HP Wizard Age

shack

A huge white tent was set up in the open space of the orchard, and a glowing fruit wrapped around the tent, dotted with dots of light.Laughter and laughter echoed in the tent, and dance music played from a gramophone in the corner.

"Harry, why are you sitting here, oh, I really can't dance anymore." Hermione sat in the corner with Harry, she took off a shoe and rubbed her ankle.

Harry sat there in a daze until Hermione spoke to him.

At this time, a big silver guy fell through an awning above the dance floor, and Kingsley's thick voice sounded, "The Ministry of Magic has collapsed. Scrimgeour is dead. Here they come."

Time seemed to stand still, and a few seconds later, it was like a boulder was thrown into the flat lake, creating waves.

As the guests ran around screaming, Harry and Hermione whipped out his wand and stood up, rushing into the panicked crowd.Harry even saw people in black robes and masks rushing into the tent, and countless lights shone above their heads, crisscrossing, and sparking again.

Ron was pushed to meet them, Harry felt Hermione grabbed his hand, and a burst of darkness hit him, and then opened his eyes, a bus roared by, and they were pushed back by Hermione to the railing.

"Where is this?" Harry looked at the crowd walking around and the streets full of lights, which made him unable to react for a while.

"Tottenham Palace Road," panted Hermione, "go, go, I need to find a place for you to change."

They were still wearing ball gowns, and passers-by on the street looked at them strangely.

They turned into a secluded alley. Under Harry Ron's shocked eyes, Hermione pulled out two sets of clothes from her small satchel, "Change quickly!"

After speaking, she took out another thing and fiddled with it for a long time. After Harry changed his clothes, she had already fiddled with it.

"What are you doing?"

"Tell Astria where we are," Hermione said.

"What? Asteria? You have a connection with her?" Harry took the Invisibility Cloak and put it on.

"Yes, that's right. The last time I left Hogwarts—that's right, Harry, after she talked to you, I thought...Dumbledore wanted you to call her, didn't he?" Hermione rubbed Arm, continued, "She should be coming soon."

"This is the Muggle world. You let a Slytherin come to the Muggle world?" Ron said in disbelief as he stuffed his robe into his bag.

"I think it's safer here. Where else would we go."

"I mean, yes, it's interesting. Oh Merlin, I can't imagine a Slytherin..." Ron was still muttering.

Astria apparated to the mouth of an alley, where the obvious difference from the wizarding world made her understand that this was the Muggle world.

Although it was very unaccustomed, she also knew that Harry and the others would be much safer in the Muggle world now.

Sensing a movement behind her, she quickly raised her wand and turned around, only to see Hermione in a red dress and Ron in Muggle clothes.

"What's the name of the ninth book in the fourth, sixth row from the left of the Hogwarts library?" Asteria asked without putting down her wand.

"What kind of question is this?" Ron frowned.

"'Old Forgotten Magic and Spells'." Hermione replied quickly.

After Asteria confirmed it, she put down her wand, "The Death Eaters went to the shabby house?"

Harry dropped the Invisibility Cloak all at once, revealing only one head. "Others—those who attended the wedding—"

"I don't know. You can't go back. Going back will only make the situation worse." Asteria was taken aback by Harry's sudden appearance.

Although Harry was very reluctant, Hermione Ron agreed with Asteria's words, and they couldn't stay here forever.

Asteria followed Hermione and they walked on the main road again. She was wearing a cloak, but Hermione said it was too obvious, so she took off the cloak to reveal the clothes inside.

Before they came out, they also ate Asteria's color-changing candy, and the color of their hair and eyeballs changed.

"Have you figured out where to go?" Astria said.The other three shook their heads.

"The Broken Ax is definitely out of the question, the Death Eaters are definitely going to search it, my parents' house... they're probably going to search it too... oh, I hope they shut up!"

There was a group of people huddled across the road, and they saw Hermione and her whistling and teasing them.

Astria also felt that the behavior of those people made her feel very abrupt, which made her very unhappy.

