Chapter 304: Ignition
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Chapter 304: Ignition
Hagrid emerged from the house first, carrying Ron in his arms. Right behind him was another Hermione. Following her, a tightly bound, short man floated out, upside down and in a topsy-turvy position, occasionally knocking his head on a rock. "Ouch!"
The face of the short man was swollen, his hands tied behind his back and entangled, his clothes tattered. To avoid the rocks, he tilted his head oddly to the side.
"Sirius, I implore you"
"You deserve your punishment, Peter! You should be grateful Harry is so kind..."
A wand emerged, revealing Sirius's alert face. He limped along, supported by Harry and Lupin on either side. Bringing up the rear was Snape, his expression intriguing, his wand always aimed at the short figure, Peter.
"Sirius, you should go to the hospital," Harry whispered.
"No! I want to witness his conviction with my own eyes!" Sirius gritted his teeth, a disturbing smile on his face. "It'd be best to give him a Dementor's kiss while we're at it." His wand lowered, and Peter emitted a piercing cry of pain.
...
Hermione hid behind a giant pumpkin, peeking out curiously. "Professor, should we do something? Professor McGonagall warned me not to alter the past."
"I agree that caution is needed, but..." Felix gently flicked his finger, and a small pebble silently attached itself to Peter as he fell again.
As they moved away, Felix and Hermione emerged from the shadows.
"Professor, what did you just do?"
"I magically marked Peterjust in case. As you mentioned earlier, they will be trapped on the bridge. If he tries to escape by turning into a rat, I'll be able to find him!"
Hermione thought seriously and realized it was a good idea.
The two of them walked at a leisurely pace, maintaining a distance of two to three hundred feet from Harry's group. Felix inquired, "I have a few more questions. How did you overhear Umbridge and Fudge's conversation?"
Hermione explained, "I followed Hagrid to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey said Ron wasn't in danger, so I turned back to check on Harry and the others. That's when I unexpectedly saw Umbridge greeting Fudge. There was a group of Aurors behind him."
She said indignantly, "That woman is so rude, using the Minister's power to be particularly insolent to Professor McGonagall. If it weren't for Headmaster Dumbledore not being around..."
"She had a conflict with Professor McGonagall?"
"Yes, Professor McGonagall questioned her about why she brought Dementors into the school, but Umbridge didn't even glance at her. She only fawned over Fudge."
"I see..."
Felix looked ahead. With Sirius injured, the group was moving slowly. Especially since they had to climb a hill, their pace slowed even more.
The wind carried snippets of their conversation. Sirius's voice, filled with hesitation, reached them: "I don't know if anyone has told you, Harry, but I'm your godfather..."
Ten minutes later
"They're here!"
Felix suddenly broke the silence. Hermione looked in the direction of his gaze and faintly saw a pink, round, bobbing shape. She asked in astonishment, "Is that woman?"
Then they heard a long whistle. Hermione shivered as a black object floated out. It looked like a black plastic bag caught by the wind. It flew rapidly toward Harry and the others, who were still some distance away from the bridge.
Hermione took a deep breath. More and more Dementors were appearing. They seemed like a black plague, answering Umbridge's call, covering nearly half the sky.
"It's Dementors!" She heard Professor Lupin's voice in the distance. "How could Dementors appear in the school? The Ministry guaranteed... Cast the Patronus Charm quickly!"
As the sun neared the horizon, the twilight painted the scene with a half-shrouded rosy hue. Half the light was devoured, and the Dementors loomed high in the air, emitting a black mist, as if night had fallen prematurely.
Silver light pierced the darkness, Lupin's incantation. He conjured a silver barrier, but it wasn't a complete Patronus.
"Not far from them," Felix said. He cast a shallow silver glow over both of them.
"Professor, what is this?" Hermione looked at her glowing hand in wonder.
"Unpleasant memories. Dementors instinctively avoid us, of course, if they have better choices." Felix remarked.
