[HP] I'm hanging out at Hogwarts

Chapter 175

Diagon Alley is no longer as lively as it used to be, it is depressed as if it has just experienced a disaster, and there are homeless Muggle wizards everywhere on the road.

Hermione used Polyjuice Potion to hide her appearance, and she still held Bellatrix's wand in her hand, so she looked exactly like herself.

As he walked, Harry looked down at his wand, which had once belonged to Draco Malfoy, but which Harry had discovered to his surprise at least worked better than the blackthorn wand.

"Hello, Mrs. Lestrange." A strange wizard, a Death Eater, greeted Hermione.

Hermione was coping awkwardly when suddenly a Muggle wizard jumped at Hermione's feet.

"Give me back my babies!" he cried, with a bloody bandage over one eye. "You know where they are!"

"I—" Hermione looked at his miserable appearance, and felt very painful in her heart, but she became more determined in her inner thoughts. If they didn't succeed, how many wizards would become like this.

"Damned!" A red light flashed, and the Muggle wizard fell to the ground.

"I think Mrs. Lestrange still has business to do." Eric, who was disguised, helped Hermione deal with the Death Eater, "Let's not bother, let's go."

"Oh? I happen to be in Gringotts and I have business to do," said the Death Eater named Travers.

Harry cried out inwardly, "Damn it!" The last thing he wanted now was to have a vigilant Death Eater at their side.

They reached the bronze gates of Gringotts, flanked by goblins on either side, holding metal honesty detectors.

"You've already checked!" said Hermione in a domineering tone, and Harry took advantage of the Confusion Charm while the two goblins were away.

"Yes, yes, we have already checked, sorry ma'am." The two goblins bowed their heads respectfully.

The four of them, plus a goblin, entered the hall of Gringotts smoothly. With Griphook on his back and the cloak of invisibility, Harry cast the Imperius Curse on the goblin on the counter for the first time in his life.

The old goblin jumped off the high stool in a daze.Say to the goblin at the back, "I want Ding Dang Pieces."

"Okay, it's going well now." Griphook whispered softly to Harry.

They followed the old goblin down to the vault, and just now Harry had cast the Imperius Curse on the vigilant Death Eater, and now he was as motionless as an idiot.

"Madame Lestrange's vault..." the old goblin murmured, taking out a large bunch of keys from his waist, and was about to start the minecart, when a sudden strong vibration almost caused everyone to fall down.

The rubble at the top of the mine began to cave in, and a hole was drilled downward bit by bit.

They heard the high-pitched screams of the goblins above, and then fell silent. Harry looked up and saw what seemed to be a huge, scaly creature in the opening at the top of the mine.

It looked familiar to him.

"Not good! Someone attacked Gringotts!" Griphook snatched the old goblin's key and started the minecart.

Eric also glanced up, a mouthful of terrifying fangs, widening the upper hole bit by bit.

"It's a basilisk!" Harry suddenly remembered.

"Damn it! They're using the basilisk to attack Gringotts!" said Eric. "We've got to get to that thing fast."

"You humans are like this." Griphook originally had a bad impression of human wizards, and it seems even more so now. How many goblins will be killed if you put the basilisk into Gringotts?He couldn't figure it out.

Such a ruthless method... Eric thought of Tom Riddle who gave a "bloody speech" at the French Ministry of Magic.

The mine cart was moving forward at a high speed, and there was a huge waterfall in front of it, which directly drenched all of them, and their camouflage disappeared.

"This is Anti-Thieves Falls!" said Griphook. "We must move fast! The basilisk moves much faster underground than we can. Give me the jingle piece!"

The underground mine was pitch black, only the torches that would not go out were lit around.

Ron saw a huge dragon. Its scales had begun to turn white due to being locked underground for a long time. It closed its eyes and breathed fire around. Griphook shook the small cloth bag, and the dragon began to howl in pain. .

They alighted from the minecart, and Griphook, with a thin, dreadful finger, opened Lestrange's vault, which was magnificent, full of gold, and countless jewels, among which stood a small Small gold cup.

Hermione got burned just as she was about to reach out.

"Perhaps it would be better across the cloth." Harry took off his coat and wrapped it in his hands. When he was about to take it, Griphook jumped up from his shoulders and snatched the contents of the coat. gold cup.

"Griphook! What are you doing?!" Ron looked at it in horror.

"I don't trust you, so I must take the cup and exchange it for the sword of Gryffindor!" it said loudly.

"kill…"

Harry heard a faint voice getting closer, "Did you hear anything?"

"What?" Eric asked.

"Close your eyes!" Harry didn't have time to explain, "Close them!"

