Chapter 238 Stay or Go
"Ron!" Harry's voice shouted.
His feet were fast and he was about to rush in front of Ron, but there was someone faster than him.
Sirius pointed his wand, and a beam of white light hit the sword light formed by the black smoke. With a buzzing sound, the black mist broke away, and the white light scattered into light spots all over the ground.
Ron was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, and his face, which had not recovered from the poisoning, became even paler.
Sirius just glanced at him and immediately turned his wand, but Boguna stepped back and smiled:
"You can't protect everyone."
"I said so."
Sirius stared at him and said gloomily: "If I kill you, they will be safe."
He shook his wand suddenly, and a ball of light shot out like a cannonball, as if it was carrying surging power.
But Boguna just looked on with a smile, chanting something in his mouth, and a wave of transparency bloomed all over his body.
His figure slowly disappeared, as if erased by an eraser, and in an instant only half of his face was still smiling.
"Then I hope you can do it."
"I'm looking forward to it."
The light ball passed through the face opposite him, as if it had hit a phantom. The next moment, the light ball hit the wall. There was only a bang, a white smoke ring rippled out, and balls of fire suddenly rose into the sky.
Sirius's face was flushed red by the flames, but it looked even more ugly.
He stopped in front of the three Harrys, blocking the gravel and the heat waves that hit his face, and scanned the surroundings.
He said to Harry in a deep voice: "Harry, I can only take one person away..."
Hermione glanced at Ron and could see Ron's face stiffen after hearing the news.
Her heart also sank.
Previously in the attic, she knew that this strange wizard's invisibility spell seemed a little different, and that even Sirius might not be able to break it. Now it became a prophecy.
She could barely tell that although Sirius had been in prison for many years and couldn't even touch the wand, his strength should not be weak.
If the two were face to face, the strange wizard might not be able to deal with Sirius, which can be seen from the fact that he chose to use this invisibility spell to avoid a head-on conflict.
What makes the situation even worse is the three of them, three burdens.
Even if one person is missing, Sirius may be able to face this situation more easily...
Harry and Ron were supporting each other, and they were startled when they heard this.
He looked at Ron and Hermione and said with almost no hesitation: "Take them away."
Sirius' tone was not very good. He and Harry looked at each other, then turned their heads to look around, and said:
"James entrusted you to me, and you have considered me your godfather since you were a child, so I can only take you away alone."
"Understand?"
All Harry could hear in his mind was 'I can only take you away alone'. He stared at Sirius for a long time, seeming to be thinking about something.
His expression changed several times, and finally he spoke, he said sincerely:
"Sirius, although I don't know what kind of relationship you have with my father and why you are so nice to me, you have helped me many times tonight, and I am already very grateful."
"You can leave on your own. My friends stay here and I can't leave."
"You...!" Sirius choked up in anger.
Ron looked around uneasily, his face still pale, but he spoke:
"Harry, just follow him."
Harry shook his head and said, "It was one person's idea to come out to find someone, and I was the one who caused the trouble. You and Hermione were not wrong."
"If I leave, how can I sleep peacefully in the future?"
"Harry." Hermione's mind was racing with thoughts, but she still couldn't think of any way to remedy it. She thought over and over again, then gritted her teeth and said to Harry:
"You should listen to Sirius's advice. If you can save one of them from death, do you really want all of us to die here in vain?"
Harry shook his head and said nothing, but his attitude was firm.
Hermione added: "You and Sirius can run out now and ask for help from the professor. If there is even a professor here, he might be able to rescue both of us."
But Harry looked at her and still just shook his head: "Hermione, you don't have to persuade me."
"This man does things unscrupulously. By the time I find the professor and come back, you two may have been killed long ago."
Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Hermione turned to look at Ron helplessly and said:
"Didn't I ask you to stay in the dormitory to recuperate? Madam Pomfrey said so too. Why did you dare to run out?"
"You said these days that you didn't want to lie on that hospital bed again, and then you ran out and took risks with us tonight?"