They moved closer, close enough to see the expressions on Lupin and the others' faces. Lupin urgently called out, "Harry, Sirius, quickly cast the Patronus Charm, and Sev... if you can!"
The silver barrier he had conjured kept gathering, forming a massive corporeal Patronus, a wolfLupin's most dreaded form, now reluctantly called upon.
With the appearance of the Patronus wolf, the crisis was momentarily eased. The giant silver wolf silently howled, leaping and batting away Dementor after Dementor.
Harry's mind cleared momentarily. His lips quivered, and he subconsciously uttered the incantation, "Expecto PatronumEx, ExpectoExpecto Patronum!" A silver mist emerged from his wand, and with the faint light of the Patronus forming, he felt somewhat better. The initial suffocating feeling vanished, and he took deep, gulping breaths.
"Not enough! Not enough..." Lupin shouted urgently. "Sirius, Sev!"
However, Snape remained motionless. His expression was stiff, his wand gripped tightly, his knuckles white.
Sirius lightly tapped his leg on the ground. Raising his wand, he kept chanting, "Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum... Damn it, I can't do it!"
"What do you mean you can't? We all learned it together," Lupin called.
"I can't... those happy memories are all related to James." Sirius painfully covered his face. Under the influence of the Dementors, his lips turned as blue as Snape's.
Harry looked at Sirius, as if seeing the man for the first time and truly acknowledging his role as godfather. Gathering his courage, he recalled numerous joyful memories. The silver light surged continuously, and something started taking shape.
But there were simply too many Dementors. "Let's get on the bridge!" Lupin said decisively.
Peter Pettigrew, who had been bound, was now set free. He shifted his gaze around, contemplating an escape route. "Behave, Peter! There's a cliff below..." Sirius threatened, giving him a shove to make him walk on his own.
The green light on Snape's wand vanished. He glared at Sirius hatefully, leaving him utterly baffled.
They ascended the bridge, fighting and retreating. On the field, only Lupin remained as a complete combatant, but his Patronus couldn't fend off the hundreds of Dementors, especially with their constant emission of dark smoke, their chilling cold causing everyone's breath to form white clouds, almost freezing them.
Snape sent several red sparks into the sky, his face grim. "Others will come, they will..."
They targeted the students behind the Aurors, circling and swooping like ominous black birds. However, facing their former captors, they seemed hesitant. They hovered around, drinking in the air, causing the temperature to plummet visibly. White clouds of breath formed as many students paled in fear.
On the other side, Harry leaned against the railing, gasping for air. He was utterly exhausted, barely keeping himself from collapsing. His Patronus trotted back to him. It wasn't a horse or a unicorn but a stag. Its entire body glowed, and when Harry reached out to touch the antlers on its head, the Patronus dissipated.
He had succeeded! He had saved Sirius, Professor Lupin, and... Snape. Harry's gaze swept around, finding his godfather lying on the ground, breathing heavily, the expression of a survivor on his face. Lupin was sitting on the ground, worn out.
He turned to look at Snape and saw Snape, wand wavering, sending a chilling green curse shooting from his wand. Harry's eyes widened, reality seemed to overlap with a dream. He heard his mother's scream once again, followed by a blinding flash of green light filling his vision...
It was the Avada Kedavra curse!
Why would Snape use that curse? No, who was he using it on?
Only now did Harry realize that Wormtail was gone. All that remained were his clothes on the ground. His gaze followed Snape's spell, and he saw a rat frantically fleeing.
Snape wanted to kill Wormtail!
But just then, a hand emerged from thin air, grabbing Snape's wand. "Severus, he's not worth it," Felix said, his voice calm. Felix cast a spell, and suddenly the rat began to glow, its body elongating, transforming. It shed its Animagus form and fell to the ground, now kneeling and trembling.
Wormtail's luck had run out. He had just managed to reach the other end of the bridge. Several steps away stood a group of Aurors and students, who had been watching the restless Dementors. They were now captivated by this sudden turn of events.
