HP Approaches the Magic World

"Don't stay here, because there are more important things waiting for you to do," Chen Songyuan sighed: "Anyway, you know these things yourself, and I know you can't leave yourself here, so

There is no need to use such words to anger me."

"Maybe, what if I suddenly change my mind and won't leave? It's only a thousand years, I can afford to wait."

"You can afford to wait, but I can't wait. In twenty years, the entire plan will be on track. We need your presence to control this moving ship. After all, we can't find another black bird.

, isn’t it?”

"Well, okay, I will activate the memory in my mind under the appropriate circumstances, and then leave here. There is a high probability that the situation will be as you wish, and I will leave after everything is over."

"That would be perfect."

Chen Songyuan said happily, he didn't look like a calm person.

"I'll wait for you in the future."

"See you in the future, say hello to the Earth for me."

…

I don’t know if Chen Songyuan heard the last sentence, but he had already disappeared after Qiaoen finished speaking.

Even if I heard it, I might not be able to ask.

But that’s it, the general things are figured out anyway.

Everything he did when he came to this world, except for what he really wanted to do, was because he came with a mission.

did not expect.

We've come to this point, and we still have to carry out a mission.

Since Chen Songyuan said that things here should be completed better, and they should be allowed to proceed according to the original ending, so that Chen Songyuan can enter the earth smoothly.

Well, if so.

There is no conflict with his original plan.

After talking to the phantom left by Chen Songyuan for such a long time, and being delayed on the deep sea for so long, I now think that something must have happened below.

But no matter what happens, it's none of Jon's business. It's what they have to go through. It's better for them that Jon doesn't interfere.

He doesn't like to always change other people's lives.

There is no way around it, but if you can help it, it's better not to change it.

Otherwise the story would be unconvincing.

Many times, the beauty of a good story is that so many people actually died.

So he took another look at Helga before showing up at Hogwarts.

Aberforth's scene was basically finished, and he had nothing to continue doing, so when Jon showed up at the bar, he eagerly asked Jon when he could leave.

"Leaving soon, things will be over soon, aren't they? I think the final war is coming, and we don't need to wait too long. I have prepared the passage. I just came back from the world of my ancestors.

Everyone who died in this accident...all our people can get a chance to be reborn. I chose a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to allow them to live freely."

He just went to Helga's world mainly for this matter.

"But are you sure you won't see Dumbledore again?"

Aberforth shook his head.

"Okay, if you insist. I'll leave first. I think the people over there need some immediate processing, so I just want to go take a look... Huh? They seem to have been discovered."

Jon's figure suddenly disappeared in the bar, and the next moment he appeared in the castle, but no one saw him. His phantom spell was much more powerful than the invisibility cloak. After all, his strength was

here.

…

When Jon appeared, Alecto's fingers happened to touch the Dark Mark on her arm.

It could be seen that Harry was affected to a certain extent, probably disturbed by Voldemort's emotions, but before he could fight back, a spell came from another direction and knocked Alecto to the ground.

It was Luna who cast a stun spell.

"I have only practiced the Stunning Spell during D.A. training before," Luna said, with a hint of surprise in her voice: "I didn't expect it to make such a loud noise."

For a moment, the ceiling began to tremble.

The sound of running became louder and louder from behind the door leading to the dormitory, and Luna's spell woke up the Ravenclaw students sleeping above.

"Luna, where are you? I need to get under the invisibility cloak!"

Luna's feet suddenly appeared, and Harry hurried to her side.

As soon as she put the invisibility cloak on the two of them, the door opened and a group of Ravenclaw students in pajamas poured into the common room.

When they saw Alecto lying unconscious on the ground, they all gasped and screamed in surprise.

Slowly, they gathered around her, looking at this beast that would wake up at any moment and attack them.

Then, a brave freshman rushed over and nudged her in the back with his big toe.

"I think she might be dead!"

He shouted happily.

"Oh, look," Luna whispered happily when she saw the Ravenclaw students surrounding Alecto, "how happy they are!"

"Yeah...that's great..."

Harry closed his eyes, his scar throbbing with pain, and he took the initiative to fall into Voldemort's thoughts again...

