Harry felt as if he was flying in the sky; How he wished that hadn't happened...... He was still stubborn that it couldn't happen......

"Get out of here, quick," Snape said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He grabbed Malfoy by the back of the neck and pushed him out the door first; Greyback and Humpty Dumpty followed behind, the latter two gasping for air with excitement. No sooner had they disappeared than Harry found himself moving again; Now it was no longer magic that had made him slump against the wall, but fear and shock. He ripped off his cloak and tossed it away, as the beast-faced Death Eater who had left the top of the tower last was walking through the door.

"It's all petrified!" The Death Eater's back bent as if he had been struck with something solid, and he fell to the ground like a stiff wax figure, but Harry stepped over before he could hit the ground, running down the darkening staircase.

Fear was tearing at Harry's heart...... He had to go to Dumbledore, and he had to capture Snape...... These two things are linked...... If he could get the two of them together, he could reverse what had just happened...... Dumbledore won't die...... He jumped down the last ten steps of the stairs and stopped, wand in hand—

The dimly lit corridors were dusty; It seemed as if half the ceiling had collapsed while a fierce battle was going on in front of him, but just as he was trying to identify who was fighting with whom, he heard the hateful voice shouting, "It's over, let's go!" At the same time, Snape's figure disappeared around the far corner of the hallway; He and Malfoy seemed to have come out of the scuffle.

Harry hurried after him, and one of the scuffles pounced on Harry: the werewolf, Greyback. Before Harry could raise his wand, he pounced on him: Harry fell backwards, his unkempt dirty hair sticking to his face, the stench of blood and sweat filling his nose and mouth, his throat already feeling the greedy breath of the other-

"It's all petrified!" Harry felt Greyback go limp; With all his strength, he pushed the werewolf to the floor next to him, and a green light shot at him; He dodged and rushed into the scuffle. He tripped over something soft and slippery on the floor: two men lay on the ground, face down in a pool of blood, but there was no time to investigate who it was.

Harry saw a fiery red hair flash in front of him: Ginny was tangled with the sturdy Death Eater Emmycus, who was constantly casting curses on her, and she was dodging one by one, and Emmycus was giggling, enjoying the amusement: "Drill the heart - drill the heart - you can't dance like this forever, beauty-"

"There are many obstacles!" Harry shouted.

His spell struck Emicus in the chest, and he screamed like a pig in pain as he was tossed up and slammed into the opposite wall, sliding off the wall and disappearing behind Ron, Professor McGonagall, and Lupin, who were wrestling with their respective Death Eater opponents. At the far end of the group, Harry saw Tonks fighting a tall blonde wizard as he shot spells in all directions, bouncing off the walls around him, shattering stones and breaking nearby windows.

"Harry, where are you from?" Ginny shouted, but Harry didn't have time to answer her.

He lunged forward with his head down, just enough to dodge an explosion overhead, and small pieces of the wall fell like rain: Snape must not be allowed to escape, he must catch up with Snape.

"Catch her!" Professor McGonagall shouted from behind, and Harry caught a glimpse of the female Death Eater named Alekoto scurrying down the hallway, her brother following right behind. Harry lunged towards them, but tripped over something under his feet, and then fell on someone's lap: he looked back to see Neville's round pale face facing the floor.

"Neville, you're still ......"

"I'm fine," Neville muttered, clutching his stomach with his hand, "Harry...... Snape and Malfoy...... Ran over......"

"I know, I'm chasing!" Harry said, taking aim at the tall blonde Death Eater who had created most of the chaos and firing a spell: the man was hit in the face, and he howled in pain; He turned around and stumbled after the siblings and fled.

Harry got up from the ground and began to run down the hallway, ignoring the loud noises behind him and the cries of others calling him back, or the faint cries for help from the people lying on the ground, Harry did not know what their fate would be...... He came to a sharp stop around the corner, slippery blood still sticking to his sneakers; Snape was already far ahead - had he entered the Vanishing Locker in the Room of Requirement, or had the Order of the Phoenix taken protective measures to prevent the Death Eaters from retreating there?

