Dudley didn't speak, his two ham-thick hands clenched into fists, he was desperately trying to restrain himself from beating Harry, it seemed to take all his self-control.

On his big pink disc face, small blue eyes squinted, sneaking at Harry's hand hidden in his trouser pocket, hesitating to make a sound, Harry showed a clear expression, deliberately reached out to show the tail of his wand, and looked at his cousin with a wicked smile.

"What's the matter, Brother D, I said let the poor snake go."

"Stinky boy—" A boy behind Dudley, who seemed to be unable to stand Harry's arrogance, rushed up with an arrow and slammed his fist at Harry's door with the sound of the wind.

"Stop—"

Just as Harry was about to draw his wand, Dudley's shout seemed to work more than magic, and the boy froze suddenly, his fist raised in the air, not daring to fall.

"Let the snake go." Dudley said viciously, "Release that stinky snake to me—"

"But, Brother D—" The boy with the pole looked at Dudley incredulously, wondering why the bully would give in to the skinny monkey-like boy with glasses, it was as fantastical as the Arabian Nights.

"I said—let it go—it ——!" Dudley turned his head, his fat face must have been twisted to the extreme, startling his companions, and a few of the timid ones had quietly fled and left the deserted playground by night.

"Thanks, Brother D." Harry looked at the boys who had thrown down the pole and turned away hatefully, he felt very comfortable, and the unpleasant emotions had been alleviated to a certain extent by retaliating against Dudley, but this was not enough for the depression in his heart.

"You think you're a man with that thing, don't you?" Dudley watched as his companions were gone, and the pit viper crawled crookedly down the grass to Harry's feet, coiling around his legs in disgust and crawling towards him, which made Dudley's face pale.

As if to scare Dudley, or to fix him well, Harry endured the feeling of the pit viper crawling up his body, and even though it wasn't good for him, he managed to hold on to his composure, and a wicked smile on his face

"You look stupid, but you're not, Brother D? I thought you wouldn't care about what I had in my hands. Harry flicked his wand as he saw Dudley squint at it.

"Don't call me Brother D." Dudley said in disgust, his eyes pacing back and forth between the wand and the pit viper that had climbed up to Harry's shoulder, and then he suddenly noticed that on Harry's other shoulder, there was a pale-headed chaffinch.

This abominable wizard always attracts something strange, and Dudley, jealous and frightened, rolled his eyes, and said sarcastically:

"Are you going to open a zoo? On your own shoulders? ”

"If I don't call you Brother D, then what should I call you, Dada? Baby eggs? Or is Dada careful liver? ”

Harry avoided Dudley's talk and succeeded in provoking his anger

"Shut up! You shut up! Dudley took a sharp step forward, Harry raised his neck without flinching, his wand clenched in his hand, and the old pit viper on his shoulder, hoarsely spitting out the letter, and the words it said reached Harry's ears word for word.

"Teach him a lesson, young wizard - teach this fool a good lesson who doesn't know the power of awe!"

I can't, I can't, Harry's mind was holding Harry, and as much as he wanted to use magic to vent on Dudley, he knew that it was forbidden for minors to use magic outside of school.

"You...... What do you want to do......" Dudley, who was still menacing just now, immediately wilted after thinking of something, his eyes widened, he retreated to the position he had just placed, and said quickly:

"You can't use it — I know you can't, you're going to be expelled from that freak school you attended."

"How do you know they haven't changed the statutes, Dada?" Harry compodied himself and laughed softly.

"That can't be," Dudley's voice was less certain, "you wouldn't have the guts to fight me if you didn't hold that thing, would you?" ”

The dim streetlights stretched the shadows of the two men for a long time, and the amusement park, where the insects could be heard before, had fallen completely silent, and Harry was still taunting Dudley

"Why, which ten-year-old kid did you beat up tonight? With the support of your four buddies? So you only dare to do it to a boy in this situation, or to a poor wild snake? ”

"I'll tell you, he's sixteen." Dudley said viciously, "He was unconscious for twenty minutes after I knocked him down, and he weighed twice as much as you - you wait, I'm going to tell Daddy you pulled out that thing-"

"Oh? Running home to find Dad, right? Will his little boxing champion still be afraid of Harry's nasty wand? ”

Dudley was so angry that if it was daytime, he would have been able to see his face turn purple, and his small eyes stared at Harry, as if he wanted to eat him alive, but after two laps, Dudley "poofed" and was happy.

"You're not that brave at night, are you?" He scoffed.

"It's night, huh, Dada baby, it's dark like this, isn't it night?"

"I mean wait until you!" Dudley became so aggressive that even a wand couldn't scare him, and he finally regained the initiative in front of Harry for the first time.

"I've heard it all night—" He stepped forward again, and Harry froze, staring at his cousin, and could see part of Dudley's large face, which had a strange smug expression on it.

"Hear what—"

"I hear you talking in your dreams, humming."

Harry's heart suddenly shuddered, and he suddenly sank down, as if he had returned to the cemetery.

"Help me, save me—please don't—don't—don't let him come back—drown it, drown it—"

Dudley laughed hoarsely, a screeching whimpering sound under the streetlamp.

"Who are you praying for, oh my God, who has offended you and wants to drown it, but why do you have to drown, is it some kind of unique punishment for you freaks?"

The pit viper on Harry's shoulder suddenly coiled to its feet, its mouth wide open, and let out a shrill "hiss" as if it were roaring, and Harry could hear the snake shouting "Give him a lesson, wizard, teach him a lesson." ”

"Shut up—" Harry whispered, not sure if it was Dudley or the pit viper on his shoulder.

