Chapter 596 Christmas Chapter Holidays and Reports
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 596 Christmas Holiday and Report
"Fuck!"
The McGuffin kicked down hard.
The upper side of the thigh seems to be split,
The burning pain woke him up immediately.
"McGuffin! Wake up!"
"Wake up!"
A familiar voice rang in his ear,
It took a long time for McGuffin to realize that it was Harry's voice.
On the wall of the dormitory... the dimly lit magic lights dazzled him so much that he couldn't keep his eyes open.
He gasped for breath before realizing that he...had come back from that bloody little Hangleton village.
No need to face Dumbledore's old fox's temptation, Moody's suspicion, and Fudge's exasperated yelling.
"What time is it...why isn't the dance over yet?"
McGuffin looked around and found that there were still only the two of them in the dormitory, so he couldn't help asking in surprise.
Harry looked behind him at the mechanical wind-up clock next to Dean's bed, and replied, "It's two o'clock at midnight!"
Harry was a little taken aback by that, too.
McGuffin sat up. He took out a towel from the cabinet next to him and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
This made me feel a lot more comfortable.
"How's the dance?" McGuffin asked Harry in passing.
"Forehead……"
"Bad!" said Harry. "Ron and Hermione had a big fight... over the fact that Krum was Hermione's partner..."
As Harry said, he tentatively asked McGuffin, "You look worse, though! What the hell did Professor Dumbledore send you to...?"
McGuffin closed his eyes and took a deep breath, was silent for a while, and then talked about what they encountered tonight.
—the mutation of the Muggle village; another Voldemort's Horcrux; the mutation of the world's reflection;
Harry couldn't keep his mouth shut in surprise, his eyes widened, "You...you mean, we can use the Unforgivable Curse to kill each other in school, and everyone has [Horcrux]..."
"It's just a nightmare created by Voldemort, don't take it too seriously...he finally had enough of that world..."
After complaining a lot, McGuffin finally felt much better.
Of course, he didn't say that he was in that nightmare... playing Harry, nor did he say that the world was shaped like that...in fact, it was largely influenced by himself.
"Wait, I saw Professor Dumbledore at the ball, not just me... everyone saw it!" Harry suddenly realized something.
"No, that's what Snape turned into via Polyjuice Potion..."
"I said why I haven't seen Snape all night, and Professor Dumbledore's eyes...why is it so weird, it always reminds me of that old bat!" Harry muttered softly.
McGuffin's tone became serious, "Harry, listen... the most important thing about what happened tonight is not the contest between Voldemort and Professor Dumbledore, nor whether [Horcrux] has been eliminated, the most important thing is..."
McGuffin remembered the information about the [Red Pupil of Flesh] ring displayed on the system panel.
The above introduction gave him the biggest shock since he entered Hogwarts.
It was only at this time that he really realized that the plot he was familiar with had begun to disappear forever.
The world of HP will undergo earth-shaking changes in the future.
Moreover, the magic displayed in the reflection of that world by [Horcrux]...is exactly the same as the memory that Dumbledore showed them in the third grade. (In the opera house, the female Muggle automatically awakens to magic).
The same chaos and treachery also changed almost everything around at that time, that kind of power... Even from the perspective of the magical world, it was outrageous to the extreme!
The MacGuffin has figured out...
This world is gradually changing, even...unknowingly, some irreversible great changes have taken place in this world.
And most Muggles and wizards are too blinded by arrogance to know this.
"...What? What's the most important..." Harry's green eyes were full of confusion.
What matters is this change in the world!
——No one knows what the world will be like in the future!
Before McGuffin could say a word, there was a burst of noise and excitement outside, but at the same time it was full of exhausted sounds.
A burst of footsteps, and everyone's noisy voice, came from outside the door.
quickly,
Ron, Dean, and Neville bid farewell to George and Fred, and returned to the dormitory.
"Ha, MacGuffin... are you back?" Ron was not as angry as Harry said.
"Have you seen George's magic fireworks...it's amazing!" He looked very happy instead.
After saying hello, Ron and the others returned to their bed exhausted, put on their pajamas, and got ready for bed.
"Stop staring, Harry, MacGuffin! Go to sleep now? Everyone is really tired tonight..." Thomas urged.
He chanted a spell and extinguished the magic lamp in the dormitory.