Seven or eight Dementors glided in, and one of them grabbed Wormtail by the neck, lifting the tattered hood on its head
"No! Spare me! I shouldn't have betrayed you all, James, Lily, it was Voldemort who forced me, he was too powerful... you don't know what he's capable of!" Wormtail cried out in despair.
The Ministry's Aurors stared wide-eyed, wands held aloft, including Professor McGonagall. Everyone froze in place, shocked by Wormtail's sudden revelation.
In his final moments, he had finally awakened. He cried desperately, "He's coming back! The one whose name we must not mention is coming back! I did wrong, forgive"
His voice cut off abruptly as the Dementor sucked away his soul.
Snape stepped back a few paces, his body slumping to the ground in a daze. He sat there, seemingly paralyzed, covering his face, muttering to himself.
After a while, Fudge shouted loudly, "Absurd! What nonsense is he spewing!"
Professor McGonagall retorted sharply, "Only you would think that. He was perfectly clear. And your Dementors have gone berserk!"
The Dementors had indeed gone out of control. Wormtail's soul had agitated them. No longer satisfied with circling around the feast, they began to approach.
Fudge retreated in fear, cowering within the crowd. "Protect me! Use the Patronus Charm!"
Unfortunately, the Patronus Charm wasn't common knowledge, and even the Aurors wouldn't necessarily know it. Among the people present, only four knew how to cast a Patronus, including Professor McGonagall.
McGonagall frowned. She hadn't expected the Ministry to be so ill-prepared, especially Minister Fudge. He seemed utterly terrified. She followed Harry's lead, summoning a powerful Patronus, an intense light gathering. But then she heard Felix's voice.
"Now's the time!"
What time? She turned around in surprise, her eyes widening. Felix stood at the edge of the bridge, an invisible vortex held in his hands. His body radiated blue magical energy, and one by one, Dementors were torn away, shrinking into the vortex.
One by one, ten by ten... The Dementors, now out of control, were drawn away from them and plummeted from the sky like a torrential black rain.
Felix maintained the magic, light flashing around him. Gracefully, Hermione, hidden under her Invisibility Cloak, slipped past the Aurors and Professor McGonagall. She navigated through the crowd of students. "Who bumped into me?" someone grumbled. "Don't push, we can all see clearly. Professor Harp is just too cool, and Harry's Patronus, Merlin, it's unbelievable!"
After a dozen seconds, the sky was void of Dementors. Felix held the spherical vortex and looked at the dumbfounded Ministry officials and Aurors. He said softly, "Since these Dementors have gone berserk and attacked students and Ministry officials, there's no need to keep them around..."
"Ventus!"
White flames ignited within the spherical vortex. It spun violently, spewing thick black smoke that morphed into distorted faces. But the flames quickly consumed them, and one after another, the black spots within the vortex disappeared as if they had never existed.
Umbridge, bloody and unconscious, opened her eyes and witnessed Felix incinerating the Dementors. Memories from the past flooded her mind, and she screamed before fainting.
"Mr. Harp..." Fudge trembled.
Felix smiled, his teeth gleaming white. "No need to thank me. It's what I should do."
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Chapter 304: Ignition
Hagrid emerged from the house first, carrying Ron in his arms. Right behind him was another Hermione. Following her, a tightly bound, short man floated out, upside down and in a topsy-turvy position, occasionally knocking his head on a rock. "Ouch!"
The face of the short man was swollen, his hands tied behind his back and entangled, his clothes tattered. To avoid the rocks, he tilted his head oddly to the side.
"Sirius, I implore you"
"You deserve your punishment, Peter! You should be grateful Harry is so kind..."
A wand emerged, revealing Sirius's alert face. He limped along, supported by Harry and Lupin on either side. Bringing up the rear was Snape, his expression intriguing, his wand always aimed at the short figure, Peter.
"Sirius, you should go to the hospital," Harry whispered.
"No! I want to witness his conviction with my own eyes!" Sirius gritted his teeth, a disturbing smile on his face. "It'd be best to give him a Dementor's kiss while we're at it." His wand lowered, and Peter emitted a piercing cry of pain.
