harry potter book of crimes

Just as the lights outside flickered and there were roars, Charlie, who had gone to see Percy in the back, came back from the back door. Ron turned around slightly when he heard the noise, and saw that Charlie's eyes were red, but his overall mental outlook was different.

Even better than when we arrived.

Maybe he finally figured something out in front of Percy's grave.

"Ron, Hermione and Harry are all dealing with living corpses outside, aren't you going?" Charlie patted Ron on the shoulder with his palms that were very rough from dealing with fire dragons for many years, "I just finished

I have completely figured it out - in the face of this disaster, personal strength is not the most important, the most important thing is an unswerving heart to resist. Every more person who is determined to resist, there is more to overcome the disaster.

hope."

"I know."

Ron looked out the window and sighed without looking back:

"It's just now that Hermione has arranged for me to be here to guard the core of the rune array... Although I feel a little regretful because I can't directly participate in the battle, I have to admit that this task is very important."

"The core of the formation?"

When Charlie heard this, he immediately looked around subconsciously. However, this was just the living room on the first floor of the Burrow, and no matter how he looked, he couldn't find anything related to the rune array diagram.

Seeing his confused look, Ron lightly stomped the floor and gestured:

"Don't look for it, it's down there - in order not to interfere with the alchemy formation that Sarah has arranged in the attic, Hermione dug a somewhat deep cellar and placed the core of the formation underground."

"Oh, that's it?" Charlie nodded suddenly, "That's fine... Then you can continue to guard here! I will also go out and do my part... By the way, where is Ginny? From this trip to

Now, it seems that I haven’t seen her even once.”

"It's also in the cellar below!" Ron said, "Although I don't know the specific effects of this array, it doesn't seem to be fully activated yet. If necessary, I will be on standby in the cellar.

Ginny and Hannah will be responsible for fully activating the formation - I hope this defensive battle will not reach that point, because Hermione said that it must be a method that will be used under forced circumstances."

When Charlie heard this, he couldn't help but look down at the floor and sighed.

"So, at least until this attack is over, I won't be able to see Ginny?"

"Of course!" Ron nodded. "During this period, Ginny and Hannah cannot come up, and others are absolutely prohibited from entering the cellar - even Hermione herself."

"Well, that should be it... I just haven't seen Ginny for a while and I miss her a little." Charlie scratched his head, then waved his hand and said, "Then I'll go out first."

"Okay," Ron watched him hurried out of the door, and couldn't help but lean in the window and shout outside, "Be careful!"

"knew--"

Hearing Charlie's response from outside, Ron sat back on the chair and continued to cast his gaze in the direction of the east tower.

Over there, there were still streams of light flying continuously, accompanied by chaotic and noisy explosions and shouts, which made people unable to calm down no matter what.

After sitting there blankly for a while, Ron finally couldn't help it, and as if out of habit, he pulled out a sharp dagger from his sleeve and lightly slashed his arm.

In an instant, a row of blood drops quietly seeped out from the slender wound, and the smell of blood gradually filled the air.

However, Ron seemed to have been accustomed to this level of pain. He just watched silently as the wound slowly healed over time. When no more blood flowed out, he suddenly reached out and touched the wound that had just been opened.

A scab had formed. But when he rubbed it heavily a few seconds later, the dark red bloody scab completely peeled off.

Ron is certainly not a masochist - this is just a gift given to him by Dumbledore, a very precious gift.

Ever since he first gained the ability to heal himself, Ron has often used this dagger to poke and scratch himself. From being cautious at the beginning until now, the self-healing ability obtained from the ashes of Phoenix Fox's Nirvana is still not very strong.

, but the effect is more than twice as good as the original one.

Now that Harry no longer needs anyone to help him, this strength is the last thing Ron can rely on to be able to stand beside Hermione and Harry.

"Chi——"

Suddenly, Ron stabbed himself again. The pain was even worse than before, and finally he couldn't help but grinned and gasped.

Looking at the bleeding wound on his forearm, which was slowly stopping, he put the dagger on the table in front of him, lowered his left arm and let the blood drip from his fingertips to the ground, and turned his gaze again

Put it outside the window.

"……It hurts!"

He muttered vaguely in his mouth.

…

While Ron was improving his abilities by hurting himself, two waves of soil had already rolled over on the hillside of the open space on the east side of the stronghold, burying a large number of living corpses covered in black flames into the ground.

.

As a new round of explosions occurred underground, a small number of buried "evil ghosts" crawled out of the ground amid the flying dust, struggling with their already more damaged bodies.

The body stubbornly continued to crawl forward.

However, Delphi, who swooped down from high altitude in time, obviously would not let them just reach the alchemical barrier.

As the ice giant bird suddenly flapped its wings, a large number of ice cones carrying cold air poured down like a torrential rain, pinning all the remaining black flame zombies to the ground.

Then, those unable to move living corpses were seen exploding one after another, forming a large area of ​​craters on the land.

Until now, the first batch of black flame living corpses spawned by demons due to being frozen have been completely wiped out, leaving no one behind.

It's a pity that today's defensive battle can only be regarded as just beginning so far.

Delphi, who was squatting on the back of the ice bird, and Harry, who was not far away, and Blois turned their heads almost at the same time, looking at the army of living corpses that were still moving forward, and their eyes became more serious.

.

Delphi knew that the demon "Arrogance" who was controlling this army of living corpses might still be just testing it up to this point. If nothing else, just looking at the living corpses was still just moving forward step by step.

You can understand that the real battle has not yet begun.

"Mr. Potter, go ask Hermione to remind Miss Hohenheim - her alchemical barrier will most likely be damaged by a large number of soul flame explosions later. This may be somewhat disadvantageous for her."