Chapter 195: Battle
"Death Eaters!?" Hermione's exclamation caught the eye of Hagrid and Madame Maxime.
"What do you say——?" Hagrid took a deep breath and shook his broad shoulders, "What do you say, Hermione—you know those guys!?" ”
Hermione glanced at Ning An and slowly opened her mouth, "Little Barty? Crouch, Ning An said that the man holding the box was little Barty? Crouch—"
Hagrid and Madame Maxime turned their heads, but this time they could confirm the identity of the group without Ning An's words, they had already arrived in front of Kakus, and several black-robed men who followed Barty Jr. removed the hood from their heads.
A pale-faced, distorted, long-faced wizard quietly followed, and with his hood off, he was sneering at Hagrid and the others, apparently the Death Eaters were the last to arrive, but had already noticed them.
"Antonin? Dolokhov—" Hagrid's rarely gloomy face squeezed a name out of his throat.
Fleur stretched out her hand and pointed at another black-robed man, and said a little strangely: "I seem to have seen that guy, in the newspaper...... Is it called Luke or something......? ”
"McHale? Lukewood," Hagrid said, "both of them were prisoners who had escaped from Azkaban, as reported in the Daily Prophet—"
Hermione looked at the man with shiny hair and a tired expression on his numb face, and then looked at Ning An, who was still smiling beside her, and felt even more conflicted in her heart.
Her gaze turned to the Death Eaters again, Barty Jr. was handing the box to a giant who looked like a translator, Hermione's gaze was drawn to a witch, her cheeks were sunken and withered, her long hair was unkempt, her eyes under her thick eyelids were looking at her, and a haughty, contemptuous smile appeared on her thin lips.
"Bellatrix? Lestrange ...... "She muttered the name, she had seen it in the newspapers, and her crime, Hermione remembered very well—brutally tormenting Frank and Alice Longbottom, causing them to be permanently disabled."
Madame Maxim stared at Lestrange from a distance, her tall figure burning like a flame, as if she was eager to rush over and capture the Death Eaters in the next second.
"Calm down, Olimu—" Hagrid tried to persuade her, but the headmistress of Beauxbatons, as if enraged by Bellatrix's defiant gaze, was bent on teaching them a lesson, and Fleur came up to hold Madame Maxim by the way.
"We can't do it, there are so many of them—and—giants hate magic—" Hagrid's beard trembled, and he and Fleur persuaded Madame Maxim, and the three of them left the valley and headed for the caves on the mountain, where there were many small and comfortable caves where people could rest, but they were probably not in the mood for now.
"What are we going to do - do we want to ...... with Hagrid?"
Hermione looked at Ning An, looking worried, she was a little nervous about the sudden arrival of the Death Eaters, those people were all extremely vicious guys, she was very worried about Hagrid's situation now, if the Death Eaters were looking for trouble, there was no doubt that they would be the first to find the people sent by Dumbledore.
In a way, she hoped that Ning An would be willing to stay with Hagrid, and she believed that Ning An would give Hagrid protection.
"I'm afraid not," Ning An shook his head, "You also see Hagrid's attitude, he won't want to die with us—not to mention that he is also on a mission given to him by Dumbledore, and we may not be all the way." ”
He rubbed Hermione's unkempt hair and said with a smile, "Don't think about it so much, Hagrid has done so much for Dumbledore, it can't be difficult for him, not to mention that Lady Maxim is here." ”
Hermione nodded, and Ning An raised her head, looking at little Barty after the gift? Crouch suddenly intersected in the air, and the Death Eaters also noticed Ning An and his party, and the two groups collided with silent sparks in the air, little Barty had no impression of Ning An, but it didn't mean that he didn't have an impression of Hermione, this perfect young lady of Hogwarts, when he was "a professor", but he left a deep memory.
"Let's go." Ning An didn't continue to look at each other meaninglessly, turned around and led the three of them back to the cave where they had rested last night, the warm bonfire burned quietly, and the flickering fire light jumped on the rock wall, like elves, carefully through the darkness.
