[HP] Astringent

When Black and Lupine returned, Vanessa was sitting obediently in her seat.Snape was diagonally behind her, which made her feel restrained.Although she felt that Snape would be more than happy to stare at Harry for a while than pay attention to herself.Especially when only Harry's back can be seen, it's not a pleasant sight.

"Sirius, Remus, hurry up, the mascot of the Bulgarian team is coming!" Harry took off the panoramic binoculars and waved at them.Vanessa peeked at it, and Snape immediately narrowed his eyes.

Blake squeezed his way through a row of neat redheads and sat down next to Vanessa.He turned his head and whispered to her, "I didn't find the telescope."

"Sorry, I forgot I put it in the bag."

What else did Black want to say, Buckman's sonorous voice penetrated the entire venue: "Please allow me to introduce - the mascot of the Bulgarian team!"

"I don't know what they brought." Arthur leaned out from the seat, "Ah!" He took off his glasses abruptly and wiped them on his robe in a hurry, "Vela!"

Before Harry could ask a question, a hundred veela had already slid onto the field, and his question was answered.They are the most beautiful women in the world, and all men will fall in love with them just by looking at them.As the veela danced faster and faster, Ron, Harry and the other boys stood up and walked towards the low wall outside the box. They straddled the wall with one leg, as if they were about to dive into the water, Ron had already started tearing at the shamrock pinned to his suit.Even Sirius' eyes were clouded for a while, and he leaned forward.Hermione and Ginny stared dumbfounded at their veela frenzy.

But all this is so funny that Vanessa immediately gave up her plan to drag the boys back, but took out her camera and frantically pressed the shutter to record their embarrassment.Soon Black came to his senses, smiling uncontrollably at Harry.

Originally, there was no movement in the back row, as solemn as attending a funeral.But the good times didn't last long, and Malfoy finally broke free from Narcissa's hand, stood up involuntarily, completely ignored the people in the front row, tried to overcome many obstacles, and jumped directly to the bottom.Even when riding on the broom, there are a few strands of her hair hanging down in front of her eyes, and she has regained a little bit of the silly look of a 14-year-old boy.

Vanessa, who was always paying attention to the movements in the back row, took a panoramic view of this episode as a matter of course, covered her mouth and started laughing. Malfoy was so angry that his face was livid, and he pushed his son back on the chair.Little Malfoy recovered quickly. First he glanced around in a daze, his face flushed, as if trying to save face, he snorted heavily at the boys who were still acting stupid, his lips squirmed, probably in a low voice of sarcasm What, unfortunately, the surrounding area is too noisy, no one can hear clearly.

He must not know what he was like just now.Vanessa laughed even more brazenly at the thought.

What expression would Snape have now, would he be sitting out of place amidst the din, with a coffin-like face.She quietly looked back under Black's cover, and unexpectedly met Snape's eyes.His brows were unexpectedly soft, and the tails of his eyes were drooping, and there were dots of lights reflected in those eyes, like meteors passing by.

It was only for a moment, when she looked over again, the man stared straight ahead as if nothing had happened, as if he had never looked over.

For the rest of the game, Vanessa watched absent-mindedly. Except for occasionally applauding indiscriminately with the people around her, she never looked left and right, acting as if she was taking Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class.

"Just a little bit! Just a little bit Krum is going to win!"

"He shouldn't have caught the Snitch so early!"

Ron and Harry shouted at the top of their voices amid deafening applause.

Blake touched Vanessa's arm and leaned over and said, "Come on, Vanessa, the show is over."

"Oh, oh...the Irish team won." Vanessa glanced at the scoreboard, "It was a wonderful game."

"Yes, this game will be rounded by people for several years." Buckman revoked the spell, and his voice returned to its usual level.His voice was hoarse, but he couldn't hide his excitement.Fred and George had rolled over the back of their chairs and stood in front of him, grinning and spreading their hands--they had made a fortune on the gamble.

They squeezed out again with the tide of the crowd, and the Malfoys and Snape had already followed Fudge through the dedicated passage.Back at camp, the children were still excited, and Arthur made an exception and allowed them to drink hot cocoa before going to bed.

Vanessa sat by the fire and yawned, her brain hurting from the noise of the Irish people who were partying all night not far away.When Arthur finally drove the children back to the tent, Vanessa, Hermione, and Ginny got into the small tent next to them.

Her eyelids were a little heavy, but her spirit remained alert - she didn't know when what Snape had reminded would happen.After the two girls fell asleep, she quietly got up and made herself a cup of espresso.

