"There are no cowards in the Weasleys!"

The smiles on the faces of the audience gradually disappeared, and they watched in silence as the little wizard in the curtain clenched his fists and said that sentence loudly.

When they were out of the perspective of watching the excitement, they suddenly seemed to understand how amazing the decision made by the little wizard was.

The three people in the curtain didn't know that this was a scene, they didn't know that it was arranged, they really thought it was a desperate situation.

So Ron's decision shines through in this moment, he's like the brightest jewel, he's glowing!

Mrs. Weasley could no longer hold back, and tears welled up like a fountain of tears, and she lay in her husband's arms and wept bitterly.

Mr. Arthur's eyes were equally red, and he put his arms around his wife's shoulders, his lips pursed rigidly, and his expression was both bitter and self-reproachful.

Both husband and wife knew that Ron was right, that their love for their children was the same, but there was so much time and attention, there was always less and there was always more.

Bill and Charlie glanced at each other, and both saw the helplessness and sadness on each other's faces, and only sighed deeply.

There was silence in the room, and Mrs. Weasley's sobs echoed faintly.

Dumbledore stood up suddenly, he clapped softly, and Zhang Xiao in the common room was also clapping, at first sparsely, and then like a storm.

The thunderous applause was louder than ever.

"N-no! No way! Harry shook his head desperately, he only felt that his nose was very sour, and he didn't know how to dissuade Ron:

"No, Ron, I can't watch you die here and then I run away, if that's the case, I'll be worse than dead!"

After Ron made his decision, he seemed to be relieved, and he just calmly said the facts he was facing:

"Harry, don't do this again, we need to act as soon as possible, Neville Cedric Hermione is still waiting for us to move the rescuers, if someone is destined to die here.

Then I'm the best choice! ”

"Ron-" Harry wanted to say something more, but Ron made a cold and sudden move, no matter how out of tune Ron usually was, but he persevered in all the training in the dueling club, not pulling once!

【Rapid Petrochemical】

His shot was highly concealed and surprisingly fast, and Harry was caught off guard and was directly fixed in place.

Ron put down his wand, took a deep breath, and said to Malfoy with a forced smile:

"If it's you, you'll know that this is the best choice. Don't put it off! ”

Malfoy bit his lip, closed his eyes in pain, and then squeezed a hoarse cry out of his throat:

"Ah!!h

He spun around, drew his wand, and used the Levitation Charm to float Harry as he had done in his first year, and rushed towards the door with his head down.

Ron laughed again, and he dragged his injured leg and limped to the edge of the altar, a few short steps that seemed like a lifetime.

From memorization to school, from ignorance to teenagers, philosopher's stones, secret rooms, fairy prisons, goblet of fire.

He realized that he had experienced so much in just four years.

Laboriously climbing the steps and picking up the sacrificial stone knife, Ron grinned.

Goodbye, friends, step over my body and move on!

He raised the stone knife alof, and without the slightest hesitation, slashed it at his arm.

The massive stone door opened, and Malfoy glanced back, holding the knife as if he were a statue.

He quickly lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve, trying to keep himself from crying, and pulled Harry towards the door.

"I'll bring someone back to save you! Don't die! ”

As Ron's vision blurred, Malfoy took Harry away, finally relenting and falling limply to the ground.

Zhang Xiao sighed softly, Professor McGonagall's chessboard was broken by her own difficult man-machine in the first grade.

But Ron is Ron after all, and when faced with a similar choice, he will still make that decision to sacrifice himself.

Just as Zhang Xiao sighed that he felt that he had grown a lot in his life, a silver Fawkes flew in, which was Dumbledore's patron saint.

Fawkes opened his mouth to Dumbledore's voice:

"Zhang, I saw the message you sent, if you're in good health, I think we can go back to Hogwarts first."

"No problem, I'm feeling fine-"

The silver Fawkes nodded slightly, and after a while, Dumbledore pushed open the door and walked in briskly.

Zhang Xiao had already packed up his things, he pointed to the curtain and asked:

"Professor, the game isn't over yet—can you just leave?"

