Hogwarts Homecoming

At dusk, sunlight divides the sky into two, half of the sky is soaked in dim yellow light, while the other half is still in the light icy blue of late winter.

The sound of traffic in the distance has become hazy due to the weakening of spatial distance, as if you are in a dream, and you can't hear it clearly. The gurgling water nearby does not add much poetic comfort. From time to time, the meandering river drifting through large shadows releases the sound of The stench enveloped a large residential area.

"You're actually here—"

Looking at the center of this huge and messy residential area, among the low-rise buildings, there is an extremely abrupt chimney that pierces the sky, Amosta said with a smile.

"Have you been here, Mr. Blaine?"

The Aurors have made arrangements in advance, and a magic barrier has been established in a nearby area. All scenes in the barrier have been fixed to the outside world. The anti-Apparition spell makes it difficult to escape or break in through Apparition. It becomes impossible here.

The Muggle Expelling Curse caused the scattered Muggles who still lived here within the area of ​​​​the barrier to go out of their homes and rush to the bustling city.

With the target house as the center of the circle, there were several circles of Aurors standing on the roofs of nearby houses. A jackdaw mistakenly entered the barrier, but after sensing the evil aura permeating the humans who climbed on the roof, , immediately let out a cry of terror, and hurriedly fluttered its wings and left.

Kingsley watched the last group of Muggles walk out of the house and away from the barrier, but he heard Amosta Brain next to him suddenly say this.

"Ah, haha, it's probably over there, I don't remember very clearly--"

Amosta smiled happily, turned around in a circle, then pointed in one direction and said to Kingsley,

"This is southeast of London, a town called Cokeworth. This is an industrial area abandoned by Muggles. It was once prosperous, but as the Muggles changed the development center, the nearby environment was severely polluted. Therefore, it gradually declined——"

Kingsley listened very carefully, Amosta thought for a while and said with a smile,

"Professor Severus Snape's residence in the Muggle world is here. When I was studying at Hogwarts, one summer vacation. Oh, I think it was about fourth year. I encountered some problems. I didn't know. There was no way to solve it. I didn’t have an owl at the time, so I followed the address Professor Snape gave me in advance and found the door——"

"So that's what it is-"

Kingsley nodded in surprise, "That's an interesting coincidence. I bet Severus would be proud to have taught a wizard like you."

"Maybe--"

Amosta chuckled and seemed to be in a good mood.

The sky is getting darker and darker, and in many dilapidated houses in the messy residential area, electric lights with a dim light like gas lamps are lit.

With a snap, the Auror who had gone to the Leaky Cauldron to report the news flashed to Kingsley's side.

"The barrier has been reinforced, Mr. Blaine--"

Amosta nodded slightly, thought for a while and asked,

"When you were checking Muggle memories, did you find any suspicious guy near this person?"

"Not found, Mr. Blaine--"

Agnesa shook her head and said respectfully to Amosta,

"We considered whether the Controller was nearby, but there was nothing wrong with the Muggles' memories."

Amosta pursed his lips and nodded again.

Including Kingsley, all the Aurors on the nearby roofs looked as if they were facing an enemy. On the other hand, Amosta looked at ease and landed on the ground unhurriedly.

Wow!

With a violent shaking in the space, the space of the house in the center of the target was suddenly stretched. The house next to him was pulled behind the approaching Aurors with a crash, and the windows of the house were boarded up. The house was separated.

At this time, Amosta finally set his sights on this house. As his gaze deepened, he gradually narrowed his eyes and his expression became colder.

"etc--"

Under the leadership of Kingsley, the Aurors were about to break in and dig out the people inside the house, but at this moment, Amosta, who was on top of the Aurors, suddenly stopped their actions.

Including Kingsley, many Aurors frowned. When executing an arrest operation, it is very important to keep quiet, because making noise may cause the criminal to notice, leading to the failure of the secret arrest operation, and even casualties. If the person speaking is not Amosta Brain, it may If he couldn't say these things, he would turn around and cast a curse on Amosta to shut him up.

"What's going on, Mr. Blaine?"

Kingsley quickly retreated to Amosta's side, his wand filled with glimmering light still pointed at the surrounded room.