"How's it going, are all the people coming?" Ning An sat cross-legged by the campfire, and on the fire was a wooden shelf made by Zancas, the Sámi had always been proficient in it, and on the shelf hung an iron kettle, which was already melted and about to boil.
"Chetty sent a message that everyone had arrived at him, and he had arrived last night." Zancas walked over and sat down by the campfire, Hermione and Jason sat down in turn, Ning An raised his wand, conjured four silver goblets, poured himself some hot water, and handed the pot to Hermione, holding the cup, his palm warm.
"That's good, let them stay together first, anyway, it's not far from here, and the apparition can come over."
"Master, are we going to do it?" Jason bent over and cast a shadow on the wall like a strong black bear.
"The Death Eaters are also here, I'm afraid it will become more and more chaotic here, sooner or later something will happen, and then is the time to do it, otherwise more than seventy giants will not be so easy to deal with." Ning An blew into the cup, took a sip of boiling water, and the warm current flowed down his throat and stomach, and his whole body warmed up.
Hearing his words, both Zancas and Jason nodded in agreement, no more, Hermione cast a concerned look at Ning An, Ning An smiled back, and silence returned to the cave, only the north wind was outside the cave, still whining and roaring.
The time soon came to night, and the shelf of the campfire was replaced by a small black pot, and the water in the pot was bubbling, this was Ning'an's dinner today, and Zancas dug up wild fruits and wild vegetables from a small forest behind the mountain, with white asparagus, mushrooms, and algae like kelp, and Ning'an couldn't name them.
In this regard, he is far less experienced than Zancas, a small pot of game slowly boiled, the aroma gradually emanated, seducing the gluttonous worms in Ning An's stomach, Zancas added some unique spices of the Sami people, so that the unique fragrance of wild vegetables wafted far away, Ning An even wanted to block the entrance of the cave, to prevent the fragrance from attracting some gluttonous giants.
He held a small bowl in his hand and looked at Zancas expectantly, and now Zancas attracted the attention of three people, not only Ning An, but also Jason and Hermione, who had only hastily eaten a few bites of hard bread at noon, and at this moment saw the fragrant hot soup, their appetites began to gurgle.
"Don't rob me later-" Ning An couldn't help muttering, Jason shrank his hands holding the bowl, Hermione glanced at Ning An and sighed helplessly.
"Boom-" A loud bang came, the black pot with the soup shook violently, the soup spilled out, poured on the fire, and made a "stinging, stinging" sound, and then before Ning An could speak, there was a second loud bang, like a landslide, so loud that people couldn't believe it.
"Quick, go and see—" Ning An stood up, vaguely guessing what was going on, and ran towards the entrance of the cave, the closer he got, the louder and deafening it became, making people worry that it would cause an avalanche at any time.
It was the sound of shouts, roars, roars, and clashing of weapons, and dozens of giants in the valley were clumped together, as if moving hills were colliding with each other.
"It's a fight—" Zancas gasped, even though he had seen a lot of the market, he couldn't help but exclaim at this moment, it was not often that so many giants fought together.
"They are not fit to live together," Jason said with a blank face, "they can't control themselves, I'm afraid they'll have to beat each other to death every few weeks, either for food, or for fire and a place to sleep, and the whole race is about to go extinct, and it doesn't make them stop killing each other......"
He still didn't say the second half of the sentence, and Ning An guessed that most of it should be a "stupid race".
"Let's go out," Ning An poked his head out with a serious face, looking at the other caves on the hillside, and there was almost no light coming from the darkness.
Jason solemnly took out his wand from his arms, Hermione also held the wand in his hand, Zancas took out a skeleton that he got out of nowhere, it seemed to be the skull of a deer, the four of them walked out, the night was hazy, the valley was empty and quiet, and in the valley, the shouting of killing was deafening, Ning An felt that the earth seemed to tremble, and there was a boiling feeling on the surface of the distant lake.
Walking sideways on the hillside for a while, Ning An didn't want to go down so quickly, the giants just started fighting, of course, they were waiting for them to fight almost both defeats, and then it was the most advantageous to go down to clean up the mess, and the giants of more than six meters fought together, and the shock caused was indeed beyond what Ning An had imagined.
