Chapter 296 Witness and Vow
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 296 Witness and Vow
"Harry!"
"Harry!"
McGuffin called several times before finally waking him up from the gnashing of teeth.
"McGuffin?"
"Professor Dumbledore?"
Harry looked at the few people who ran over, and then looked back at the phantom of the Dursleys, very confused.
(There are also some phantoms around them, but compared to Harry himself, they are very blurry, just like a broken video tape, the screen is full of scratches and black and white snowflakes, and the voice is sometimes sharp and sometimes humming, which cannot be heard clearly.)
"Professor, what is going on? Why can I see the Dursleys... Is it true?"
"--call!"
"Calm down! Harry!" Dumbledore took a deep breath and said,
"This is the embodiment of some kind of destiny..."
"The so-called fate... To some extent, it is just the mutual connection and influence between people."
"What you're seeing is exactly what's happening to the Vernon Dursleys right now... this magical ritual will reveal everyone who is now connected to our respective realities!"
"The time is just right..." Dumbledore took another deep breath before saying again.
"I thought it was too late?"
Dumbledore spoke out of breath.
"What's late?"
"Stupid, isn't the reason obvious?" Snape said coldly, "Aside from the Dursleys, isn't there one other person who is closely related to your fate?"
"Everyone in the wizarding world knows that, Potter! Your stupidity always refreshes my perception!"
Harry's eyes widened.
indeed!Such an answer was something he should have expected.
— Voldemort.
Who else but him?
"I advise you not to be too careful. A master of black magic like him... Even if he is so weak that he can't be seen, he has given himself a name before and cast a lot of curses on his fate. Once someone reads his name, or uses certain spells to check his location... he will encounter an unprecedented and terrible curse."
"Otherwise, you really think why everyone dare not say his name directly."
"Then I...?" Harry interrupted coldly before he could finish speaking.
"Who knows what connection you have with the Dark Lord? You can call him by name directly, or you are just extremely lucky, so you didn't suffer the curse. But... I advise you to be more careful in the future. Don't involve other people."
Snape pointed it out bluntly, almost as if he knew what Harry was thinking.
McGuffin suddenly remembered that he used to call him by his first name.
— Gan!It seems that he has to be more careful in the future.
"Okay, Severus. It's better to start the magic ritual quickly! Find everyone... It's taken a lot of time."
Dumbledore said.
"Start now!"
"Lucius, you move Dracora Malfoy between us, Harry come over... we need to make a fence."
Lucius waved his wand and moved Malfoy to a clearing.
Decora froze, motionless.
Only then did Harry see something of 'her' now.
It was exactly the same as the last time I drank the [Transformation Potion].
Compared with the previous appearance, the facial features are much softer, somewhat feminine, not so aggressive and arrogant.
Now 'she' looks more like her mother, Narcissa Malfoy.
It has the appearance and style of people from Eastern Europe.
Hair no longer looks like it was held in place with a tub of hairspray.
Instead, it turned into soft, neck-length short hair.
In short, it was exactly the same as what happened to Harry last time.
—little Malfoy completely turned into a little witch.
After Lucius put 'Little Malfoy' down with an expression of pain, disgust, and guilt.
Dumbledore took out his wand and said to Malfoy on the ground, "Fate begins here!"
The flame began to burn slowly around 'her'.
The texture of that color is the same as the sky, uniform, smooth... and constantly changing colors.
colorful.
McGuffin stared carefully and found that the flames were filled with the reflection of Draco Malfoy's illusion of life.
A magnificent manor, little Malfoy growing up from childhood to adulthood, accompanied by Lucius and Narcissa, all kinds of first time...walking, riding a broomstick, talking, reciting spells...
"Decora!"
Lucius Malfoy, who had been sternly, with a white shell on his face, finally couldn't help but choked up a sob.
Almost stepped into that light and shadow.
"Lucius!" Snape pulled him hard, pulling him back.
"That layer of light and shadow is just an illusion, you will only drive yourself crazy if you step into it, sober up!"
Dumbledore glanced at them, and when Lucius calmed down, he raised his wand and shouted at the night sky, "The starry sky changes!"