"Come and save me, Dad, Mom, he's coming back, come and save me, Dad, Mom - you're still thinking about your dead mom and dad!? - What do you want to do! Don't point that at me! ”

Dudley retreated under the wall, and Harry aimed his wand at Dudley's heart impartially, feeling his fourteen years of hatred for Dudley now surging through his veins—the thought of giving up everything if he could strike once in a hearty way.

The pallily chaffinch flew up from his shoulder, making a loud birdsong as if it were some kind of air raid siren, and the noisy man was distraught, and the pit viper on his shoulder was still chattering, and the low roar and speech of "hiss" filled Harry's brain, making him almost unable to think

"Teach him a lesson, give him a hard blow—let this little fat guy taste what it's like to be turned into a slug—go, wizard, why do you want to suppress your anger? Aren't you a wizard? Why bow down to a completely powerless Muggle!? ”

"Shut up!" Harry suddenly roared and stared at Dudley with his wand and said sharply, "Don't mention this again, understand!?" ”

"Get that thing out of the way!"

"I ask you if you understand!?"

"Point it elsewhere!"

"You understand!"

"Get that thing out of the ——!"

"Come on, give him some color!!"

"Boom-"

The wand erupted in a dazzling burst of light that caught Harry himself off guard, and he only had time to jerk upwards to deflect Dudley's heart, but a powerful poison spell struck Dudley.

He immediately crawled on the ground, curled up like a shrimp, lying on the ground, unable to stand up, could only crawl on the ground on all fours back and forth, unable to speak, and two tentacles suddenly appeared on the top of his head, as if he was about to turn into a disgusting, meaty/big worm.

"Well, now he's learned his lesson." The pit viper sighed relaxedly, but Harry hung his arms unnaturally, his mind was cold, blank, he used magic, outside of school, and cast a slug spell on his cousin? Let's see, what will the people from the Ministry of Magic do with him?

The revenge didn't appear for half a minute, some were just cold in their hearts, how could they really lose control, Harry looked at Dudley who was still crawling on the ground, he couldn't laugh at all, he might be expelled from Hogwarts, how stupid should he be to laugh.

Harry shuddered strangely and gasped as if he had been doused with icy water.

In the dark night, something strange happened, the dark blue night sky sprinkled with stars suddenly became pitch black, and there was not a trace of light—the awakening, the margin, and the dim street lamps at both ends of the alley all disappeared at once, as if they had just noticed it, the rumble of cars driving in the distance, the rustle of the leaves in the near distance, were all inaudible, and even the pit vipers who were shouting on their shoulders just now were quiet.

The mild and pleasant night suddenly turned bitterly cold, and Harry was enveloped in an impenetrable deep and silent darkness, as if a giant hand had covered the entire alley with a thick and cold curtain, so that he could not see anything.

For a moment, Harry thought he had unknowingly cast another spell, and then his sanity caught up with the senses, and although he could turn Dudley into a slug, he had no power to make the stars go out, and he turned his head around to see something, but the darkness was like a thin veil on his eyes.

Feeling something hit hard at his feet, Harry looked down, his body trembling like a ball, he couldn't speak, he could only whimper at Harry, and at the same time lay on the ground and put his shoulder on Harry's leg, as if to ask him to explain what was going on.

"Stop!" He tried to reach out his wand and aim it at his cousin, and though he didn't understand what was happening, he might be able to get Dudley out of his slug state first.

"Y-you-how-can-quick-stop-"

He was greeted by Dudley's scream, and as soon as he regained his ability to speak, he couldn't wait to scream.

"It's not something I did! Now this! It's not me - shut up and don't move! ”

"I—I can't see! You- you blinded my eyes! I-"

"I'm telling you to shut up!"

Harry had some regrets about lifting the spell on Dudley, and perhaps it would be better for him to shut up and lie on the ground.

He stood motionless, his eyes turned to the left and then to the right, and it was so cold that he shivered, goosebumps got on his arms, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end, and this familiar feeling reminded Harry of something—

No, it can't be...... They won't come here...... How did they come to Little Huijin...... Harry pricked up his ears...... He is to listen carefully and listen to their voices......

"I'm going to sue—tell Daddy!" Dudley twitched, "I'm going to tell him everything about today—hey—do you hear that—where are you—what are you doing?" ”

"Can you shut up?" Harry squeezed a voice out between his teeth and said, "I'm listening—"

But he stopped halfway through his speech, and he heard what he had been afraid of.

There was something else besides the two of them, and there was a hoarse gasp of snoring, and Harry shivered as he stood in the cold and bitter darkness of the night, feeling a strong sense of fear.

"They're in front of you to the left—" There was a low, hoarse sound in his ears, almost scaring Harry's wand away, a slippery, cool touch gently rubbing against his neck, and the next second Harry reacted, it was the friction of snakeskin.

Twisting his stiff neck, Harry noticed that on his left shoulder, a pair of slightly shiny snake pupils were the pit viper.

"Light up your wand, young wizards—you need to see them first—"

"What a thing! Stop, stop, I'll beat you up——! It was Dudley's frightened shout.

"Fluorescent flicker!"

Harry had already used magic anyway, and he instinctively recited the spell, eager to get a little light at a moment when he couldn't see his fingers, but then his guts were churning.

A large, hooded figure slid silently towards him, the figure hovering high above the ground, no feet or face visible under its robes, moving as if it were devouring the darkness little by little.

The chill swept through his body, and Harry felt his breath condense in his chest, and the chill penetrated his skin, and it was cold to his chest, and it was cold to his heart, and he was drowning in the cold, and his ears were surging, like a stream of water, and he was being pulled down, and the sound in his ears was louder......

"Sober, wizard!" A low roar brought Harry back to his senses, and he stumbled back a few steps and raised his wand

"Divine Guard!"