Chapter 1,119

"Oh, Neville, you're back..." Fan Lin raised his head and glanced at Neville. Behind Neville, well, it was Ginny, so...

"Where's Harry?"

"I don't know," Neville replied in a daze, "He said he had something to do, and then he went out wearing an invisibility cloak."

"What did he do?" Ron asked puzzledly, "He also used an invisibility cloak. Did he bring that thing to dinner?"

"Dumbledore told him not to take away the invisibility cloak." Fan Lin said, "This is necessary, after all, Harry is the main target."

"Oh, that's true, but..." Hermione frowned, "But it's time for us to leave, right?"

"Oh, okay." Fan Lin thought for a moment. Sure enough, with Harry's character, it was impossible for him to let Malfoy go so easily. There was no doubt that Harry was definitely going to find Malfoy. Fu is in trouble.

"You go to school first, Hermione, I will go find Harry, and then the two of us go back together, don't worry..."

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Harry was like a stiff corpse, his body unable to move at all.

Harry lay quietly under the invisibility cloak, feeling his blood flowing continuously from his nose. His face was hot and wet, and he heard voices and footsteps coming from the corridor.

This made Harry couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope.

Maybe someone will check the carriages before the train starts again?

But he soon realized to his dismay that even if anyone looked into the car, they wouldn't see or hear him. His best hope was that someone would walk in and step on him.

But what was very bad was that Malfoy seemed to have considered this situation and moved his body into the middle of the seat.

It was as if fate had played a joke on him, but unfortunately, Harry couldn't laugh at all now.

Harry had never hated Malfoy so much as he did today, lying on his back like a ridiculous turtle with his mouth open to let the disgusting blood flow in. What a stupid situation he had gotten himself into... The last few footsteps were gone now; everyone was shuffling along the dark platform outside; Harry could hear the clinking of boxes and the din of voices.

Fanlin, Hermione and Ron might have thought he had gotten off the train alone. Only when they arrived at Hogwarts, sat down in the seats in the Great Hall, and searched the Gryffindor House table several times with their eyes, did they realize that he was not there, and he was undoubtedly already there by that time. Half way back to London.

As for Neville, Neville and Ginny...

Well, although their relationship is very good, they still don't always get together. Moreover, it is better to hope that Malfoy's spell will fail or...

Harry tried to make a sound, even just a grunt, but it was impossible.

Then he remembered that some wizards, such as Fan Lin or Dumbledore, could cast spells without opening their mouths, advanced silent spell skills. In fact, Fan Lin once taught him this, but the effect...

The effect should be pretty good, so Harry began to chant the wand flying over and over in his mind, and tried to summon the wand that had been released, but nothing happened.

Malfoy's petrification spell seemed to have frozen his brain, which made his thinking a little sluggish. For the first time in his life, Harry hated himself for not practicing the spell hard enough. If Fan Lin was here, he would be like this After a while, I guess I have already solved it, or I have mastered phantom transformation and can avoid it with conditioned reflex.

Malfoy's spell is not fast, and it can be said that it is not as powerful as imagined, but in terms of results, it is obvious that it is very effective.

He thought he could hear the rustling of the trees by the lake and the distant hoot of an owl, but there was no sign that anyone was searching for him, or just (and he half despised himself for thinking this) that someone was asking in a panic. Where did Leigh Porter go? In his mind, he imagined that the carriage pulled by the Thestral was pulling students to school, and Malfoy must be laughing with his mouth covered in the carriage, and he must be telling his Slytherin friends How he attacked Harry, a feeling of desperation spreading through him.

The train suddenly shook and Harry rolled over. What he saw now changed from the ceiling to the dusty seat bottoms. The locomotive roared again, and the floor began to vibrate. The express train was about to leave, and no one knew he was still on it...

"Harry, where are you?" A familiar voice came, which made Harry ecstatic. He tried hard to make some noise, but unfortunately, it was of no use.

"Ah, I knew it." Harry felt his feet being kicked, and then he felt the invisibility cloak being lifted, and a voice sounded above his head, "Oh my God, Harry, I knew you it's here."