He sped through the next empty hallway, hearing nothing but the sound of his own thumping footsteps and pounding heartbeats, but just then he spotted a bloody footprint, indicating that at least one of the escaped Death Eaters was heading towards the gate. Maybe the Room of Requirement is indeed blocked.

He stopped around another corner, and a spell flew past him; He burrows behind a suit of armor, and the armor explodes. He saw the Death Eater siblings running down the marble staircase, so he fired a spell at them, only to hit a few portraits of witches in wigs on the landing of the staircase, who screamed and hid in the paintings next to them.

Harry heard more shouting and screaming as he jumped over the wreckage of the armor; It seems that the rest of the castle has also been awakened...... He took a shortcut, hoping to catch up with the Death Eater siblings and shorten the distance between Snape and Malfoy. The two of them must have arrived at the playground, and he memorized a few missing steps in a hidden staircase, finally breaking into a tapestry at the bottom, and exiting into a hallway where a group of overwhelmed Hufflepuff students in their pajamas were standing.

"Harry! We've heard a commotion, and there's something about the Dark Mark—" Ernie McMillan began.

"Get out of the way!" Harry shouted, and he rushed to the landing of the staircase, knocking the two boys away and chasing them down several marble staircases. The oak gate had been blasted open by a spell; There was blood on the slates, and a few frightened students huddled together against the wall, one or two of them still covering their faces and shivering; Gryffindor's huge hourglass was also struck by the spell, and the rubies inside kept falling and smashing onto the stone slabs with a loud clattering sound.

Harry walked through the foyer onto the dark playground: all he could tell was three figures walking across the lawn towards the gate, and beyond the gate they were apparitions - from the outside, there was the tall blonde Death Eater, and the two people in front of him were Snape and Malfoy...... Harry raced behind them, the cold night air tearing at his lungs; He saw a light flash in the distance, reflecting the target he was chasing; He didn't know what it was, he just kept running, and before he was within range of the spell, there was another flash of light, a shout, and a beam of counter-attack.

Harry knew that it was Hagrid who had come out of his cabin and tried to stop the Death Eaters from escaping, and even though Harry felt as if his lungs were going to tear apart with every breath and his chest hurt like fire, he picked up his pace, and an unexpected voice came to his head saying that Hagrid couldn't be allowed to die...... Hagrid can't be allowed to die again...... Something struck him in the lower back, and he fell forward, his face hitting the ground so hard that blood flowed from both nostrils.

He rolled over as he prepared his wand, knowing that the Death Eater siblings he had overtaken with the castle shortcut were approaching him from behind......

"There are many obstacles!"

He rolled over again, and at the same time crawled on the dim ground and screamed, and his spell miraculously struck one of them, who fell to the ground and tripped the other; Harry jumped to his feet and continued to chase Snape...... The crooked crescent moon suddenly appeared from behind the clouds, and its light made Harry see Hagrid's massive silhouette; The blonde Death Eater was shooting curse after spell at the hunting ground guards, but Hagrid's immense strength and the hard skin he had inherited from his mother giant seemed to protect him; Yet Snape and Malfoy were still on the run.

They would soon be able to phanteur through the gate, and Harry flew past Hagrid and his opponents, aiming at Snape's back and shouting, "Pass out!" ”

He missed the target, and the red beam grazed Snape's head.

Snape shouted, "Run, Draco!" At the same time, he turned around.

Twenty yards away, he and Harry looked at each other, then raised their wands at the same time.

"Drill Heart—" But Snape avoided the spell and knocked him away before Harry could finish it; Harry rolled over and got up again, as the tall Death Eater behind him shouted, "The flames are raging! ”

Harry heard a loud explosion, and then a pulsing orange light shone on them: Hagrid's hut was on fire.

"Tooth is still in there, you wicked-!" Hagrid yelled.

