harry potter book of crimes

He is no match for the woman in front of him.

It didn't take much time for Harry to realize this desperate fact very clearly.

After all, seeing one's own back with one's own eyes is not something that everyone can easily encounter...

I believe that the vast majority of people in this world will only check in the mirror whether the clothes on their back are smooth and fit - perhaps many times, people have to rely on the help of two mirrors to complete this job more easily.

Some.

However, just now, just a few minutes before Hermione and Luna walked out of the darkness at the side door of the auditorium. When he finally raised the Sword of Gryffindor resolutely and struck at the witch with lightning speed.

The moment En was swung at his head, he suddenly completed this feat in life that ordinary people could not do without any warning!

As his vision rotated and sank uncontrollably, and his inconspicuous back slowly came into view, he suddenly understood - that woman who was full of mystery was destined to be someone who could not be judged by common sense.

A terrifying object. If you are deceived by just looking at her beautiful and demure appearance and have a wrong understanding of her, you will definitely regret it.

"It's a pity that it's too late to regret it now..."

The moment his spinning vision began to switch back and forth between the ground and the ceiling, Harry only had time to flash through such a thought in his chaotic mind, and then he knew nothing else.

until……

Until he opened his eyes again after being lost in the lake, and found that he had sat down opposite Kern at some point.

He subconsciously wanted to touch his neck to see if his head was still on his neck, but he found that his entire right arm had lost all feeling.

"I--"

Harry opened his mouth, raised his left hand that could still move, and grasped the Sword of Gryffindor that had been placed sideways on the table in front of him at some point.

But then, he didn't know what to do at all.

What on earth was that strange and frightening experience before? Have you already died once? If you were indeed dead just now, then who do you think you are at this moment?

"Ghost?"

Harry lowered his head and glanced at his body. It was obvious that this was not the case at all.

However, no matter how many random thoughts he had in his mind, he did not try to doubt what he had experienced before - the emptiness from his right shoulder down and the strange dampness of the collar on the back of his neck kept reminding Harry that that

It's not a fantasy, it's not a hallucination, it's not a daydream made out of nothing.

So Harry finally realized that maybe they shouldn't have come today.

…

"Hermione, Luna, go! Get out of here! Now!

"Harry shouted.

Maybe it’s time to die again?

The feeling of consciousness disappearing in an instant makes people unable to even mention the panic in their hearts... After all, consciousness has been completely separated from the chest cavity containing the heart!

Well, although I want to tell myself a joke to cheer myself up for no reason, I really can’t laugh!

But even so, Harry stood up and swung his sword without any delay.

Going to death without hesitation sounds like a great thing, but most of the time it is actually just a simple impulse... Until this moment, he felt that he might be able to imagine what Percy was thinking before he died. .

It would be nice if Ginny and Ron could be told this. At least, they would be less sad.

The thoughts were very complicated, but in fact they only happened for a moment. Several thoughts were chaotically twisted in Harry's head, and they passed so quickly that even he himself did not react.

Then……

The result that almost everyone thought in their minds did not come true...because Harry's sword hit nothing!

"Death is not a beautiful thing. You have just experienced it once, so I thought you already understood it."

At some point, that beautiful figure had left her original position. She was obviously sitting there holding a book one moment, but the next second, she had appeared behind Harry.

Is it some kind of ancient space-moving magic similar to the Apparition Curse? No one knows, because even Luna, who has a strong sense of perception, did not notice any fluctuations in magic power at that moment.

So they could only stay in silence and listen to Witch Kern continue to say leisurely:

"Mr. Potter, since you have experienced the terror of death, why do you do such an act that is just like thinking? Is it because you think I will hurt these two ladies? No... you don't You should think so. After all, except for the time when you actively sought to kill me, have I ever done anything to harm you? No, obviously, not once, right?"

Yes, Kern has indeed maintained a very "harmless" attitude since the two parties met. Except for the time when she secretly aroused the darkness outside the hall to show her "retention", she even in a series of verbal conversations, They never showed any hostility.

Based on their previous imagination of it, it seemed a bit too "easy to talk to".

However, how can a person who is really "easy to talk" do something that makes people split their heads? Even if it is just to protect themselves and fight back, it seems too decisive and calm, not to mention relying on With her ability, her previous behavior was simply unnecessary.

There was no need for her to kill Harry in turn, and... no matter how she did it, since she had already killed him, there seemed to be no need to revive Harry again.

Judging from what she said now, it seems that she deliberately wanted Harry to die!

As expected, immediately after, everyone heard Kern ask:

"Speaking of which... Mr. Potter, I would like to ask you a question now - you have died once, so do you think there is any difference between the you now and the you before?"

"What?"

The sudden and inexplicable question made Harry's head spin.

"I mean," the witch Kern said calmly, "do you think the you who has been resurrected from the dead is still the same you as the one who died before? Or is it the same as the sleep you get every night? For example, are the you who went to bed one day and the one who woke up from bed the next day still...the same person?"