McGuffin lay upright on the bed with his eyes open, not feeling sleepy at all.
……
On the second day of Christmas, everyone got up very late.
The Gryffindor common room was much quieter than usual.
Even when someone got up, most of them yawned and chatted in low voices.
In this way, McGuffin told Ron and Hermione about his experience last night, and told them about Voldemort and Horcruxes.
They got up so early because they wanted to see how Dumbledore, Fudge and the others dealt with this matter in today's newspaper.
"Hundreds of lives!" Hermione felt very heavy.
This news temporarily reduced the conflict between Ron and Hermione.
The two of them were very friendly in front of McGuffin, and it could even be said that they were too friendly and polite.
It seems a little unnatural.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the arrival of some owls to interrupt this slightly awkward atmosphere.
They brought the latest "Daily Prophet", "Wizard Weekly", "Gringotts Economics", "Quickerman"... and other newspapers, and flew into the Gryffindor public rest.
He threw the newspaper beside McGuffin and the others.
After paying the owls a few brass Knuts, Harry and the others stooped to pick up the newspaper and returned to their armchairs.
McGuffin unfolded the newspaper and read the content with Ron and the others.
The front page headline on the first page is very conspicuous.
It was an article with a picture of Fudge on it,
He and Moody stood in front of a huge mass of rotting, wriggling flesh, and next to them... were many Ministry of Magic staff, lined up and counting... many inhuman corpses. (There are more corpses wrapped in the pile of meat, half exposed...)
Those bones were piled up in piles, as if they had been half corroded... scattered all over the place, making it impossible for people to look directly at them.
They were slowly pieced together by the magic of the staff.
And these things have some kind of rotten fluff attached to them, like living worms, which look very disgusting.
"Is that what you said? MacGuffin..." Ron lowered his voice, surprised and terrified.
"Shh! Keep watching!" said Harry.
They then looked at the text described below:
……
【Secretary Cornelius Fudge's Major Victory】
Our well-known reporter Rita Skeeter specially reported:
Since the horrific and disgusting Dark Arts attacks on the Ministry of Magic and Quidditch pitches in August, the Honorable Minister Cornelius Fudge has been determined to eradicate the dark wizarding terror group that has entrenched London.
Finally, yesterday (Christmas) night, Minister Fudge personally commanded and personally arranged... Together with the famous former Auror Alatos Moody (currently the warden of Azkaban Prison), they thwarted a black magic terrorist attack in a Muggle village called Little Hangleton Village.
There, a certain organization of dark magic wizards massacred the entire Muggle village in an organized and premeditated manner.
According to Minister Fudge, these dark wizards are trying to increase the power of these horrible dark magic organizations by killing Muggles and using their corpses and souls... to mass-create some kind of dark monster similar to Inferi.
According to reliable sources, Minister Fudge was receiving a report from the warden Moody at home at the time. As soon as he heard the terrible news, he, Moody, and Auror Kingsley, who was also present, rushed to the Muggle village.
After arduous and dangerous battles, they eliminated some dark wizards and saved some Muggle villagers.
But these poor Muggle villagers have been partially transformed by evil transfiguration,
They've gone crazy.
Under the instructions of Minister Fudge, the Ministry of Magic has sent these poor guys to [St. Mungo's Magical Hospital] for preliminary examination and treatment.
Right now, many Aurors in the Ministry of Magic Auror Office, as well as most of the [Amnestics Team] staff... are dealing with the aftermath of this incident.
And Minister Cornelius Fudge is meeting urgently with the Muggle Prime Minister of Britain to tell him the unfortunate news.
To maximize the cooperation of the Muggle government in this matter.
Let the impact of this matter be reduced to a minimum in Muggle society.
On the other hand, according to our top secret informant in the Ministry of Magic, the third squad of Auror Strikers captured the notorious werewolf wizard Fenrir Greyback not long ago.
Greyback is a man who looks like an ogre.
He is bloodthirsty, cruel,
This guy is famous for... taking revenge on wizarding families who have sinned against him by turning their children into werewolves.
The deputy warden of Azkaban, another werewolf wizard... that's how Remus Lupine became a werewolf.
A reporter from our newspaper once interviewed Lupine specifically about this, and how he felt about Greyback being arrested.