He was walking in the tunnel leading to the first cave...

He decided to check the locket before coming over...

That won't take long...

There was a knock on the door of the common room, and the Ravenclaw students were stunned.

Harry heard the soft musical sound coming from the eagle-shaped knocker outside the door again: "Where did the disappeared thing go?"

"I don't know! Shut up!"

shouted a rough voice, which Harry knew was Alecto's brother, Amycus.

"Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Have you caught him? Open the door!"

The Ravenclaw students were all frightened and gathered together to whisper.

Immediately, there was a series of loud noises, as if someone fired a shot at the door.

"Alecto!

If he comes and we don't catch Potter - do you want to suffer the same fate as the Malfoys? Answer me!"

Amycus roared loudly and pushed the door as hard as he could, but the door did not open.

The Ravenclaw students retreated one after another, and the most frightened ones began to rush back to the bedrooms upstairs.

Harry was hesitating whether he should blow open the door and knock Amycus out to prevent him from doing anything else.

At this moment, a very familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"What are you doing, Professor Carlo?"

"I want to get through that damn door!" cried Amycus. "Get Flitwick! Get him to open the door, quick!"

"But isn't your sister in there?" asked Professor McGonagall: "Didn't Flitwick let your sister in at your urgent request earlier this evening?

Maybe she can open the door for you?

You don't have to wake up half the castle."

"She didn't answer, you old woman! Open the door for me! Quick! Open it quickly!"

"No problem, if that's what you want."

Professor McGonagall said, with a terrible chill in her voice.

The door knocker rang slightly, and the musical voice asked again: "Where did the disappeared thing go?"

"Transformed into nothingness, that is to say, transformed into all things."

"well said."

Amycus rushed through the door waving his wand, and the few Ravenclaw students who stayed behind hurriedly ran towards the stairs.

Amycus, like his sister, was hunchbacked, with a pale dough-like face and small mung bean eyes.

These eyes immediately saw Alecto lying motionless on the floor.

He let out a cry of rage and terror.

"What have they done? These brats!" he shouted. "I'm going to put the Cruciatus Curse on them and make them tell me who did it - what will the Dark Lord say?"

Amycus stood in front of his sister, hit his head with his fist, and screamed: "We didn't catch that kid, they actually killed my sister!"

"She was just knocked unconscious," Professor McGonagall knelt down to check on Alecto and said impatiently, "She will be fine."

"Bah, she's in big trouble!"

Amycus roared: "She will be finished if the Dark Lord catches her!

She actually summoned him, I felt my mark burning, the Dark Lord thought we had captured Potter!"

"'Caught Potter'?" Professor McGonagall said alertly: "What do you mean, 'Caught Potter'?"

"He told us that Potter might break into Ravenclaw Tower and asked us to summon him as soon as we caught him!"

"Why did Harry Potter break into Ravenclaw Tower? Potter belongs to our house!"

Harry heard a hint of pride in Professor McGonagall's doubtful and angry voice, and his love for Minerva McGonagall immediately surged in his heart.

"He just told us that Potter would be here!" Carlo said, "How did I know what was going on?"

Professor McGonagall stood up and scanned the room with her sharp eyes, twice passing where Harry and Luna were standing.

"We can push it on those stupid kids," Amycus said, his fat pig face suddenly became cunning: "Yes, let's do that.

Let’s just say that Alecto was attacked by kiddies, the kids who live above.” He looked up at the location of the dormitory and the ceiling full of stars: “Let’s just say that they forced her to press the mark.

Let the Dark Lord get false information...he can punish them.

What difference does it make if we have more furry kids and less furry kids?"

"This is the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice!"

Professor McGonagall turned pale.

"Anyway, this is a difference that you and your sister can't understand.

But I must make one thing clear: you must not blame the students of Hogwarts for your many stupid actions.

I don’t allow it.”

"What did you say?"

Amycus moved forward with an aggressive look, his face only inches away from Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall didn't flinch, but looked at him with contempt, as if he were something disgusting stuck to the toilet seat.

"This is not something you don't allow, Minerva McGonagall.

