Chapter 421 Shrinking Wade
Harry sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace all afternoon, staring at the fire in a daze, and Michael next to him was the same, not even interested in saying a word.
They wanted to do something, but the adults strictly forbade them to leave the room. Lupin had not returned yet, and a strange young witch Tonks acted as their "guard".
"Hey, I say you, cheer up, okay?" Tonks tried to liven up the atmosphere: "Look at me--"
She turned her nose into a pink pig nose and made a purring sound, but the two children in front of the fireplace didn't even give her a glance.
"This is the first time my trick has failed!"
Tonks was very discouraged and raised her voice and said: "Think about it in a positive way. The child was kidnapped instead of killed, which means that the other party must need him alive. You have to believe in the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic, we will definitely rescue him!"
This time, Michael finally glanced over.
"Have the three guys who escaped from prison been caught?"
Tonks: "..."
"Have you found Momoran?" Michael asked again.
Tonks: "Uh..."
"I heard that Dementors suddenly attacked passers-by in Diagon Alley yesterday. Did you give any explanation?"
Tonks was about to cry. She felt that these pots were not all her responsibility, but they kept hitting her, almost making her kneel on the ground.
Michael sighed deeply and buried his face in his palms in frustration. The scene of everyone going out in the morning flashed through his mind again and again.
He actually found out... He found that Wade was not in a good mood and looked very tired, but thinking that everyone went shopping and couldn't leave Wade alone, he didn't ask him to stay at home.
If he told his discovery at that time... If he forced Wade to rest at home... Would it be possible to avoid the accident?
The red flames of the fireplace suddenly turned green. Several people turned their heads at the same time. Tonks nervously pulled out her wand and blocked the two children behind her.
Then, they heard a young voice: "Ouch! What are you doing here? There's no need for so many people!"
"Fred, you stepped on my foot!"
"Sorry, Ginny, but I'm George!"
A group of red-haired people seemed to have no order, and they squeezed out of the fireplace. Ron was directly pressed at the bottom, and Ginny was pushed to the sofa by her brother's knee, and fell to her knees.
Not to mention Fred and George, they were tripped by their younger brothers and sisters, fell one after another, and were covered with coal dust.
Following closely was Mr. Arthur Weasley, who barely maintained the decency of an adult, stumbling out of the fire, muttering:
"You bastards, wait for your scolding!"
"Mr. Weasley!" Harry poked his head out from behind Tonks in surprise and said, "And Ron, Ginny, George, Fred! Why are you here?"
"Oh, long time no see, Harry, and this one, is it Michael?" Arthur Weasley patted the dust off his body and said, "We are here to pick you up, kid."
"--Pick us up?"
Harry was puzzled, and Michael frowned immediately.
"I heard that Wade is missing, what's going on?" Fred asked while pulling his sister up.
Ginny blushed and hid behind her brother, wishing that her sense of existence was infinitely close to zero.
George asked, "Let's see if we can help... The more people we find, the better, right?"
"Are you okay, Harry?" Ron looked at him with concern, as if he were a fragile porcelain: "I guess you're feeling very uncomfortable now..."
"What happened?" Fred pushed his brother away and asked.
A mess of voices rang around him, and Harry opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, feeling as if his throat was filled with sand.
How could he say this - he lost his friend carelessly?
Fortunately, the question didn't need to be answered, because before Harry opened his mouth, the door was suddenly pushed open, and the cold wind outside, wrapped in fine snowflakes, rushed in instantly.
Dumbledore stood at the door, his expression was very terrible, and his silver-white hair and shoulders were covered with thin snowflakes.
The old man's body seemed to contain countless rages that were about to burst out, and he instantly suppressed everyone, and the messy voices disappeared immediately.
Dumbledore's anger was not directed at the people in the house. He restrained his expression, glanced around, nodded at them, waved his wand, and shot out a silver-white Patronus instantly.