Those phantoms surrounding Harry, McGuffin and the five of them suddenly soared into the sky and flew towards the starry sky. After a while, stars appeared in the sky.
Especially when Malfoy first appeared, the surrounding light and shadow turned into a bright galaxy in the night sky.
Finally, he put down his wand and said to Lucius Malfoy, who was standing still.
"Lucius, according to our agreement, there is only one last step left. Take out all those Malfoy things."
Mr. Malfoy was dazed as if he had been cast with the [Imperius Curse], staring blankly around 'Draco Malfoy' and took out one thing after another from his arms.
(I don't know how he put such things in the pocket in his arms. McGuffin guessed that there must be a pocket that has been cast with the traceless stretching spell)
Those things seemed to accompany Malfoy's growing up.
Looks like mostly magical toys from the wizarding world.
Some shiny golden toy broom, a tiny wand, a golden snitch (but somehow it seems to be attached to a string)... some much smaller wizard robes and hats...
Finally Lucius pulled out some Malfoy family photos and put them on the ground.
There are Dracora Malfoys of all ages.
McGuffin was surprised to find that since the guy had hair, it seemed to have started to use hair gel.
Really... MAN!Not afraid of protruding heads.
Cough!
Anyway, after all this is done.
Lucius came back to them.
"Harry, McGuffin, you two need to raise your wands!" said Dumbledore quietly.
The three of them took out their wands, stood in three directions each, with the tips of their wands close together, pointing at Malfoy below.
Harry drew his wand, looking surprised.
McGuffin also raised his wand.
The two stood aside, facing the tips of the wands held by the three of them, and said loudly together according to the spell that Dumbledore had taught them.
"The three swearers sign the contract here..."
"Albus Dumbledore, as the headmaster of Dracora Malfoy, are you willing to abide by the contract and completely guard his secrets?" Harry said.
"I will!" Dumbledore nodded in agreement.
A thin, dazzling tongue of fire spurted out from the middle of the opposing wands of the three, divided into three branches, trembling along the wands, wrapped around the arms of the three like twisted snake bodies.
"Severus Snape, as Dracora Malfoy's professor, are you willing to protect this altered fate... from anyone's discovery?" McGuffin called out.
"I would," Snape said.
The second tongue of flame erupted from Snape's wand, intertwined with the first one, and formed a red, twist-like red metal chain on the arms of the three of them.
"Lucius Malfoy..."
Harry hesitated for a moment, and then said again, "As the father of Dracora Malfoy, are you willing to forever protect your child's fate that has been reversed into the unknown?"
"I do." Lucius said choked up.
The third tongue of flame shot up into the sky, forming a complex entangled chain, which continued to grow, and finally even led the three people's arms and wands to be raised high and pointed to the sky.
Tongues of flame entwined, swirled, and spread, like a stream of water, a long snake... forming circles of light around them.
The flames lit up the faces of several people.
Dumbledore's silver and white beard was glowing red.
In the end, McGuffin and Harry raised their wands to the sky, and shouted loudly at the bright galaxy formed by those phantoms, "I, MacGuffin Albert (Harry Potter), as a witness, will witness the change of fate and the formation of this oath..."
"We will witness and keep our oath!"
"Now……"
Dumbledore and the others also raised their wands and shouted loudly.
"destiny!"
"Stars!"
"Start from here and change from here!"
The earth roared and the stars fell.
Those phantom stars turned into meteors, falling from all directions of the night sky like a flashing rain.
The red light chain wrapped around Dumbledore's three hands began to wrap Malfoy layer by layer, spinning continuously.
The items that belonged to her on the ground disappeared one by one.
Or transformed into some other item.
The broom has become a wizard chess piece, the golden snitch has become a vanity mirror and the magazine "Witch Weekly", the little wand has become some kind of color-changing flying carpet...
Even the family photo of Dracora Malfoy and his parents slowly disappeared, and the figure became DeLS Malfoy...
It's not just the current one... From childhood to adulthood, all the outfits and scenes all show that it's her, not him.
It's like someone writing with a pen to change reality.
In this world, Draco Malfoy no longer exists, replaced by DeLS Malfoy,
—A 12-year-old little witch.
As all this changed, the 'meteor shower' slowly descended and disappeared in the sky.