Your days are over.

Now we are in power here, and you must support me, otherwise you will have nothing to do but walk in circles."

He spat in Professor McGonagall's face.

Jon suddenly sighed. If he hadn't asked Professor McGonagall to cooperate with them in acting at this moment, Professor McGonagall could have waved his magic wand and turned this retarded man into a pig.

But Harry on the other side ripped off the invisibility cloak, raised his wand and said, "You shouldn't do this!"

The moment Amycus turned around, Harry shouted: "Cruciato!"

The Death Eater suddenly hung up, twisting and turning in the air like a drowning man, thrashing and howling in pain.

With a loud crash and the sound of broken glass falling, he hit the door of a bookshelf and fell to the ground unconscious.

"I understand what Bellatrix means," Harry said, blood surging and roaring in his head: "You need to be really cruel."

"Potter!"

Professor McGonagall grabbed her chest and whispered: "Potter - you are here! How - how could -?"

She tried to calm herself down: "Potter, this is so stupid!"

"He spit on you."

"Potter, I--you are--you are so brave--but didn't you think--?"

"Oh, I know."

Harry comforted her.

Somehow, her nervousness made him calm down.

"Professor McGonagall, Voldemort is coming."

"Why, can you say this name now?"

Luna asked with interest, tearing off the invisibility cloak.

Seeing another student who violated the rules, Professor McGonagall couldn't bear it anymore. She staggered back a few steps, fell onto a nearby chair, and clutched her old plaid tightly.

The neckline of a dressing gown.

"I guess it doesn't matter what we call him anymore," Harry said to Luna. "He already knows where I am."

In a distant corner of Harry's mind - the corner connected to the burning and furious scars, he saw Voldemort sitting in a ghastly green boat, speeding across the dark lake... He would soon be there

We have arrived at the island where the stone basin is...

"You must escape," Professor McGonagall said softly: "Quick, Potter, the sooner the better!"

"I can't," said Harry, "I have one more thing to do.

Professor, do you know where Ravenclaw's diadem is?"

"R-Ravenclaw's diadem?

How would I know - hasn't it been missing for centuries?"

She straightened up slightly: "Potter, you are so stupid to enter this castle at this time, so stupid-"

"I must do this," said Harry. "Professor, there is something hidden here, and I need to find it. It may be the diadem - if I could tell Professor Flitwick -"

There was a sudden movement and a crash of broken glass: Amycus woke up.

Before Harry or Luna could react, Professor McGonagall suddenly stood up, pointed her wand at the swaying Death Eater, and said, "Out of body."

Amycus got up and walked to his sister, picked up her wand, shuffled obediently to Professor McGonagall, handed it over along with his own wand, and then placed it next to Alecto on the floor.

Lying down.

Professor McGonagall waved her magic wand again, conjuring a shimmering silver rope out of thin air, wrapping around the Carrow brothers and sisters like a snake, tying them together tightly.

"Potter," Professor McGonagall completely ignored the situation of the Carrow brothers and sisters, and turned to Harry and said, "If the devil really knows that you are here -"

Before she could finish her words, a sharp pain-like anger rushed over Harry's head, making his scars feel as if they were on fire.

In an instant, he looked down and saw a stone basin. The potion in it had turned clear. He saw that the gold locket under the potion was missing——

"Potter, are you okay?"

A voice said, and Harry came to his senses: he was grabbing Luna's shoulders to steady herself.

"Time is running out, Voldemort is getting closer and closer.

Professor, I am following Dumbledore's instructions. I must find what he wants me to find!

But when I'm searching the castle, I have to evacuate all my classmates - Voldemort wants me, but he won't mind killing a few more people, especially now - "

"Are you following Dumbledore's orders?"

Professor McGonagall repeated, a look of surprise slowly appeared on her face, and she stood up straight.

"While you search for this—this thing, we will fend off the demon and keep the school safe."

"is it possible?"

"I think so," Professor McGonagall said calmly, "You know, we teachers are all good at magic. If we all go all out, I believe we can hold him back for a while.

