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Back at Grimmauld Place, they each applied scalding medicine, and Esther made everyone a cup of hot ginger tea.

"I didn't expect us to come back alive." Ron said, wrapped in a blanket, staring at the steam rising from the teacup.

"But now You-Know-Who should know." Hermione said angrily.

"If you know it, you know, now we should think about how to destroy it." Esther said lightly, taking a sip of tea.

"I've studied this, and I said in "Advanced Dark Arts Quest", you need to use something extremely destructive to destroy it, just like the basilisk fangs that Harry once used." Hermione said.

"Wonderful, we have a bunch of them, except they're at Hogwarts," said Ron.

"Or the sword of Gryffindor that absorbed the venom." Harry said, patting his forehead.

"Might as well know where Fang is," said Ron.

"Esther knows, she said that the one in Gringotts is fake." Harry looked at Esther with green eyes, full of expectation.

"Uh, Hogwarts too." Esther took another sip of tea guiltily.

"Looks like we'll have to go to Hogwarts," said Harry.

They ate something and were going to rest for the night to make plans and go to Hogwarts the next day.Suddenly Harry's scar ached.

"Harry, Harry?" Ron grabbed him to keep him from knocking against the corner of the table.

"Harry, wake up! Harry!" Hermione called anxiously.But Harry still didn't wake up.

After a long time, Harry finally regained consciousness.He looked at Ron, Hermione and Esther beside him, and said in a deep voice, "He knows."

"What?" Hermione tensed.

"He knew the cup was lost. He was furious and terrified. He knew we were looking for Horcruxes. He was going to check on the others. He thought the one at Hogwarts was all right, and he was going to go last. But he Informed Snape to be on his guard. I think we only have a few hours to go to Hogwarts for the sword or the fangs," said Harry.

"Did you see how many Horcruxes he has? Are there any we didn't find?" Estel asked.

"No, I've already shown all the Dumbledores he thought of. Now there are no other Horcruxes except the Gold Cup and his snake," said Harry.

"Then let's start planning quickly, we should have done it before you passed out just now." Ron urged.

"It's too late to plan, Ron, we have to act now," said Harry, pulling out his Invisibility Cloak. "If he changes his mind and goes to Hogwarts first, we won't have a chance to sneak in. He's gone mad, killed a People in the house, if he finds that the Horcrux in Hogwarts is gone, and spread his temper on the teachers and students of Hogwarts..."

"But how do we get in?" Hermione asked.

"Go to the Hog's Head Pub in Hogsmeade, there's a secret passage that should still work," said Esther.

Esther cast the Disappearance Charm on everyone and put on an invisibility cloak before pulling them to Apparate to Hogsmeade.

Just touching the ground of Hogsmeade, a scream pierced the night sky.A dozen hooded Death Eaters rushed out of the Three Broomsticks bar not far away, and began to search around with their wands raised.

Estella pulled them against the door of the Pig's Head Bar and gently used a spell to sweep away the footprints left on the snow.

"The Invisibility Cloak is coming!" shouted a Death Eater.

The Invisibility Cloak doesn't seem to have any intention of abandoning them.Est was relieved.Gently knocked on the door of the Pig's Head Bar.

"Be careful, Potter's nearby. Spread out," the cursed Death Eater said to the others.

The Death Eaters were approaching, and Esther had to knock on the door hastily again.

Finally there was movement behind the door, and the door was opened with a creak.

"It's me, Esther. Please let us in, Aberforth." Esther said anxiously.

"Damn it!" said Aberforth roughly, opening the door for them.Esther quickly pushed in the people who could touch him, and then he also dodged in. After eliminating the traces of the door, he closed the door lightly.

"Go upstairs and take off the invisibility cloak," Aberforth urged.

They stumbled up to the living room on the second floor.Esther lifted everyone's disillusionment spell.Hermione and Ron emerged from the air, except for Harry.

"Where's Harry?" Esther asked in a panic.

"I'm here." A voice sounded from the window, "I'll see if they've noticed us coming here."