...
Hermione hid behind a giant pumpkin, peeking out curiously. "Professor, should we do something? Professor McGonagall warned me not to alter the past."
"I agree that caution is needed, but..." Felix gently flicked his finger, and a small pebble silently attached itself to Peter as he fell again.
As they moved away, Felix and Hermione emerged from the shadows.
"Professor, what did you just do?"
"I magically marked Peterjust in case. As you mentioned earlier, they will be trapped on the bridge. If he tries to escape by turning into a rat, I'll be able to find him!"
Hermione thought seriously and realized it was a good idea.
The two of them walked at a leisurely pace, maintaining a distance of two to three hundred feet from Harry's group. Felix inquired, "I have a few more questions. How did you overhear Umbridge and Fudge's conversation?"
Hermione explained, "I followed Hagrid to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey said Ron wasn't in danger, so I turned back to check on Harry and the others. That's when I unexpectedly saw Umbridge greeting Fudge. There was a group of Aurors behind him."
She said indignantly, "That woman is so rude, using the Minister's power to be particularly insolent to Professor McGonagall. If it weren't for Headmaster Dumbledore not being around..."
"She had a conflict with Professor McGonagall?"
"Yes, Professor McGonagall questioned her about why she brought Dementors into the school, but Umbridge didn't even glance at her. She only fawned over Fudge."
"I see..."
Felix looked ahead. With Sirius injured, the group was moving slowly. Especially since they had to climb a hill, their pace slowed even more.
The wind carried snippets of their conversation. Sirius's voice, filled with hesitation, reached them: "I don't know if anyone has told you, Harry, but I'm your godfather..."
Ten minutes later
"They're here!"
Felix suddenly broke the silence. Hermione looked in the direction of his gaze and faintly saw a pink, round, bobbing shape. She asked in astonishment, "Is that woman?"
Then they heard a long whistle. Hermione shivered as a black object floated out. It looked like a black plastic bag caught by the wind. It flew rapidly toward Harry and the others, who were still some distance away from the bridge.
Hermione took a deep breath. More and more Dementors were appearing. They seemed like a black plague, answering Umbridge's call, covering nearly half the sky.
"It's Dementors!" She heard Professor Lupin's voice in the distance. "How could Dementors appear in the school? The Ministry guaranteed... Cast the Patronus Charm quickly!"
As the sun neared the horizon, the twilight painted the scene with a half-shrouded rosy hue. Half the light was devoured, and the Dementors loomed high in the air, emitting a black mist, as if night had fallen prematurely.
Silver light pierced the darkness, Lupin's incantation. He conjured a silver barrier, but it wasn't a complete Patronus.
"Not far from them," Felix said. He cast a shallow silver glow over both of them.
"Professor, what is this?" Hermione looked at her glowing hand in wonder.
"Unpleasant memories. Dementors instinctively avoid us, of course, if they have better choices." Felix remarked.
They moved closer, close enough to see the expressions on Lupin and the others' faces. Lupin urgently called out, "Harry, Sirius, quickly cast the Patronus Charm, and Sev... if you can!"
The silver barrier he had conjured kept gathering, forming a massive corporeal Patronus, a wolfLupin's most dreaded form, now reluctantly called upon.
With the appearance of the Patronus wolf, the crisis was momentarily eased. The giant silver wolf silently howled, leaping and batting away Dementor after Dementor.
Harry's mind cleared momentarily. His lips quivered, and he subconsciously uttered the incantation, "Expecto PatronumEx, ExpectoExpecto Patronum!" A silver mist emerged from his wand, and with the faint light of the Patronus forming, he felt somewhat better. The initial suffocating feeling vanished, and he took deep, gulping breaths.
"Not enough! Not enough..." Lupin shouted urgently. "Sirius, Sev!"
However, Snape remained motionless. His expression was stiff, his wand gripped tightly, his knuckles white.
Sirius lightly tapped his leg on the ground. Raising his wand, he kept chanting, "Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum... Damn it, I can't do it!"