Of course, some action must be taken against Professor Snape——"

"let me--"

"——If the Dark Lord is at the door and Hogwarts is going to be besieged, it is really necessary to remove as many innocent people as possible.

The Floo Network is under surveillance, and Apparition is not allowed in the school—"

"There is a way."

Harry said immediately, explaining in detail the passage leading to the Hog's Head.

"Potter, we're talking about hundreds of students—"

"I know, Professor, but if Voldemort and the Death Eaters are focused on the school, they won't care who Apparate from the Hog's Head."

"That makes sense."

Professor McGonagall agreed.

She pointed her wand at the Carlo brothers, and a silver net immediately fell on their tied bodies, lifting them up into the air, hanging like two huge and ugly sea creatures on a blue background with gold.

Under the ceiling.

"Let's go, we have to wake up the other deans. You'd better put on that invisibility cloak."

She strode towards the door, raising her wand, and three silver cats popped out from the tip of the wand, with spectacle-shaped markings around their eyes.

The three patron saints ran forward quickly, and saw the spiral staircase filled with silver light. Professor McGonagall, Harry and Luna hurried downstairs.

They ran through the corridors, and the patron saint left one by one.

Professor McGonagall's tartan dressing gown rustled on the floor, and Harry and Luna trotted behind under the invisibility cloak.

After going down two more floors, there was suddenly the sound of someone's gentle footsteps.

Harry heard it first, his scar still stinging.

He groped for the Marauder's Map in the leather pouch around his neck, but before he could take it out, Professor McGonagall seemed to have spotted someone.

She paused, raised her wand in preparation for battle, and asked, "Who's there?"

"it's me."

From behind a suit of armor stepped Severus Snape.

As soon as Harry saw him, hatred filled his heart.

Harry only remembered that Snape was extremely sinful, and almost forgot what he looked like, his greasy black hair hanging like a curtain around his thin face, and how cold and ruthless his black eyes were.

He was not wearing pajamas, but was wearing his usual black cloak, and he was holding a wand in his hand, ready for battle.

"Where are the Carlo brothers and sisters?"

"Probably where you asked them to go, Severus."

Snape came closer and glanced quickly around Professor McGonagall, as if he knew Harry was there.

Harry also raised his wand, ready to strike at any time.

"I have a feeling," said Snape, "that Alecto has caught an intruder."

"Really?" said Professor McGonagall, "Where does this feeling come from?"

Snape moved his left arm slightly, and the skin there was branded with the Dark Mark.

"Oh, of course," said Professor McGonagall, "I forgot, you Death Eaters have your own secret contact information."

Snape pretended not to hear Professor McGonagall's words, his eyes were still searching the air around her, and at the same time he was approaching her little by little, and looking at his expression, it seemed as if he didn't realize that he was doing this.

"I remembered you weren't supposed to be patrolling the corridors tonight, Minerva."

"do you have any opinion?"

"I'm just wondering, it's so late, what made you get out of bed?"

"I seemed to hear some noise."

"Really? It seems like everything is quiet."

Snape looked her straight in the eyes.

"Have you seen Harry Potter, Minerva? If you have, I must emphasize—"

Professor McGonagall takes action.

Her wand whizzed in the air, and Harry thought for a moment that Snape would collapse to the ground in a state of confusion. Unexpectedly, his Iron Armor Charm was so quick that it caused McGonagall to lose her balance.

She waved her wand at a torch on the wall, and it flew out of its stand.

Harry, who was about to recite a spell for Snape, had to quickly drag Luna aside to avoid the falling flames.

The flames turned into a ring of fire, filling the entire corridor, and flew towards Snape like a noose——

Then it was no longer fire, but a huge black snake, and Mag blew it into black smoke.

Within a few seconds, the black smoke deformed and solidified, turning into dense daggers that chased after him.

Snape had no choice but to hold the armor in front of him and hit the armor's breastplate with daggers one after another.

"Minerva!"

A shrill voice said. While still shielding Luna from the shuttle curse, Harry looked back and saw Flitwick and Professor Sprout hurried from the corridor in pajamas. The bloated Silla

Professor Ghorn panted behind.

"stop!"

Flitwick raised his wand and screamed: "You are not allowed to kill anyone in Hogwarts again!"