"Boom-" The explosion suddenly came very close to them, followed by an arrogant shriek, and Ning An thought it was Samantha here in a trance.
"What, little girl—separated from your giant friend!?"
On the hillside in front, four people in black cloaks were patrolling back and forth in a large circle, proudly raising the wand in their hands back and forth, Ning An could see clearly through a little moonlight that it seemed to be Hibiscus who was surrounded in the middle? Delacour.
She nervously held the wand in her hand, and the four Death Eaters circled around her, and there was always one person behind her who would not dare to attack, Bellatrix? Lestrange was verbally provocative, and she seemed to be enjoying the moment, deliberately saying in a lower/liu tone:
"Look—look—oh my God, how could they bear to leave a lovely girl like you in the wilderness? Do you know how the giants will eat you alive if they are captured——! Hahaha-"
The Death Eaters shrieked, laughter faintly drowned out the sounds of the giants fighting.
But soon the laughter stopped, because the Death Eaters who were facing Ning An saw the four of them.
"Who is it?" Antonin? Dolokhov snapped, his wand already pointed at Ning'an.
Faster than him, however, was a red light that had flown in, little Barty? Crouch unleashed a curse mercilessly.
"Armor protection!"
Jason? Ludwig raised his hand and reversed the evil spell with the armor charm, and a spark from the collision of the spell illuminated the faces of Ning An and the others, and little Barty showed a clear look, clapped his hands with a smile, and said substantially:
"Who did I think it was, it turned out to be Miss Perfect and her companion, why, are you also the companion of this beautiful Miss?"
He shook his wand in front of Fleur, and Lestrange seemed to have discovered some new and interesting toy, she abandoned Fleur and stepped forward, her wand lit up, and looked at Ning An and Hermione carefully, her sunken cheeks showed a rather frightened look, and she exclaimed loudly and exaggeratedly:
"Come and see, there are two more children here!?" Then she sneered in a voice that mimicked that of a baby:
"Why, you want to work with us before you learn to breastfeed?" As if telling some of the funniest jokes, Lestrange burst out laughing, and the Death Eaters echoed in unison, except for Barty Jr., who waved his hand irritably
"Hurry up and kill them, Bella, we don't have much time to grind around-"
"You have no right to command me!" Bellatrix jumped to her feet as if she had been electrocuted, and she was so excited that she glanced at Ning An and Hermione, looking ecstatic
"I'm not going to do that, let me think, let me think, how to torture you, huh?" She held her wand and approached Ning An step by step
"Look at you, so young, so long, I haven't been so excited in a long time, you must know how a wizard tortures people, right?"
"If you talk about torture," Ning An suddenly laughed, "I think I'm probably pretty good at it." ”
"Dig into the bones!"
"Dig in—"
A red light hit Bellatrix, she screamed miserably, just halfway through the incantation, she fell to her knees, and soon shrunk into a ball, twisting her body, Ning An gave her a very fast Drill Heart Curse.
The other Death Eaters hadn't even realized why Bellatrix had been hit by a child's Mind Drill, and why she couldn't cast spells as fast as a child, and they froze in place, as if they had forgotten that they were a wizard.
"Faint!" Hermione and Jason shouted at the same time, and two red lights shot at Dolohov and McHale without hesitation, Dolohov was quick to shorten, dodging the stun curse, while McHale was unfortunately hit and lay straight on his back.
"Oops—useless waste"
Little Barty? Crouch cursed secretly, not knowing who he was scolding, he took a sip and raised his wand, and the green light lit up the night sky
"Avada suo!"
"Get out of the way-" Ning An reached out and pushed Hermione, she pounced on her side, dodging the killing curse, and little Barty was still laughing wildly, "Why dodge!?" Aren't you guys amazing? ”
He rushed over with a wild laugh, and with two clicks of his wand, two flashes of red light, and the ground exploded, and fine snow mixed with dirt and stones, and flew all over the sky.