harry potter book of crimes

Chapter nine hundred and sixty fourth submerged by fire

Harry, stay back! It's on fire—"

Neville, who was explaining in detail his experience of casting the Patronus Charm, suddenly caught a glimpse of a raging flame from the corner of his eye. And then he realized that Harry, who was facing him, hadn't noticed it yet!

After hearing Neville's reminder, Harry quickly looked deep into the corridor behind him.

There is no doubt that those are the most terrifying flames that Harry has ever seen in his life - although they appear to be the same as ordinary flames in color, their torrent-like volume is probably enough to scare everyone who sees it.

Everyone was shocked by the scene!

"Clear water like a spring!"

While he subconsciously let his wand spurt out a large stream of water, he immediately retreated from the path he and Neville were on. When Neville saw this, he followed him and released the spring water vigorously.

It is a pity that the water created by the two of them may have been enough - at least it was much more than ordinary wizards, but it had no effect on the wave of flames coming from the other side of the corridor.

"No, there's no need to water it, it's useless!"

Harry took Neville's arm, and then stopped the spell he was doing. However, although he gave up the water, he did not just keep running.

Because he knew that, given the speed at which the flames were rushing, he and Neville would probably be completely engulfed before they could even run out of the corridor.

"There are many obstacles."

In a hurry, he first drew the trajectory of the stick in front of him, and only at the last moment did he suddenly swing it behind him.

Suddenly, an invisible magical obstacle was left behind by Harry, but he himself didn't make any pause and continued to rush forward.

"Harry, the Obstacle Charm didn't work either!"

Finding Neville's voice suddenly ringing in his ears, Harry hurriedly glanced back. Sure enough, it was probably because Neville wanted to check the effect of the obstacle spell that he was already several steps behind him.

"Run quickly, don't stop! Don't even check to see if it works..."

In such an emergency situation, Harry's true ability can actually be seen best.

To be honest, he is just an ordinary boy in normal times: sometimes he is slow, sometimes he seems naive, and sometimes he even falls into self-contradiction because he thinks too much.

But once he falls into a situation where he has no time to think, he will act according to his instinct. In fact, his intuition hidden in his subconscious is the most precious and powerful help he has.

"Hurry! Hurry up! Oh, there's no time!"

Suddenly, Harry grabbed Neville's arm and threw him forward with all his strength.

Then, without any time to think, he resolutely threw away the wand in his hand and put it straight into the hood of the Sorting Hat that had been in his left hand from the beginning.

"Sword, give me the sword!"

The Sorting Hat, who had been silent recently, finally spoke at this extremely critical moment.

"What sword! Are you really going to put out the fire with a sword?" He yelled as the Sorting Hat was pulled out, "Stop digging! Are you the sick snake raised by Salazar? Open your eyes."

Look carefully with big eyes!"

"Varied--"

Harry didn't even have time to say the word "huh" at the end, before he was swallowed up by the torrent of flames with a confused look on his face as if he had been scolded by the Sorting Hat.

As for Neville... to a certain extent, his experience was even worse than Harry's. Because of Harry's throw just now, he staggered and fell to the ground with his face facing the ground. He couldn't even get up.

No effort was left for him.

"ah--"

"ah--"

Two brutal shouts that came close to each other suddenly spread from the underground corridor to the lobby on the first floor, causing many injured people to jump up from the ground in shock.

Not long after, when a group of R.A. members staying in the hall went to check in surprise, terrible flames silently erupted from the stairs leading underground.

"Hannah, go tell Hermione and the others, quickly-"

In a hurry, Ginny shouted without looking back.

...

Just when everyone in the hall was caught off guard by the sudden sea of ​​​​fire, a petite figure on the sixth floor of St. Mungo's was frowning slightly, as if he had encountered something puzzling.

"What's going on...Did Maka not notice? Or did he just encounter an unexpected situation?"

The person muttering to herself at this moment is Sarah, who is still maintaining the operation of the formation formation.

It can be seen that although she did not show too many expressions due to her special nature, she was still aware of what was happening below.

Perhaps it can be said that she was the first one to notice the invasion of foreign objects.

But then again - if she already knew the terrible conditions on the first floor and even the underground corridor, wouldn't her performance at this time be a bit "too" bland?