Everyone understood what Harry meant. It was the basilisk that was chasing after him. Griphook lowered his head and obviously didn't hear what Harry said. He just looked at the little gold cup in his coat. Amber eyes stared at him.

He felt his body slowly becoming stiff, his soul slowly leaving his body, and the golden cup wrapped in his coat fell to the ground. Harry rushed out, and as soon as the golden cup fell to the ground, it split into countless pieces.

Griphook died just like that.

Harry could clearly feel that he was crushed on the body of the basilisk, and he firmly grasped the scales of the basilisk, and the golden cup in his arms seemed to be scalding him.

"Go! The door is closing!" Harry yelled as he rode on the Basilisk's back, opened his eyes, and Eric dragged Ron and Hermione out at the last moment when the door closed. "Run! Run in the opposite direction!"

Ron squinted his eyes. While running, he saw the white dragon and suddenly thought of something.

"Harry! Lead the basilisk to the dragon!" Ron yelled!

Yes!That dragon has no eyesight and cannot be affected by the basilisk!

"Go to the place where the dragon is! Go and kill that dragon!" Harry guided the basilisk in Parseltongue, and the basilisk slowly swam towards the dragon, "Kill that dragon, and then go get the gold cup."

The basilisk hesitated for a while, as if confused by the previous guidance and the current words.

Although the giant dragon has been imprisoned underground for many years, its aggressive nature remains unchanged. With its nostrils wide open, it quickly sniffs out the enemy's position.

"Harry! Jump down! Jump!" said Hermione.

Feeling the heat in the air, Harry immediately jumped off the basilisk's back, rolled a few times on the ground, and felt a sharp pain in his back. He thought it might be a gravel pierced into his back.

The basilisk and the dragon fought, and Harry, with blisters on his hands and a burnt scar on his chest, put his coat on the ground while Hermione produced a fang from the beaded pouch.

It was in Annie's bag, and Harry took it over.

"We're here to solve it as soon as possible!" Harry looked at Ron and Hermione, and the three of them stabbed at the gold cup with their fangs. A cloud of black smoke came out of the gold cup and a hole was broken.

Now the more difficult question is, how should they get out?

"We can go out on a dragon!" Ron came up with two good ideas in a row this time, and Hermione looked at him in surprise but speechless.

Eric stood by and watched all this happen, "The basilisk hid in the hole!"

"Good chance!" said Harry, and they climbed onto the dragon's back and used spells to help the dragon break free from its chains. The dragon stretched out its wings and just soared into the air, Hermione squinted and saw the basilisk coiling its body.

"Not good! This is an attack form! Hold on tight, everyone! Close your eyes!"

The basilisk jumped out of its upper body, biting the hard skin of the giant dragon with its mouth full of venomous fangs. The dragon howled, but the basilisk couldn't support its huge body and fell to the ground.

The dragon struggled to scratch the top with its claws, and several people used spells to help the dragon widen the opening.

They flew higher and higher, and London lay beneath them like a small gray-green map.Harry worried how soon Voldemort would know his cup was gone, and he would have to move the other Horcruxes.

So the action has to be fast, but right now, they don't know where Ravenclaw's diadem is.

The cold wind blew across Eric's face, and he desperately wanted to go back to Shell Cottage and see Annie.

The dragon was tired from flying and landed beside a lake. It wailed without energy. Hermione found that there was a blood hole in its stomach. The dragon's stomach was the only place that was not covered with hard scales. The skin is as soft as that of a lizard.

"It's dying..." Hermione stroked the dragon's head sadly, "Thank you."

"At least it died for freedom," Eric said. "It was not free during life, but it is free after death."

The four watched the giant dragon slowly close its eyes, and a huge life fell into the wasteland.

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Anne was lying on the bed, Bill and Fleur were preparing dinner for them, Luna and Mr. Ollivander often talked together, and Dean wanted to talk to Anne, but she was not very interested.

So Dean chatted with Dobby.

Since she was injured, her face has been pale all the time, and she is hanging by the blood tonic. The incision is too deep, and there is a problem with the venom, which has not healed.

Anne's heart ached like hell when she spoke aloud.

When it was late at night, Annie opened the small mirror that could communicate with Miranda, and Miranda was startled when she saw her like this.

"Why did you become such a ghost? What happened?" Miranda looked at Annie in surprise.

"Me? I got stabbed, tell me, how did you get the sword of Gryffindor?"

Speaking of the useless Gryffindor sword, Annie had already properly stored it in the travel bag that she had cast the Extending Curse on.

"I stole it from Snape's office, I left the fake there, and now the school is a mess, and the Death Eater brothers and sisters don't care about us, and their master seems to be busy cleaning up Tom Riddle. said Miranda.