Suddenly, McGuffin's head seemed to be stuffed full of iron balls.
What is this? ...he shook his head.
Suddenly, he found that Harry beside him was also holding his head and moaning, while Snape, Dumbledore, and Lucius also staggered, frowning, gasping, and their faces were ugly.
McGuffin remembered that he seemed to have experienced such a feeling?
That's right, when I just crossed over, I felt very uncomfortable with the memory of the original body.
But this time it didn't seem so uncomfortable.
McGuffin immediately used [Occlumency] to deal with these sudden extra memories:
Just started school on the Hogwarts train, DeLS Malfoy's provocation...
A duel with her at the Christmas feast...
Hermione had violent conflicts with this little witch from time to time...
Harry offended the little witch...
They all experienced a lot of things in Hogwarts MacGuffin and Malfoy... It's just that it's all specious...
The last memory stays in the scene of the female version of Malfoy lying on the ground with a stiff face after being petrified by the basilisk.
Two completely different (old and new) memories were constantly wrestling in his head, fighting,
It took him a long time to straighten it all out.
McGuffin gasped.
Although it was expected, this kind of thing... I didn't expect them to do it.
Really wipe out a person's existence in the world completely, or modify it.
— Gan!
The more you get the better... TM is so terrifying!
But now, the most dangerous thing is Harry Potter who is still clutching his head and sorting out his memory.
Because of the MacGuffin, he had seen Snape staring at Harry closely, his eyes glowing strangely.
At this time, Lucius was blushing and stiffly raised Draco, who was still petrified, with his wand... Ugh!DeLS Malfoy was getting ready to leave here.
"Albus, everything should... go well!" After walking two steps, he stopped again, looked at Dumbledore, and asked back.
"That's right, don't you also have new memories in your brain now?"
"Just go back and confirm with Narcissa, she will only remember that she has a daughter."
Professor Dumbledore's tone was very affirmative.
Lucius Malfoy's body trembled for a moment, then he slowly turned back towards the castle, and walked alone with little Malfoy.
"Okay, let's go back too!"
Dumbledore repeated his emphasis, reminding him to freeze in place, staring straight at one of Harry's professors.
McGuffin helped Harry, who had a headache (processing memory), followed Professor Dumbledore and walked towards Hogwarts Castle.
After leaving the dark and ominous Forbidden Forest along the winding path, the group of them parted near the gate of Hogwarts.
Dumbledore seemed to be taking Snape to find something, and asked Harry and the others to go back to the Gryffindor dormitory by themselves.
After returning to the dormitory and lying on the bed, Harry couldn't fall asleep.
He was in a mess.
—was it gloating over Malfoy?
It's hard to say... According to Professor Dumbledore, she didn't even realize what she was like before.
And the new memory, this Malfoy is actually mainly compared with Hermione's 'tear'!
Harry was also embarrassed to bully a little witch... According to his memory, it was indeed when he and Ron faced this 'guy' conflict, and it was indeed because of this reason that he suffered a lot.
However, in my memory, McGuffin is a "straight man of steel" with all his heart, and he is still the same as before. He threw a little witch on the top of the train when they met for the first time.
nature……
After the sorting ceremony, the guy was taken outside for the pleasure of having a solo dinner (commonly known as confinement).
After that, in a series of conflicts (new memories), the little witch of the Malfoy family automatically avoided McGuffin.
After a long silence, Harry still wanted to ask McGuffin's opinion on this matter, and he asked softly, "McGuffin? Are you asleep?"
"No? Dealing with those new messy memories."
"You said Malfoy became (——)"
"What did you say?"
"I said(--)"
"Wait! Harry! I see."
Harry watched McGuffin suddenly sit up strangely, and turned on the lights in the dormitory with his wand.
"Harry, let me say this time..."
"Malfoy he (——)"
McGuffin just opened his mouth and made no sound at all.
The mouth moved, but no words came out.
Looking at Harry's expression, McGuffin knew that the same thing happened just now, so he stopped and stopped doing useless work.
The two looked at each other.
Only then did Harry and McGuffin realize that Dumbledore had told them earlier:
'Witnesses are unable to disclose the specific circumstances of the changed fate'
——What does this sentence mean!