"Drill Heart—" Harry shouted a second time, pointing his wand at the fire-lit opponent in front of him, but Snape blocked the spell again; Harry saw him sneering.

"Don't use the Unforgivable Charm, Potter!" He shouted, his voice drowning out the crackling of the flames, Hagrid's roar, and the barking of Fangfang's trapped inside. "You don't have the courage and ability to—"

"Quick confinement—" Harry yelled, but Snape deflected the spell with an almost lazy shake of his arm.

"Fight back!" Harry yelled at him, "Why don't you fight back!" You cowardly—"

"Cowardly? Did you call me that, Potter? Snape shouted. Your father never dared to attack me, except if it was four against one, and I wonder what would you call him? ”

"Fainted—"

"Block, block, block, until you learn to shut up and think nothing, Potter!" Snape sneered and deflected the spell again. "Let's go!" He shouted at the tall Death Eaters behind Harry, "It's time to retreat, before the Ministry of Magic shows up—"

"There are many obstacles—"

But before he could finish the spell, excruciating pain struck Harry; He fell to the grass, someone was screaming, he was going to die in agony, Snape was going to torture him to death or make him a madman.

"Stop!" Snape roared, the pain disappearing as abruptly as it had appeared; Harry curled up in the dark grass, panting and clutching his wand; Snape shouted above his head, "Have you forgotten our orders? Potter belongs to the Dark Lord - we're going to keep him! Walk! Walk! ”

The Death Eater sibling and the tall Death Eater obeyed him and ran towards the gate, Harry felt the ground tremble beneath his face. Harry let out a slurred roar: in that moment, he had put his life and death on the line; He struggled to his feet again, and staggered blindly towards Snape, the man he hated as much as Voldemort to-

"Blade without a Shadow—"

Snape shook his wand and fended off the spell again; But Harry was now only a few feet away from Snape, and Snape's face was finally clear: he stopped sneering and sneering; In the dazzling light of the fire, his face was filled with anger.

Harry concentrated all his energy and thought in his head, lightweight......

"No, Potter!" Snape screamed.

With a loud thud, Harry flew backwards and fell to the ground again; This time his wand was off.

He could hear Hagrid's screams and Fang's howls.

Snape walked over and looked down at Harry lying on the ground, without his wand and without any protection, just like Dumbledore. Snape's pale face was filled with hatred in the light of the firelight of the cabin, just as he had before he cast the spell on Dumbledore.

"How dare you use my own spell against me, Potter? I invented those spells - I, half-blood Prince! And you've transferred my invention to me, like your stinking father, haven't you? I'm not going to let you get away with it...... No! ”

Harry pounced on his wand; Snape fired a spell at it, and the wand flew a few feet away, disappearing into the darkness.

"Kill me, then," Harry gasped, no longer the slightest fear, only anger and contempt. "Kill me like you're killing him, you coward—"

"Don't—" Snape screamed, his face suddenly becoming mad and savage, as if he were suffering as much as the barking dog in the burning house behind them, "Don't call me a coward!" ”

He swung it in the air: Harry felt a white-hot, whip-like thing whipped him in the face, and he fell to the ground with a heavy blow. He had Venus in his eyes and could barely breathe for a while, then he heard the sound of wings fluttering over his head, and a huge thing blurred the stars in the sky: Buckbeak flew towards Snape and slammed Snape with its sharp claws, and he stumbled backwards.

Harry sat up, still dizzy from the last time he landed, and he saw Snape flee at full speed, a huge beast flapping its wings behind him, screaming like Harry had never heard - Harry struggled to his feet, staggering around for his wand, hoping to keep Snape in pursuit, but as he fumbled through the grass, brushing away the tiny foliage, he knew it was too late.

Sure enough, when he finally found his wand, he turned around just in time to see Buckbeak hovering at the gate: Snape had apparitioned as soon as he stepped out of the school's boundary, and he had fled.

Harry looked at the empty school gate and used his last strength to let out a roar.

"I won't let you go, Snape! You coward! You coward!! ”