Harry Potter – Approaching the Magic World

Jon leaned weakly on the roof, with his back on the raised roof ridge prepared by Hogg. He watched Hogg and Peeves stand in front of Helga... as if this thing could be right. What good do they have.

Of course, even if there is no benefit in this matter, they will definitely do it.

That is Helga.

But now Jon doesn't even want to speak, he just wants to lean here quietly, waiting for Dumbledore to return.

Obviously he waited.

Just as he saw Dumbledore, Dumbledore had crossed the jagged castle walls and was coming down from the broomstick.

A few seconds later, Harry also landed beside him, looking all around.

The wall was desolate, and the doors to the spiral staircase inside the castle were closed.

There are no signs of fighting or fighting, nor a corpse.

"What does this mean?"

Harry asked Dumbledore. He looked up at the green skull in the sky, its snakelike tongue gleaming evil rays above them. of light: "Is this mark real? Really someone has been—Professor?"

In the dim green light emitted by Dark Mark, Harry saw Dumbledore grabbing himself with that scorched hand Chest.

"Go and wake Severus,"

Dumbledore said weakly but very clearly: "Tell him what happened and tell him to come and see me.

Besides, don’t do anything, don’t talk to anyone, and don’t take off your Invisibility Cloak.

I’m waiting here."

" But—"

"You swear to obey me.

Harry — go!"

Harry hurried to the door of the spiral staircase, but As soon as he grasped the iron knocker, he heard running footsteps from the other side of the door.

He turned to look at Dumbledore, and Dumbledore motioned to him to step back.

Harry stepped back and pulled out his wand.

Suddenly the door was knocked open, and a person broke in and shouted: "Expelliarmus!"

Harry's body suddenly became very stiff, and he felt himself staggering back. Go to the wall of the tower and stand there like a statue, all over you unable to move even a little bit, and speechless.

He doesn't understand what's going on. "Expelliarmus" is not a frozen spell?

At this moment, with the green light of Dark Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand draw an arc in the air and fly out of the wall, he understood...

Dumbledore He stopped Harry with a silent spell, and the one second he spent reciting the spells made him lose the opportunity to protect himself.

Dumbledore stood there with his back to the wall, face deathly pale, but still did not show the slightest panic or worry.

He just looked at the man who removed his weapon and said, "Good evening, Draco."

Malfoy took a few steps forward and quickly looked all around, wanting to see See if there is anyone other than him and Dumbledore.

His eyes fell on the second broomstick.

"Who else is here?"

"I was just about to ask you this question. Are you alone?"

In Under the green light of Dark Mark, Harry saw Malfoy's light eyes staring at Dumbledore again.

"No," he said, "Someone supported me, and Death Eater broke into your school tonight."

"Very good, good,"

Dumbledore said, as if Malfoy showed him an ambitious homework plan.

"It's really good, you figured out how to put them in, didn't you?"

"Yes," Malfoy's breathing was a little short: "It's right in front of you of one's eyes, you haven't noticed it!"

"How ingenious, but...I take the liberty to ask...Where are they right now?

You seem to be... alone and helpless. "

"They met some of your guards and they are fighting underneath.

It won't be too long...I will come up by myself.

I—I want to finish a job."

"Okay, then you can do it, my dear child."

Silence.

Harry was imprisoned under his Invisibility Cloak, physically unable to move even a little bit.

He looked at the two people in front of him, and listened intently to the fighting of Death Eaters in the distance.

In front of him, Draco · Malfoy just stared at Albus · Dumbledore blankly, and Dumbledore smiled unbelievably.

"Draco, Draco, you are not a murderer."

"How do you know?"

He seems to realize that this sentence sounds like How naive.

Under the green light of Dark Mark, Harry saw his face flush.

"You don't know my abilities," Malfoy said, his tone becoming fierce: "You don't know what I did!"

"Oh, of course I do. "

Dumbledore said kindly: "You almost killed Katie Bell and Ron Weasley.

You have been trying to kill me all this year, and more and more. The more I can’t wait.

Forgive me for saying that, Draco, but your approach is very lame...

To be honest, it’s so lame, I just wonder if you did it intentionally. ......"

"Of course I did it!"

Malfoy said excitedly: "I have been working on this for a whole year, tonight--"

Harry heard a dull cry from somewhere in the castle below.

Malfoy froze, turned his head and looked behind him.

"Someone is struggling to resist."

Dumbledore said in an easygoing manner: "You just said... By the way, you said that you finally succeeded in getting Death Eater into mine. School.

I admit, I thought it was impossible...how did you do it?"