A flash of red light flashed, and Harry's body could move; he could finally change himself into a more dignified sitting position. He quickly wiped away the blood with the back of his hand, raised his swollen face and looked at Fanlin. Li was holding the invisibility cloak that had just been ripped off Harry.

"How did you..."

There was a sound of "Bang!", and then another figure appeared in the carriage. No one noticed Harry at first, but in the blink of an eye.

"Hey, Fan Lin, don't be nervous, it's me, Tonks." Taking off her black cloak, Tonks' bad hair color almost made Fan Lin unrecognizable.

"Tonks, why are you here?" Fan Lin was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it seemed to be a reasonable thing.

"The Order of the Phoenix is ​​protecting Harry," Tonks said, "There's no time!"

"We have to get out of here, quick," Tonks said, the windows already blurry with moisture as the train began to leave the station.

"Hurry, we have to jump." Fan Lin and Harry hurriedly followed her to the corridor. Tonks opened the door and jumped to the platform. Since the train was already moving, the platform under their feet looked a little slippery. Harry also jumped down. Just as he had time to stand upright unsteadily, he saw the steaming red locomotive speeding up, turning a corner and disappearing.

Tonks looked at Harry as the cold night air soothed the throbbing pain in Harry's nose; Harry felt angry and embarrassed because he had been found in such a ridiculous position.

Fan Lin reached out and returned the invisibility cloak to Harry.

"It seems," Fan Lin looked leisurely at the swaying carriage in the distance, and a newborn Ye Qi was gradually moving away from them.

"We missed the last carriage." Fan Lin said helplessly, "It seems that we have to find a way to go back by ourselves."

"We can go back with the first years... Oh, okay, we can walk back." Harry then thought about how embarrassed he was now. Instead of taking the boat back with the first years, Harry would rather walk.

"Who did it?"

"Draco Malfoy," Harry said with disgust. "Thank you for coming...um..."

"It's okay," Tonks said without smiling.

Harry saw in the darkness that she was still the same as she had been last time at the Burrow, with ash-brown hair and a miserable expression.

"If you stand still, I can fix your nose."

Harry didn't agree with this idea; he had planned to go to the school nurse Madam Pomfrey. When it came to healing spells, he had more faith in Madam Pomfrey, but it seemed rude to say so, but in fact Yes, Harry felt that even Fan Linlai would be better...

So Harry closed his eyes and stood still.

"Bone pain stops," Tonks read. Harry felt his nose was very hot at first, and then very cold. He touched it carefully with his hand. It seems to have healed.

"Thank you!"

"You'd better put on that cloak and we can walk to school," Tonks said, still expressionless. After Harry put on the cloak, Tonks waved her wand; a huge silver-white The quadruped erupted from the tip of the wand and darted into the darkness.

"Uh..." Fan Lin saw Tonks' patron saint and immediately understood why this energetic girl had become so haggard.

Not everyone’s patron saint is a husky or, uh, I mean, a direwolf?

In short, the entanglement between Tonks and Lupine has obviously entered a bottleneck period. Come to think of it, Remus is worried about how to solve it, and Tonks is a little worried...

In fact, Fan Lin really wanted to tell Tonks that she and Lupine would have a child in the future, but looking at the current situation... the child should still be in the budding state of amino acids and proteins.

"Awesome patron saint!" Fanlin said, which seemed to bring some comfort to Tonks.

"Uh, thank you." Tonks paused.

"I have told the people in the castle that I have found you, so that they don't have to worry anymore. Let's go, we'd better not waste time." Tonks said, motioning for the two of them to return to school quickly.

They set off towards the path leading to the school.

"how did you find me?"

"I noticed that neither of you got out of the car, and I knew you had that cloak. You were probably hiding for some reason. I saw the curtains in that box were drawn, and thought I'd check one time."

"Why are you here?" Fan Lin said with some surprise, "This is already within the radiation range of Hogwarts. I think Dumbledore..."

"It's the Ministry of Magic." Tonks said quickly, "I am currently stationed in Hogsmeade by the Ministry of Magic to give the school extra protection."

"Maximum security regulations?"

