"Harry, stay back! It's on fire—"
Neville, who was explaining in detail his experience of casting the Patronus Charm, suddenly caught a glimpse of a raging flame from the corner of his eye. And then he discovered that Harry, who was facing him, hadn't noticed it yet!
After hearing Neville's reminder, Harry quickly looked deeper into the corridor behind him.
There is no doubt that those are the most terrifying flames that Harry has ever seen in his life - although they appear to be the same as ordinary flames in color, their torrent-like volume is probably enough to scare everyone who sees this scene. Everyone was shocked!
"The water is as clear as a spring!"
While he subconsciously let his wand emit a large stream of water, he immediately retreated from the path he and Neville had been on. When Neville saw this, he followed him and released the spring water vigorously.
It's a pity that the clear water created by the two of them may have been enough - at least it was much more than ordinary wizards, but it had no effect on the wave of flames coming from the other side of the corridor.
"No, there's no need to water it, it's useless!"
Harry took Neville's arm and then stopped the spell he was doing. However, even though he gave up using water, he didn't just keep running.
Because he knew that, given the speed at which the flames were rushing, he and Neville would probably be completely engulfed before they could even run out of the corridor.
"There are many obstacles."
In a hurry, he first drew the trajectory of the stick in front of him, and only at the last moment did he suddenly swing it behind him.
Suddenly, an invisible magical obstacle was left behind by Harry, but he himself did not make any pause, and continued to rush forward.
"Harry, the barrier charm didn't work either!"
Realizing that Neville's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, Harry glanced back hastily. As expected, probably because Neville wanted to check the effect of the obstacle spell, he was already several steps behind him.
"Run quickly, don't stop! Don't check to see if it works..."
In such an emergency situation, Harry's true ability can actually be seen best.
To be honest, he is just an ordinary boy in normal times: sometimes he is slow, sometimes he seems naive, and sometimes he even falls into self-contradiction because he thinks too much.
But once he falls into a situation where he has no time to think, he will act according to his instinct in everything. In fact, his intuition hidden in his subconscious is the most valuable and powerful help he has.
"Hurry! Hurry up! Oh, there's no time!"
Suddenly, Harry grabbed Neville's arm and threw him forward with all his strength.
Then, without any time to think, he resolutely threw away the wand in his hand and put it straight into the hood of the Sorting Hat that had been in his left hand from the beginning.
"Sword, give me the sword!"
The Sorting Hat, who had been silent recently, finally spoke at this extremely critical moment.
"What kind of sword! Are you really going to put out the fire with a sword?" He yelled as the Sorting Hat was pulled out, "Stop digging! Are you the sick snake raised by Salazar! Open up!" Look carefully with big eyes!”
"Varied-"
Harry didn't even have time to say the word "huh" at the end, before he was swallowed up by the torrent of flames with a confused look on his face as if he had been scolded by the Sorting Hat.
As for Neville... to some extent, his experience was even worse than Harry's. Because of Harry's throw just now, he stumbled and fell flat on his face to the ground. He didn't even have time to get up.
"ah-"
"ah-"
Two brutal shouts that followed each other suddenly spread from the underground corridor to the lobby on the first floor, causing many injured people to jump up from the ground in shock.
Not long after, when a group of RA members who stayed in the hall went to check in surprise, terrible flames silently erupted from the stairs leading to the underground.
"Hannah, go notify Hermione and the others, quickly-"
In a hurry, Ginny shouted without looking back.
…
Just when everyone in the hall was caught off guard by the sudden sea of fire, a petite figure on the sixth floor of St. Mungo's was frowning slightly, as if he had encountered something puzzling.
"What's going on...Did Maka not notice it? Or did he just encounter an unexpected situation?"
The one muttering to herself at this moment was Sarah, who was still maintaining the operation of the formation formation.
It can be seen that although she did not show too many expressions due to her special nature, she was still aware of what was happening below.
Perhaps it can be said that she was the first to notice the invasion of foreign objects.
But then again - if she already knew the terrible situation on the first floor and even the underground corridor, wouldn't her performance at this time be a bit "too" bland
Even if Sarah is fundamentally defective, she should be able to think of one or two remedies that can be dealt with normally... such as using her alchemy skills, right
However, apart from standing next to the formation and thinking silently, she did not do any other actions.