"What do you mean you can't? We all learned it together," Lupin called.
"I can't... those happy memories are all related to James." Sirius painfully covered his face. Under the influence of the Dementors, his lips turned as blue as Snape's.
Harry looked at Sirius, as if seeing the man for the first time and truly acknowledging his role as godfather. Gathering his courage, he recalled numerous joyful memories. The silver light surged continuously, and something started taking shape.
But there were simply too many Dementors. "Let's get on the bridge!" Lupin said decisively.
Peter Pettigrew, who had been bound, was now set free. He shifted his gaze around, contemplating an escape route. "Behave, Peter! There's a cliff below..." Sirius threatened, giving him a shove to make him walk on his own.
The green light on Snape's wand vanished. He glared at Sirius hatefully, leaving him utterly baffled.
They ascended the bridge, fighting and retreating. On the field, only Lupin remained as a complete combatant, but his Patronus couldn't fend off the hundreds of Dementors, especially with their constant emission of dark smoke, their chilling cold causing everyone's breath to form white clouds, almost freezing them.
Snape sent several red sparks into the sky, his face grim. "Others will come, they will..."
They targeted the students behind the Aurors, circling and swooping like ominous black birds. However, facing their former captors, they seemed hesitant. They hovered around, drinking in the air, causing the temperature to plummet visibly. White clouds of breath formed as many students paled in fear.
On the other side, Harry leaned against the railing, gasping for air. He was utterly exhausted, barely keeping himself from collapsing. His Patronus trotted back to him. It wasn't a horse or a unicorn but a stag. Its entire body glowed, and when Harry reached out to touch the antlers on its head, the Patronus dissipated.
He had succeeded! He had saved Sirius, Professor Lupin, and... Snape. Harry's gaze swept around, finding his godfather lying on the ground, breathing heavily, the expression of a survivor on his face. Lupin was sitting on the ground, worn out.
He turned to look at Snape and saw Snape, wand wavering, sending a chilling green curse shooting from his wand. Harry's eyes widened, reality seemed to overlap with a dream. He heard his mother's scream once again, followed by a blinding flash of green light filling his vision...
It was the Avada Kedavra curse!
Why would Snape use that curse? No, who was he using it on?
Only now did Harry realize that Wormtail was gone. All that remained were his clothes on the ground. His gaze followed Snape's spell, and he saw a rat frantically fleeing.
Snape wanted to kill Wormtail!
But just then, a hand emerged from thin air, grabbing Snape's wand. "Severus, he's not worth it," Felix said, his voice calm. Felix cast a spell, and suddenly the rat began to glow, its body elongating, transforming. It shed its Animagus form and fell to the ground, now kneeling and trembling.
Wormtail's luck had run out. He had just managed to reach the other end of the bridge. Several steps away stood a group of Aurors and students, who had been watching the restless Dementors. They were now captivated by this sudden turn of events.
Seven or eight Dementors glided in, and one of them grabbed Wormtail by the neck, lifting the tattered hood on its head
"No! Spare me! I shouldn't have betrayed you all, James, Lily, it was Voldemort who forced me, he was too powerful... you don't know what he's capable of!" Wormtail cried out in despair.
The Ministry's Aurors stared wide-eyed, wands held aloft, including Professor McGonagall. Everyone froze in place, shocked by Wormtail's sudden revelation.
In his final moments, he had finally awakened. He cried desperately, "He's coming back! The one whose name we must not mention is coming back! I did wrong, forgive"
His voice cut off abruptly as the Dementor sucked away his soul.
Snape stepped back a few paces, his body slumping to the ground in a daze. He sat there, seemingly paralyzed, covering his face, muttering to himself.
After a while, Fudge shouted loudly, "Absurd! What nonsense is he spewing!"
Professor McGonagall retorted sharply, "Only you would think that. He was perfectly clear. And your Dementors have gone berserk!"
