[HP] The Last Demon King

When the howling sea breeze and the smell of the sea disappeared, Harry knew he had succeeded, and he and Dumbledore stood on the dark path in Hogsmeade, shaking and dripping from their clothes.In a daze, Harry seemed to see another Infernal coming out of some shops, approaching him step by step, but he blinked, but found nothing.There was silence all around, and the night was very dark, only a few street lamps and a few lighted windows upstairs were visible. ?

"We succeeded, Professor!" Harry whispered, just standing on the ground of Hogsmeade close to Hogwarts, his courage seemed to be full again in an instant, and he said again, excitedly, Emphatically: "We're back, we've made it, we've got the Horcruxes, Professor!"

But no one responded to his joy, and Dumbledore collapsed on top of him, and in the dim light of the street lamps, Harry saw that Dumbledore's face was frighteningly pale.

"Professor—you, are you okay? You need Madam Pomfrey...I'm going to knock on a door and ask you to stay there, and then I can go to Pomfrey—"

"We're running out of time, Harry," said Dumbledore weakly. "We must return to Hogwarts at once."

"what?"

Dumbledore's eyes were staring in one direction with astonishment, and Harry followed him, his heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment—on top of the Hogwarts complex, there was a dazzling green creature with snake letters Skull heads hang in the night sky.

The appearance of the Dark Mark seemed to give Dumbledore a shot in the arm. Harry felt Dumbledore's weight leave him, and he stood up by himself. At the same time, he said to Harry in a deep voice, "If you don't If Forth hasn't changed his old interests, he should have at least two brooms, Harry, and I need you to summon them."

Harry immediately raised his wand. "Aberforth's broomstick is coming."

There was a loud bang from nowhere in the silent village. Ten seconds later, Harry saw a large broom flying towards him, and it stopped suddenly within reach of his hand, hanging in the middle of the road. Waist height, trembling slightly.With just a cursory glance, Harry judged that there were at least a dozen of these brooms of different models.

"Put on your invisibility cloak." Dumbledore took the broom closest to him, with a wry smile on his face: "Take any one, we're going to catch up with the furious Aberforth." Get out of here before, hoping these broomsticks don't drive him out of his mind enough to see the Dark Mark on his head."

Harry quickly put on the Invisibility Cloak and rode on a broomstick. When the two broomsticks flew towards Hogwarts swiftly, his heart was curled up, full of cold and heavy fear: Before setting off, it was he who called DA The members of the group had left their secure quarters and patrolled the corridors, and if the Dark Mark had been because of them... Harry didn't dare to think about it.

Beyond the sound of the evening wind whistling in Harry's ears as they flew through the dark, winding alleys they had traveled earlier, he heard Dumbledore whisper again in some strange language. talking about something.His broom trembled for a moment as they flew over the walls and into the grounds, and Harry knew why: Dumbledore was undoing the spells he had placed around the castle with his own hands so they could enter the school quickly.The Dark Mark is shining above the Astronomy Tower, the highest point of the castle.Does this mean that death happened there? ?

A few seconds later, the two landed on the ground of the observatory tower.

The school was quiet, as quiet as any normal night before, and Harry strained his ears, but still he didn't hear a shriek or a cry as he imagined.

Harry raised his head, and as soon as the word "professor" was pronounced, Dumbledore suppressed it with a louder and brighter voice: "The one in the dark, why doesn't he come out and speak?"

Harry's heart skipped a beat, and he stared vigilantly at the corner where Dumbledore was watching, and drew his wand from his robe, ready to fight at any moment.

After a suffocating few seconds, a person slowly walked out of the shadow cast by the stone wall of the tower.The silver-white moonlight illuminated the face of the visitor in the night. Harry recognized this face. Whenever he saw Sirius' half shoulder, this face would appear in front of Harry's eyes. He was so The hatred and deceit took advantage of his Eridins, and when this face that had disappeared for nearly a year suddenly appeared in front of him for real, Harry could hardly hold the wand in his hand, and only There was a pounding heartbeat.

"Long time no see, Eridins." Dumbledore said calmly, looking at the girl who came out of the shadows.

Not knowing if it was an illusion, Harry felt Aridins' eyes rest on him for a moment.

"Good evening, Headmaster." Eridins looked at Dumbledore, and a line of words appeared in the air. "Is the sea breeze not bad this season?"

Harry's breathing stopped abruptly, how would Eridins know they had gone to the beach tonight?

He just stared at Eridins in surprise, until Dumbledore's sigh reached his ears, and he came back to his senses: "So, this is indeed a trap."

"It's really sad for you to say that." Under the glowing green light of the Dark Mark, Harry saw the corners of Eridins' mouth curled up. When she smiled, Harry noticed that she had lost a lot of weight. The plump cheeks are sunken, and there is a sickly blue color under the pale complexion. The whole person is as thin as a delicate but fragile paper doll. Even so, it may be because of this that her beauty is like a rose in the night. The last bloom before withering is as scorching as the eyes.Even though he had repeatedly reminded himself how despicably Aeridins cheated his trust to design a conspiracy against the Order of the Phoenix this year, at this moment his heart was still twitching uncontrollably, because of sympathy, because of resentment, Maybe there is still a little bit of confusion about why it has developed to where it is today.

"It is indeed the place where Voldemort hides the Horcrux. You have been there, you should know this better than me, right?"

Harry saw the two of them just staring at each other quietly, blue and pitch black, and there was something in both eyes that he couldn't understand.

"You dare to tell me this, which means that at least for now, there are no other Death Eaters here." Dumbledore said, "Did you come alone?"

"What about you? Are you here alone?" Eridins smiled mysteriously.

Harry saw Dumbledore's brow frowned, and then quickly let go.