"Hey baby—" One of the most drunk people over there just yelled halfway, when he was hit on the top of the head by a huge brick, and he fell to the ground.

"Let's go." Asteria clapped his hands and said as the group of drunks turned their heads and didn't know who smashed it.

"When did she do it?" Ron asked Hermione in horror.

"Ha!" Hermione let out a relieved laugh, "Who knows."

They finally decided to find a place to sit down. It was a small cafe with small tables, and four people squeezed into one table.

"The Death Eaters have been looking for the address of my home. They have banned all possible places. As soon as we step into that range, we will be discovered. In fact, in order to prevent accidents, I have been staying in China a few days ago. " Asteria sat next to Harry, "I can come out thanks to Merlin."

"Actually, we're very close to the Broken Ax..." Ron had just begun to speak before Hermione cut him off.

"Ron we can't, Harry can't, and Asteria can't."

"Very well, I mean, we have two targets in our team."

Astria shrugged.

"And, besides the fact that Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic, what else can there be?"

"It's a matter of time. The Ministry of Magic is a symbol of political power. It is convenient for Death Eaters to do many things. They also do many things in the Muggle world." Asteria interjected.

The four of them fell silent for a while. Astria had more important things to do, but this was obviously not a good place to talk.And there was coffee on the table that was unpalatable in the Muggle world.

At this moment two large men walked into the café and stood at the counter.

Astria raised her eyes inadvertently, and unexpectedly felt that the side face of one of them was very familiar.

Suddenly, the two men moved.

"Get down!" Harry yelled, hiding in his invisibility cloak.Ron quickly threw Hermione to the ground, and Astria also fell to the side.

A blasting spell directly blew up the table, and the broken handle of the cup wiped Asteria's face, and a line of blood soon oozes out.

She got her head out in no time, and one blow hit a Death Eater standing behind the counter, and the other nearly hit Ron.

"Flying sand and rocks!" shouted another Death Eater.

The only remaining tables in the small shop were overturned, and Astria quickly used his armor to protect himself so as not to be hit.

But that Death Eater was also hit by Hermione's total petrification.

Asteria stood up from the mess, and Hermione was helping Ron stand up when the table just fell on him.

"He was there the night Snape killed Dumbledore." Harry recognized the man as he walked around the cupboard.

Hearing this, Astria pursed her lips inadvertently.

"This is Dolokhov, who appeared on the wanted notice before."

"Never mind what their names are, what should we do with them?" Hermione interrupted them with tremors in her voice.

"Ron put out the lights, and Hermione shut the door." Because of Hermione's words, Harry's mind quickly calmed down, and the waitress had already been scared away.

"Do you need to kill them?" Asteria's words made the three of them tremble.

"Killing them will expose us, I think we just need to erase the memory..." Harry shook his head immediately.

Astria nodded, this is indeed a good way.

They erased their memory, restored the cafe, and walked the street outside.

"How did they find out?" Even Astria couldn't figure out how they were exposed.

Hermione thought Harry still had traces on him, or that the Death Eaters still had traces on Harry even though he was an adult.

This guess made Harry a little uncomfortable, as if he had a dirty stain on his body that couldn't be shaken off.

"Oh! Astria, you are not yet of age, are you?" Harry said suddenly.

"Indeed." Asteria's words made the three of them look at her together.

"Hey! I'm not that stupid." She stared. "The Knightley family is not under the control of the Ministry of Magic. I'm still a Chinese. The Ministry of Magic can't put a trace on me."

Oh... yes, the Knightleys are a little different.

Ron said, "So where should we go? Order of the Phoenix headquarters?"

"Sirius told me that Snape had revealed the address, that the Death Eaters had been wandering around, and they must have guessed where we were going," said Harry.

"I think there's a place for that." Hermione paused.

Seconds later they were standing next to an abandoned house, crumbling walls and overgrown gardens in a state of decay.

"Abandoned house - well, when I was a child, many people said it was a haunted house. But we have nowhere to go." Hermione shrugged and opened the rusty iron door.

Astria also walked in with her hands spread out, saying that she didn't care, it was a special situation in a special period.