But Malfoy didn’t answer, he was still listening to the movement below, as if Frozen like Harry, unable to move even a little bit.

"Perhaps you should have done the work alone."

Dumbledore suggested to him: "What if your backup is defeated by my guards?

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I’m afraid you have also discovered that there are members of Order of the Phoenix here tonight.

You don’t need help anyway...

I don’t have wand at the moment... …There is no way to protect yourself."

Malfoy just stared at him blankly.

"I see." Dumbledore saw Malfoy neither moving nor talking, so he gently said to him, "You're scared, you won't dare to do anything until they come up."

"I'm not afraid!"

Malfoy roared fiercely, but he still didn't hurt Dumbledore: "You should be the one who is afraid!"

"But why?

I don’t think you will kill me, Draco.

Killing is not as easy as most people think...

Well, just take advantage We are waiting for your friends for this little time, tell me...

How did you sneak them in?

You seem to have spent a long time I came up with this method."

Malfoy seemed to be desperately restraining himself from yelling or vomiting.

He swallowed, took a few deep breaths, staring fiercely at Dumbledore, and wand pointed directly at Dumbledore's chest.

Then he seemed to say involuntarily: "I had to fix the broken Vanishing Cabinet that hadn't been used for many years.

It was the one where Montagu was closed last year and couldn't get out. Cabinet."

"Ah—"

Dumbledore sighed like a groan. He closed his eyes for a while.

"A clever idea...I remember there are two cabinets, don't you?"

"The other is in the blogger-blog shop," Malfoy said, "they A passage was built between the two cabinets.

The montage told me that when he was locked in the cabinet in Hogwarts, his whole body was unable to move even a little bit, but sometimes he could hear the movement in the school. , Sometimes I can hear what happened in the shop, as if the cabinet is running around in these two places, but no one can hear his voice...

Finally, he finally passed Apparition Escaped, although he failed the exam.

His Apparition almost killed him.

Everyone thought this was a very interesting story, only I was aware of it. When it came to the meaning of it—even Bojin didn’t know it—only I realized that as long as I fix the broken cabinet, I can enter Hogwarts through two Vanishing Cabinets."

"Very good, "

Dumbledore muttered: "So Death Eater can enter the school from the blogger-blog shop to help you...

A clever plan, a very clever plan...

And, as you said, it’s in front of one's eyes..."

"Yes," Malfoy said, strangely he seemed to be from Dumbledore's praise Gained courage and comfort: "Yes, that's it!"

"But sometimes," Dumbledore continued: "You can't be sure if you can fix the cabinet, right?

At this time, you took some clumsy and ill-considered measures, such as handing me a magic necklace. In fact, it will definitely fall into the hands of others...

And to honey Poisoned in the wine, in fact, the probability of my drinking that wine is very low..."

"Yes, but you still don't know who planned these things, do you?"

Malfoy sneered, when Dumbledore's body slid down against the wall a little bit. It was obvious that his legs and feet had no strength. The speechless Harry struggled desperately to get rid of the curse that bound him, but to no avail.

"Actually, I knew it a long time ago." Dumbledore said, "I believe you did it."

"Then why didn't you stop me?"

"I tried, Draco.

Professor Snape obeyed my orders and kept watching you—"

"He didn't obey your orders, he promised. My mother—"

"Of course he would tell you that, Draco, but—"

"He is a double agent, you stupid old man, he simply I didn’t work for you, you’re still kept in the dark!"

"Let us disagree with each other, Draco, I happen to trust Professor Snape a lot—"

"You are losing control of him!"

Malfoy sneered: "He has always offered to help me--

want to take credit for what I have--want to intervene and do something ——

'What are you doing? Did you make that necklace? It's so stupid that it will expose everything——'

But I didn't tell him that I was What do you want to do in the room, when he wakes up early tomorrow morning, things have been successfully accomplished, he will never be the darling of the Dark Lord anymore, he is nothing compared to me, nothing!"

"How comforting."

Dumbledore said gently: "We all hope that our hard work will be appreciated by others. It goes without saying...

But you are sure There is an accomplice... There is someone in Hogsmeade who can plug Katie the one--that--ah..."

Dumbledore closed his eyes again and nodded slightly, as if he was about to fall asleep.

"Needless to say... it's Rosmerta. How long has she been in Imperius Curse?"

"You finally figure it out, don't you?"

There was another shout from below, louder than the previous one.

Malfoy turned his head uneasily again, then looked back at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore continued: "Because poor Rosmerta had to hide in her own toilet and gave that necklace to any Hogwarts student who went to the toilet alone?