Flitwick's spell hit Snape's armor as a shield, and with a crash, the armor came to life.

Snape struggled to break free from the iron arms that were squeezing him tightly, and threw the armor towards his attacker.

Harry and Luna hurriedly jumped down, and the armor hit the wall and shattered into pieces.

When Harry looked up again, Snape was running away desperately, and McGonagall, Flitwick and Sprout were all chasing after him.

Snape quickly ran into a classroom, and a moment later, Harry heard McGonagall shouting: "Coward! Coward!"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Luna asked.

Harry pulled her up from the ground, and the two of them put the Invisibility Cloak behind them and ran down the corridor into the empty classroom. McGonagall, Flitwick and Professor Sprout were all standing in front of a broken window.

.

"He jumped."

Professor McGonagall said as Harry and Luna rushed into the classroom.

"You mean he's dead?"

Harry ran to the window in three steps at a time, ignoring the startled shouts from Flitwick and Sprout when they saw his sudden appearance.

"No, he is not dead," Professor McGonagall said angrily: "Unlike Dumbledore, he still has a wand in his hand... and he seems to have learned a few tricks from his master."

Harry saw a large, bat-like figure in the distance, flying through the darkness towards the wall, and he couldn't help but feel fear.

There were heavy footsteps and gasping sounds from behind: Slughorn was chasing after him.

"Harry!"

He said breathlessly, massaging his large breasts in bright green silk pajamas: "My dear child... what a surprise... Minerva, please explain... Severus... how..."

"Our Headmaster is taking a temporary break," Professor McGonagall said, pointing to the big Snape-shaped hole in the window.

"professor!"

Harry put his hands on his forehead and shouted.

He saw the lake full of inferi passing by as he lay down, and felt the eerie green boat gently bumping against the shore of the underground lake. Voldemort jumped from the boat with murderous intent——

"Professor, we must lock down the school, he is coming!"

"Very good, the devil is here."

Professor McGonagall said to several other teachers. Sprout and Flitwick gasped, and Slughorn snorted.

"Potter has work to do in the castle as instructed by Dumbledore.

We have to try to provide every kind of cover to allow Porter to do what he has to do."

"You must know that no matter what we do, we can't keep the mysterious man out for a long time, right?"

"But we can contain him."

Professor Sprout said.

"Thank you, Pomona," Professor McGonagall said. The two witches exchanged a serious look of understanding, showing the friendly character of helping each other at this moment: "I suggest setting up basic security around the school.

, then gathered the students and met in the auditorium.

Most students have to be evacuated, but if there are adult students who are willing to stay and fight, I think they should be given the opportunity."

"Agreed," Professor Sprout said and hurried towards the door: "In twenty minutes, I will take the students from our college to meet you in the auditorium."

She trotted away, and they heard her murmuring: "Poison hand, devil's net, pods of knotty vine... Yes, I would like to see how Death Eaters deal with these."

"I can start here."

Flitwick said that although he couldn't see clearly outside, he pointed his wand at the broken glass window and whispered a very complicated spell.

Harry heard a strange whirring sound, as if Flitwick was releasing the power of the wind onto the playground.

"Professor," Harry walked up to the little Charms teacher and said, "Professor, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but the matter is very important. Do you know where Ravenclaw's diadem is?"

"...Super strong armor protection - Ravenclaw's diadem?"

Flitwick said in a high-pitched voice: "A little extra wisdom wouldn't go amiss, Potter, but I don't think it would be of much use in a situation like this!"

"I'm just asking - do you know where it is? Have you seen it?"

"Seen it? No one in living memory has seen it!

Long gone, kid!"

Harry felt a sense of despair and nervousness. So, what exactly are Horcruxes?

"Flitwick, we'll meet you and the Ravenclaw students in the Great Hall!"

After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, she motioned for Harry and Luna to follow her.

They had just reached the door when Slughorn spoke in a humming voice.

"Oh," he gasped, his pale face dripping with sweat and his walrus whiskers trembling slightly: "It's such a mess! I don't know if this is a wise thing to do, Minerva.

