#495 - Inspire the power of starlight and annihilate high-level pollutants! (5K)

Harry came to the door of the Great Hall and hesitated to go in.

Just as he was thinking of some way to sneak in, he suddenly heard a faint shout: "Harry, Harry!"

Harry turned around and saw that it was Hermione.

He couldn't help but be stunned. What was Hermione doing here?

"Harry, Harry..." Hermione couldn't see Harry, but she had a hunch that he was nearby, so she kept calling out.

Harry frowned, not knowing what to do, when suddenly he heard hurried footsteps at the end of the corridor.

The people haven't been seen yet, but through the dark silhouettes cast by the moonlight on the windows, three people can be seen coming here.

Harry panicked and quickly ran to Hermione and pulled her to another corner.

The invisibility cloak was lifted like quicksilver, revealing Harry's appearance. He asked anxiously, "Why are you here?"

Hermione answered truthfully: "After you woke up in the infirmary this afternoon, I felt that you looked a little strange, so I used the Marauder's Map to observe you.

Noticed you disappeared into the common room, I figured you'd come over to the Great Hall, so I'll try my luck."

Harry was speechless, and lowered his voice and said, "Hermione, I know my limits in this matter, you should go back quickly."

Hermione shook her head, like a prim old scholar, and said seriously, "No, I want to go into the Great Hall, too."

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Harry put the Invisibility Cloak on Hermione in a hurry.

The two hid in the corner and moved quietly out, and saw Lin Xia, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout stopped in front of the door of the auditorium.

McGonagall: "The situation is urgent. We have observed that the evil whispering in the Death Eater has reached the level of a high-level polluter. I'm afraid he will lose consciousness soon."

Sprout: "The school has prepared several plans. Because we are in school, there are many senior wizards, and we can gather the power of senior wizards to eliminate the danger.

But doing so would be too time-consuming and resource-intensive, and would cause unnecessary trouble, so we don’t want to reveal the identity of this Death Eater.”

McGonagall: "The safest way is to poison the Death Eater with the Black Potion, but I asked Draco and he said he didn't have any on hand. In the end we decided to use the magic rune array to eliminate him. Before that, we can collect some of the black bugs in his body."

With a bang, the door of the auditorium was pushed open.

Lin Xia looked inside and was stunned. The auditorium had taken on a completely different look.

The dining tables, podiums, chairs, etc. where students ate were all cleared out, leaving the place empty.

The dome in the middle is empty, and one can directly see the night outside. Starlight hangs on the ground, and thousands of candlesticks floating in the air suddenly light up, covering the dim auditorium with an eerie blue.

Yes, the light of these candles is not the usual orange light, but a faint blue light.

Lin Xia saw the faint blue flames reflected on the glazed windows around her, which shattered into pieces of starlight under the refraction of the glazed glass, as if the Milky Way outside the window was being crushed.

On the field, more than a dozen professors heard the noise and turned to look over.

Under the gaze of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, Lin Xia nodded at them without changing her expression.

Dean Sprout said, "People are here. Please stand aside. We are going to collect black bugs now."

She looked serious for the first time. “Remember, don’t make any noise to disturb us. If you hadn’t asked to watch, I would have kicked you out.”

Even Professor Snape, who always loved to find fault, did not say a word at this time and followed the other professors to retreat to the corner.

Lin Xia's eyes flashed slightly. The positions of these professors just formed a circle around them, wrapping them up.

When the professor moved away, she finally saw the Death Eaters blocked behind them and couldn't help but frown.

The most undesirable situation happened.

Just now, McGonagall and Sprout hurriedly brought her here. McGonagall said that she didn't want too many professors to know the identity of the Death Eaters, so she decided to use the magic array to eliminate them.

The person lying on the ground was Fina Owen, one of the professors at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.

The reason why she remembered this professor was that Beauxbatons Academy of Magic had sent Professor Fina to participate in the Most Promising Newcomer Award competition held by Today's Transfiguration.

Professor Fina obviously knew Professor McGonagall and had been chatting with her. Professor Fina even went out of her way to say a few words of encouragement to her.

I didn't expect that he was disguised by a Death Eater. As for Professor Fina herself...

