[HP] Astringent

Harry's scar hadn't hurt for a long time, and he suddenly felt that the only thing worth worrying about was the OWLs exam.He and Ron used Hermione's review schedule directly, going to study with her from morning to night every day.Everyone is in a state of anxiety, wishing to cast a silence spell on anyone who interrupts their review.Fortunately, the exam finally came, and Harry performed well, especially in the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam, he successfully obtained extra points with the Patronus Charm.Several members of the DA came up after the exam to thank him for casting the Patronus Charm as well, though not as perfectly as his.

The last exam was History of Magic, and Harry couldn't concentrate while recalling the reasons and circumstances that led to the founding of the International Federation of Wizards.A memory that didn't belong to him broke into his mind. It was the long black corridor he often dreamed about, with closed doors on both sides.A hand with long, white fingers grasped a wand, and said in a grim voice, "Crue."

The man lying on the ground screamed in pain, he twisted his body and wanted to stand up: "I won't give it to you, unless you kill me!" Harry immediately recognized the man's voice.

"I will do it in the end, no doubt." Voldemort's icy voice sounded again, "but you must give it to me first, Black."

Harry's scar was burning and painful, and he fell hard to the ground, scratching his forehead as he licked it.The invigilator Foddy came over and helped him up: "Should I take you to the hospital?"

"I'm not going! I want Professor Weasley! I want Professor Weasley!" He said and ran out of the classroom, and Ron and Hermione handed in the test papers and ran out.

Harry hurried to the cellar. Vanessa should still be proctoring the lower grades. The exam will be over soon, and she will definitely go back to the cellar.Ron and Hermione followed him panting: "Over there, that's not Vanessa's office!"

Harry didn't have time to pay attention to them, and rushed downstairs, but almost bumped into Snape on the way.

"Potter - running down the corridor, Gryffindor button..."

Harry felt that there was no time for hesitation, and said almost deathly: "Professor, Professor Snape! I dreamed that Sirius was captured!"

Snape's face darkened, and before he could speak, Umbridge and several other members of the investigative action team walked over in Parkinson: "I heard that you are declaring that mysterious man again. The resurrection theory. I caught it now, Mr. Potter?" Harry, Ron, and Hermione had their hands pinched behind their backs by a few tall Slytherin boys who saw Parkinson in Um Rich smiled smugly behind him.

"Professor Snape, did you also believe Mr. Potter's lies? Mr. Malfoy always praised you very much..."

Snape raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and looked down at Umbridge with a look of contempt: "Of course not, I won't disturb your work, Headmaster."

Harry looked at him desperately, trying to get a positive answer from his eyes, but Snape turned and walked away down the marble steps.

Vanessa returned to the cellar with a few stacks of test papers in her arms. Snape was not there, and Malfoy was waiting for him at the door.He first raised his shiny little back, and then said in a melodious tone: "Pansy took Umbridge and arrested Harry. They suspected that he would spread rumors about the chance of taking the exam."

"Where are they?"

"In Umbridge's office."

Vanessa ran two steps away, then looked back at Malfoy: "Thank you. When Severus comes back, tell him that I'm going to find Harry."

Vanessa should be the person who is least afraid of being fired, after all, she doesn't just live by this salary.She went straight into the office and knocked Umbridge and a bunch of Slytherin children unconscious with a spell, and rescued the three of Harry.

"What the hell happened?" Vanessa returned their wands to them one by one.

After getting a general understanding of the situation, Vanessa nodded knowingly: "It seems that we have to go."

Only Umbridge's fireplace could be used in the entire castle now, and they couldn't find any floo powder.Just when they were at a loss, an ethereal voice came from the door: "We can fly over."

Vanessa took Harry, Ron and Hermione, and Luna, Neville and Ginny, who came to find them later, on the Thestrals, and passed through the dark clouds and cold wind over the castle shrouded in twilight. Fly to the Ministry of Magic.

"What floor is that place on?" Vanessa asked Harry eagerly, holding up her wand.

Harry closed his eyes and remembered for a moment: "This way!" He led them up the elevator and pressed the down button.It stands to reason that the Ministry of Magic shouldn't be left unattended even at night.But the situation was urgent, and no one noticed this strange situation.