He must have a way to break in. Anyone who tries to stop him will definitely be in great danger——"

"I also hope that you and the Slytherin students will meet in the Great Hall in twenty minutes."

Professor McGonagall said: "If you are willing to leave with your students, we will not stop you.

But if any of you wants to disrupt the resistance or take up arms against us inside the castle, then, Horace, we will fight to the death."

"Minerva!"

"It's time for Slytherin House to decide whose allegiance it is," Professor McGonagall interrupted: "Go and wake up your students, Horace."

Harry did not stay to watch Slughorn hesitate, he and Luna rushed out after Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall took her position in the middle of the corridor and raised her wand.

"Stone—oh, for heaven's sake, Filch, don't—"

The elderly administrator staggered up, shouting: "The students are getting out of bed! The students are running into the corridor!"

"They should be like this, you gibbering idiot!" McGonagall shouted: "Do something useful! Go get Peeves!"

"Peeves?"

Filch stammered, as if he had never heard of the name.

"Yes, Peeves, you fool, Peeves!

Haven't you been complaining about him for more than twenty years? Go find him, quickly!"

Filch obviously felt that Professor McGonagall had lost his mind, but he still shrugged his shoulders and staggered away, muttering silently.

"Okay - Shi Zhen is dispatched!"

Professor McGonagall shouted.

Soon enough, the statues and armors in the entire corridor jumped off their supports. Harry heard the crashing sounds from upstairs and downstairs, and knew that their companions throughout the castle had taken the same action.

.

"Hogwarts is threatened!"

Professor McGonagall said loudly: "Guard the border, protect us, and do your duty to the school!"

With a crash and shouts, a group of moving statues swarmed past Harry, some smaller, some larger than life, and some animals.

Those clanking armors brandished swords and chained mace balls.

"Okay, Potter," McGonagall said, "You and Miss Lovegood had better go back to find your friends and bring them to the Great Hall - I'll wake up the other Gryffindor students."

They broke up at the next staircase. Harry and Luna ran towards the secret entrance to the Room of Requirement. On the way, they met groups of students, most of them wearing traveling cloaks over their pajamas. They were escorted by teachers and prefects to the main hall.

hall.

"That was Potter just now!"

"Harry Potter!"

"It's him, I swear, I just saw him!"

But Harry didn't look back and went all the way to the entrance of the Room of Requirement.

Harry leaned against the enchanted wall, which immediately parted to let them in, and he and Luna hurried down the steep stairs.

"how--?"

Harry was so shocked when he saw the inside of the house that he slid down a few stairs.

The room was crowded with people, much more crowded than when he had been here just now.

Kingsley and Lupine were looking up at him, along with Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Arya Spinnet, Bill and Fleur, and the Weasleys.

"Harry, what's going on?"

Lupine met Harry at the bottom of the stairs and asked.

"Voldemort is coming, the school is on lockdown - Snape is running for his life - what are you doing here? How do you know?"

"We sent a message to the rest of Dumbledore's Army," Fred explained: "No one wants to miss out on this fun, Harry.

Then the D.A. notified the Order of the Phoenix, and it just snowballed bigger and bigger."

"What first, Harry?"

George shouted: "How's it going?"

"They are evacuating the younger students. Everyone is gathering in the great hall to wait for arrangements," Harry said, "We are fighting."

The roar was overwhelming, and people rushed towards the foot of the stairs.

Harry clung to the wall and let them run past him. There were members of the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army, as well as members of Harry's former Quidditch team. They all drew their wands and headed towards the main building of the castle.

Rush away.

"Let's go, Luna."

Dean shouted as he passed by, holding out his hand.

Luna took his hand and followed him up the stairs.

The crowd gradually thinned out, and only a small circle of people remained in the Room of Requirement below. Harry walked over.

Mrs. Weasley was arguing with Ginny, surrounded by Lupine, Fred, George, Bill and Fleur.

"You're not old enough!"

When Harry approached, Mrs. Weasley was shouting at her daughter: "I don't allow it! Boys can, but you must go home!"

"I don't!"

Ginny shook her hair and freed her arm from her mother's hand.

