and now it's growing," she said reproachfully.

"It's urgent." Esther smiled apologetically.As a therapist, she understood Madam Pomfrey's feelings very well.

After Madam Pomfrey settled all the wounded, she went back to the office to prepare potions for Esther.The door of the school hospital was opened again, and Snape strode in, his black robe tumbling behind him.The students in the room became extremely quiet because of his arrival.Sirius shot him a disdainful glance.

"Potter, the headmaster is back, he's waiting for you in his office." Snape said in a low voice.

Harry glanced at Sirius, who nodded to him to go first.

Snape didn't leave right away, but stopped by Esther's bed, frowned and looked at the wound on her face, and asked sternly, "Didn't I tell you to stay at the headquarters?"

"I thought you just emphasized the need for someone to tell Professor Dumbledore about the situation. I entrusted Kreacher to do this, and I thought I had fulfilled your order." Esther smiled mischievously, but the analgesic spell has already Ineffective, the wound involved caused her to take a deep breath, and her smile became like a grimace.

"Only the face?" Snape bent down to observe Esther's wound up close.He tried to keep his question as casual as possible, but Esther could still hear a hint of anxiety in his voice.

"I got a spell on my chest, it's not serious." Esther said casually.Suddenly she smelled the faint smell of blood on Snape's body. "Are you injured too, Professor?"

Snape stood up and stepped back a little, saying, "The things in the Forbidden Forest have not been very friendly recently, and I accidentally bumped into it when I was looking for Potter." After speaking, he gave Harry a hard look at the place where Harry left.

Esther felt that what he said was too light, and wanted to see what the injury was.But Madam Pomfrey came and interrupted their conversation.

"Drink this orange potion first and then go to sleep. Then drink the other ones in the daytime." Madam Pomfrey pushed the orange potion to her eyes without any doubt.

"So many?" Esther pouted, picked up the potion and looked at it.

"This is just one of them, there are several more. Who made you treat your wounds so hastily. Drink it quickly." Madam Pomfrey urged.

"Not serious?" Snape took a deep look at Esther, and repeated what Esther said.

Esther quickly drank the potion, lay down quickly, and pretended to be asleep.

In fact, Esther did fall asleep quickly, and this night was really exhausting.When she woke up the next day, she found that there was another person in the school hospital, Dolores Umbridge.She was rescued by Dumbledore from the centaur, and she was lying on the hospital bed lifelessly staring at the ceiling in a daze.