But obviously the werewolf wizard was so excited about this that he couldn't even speak.
In addition, Greyback once led some werewolves to join the Dark Lord's subordinates.
A member of the upper echelon who is still on the run from the Death Eaters.
Perhaps, the reason why the Ministry of Magic arrested him... had something to do with the Dark Magic Mark that once appeared on the Quidditch pitch.
But the Ministry of Magic Aurors have said that due to the Ministry of Magic's secrecy regulations, they can't say much on this matter.
A staff member of the Law Department named Percy Weasley once hinted to the author, 'As for the existence of this matter-the Ministry of Magic cannot admit it, nor can it deny it. '
……
McGuffin read all the papers.
The news in other newspapers is similar to the content in the "Daily Prophet", at most, the emphasis is different.
At most... that is, to report on the Hogwarts Christmas party.
McGuffin and the others stared blankly at each other.
"Such a big matter...they, they actually covered it up!" Hermione didn't understand, and was a little annoyed.
"It's natural! It's not the first time the Ministry of Magic has done this!" McGuffin had already expected that there would be such a result.
And after this incident was published in the newspaper, McGuffin estimated that Voldemort would have guessed that his [Horcruxes] were being destroyed one by one.
McGuffin knew that he had to find a time to confirm whether the ... [Horcrux Crown] placed in the [Room of Requirement] was really safe there.
Not only because Voldemort may transfer the Horcrux again because of fear,
It was also because in Little Hangleton Village, everything caused by [Horcrux Marvologunt's Ring] was far beyond his expectations.
McGuffin has been extremely worried about this since he learned all the truth last night.
He was afraid that this [Horcrux] would cause such a big event at Hogwarts just like last night.
However, due to this Christmas holiday... an unexpected number of students stayed at the school,
So much so that McGuffin couldn't find the opportunity at all, so he sneaked into the [House of Requirement] when he found an opportunity.
(In that corridor, there are always male and female students coming and going 'walking')
So he can only give up this plan for the time being, and wait for the end of the vacation to see the situation.
In the first holiday of the holiday, originally Harry and the others wanted to have a good time,
However, the professors assigned twice as much homework as usual, and the McGuffins had to exercise Harry's ability to cast various spells to prepare for the second 'Top Ten Tournament'.
This leads to a lack of time for several people.
Harry didn't even have time to find out the secret of that golden egg.
Hermione found a clue about the rune on the golden egg in the library,
That is the rune, that is, the rune... It is said to be related to the ancient Norse wizards.
"There is the original birthplace of the ancient druids..."
"Hufflepuffs and Slytherins should be familiar with this... Maybe Cedric Diggory knows something?" Hermione suggested to Harry.
"Yeah, you gave that guy the golden egg...Harry, ask him!" It was rare for Ron and Hermione to reach an agreement on this matter.
But since Harry really doesn't like Cedric at the moment,
Especially when he saw at the Christmas ball... Cho Chang and Cedric, arm in arm, walking up and down.
This made him even more uncomfortable.
So he found an excuse and rejected Hermione's proposal.
"It's still early anyway..." Harry vaguely coped with Ron and Hermione's urging.
However, McGuffin looked at Harry's expression, and it was obvious that Harry was not as relaxed about this matter as he said.
Also because of this incident, Harry was always sulking during the holidays. He often threw the golden eggs around the room indifferently.
Apart from these things, for Harry, there are many other things that bother him.
The small class that Dumbledore specially arranged for him continued during the Christmas holiday.
After 09:30 every night, Harry and Dumbledore will swim in the memory journey in the pensieve.
All memories related to Voldemort.
From Voldemort's childhood, to the confrontation between Dumbledore and Voldemort... to the traces left by Voldemort when he created the [Horcrux]... and the fate of the Gaunt family and the Riddle Muggle family...
One of them is not long ago, that is, on the night of Christmas, Dumbledore and McGuffin's adventure in the reflection of the world.
That world of flesh and blood almost kept Harry awake all night.
He couldn't figure out how McGuffin could be subjected to such a thing.
So many things all piled up together, ... so that the Christmas holidays, Harry barely smelled anything, went by in a flash.
As a result, February 2, the date of the second competition, seemed much closer.
Seeing that the golden eggs of the other warriors had disappeared, as if they had unlocked its secret,
Only then did Harry finally start to get nervous.