After a while, there were "bang bang bang" explosions like firecrackers in the yard, and several wizards appeared in the apparition, walked quickly into the living room, and pulled down their hoods.
Harry saw Lupin with a pale face, Sirius whom he had not seen for a long time, Auror Kingsley who had tried to take Sirius away, and two other wizards he did not know.
A scary-looking wizard with two different-colored eyes saw them and frowned and said, "Why are there so many children?"
Kingsley said in a steady tone, "Because the missing one is also a child, Moody - these are probably his friends at school."
Alastor Moody said, "Tsk, I think most of them are from the Weasley family... Arthur, take them home quickly! This is not suitable for children to participate in!"
"Ved is our friend!" George said angrily, "and our magic level is not bad, don't underestimate us! We can help!"
"The only thing you can do is not to cause trouble for our rescue operation!" Moody said coldly.
"We are also involved!" Michael said as calmly as possible, his voice still trembling slightly: "Ved... When Ved disappeared, we were there, maybe we can provide some clues!"
Moody's blue magic eye turned around and suddenly stared at Michael. He asked in a rough voice: "Oh... Did you find any clues, sir?"
Michael gritted his teeth and couldn't speak.
"This matter is entirely my fault." Lupin suddenly said: "I took them out, but I... I was too careless and didn't notice it in time..."
"At this point, it's useless to investigate who is responsible. The most important thing is to find Ved as soon as possible."
Dumbledore said, he still looked very calm, as if the extremely angry scene that Harry and others saw before was an illusion.
Even though Harry was in a very bad mood, he couldn't help but feel a little confused at this moment - since Dumbledore's anger was not directed at Lupin, then who was he so angry about?
Just as he was thinking this, he saw the headmaster looking over: "Harry, Michael, this place may no longer be safe. You need to stay at the Weasleys' house temporarily. Arthur, take the children away."
"Okay, Dumbledore." Arthur Weasley said hurriedly.
"We want to stay!"
"I can help!"
"We are not children anymore!"
Everyone started to shout, and some adult wizards frowned, showing an expression of annoyance at seeing naughty children.
"I know." Dumbledore seemed very calm. He said: "When I need help, I will also ask for your help. But now, we need to race against time to deal with this matter. I hope you can cooperate with the arrangement, okay?"
The headmaster's voice seemed to have a kind of magic, calming down the impetuous, worried, and indignant people.
His tone was gentle, but his attitude was unquestionable. Harry felt that if they continued to argue, wouldn't it be more obvious that it was right not to let them participate?
Michael clenched his fists and stood up first: "Let's go, Harry. They are right. We can't cause trouble at this time."
Arthur Weasley breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to sprinkle the Floo powder into the fireplace. At the same time, he said to Michael: "-The Burrow, children, this is your destination."
The green flame took the children away one by one, and the room suddenly fell into silence.
"Tell me what happened, Remus." Dumbledore said.
"Yes." Lupin said in a low voice: "This morning, I accompanied them to the Muggle supermarket to buy Christmas gifts..."
Transportation methods, routes, addresses and times, the situation around before and after Wade disappeared...
Lupin tried to explain everything as quickly as possible.
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"The Muggle supermarket heard that a child was missing, and they also provided some help. Fortunately, the supermarket we went to had just installed surveillance cameras recently..."
"Surveillance cameras?" Sirius asked in confusion: "What are those?"
"Muggle stream mirrors can record images." Tonks answered him enthusiastically.
Lupin paused, and when he saw that no one continued to ask questions, he said: "We looked at the surveillance footage and found that an old man was very suspicious."
He thought about how to describe it, and felt that the other party's appearance, height and other characteristics might not be credible, so he heard Dumbledore say:
"Let me see your memory."
The old man pointed his finger at the table, and an old stone basin immediately appeared.
He said: "I brought a meditation basin."
Lupin did not hesitate, and inserted the tip of the wand into the hair on his temples, pointing to his temple.