Aberforth locked the downstairs door and followed.He looked at Esther, then at Ron and Hermione, and finally seeing Harry who had just taken off his invisibility cloak, he couldn't help but angrily said, "What are you doing here? Now Hogsmeade is under curfew." , You are throwing yourself into a trap."

"We're going to Hogwarts, can the secret passage still be used?" Esther ignored his attitude and went straight to the topic.

"Stop kidding, Hogwarts? Are you going to give them to You-Know-Who?" Aberforth said roughly.

"Of course not, we have important things to do, and hurry up, please." Esther begged.

"What's the use of you going in? It's better to hide and hide abroad, at least you can save your life. As far as I know, Hogwarts has been strictly guarded, and all the ancient secret passages have been blocked. The walls There are Death Eaters around, and there are constant patrols in the school. Snape is in charge, and the Carrow brothers and sisters are his right-hand men, if you go in, you will die!" Aberforth said.

"That's not too bad." Esther couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that Snape could still control the situation, "We can end all of this by going in, so, is this secret passage still usable?"

Aberforth looked at Esther with piercing eyes like his brother's, and after a moment he said, "Sometimes I think you like keeping secrets like him, and that's exactly what I don't like the most."

He turned to the portrait of the girl on the wall and said, "You know what to do." The girl smiled at her and turned away.

"She's Ariana, right? The girl in the painting is your sister, and you are Aberforth Dumbledore, Dumbledore's younger brother." Harry asked.

"You read Rita Skeeter's book, didn't you?" said Aberforth curtly.

"No, I heard from Ron's aunt." Harry shook his head. "She—I mean—I heard about the funeral."

"Ha, you mean I broke Albus's nose? I really regret that I only hit his nose." Aberforth seemed to have found a way to vent, and said in one breath, "My sister was very Innocent and cute, but when she was six years old she was magic and was seen by three Muggle boys. They were probably frightened and wanted to stop her from doing magic again. What they did ruined Ariana, she didn't want to use magic anymore, but Can't get rid of it. The magic goes inside and drives her crazy. When she can't control it, the magic will work on her and become dangerous. But most of the time she does no harm to people.

"Our father taught those bastards a lesson and ended up in Azkaban. He couldn't say why because they would have locked Ariana up. We moved and hid her and lied about her being sick Now, the mother is responsible for taking care of her, keeping her calm and happy.

"But when she was 14, she had a fit of temper. I wasn't home, or I could have stopped it. She liked me, trusted me. Only I could calm her down. But I wasn't there, my mother wasn't young, and it turned out ... It was an accident, Ariana couldn't help herself, my mother died.

"I was going to drop out of school to take care of her. But Albus insisted that I study, saying he would take care of her. Ha, I shouldn't trust him, except that he will sit in the bedroom counting awards, and correspond with famous wizards to show his What else would talent do? He didn't care about her at all. Sure enough, after a few weeks, that person came... Grindelwald, a person as smart and talented as my brother appeared. Taking care of Ariana became the first Two. They conceive of a new order in the wizarding world, seek the Hallows, and work for the greater good.

"After a few weeks I finally had enough, and I told them, told him, it was impossible for Ariana to run around with them and stir up a bunch of their followers. Her condition wouldn't allow it. Grindelwald got mad and said I wanted to Becoming a stumbling block to them, saying that once they change the world and put Muggles in their place, wizards won't have to hide and my sister won't have to hide. We argued... I drew my wand and he drew his Yeah, he cast the Cruciatus Curse on me, my brother's best friend did it to me - Albus tried to stop it, we turned into a duel, Ariana probably wanted to help, but she didn't know what she was doing, We don't know which of us did it, anyone could have done it—she's dead." Aberforth choked up.

Esther didn't expect Grindelwald's bad relationship with Aberforth to be because of this.She couldn't help but feel a little sad when she saw the appearance of the hotel owner who had always been fierce.Hermione was in tears, and Ron was pale and looked very disturbed.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have brought this up," Harry said guiltily.

