"What about the students in school? I remember school was still in session yesterday." Hermione nervously asked Moody after stepping down two stairs, "Where are they now? Have they left here?"
"All the students are in the castle, because we really didn't expect Voldemort to directly launch a decisive battle today." A trace of regret flashed on Moody's face, "The result of our discussion with Albus last night was that Voldemort will be in Magic today.
If the Ministry fights us, at most some Death Eaters will come to Hogwarts to harass and hold back the people in the castle."
"So we think it might be safer for students to stay in Hogwarts Castle, but in order to make sure there won't be any big problems. We still mobilized most of the guards in Azkaban to protect the castle. That's why
The reason why we have persisted until now is that if we only relied on professors, that protective layer would have been broken five or six minutes ago."
At this time, they had quickly walked into the foyer of the auditorium. The vice-principal, Professor McGonagall, was standing here directing several senior students to set up defense lines in the castle. After hearing the sound of the stairs, she turned her head and saw the one who was going down.
Everyone on the floor.
"Ryan, Lupin, how did you get in?" Professor McGonagall first showed an excited smile, and then quickly turned into disbelief. "I remember that all the secret passages were blocked."
"There is one left that basically no one knows about. Its entrance is inside the Hog's Head Bar." Ryan said, "This is what Principal Dumbledore's brother Aberforth told us today."
"There is still a usable passage, which is great." McGonagall breathed a long sigh of relief, and then said to the two senior students standing there. "Seamus, you and Neville go and call Fernando now.
Professor Levi, and then go with him to the underground kitchen to take the junior students hiding there to the Requirement Room on the eighth floor, where there is a passage leading to the Pig Head Bar, and I will send a few sculptures to help you."
"By the way," watching Seamus and the other guy getting ready to set off after receiving the order, Ryan stopped them and handed them a pink gem the size of a thumb. "When we opened the door, we just wanted a way to the Pig's Head Bar. Remember.
With this gem, the traps will not be activated as long as the gem is in the room. The traps will be reactivated two minutes after the gem leaves or the person holding the gem closes the door."
"Got it," Seamus nodded, took the gem and ran toward the kitchen, while Neville ran out of the door to inform Professor Flitwick, who was now in the courtyard,
"Okay, you follow me to the courtyard." After watching the two people running towards their respective goals, Professor McGonagall said to Ryan and his reinforcements. "We'd better delay the time a little longer and give it to the younger students.
Students are allowed sufficient time to evacuate."
"Understood, Professor McGonagall." Ryan and the others said in unison, and then each raised their wands and pointed them at the protective shield in the sky to inject their own power. With their help, the already shaken protective shield stabilized once again.
The next ten minutes were a pure tug-of-war. The Death Eaters on the periphery directed the obsidian puppets to beat the protective shield, and at the same time they continued to release magic into the protective shield to consume the magic in the protective shield. And Ryan and the others
From time to time, magic power was added to the protective shield to make up for the wasted part, and the battle situation became stalemate.
"My mission is completed." Just after Ryan and the others filled in a batch of energy for the magic shield, Professor Flitwick took Seamus, Neville and seven or eight armors and walked out of the castle gate. "
I have sent those junior students out, they should be safe now."
"That's good, that's good." Professor McGonagall relaxed a lot with the naked eye, but at this moment, several bright lights suddenly shot out from the distance and hit the protective cover. The protective cover was translucent like frosted glass.
A large number of cracks immediately appeared.
Under everyone's nervous gaze, these cracks spread faster and faster, and the area covered became larger and larger. Finally, when the cracks covered the entire protective shield, the entire protective shield turned into a sky full of light bulbs like light bulbs that fell to the ground.
fragments.
"Is Voldemort crazy?" As a wizard of the same level as Voldemort, Ryan knew that the curse that shattered Hogwarts Castle with one blow could not be released simply. He didn't know what made Voldemort do it.
When this kind of decisive battle breaks out, give up reason and directly take action to achieve this step at the cost of huge consumption.
But soon Ryan figured out the reason, because as the protective shield was shattered, a strange, mournful scream also reached everyone's ears. As a person who can understand snake language, Ryan heard Voldemort's voice
The content of the cry is a name: Nagini.
"What happened to Voldemort's snake?" After being instilled with knowledge before, Hermione naturally understood Voldemort's roar. What surprised her was that Voldemort's roar had a powerful effect.
It sounded like something bad had happened to Nagini, the Horcrux that was originally the focus of the battle.
"I'm not sure." Ryan shook his head. "But something must have happened. The blow just now was not something that could be done easily. What he did was probably because something important had happened to Nagini.
He lost control of his emotions for a moment, and of course, it can be heard from the roar that he is indeed in extreme anger."
Ryan's guess was very close to reality. Now Voldemort was standing in a room on the Quidditch field. In front of him was a mess: Nagini, who was supposed to stay quietly in the protective cover, had turned into the ground.
A snake-shaped black and gray sword was thrown aside, and a silver dagger inlaid with rubies was thrown aside.
Snape, who was sent here to watch Nagini before, had marks left by two huge snake fangs on his neck, and black blood was pouring out from these two big holes. His face was pale,
The fire of life in the depths of a pair of black eyes was quickly dimming. Voldemort could clearly see that Snape was now on his deathbed.
When the puppets attacked from the lake dozens of minutes ago, Voldemort immediately abandoned the army that was cut off in the rear and accelerated towards Hogwarts Castle. He believed that under the leadership of Bellatrix, that part of the army could
It should be able to hold back the enemies in the direction of Hogsmeade, preventing Ryan and the others from taking action to rescue the school.
When Voldemort came to the city, in order to ensure the safety of his Horcrux, he asked Snape and Nagini to stay in a room in the newly occupied Quidditch stadium to take care of Nagini. In Voldemort's eyes, Snape
Voldemort was one of his most reliable Death Eaters. At the same time, out of worry, he took away Snape's wand. Voldemort believed that in this way, Snape without a wand would be harmed no matter what.
Not Nagini hiding in her protective shield.
But now he found that he had made a big mistake. Snape was definitely not as loyal to him as he showed. The rare magic short sword showed that he had been planning today's events for a long time. This also meant that
The great Dark Lord was actually deceived by a man using Occlumency, and the price was the most precious Horcrux.
"Fortunately, I don't only have this Horcrux." Voldemort took a deep breath and muttered to himself, then looked at Snape who fell on the ground and asked calmly, "Tell me, why did you do this?"
He was curious from the bottom of his heart, because Voldemort believed that he had given Snape absolutely enough knowledge, wealth, status and trust. He really couldn't understand why Snape did what he did now when he was about to win.
.
After all, for a wizard, if he loses his wand and wants to kill a giant poisonous snake like Nagini with a short dagger, he will definitely die. Especially in the current scene, Voldemort can judge that Snape is using the dagger to destroy the magic protection.
Genie bit him on the neck, and then endured the severe pain and suffocation to give it a fatal blow. Voldemort didn't know what made Snape die so decisively and generously.
At this time, Snape's condition was already very bad. Not only was blood flowing out of his body, but a silvery-blue substance that was neither gas nor liquid came out of his mouth, ears and eyes.
After hearing Voldemort's question, Snape made a terrible sound of huffing and gurgling in his throat. Then he used his last bit of strength to raise his head and watched Voldemort spit out a word.