A moment later, he pulled out the wand, and the tip of the wand was connected to a few strands of silver-white silk-like substances, which were as ethereal as fluffy clouds.
Lupin put his memory into the Pensieve, and Dumbledore used his wand to poke it twice. A miniature supermarket scene suddenly appeared above the Pensieve. Wade was pushing a cart to select goods, and a bald old man approached him naturally...
Dumbledore's face turned completely cold.
...
Wade suddenly heard a strange sound of wind in his sleep. He opened his eyes in a daze, and when he saw the object in front of him clearly, his heartbeat almost stopped instantly-
A monster with a head as big as a house looked down at him, and then stretched out a huge tongue like a bed sheet to lick him. The white barbs on it were like a forest of javelins, trembling and stabbing at him.
Wade's hair stood on end, and he jumped up with a carp, pulled out his wand and chopped it hard!
The tip of the wand flashed a string of sparks. Although it had no lethality, the monster was startled, and it cried "meow", jumped dozens of meters high, and rushed out in an instant.
Wade looked at his wand in shock, then at the "monster" that jumped out, and then he realized that it was just a cat with long fur.
He always used the amplification spell to challenge the nerves of others. Now someone used this trick on him?
No...
Wade suddenly remembered the height of the cat's jump, and after a moment of silence, he slowly raised his head.
The ceiling seemed high and far away, far beyond his impression of how high it should be, and the chandelier was also breathtakingly large.
Then he looked at the environment he was in--
He had thought that the floor under his feet was white, but it was actually white silk fabric, with the crisscrossing lines of the fibers clearly visible.
A real 800-square-meter bed.
A rabbit-sized spotted beetle crawled by, its yellow-brown shell gleaming, and its feather-like antennae swayed twice, as if it was greeting in a friendly manner, or as if it was evaluating whether the strange creature in front of it could be eaten.
Wade finally realized that it was not someone who was teasing him with the magnification spell, but that he himself had been made smaller.
——It doesn't matter, Professor Snape had just talked about the shrinking potion last semester, and Wade had both this potion and the corresponding antidote in stock...
He reached for his pocket, and then his movements froze.
——By the way, he didn't bring the wardrobe space when he went out this time.
But this might be a good thing... Although there is no way to solve the current dilemma immediately, if the wardrobe space is really brought, perhaps the magic item that took countless efforts to make will no longer belong to him.
Wade quickly calmed himself down, waved his wand lightly, and looked for other ways.
As expected... This place really cast an anti-apparition spell, and the enemy was not as careless as he thought...
A large-scale repellent spell and shielding spell... Now even owls can't find him, and it is impossible for wizards or Muggles to accidentally break in...
The room has only a few small windows, which are located very high and cannot be opened. But there are vents near the ceiling...
Wade glanced at the black grilles and felt the breath of freedom calling him.
If he turned into an eagle, he could fly up.
But he was in an abnormal state now, and he didn't know if the Animagus transformation could be carried out normally... And this was his last trump card. If he was exposed to the enemy in a moment of impulse and failed to escape successfully, he would not have a second chance to use it.
Wade didn't know if anyone was secretly watching him at the moment, but he still suppressed his desire to transform and fly away immediately, and tried with conventional means.
"Shattered into pieces!"
The light of the spell hit the glass, leaving only a shallow crack on it.
And I don't know if it's because of the dissipation of magic power, when using the spell, there will be a golden powder-like fine light around the tip of the wand, which reminds Wade of the fairies that Professor Flitwick used to decorate the classroom every Christmas.
When those little guys use magic, it's like this.
He looked at the toy-like magic wand in his hand and couldn't help sighing.
Not far away, the cat that jumped off the bed in fright just now looked at the little person on the bed, and then looked at the fine golden light, and the round black pupils enlarged a little.
It bared its teeth, lowered its body, and its paws fell silently on the ground, and slowly walked forward two steps...