(End of this chapter)
"Fuck!"
The McGuffin kicked down hard.
The upper side of the thigh seems to be split,
The burning pain woke him up immediately.
"McGuffin! Wake up!"
"Wake up!"
A familiar voice rang in his ear,
It took a long time for McGuffin to realize that it was Harry's voice.
On the wall of the dormitory... the dimly lit magic lights dazzled him so much that he couldn't keep his eyes open.
He gasped for breath before realizing that he...had come back from that bloody little Hangleton village.
No need to face Dumbledore's old fox's temptation, Moody's suspicion, and Fudge's exasperated yelling.
"What time is it...why isn't the dance over yet?"
McGuffin looked around and found that there were still only the two of them in the dormitory, so he couldn't help asking in surprise.
Harry looked behind him at the mechanical wind-up clock next to Dean's bed, and replied, "It's two o'clock at midnight!"
Harry was a little taken aback by that, too.
McGuffin sat up. He took out a towel from the cabinet next to him and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
This made me feel a lot more comfortable.
"How's the dance?" McGuffin asked Harry in passing.
"Forehead……"
"Bad!" said Harry. "Ron and Hermione had a big fight... over the fact that Krum was Hermione's partner..."
As Harry said, he tentatively asked McGuffin, "You look worse, though! What the hell did Professor Dumbledore send you to...?"
McGuffin closed his eyes and took a deep breath, was silent for a while, and then talked about what they encountered tonight.
—the mutation of the Muggle village; another Voldemort's Horcrux; the mutation of the world's reflection;
Harry couldn't keep his mouth shut in surprise, his eyes widened, "You...you mean, we can use the Unforgivable Curse to kill each other in school, and everyone has [Horcrux]..."
"It's just a nightmare created by Voldemort, don't take it too seriously...he finally had enough of that world..."
After complaining a lot, McGuffin finally felt much better.
Of course, he didn't say that he was in that nightmare... playing Harry, nor did he say that the world was shaped like that...in fact, it was largely influenced by himself.
"Wait, I saw Professor Dumbledore at the ball, not just me... everyone saw it!" Harry suddenly realized something.
"No, that's what Snape turned into via Polyjuice Potion..."
"I said why I haven't seen Snape all night, and Professor Dumbledore's eyes...why is it so weird, it always reminds me of that old bat!" Harry muttered softly.
McGuffin's tone became serious, "Harry, listen... the most important thing about what happened tonight is not the contest between Voldemort and Professor Dumbledore, nor whether [Horcrux] has been eliminated, the most important thing is..."
McGuffin remembered the information about the [Red Pupil of Flesh] ring displayed on the system panel.
The above introduction gave him the biggest shock since he entered Hogwarts.
It was only at this time that he really realized that the plot he was familiar with had begun to disappear forever.
The world of HP will undergo earth-shaking changes in the future.
Moreover, the magic displayed in the reflection of that world by [Horcrux]...is exactly the same as the memory that Dumbledore showed them in the third grade. (In the opera house, the female Muggle automatically awakens to magic).
The same chaos and treachery also changed almost everything around at that time, that kind of power... Even from the perspective of the magical world, it was outrageous to the extreme!
The MacGuffin has figured out...
This world is gradually changing, even...unknowingly, some irreversible great changes have taken place in this world.
And most Muggles and wizards are too blinded by arrogance to know this.
"...What? What's the most important..." Harry's green eyes were full of confusion.
What matters is this change in the world!
——No one knows what the world will be like in the future!
Before McGuffin could say a word, there was a burst of noise and excitement outside, but at the same time it was full of exhausted sounds.
A burst of footsteps, and everyone's noisy voice, came from outside the door.
quickly,
Ron, Dean, and Neville bid farewell to George and Fred, and returned to the dormitory.
"Ha, MacGuffin... are you back?" Ron was not as angry as Harry said.
"Have you seen George's magic fireworks...it's amazing!" He looked very happy instead.
After saying hello, Ron and the others returned to their bed exhausted, put on their pajamas, and got ready for bed.
"Stop staring, Harry, MacGuffin! Go to sleep now? Everyone is really tired tonight..." Thomas urged.
He chanted a spell and extinguished the magic lamp in the dormitory.