"There's no one alive in the room—"

Amosta's face was calm, but what he said made Agnesa look confused. He was about to explain to Mr. Blaine, and then, he heard Amosta say calmly,

"There is no living person in the room, only an inferi--"

"Inferi?!"

Kingsley's lips tightened, and his brows raised in surprise and anger.

"Not the Imperius Curse?"

Aurors are no strangers to the Inferi, but the surrounding Aurors still showed surprise. Since the fall of Voldemort, this kind of dark magical creature that uses human corpses as raw materials has not been very popular for a long time. They were not seen again for some time.

"I believe I won't admit my mistake--"

Amosta's tone was solemn, the wand slipped from his hand, and he waved towards the house.

Like a spliced ​​cardboard box, the four walls of the house slowly opened along the seams and were gently laid on the floor. The scene inside the house finally appeared in the eyes of the Aurors.

The messy room didn't deserve much attention, but the smell that hit their nostrils made the Aurors suffocate. They frowned and looked at the bed in the room.

Jingle Bell!

Suddenly, a rapid ringing sound came from the dark surroundings. This unexpected episode surprised Amosta. He moved his eyes slightly and looked at the end of the bed, where there was a storage box and a black wire. He emerged from the gap, climbed around a foot of the bed that supported the bed board a few times, and crawled into the dark bottom of the bed.

The Aurors all pointed at Amosta Brain, asking for instructions on what to do next.

There was a rush and anger in the crisp ringtone, as if the emotions of the caller were being transmitted along the line.

After thinking about it, Amosta walked out of the crowd and walked towards the storage box that was emitting an anxious electric ringing sound. The moment his footsteps passed the original wall of the house, a sudden change occurred!

Crossed!

The Inferi, who had been lying on the bed with his eyes closed and stiffened, suddenly jumped up from the bed under the horrifying sight of many Aurors. Powerful and evil magic burst out from the cold body of the Inferi, and a violent wind suddenly surged up. The storage box at the end of the bed was instantly thrown away, and the Inferi was instantly suspended in the air under the influence of tyrannical magic, looking down at Amosta Brain and the Aurors.

"careful!!!"

Kingsley only had time to yell out this word. He watched helplessly as the inferi flew up from the bed and hung in the air. The whites of its eyes turned like dark green, and then turned into abyss-like black!

At the same time, the entire body of the Inferi's gray skin was covered with dense red bulges amidst the roaring sound. In the blink of an eye, it changed from a human form into a ferocious and terrifying big ball of flesh.

The restless magic power like a volcanic eruption gave all the Aurors present a sense of impending disaster. At the moment before the explosion, each of the Aurors who tended to be instinctive were retreating. They watched the red flesh ball in front of their eyes. Each breath-like contraction and expansion gets bigger and bigger.

Dozens of pale beams of light burst through the fleshy red skin from the inside out, trying to ignite the night!

Boom!

too close!

The moment the explosion occurred, Kingsley seemed to see a sun rising in front of him. Although he and his men began to retreat the moment they noticed something strange, compared to the explosion that was about to wipe out everything, They are still too close!

Kingsley's forehead had veins popping out, and boundless regret welled up in his heart.

It's not that he is afraid of sacrifice, it's just that almost half of the elite forces in the Auror Office are here, if they are all killed.

In this thin line between life and death, everything that was happening slowed down in Kingsley's eyes. He could even see the violent fireball expanding inch by inch, and felt the temperature of the air close to his skin rising rapidly. , the wildly vibrating air was impacting his eardrums, and while he was desperately waiting for death to come, his eyes gradually dimmed and glanced at Amosta Brain.

Everything in the field of vision slowed down. However, Amosta Brain's movements were very normal. Kingsley saw Amosta Brain grab the flying storage box from mid-air and roll it away. He picked up the Muggle phone with his left hand and put it to his ear. The wand that popped up from his right wrist suddenly pointed at the cracked flesh ball, and a flood of milky white light spewed out from the tip of the wand——

"Hello--"

In the turbulent wind, with one hand firmly suppressing the explosion, Amosta, who was calm and calm, answered the phone and tilted his head.