"You...... You are...... Ning'an!? "Cedric? Diggory exclaimed in disbelief as he raised his wand.

Although the two were not of the same age or from the same house when they were at Hogwarts, he had seen Slytherin's genius freshmen, not to mention that there was such a big incident later, and the wanted notice published in the Daily Prophet could clearly print the photo.

Ning An looked at Cedric calmly, he didn't know who the person in front of him was, from the age it seemed to be a Hogwarts student, and he also knew Harry Potter, but it didn't matter, Ning An didn't care who the other party was, and the situation was very bad now, unless he could touch the last potion hanging from his waist, and the petrification spell inside was enough to petrify the other party.

But how to do this is a problem.

"Throw away your wand—" Cedric uttered the exact same command as Harry, apparently not seeing how Ning Ann had knocked Harry and Hermione down, and not understanding what those inconspicuous vials dangling from his waist were for.

Ning An slowly lowered his hand, a little bit, and slowly made a gesture to put his wand on the ground, but Cedric shouted at him:

"Let go of your hand and just throw him away - don't move again!"

However, at this moment, Ning An's fingers were only less than half an arm's distance from his waist, and he could touch them.

Cedric seemed to have a premonition of something, he didn't want to be careless anymore, the magic power was condensed at the tip of the wand, seeing that a powerful spell was about to be released, Ning An couldn't dodge it at all, how fast the human reaction could be faster than the spell, all he could do seemed to be watching himself be concentrated by the magic.

"Passed out—"

The red light flashed, but it was not from Cedric's wand, and the spell struck the handsome boy, who incredulously wanted to turn back, but still weakly lowered his head slowly, and his body tilted, and he fell.

"Rustle"

Footsteps sounded in the darkness, and a figure emerged from the woods, gradually becoming visible in the moonlight.

Ning An stood up straight and looked at the man who came out of the shadows with a smile, his blonde hair, neatly combed behind his head, grew a lot taller, and his light-colored eyes sparkled in the night.

"Long time no see, Draco." Ning An said lightly.

Draco? Malfoy finally came to the clearing, his face was pale, his wand was still trembling, his black soft calfskin heel stepped on the ground in front of Cedric, and then looked back at Harry, Hermione, Parney, and the two wizards who were protecting Laurel who were also lying on the ground, and finally fixed on Ning An who was standing in front of him.

"You...... You're back......"

His voice trembled slightly, just now he just saw a man leaning against the tree, Ron? Weasley, who had just come to find it, only saw Cedric pointing his wand at Ning'an, and Malfoy subconsciously made a move.

"Well done, Draco." Ning An praised him and came to Pani, who had fainted on the ground, and pointed his wand at him—

"Rapid recovery"

The spell focused on Pani, and he slowly got up from the ground with a "hmm" sound.

“……”

He rubbed his head, as if he was still under the influence of the coma spell and could not feel conscious.

"You...... No...... You...... What do you want to do here...... ”

Malfoy had had a bad year, and Ning An's flight had brought the entire Snake Order to pieces, and the pure-blood students had dissociated, leaving only the half-bloods and the occasional Muggle descendant to insist that they were one of them.

Draco himself was a pure-blood, and he didn't look down on half-bloods, let alone mudbloods, but he liked the feeling of being respected and feared, and he missed the time when he joined Serpent in his second year.

Following Ning An, no one admired him, the first and second grade students saw him as if they were seeing their elders, and the senior students did not dare to underestimate him, because he was a student who ate at the same table with Ning An, you must know that they were all core members of Snake Letter.

It was also the only time when Malfoy forgot about going against Harry Potter, and when one really appreciates what it's like to have power and prestige, one is no longer interested in playing house-like pranks.

Until last year, everything was ruined, the snake letter was gone, the prestige was gone, and people even cast cold eyes on him because he was once the most central member of it, and he couldn't completely get rid of himself like Laurel, and even relied on revenge on those former members to highlight himself.

