Chapter 489: Tunnel

"We need to get into Hogwarts," Harry said, looking at Aberforth, "to kill the mystery man." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Aberforth stared at Harry for a few seconds, then turned and walked behind the counter, and the rest of the group hurriedly followed, and behind a door there was a rickety wooden staircase, and at the top of the staircase was the living room, with a worn carpet, and a small fireplace, and above the fireplace hung a large painting of a blonde girl looking blankly and tenderly into the room.

"You know what to do," Aberforth said, looking at the painting.

The girl in the painting smiled slightly, turned and walked away, not disappearing next to the frame as the usual portrait would, but as if walking down a long tunnel behind her, watching her slender figure go farther and farther away, and finally be swallowed up by the darkness.

"There's only one way in now," Aberforth said, "and you must know that the whole school has never been so heavily guarded, and as far as I've heard, they've blocked up all the old secret passages at both ends, they're surrounded by Death Eaters, they're patrolled by regular patrols, Snape is the headmaster, the Caro siblings are his right-hand men, and there's no one in the school who doesn't listen to him." ”

As Aberforth spoke, a small white dot appeared at the end of the tunnel in the painting, and Arianna walked back towards them, closer and bigger, but there was another man beside her, taller than her, limping and full of excitement.

At last, the heads and shoulders of the two men occupy the entire portrait, at which point the painting opens like a small door, revealing the entrance to a real tunnel, from which Neville crawls out, his hair surprisingly long and his face full of scars, one eye swollen, blue and purple, many deep, curved wounds on his face, and his robe torn apart.

Neville yelled in ecstasy and jumped off the mantelpiece, exclaiming, "I knew you were coming! I already knew, Harry!" and then he saw Darren, Ron, and Hermione, screaming in ecstasy, and hugged them one by one.

"Neville, what's wrong with you?"

"What? this?" Neville shook his head, "It's nothing, Seamos is worse than me, you'll see, oh, let's go now," he looked at Black.

Harry climbed onto the mantelpiece, then Darren, he turned around, reached out to Hermione, pulled her up, then turned and went into the tunnel, followed by Ron, followed by Blake and the others.

Upon entering the tunnel, Darren saw a smooth stone staircase on one side, as if the passage had been around for many years, with brass lamps hanging from the walls and a flat dirt floor. They walked in the passageway, their shadows cast on the walls, swaying like fans.

"How old has this passage been?" Ron asked as he walked, "I thought there were only seven passages in and out of the school." ”

"They sealed off all those passages before school started," Neville said, "the entrance was enchanted, and the exit was guarded by Death Eaters and Dementors, and it was impossible to get in and out of it now." ”

"I see," Harry nodded, "tell us about Hogwarts, Neville, we don't know anything about the school. ”

"School...... Alas, it doesn't look like Hogwarts anymore," Neville said, the smile on his face faded, "do you know the Caro siblings?"

"Those two Death Eaters who teach here?"

"They don't just teach," Neville said, "and discipline is in their hands, and these two Carlos love to punish their students the most." ”

"Like Umbridge?"

"Where, Umbridge is mild-mannered compared to them, and if we do something wrong, the other teachers will have to hand us over to them, but the teachers will not do it as long as they can hide from it, and it can be seen that they hate those two as much as we do. ”

"Amycus, the man, who taught the Defence Against the Dark Arts class before, is now naked in the dark arts, and wants us to practice the Mind Drill Spell on those who are locked up!"

"What?" said Harry, Ron, and Hermione in unison, exclamations that echoed through the passage.

"Damn it!"

"They should be sent to Azkaban!"

Darren heard the voices of others behind him as well.

"Yes," Neville said, "that's how I got this wound," he said, pointing to a particularly deep wound on his cheek, "I won't do it, but some people are quite interested, and Crabbe and Goyle like it, and this is probably the first time they've been on the wrong side of something." ”

"Alector, Amicus's sister, teaches Muggle studies, which is now compulsory for everyone, and we all heard her say that Muggles are like animals, dirty and stupid, vicious and cruel to wizards, forcing wizards to go into hiding, and that now that normal order has been restored, this wound," he pointed to the other cut in his face, "because I asked her and her brother how much Muggle blood they had on their hands. ”

"Oh my God, Neville," Ron said, "and there is a time and place to speak presumptuously. ”

"You didn't hear her," Neville said, "or you wouldn't be able to stand it, and the point is, it's useful to have someone stand up against them, and that gives everyone hope." ”

"But they're making an example of you," Ron said.

Neville shrugged his shoulders, "It's okay, they can't afford to waste too much pure-blood blood, so they only torture us a little while we speak presumptuously, and they won't really kill us." ”

"By the way," Neville pulled a school badge out of his pocket, "this thing is fantastic," he said to Darren with a grin, "The Caro brothers and sisters never found out how we were connected, they were going mad, we used to sneak out in the middle of the night and scrawl on the wall things like 'Dumbledore's Army is still recruiting,' and Snape hated it." ”

"You," Harry looked at Neville, who was scarred, "you're still ...... at school But I'm out there......" he couldn't say.

"You're on Professor Dumbledore's mission," Ron said.

"But, except what the professor had already done, it was all done by Darren! ”

"Who said that," Darren patted Harry on the shoulder, "without you, we wouldn't have been able to find the crown from the Room of Requirement, and that snake was also brought to us by you, didn't you destroy it?"

Unexpectedly, the days with Darren were too comfortable, and this child was still depressed...... Anyway, if Hermione hadn't had to follow, who would have cared if you went out wandering!