Ron looked at her sharp eyes and scratched his hair in embarrassment. Even the fear on his pale face faded a little.
He said: "I think it's very late. You guys haven't come back yet. Something must have happened."
"So I ran out to look for you, and by chance I saw something moving here..."
"I really didn't mean it."
Several people fell silent.
On the observatory, only the dim light shines through the windows, and there is deathly silence all around.
In the darkness, a black smoke suddenly appeared in mid-air, turning into a sharp knife light and hitting Sirius' Iron Armor Curse again.
After repeated resistance, the Iron Armor Curse had long been shattered. At this moment, it finally shattered together with the black smoke in the sputtering firelight.
Sirius' face was as gloomy as water, and he raised his wand again. He stared at the empty place in front of him and said:
"Boguna, what on earth are you going to do?"
"How about we come out and talk?"
Boguna's voice came from the corner, and his voice was cold and cold:
"Of course we can talk."
"Sirius, I don't think you can take your friend's child with you."
"How about I give you another choice?"
Little Sirius looked towards the corner and said:
"Tell me about it."
Boguna's voice changed direction: "How about killing Meka Anders, bringing his body intact to me, and I let everyone here go?"
"You said that you and Meka Anders are friends, so to kill him, all you need to do is stab him in the back."
"It's very simple."
Sirius' face was gloomy and uncertain.
When he was about to speak, Harry, Hermione, and Ron looked at him suddenly, their voices were uneven, but their tone was almost the same, and they all sounded a little anxious:
"no!"
Harry took a deep breath and said to Sirius:
"Sirius, he's one of my best friends too."
"It would be more uncomfortable for you to kill him to save me than to kill me directly."
Hermione and Ron also looked at Sirius with worried expressions.
The two of them were also worried that Sirius had really chosen to kill Meka and save a few of them.
Trade your best friend for your life? There may be a few such cruel characters in Hogwarts, but it will never be them.
Sirius looked at their eyes, raised his head and said:
"I won't do it."
Harry and the three of them were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect Sirius to have such a positive tone, which seemed to come from his own heart.
Boguna said "oh" and said in surprise:
"Why? Isn't this a good idea?"
"At the cost of the life of an ordinary friend, you can save the child of your best friend who is still alive. This should be worth it."
Sirius stared at the source of the sound and said:
"It's a pity that he is not an ordinary friend."
"Why don't you try another one? Why does Anders have to die alone?"
"Because he has a grudge against me, because he hinders me from living..." Boguna's voice came faintly again, this time making people confused:
"You two are not willing to let him die. It seems that the relationship is really good."
"Then if I threaten him with your lives, the effect should be about the same."
Sirius was startled for a moment, then suddenly laughed out loud:
"You want to threaten him into submission?"
"He's just a child. Don't you even have the courage to confront him?"
Boguna's voice said: "Don't provoke me, Sirius..."
His voice seemed to come from all directions, causing Sirius to frown and look around quickly.
The next moment, a black smoke suddenly appeared in the darkness, extremely cunning, and suddenly shot from behind several people towards the back of Harry's head.
Harry felt a chill at the back of his head. Before he could react, Sirius pounced him away.
With a pop, blood splattered from Sirius's right ear, and half of the entire ear was cut off, crumbling.
"Sirius..." Harry stared at his right ear, a little distracted.
Obviously he could leave safely alone, but now he almost lost his entire ear in order to save himself.
Sirius glanced at him, then looked back into the darkness, seemingly unaware of the pain.
He said in a deep voice: "Thunderbolt explosion..."
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other side.
The bat transformed by Meka Anders was hovering high in the air, looking directly at the top floor of the Ravenclaw Tower below, where the Ravenclaw dormitory was located.
He saw dementors swarming into every window, causing a raging cold wave like crazy, even the outer walls of the tower froze.
Through several of the closed windows, he saw familiar and identical faces showing panic, and he couldn't help but be startled:
"A bunch of Sirius?"
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