Maybe after three or four o'clock, the sounds outside became unusual.At first, the sound of explosions and collisions was completely covered by the loud music, but after a while, there were screams from outside.Immediately Vanessa drew her wand and called the two girls up.

"Get dressed and follow me." She lifted their quilts and pulled them up.

"What's going on, Vanessa?" Hermione asked sleepily.

"I don't know, it's an emergency!" She added worryingly, "Hold your wand and leave other things alone."

When they walked out of the tent, Harry and the others came out too.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.Then there were several burning fires, and they saw people running toward the woods, as if fleeing from something that was moving towards them over the camp.It flashed strangely and made a noise like a great gun.Loud jeers, wild laughter, and drunken shouts all seemed to move toward them.Then, a bright green light flashed, illuminating everything around.

The children didn't realize it yet, but everyone who had lived through those years trembled at the same time - hordes of Death Eaters!

Black and Lupine drew their wands at the same time, and Vanessa grabbed Black, trying to think of them.She remembered Snape's words, this was just a prelude, it was not time to arrest the villains, they had more important things to do.

"Blake, go! Take Harry, take the children, to a safe place!"

Black was unwilling, and Arthur pushed his back: "I'll help maintain order in the ministry, Sirius, protecting Harry is the most important thing! Take them into the woods first, and don't disperse. I'll come back to you after the matter is resolved."

Fred was the quickest, grabbing Ginny's hand, "Go." He dragged her into the woods.

Vanessa followed at the end, and she looked back at the group of huddled people.People with hoods on their heads and masks on their faces.Above their heads, four struggling figures floated in the air, distorted into various weird shapes, as if they were just marionettes, ready to be played and played with.When the floating figures were illuminated by the fire, Vanessa recognized one of them - Mr. Roberts, the camp administrator.Vanessa's face, which had been numb and dyed orange by fire, hit Vanessa at once, and overlapped with White's face—they should have nothing to do with the wizarding world, but they were innocently involved.

Although she persuaded Black not to be impulsive, she couldn't restrain the anger and hatred welling up in her heart at all, and she followed Arthur to the group of cold-blooded thugs without hesitation.

Many people surrounded the Death Eaters, but they could do nothing. They were afraid that the Roberts family would fall down if they acted rashly.And those people seemed to be laughing at them again, and they intensified.The surrounding tents were set on fire one after another, and the flames shot up high. Some wizards had to run to check whether there were still people in each tent.

"We have to do something!"

"Stop them now!"

I couldn't tell whose voice it was, a wizard released a petrification spell at the group of people, and a man with a hood dodged the attack.But because of the interruption of his magic, Mrs. Roberts wobbled and fell.When people had no time to react, someone's floating spell lifted her up.And the petrification spell seemed to sound the horn of attack, and the two groups of people began throwing spells at each other chaotically. For a moment, the circle was full of light, illuminating half of the night sky.

"Calm down! Calm down! Some of them are our own!" Arthur roared hoarsely, obviously he was squeezed enough.Soon his voice was drowned out.

Vanessa avoided the flying spell and shuttled through the crowd.Years of adventures have allowed her to hone her extraordinary intuition and quick-witted actions.While she knocked down the three hooded figures with the Stunning Charm, she kept an eye on the four Muggles, trying to get them to safety.A spell was shot from behind, and Vanessa blocked it with an armor body.At the same time, another scarlet curse flew towards the back of her neck.She only had time to tilt her head, and the red light almost streaked across the side of her neck.Another spell flew over from the other side and collided with this one in the air, exploding in the air.Following that, the four Muggles quickly fell down together.

"go!"

Vanessa felt being dragged aside by the wrist, the man held the wand in his right hand and waved it lightly, and the four Muggles slowly landed behind a bush.

Another spell flew by, and the afterglow illuminated the people around her—Vanessa felt her scalp go numb, and the man only left herself with a hooded back and disappeared into the crowd.

Suddenly, the sky was bright, and a green light shot up into the sky, exploding an extremely huge skull pattern.The crowd became agitated, and everyone seemed to stop their wands and look up at the sky.Everyone took the same action almost at the same time—accompanied by loud explosions, they all turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared in place.

"Vanessa, let's go and see where the Dark Mark appears!"

Bill's voice came from behind, and he patted Vanessa's shoulder, and Vanessa woke up from the biting cold, her hands and feet were terribly cold.Because she had experienced the accident firsthand, this horror was completely different from seeing Voldemort, and she just felt as if her blood had been drained.

It wasn't until she regained her senses that she felt that something was on her wrist. Facing the firelight, she found that it was a few drops of blood that was about to solidify.