Chapter 931: The Old Badger Who Fears Death
Augusta Longbottom, a low-key but powerful woman.
Throughout the history of the Longbottom family, the vast majority of the children and women who married into the family were Gryffindors, with few exceptions.
And Augusta was one of those "very few exceptions".
Yes, as an excellent student who also graduated from Hogwarts, she was a little badger who was not inferior to the genius girl Minerva McGonagall.
As we all know, the badger, which is the representative animal of Hufflepuff House, is actually divided into many species.
They are mostly survivalist, social and never picky eaters. However, among them, there are often different natural habits due to the main living environment, predatory competition of biological groups, etc.
Among them, there is a kind of badger that is not only smart and thoughtful, but also fearless in the face of challenges, daring to threaten the lion tiger and cheetah that is far larger than itself.
This kind of animal, which is also a badger and has a frosty back and black belly, is called "honey badger".
And Neville's grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, is probably a "honey badger" who is not common in Hufflepuff houses.
Perhaps due to age, as he gets older, even Augusta, the "big sister" of Hufflepuff, has become more like an old badger.
Although Neville was often reprimanded and scolded by her, Neville didn't know that his grandmother when he was young was far more powerful than he is now.
Now, when Neville showed his courage in front of his grandmother for the first time, he finally got a glimpse of what this grandmother really looked like with her strange decorative hats.
"Neville, go and take the two of them into St. Mungo—"
Before Neville, who had just discovered that his grandmother suddenly appeared beside him, he was dragged behind him by the other party.
He looked at the back, which was not tall and even slightly chubby, but he could only feel the momentum of a beast in the wilderness.
Augusta is a true Hufflepuff, and while her courage surpasses that of many Gryffindors, anyone who has seen her cast the Patronus Charm will never doubt her Sorting origins.
Because, the patronus she summoned was a silver-white badger.
At this moment, I saw the badger patronus leaping sideways from side to side, beating nimbly among those monsters. The sharp front claws were like blades, slicing through the monster's strong body again and again, bringing wisps of black mist.
It was clearly a small Patronus, but it was able to contain so many terrifying monsters in a fast and non-stop attack, and it was still inflicting damage on them all the time.
Whenever a monster tried to approach this way, Augusta would not hesitate to unleash a series of high-intensity spells, blasting them directly back into the engagement range.
For a while, nearly ten monsters were blocked by her at the corner of the street.
Although containment is not the same as a head-on battle, it is by no means something that ordinary wizards can do if they want to hold back those monsters as steadily as the old lady.
Neville called out to the two young wizards who had just escaped to run back, and from time to time he cast a concerned glance at his grandmother.
To be honest, he never thought that his grandmother would be so powerful before today!
"Knock-"
Neville knocked on the windowpane and was about to ask the mannequin inside to open the passage he had entered, but the dummy spoke before him:
"The verification has been transferred to the hospital, and those seeking refuge will enter immediately, and those who are seriously injured and unable to move should shout for help in place."
Before he could finish speaking, Neville reached into the glass and found that he was ready to enter.
The entrance to St. Mungo's Hospital of Witchcraft and Wizardry was originally authenticated and verified for matters, but now the hospital has implemented a temporary standard that has moved the latter verification in-house.
As for the identity of the visitor, it had already been done by the dummy when Neville knocked on the glass.
"Get in! You're advanced—"
Seeing this, Neville immediately stepped back to the side, making way for the entrance to the passage. And the two evacuees who followed him were not pretentious, and while nodding their heads to express gratitude, they immediately rushed in.
After that, Neville didn't follow up.
"Grandma—"
"You go in first!"
Augusta's words are always unquestionable, especially in front of Neville. It's just that Neville is no longer the obedient grandson of the past.
"Grandma, you have to come first."
Containing a few monsters alone is a bit reluctant after all.
If she could be more than ten years younger, she would even be sure that she would be able to stop more monsters like this. But now that the years are not forgiving, not every wizard can become stronger and stronger as Dumbledore.
The moment Neville insisted on getting Grandma back, the monsters were still getting closer and closer to Augusta. What made him break out in a cold sweat was the situation on the other side of the street.