(End of this chapter)
"Harry!"
"Harry!"
McGuffin called several times before finally waking him up from the gnashing of teeth.
"McGuffin?"
"Professor Dumbledore?"
Harry looked at the few people who ran over, and then looked back at the phantom of the Dursleys, very confused.
(There are also some phantoms around them, but compared to Harry himself, they are very blurry, just like a broken video tape, the screen is full of scratches and black and white snowflakes, and the voice is sometimes sharp and sometimes humming, which cannot be heard clearly.)
"Professor, what is going on? Why can I see the Dursleys... Is it true?"
"--call!"
"Calm down! Harry!" Dumbledore took a deep breath and said,
"This is the embodiment of some kind of destiny..."
"The so-called fate... To some extent, it is just the mutual connection and influence between people."
"What you're seeing is exactly what's happening to the Vernon Dursleys right now... this magical ritual will reveal everyone who is now connected to our respective realities!"
"The time is just right..." Dumbledore took another deep breath before saying again.
"I thought it was too late?"
Dumbledore spoke out of breath.
"What's late?"
"Stupid, isn't the reason obvious?" Snape said coldly, "Aside from the Dursleys, isn't there one other person who is closely related to your fate?"
"Everyone in the wizarding world knows that, Potter! Your stupidity always refreshes my perception!"
Harry's eyes widened.
indeed!Such an answer was something he should have expected.
— Voldemort.
Who else but him?
"I advise you not to be too careful. A master of black magic like him... Even if he is so weak that he can't be seen, he has given himself a name before and cast a lot of curses on his fate. Once someone reads his name, or uses certain spells to check his location... he will encounter an unprecedented and terrible curse."
"Otherwise, you really think why everyone dare not say his name directly."
"Then I...?" Harry interrupted coldly before he could finish speaking.
"Who knows what connection you have with the Dark Lord? You can call him by name directly, or you are just extremely lucky, so you didn't suffer the curse. But... I advise you to be more careful in the future. Don't involve other people."
Snape pointed it out bluntly, almost as if he knew what Harry was thinking.
McGuffin suddenly remembered that he used to call him by his first name.
— Gan!It seems that he has to be more careful in the future.
"Okay, Severus. It's better to start the magic ritual quickly! Find everyone... It's taken a lot of time."
Dumbledore said.
"Start now!"
"Lucius, you move Dracora Malfoy between us, Harry come over... we need to make a fence."
Lucius waved his wand and moved Malfoy to a clearing.
Decora froze, motionless.
Only then did Harry see something of 'her' now.
It was exactly the same as the last time I drank the [Transformation Potion].
Compared with the previous appearance, the facial features are much softer, somewhat feminine, not so aggressive and arrogant.
Now 'she' looks more like her mother, Narcissa Malfoy.
It has the appearance and style of people from Eastern Europe.
Hair no longer looks like it was held in place with a tub of hairspray.
Instead, it turned into soft, neck-length short hair.
In short, it was exactly the same as what happened to Harry last time.
—little Malfoy completely turned into a little witch.
After Lucius put 'Little Malfoy' down with an expression of pain, disgust, and guilt.
Dumbledore took out his wand and said to Malfoy on the ground, "Fate begins here!"
The flame began to burn slowly around 'her'.
The texture of that color is the same as the sky, uniform, smooth... and constantly changing colors.
colorful.
McGuffin stared carefully and found that the flames were filled with the reflection of Draco Malfoy's illusion of life.
A magnificent manor, little Malfoy growing up from childhood to adulthood, accompanied by Lucius and Narcissa, all kinds of first time...walking, riding a broomstick, talking, reciting spells...
"Decora!"
Lucius Malfoy, who had been sternly, with a white shell on his face, finally couldn't help but choked up a sob.
Almost stepped into that light and shadow.
"Lucius!" Snape pulled him hard, pulling him back.
"That layer of light and shadow is just an illusion, you will only drive yourself crazy if you step into it, sober up!"
Dumbledore glanced at them, and when Lucius calmed down, he raised his wand and shouted at the night sky, "The starry sky changes!"
Those phantoms surrounding Harry, McGuffin and the five of them suddenly soared into the sky and flew towards the starry sky. After a while, stars appeared in the sky.