Also There is that bottle of mead that has been poisoned...

Of course, Rosmerta can add poison to that bottle of wine for you, and then sell it to Slughorn, thinking it will be given to me as a Christmas gift... …

Very clever...

Poor Filch never thought of checking the wine sold by Mrs. Rosmerta...

Then tell me, you and Rosmerta How did you contact me?

We must strictly check all communications in and out of the school."

"Magic coins," Malfoy said, and he seemed to have to keep going. He went down and said that his hand holding the wand was shaking violently: "I have a coin, and she also has one, I can pass a message to her--"

"It's the one who claimed to be last year' Dumbledore's Army's secret contact method used by the team?"

Dumbledore's voice was easy-going and kind, but Harry saw him slip an inch against the wall when he was talking.

"Yes, I learned from them."

Malfoy grinned and said, "The idea of ​​poisoning mead was heard from mudblood Granger. I heard her It was said in the library that Filch couldn't recognize potions..."

"Please don't use that insulting word in front of me."

Malfoy let out a bad laugh.

"Seeing that I am about to take your life, do you still care if I say'mudblood'?"

"Yes, I care about it."

Dumbledore said that at this time Harry saw his feet slipping on the ground, and he supported himself so hard that he would not collapse: "As for you to take my life, Draco, several minutes have passed.

There is no one else around. I am defenseless now. You would never dream of such a good opportunity, but you still didn’t do it..."

Malfoy's lips are twisted involuntarily, as if tasting A very bitter thing.

"Tell me about tonight," Dumbledore continued, "I still don't understand... You know I left school?

Of course, Rosmerta saw me leave Yes, I think she must have used your clever coins to tell you the news..."

"Yes," Malfoy said, "But she said you were just going for a drink, and soon Come back..."

"Yeah, I did go for a drink...now I'm back...reluctantly," Dumbledore muttered softly, "So you decided to set one for me Trap?"

"We decided to hang the Dark Mark above the tower and force you to rush back to see who was killed. This method really worked!"

"Oh...nor Certainly..." Dumbledore said, "So, can I understand it like this: No one has been killed yet?"

"One person died," said Malfoy, his The voice suddenly rose by an octave: "One of you... I don't know who it is, it's too dark... I stepped over the corpse... I should have waited for you to come back here, and I blame all of you. People from Order of the Phoenix came out to stand in the way..."

"Yes, that's it."

There were collisions and people shouting from below, louder than before. Now, someone seemed to be fighting on the spiral staircase leading to Dumbledore, Malfoy, and Harry.

Harry's heart was beating wildly in his invisible chest, but no one could hear... a person died... Malfoy stepped over the corpse... Who could it be?

"Not much time," Dumbledore said. "Where to go, Draco, let's discuss your options."

"My choice!"

Malfoy loudly said: "I'm standing here with wand—I'm going to kill you—"

"Dear child, let's stop acting.

If you If you really want to kill me, you will do it after removing my weapon just now, instead of stopping and happily talking about these measures and methods with me."

"I have no choice!"

Malfoy's face suddenly became as pale as Dumbledore's:

"I must do it!

He will kill me!

He will kill my whole family!"

"I understand your situation," Dumbledore said, "Otherwise why haven't I met you before?

I Knowing that if Voldemort finds out that I am suspicious of you, you will be assassinated."

Malfoy twitched in fear when he heard the name.

"I know you accepted the mission, but I dare not talk to you about it, for fear that he will use the Legilimens curse on you."

Dumbledore continued:" Now we can finally speak frankly and honestly...

You did not cause any damage, you did not hurt anyone, you are really lucky, all those who were injured by you have survived...

I can help you, Draco."

"No, impossible,"

Malfoy's hand holding Wand trembled very hard: "Anyone is impossible. He called I do this or I will kill me. I have no choice."

"Stand on the right path, Draco,

We can hide you in An absolutely safe place, safer than you can imagine.

Furthermore, I can send members of the Order of the Phoenix tonight to hide your mother.

Your father is currently in Azkaban and there is no danger...

When the time comes, we will protect him,

Stand on the right path, Draco...you Not a murderer..."

Malfoy stared at Dumbledore blankly.

"But I've come this far, haven't I?"

He said slowly: "They thought I would die before I was successfully accomplished, but I still Alive...

And you are controlled by me... Now I am the one holding the wand...

You are at my mercy..."

" No, Draco," Dumbledore said quietly, "Now you are at my mercy, not at my mercy."

Draco did not speak.

His mouth is wide open, and the hand holding wand is still shaking.