Lin Xia sighed slightly in her heart, fearing that it might be a bad thing.

Dean Sprout's voice rang out from beside his ear: "Anesthesia has limited effect. We should perform an autopsy as soon as possible before her body completely turns into a high-level contamination body. Once it turns into a high-level contamination body, anesthesia will be basically ineffective."

Lin Xia looked at the face that looked exactly like Fina Owen, was silent for a while, and said, "Can we remove his polyjuice potion first?"

Professor McGonagall's voice was filled with sadness: "No, the effects of the potion cannot be changed after it is taken."

Lin Xia mourned for Professor Fina in her heart for a few seconds, took out a scalpel from the ring, and followed the professor's movements.

On the other side, the professors surrounding them were also casting spells, with golden, silver and white spell lights flashing from time to time.

Harry and Hermione were far away and didn't hear the spells the professor chanted, but they could roughly guess that they were all defensive magic.

They simply stayed far away as they were not within the effective range of the magic, otherwise they were not sure whether they would be discovered by the professor.

Even at this moment, seeing the magic constantly being shot out, the two were terrified, and Harry secretly prayed that the power of the invisibility cloak could take precedence over these magics.

Hermione quietly cast a spell under the invisibility cloak, casting a magic that could block out the sound, and the two dared to communicate in a low voice.

Harry: "From what Professor McGonagall said, the identity of the person disguised as a Death Eater is sensitive, so they don't want more professors in the school to know. Do you know who that person is?"

Hermione shook her head, "I don't know. I don't know much about scholars from the outside world."

"But," she paused, "Harry, even in Hololotz, we don't know all the professors. Among the dozen or so professors surrounding Lin Xia and the others, five of them are strangers."

Harry followed her gaze and his expression was also solemn.

He knew the strange professors even less than Hermione did.

Hermione murmured, "That's not right. Logically, I know every professor. I took all their classes..."

Harry: "Took all of their classes?"

Hermione came back to her senses and shook her head: "It doesn't matter. Hogwarts is too big. Maybe there are some professors who haven't appeared yet in secret."

She looked at the scholar lying on the ground and answered Harry's previous question: "Although I don't know who this scholar is, but seeing that she is wearing a silk wizard robe, the color is a rare light blue, I have a guess."

Hermione narrowed her eyes slightly: "I need to get closer and take a closer look at the emblem on the wizard robe."

Hermione took a few steps forward on purpose, and Harry followed closely.

Soon, Hermione said, "Now I am very sure that this scholar is from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic."

Harry: "Beauxbatons? It sounds familiar to me."

Hermione: “Of course you are familiar with it, because this school is one of the three major magic schools in Europe and often hosts many large-scale competitions internationally.

I suspect that this school has placed advertising campaigns in both the Sing Sing and the Daily Prophet; I saw this school appear eight times out of ten newspapers, and although they were only fleeting, they were also very eye-catching.

In my first year, I was very much attracted to this academy because Beauxbatons is more inclined towards aristocratic education, and the curriculum includes many advanced beauty spells, magical perfume blending and other courses, and there is no girl who doesn't like these. "

Harry glanced at Hermione. She had thick, shaggy brown curly hair, two big front teeth, a thin figure, and a face that still showed the fatigue of overwork.

As the "smartest witch in the grade" besides Lin Xia, he didn't expect Hermione to have such a girly side.

"Why are you so sure?" Harry asked.

Hermione: "Light blue symbolizes the sky and freedom. Beauxbatons' school uniforms are all made of silk, but that's not the most important thing.

What's important is the emblem on her chest, which has two crossed golden wands with three stars, symbolizing wisdom, elegance and magical creativity. This is the symbol of Beauxbatons."

She thought for a moment and said, "The one who questioned Lin Xia before was a professor from Durmstrang, so this scholar should also be a professor from Beauxbatons."

While the two were talking, Dean Sprout had already taken out the scalpel and began the dissection.

hiss--

Harry and Hermione both gasped. They had never expected that Professor Sprout, who had been taking care of the plants in the botanical garden, would have such a violent side.

That's a person!