"May I take the liberty to ask a question?" Dumbledore gasped, and continued, "How did you know about that place? With Voldemort's character, I don't believe he would have told this to anyone other than himself." a living person."

Eridins smiled: "Principal, you are delaying time."

"I'm really curious about your plan, Aridins." Dumbledore said, "Since you're here today, can I guess that Beckinsale's matter has something to do with you?"

If I remember correctly, Beckinsale is Professor McGonagall's only niece, but why did Dumbledore suddenly mention her at this time?Harry thought blankly.

"Yes."

Unexpectedly, Eridins immediately gave an affirmative answer.

"What McGonagall loves most is this niece who has no magical talent. You found out about this and took advantage of it..." Dumbledore said softly, his voice was erratic, and Harry couldn't hear his true emotions, " There are a hundred ways to drown a man with no talent for magic in a swimming pool, and your men did. You got McGonagall out of Hogwarts at the time you wished, through the death of an innocent man .”

Harry was dumbfounded, only then did he learn that Professor McGonagall was no longer at Hogwarts at this time, remembering the figure of Professor McGonagall hurried away with red eyes after receiving a letter from an owl during the meal in the auditorium this morning, haha Another cluster of anger against Aridins flared up in Leigh.

Suddenly, a dull cry came from somewhere in the castle.

"Look, Headmaster Dumbledore. Your allies have arrived, and your goal has been achieved." Eridins still smiled peacefully.

"My purpose now is to find out your plan, Eridens." Dumbledore said calmly, his expression did not change significantly, but Harry was keenly aware that his attitude towards Eridins had changed. The gentleness he treated each student equally...more like, his attitude towards Voldemort.

"You haven't told me yet, how did you know where Voldemort hid the Horcrux?" said Dumbledore.

The fighting downstairs gradually became louder and closer to here, Harry's heart hung in his throat, and he was still paying attention to the conversation between Dumbledore and Eredins.

"Kreacher." This time Eridins did not avoid the question, and directly answered an answer that Harry had never thought of.

But there was only a small surprise on Dumbledore's face.

"I see, there is no better choice for Voldemort."

"Voldemort is different from you," Eridins glanced at Dumbledore's shaky body, "he made Kreacher drink up the water in the stone basin, then threw it there and left alone. .”

"I don't understand," said Dumbledore, "Kreacher is alive and well."

"That's because someone gave it an order to go home as soon as it was done."

"Go home?" For the first time, Dumbledore's face showed such a clear expression of confusion and surprise. Not only Dumbledore, but also Harry was stunned. Only the Black family could give Kreacher orders. , but who gave such an order that obviously had reservations about Voldemort, and even doubted it?

"Who gave that order?" asked Dumbledore.

Aridins didn't use magic to write it in the air this time, she smiled and mouthed to Dumbledore: "Secret—"

Seeing that Aridins would not answer, Dumbledore did not press the question any further.

"In this way, the disappearance of Mrs. Black's portrait is also inseparable from you. Eridins, my last question," Dumbledore's clear blue eyes fixed on Eridins's , "Why did you know that you would be exposed after the Battle of the Ministry of Magic, but you still took great pains to erase the memory of Kreacher when he came into contact with you?"

"Let me put it another way," said Dumbledore, "if the first deletion of Kreacher's memory is because you wanted to conceal the existence of the Horcruxes, then the second deletion of Kreacher's memory and the disappearance of Mrs. Black's portrait, What are you trying to hide?"

The increasingly obscure conversation between Dumbledore and Eridins made Harry hear in a cloud, and the sound of fighting downstairs became clearer. He glanced absently at the door of the stairwell from time to time, expecting Sirius, Or any professor other than Snape bursting out of that door.

"It's too boring to finish the riddle once, let's save some for next time." Harry saw Eridins' right hand pull out her wand from her sleeve robe, with her back to the moonlight, her smile shrouded in the shadows was very clear. Unreal, "...if we meet next time."

"I've always hoped that the worst wouldn't happen to you," whispered Dumbledore, and at this moment he slowly picked up his own wand, though his hand was shaking weakly. You still proved to me the strength of blood ties. I regret that you did not return to the right path, but what makes me more regretful and heartbroken is that you also inherited the source of tragedy that caused your father to make all kinds of blunders— —”

"Both you and Tom have broken hearts and are born without the ability to love, because neither of you was born for love. In order to cover up this, Tom and you are imitating the act of "love" without a teacher." , the way Tom imitated was through the Death Eaters he called 'family'... and the way you imitated was through 'lover' Draco Malfoy."

Dumbledore's words detonated in Harry's mind like a bomb. He didn't know what mood he was in at the moment. He even forgot to hold his breath. The fake smile that had been hanging on her face since she appeared slowly faded from her face, and finally disappeared completely.

While speaking, Dumbledore seemed to want to stand up straight. At first, he almost fell down several times, but in the end—he cast a shadow of a tall mountain on the cold stone ground with his own efforts alone.

Harry thought that Eridins would take advantage of others during this period, but she just watched Dumbledore straighten up again with a blank expression on her face.

Suddenly, a bright green light merged and covered the Dark Mark above the tower. Harry looked up, and was horrified to see an even bigger green skull, which almost occupied half of Hogwarts' sky, shining in the low sky , The snake letter in the mouth of the skull is so close that it seems that it can touch the face at any time.

This is not the end, this is just the beginning.With the launch of the huge skull, from the direction of the main castle and tower of Hogwarts, there are successively smaller skulls launched into the sky. They gather together, and the whole Hogwarts The sky was reflected in green day.

Harry saw Eridins exhale softly.

"While you were stalling for time, didn't it occur to you that I was stalling for time too, Headmaster Dumbledore?"

Under the dazzling green light, Dumbledore's body swayed as if on the verge of falling.