Especially when Malfoy first appeared, the surrounding light and shadow turned into a bright galaxy in the night sky.
Finally, he put down his wand and said to Lucius Malfoy, who was standing still.
"Lucius, according to our agreement, there is only one last step left. Take out all those Malfoy things."
Mr. Malfoy was dazed as if he had been cast with the [Imperius Curse], staring blankly around 'Draco Malfoy' and took out one thing after another from his arms.
(I don't know how he put such things in the pocket in his arms. McGuffin guessed that there must be a pocket that has been cast with the traceless stretching spell)
Those things seemed to accompany Malfoy's growing up.
Looks like mostly magical toys from the wizarding world.
Some shiny golden toy broom, a tiny wand, a golden snitch (but somehow it seems to be attached to a string)... some much smaller wizard robes and hats...
Finally Lucius pulled out some Malfoy family photos and put them on the ground.
There are Dracora Malfoys of all ages.
McGuffin was surprised to find that since the guy had hair, it seemed to have started to use hair gel.
Really... MAN!Not afraid of protruding heads.
Cough!
Anyway, after all this is done.
Lucius came back to them.
"Harry, McGuffin, you two need to raise your wands!" said Dumbledore quietly.
The three of them took out their wands, stood in three directions each, with the tips of their wands close together, pointing at Malfoy below.
Harry drew his wand, looking surprised.
McGuffin also raised his wand.
The two stood aside, facing the tips of the wands held by the three of them, and said loudly together according to the spell that Dumbledore had taught them.
"The three swearers sign the contract here..."
"Albus Dumbledore, as the headmaster of Dracora Malfoy, are you willing to abide by the contract and completely guard his secrets?" Harry said.
"I will!" Dumbledore nodded in agreement.
A thin, dazzling tongue of fire spurted out from the middle of the opposing wands of the three, divided into three branches, trembling along the wands, wrapped around the arms of the three like twisted snake bodies.
"Severus Snape, as Dracora Malfoy's professor, are you willing to protect this altered fate... from anyone's discovery?" McGuffin called out.
"I would," Snape said.
The second tongue of flame erupted from Snape's wand, intertwined with the first one, and formed a red, twist-like red metal chain on the arms of the three of them.
"Lucius Malfoy..."
Harry hesitated for a moment, and then said again, "As the father of Dracora Malfoy, are you willing to forever protect your child's fate that has been reversed into the unknown?"
"I do." Lucius said choked up.
The third tongue of flame shot up into the sky, forming a complex entangled chain, which continued to grow, and finally even led the three people's arms and wands to be raised high and pointed to the sky.
Tongues of flame entwined, swirled, and spread, like a stream of water, a long snake... forming circles of light around them.
The flames lit up the faces of several people.
Dumbledore's silver and white beard was glowing red.
In the end, McGuffin and Harry raised their wands to the sky, and shouted loudly at the bright galaxy formed by those phantoms, "I, MacGuffin Albert (Harry Potter), as a witness, will witness the change of fate and the formation of this oath..."
"We will witness and keep our oath!"
"Now……"
Dumbledore and the others also raised their wands and shouted loudly.
"destiny!"
"Stars!"
"Start from here and change from here!"
The earth roared and the stars fell.
Those phantom stars turned into meteors, falling from all directions of the night sky like a flashing rain.
The red light chain wrapped around Dumbledore's three hands began to wrap Malfoy layer by layer, spinning continuously.
The items that belonged to her on the ground disappeared one by one.
Or transformed into some other item.
The broom has become a wizard chess piece, the golden snitch has become a vanity mirror and the magazine "Witch Weekly", the little wand has become some kind of color-changing flying carpet...
Even the family photo of Dracora Malfoy and his parents slowly disappeared, and the figure became DeLS Malfoy...
It's not just the current one... From childhood to adulthood, all the outfits and scenes all show that it's her, not him.
It's like someone writing with a pen to change reality.
In this world, Draco Malfoy no longer exists, replaced by DeLS Malfoy,
—A 12-year-old little witch.
As all this changed, the 'meteor shower' slowly descended and disappeared in the sky.