But then, Lin Xia also joined the dissection. She put on special glasses that allowed her to observe the tiny black bugs.

Dean Sprout collected the bugs and handed them over to Lin Xia for packaging.

The dean found that using the wax from glow candles for packaging had the lowest cost, so she abandoned her packaging method.

In addition, using candle wax to encapsulate the black bugs and force them into a drop of flowing liquid will also facilitate future experiments.

The atmosphere at the scene was solemn and murderous.

Harry noticed that the professors all had serious faces and their hands were tightly holding their wands, as if a fight would break out at any time.

As time passed, sweat began to seep out of Harry and Hermione's foreheads. Infected by the atmosphere, they dared not even breathe, let alone act rashly.

After an unknown amount of time, Professor Sprout suddenly spoke up: "His body is beginning to change. Lin Xia, we have to speed up."

Lin Xia nodded and waved her wand lightly, causing all the black bugs collected by the dean to float in the air, and then each one fell into the reagent.

At the same time, dozens of glowing candles that had been suspended in the air for a long time bent their heads as Lin Xia lightly tapped her magic wand, and dripped the liquid candle wax into the reagent.

Even Harry and Hermione, two laymen, could see with their own eyes that the black bugs floating in the air were getting bigger and bigger.

I couldn’t see anything at first, but now it has become as small as a sesame seed.

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Hermione murmured: "Is this the mutation?"

Harry: "Didn't the professor say before that the concentration of evil whispers in the Death Eaters is very high, reaching the standard of high-level contamination, but it has not mutated yet, so we need to dissect it as soon as possible to collect useful materials."

Hermione was a little worried: "I'm worried that something might happen."

As soon as the words fell, the situation on the field suddenly changed.

The black insects that were originally collected quietly twisted like living things. Even after leaving the host's body, they were still swinging in the air, as if they were searching for something.

"They want to find a new host to parasitize, everyone needs to be careful!" Sprout said quickly.

She took out a berry, squeezed out half of the juice and smeared it on her neck and face. Wherever she applied it was immediately dyed purple.

She gave the other half of the berry to Lin Xia, and Lin Xia followed her example and applied the berries.

“This is a powerful insect repellent fruit. As long as you have this fruit, even if you enter the most dangerous magical forest, the dragon will not be interested in you.

The berry emits an odor that is perceived by creatures with a keen sense of smell as being extremely foul, but humans and lower creatures in nature cannot discern this odor.

Sprout emphasized: "I have done experiments before. This fruit is also effective against black bugs, but the effect lasts only for a short time, only half an hour at most. We have to finish collecting within half an hour."

Lin Xia responded calmly.

Previously, I collected black bugs from the body of the Honeydukes store manager in the prison cage. Those bugs were very tiny and could only be seen through special glasses.

But at that time, the store manager was already a high-level polluted body, but fortunately he still retained a bit of sanity as a human being, so he was relatively calm and did not go crazy like other high-level polluted bodies.

But the situation is different now. She witnessed with her own eyes the transformation of the bugs in the Death Eaters' bodies. They gradually increased from the level of ordinary people and became stronger step by step, from low level to intermediate level, and then from intermediate level to advanced level.

The black worms in the Death Eaters' bodies also continued to change during this process. The worms became larger and larger, and the Death Eaters' human forms continued to distort and alienate.

Although the black bugs grew larger, the wax from the glowing candles could still seal them.

But when these black bugs are forced into a drop of liquid, it can be clearly seen that the liquid is larger than ordinary liquid and the color is also different.

In the past, the color of the liquid was a very pure black, which made people feel disgusted and nauseous at the first sight, but these insects in special periods are bluish-black.

Although the color has changed slightly, it still feels dirty, disgusting, and irritating.

Lin Xia's eyes flickered slightly, yes, with a hint of irritability.

She looked at the Death Eater lying on the ground. The Polyjuice Potion had finally lost its effect due to the black bugs causing the host to become alienated, and it had transformed into its true appearance.

He was a thin man with deep eye sockets, sparse hair and extremely pale skin. He seemed to have lived in a dark place for many years.

The human appearance only lasted for a few seconds. After Sprout recorded it with the crystal ball, his body was covered with bubbles like boiling water.