The two girls expressed their opinions, so Harry Ron had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk in.

It was dusty and the planks creaked when you walked on them.Some of the floors also had a large hole torn out, exposing the basement below.

Hermione thought they had to stay in the same house. They picked the only master bedroom that was intact, cleaned it up, and put a protective spell on it. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

……

"So do you know where the Horcrux is now?" Asteria asked as she stuffed the cake into her mouth.

They were starving after all they had been through and were eating.During the period, Ron's father's patron saint came and said that the Weasley family was safe.

Harry shook his head at this.

"Harry, don't you know? Dumbledore didn't tell you?" Hermione asked in surprise.

"Oh, he said, didn't he say the existence of Horcruxes?" Harry was dissatisfied because he was questioned.It reminded him of what Ron's Aunt Muriel had said about Dumbledore at the Shack at the wedding.

These words have been hovering in his heart, like he swallowed a weight in his stomach, heavy.That made Harry feel that Dumbledore didn't trust him, and that he was just using him as a tool to be sharpened against Voldemort?

Astria coughed to get their attention.

"It seems that we need to communicate some news."

Harry and the others knew that Astria always knew a lot. After all, Dumbledore helped the Knightley family in the previous attacks.

Astria took out a crystal ball, and there were still three groups of white mist on it.

"There are seven Horcruxes in total." With one sentence, Harry and the others immediately straightened up.

"He actually split himself into seven?" Hermione whispered suddenly, she saw Harry's eyes, "Oh, I haven't had time to tell you yet."

Hermione took out a few books from her satchel, "I took them out of Headmaster Dumbledore's office the day I left school—don't look at me like that, Harry! I just tried the Flying Charm, but it didn't work."

"Well done Hermione," Harry cheered her up and complimented her.

"The previous diary was a Horcrux. I think you have already guessed Harry." The crystal ball was still in Asteria's hand, and Harry and the others dared not reach out to touch it, for fear that it would shatter like a prophecy ball up.

"Well... yes, I saw him in the secret room..."

"That's why I ran to the secret room." Asteria rubbed her forehead with quite a headache when she said this.

"Dumbledore noticed something was wrong very early on. He found one of the horcruxes. That horcrux was too difficult to destroy, so he found the Knightley family. We sensed the location of the horcruxes through some special means, so that we I won't waste time looking for it." She paused, but didn't point out what the Horcrux was before, "The next three..."

She exhaled, and continued, "One is in the Lestrange vault in Gringotts..." This directly made the three gasp.

"Gringotts? You must be kidding! Who can steal from Gringotts?" Harry scratched his chestnut hair.

"After all, apart from Hogwarts, Gringotts is one of the safest places, and he's not stupid! That's... a Horcrux!" Asteria also sighed.

"What about the other two? Isn't there three?" Ron was unexpectedly calm at this time.

"I think this is the easiest of the three. Are you ready to listen to the other two?" Asteria's tone became soft but extraordinarily heavy.

Hermione unconsciously clenched Ron's hand, which hurt him a little, and Harry even wanted to stop Asteria's next words.

"There is another one, the snake."

"Which snake?" Harry asked quickly.

"Which one can there be?" Ron's voice was a little weak, but it could be heard that he was trying to calm down, "the only one we know is Harry the snake."

"Yes, he had been chasing me when Knightley was attacked, and I almost got caught by him a couple of times—for Hermione, the time I went to the Shack."

After Hermione let out a long and soft oh, her voice seemed to be choked.

"The last one, unfortunately, I don't know what it is, the position of this Horcrux is always changing." Astria hesitated, but still concealed something.

After finishing speaking, the four fell silent for a while.

"Ha..." Harry tried to adjust the atmosphere, "I know where it is, at least it's much better than us looking around."

"That's right, we're going to destroy the Horcrux no matter what." Ron answered.

Hermione clutched her forehead and shouted: "And being able to break into Gringotts is also one - Merlin's socks, I can't find the words to describe it - this is crazy! I will remember it forever!"