"There's nothing I can't mention, isn't he the great wizard, the dazzling sun, let you down? He and the dark wizard who later committed many crimes are like-minded friends. Have you ever thought that maybe you are also for The next one to be sacrificed for the greater good?" Aberforth said, staring at his hands bruised from clenched fists.

Esther's heart jumped violently.She hadn't expected Aberforth to say this.She looked at Harry in bewilderment, wondering how he would react.

"No, Dumbledore loved Harry," Hermione whimpered.

"Then why not let him hide? Don't let him take care of himself and save his life?"

"Because," said Harry first, "sometimes you have to think about more than your own safety! There has to be a greater good! It's war!"

"You are only 17 years old!"

"I'm an adult! I know what I'm doing! If I can end his reign of terror and keep people around me from being harmed, I'll do it without hesitation! Either I succeed or I fail and die, I know there will be I knew the ending a few years ago."

Est silently clenched his fists.If Harry had hesitated just now, she would not have told him what Dumbledore had said.But he seemed so determined that Esther wondered if he could have said that if he knew the truth of the matter.She thought of Grindelwald's foresight, and wondered whether not getting the Elder Wand would affect the future.

At this time, there was movement in the portrait, and the girl came back gracefully.Then the portrait opens like a door, revealing the tunnel behind.

"If you're really ready to die..." Aberforth gestured please.

Harry didn't hesitate, but stepped firmly into the tunnel entrance.Esther emptied his redundant thoughts and said to Aberforth, "The mysterious man will come to Hogwarts in a few hours, please inform the Order of the Phoenix. And Albus is not what you think, he regrets it, you Don't know how crazy he was when he saw the resurrection stone, completely lost his mind, just to apologize to them himself. He refused to let himself go, despite all the right things he did later, he still refused to forgive himself. Forgive He, after all he only has you as his relative. Grindelwald is the same, he confessed. Of course you can choose not to forgive him, after all he has done so much. But he did change. He once went to Ali Anna's cemetery, I believe he has sincerely repented. He began to learn to protect others instead of controlling and hurting. Of course, if you really think that Ariana wants him to die, I don't think he will hesitate."

Aberforth's glasses reflected white light, making his attitude hard to see.Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Esther in surprise, and even forgot to move.Esther didn't stay any longer, walked around the small table and walked to the entrance, urging Harry, "Let's go, time is running out."

Harry turned and went into the tunnel, Esther followed, followed by Ron and Hermione.No one spoke along the way, only the shadows cast by the brass lamps on the wall swayed with their steps.Soon they started uphill, turned another corner and saw the door at the end.They crawled through the door and came to an empty room.

"This is the Room of Requirement, the room where we practice Occlumency." Harry was the first to recognize it.

"Yes." Esther said, looking around.

Ron cleared his throat and said, "I think we should get the fangs first, at least it can destroy the one in our hand. As for the snake, if we can't find the sword, I hope the fangs will work..."

"Esther and I will go, you stay here and keep the Gold Cup safe," Harry said.

"It's better for us not to separate. In case we encounter Snape or other Death Eaters, we can deal with them together." Ron suggested.

"Okay then, let's go together." Harry took out the Marauder's Map and looked at it. "Snape is in the headmaster's office. There is no one in the corridor, let's go."

Esther and Hermione used the Disillusionment Charm, and Harry and Ron put on the Invisibility Cloak and went out through the door.Just down two flights of stairs, I heard Ron calling anxiously, "Harry, Harry? Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Harry almost forced a sound out of his throat.Then he gasped and said staccatoly, "He—found another—stone house—"

"Someone has to inform the Hogwarts teachers and students that the mysterious man is coming. You have to tell the Order of the Phoenix about the current situation. You go to the Chamber of Secrets to get the fangs, and I will do these things." Esther decisively changed his mind.

"Yeah—" Harry said with difficulty.

