The darkness in front of her was countless times thicker than the deepest night, and the never-ending abyss ignited the deepest fear in her heart, and Hermione wanted to blink her eyes and dispel this darkness. She didn't know if the feedback of consciousness had caused her body to move accordingly, but in short, there was not the slightest ripple in the seemingly eternal darkness in front of her.

Until the onset of pain.

The endless pain shattered the darkness in front of her like a wave, but she still couldn't see clearly, and all that was reflected in her pupils was a blur of light and shadow.

The burning pain began from the tiger's mouth in her right hand, and in a trance, she realized that it was the place where the ghostly light that flashed on the roses had sunk into her body, and she thought it was her hallucination, but now it seemed that it was not an illusion.

The burning heat was so intense that it was as if her right hand was soaked in lava, and her entire forearm was about to melt, and the burning sensation was spreading rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it had risen to her arm, about to consume her collarbone.

Black magic or poisoning?

Hermione, unable to make a sound, had only a shred of sanity left, and that reason made such a judgment.

At this point, it is pointless to dwell on why you are being attacked, and it is also pointless to dwell on what kind of attack you have suffered.

Now, the only thing that needs to be done is to try your best to resist the cannibalization of this spell on you, and try to buy as much time as possible, because Professor Bryan and Professor Moody are in the Three Broomsticks bar not far away, and only they can save themselves from death!

Yes, Hermione was pretty sure that the attack she had suffered would lead to her own death, and this was the closest she had ever come to death, a hundred times more dangerous than the dragon she had fought in the first game of the Triwizard Tournament.

But how?

All the knowledge she had gained since her magical education at Hogwarts flashed through Hermione's mind, but she was desperate to find that none of them could save her life as faint as the light of a dying candle.

"How to Save the Dying You"!

The retrospective memory finally came to the nearest moment, and Hermione remembered that there was a similar case in the book she had read recently!

How did one of Sirius's ancestors encounter the venom of a magical serpent and the curse of an ancient local tribal wizard while traveling in India?

The poison and curse of magical beasts are often used as a medium of magic flowing in the body, similar to the poison that can kill Muggles and use blood as a medium, so it is possible to control the flow of one's magic power, and even, to exhaust the magic power, it is possible to buy extra time for oneself, and the ancestor of the Black family relied on this method to buy himself time to collect herbs to relieve snake venom, and then, with rich magical knowledge and superb memory, he eliminated the curse in it!

This ancestor of the Black family left a way to control the flow of magic in the book - focus!

Just like religious meditation, when all distractions are removed from your mind, you gain unprecedented control over your body!

Although she had read the story, she had not tried it before, because in her opinion, this method was too idealistic and lacked a solid theoretical basis, and she had not heard of it in other books or in the mouths of professors.

But between life and death, this was the only way Hermione could think of that might delay her death.

Fortunately, focusing is not a particularly difficult thing for her.

As her tiny but gritty sanity shielded out the last shreds of despair and fear, Hermione's eyes suddenly lit up, and a flowing galaxy suddenly appeared before her.

Just like in the deep sky, countless shining stars converge together, forming a river like smoke and water, and countless meandering and intertwined streams are flowing rapidly, forming a pattern like a torso.

Hermione, who seemed to be from God's perspective, was in a trance for a moment, and then immediately realized that this was the way magic flowed through her body!

The position of the right arm seemed to be shrouded in a dark cloud, and the silver trickle disappeared as soon as it sank into it, and the cloud expanded further.

You can't let this cloud eat away at your body!

The thought jumped into Hermione's remaining consciousness, and with unprecedented concentration, the magic moved from the heart, and the silver stream within the torso rushed from the rest of the body to the right arm as if it had been driven, frantically pounding against the dark cloud, and—

Bang!

Hermione's slightly clearer world saw Harry and Ron flying upside down beside her, and then, her body completely lost its support, and the whole person fell backwards, slamming heavily on the wet stone slab.

Something happened to Hermione!

The powerful impact knocked Harry more than a dozen feet away, and the moment he hit the ground, the pain in his ribs and the tumbling of his stomach made Harry almost faint, and the only thing he could think of was this.

If it weren't for the fact that he had greatly improved his physical fitness in gym class, just this blow would have been enough to put him into a near-death - Harry, who was supporting his body on his elbows, instinctively thought, his eyes still fell on Hermione, who was convulsing on the ground with black smoke rising all over his body, but his green eyes were still dazed and unresponsive. It doesn't seem to be incomprehensible yet. Accept the fact that they are encountered.

Bang!

There was a violent explosion in Harry's ears, and the windows and sliding doors of the three broomsticks exploded, and Professor Bryan flew out to the screams of the young wizards!

It is indeed flying, not rushing out!

Out of the corner of his eye, Harry caught a glimpse that Professor Bryan wasn't the shapeless shadow they'd ever seen, he was in the form of a normal wizard, but he flew out of the shattered glass at a speed far beyond what a normal human could achieve.

It was so fast that Harry's pupils, which had contracted to the extreme, only had time to tremble, and Professor Bryan appeared beside Hermione!

In that moment, Harry fully understood why people would call Professor Bryan the most powerful wizard of our time.

Professor Bryan looked down at Hermione with a terrible look on his face that was far beyond Harry's imagination - no gentle smile, no happy sparkle in his wonderfully lilac eyes. There was a cold, bone-chilling anger on that young and handsome face!

Professor Brian's side was not as bright as the sun, magma-like flames of the night of the Quidditch final against Vitia Cleona, but Harry could still feel that Professor Brian's not-so-tall body was radiating a force that was impossible to look at!

Extremely penetrating eyes insight into the situation in Hermione's body, which was trembling and twitching slightly, Amosta did not pull out his wand, but his eyes suddenly shot out sharper, like a substantial light, accompanied by an invisible, powerful forbidden power that emerged from his body swept over Hermione's body, and the remaining magic in Hermione's body, as well as the power that was devouring her life, were suppressed together!

Hermione's body then stopped shaking and was completely paralyzed, only the glimmer of her tearful brown pupils was proof that she wasn't dead.

Professor Moody ran at a speed that did not match his mutilated body, and when he found Hermione lying on the ground, his face that seemed to have been stitched up changed dramatically, and he crouched down despite Brian's thunderous gaze sweeping at him, his palm brushing over his waist, and a glass bottle with an emerald green sheen appeared in the palm of his hand.

"The poison and curse in her have eaten away at a lot of her life force, and she must replenish it, otherwise, she won't be able to withstand the next treatment—"

As if to explain to Amosta, but also as if to simply narrate, Professor Moody uncorked the bottle and poured the emerald green liquid into Hermione's mouth.

(End of chapter)