The indifferent elevator chime dutifully said, "Department of Mysteries." The golden grille doors slid to the sides.All draw their wands like Harry and Vanessa.Harry carefully identified twelve similar black doors, and finally led everyone to find the one in the dream.

"Okay, everyone listen. Vanessa and I are going to find out the situation, you stay here and watch the wind." Harry didn't want to bring others with him, and the others didn't want to stay where they were.Just when they were arguing, Vanessa urged impatiently: "Hurry up, Harry. Don't waste time!" Harry gave her a strange look, not expecting that she would not stop others at all.Vanessa stared intently at the closed doors.

The presence of Vanessa reassured Harry, after all, he had seen Vanessa's strength.He led everyone to open them one by one, until he finally opened the room that shone with beautiful, diamond-like light, and Harry recognized it.This time he saw clearly that there were countless clocks in the entrance area of ​​the house, and the hands were ticking.Harry led everyone inside, and there were shelves that went straight to the roof. The crystal balls used in divination classes were densely arranged on the shelves, and the labels of row XX were pasted on the sides of the shelves.

"You said it was row 97," Hermione reminded quietly.

The closer they got to row 97, the more nervous they became. No one spoke, only the sound of the clock not far away could be heard.Disappointingly, Blake isn't here.Harry was out of ideas, too, but he didn't want to listen to the complaints of the others - they were always warning him to block Voldemort's memory.He was even more afraid of hearing Vanessa's scolding, she tried so hard to teach himself Occlumency.

Harry looked at Vanessa guiltily, but Vanessa looked straight at the other end of the shelf: "Harry, there are your and Voldemort's names written there."

Harry hurriedly turned his head to look, and the label under the crystal ball had turned yellow, and it read: The Dark Lord and Harry Potter in exquisite fonts.When Harry tried to reach out to touch it, Hermione snapped, "I don't think you should touch it!"

"Why shouldn't it? It's about me."

"Hermione, you're so sensitive, I think we need to know what it is."

Having received Vanessa's affirmation, Neville abruptly held back the words to stop him.Hermione wanted to say something more, but Harry took down the crystal ball with determination.Vanessa couldn't take her eyes off the top, she took the crystal ball as if fascinated, and held it carefully in the palm of her hand.

Suddenly many dark shadows appeared around them, blocking their way.These men were all hooded, and twelve shining wands were pointed at them, and surrounded them.A tall figure stepped out, and he lifted his hood, revealing the face of Lucius Malfoy.The children looked at Vanessa in bewilderment, and saw her pale and in a trance, walking slowly in front of Malfoy, half kneeling down, and holding the crystal ball high in front of him

"Very well, Weasley, I spared your life for nothing." Malfoy looked at the crystal ball and smiled with satisfaction.

"What do you mean!" Harry asked, suppressing his fear, "What did you do to Vanessa? Where's Sirius?"

"Let me answer one by one." Malfoy raised his chin and said haughtily, "Do you think the Dark Lord would be so merciful as to let anyone who dared to resist him? How naive, Potter. But Weasley is a A useful chess piece, I cast the Imperius Curse on her, she is our hole card. You should thank my Potter, don't you say thank you? If it wasn't my idea, you think this pure-blood traitor will be safe and sound go back?"

"She was tortured by you with the Cruciatus Curse!" Neville roared, everyone looked at him, and he glared at Malfoy with hatred.

"Ah, you're Longbottom?" Malfoy chuckled, "It's better than being dead, isn't it? I don't care if she's crazy or not, as long as she's alive, she can earn a favor for me, so why not Why?" He smiled contemptuously again, and said falsely, "Potter, I have to thank you too. I was worried that the Imperius Curse on Weasley would not work, but since you told me After she learns Occlumency, we can directly pass orders to her, which is really convenient. You see, you can't tell the truth from the fake, the order you gave is true, and what happened to Black is false."

Harry's heart sank suddenly, and his face darkened accordingly.

At this moment, they heard a scream, followed by a strong smell of blood.Vanessa stood in front of them, put her wand straight to Malfoy's throat, and said in a low voice, "Give me back the prophecy ball, Malfoy."

"Oh, sober up so quickly." He didn't panic, because the eleven hooded Death Eaters behind him bought one and pointed their wands at her in unison.Malfoy touched his chin with his slender fingers, and he couldn't tell whether he was mocking or admiring: "Weasley, you are really capable."