Malfoy was so miserable at Hogwarts that he reverted to the point where he had nothing to do but trouble Harry Potter, which may be the reason why he subconsciously took action just now.

He longs for Ning An, for Ning An to come back and lead them again, to lead the snake letter, so that people continue to be in awe of themselves, and let themselves continue to enjoy the feeling of being respected and feared.

"Oh, Draco, don't be so respectful, you know I'm just a wanted Dark Wizard now, and you've just done me a great favor."

Ning An waved his hand casually, and Pani also noticed Malfoy, he shook his head, stepped forward with a smile, and said with a smile:

"Oh? Is it Malfoy? It's been a long time since we saw each other. ”

"Pani...... Starr ......"

Malfoy silently thought that this was the wizard who became wanted with Ning An, and he was very willing to communicate with Pani back then, and even invited Pani to the Malfoy family ball on Christmas that year.

"Let me see, who's attacking us?"

Parney walked over and turned Cedric over with his foot, a look of confusion on his face

"Who is this? It always feels a little familiar, have you ever seen it? ”

Malfoy was still stunned, and subconsciously replied after listening to Pani's question:

"Cedric? Diggory, a Hufflepuff student, is a Hufflepuff Seeker—"

Ning An was stunned, and stepped forward to look at Cedric on the ground, he didn't expect that this was actually Cedric, who was indeed very handsome, giving people a dignified feeling.

"Let's go, let's get out of here first, take him with us—" Ning An pointed at Cedric with his wand, and he floated slowly. Ning An took the lead in controlling him and plunged headlong into the dark jungle in front of him.

Parney followed, Malfoy looked around, gritted his teeth, and followed in, and in a few moments, the clearing was quiet, except for a few unconscious figures and the strange cries of night owls.

After walking through the dense forest for a while, Ning An felt a lot farther away from the clearing just now, and then stopped again, it was dark and silent, there was no one else, he put Cedric's fainted body down, and stood still, Malfoy and Parney also stopped their steps.

"Draco—" Ning An turned to Malfoy first, his black eyes like a pair of agatees

"You understand my situation, don't you? Why help me? ”

Malfoy bit his pale lip tightly, bloodless, white as if glowing in the night, and his fist clenched and released several times, as if he had made another very difficult choice.

"I think- I want to go back to the second grade, back to the way it was-"

At last he made up his mind, and roared like an unwilling beast among the trees:

"You said that this could be our time—I want, I want that time, I want to be feared by all—"

"There's no point in fantasizing—" Ning An interrupted Malfoy

"Let's keep it simple, Draco," he leaned his head a little closer, so that even in the darkness of the night, he could make out every expression on Malfoy's face.

"You want to go back to Snake Letter?"

"Never left—"

"Huh-" Ning An sneered, "don't try to lie in front of me if you really want to come back, Malfoy." ”

"Yes...... Yes! - I was dazed - the Aurors were interrogating - my father told me to protect himself - let me say—"

"Alright, Malfoy, take it easy—I'm not interrogating you—"

Ning An tried to calm Draco, who had become panicked, and Parney snickered as if Malfoy had done something ridiculous.

"I think we'll have time to hear you explain everything that happened at Hogwarts—"

Ning An waved his hand to signal that Malfoy didn't need to say anything more, then stretched out a finger and said:

"I want you to do something."

"Gladly!" Malfoy was a little excited, the nervousness and fear just now were gone, what he was most afraid of was that Ning An came back to settle accounts with him, but it seemed that he was not hated, and he was also assigned to the task.

He's going to prove himself, Malfoy is in the fourth grade, he's grown up, and unlike the ignorant kid who only sneaks bubbles under people's butts, he's a wizard, and he's going to prove that he can be used by people.

"Harry Potter has a particularly interesting map there, and I wonder if you can get it for me."

"Maps?"

"It's a magic map, and although it looks like a blank piece of parchment at first glance, I think Potter will keep it carefully, and it shouldn't be hard to tell."