"Did you forget that Harry didn't kill the basilisk, so this sword is useless." Annie said softly.

"God! Don't you say that I really forgot about this! Didn't I give you this useless thing?" Miranda exclaimed. "What about the finale?"

"I don't know...but I left a fang in the Chamber of Secrets, hoping it will come in handy. Is Ravenclaw's diadem all right?"

"I go to see it irregularly every week. If the...mysterious person is going to move the crown, I think there will be some movement." Before Miranda could finish speaking, a group of magic spells appeared outside the room. Light.

Annie looked through the window, the light was too bright to see clearly.

"It seems that someone is coming!" Bill and Fleur became vigilant. Although this place was protected by the Fidelity Curse, they couldn't take it lightly.

Immediately afterwards, the waves began to roll up slowly, forming a huge sea wall.

"You can choose to come out on your own, or drown here."

"It's despicable! They used this method to force you!" Dean Thomas yelled, "Are they Death Eaters or..."

"Death Eaters won't do such meaningless things." Annie walked out of the room leaning on the wall. "He came to see me."

"What do you mean?" Bill frowned.

"Tom Riddle, if it was Voldemort, he would not be afraid to play so many tricks, only Riddle would." Anne said, "It seems that they have found out where I am."

"No! You can't go out! Since their goal is you, let's not let them succeed!" Fleur said, "Bill and I strengthen the spell, they can't drown us."

Immediately afterwards, the first wave of the sea wall rushed to their house, and the lights in the room flickered all of a sudden. From the perspective of outsiders, there was a small transparent area surrounded by the sea water, which was the protection area of ​​the Fidelity Curse.

It has to be said that the method of using seawater to determine the location is really brilliant.

"You can choose not to come out, but the victims are those Muggles. I don't have so much patience, just hand her over."

The sea wall that had just receded gathered again.

"You all heard me, I have to go out." After Annie finished speaking, she supported her body and walked towards the small door step by step.

She knew that there was someone outside the door waiting for her to come out.

It's just that Annie didn't understand what his purpose was.

"If you go out, he will succeed! He said that those things are forcing you to go out!" Furong stopped Annie, and at this moment, the second sea wall fell, this time the impact was stronger than the first .

"If he wanted to kill me, he would have done it a long time ago, and nothing would happen to me, because if he wanted to kill me, it would be tantamount to killing himself. He knew that I was going to die...he was scared. "

The mutual birth curse that linked them together still worked.

Maybe it's good to be dead, at least to get rid of Tom Riddle.Annie suddenly thought so.

Annie pushed Fu Rong away, and coughed a few more times due to excessive force, the wound began to ooze blood again, and her teeth were stained with a layer of red, she closed her mouth and swallowed back the blood she just coughed up.

The third will start soon.

There was a scarlet seam of blood between the pale lips.

She opened the door, and the falling sea stopped instantly, forming an irregular semicircle around Anne's back. The moon at midnight was as bright as jade, and the moonlight shone on the silvery white sandy beach. The salty sea breeze was like the breath in her mouth The smell of rust is average.

The wind messed up her hair, and the already pale face was even more terrifying under the moonlight. A blood flower bloomed on the white shirt, and only those eyes were still shining.

Annie looked up at the man in the sky, he came with the wind, his black robe fluttered in the wind, as soon as his hand was lowered, the sea water receded.

"This is our official meeting, I'm Tom Riddle."

His face remained the same, his face was too delicate to be picky, his black hair fluttered in the wind, but the murderous aura on his body was even heavier.

"I know, I shouldn't have let you go." Annie supported a rock by the sea, and stood barefoot on the gravel beach. "You're scared, aren't you?"

Tom Riddle was silent. He was really scared and didn't know what to say. This feeling of being stabbed in the heart but being unable to say it was really terrible.

How did she become like this...and what happened?

And who hurt her like this?

"You are afraid... If I die, you will die too."

"Actually..." Tom sneered, and the next second, he watched Annie run to the beach.

There were more and more bloodstains on the front of the white shirt, and the gravel pierced the soles of her feet. She threw herself into the sea water, and the salty and astringent sea water poured into her nose.

She was pulled up, and the instinct of her body made her breathe heavily. It was Tom Riddle who rescued her, but she knew very well why Tom Riddle did this.

"You can't die."

These were the last words she heard before leaving Shell Cottage.

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Preview of the next chapter: Mr. Ann's n-day tour of Lukewood Manor, Mr. Bu will appear in the next chapter!

Report the progress of the Horcrux: At present, Tom has absorbed the ring and the locket, the gold cup has been removed by Harry and his party, and the crown of Ravenclaw, Nagini, and Harry are left.