"Yes." Tonks nodded towards Fan Lin, "Especially Harry. Scrimgeour doesn't trust Harry alone. If something happens to him, we can't afford the consequences."

"Are you alone there, or—?"

"No, Plowfoot, Savage, and Delis are here too."

"Duluth, is he the Auror who was attacked by Dumbledore last year?"

"right."

"The Ministry of Magic thinks that Voldemort will attack here?"

"I didn't tell you that person's name earlier." Tonks shook her head, "Although the chance is very low, if something happens to you two, we can't afford the consequences."

So they trudged forward on this deserted and dark road along the tracks just left by the carriage.

Harry looked under his cloak at Tonks next to him. Last year she was so inquiring (sometimes to the point of being a bit annoying), so laughing, so playful.

But now she is much older and looks more serious and determined. Is this all because of what happened at the Ministry of Magic?

If Fanlin hadn't been standing here, Harry would have thought that this was not the real Tonks. After all, this had happened before, for example, to Barty Crouch Jr. Maybe Tonks was either Tarfur or Bella. Kind of fake?

Harry cleared this idea from his mind. If this was the case, then the two of them would definitely fall to the ground in the next second, and appear in Voldemort's castle as soon as they opened their eyes...

Harry looked at Fan Lin for help. The change in Tonks was too obvious. It felt like Tonks had aged more than ten years, or more?

But obviously, this is not a polite thing, and Fanlin can't do anything about it. After all, he can't force Lupine to accept that Tonks isn't...

So the three of them just walked silently through the cold night, Tonks' long cloak rustling on the ground behind them.

He had always passed this section of the road in a carriage before, so Fanlin never realized how far it was from Hogsmeade Station to Hogwarts.

Finally seeing the tall pillars on both sides of the school gate (each with a winged boar on top), Fan Lin breathed a sigh of relief. He originally planned to Disapparate with Harry, but with so many people from the Ministry of Magic around, Fanlin thought it would be better not to cause trouble, not to mention Tonks accompanying him, although it only made the journey worse.

Harry was obviously a little impatient, but when Harry reached out to push the door open, he found that the door was locked by a chain.

"Open the Alaho hole!" Harry muttered confidently, pointing his wand at the padlock, but nothing happened.

"That won't work on these," Tonks said. "Dumbledore enchanted them himself."

"Magic, is it already on alert?"

"Oh yes."

Harry looked around without giving up. "I can climb over the wall," he offered.

"You can't do it," Tonks said weakly. "Anti-intrusion spells have been cast on them. The security of the school has been increased hundreds of times this summer."

"Well," Harry began to get a little annoyed at Tonks being unable to help, "I guess I'll just have to sleep here until tomorrow morning."

"Someone's here to get you," Tonks said. "look."

A lantern appeared in the far corner of the castle, moving up and down. This pleased him so much that he felt he could stand it even if Filch gave him the usual scolding for his procrastination, or growled and threatened to use thumb clamps to improve his punctuality.

It wasn't until the yellow light was only ten feet away from the two of them, and he had taken off his invisibility cloak and reappeared, that Harry noticed the aquiline nose reflecting the light and the long, greasy black hair. Severus Snape, a wave of pure disgust rushed to his forehead.

"Okay, okay, okay," Snape said with a sneer, took out his wand and tapped on the padlock. The chain slid down like a snake, and the door creaked open. "It's nice to see you here, Potter, but it's obvious you feel wearing your school robes would detract from your appearance."

"I can't change it, I don't have my-" Harry started, but Snape interrupted.

"No need to wait, Nymphadora, Potter is - ah - quite safe in my hands."

"I was planning on letting Hagrid get the message," Tonks frowned.

"Hagrid didn't make it to the opening party, just like Potter and Al here, so I took it for him. By the way," Snape stood aside to let the two people in, "I'm sorry for your new The Patronus was interested." Snape slammed the door in Tonks' face, waved his wand again, and the chains slid back into their original positions.

"I think your original one was better," Snape's voice was unmistakably malicious.

"The new one looks useless." Snape turned the lantern around, and Harry saw a flash of shock and annoyance cross Tonks's face. But she was immediately plunged into darkness again. (To be continued)