Chapter 1226
"Come here, Hagrid!" Ted Tonks reminded aloud, the comb glowing bright blue, and Hagrid barely had time to put his index finger on it. Then, with a jerk of jerk under their navels, as if there was an invisible hook and rope pulling them flying, they spun completely uncontrollably and were thrust into the void, fingers as if glued to their combs, Harry and Hagrid moving away from Mr. Tonks.
It was Harry's worst portkey trip, and perhaps because he was too weak, Harry felt like his internal organs were all in the mix.
A second or so later, Harry's feet slammed into the hard ground, and then, Harry's knees went limp, and he fell to his knees in the backyard of the Burrow, and Hagrid fell heavily to the ground, struggling to get up on his feet.
Harry tossed his dull comb aside and staggered to his feet, and then, he heard a scream, and he saw Mrs. Weasley and Ginny running down the steps of the back door.
"Harry, is it really Harry, what's going on, where are the others?" cried Mrs. Weasley.
"What do you mean, no one else has returned?" replied Harry, gasping. But Mrs. Weasley's pale face clearly wrote the answer.
"The Death Eaters were waiting for us there, and they even knew exactly when I was leaving. Harry told Mrs. Weasley, "Kingsley went to clean up first, but they surrounded us not long after we left...... They knew it was tonight...... I don't know what happened to the others, the four Death Eaters were chasing us, we had to run away, and then Voldemort caught up with us......"
Harry could hear the self-justification in his words, he was begging Mrs. Weasley to forgive him why he didn't know anything about her son's condition, but......
"Thank goodness you're okay," Mrs. Weasley hugged Harry, but Harry didn't feel he deserved it, and now the Weasleys' children were still up and down, Ron, Fred, and George......
"Is there brandy, Molly?" Hagrid asked, trembling slightly, "for healing...... I think I need some ......."
Hagrid's wounds were almost untreatable, and Ted's half-giant physique made him helpless against Hagrid.
Thankfully, this physique was strong enough that Hagrid was able to walk like a normal person after falling from such a high place......
Mrs. Weasley could have used her magic to get the wine, but she turned and walked quickly towards the leaning house, Harry knew she didn't want anyone to see her face, and there was no doubt that Mrs. Weasley was worried about her children, just like she was facing a Boggart, and Mrs. Weasley was afraid that she would face a cold corpse.
Harry looked at Ginny and asked silently about the situation, and Ginny immediately understood, and she said, "Ron and Tonks should have come back first, but they missed the portkey, and the key came back, but they didn't," she pointed to a rusty oil tank on the ground. "And that one," she said, gesturing to a sneaker, "it should be Dad and Fred's, they should be the second to come back." You and Hagrid are the third. ”
Ginny looked at her watch, "If all goes well with George and Lupin, they should be here in a minute." ”
Mrs. Weasley walked out with a bottle of brandy and handed it to Hagrid, who pulled the stopper and drank it down, trying to numb himself with the alcohol.
"Mommy!" Ginny called out suddenly, pointing a few feet away. A blue light flashed in the darkness: it grew bigger and brighter, and Lupin and George swirled and fell from the middle.
Harry immediately realized that something was wrong, and Lupin propped up George, who was unconscious and covered in blood. Harry ran over and grabbed George's leg and, along with Lupin, carried George into the house, across the kitchen, all the way to the living room, and placed him on the couch.
The light lit up George's head, and Ginny gasped, and Harry felt a churn in his stomach: George had lost an ear. The face and neck on this side of the wound were dripping with blood.
Mrs. Weasley flipped her son over and Lupin dragged Harry by the upper arm, almost rudely dragging him out of the room and into the kitchen, where Hagrid was still trying to squeeze his hunk into the room through the back door.
"Hey!" Hagrid shouted angrily, "let go of him!
Lupin ignored him, his eyes a little red.
"What creature was in the corner when Harry Potter first visited my office at Hogwarts?" Lupin asked loudly, shaking Harry slightly. "Answer me!"
"One...... A Grindy Lowe in a cupboard, isn't it?" said Harry, hesitantly.
Hearing this, Lupin let go of Harry, and his body collapsed backwards on the kitchen cupboard with some limp.
"What is this doing, Remus?" Hagrid asked with a growl.
"I'm sorry, Harry, but I had to," Lupin replied succinctly, "we have been betrayed, Voldemort knows that we are going to transfer you tonight, and the only people who can reveal this information to him are those directly involved in this operation." You can also be impersonated. ”
"But why don't you check on me?" Hagrid said, gasping, still struggling with the back door.
"You have half giant blood," Lupin said, looking up at Hagrid calmly. "Compound drugs can only be used by humans. ”
"It wouldn't be the Order of the Phoenix who told Voldemort that we were going to transfer tonight," Harry said. The thought was too terrible for him, and he didn't believe anyone would do such a thing. "Voldemort caught up with me in the end, and at first he didn't know which one was me. If he knew the whole plan, he should have known that it was me who was following Hagrid in the first place. ”
"Did Voldemort catch up with you?" Lupin asked sharply. "What happened, and how did you escape?"
Harry told Lupin how the Death Eaters had recognized him on the way to chase them, how they had given up the chase, how they had summoned Voldemort, and just as he and Hagrid were about to arrive at the Tonks parents' shelter, Voldemort appeared.
"They recognized you, but how did they do it? What did you do?"
"I ......," Harry thought as hard as he could, the whole journey filled with panic and confusion, "I saw Stan Sampak...... You know, it's the conductor on the knight's bus, and I'm trying to disarm him...... He didn't know what he was doing, did he? He must have been under a Imperius curse!"
Lupin looked stunned.
"Harry, the days of 'remove your weapons' are over! these people want to capture you and kill you! Even if you're not ready to kill, at least use the Stun Charm!" Lupin said incredulously, "Removing weapons won't do anything, will they'll kill you......"
"But, we were hundreds of feet tall at the time! Stan Sanpark wasn't the same person anymore, and if I had used the Unconscious Charm on him, he would have fallen to his death, no different from me using Avada for my life! Two years ago, the Remove You Weapon Charm saved me from Voldemort's!" Harry immediately retorted.
Lupin's words reminded him of the always contemptuous Zachary Smith at Hufflepuff, who had mocked Harry for teaching the Dumbledore Army the "Remove Your Weapon Curse".
"Yes, Harry," Lupin restrained himself painfully, "and many Death Eaters have witnessed it! Using it again before you witnessed or heard about your last action is tantamount to suicide!"
"So you think I should kill Stan Sanpak?" asked Harry angrily.
"Of course not," said Lupin, "but the Death Eaters...... Frankly, most people ...... I want you to attack back!Except for your weapon is a useful spell, Harry, but the Death Eaters seem to think it's your signature move, and I strongly urge you not to let things get like that!and, most importantly, what he would do if it were Vanlin, he wouldn't hesitate......"
The latter words made Harry feel a little vague.
Lupin made Harry feel like a fool, and the seeds of rebellion still had the seeds buried in him.
"That's Vanlin, that's the difference between me and him, I'm not going to kill someone just because they're in my way, and, I don't think, Vanlin isn't going to do that. Harry said, "That's what Voldemort did." ”
Lupin did not refute further.
Hagrid finally managed to squeeze through the door, and he staggered over to his chair and sat down, then ...... The chair collapsed.
...... It's too real, but no one cares what happened to Hagrid right now.
Harry ignored Hagrid's gamble and apology, and turned to Lupin again. "Is George alright?"
All of Lu Ping's frustration with Harry was swept away by the question. "I think so, even though his ears can't grow back, and he can't be treated with spells, it shouldn't have much of an impact......
Suddenly, there was a chaotic sound outside, and Lupin rushed to the back door, and Harry jumped over Hagrid's leg and ran briskly to the backyard. A man walked in the backyard in a daze, and Harry ran close and recognized it as Kingsley, but it didn't look like he was in good shape, he was covered in blood.
Harry ran out quickly, but then Harry stopped again, and Kingsley was aiming his wand at them.
"What did Dumbledore say to the two of us at the end!" Kingsley pointed his wand at Lupin.
"Harry is our best hope. Trust him. Lupin replied calmly. Kingsley turned his wand to Harry, but Lupin stopped him, "It's him, I've checked!"
"Alright, alright!" Kingsley's voice weakened, and he tucked his wand back under his cloak, "but someone betrayed us!
"It looks so," Lupin responded, "but it's clear they didn't figure out that there were seven Harrys. ”
"That's all comfort!" Kingsley growled. "Who else has returned?"
"Just Harry, Hagrid, George and me. ”
"What happened to you?" Lupin asked Kingsley. "Before, Van Lin arranged for you to attract a wave of firepower first......"
"Oh yes, of course, that's what I did, so I was chased by seven Death Eaters, two of whom were vampires, and they found out I was alone, and then I wounded three, and probably killed one," Kingsley gushed, "and I also saw the mystery man, who joined me halfway through the way, and thankfully, he quickly disappeared." Otherwise I don't think I can come back to see you, and, Remus, I find him ......"
"Fly," Harry replied. "And it's not magical, it's purely physical, and I see him, he's chasing Hagrid and me. ”
"So he left to chase you!" cried Kingsley, "I wonder why he disappeared, but what caused him to divert his target?"
"Harry was a little too kind to Stan Sanpark," Lupin said calmly.
"Stan Sanpark?" Kingsley thought for a moment, "I have an impression of the name, a poor hapless man, obviously, there was another big prison escape, which was not unexpected since Azkaban was discontinued, and then, as expected, the Ministry of Magic covered it up. When I cast a spell on Treville, his hood slipped off, and he must have been one of them. What happened to you, where is Remus, George? I received your call for help, and this thing Van Lin gave me can easily locate you. ”
"He lost an ear," Lupin said.
Kingsley frowned.
"Snape did it," Lupin added.
"Snape?" Harry cried. "You didn't tell me ......"
"During the chase his hood fell off. And the Blade Shadowless Charm has always been Snape's specialty, and besides him, only Van Lin and you will use this spell, in fact, I wish I could say that I had taken revenge on him, but after George's injury, I could only protect him from falling off the broomstick, and he bled a lot. ”
A moment of silence enveloped the three men, who looked up at the sky. There was no sign of anything moving, and the stars watched them, and they continued to shine and be indifferent, unobscured despite the fact that people were flying around.
Where's Ron?Where are Fred and Mr. Weasley?Where are Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Montongues?
And most importantly, Van Lin and Hermione and Sirius, none of them returned......
"Harry, come over here!" called Hagrid in a hoarse voice as he stood in the doorway, he was stuck there again.
Harry was glad that he still had something to do, and he pushed Hagrid inside, through the empty kitchen back to the living room, where Mrs. Weasley and Ginny were still looking after George. Mrs. Weasley had helped him stop the bleeding, and by the light, Harry could see a clear hole in the place where George had been in his ear.
"How's he doing?"
Mrs. Weasley looked around and said, "I can't make it grow back, it can't grow back if it's hurt by the dark arts." But things could have been much worse...... At least he's alive. ”
"yes," Harry said. "Thank God. ”
"I seem to hear something in the backyard?" asked Ginny.
"It's Kingsley, who's back, and he's met Voldemort too, and luckily, Kingsley has escaped from him. Harry muttered, his eyes fixed on George's face.
He was very familiar with the Blade Shadowless Spell, with neat cuts, which was difficult for Blade to do.
This damn spell......
He had used it on Malfoy, but now, Harry wanted to dump the spell on Snape.