Monsters are starting to gather over there, too!
But on the side of the old lady Longbottom, at the thought that her grandson was behind her, she would not allow herself to take half a step back.
"Don't talk too much, go in!" The old lady didn't look back and said.
However, Neville was willing to go first.
He knew that a situation like this where one person could resist an attack was the hardest to get out of.
Because now Grandma has to face more than just the monsters chasing after her—she's already handed over to her patronus. And I don't know when she herself had to use the non-physical Patronus Charm to fend off the two monsters on the other side.
But between those silver-white light and mist, gray-black flames began to fly continuously. Most of them were blocked by light and mist, but after all, a small number of them were leaked, forcing the old lady to move cautiously to dodge.
If you had slackened a little and been contaminated with that strange flame, you would have been like the Auror I had seen before, and I could only fall miserably in the snow and wail in pain, right?
But just to avoid the flames, Augusta got farther and farther away from the entrance to St. Mungo.
"Divine Guard!"
Neville also released a large cloud of condensed light mist, trying to disperse the black flames that had fallen on the street but were still burning, but the effect was not very noticeable.
Seeing this, Neville stopped doing these useless actions, but controlled the ball of light and rushed straight into the two monsters that Grandma was blocking.
"Bang!"
One of them was knocked upside down and flew out, and the other was rubbed too close and dangled in place.
A mouthful of black flame spat out and landed on the ground in front of it.
"Grandma, use the apparition to transform here! I'll cover you-"
As he shouted, Neville jerked his wand back, turning the flying ball of light back up and down against the monster's back.
"Is it really old?"
Old Lady Longbottom smacked her lips and threw out a cloud of silver light again, slapping back the monster that had been knocked forward by Neville.
After that, she glanced behind her again, and then took the opportunity to disappear in place.
And almost the next moment she left the place, her Patronus finally failed to completely interfere with a monster spewing gray flames, causing a gray-black fireball to explode in the street.
Seeing this, the old lady who appeared next to Neville couldn't help but have a hint of fierceness in her slightly cloudy eyes. If she had been a little later in running, the consequences might have been severe.
"Let's go!"
Immediately afterward, the old lady once again grabbed Neville's clothes and rushed towards the entrance of St. Mungo.
However, just a few steps away, but the possibility of accidents is still inevitable. No matter how wise and experienced Augusta was, there was no way to expect that a monster would fly out from the other side of the roof above.
"Roar—"
A heart-warming roar made the old lady who could barely hold on to her heart cold...... As for Neville, after such a close soul blast, he had already fallen heavily into the thin snow on the ground.
"Bang!"
The old lady, with her strong mental will, suddenly raised her hand and reluctantly interrupted the sudden roar.
As the mist of light flew, she clutched Neville's clothes as she held off the monster directly above her that was trying to rush down. Instead of letting go of Neville's hand, she tried her best to drag him to the window.
It's just that no matter how unwilling she is to serve the old, her grandson, who has already grown tall, is no longer something that she can drag an old woman with. I think that what she can usually drag Neville around is still Neville's own respect and obedience.
However, at the moment, she couldn't stop casting the Patronus Charm, so she could only drag it on her own.
"This little soft egg, today I finally got angry...... It's a pity that I probably won't see him become a hero in the future. ”
After several unsuccessful attempts to pull Neville, Augusta shook his head. She complained gloomily, but her eyes became sharper.
In the next second, the old lady suddenly retracted the Patronus Charm, and swept it backwards towards Neville at her feet. With a soft "bang", I saw Neville in a trance being pushed by a strong force, tumbling and crashing straight into the window pane.
There was a ripple, and Neville's figure vanished.
And almost at the same time, the unhindered monster immediately rushed forward, and the gray hands immediately clasped together, tightly choking the old lady's neck.
"Bang!"
There was another muffled thud, and Augusta held back the suffocation sensation in his throat and unleashed a crushing spell almost with his wand pressed against the monster's chest.
The power of such a powerful explosion at such a close range is not one-sided, and even she herself will inevitably suffer a lot of damage. But she did it anyway, even when she knew the consequences.
This Hufflepuff badger has never been afraid to say anything, even if it is to face death.
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