Dim yellow candles danced in the narrow secret passage.
Dumbledore looked at the extremely dense runes on the stone wall. These runes were far more complicated than the stone slab Jon got on the tower, with nearly tens of thousands of runes arranged in a square shape.
The stone wall seems to be providing some kind of protection to the space inside.
Except for the sound of beating candles, the secret passage was quiet.
I don't know how long this silence lasted. Dumbledore looked at the magic words and tapped them with the wand in his hand. From time to time, dark fluorescence lit up on the words.
"He was here..."
Dumbledore murmured softly.
At this moment, a flashing golden-red light suddenly appeared in front of him, and Fox pierced the barrier blocking the space of this secret passage.
Dumbledore turned around and looked at Fox with a solemn expression. Without any verbal communication, the information that needed to be conveyed was already known to him.
"More than twenty Death Eaters surrounded the students?"
His voice didn't sound very nervous.
"Did they follow my advice and sail close to the coast of Norway? How far is it to the northernmost coast of Norway?"
Fawkes tilted his head, as if telling Dumbledore something about someone he had discovered.
Dumbledore couldn't help but chuckle and turned around to continue studying the stone wall.
"Since he is here, there is no need for me to go there. He has actually always wanted to see Jon since he entered school."
Returning to the loneliness in the dark secret passage.
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On the Hogwarts, Jon didn't know what Dumbledore's plans were.
But Fox had been away for a while, but he didn't bring any reply, which made him feel a little uneasy.
"All petrified!"
The Death Eaters led by Rabastan no longer gave him any time to wait. Dozens of petrifying curses shot out from the tips of their staffs, targeting Jon on the deck and others who had just left the cabin.
Students come out!
But their spell had no chance of falling on the deck. When it was still four or five meters away from the entire ship, it was blocked by a light film glowing with the color of the spell itself.
The protection originally provided on the carriage was also inherited on the Hogwarts. The variant magic of the Iron Armor Curse was extremely effective in protecting the students.
Jon and the others were not surprised by this, nor were Rabastan and the others who used spells to attack.
It would be strange for such a magic ship to have no protection.
It is actually very simple to deal with such protection. Without the Life Curse, you can completely ignore all the armor curses. But Rabastan is just arrogant, but he is not stupid.
Now they just think that this ship is suspicious, and it is normal for the people on the ship to be unwilling to cooperate and to resist.
If he ordered everyone to use the death curse directly, then killing this whole ship of people would mean nothing to him and his brother.
Voldemort's mission to them was to find the person who was behind the scenes on the sea, and capture or kill him alive. Now they were not sure whether this ship was the one they were looking for, so naturally they couldn't kill him.
Of course Jon can figure this out, but he can't gamble on his enemy's sanity.
There were so many students on the ship, what if a Death Eater couldn't control his hand and used a killing curse?
Moreover, even the armor spell that Dumbledore arranged personally had its limit. Once the attacks of these Death Eaters reached the saturation point, the spell protecting the entire ship would be shattered.
Therefore, he actually planned a backup strategy at the beginning. Jon didn't know what happened at Fox and why he hadn't replied yet, but if he just delayed the time, he could still have some ideas.
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"Approximately how long until we reach the coast of Norway?"
Jon asked in a low voice Fred, who had been controlling the navigation next to him, Fred said quickly.
"Two to three hours will be enough for us to dock. There is a deep-water port adjacent to a cliff."
Two or three hours seemed long or short, so Jon took a deep breath, looked at Fred very seriously and warned.
"Then get to the shore as quickly as possible! If they sink the ship on the sea, everyone on the ship will have no way to escape! Only by returning to land can we have a chance. I will try my best to drag them during this period.
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Hearing what he said, not only Fred, but also George and Neville also had expressions of disbelief on their faces, as if they couldn't accept why things had become like this.
"Didn't Fawkes go to find Professor Dumbledore? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"Maybe it was blocked by something and couldn't find the professor, or maybe the professor was in such an environment that he couldn't even rush to help us, but we can't always pin our hopes on the professors."
Jon turned around and looked at Rabastan and the others who were always standing alongside the side of the Hogwarts ship. Even if they didn't intend to use the Death Curse to kill people, they wouldn't stop there. Each Death Eater had a burst of energy at the tip of his staff.
The fluctuation of magic power is brewing.
The best way to deal with the Iron Armor Curse is undoubtedly to use large-scale explosions to attack every point of its protection, in order to consume its saturation.
Even if the Iron Armor Curse on the Hogwarts can withstand more than twenty blasting curses released at once or twice, it cannot withstand more than three times. The combined power of that would be impossible unless Dumbledore himself is here.
The ship's defenses simply cannot be maintained.
Jon didn't wait any longer. He had already explained everything to Neville and the others. The moment Rabastan and the others chanted "Thunderbolt Explosion", Jon also held the ring that was always hanging in front of him and absorbed it.
All the magic power on the slate, the gems that have been saturated and can no longer be saturated, play their due role!
"Stop the curse!"
Jon's magic was mobilized by the universal curse-breaking magic, but the source of the surge of magic was not the wand in his hand, but the ring that always remained cold.
His own magic power affected the external magic power stored in the second gem, so the universal curse-breaking effect was applied to him and amplified infinitely!
The moment he cast the Universal Curse, Jon stood on the side of the ship, which was equivalent to standing in front of Rabastan and all the Death Eaters' explosive curses!
This move, which was even crazier than a madman, made all the Death Eaters widen their eyes.
No one can withstand so many explosive spells without defense, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort!