Chapter 490: Dark Mark

Ron was stunned for half a minute before he came back to his senses, he stared at Hermione in surprise, and muttered softly,

"The gold coins conjured up by the Irish leprechauns will disappear, but aren't they the mascots brought by the Irish team, I thought Harry, look at how many Galleons you have in your purse!"

"What?"

Harry was a little confused, but he listened to Ron's advice and opened his purse. He hadn't had time to go to Gringotts to take out the living expenses for the next semester, before the game started, he had consumed a lot of gold from the small traders and vendors in the camp, and at the moment, the most in his purse was copper nat, only a few gold coins, Harry picked out these gold coins and handed them to Ron, with a puzzled face,

"That's all, what's the problem, Ron?"

Ron's face turned pale, he still couldn't believe that there were so many gold coins left in Harry's money bag, so he took Harry's money bag and rummaged through it, and after a while, he finally made sure that Harry had not counted wrong.

"Gone"

Ron said in despair,

"Remember, Harry, before the game started, I gave you a handful of gold coins, which were scattered by the elfs of the Irish team, and I saw that you put all the gold in your money bag and now it's gone!"

Harry frowned and thought for a moment before he vaguely remembered that there was such a thing, that Ron had given the gold to himself to pay for the telescope.

"Your brain is nimble and scary now!" Hermione pursed her lips and said sarcastically.

The wrinkles in Harry's brow still didn't spread, and he hesitated,

"In other words, Ludo Bagman paid us with the fake gold that the leprechaun conjured, as well as Fred and George, if he was mistaken. I mean, Bagman is the director of the Department of Magical Sports, he's sure. It can't be intentional, right? ”

Hermione pursed her lips and didn't speak.

"I'm going back and see!" Ron gasped and said, "I'm going to see if Fred and George's gold is still there!" ”

"We didn't come out for the gold, Ron, we're going to help Harry find his wand!"

Hermione glared at Ron sternly and said angrily.

"Wand?"

Ron seemed to have completely forgotten about it, and he repeated it with a confused look on his face, and then he remembered that Harry had left his wand in the box, "Alright, let's go!" ”

With that, Ron led the way towards the Quidditch pitch, Harry followed, and Hermione took a step after looking at the back of Ron's head with complicated eyes, sighing inwardly.

Harry was worried about his wand, and Ron wanted to go back to Fred and George to see if their gold was gone, so the three of them didn't get deterred by some of the scenery on the road, and went straight in the direction of the Quidditch pitch.

Twenty minutes later, the three of them were standing outside the entrance passage again.

Tonight, the Quidditch World Cup final was still the largest building Harry had ever seen in the wizarding world, and Mr. Weasley had stressed several times that in order to build a stadium that could accommodate 100,000 people, the British Ministry of Magic had sent hundreds of men to work on it since the beginning of the year, and finally completed the magnificent building a dozen days before the start of the game.

But only half a day later, the building was in ruins.

Perhaps because of the fear that the remaining buildings would collapse again, the Ministry of Magic evacuated completely after carrying the wounded and corpses out of here, but it was also just right for the three of Harry to move.

They shuttled through the unruly passage in horror, trying to avoid touching anything, because they were not sure that if they knocked something down, it would cause a chain reaction that would cause the fragmented passage to collapse completely.

After entering the Quidditch pitch and making sure there was no movement around him, Harry lifted his Cloak of Invisibility in the shadows.

They had fled the arena before Professor Bryan had faced off against the witch named Cleona, and now they had a chance to see how the two powerful wizards at the top of the wizarding world had wreaked havoc on the environment.

The original lawn in the arena has completely disappeared, replaced by a large pit, under the moonlight, the edge of the pit and the inside of the pit shimmered with shiny light, Ron walked forward quickly, broke a piece of reflective luster from the edge of the pit, and put it in the palm of his hand to examine it carefully,

"This is a gem?"

After a few seconds, Ron turned and looked at Hermione with a slightly confused look in his eyes.

"No, it's glass." Hermione looked at it carefully and said affirmatively, "It was Professor Bryne's magic, the heat of that flame that melted the sand in the soil and cooled the glass that formed. ”

"What's that?"

Ron looked at Harry in confusion.

"Presumably Muggle science." Harry shrugged.

Confirming that it wasn't a gem, Ron dropped the glass shards and turned his gaze to the arena.

From above, the oval-shaped Quidditch arena was completely out of shape, with nearly a third of the area completely crumbling into ruins, and the remaining spectator seats were shattered by the massive vines created by Vitia Cleona's magic.

The reason why the entire magnificent Quidditch arena did not collapse in its entirety was partly due to the fact that the Ministry of Magic did its best in building it, and partly because the steel beam joints of the main body were completely welded to death by the fire magic used by Amosta.

Seeing the ruins, an indescribable pressure pressed on the hearts of the three little wizards, and they couldn't imagine that if Professor Bryan didn't leave them time to flee and chose to fight with Cleona directly, then what would happen to them, and they would definitely not be much better than the wizard who had just fallen outside.

"Let's go, Harry, go find your wand-"

Hermione pushed Harry's shoulder and said in a muffled voice, "Someone could come and check on the situation at any time, we can't stay here for long." ”

"I'm ready to buy a new wand from Ollivander--"

Harry sighed.

Seeing the devastation of the Quidditch pitch, Harry felt that there was little chance that his wand would still be intact.

That being said, after all, they came here at a great risk, and it was impossible for them to take a look and go back directly. The three of Harry struggled to pinpoint the location, and it took a while to determine where the box was for tonight's game.

The good news is that the section of the stadium on the top floor where they watched the game at night is not in ruins, and the main structure is still complete. The bad news is that the staircase leading to the top box has become trembling, with collapsed building materials swinging sideways everywhere.

This broken staircase may be in a delicate balance, and the slightest application of gravity will be over.

"Can you lend me your wand, Ron--"

Harry stood at the bottom of the stairs, hesitated for a moment, then turned to Ron and said.

"You're going to go on an adventure on your own?" Ron frowned.

"This staircase may be enough to bear the weight of one person, and it will be too dangerous for the three of us to go up, so you don't need to risk following me."

Harry said firmly.

"I don't like that—" Ron smacked his lips, "Do you want me to calculate with you how many risks we've taken together over the years, Harry?" ”

That being said, Harry's fears weren't unreasonable, and it was irrational for the three of them to walk up to a building on the verge of collapse.

"If only we could fly—"

Hermione tilted her head, looked at the box above, and said distressedly,

"But flying is not simple magic, it's too difficult for us."

"Actually, it's not that difficult, there's a broomstick, even if it's a meteor—"

Ron looked around to see if there was any safer way to approach the box, and Harry looked at the box like Hermione and sighed.

Then, without warning, the silence was suddenly pierced by a voice, a voice hoarse of pain, but not a cry for help, but more like a spell.

"Bones reappear!"

In the next second, a huge green glittering thing suddenly appeared in the box on the top floor and flew into the air all of a sudden!

(End of chapter)