"I'm from Dumbledore's Army—"

"—That's a teenage gang!"

"A gang of teenagers is ready to compete with a mysterious man, something no one else dares to do!"

"She's only sixteen!"

Mrs. Weasley said loudly: "She is too young! What did you two think that you brought her here -"

Fred and George looked a little ashamed.

"Mum's right, Ginny," Bill said gently: "You can't do that. It's right that anyone under the age has to go."

"I'm not going home!"

Ginny shouted, with angry tears in her eyes: "Our whole family is here, I can't wait there alone, knowing nothing-"

Her eyes met Harry's for the first time. She looked at Harry pleadingly, but Harry shook his head, and she turned back angrily.

"Okay," she said, looking at the entrance to the passage leading to the Hog's Head Bar, "I'll say goodbye now, and later-"

Suddenly there was a rustling sound, and then a plop, and another person climbed out of the passage, shook his body a few times, and fell down.

Then, he climbed up and sat on a nearby chair, looked around through his crooked horn-rimmed glasses, and said, "Am I late? Has it already started? I just knew that - just -"

Percy stammered and couldn't go on. He obviously didn't expect to meet so many relatives.

After a long period of astonishment, Fleur finally ran to Lupine and said in a tone that was obviously trying to break the deadlock: "By the way - how is little Teddy?"

Lupine blinked at her in surprise.

The silence among the Weasleys was solidifying, like ice.

"I - oh, by the way - he's fine!"

Lupine said loudly: "Yes, Tonks is with him - at her mother's."

Percy and the rest of the Weasley family were still in a stalemate, staring at each other.

"Look, I brought photos!"

Lupine shouted, pulling out a picture from his shirt and showing it to Fleur and Harry. In the picture, a little baby with a tuft of turquoise hair was waving his chubby little fist at the camera.

"I'm a fool!"

Percy roared so loudly that Lupine almost dropped the photo on the ground in fright: "I'm an idiot, I'm a vain fool, I'm a - a -"

"He is an ambitious bastard who only loves the Ministry of Magic and is divorced from his family."

Percy swallowed.

"Yes, I am!"

"Okay, it can't be made any clearer than that."

Fred said, extending his hand to Percy.

Mrs. Weasley started to cry. She ran forward, pushed Fred aside, pulled Percy into her arms and hugged her tightly. Percy patted his mother's back and looked at his father.

"I'm sorry, Dad," Percy said.

Mr. Weasley blinked quickly and rushed over to hug his son.

"How did you figure it out, Percy?"

"It's been a while," Percy said, putting the corner of his traveling cloak behind his glasses and wiping tears: "But I have to find a way to escape. This is not easy in the Ministry. They have been arresting rebels.

jail.

Later, I finally got in touch with Aberforth. He revealed to me ten minutes ago that Hogwarts was going to resist with all its might, so I came."

"Yes, we do hope that the prefects can set an example at such a critical time."

George said, imitating Percy's perfect prudery: "Let's get upstairs and fight before all the decent Death Eaters are caught."

"So, I can call you sister-in-law now?"

Percy said, shaking hands with Fleur, and the two of them rushed towards the stairs with Bill, Fred and George.

"Ginny!"

Mrs. Weasley yelled.

Ginny took advantage of the family's reconciliation and tried to sneak upstairs.

"Molly, what do you think of this?"

Lupine said, "How about letting Ginny stay here, so that she can at least be on the scene and know what's going on, but not at the center of the battle?"

"I--"

"That's a good idea," Mr. Weasley said firmly: "Ginny, you just stay in this room, do you hear me?"

Ginny didn't seem to like this idea very much, but under her father's extremely stern eyes, she had no choice but to nod. The Weasleys and Lupin also rushed towards the stairs.

"Where's Ron?" Harry asked, "Where's Hermione?"

"Must have gone to the Great Hall." Mr. Weasley turned and shouted.

"I didn't see them on the road," said Harry.

"They seemed to be going to the bathroom," said Ginny, "soon after you left."

"bathroom?"

Harry strode across the room to an open door at the edge of the Room of Requirement and looked into the bathroom over there.

There's no one inside.