Dumbledore smiled and said mildly:

"Zhang, if you want to say that Hogwarts hasn't finished the game yet, and you want to see the ending, I can tell you directly."

He simply uncovered the mystery:

"It's over, Mr. Weasley chose to sacrifice himself with his far more than ordinary courage, and when his blood was shed on the altar, the lighthouse was already lit."

Dumbledore said meaningfully:

"Courage is the guiding light for human beings to explore the unknown, and it will always illuminate the future for the brave."

So it was, Zhang Xiao suddenly realized, a little incredible, but it was very reasonable when you thought about it.

Like himself, Dumbledore estimated that he had set up a different way to clear each level, for example, if he chose to face the Colossus in the first level, then he would not fight the Praetorian Guard in the third level.

The underwater maze in the second level will naturally have different ways to clear it, but if you choose to sacrifice yourself like Ron, you can complete the third level directly.

Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy!

Thinking about how to teach the little wizard all the time.

Zhang Xiao nodded, and said neatly:

"I'm fine, Professor."

"Then let's go, I'm curious, what's going on!"

Dumbledore stretched out his arm, knowing that it would be like this, I hate apparitions!

Zhang Xiao sighed, stretched out her hand and put it on Dumbledore's shoulder.

Everything seemed to be darkened;

Something was squeezing at him from all sides;

Zhang Xiao felt that he was out of breath at all, as if there was a ring of steel plates on his chest; His eyes and eardrums seemed to be squeezed into his head.

To put it simply, it was like the whole person turned into a mass of slimes, and then it was forced into a rubber pipe, squeezing from one end to the other.

When the cool air poured into his lungs again, he realized that he was standing in front of the Hogwarts gates.

"I think you should get used to apparition as soon as possible, it's a very handy and useful magic."

Dumbledore was in a good mood and laughed and joked with Zhang Xiao.

"But that feels too uncomfortable—" Zhang Xiao grumbled, "I think the Standard Spell Committee should focus on optimizing the illusion shifting spells, rather than meeting all day to discuss trivial matters." ”

He followed the newspaper report and shouted in a hurry: "The gesture to release the levitation spell should be twisted by a quarter of a scale!" ”

Dumbledore was amused, and he said happily:

"Vivid! It's exactly the same as when you were in a meeting! ”

He looked at Zhang Xiao narrowly and blinked:

"You know, the headmaster has some small privileges, like writing a warrant for you to learn Apparition ahead of time—"

What?

Zhang Xiao's waist straightened up instantly, and he said righteously:

"I've always thought that Transfiguration is the greatest invention in the entire wizarding world!"

Hey, Phantom Shifter is so fragrant!

As he spoke, the two of them had already arrived at the door of the Great Hall, Dumbledore's smile gradually disappeared, he sighed softly, and the moment the door opened, the originally boiling and lively Great Hall suddenly fell silent.

It was the power of magic, and all the young wizards fell into a sweet sleep at the same second, and Professor McGonagall in the teacher's seat felt nothing but a numb scalp, and she and Flitwick immediately drew their wands.

It wasn't until she saw two figures, one tall and one short, at the gate, that McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran over:

"Albus, this ————"

Dumbledore shook his head, looking a little sad and sad, and whispered something to McGonagall.

Zhang Xiao saw Professor McGonagall's eyes gradually widen, and finally shouted out:

"How dare he?"

"Apparently he has lost his human nature more and more" The after-effects of the Horcrux were gradually getting stronger, Dumbledore couldn't say anything, just sighed softly and brought out the sleeping Astoria.

"Zhang is involved in the whole thing, so I need to learn something with Zhang that I don't know, Minerva."

McGonagall's thin lips pursed into a straight line, nodded vigorously, and then looked at herself, the corners of her lips curving slightly.

"I haven't congratulated you yet, Zhang, I've been following the whole game, and I played well, and I deserved the first place."

"Thanks for the compliment, Professor."

Zhang Xiao thanked politely.

The backs of the two men and a petite body suspended in the air gradually disappeared around the corner of the corridor, and the door to the auditorium closed again.

In the moment it was completely closed, everyone woke up at the same time, and the entire auditorium seemed to come to life in an instant.