Suddenly, McGuffin's head seemed to be stuffed full of iron balls.
What is this? ...he shook his head.
Suddenly, he found that Harry beside him was also holding his head and moaning, while Snape, Dumbledore, and Lucius also staggered, frowning, gasping, and their faces were ugly.
McGuffin remembered that he seemed to have experienced such a feeling?
That's right, when I just crossed over, I felt very uncomfortable with the memory of the original body.
But this time it didn't seem so uncomfortable.
McGuffin immediately used [Occlumency] to deal with these sudden extra memories:
Just started school on the Hogwarts train, DeLS Malfoy's provocation...
A duel with her at the Christmas feast...
Hermione had violent conflicts with this little witch from time to time...
Harry offended the little witch...
They all experienced a lot of things in Hogwarts MacGuffin and Malfoy... It's just that it's all specious...
The last memory stays in the scene of the female version of Malfoy lying on the ground with a stiff face after being petrified by the basilisk.
Two completely different (old and new) memories were constantly wrestling in his head, fighting,
It took him a long time to straighten it all out.
McGuffin gasped.
Although it was expected, this kind of thing... I didn't expect them to do it.
Really wipe out a person's existence in the world completely, or modify it.
— Gan!
The more you get the better... TM is so terrifying!
But now, the most dangerous thing is Harry Potter who is still clutching his head and sorting out his memory.
Because of the MacGuffin, he had seen Snape staring at Harry closely, his eyes glowing strangely.
At this time, Lucius was blushing and stiffly raised Draco, who was still petrified, with his wand... Ugh!DeLS Malfoy was getting ready to leave here.
"Albus, everything should... go well!" After walking two steps, he stopped again, looked at Dumbledore, and asked back.
"That's right, don't you also have new memories in your brain now?"
"Just go back and confirm with Narcissa, she will only remember that she has a daughter."
Professor Dumbledore's tone was very affirmative.
Lucius Malfoy's body trembled for a moment, then he slowly turned back towards the castle, and walked alone with little Malfoy.
"Okay, let's go back too!"
Dumbledore repeated his emphasis, reminding him to freeze in place, staring straight at one of Harry's professors.
McGuffin helped Harry, who had a headache (processing memory), followed Professor Dumbledore and walked towards Hogwarts Castle.
After leaving the dark and ominous Forbidden Forest along the winding path, the group of them parted near the gate of Hogwarts.
Dumbledore seemed to be taking Snape to find something, and asked Harry and the others to go back to the Gryffindor dormitory by themselves.
After returning to the dormitory and lying on the bed, Harry couldn't fall asleep.
He was in a mess.
—was it gloating over Malfoy?
It's hard to say... According to Professor Dumbledore, she didn't even realize what she was like before.
And the new memory, this Malfoy is actually mainly compared with Hermione's 'tear'!
Harry was also embarrassed to bully a little witch... According to his memory, it was indeed when he and Ron faced this 'guy' conflict, and it was indeed because of this reason that he suffered a lot.
However, in my memory, McGuffin is a "straight man of steel" with all his heart, and he is still the same as before. He threw a little witch on the top of the train when they met for the first time.
nature……
After the sorting ceremony, the guy was taken outside for the pleasure of having a solo dinner (commonly known as confinement).
After that, in a series of conflicts (new memories), the little witch of the Malfoy family automatically avoided McGuffin.
After a long silence, Harry still wanted to ask McGuffin's opinion on this matter, and he asked softly, "McGuffin? Are you asleep?"
"No? Dealing with those new messy memories."
"You said Malfoy became (——)"
"What did you say?"
"I said(--)"
"Wait! Harry! I see."
Harry watched McGuffin suddenly sit up strangely, and turned on the lights in the dormitory with his wand.
"Harry, let me say this time..."
"Malfoy he (——)"
McGuffin just opened his mouth and made no sound at all.
The mouth moved, but no words came out.
Looking at Harry's expression, McGuffin knew that the same thing happened just now, so he stopped and stopped doing useless work.
The two looked at each other.
Only then did Harry and McGuffin realize that Dumbledore had told them earlier:
'Witnesses are unable to disclose the specific circumstances of the changed fate'
——What does this sentence mean!
(End of this chapter)