Malfoy's eyes lit up, and he gasped heavily, this request was not difficult for him, if he really had to kill someone or something, it would definitely be a difficult thing, but stealing something from Potter could not have been better, to complete the task and to fight Harry Potter.

"No problem, master—leave it to me!"

Ning An nodded, looked at Cedric who passed out on the ground, and had a faint plan in his heart

"But what am I going to do with it when I get it?"

"You can hide it in the Slytherin common room, on the chain-hung chandelier on the ceiling, and that lamp must not have been replaced."

Malfoy hung his head, "Of course, the light was always there." ”

"Go back first, lest you be suspicious—"

Ning An had nothing else to explain, so he ordered Malfoy to leave, and the latter bowed and slowly disappeared into the dark forest.

"Can we trust him?" Parney was a little confused.

Ning An came to Cedric's side, squatted down and said without looking back, "The question is not whether you believe it or not, Pani, but whether you can be satisfied. ”

With his chin in his hands, he pondered and explained to Pani, "Malfoy is not lying, he has his own ambitions, and he has achieved them through the snake letter, and if the snake letter can make him realize his ambition, then you can't drive him away." ”

"But now the snake letter ......"

Halfway through his speech, Pani suddenly realized that he seemed to have lost his words, so he stopped talking, because it seemed that there were only two of them left in the snake letter now, and they had both become notorious dark wizards, so what could they do to influence the wizarding world.

"Don't worry, Starr - the world will soon become chaotic, and when the line between good and evil becomes more blurred, perhaps our chance will come."

"And now, our priority is to get the necessary blood - to fulfill my little promise." Ning An looked at Cedric who was unconscious and said with a smile.

He thought for a long time about how to obtain the seven types of blood he needed, and after thinking about it, it seemed that only the wizards and professors who went to school at Hogwarts could meet this kind of request.

However, Hogwarts is not an easy place to enter, and wizards who are not going to study will be embarrassed by the heavy magical defenses imposed there, and the stone statues that guard the door will not be allowed to outsiders to enter.

And now, he suddenly has a good plan.

"We still have a polyjuice decoction left—" Ning An looked at Pani and said word by word:

"I want you to dress up as Cedric? Diggory. ”

Pani was startled at first, but quickly calmed down, thought carefully and said, "Hmm...... That's fine, but I don't know anything about him, not even his friends—"

"It's okay, it's still some time before we leave school, we have time to ask him in detail, just fool his family over first - you use the Imperius Charm."

Ning An said as he drew his wand, pointed it at Cedric and shouted, "Hurry up and recover!" ”

A spell struck Cedric, who groaned and came to his senses, but soon Pani's indifferent voice rang out

"Out of body—"

Cedric had just straightened up on the ground, and immediately became limp, his eyes were blank, and his whole body seemed to have lost his soul.

Ning An stepped forward, grabbed a few hairs with his hands, opened the small box around his waist, and took out two bottles full of black potions from them, these were compound potions that had not yet had time to put the things on Martin and Allen's bodies, they had already been boiled, as long as one thing was added to the person who needed to transform, it could be completed immediately.

Opening a bottle, Ning An put Cedric's hair inside, although the color of the bottle could be seen clearly at night, it quickly changed from black to dark gold, Ning An handed him to Pani next to him.

A large pile of rope erupted from his wand, coiling itself around Cedric like a snake, binding him in a ball, and Cedric remained motionless and let the rope do its work.

"Now?" Pani looked at Ning An suspiciously, in exchange for Ning An nodding firmly

"Hurry up, Pani—"

Ning An ripped off the clothes Cedric was wearing, handed it to Pani, who was changing, and then stuffed Cedric into the box where he had cast the Traceless Stretching Charm, and a living person obviously made it a lot more crowded.

"Hiccup—this potion is so bad no matter how many times you drink it."

Cedric's voice came from behind him, Ning An turned around, Pani was gone, only to see a handsome boy standing there smiling, it was Cedric? Diggory.