Harry noticed that Vanessa's left hand was trembling, the back of it was ripped open, blood was dripping on the floor - she had scratched herself badly trying to escape the Imperius Curse.

Vanessa gritted her teeth, not letting herself cry out in pain: "I'll say it again, give me back the prophecy ball!" Malfoy narrowed his gray-blue eyes in annoyance, only to hear Vanessa yelling: "Right now! !"

Their tacit understanding has never been as strong as it is now, and everyone pointed to the Death Eaters and said the most powerful spells they had learned: "Fire!" "Quickly imprison!" Flames of various colors shot out from the tip of the staff, screams came and went, and the shelves full of prophecy balls collapsed, and they were protected by huge translucent Cover up, this is Vanessa's armor spell, she took advantage of the death eaters in a mess and yelled: "Run!" The children didn't care about thinking, and followed Harry towards the breached gap go.

They gasped heavily against the stone wall, not knowing which of the twelve doors they had entered.But here they have come in, there is another huge arch in the middle, and sometimes you can hear rustling sounds from inside.Other than that, nothing.

At this moment, Ron said in horror: "Where is Van, Vanessa?" Before he could finish his words, the door panel was blown away, and several black figures and white lights flashed past them and fell into the room. right in the middle.The Death Eaters in black robes stood on either side of Malfoy, while Black, Lupine, Moody, Kingsley, and Vanessa stood opposite them.

Malfoy squeezed Tonks's chin and turned her head away, with the tip of his wand resting on the side of her neck, he yelled at Lupine, "Give me the Prophecy Orb, or I'll kill her!"

With the Prophecy Orb in one hand and his wand in the other, Lupine took a small step towards Malfoy and quickly followed with his wand turned to him.

"I'll give you the prophecy ball, and you let Tonks go." His voice was trembling, "Let's all take a step forward and keep you guys away."

Malfoy weighed the pros and cons, and waved his hand to signal the others to take a step back, and he followed suit.Both the prophecy ball and Tonks were close at hand, and the two counted to three silently, and then let go at the same time.At this moment, the black shadow and the white shadow rushed towards the center of gravity at the same time. Lupine hugged Tonks and pulled him to the outermost edge. There was another burst of green and red light interlaced, and there was only a crisp cracking sound, and the prophecy ball fell to the ground. , has become countless random.Malfoy looked at the piece of light blue glass in despair, while Black held up his wand in a high spirited way: "I'll see how you go back to work!"

Malfoy gritted his teeth viciously, and raised his wand: "Crush!" At the same time, Bella's Killing Curse flew over silently.Black narrowly avoided the Cruciatus Curse. Seeing that the Killing Curse was approaching, Vanessa hurriedly shouted: "Armor protection!" The green light was spread out, and Bella let out a low growl.Immediately afterwards, another Death Eater Nott's cutting curse cut her thigh, and blood gushed out. Vanessa staggered a few steps and almost knelt down.

"Stop, Nott!" Malfoy yelled, and while he was distracted for a few seconds, Vanessa's sharp edge was already flying towards him, and he dodged the spell, his expression changed again and again: "I wanted to save your life...except for Potter, no one else will be spared!" Malfoy ordered, and the Death Eaters became more rampant, and vicious black magic was thrown out continuously.

Lupine and Tonks protected the five little wizards while fighting the other three Death Eaters. Fortunately, Harry and his magic were better than their peers, so they could help them a little during the battle.Vanessa and Black take turns fighting Malfoy, Nott, Bella, Crabbe, and Goyle, while Kingsley and Moody take care of the rest.For a while, the two groups were indistinguishable, but in the end it was one-to-many, Vanessa's fingertips trembled slightly, she secretly gritted her teeth and told herself to persevere, and she couldn't lose Molly at this time.But her attack gradually weakened, and Blake and Vanessa were scattered by their spells.They made up their minds to deal with one first and then the other. Bella held back Black, and the rest of them turned their targets to Vanessa. When the call came at the same time, Vanessa took a step back, her feet cleared, and she found herself standing on the edge of the arch.

"Vanessa!"

She saw Blake rush forward like a madman, but her own weight was gone, like a feather caught deep in the archway by the wind overhead.The last action she left was to turn the ring, but it was too late, the sound and picture before her eyes all disappeared, turning into nothingness, her consciousness was gradually swallowed up, and she returned to eternal tranquility.