Esther ran back upstairs lightly, and turned to the principal's office at the corner of the eighth floor.She knocked on the oak door, which opened quietly.Snape sat behind his desk in a black robe, scanning the empty doorway.Suddenly Snape drew out his wand suddenly and swiped towards the door. Before Esther had time to react, he felt himself being tightly bound by a force.She staggered and slammed through the door, breaking the disillusionment spell.

"Esther?" Snape looked at the figure that appeared in surprise.He quickly walked to the door and glanced out to close the door before releasing the spell for Esther. "So Potter is really here?"

"Yeah, they went to the secret room to get their fangs." Esther rubbed his aching arm, "The mysterious man is coming soon too. Let the students get up and transfer. You have to inform other professors that the mysterious man is coming this time." He's not going to let it go, he's furious. Harry said he killed a whole house when he heard what happened at Gringotts. It's only going to be crazier when he comes to Hogwarts."

"You got it from Gringotts?" Snape asked.

"Yes, there's only the snake left. When are you going to tell Harry the truth?"

Snape took out a vial containing a silver liquid substance and handed it to Esther, "Everything he needs to know is in it, give it to him when you think it's appropriate."

Esther recognized the liquid-like gas in the vial as memory.It is a good choice to memory directly to Harry.Otherwise, even if Snape was willing to speak calmly, Harry would not have listened calmly to him.What's more, Snape may not be able to calm down.Esther nodded and put the vial securely in her pocket.Unexpectedly, Snape took out another vial containing a golden liquid.She recognized it as the bottle of Felicia she had given him three years ago.

"It—you—didn't work then?" Esther asked, looking at the bottle in surprise.

"It would make me overly optimistic and self-confident, and the Dark Lord would only allow me little defenses and struggles. He'd much rather see me standing there trembling, looking at him in awe." Snape stroked his smooth face. bottle body, and continued, "It's better for you to use. Now it's the most dangerous time, I don't want you to have an accident. I checked, this potion has not expired, I hope it is measured enough and can work until the end ..."

Then Snape sped up his speech and explained to Esther, "The sword of Gryffindor is behind Dumbledore's portrait. If Potter dies, you can ask Weasley or Granger to get it. You don't Yes, it's not Gryffindor students who use it to disappear. If it does disappear, remember to ask them to wear the sorting hat and try, and maybe someone can wield the sword again."

"I think you can give them the sword yourself, it's over, and you can tell them the truth." Esther said anxiously.

Snape looked at her deeply, his dark eyes concealing all emotions.He stuffed the Felix Felicia into Esther's hand and said softly, "Good luck."

"Good luck to you too..." Esther knew he was planning for the worst, but she didn't want him to think so.She wanted to say something more, but Snape had already turned his attention away from her.

"Phineas, please inform Professors Slughorn and Sprout to gather all the students of their colleges in the auditorium at once. Tell them I hope to see them within half an hour. Oman Do, please bring the same message to Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick."

The two principals stepped out of the portrait and disappeared.Snape frowned thoughtfully.Esther dared not disturb him.After a while, there was a knock on the office door, and Esther was startled.Snape's eyes signaled Esther to hide in the corner of the roof.Esther understood immediately, and silently chanted the spell to become a bat and fly up.

Snape flicked his wand, and the door swung open.Amycus Carlo and his sister Alecto walked in quickly. "What's going on? Didn't you mean guarding the Ravenclaw Tower? Why did you ask the students to gather in the Great Hall?" Amycus asked.

"You guys came just in time, check to see if there is any Potter among the students gathered in the auditorium." Snape said calmly.

"But the Dark Lord said..."

"I know what the Dark Lord said. But I got information that Potter didn't go to the Ravenclaw tower, but mingled with the students. This is our chance to catch him. You know if Potter from us What are the consequences of running away. Nobody wants to be like the Malfoys, do they?"

The siblings seemed to think about it seriously, and then nodded in agreement with Snape's request.

Snape followed the two out of the office.Esther heard the sound of the spiral staircase starting.After there was no movement outside the door, Esther fell from the roof and left the principal's office, preparing to join other members of the Order of the Phoenix.

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