The human skin was deformed again. Dean Sprout increased the collection speed. Lin Xia's magic wand kept rising and falling, repeating the work.

Suddenly, at some point, the Death Eater opened his eyes. His eyes had turned pure black, and the whites of his eyes had completely disappeared.

Sprout pulled Lin Xia and immediately took a few steps back.

The next second, the Death Eater stood up, dragging his dismembered limbs and stomach, and roared at the two of them.

“Expecto Patronus!!”

All the professors on the field used the Patronus Charm at the same time, forming an indestructible silver-white shield in front of Lin Xia and Sprout.

Just a gust of air was released, and the Death Eater was knocked away by the powerful impact.

The dean pulled Lin Xia and ran back to the back of the group of professors. Sprout told Lin Xia, "Just stand here and don't run around."

Lin Xia nodded, and took the opportunity to wave her hand to collect all the potions floating in the air.

Harry was staying well, but Hermione suddenly moved, and Harry asked, "Where are you going?"

Hermione: "Let's go find Lin Xia. Lin Xia is in the safest place."

Harry asked anxiously: "No, Lin Xia is often watched by the professor and it's easy to be exposed!"

Hermione was firm: "The most dangerous place is the safest place. The Death Eaters have turned into high-level contaminated bodies. We have no means of defense. We may be infected if we are hit by even the slightest aftermath of the Death Eaters' attacks. But Lin Xia is the only one who won't be infected!"

Harry couldn't resist Hermione and moved with her.

There are more than a dozen high-level wizards on the field, which is more than enough to destroy a high-level infected body, especially a high-level infected body that has been rid of many black bugs (blocking the transmission of many evil gods' powers).

However, due to the battles between high-level wizards, very strong magical fluctuations will be emitted, which will also cause damage to the terrain.

They were in the school auditorium, which no one wanted to destroy.

Therefore, we still followed the original plan and used the attack magic array to completely kill the high-level contaminants.

While the Patronus Charm was blocking high-level pollutants, the floor tiles of the auditorium also changed silently.

Lin Xia discovered that a silvery-white liquid was flowing out from the cracks in the floor tiles, and the smell was like——

Mithril!

Her eyelids jumped. One of the most important carriers for constructing magic arrays is mithril. Everyone will use mithril liquid specially prepared from mithril to draw magic arrays, which is very effective in transmitting magic power.

As more and more mithril flowed out of the floor tiles, the floor tiles also changed, becoming uneven, and with the flow of mithril, a large magic rune pattern was formed in a short while.

The mithril flowed very quickly, and when all the mithril was combined together, the pattern on the floor tiles was completely formed at this moment.

Lin Xia finally understood. No wonder she didn't see any magic array arrangement when she entered the auditorium. It turned out that there was a giant magic array on the floor tiles of the auditorium, but it was not normally visible.

The sane high-level pollutant did not notice that it was being forced step by step into the magic array constructed by the floor tiles by the Patronus Spell.

Then, the magic rune formation flashed slightly, and the starlight falling through the dome seemed to become substantial, pouring into the magic rune formation like the Milky Way.

A huge wave of magical energy swept over!

Lin Xia looked deeply at the scene in front of him. Under the endless starlight, the high-level pollutant body was quickly crushed and struggled constantly, but was eventually crushed by the boundless starlight!

After an unknown amount of time, the starlight slowly disappeared and the auditorium returned to its former tranquility.

The floor became flat again, the magic array seen before was no longer there, and everything was quiet, as if nothing had happened.

Lin Xia looked up and saw that the high-level pollutant had been reduced to ashes.

Suddenly, her ears twitched and she heard a conversation coming from beside her.

"What kind of magic array is this? It's so beautiful and powerful!"

"They should be using the power of starlight to fight. I suspect that the Great Hall of Hogwarts has always been storing energy for the magic rune array. I just don't know how they store the power of starlight."

"Has the high-level contaminant been completely eliminated? Nothing is left?"

"Complete destruction is the best option. If something is left behind, it may not be usable."

Lin Xia:?

Was she hallucinating?

How did she hear Harry and Hermione's voices here? (End of this chapter)