McGuffin lay upright on the bed with his eyes open, not feeling sleepy at all.
……
On the second day of Christmas, everyone got up very late.
The Gryffindor common room was much quieter than usual.
Even when someone got up, most of them yawned and chatted in low voices.
In this way, McGuffin told Ron and Hermione about his experience last night, and told them about Voldemort and Horcruxes.
They got up so early because they wanted to see how Dumbledore, Fudge and the others dealt with this matter in today's newspaper.
"Hundreds of lives!" Hermione felt very heavy.
This news temporarily reduced the conflict between Ron and Hermione.
The two of them were very friendly in front of McGuffin, and it could even be said that they were too friendly and polite.
It seems a little unnatural.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the arrival of some owls to interrupt this slightly awkward atmosphere.
They brought the latest "Daily Prophet", "Wizard Weekly", "Gringotts Economics", "Quickerman"... and other newspapers, and flew into the Gryffindor public rest.
He threw the newspaper beside McGuffin and the others.
After paying the owls a few brass Knuts, Harry and the others stooped to pick up the newspaper and returned to their armchairs.
McGuffin unfolded the newspaper and read the content with Ron and the others.
The front page headline on the first page is very conspicuous.
It was an article with a picture of Fudge on it,
He and Moody stood in front of a huge mass of rotting, wriggling flesh, and next to them... were many Ministry of Magic staff, lined up and counting... many inhuman corpses. (There are more corpses wrapped in the pile of meat, half exposed...)
Those bones were piled up in piles, as if they had been half corroded... scattered all over the place, making it impossible for people to look directly at them.
They were slowly pieced together by the magic of the staff.
And these things have some kind of rotten fluff attached to them, like living worms, which look very disgusting.
"Is that what you said? MacGuffin..." Ron lowered his voice, surprised and terrified.
"Shh! Keep watching!" said Harry.
They then looked at the text described below:
……
【Secretary Cornelius Fudge's Major Victory】
Our well-known reporter Rita Skeeter specially reported:
Since the horrific and disgusting Dark Arts attacks on the Ministry of Magic and Quidditch pitches in August, the Honorable Minister Cornelius Fudge has been determined to eradicate the dark wizarding terror group that has entrenched London.
Finally, yesterday (Christmas) night, Minister Fudge personally commanded and personally arranged... Together with the famous former Auror Alatos Moody (currently the warden of Azkaban Prison), they thwarted a black magic terrorist attack in a Muggle village called Little Hangleton Village.
There, a certain organization of dark magic wizards massacred the entire Muggle village in an organized and premeditated manner.
According to Minister Fudge, these dark wizards are trying to increase the power of these horrible dark magic organizations by killing Muggles and using their corpses and souls... to mass-create some kind of dark monster similar to Inferi.
According to reliable sources, Minister Fudge was receiving a report from the warden Moody at home at the time. As soon as he heard the terrible news, he, Moody, and Auror Kingsley, who was also present, rushed to the Muggle village.
After arduous and dangerous battles, they eliminated some dark wizards and saved some Muggle villagers.
But these poor Muggle villagers have been partially transformed by evil transfiguration,
They've gone crazy.
Under the instructions of Minister Fudge, the Ministry of Magic has sent these poor guys to [St. Mungo's Magical Hospital] for preliminary examination and treatment.
Right now, many Aurors in the Ministry of Magic Auror Office, as well as most of the [Amnestics Team] staff... are dealing with the aftermath of this incident.
And Minister Cornelius Fudge is meeting urgently with the Muggle Prime Minister of Britain to tell him the unfortunate news.
To maximize the cooperation of the Muggle government in this matter.
Let the impact of this matter be reduced to a minimum in Muggle society.
On the other hand, according to our top secret informant in the Ministry of Magic, the third squad of Auror Strikers captured the notorious werewolf wizard Fenrir Greyback not long ago.
Greyback is a man who looks like an ogre.
He is bloodthirsty, cruel,
This guy is famous for... taking revenge on wizarding families who have sinned against him by turning their children into werewolves.
The deputy warden of Azkaban, another werewolf wizard... that's how Remus Lupine became a werewolf.
A reporter from our newspaper once interviewed Lupine specifically about this, and how he felt about Greyback being arrested.
But obviously the werewolf wizard was so excited about this that he couldn't even speak.