It's just that they'll never know what just happened.

In the circular headmaster's room, portraits gathered together whispered, and the silver quietly spewed smoke.

Zhang Xiao watched Astoria lie asleep in the armchair, her face becoming more and more delicate under the reflection of the light.

Both he and Dumbledore had vague suspicions, but they hadn't yet been verified.

As the minutes ticked by, Astoria suddenly changed, her body stretched, and her originally soft face changed slightly.

Although it is equally beautiful, there is a disgusting meanness between the eyebrows.

This is a face that Zhang Xiao is definitely not unfamiliar with.

"Daphne Greengrass?"

Zhang Xiao was a little surprised, Astoria was very likely to be transformed by someone else drinking the compound decoction, and both himself and Dumbledore had already guessed it.

But I didn't think it was Daphne, because she was too young, and she was only 15 years old.

He carefully recalled the situation about Daphne, and finally could only shake his head helplessly, it was too little.

Since she was in the first grade, she used black magic on herself in public, and was persuaded to quit by the school, and since then she has disappeared from everyone's sight and has never appeared again.

The Greengrass family is very low-key, and it is rumored that their bloodline has been cursed, and children often die young.

Therefore, they rarely show their heads, and it seems to be vaguely mentioned in the original book that Astoria died not long after marrying Malfoy, and the reason for her death was precisely because of a curse in her blood.

Would Voldemort give such an important task to Daphne? The pony in the original book was also summoned at the age of 17.

And in the wizarding world, 17 years old is considered an adult.

Unless the task is not important?

"Daphne?" Dumbledore bowed: "Except for age. It's a good fit. ”

Zhang Xiao also nodded, and had to admit that Daphne was indeed very suitable for removing the factor of age.

Astoria is her own sister, and Daphne is naturally familiar with it, and it is easy to play it, and there will be no mistakes.

But it doesn't matter now, compared to this, Zhang Xiao is more concerned about why she wants to sneak into the Room of Requirement.

"Professor Dumbledore, how do we get her to reveal information? Truth teller? ”

"Truth elixir? No" Dumbledore shook his head and sighed, "It's true that the Truth Potion is a very reasonable choice, but I can't use the Truth Potion on the little wizard"

This is very Dumbledore, Zhang Xiao complained silently, you can't use it, then give me the truth elixir, I can use it, there will be absolutely no psychological burden.

Dumbledore was silent for a moment: "Thanks to the experience of traveling the world as a young man, I have other ways. ”

He pulled out his Elder Wand and tapped it lightly on Daphne's brow, silently reading something out of his mouth.

Suddenly, Daphne suddenly opened her eyes and rolled them up slightly, looking like a sheep was crazy, but it scared Zhang Xiao.

"So you can ask directly?"

"Not yet, I wonder if you know about Muggle hypnosis?" Dumbledore explained in a low voice, "It's a Muggle-like hypnotism, and the Gypsies love to use this Ecstasy charm.

I followed their caravan for a month before the old gypsy witch finally decided to give me the spell, and of course, I paid a large sum of gold Galleons.

It's a lot of fun, but unfortunately, I never got the chance to use it, because it's better to use it.

It can't ask very direct questions compared to the truth elixir, which may trigger her subconscious resistance, so we need to ask more gently and sideways. ”

Hypnosis? Zhang Xiao nodded clearly, not speaking, just watching quietly.

"Can you hear me?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

Daphne's eyelids twitched

"I can hear you." She whispered.

"I want you to tell us-" Dumbledore said softly, "your name?" ”

Well, telling the name is the easiest problem, and basically no one will resist it, so it is the best way to make a breakthrough.

Zhang Xiao analyzed silently.

"Daphne Greengrass."

Her voice was soft, like a whisper in her sleep.

"Okay, Daphne, can you tell me you're happy now?"

A sickly smile suddenly appeared on Daphne's face, which was particularly glaring compared to her slightly immature face.

"Happy ————"

The corners of her mouth went up, and she giggled:

"The Dark Lord is about to rule the world! The great pureblood era is coming! ”

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(End of chapter)