Even if Sarah is fundamentally flawed, she should be able to think of one or two normal solutions...for example, using her alchemy skills to remedy the situation, right?

However, apart from standing next to the formation and thinking silently, she did not take any other action.

After a moment, Sara lowered her head again and once again stared at the still glowing formation with her big bright eyes and silently glanced at it for a few times.

Finally, she gently raised the white palm of her right hand and hesitantly stretched it forward.

But before she could make any move, she still put her hand down.

"Well, forget it."

...

"Hermione! Hermione...it's on fire! It's on fire!"

Hannah Abbott is Luna's friend, and among Luna's friends, she is one of the few good friends who spontaneously gets together with her.

And this kind of friendship that bursts out naturally may be due to the fact that the two of them are somewhat similar in certain rooms.

But I saw Hannah staggering along the corridor to the corner, staggering a few steps, and then fell forward.

How about she and Neville have a connection?

If Sinister hadn't appeared from the other side of the corner, she might not have ended up on the ground like Neville. The only difference between the two was that there weren't so many flames chasing Hannah at the moment.

"Boom!"

As soon as Sinista turned the corner, she was immediately hit by this reckless girl, and she almost fell to the ground.

"Hermione! Fire! So much fire!"

Hannah, who had no consciousness of bumping into anyone, didn't even raise her head. She buried her face in Sinistral's chest, but still shouted to herself. She waited until Sinistral helped her stand up straight, and then she hurriedly looked around.

Hermione's figure appeared.

"Granger has passed, hurry up! We also... No, you should wait here!"

"Ah? Oh!"

Hannah stayed in place blankly, watching the other person continue to run forward, and then her eyes widened as if she realized something.

"Why is Professor Sinistra here..."

Putting aside the confused Hannah, in front of Sinistra, Hermione and Sirius were flying forward.

In fact, there was no need for Hannah to inform him. The screams and the confusion of the injured were loud enough, and they could hear them clearly even though they were separated by a corridor.

But before they reached the side door of the hall, the two of them saw flames pouring in from the outside and spreading towards them.

When the flames arrived here, they were no longer as terrifying as those in the underground corridor, and their spread was obviously much slower.

However, the characteristics of this flame seem to have not changed!

As soon as Sirius saw the flames, he immediately cast several different spells one after another, and Hermione also followed suit to try to stop the flames from approaching.

"It doesn't make any difference—back off! Back off!"

But at this moment, a figure suddenly walked in from the doorway that connected to the hall not far away, stepping on the raging flames but still moving freely.

Sirius glanced suddenly and almost threw a crushing curse at the person coming.

"It's okay! This flame may be just an illusion and won't cause any harm to us!"

"Harry?"

Hermione, who was retreating sharply, once she saw it was Harry, she habitually trusted him.

However, Sirius next to her did not let down his guard and dragged Hermione back a few steps. He stopped in confusion when he found that one of Hermione's feet had already entered the sea of ​​​​fire.

He just kicked on the spot twice, leaned over and fished a handful directly into the flames with his hands, and then fell into deep thought with a puzzled look on his face.

"Harry, do you know what's going on?"

Hermione did not immediately check the flames on the ground, but directly asked Harry who was walking towards this direction. Unfortunately, Harry just shook his head helplessly, and the doubts in his eyes were no more than Hermione's.

few.

"I was just talking to Neville in the underground corridor, and who knew that flames suddenly burst out from nowhere, and before we both had time to run far, we were completely engulfed in a sea of ​​flames!"

"In the underground corridor?"

Although Hermione was a little puzzled by this, she didn't pursue it too much. Seeing that Harry seemed to want to explain, she immediately waved her hand and continued:

"Let's not talk about this for now, let's go! Take us to see below..."

When Sirius heard the sound, he stood up and walked quickly towards the side door with the two of them on the fire blanket that looked like nothingness.

Hermione looked at the back of Harry walking in front, and then cast a questioning look at Sirius behind her.

But Sirius immediately shook his head imperceptibly.

The meanings conveyed by the two to each other were very clear - maybe it was Harry's words that finally caused Hermione to have doubts, while Sirius shook his head and said that he was not sure.

Where do so many flames come from? What happened underground in St. Mungo's? And is the Harry in front of them the "real" Harry?

No one seems to know. (To be continued)

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