In addition, Greyback once led some werewolves to join the Dark Lord's subordinates.
A member of the upper echelon who is still on the run from the Death Eaters.
Perhaps, the reason why the Ministry of Magic arrested him... had something to do with the Dark Magic Mark that once appeared on the Quidditch pitch.
But the Ministry of Magic Aurors have said that due to the Ministry of Magic's secrecy regulations, they can't say much on this matter.
A staff member of the Law Department named Percy Weasley once hinted to the author, 'As for the existence of this matter-the Ministry of Magic cannot admit it, nor can it deny it. '
……
McGuffin read all the papers.
The news in other newspapers is similar to the content in the "Daily Prophet", at most, the emphasis is different.
At most... that is, to report on the Hogwarts Christmas party.
McGuffin and the others stared blankly at each other.
"Such a big matter...they, they actually covered it up!" Hermione didn't understand, and was a little annoyed.
"It's natural! It's not the first time the Ministry of Magic has done this!" McGuffin had already expected that there would be such a result.
And after this incident was published in the newspaper, McGuffin estimated that Voldemort would have guessed that his [Horcruxes] were being destroyed one by one.
McGuffin knew that he had to find a time to confirm whether the ... [Horcrux Crown] placed in the [Room of Requirement] was really safe there.
Not only because Voldemort may transfer the Horcrux again because of fear,
It was also because in Little Hangleton Village, everything caused by [Horcrux Marvologunt's Ring] was far beyond his expectations.
McGuffin has been extremely worried about this since he learned all the truth last night.
He was afraid that this [Horcrux] would cause such a big event at Hogwarts just like last night.
However, due to this Christmas holiday... an unexpected number of students stayed at the school,
So much so that McGuffin couldn't find the opportunity at all, so he sneaked into the [House of Requirement] when he found an opportunity.
(In that corridor, there are always male and female students coming and going 'walking')
So he can only give up this plan for the time being, and wait for the end of the vacation to see the situation.
In the first holiday of the holiday, originally Harry and the others wanted to have a good time,
However, the professors assigned twice as much homework as usual, and the McGuffins had to exercise Harry's ability to cast various spells to prepare for the second 'Top Ten Tournament'.
This leads to a lack of time for several people.
Harry didn't even have time to find out the secret of that golden egg.
Hermione found a clue about the rune on the golden egg in the library,
That is the rune, that is, the rune... It is said to be related to the ancient Norse wizards.
"There is the original birthplace of the ancient druids..."
"Hufflepuffs and Slytherins should be familiar with this... Maybe Cedric Diggory knows something?" Hermione suggested to Harry.
"Yeah, you gave that guy the golden egg...Harry, ask him!" It was rare for Ron and Hermione to reach an agreement on this matter.
But since Harry really doesn't like Cedric at the moment,
Especially when he saw at the Christmas ball... Cho Chang and Cedric, arm in arm, walking up and down.
This made him even more uncomfortable.
So he found an excuse and rejected Hermione's proposal.
"It's still early anyway..." Harry vaguely coped with Ron and Hermione's urging.
However, McGuffin looked at Harry's expression, and it was obvious that Harry was not as relaxed about this matter as he said.
Also because of this incident, Harry was always sulking during the holidays. He often threw the golden eggs around the room indifferently.
Apart from these things, for Harry, there are many other things that bother him.
The small class that Dumbledore specially arranged for him continued during the Christmas holiday.
After 09:30 every night, Harry and Dumbledore will swim in the memory journey in the pensieve.
All memories related to Voldemort.
From Voldemort's childhood, to the confrontation between Dumbledore and Voldemort... to the traces left by Voldemort when he created the [Horcrux]... and the fate of the Gaunt family and the Riddle Muggle family...
One of them is not long ago, that is, on the night of Christmas, Dumbledore and McGuffin's adventure in the reflection of the world.
That world of flesh and blood almost kept Harry awake all night.
He couldn't figure out how McGuffin could be subjected to such a thing.
So many things all piled up together, ... so that the Christmas holidays, Harry barely smelled anything, went by in a flash.
As a result, February 2, the date of the second competition, seemed much closer.
Seeing that the golden eggs of the other warriors had disappeared, as if they had unlocked its secret,
Only then did Harry finally start to get nervous.
(End of this chapter)