After a moment, Sara lowered her head again and once again stared at the still-glowing formation with her big bright eyes and silently glanced at it for a few times.
Finally, she gently raised the white palm of her right hand and hesitantly stretched it forward.
But before she could make any move, she still put her hand down.
"Well, forget it."
…
"Hermione! Hermione... it's on fire! It's on fire!"
Hannah Abbott was Luna's friend, and among Luna's friends, she was one of the few good friends who got together with her spontaneously.
And this kind of friendship that bursts out naturally may be due to the fact that the two of them are somewhat similar in certain rooms.
But I saw Hannah staggering along the corridor and running to the corner, staggering a few steps as she followed, and then fell forward.
What if she and Neville were not destined
If Sinister hadn't appeared from the other side of the corner, she might not have ended up like Neville, landing on her face. The only difference between the two is that there are not so many flames chasing behind Hannah for the time being.
"Tum!"
As soon as Sinista turned the corner, she was immediately hit by this reckless girl, and even she almost fell to the ground.
"Hermione! Fire! So much fire!"
Hannah, who had no consciousness of bumping into anyone, didn't even raise her head. She buried her face in Sinistra's chest, but still shouted to herself. It wasn't until Sinistra helped her upright that she hurriedly looked around for Hermione.
"Granger has passed, hurry! We also... No, you should wait here!"
"Huh? Oh!"
Hannah stayed in place blankly, watching the other person continue to run forward, and then her eyes widened as if she realized something.
"Why is Professor Sinistra here..."
Putting aside the confused Hannah, in front of Sinistra, Hermione and Sirius were flying forward.
In fact, there was no need for Hannah to inform him. The screams and the confusion of the injured were loud enough, and they could hear them clearly even though they were separated by a corridor.
But before they even reached the side entrance of the hall, the two of them saw flames pouring in from the outside and spreading towards them.
When the flames arrived here, they were no longer as scary as those in the underground corridor, and their spread was obviously much slower.
However, the characteristics of this flame seem to have not changed!
As soon as Sirius saw the flames, he immediately cast several different spells in succession, and Hermione also followed suit to try to stop the flames from approaching.
"It won't have any impact—Back off! Back off!"
But at this moment, a figure suddenly walked in from the doorway that connected to the hall not far away, stepping on the raging flames but still moving freely.
Sirius glanced suddenly and almost threw a crushing curse at the person coming.
"It's okay! This flame may be just an illusion and won't cause any harm to us!"
"Harry?"
Hermione, who was retreating sharply, once she saw it was Harry, she habitually gave him trust.
However, Sirius next to her did not let down his guard and dragged Hermione back a few steps. He stopped in confusion when he found that one of Hermione's feet had already entered the sea of fire.
He just kicked on the spot twice, leaned over and fished a handful directly into the flames with his hands, and then fell into deep thought with a puzzled look on his face.
"Harry, do you know what's going on?"
Hermione did not immediately check the flames on the ground, but directly asked Harry who was walking towards this direction. Unfortunately, Harry just shook his head helplessly, and the doubts in his eyes were no less than Hermione's.
"I was talking to Neville in the underground corridor just now. Unexpectedly, the flames suddenly burst out from nowhere. Before the two of us could run far, we were completely engulfed in a sea of flames!"
"In the underground corridor?"
Although Hermione was a little puzzled by this, she didn't pursue it too much. Seeing that Harry seemed to want to explain, she immediately waved her hand and then said:
"Let's not talk about this for now, let's go! Take us to see below..."
When Sirius heard the sound, he stood up and walked quickly towards the side door with the two of them on the fire blanket that looked like nothingness.
Hermione looked at the back of Harry walking in front, and then cast a questioning look at Sirius behind her.
But Sirius immediately shook his head imperceptibly.
The meanings conveyed between the two were very clear - it might be Harry's words that made Hermione doubtful after all, while Sirius shook his head and said he couldn't be sure.
Where do so many flames come from? What's going on underground in St. Mungo's? And is the Harry in front of them the "real" Harry
No one seems to know.