The Dementors had indeed gone out of control. Wormtail's soul had agitated them. No longer satisfied with circling around the feast, they began to approach.
Fudge retreated in fear, cowering within the crowd. "Protect me! Use the Patronus Charm!"
Unfortunately, the Patronus Charm wasn't common knowledge, and even the Aurors wouldn't necessarily know it. Among the people present, only four knew how to cast a Patronus, including Professor McGonagall.
McGonagall frowned. She hadn't expected the Ministry to be so ill-prepared, especially Minister Fudge. He seemed utterly terrified. She followed Harry's lead, summoning a powerful Patronus, an intense light gathering. But then she heard Felix's voice.
"Now's the time!"
What time? She turned around in surprise, her eyes widening. Felix stood at the edge of the bridge, an invisible vortex held in his hands. His body radiated blue magical energy, and one by one, Dementors were torn away, shrinking into the vortex.
One by one, ten by ten... The Dementors, now out of control, were drawn away from them and plummeted from the sky like a torrential black rain.
Felix maintained the magic, light flashing around him. Gracefully, Hermione, hidden under her Invisibility Cloak, slipped past the Aurors and Professor McGonagall. She navigated through the crowd of students. "Who bumped into me?" someone grumbled. "Don't push, we can all see clearly. Professor Harp is just too cool, and Harry's Patronus, Merlin, it's unbelievable!"
After a dozen seconds, the sky was void of Dementors. Felix held the spherical vortex and looked at the dumbfounded Ministry officials and Aurors. He said softly, "Since these Dementors have gone berserk and attacked students and Ministry officials, there's no need to keep them around..."
"Ventus!"
White flames ignited within the spherical vortex. It spun violently, spewing thick black smoke that morphed into distorted faces. But the flames quickly consumed them, and one after another, the black spots within the vortex disappeared as if they had never existed.
Umbridge, bloody and unconscious, opened her eyes and witnessed Felix incinerating the Dementors. Memories from the past flooded her mind, and she screamed before fainting.
"Mr. Harp..." Fudge trembled.
Felix smiled, his teeth gleaming white. "No need to thank me. It's what I should do."
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Chapter 304: IgnitionHagrid emerged from the house first, carrying Ron in his arms. Right behind him was another Hermione. Following her, a tightly bound, short man floated out, upside down and in a topsy-turvy position, occasionally knocking his head on a rock. "Ouch!"The face of the short man was swollen, his hands tied behind his back and entangled, his clothes tattered. To avoid the rocks, he tilted his head oddly to the side."Sirius, I implore you""You deserve your punishment, Peter! You should be grateful Harry is so kind..."A wand emerged, revealing Sirius's alert face. He limped along, supported by Harry and Lupin on either side. Bringing up the rear was Snape, his expression intriguing, his wand always aimed at the short figure, Peter."Sirius, you should go to the hospital," Harry whispered."No! I want to witness his conviction with my own eyes!" Sirius gritted his teeth, a disturbing smile on his face. "It'd be best to give him a Dementor's kiss while we're at it." His wand lowered, and Peter emitted a piercing cry of pain....Hermione hid behind a giant pumpkin, peeking out curiously. "Professor, should we do something? Professor McGonagall warned me not to alter the past.""I agree that caution is needed, but..." Felix gently flicked his finger, and a small pebble silently attached itself to Peter as he fell again.As they moved away, Felix and Hermione emerged from the shadows."Professor, what did you just do?""I magically marked Peterjust in case. As you mentioned earlier, they will be trapped on the bridge. If he tries to escape by turning into a rat, I'll be able to find him!"Hermione thought seriously and realized it was a good idea.The two of them walked at a leisurely pace, maintaining a distance of two to three hundred feet from Harry's group. Felix inquired, "I have a few more questions. How did you overhear Umbridge and Fudge's conversation?"Hermione explained, "I followed Hagrid to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey said Ron wasn't in danger, so I turned back to check on Harry and the others. That's when I unexpectedly saw Umbridge greeting Fudge. There was a group of Aurors behind him."She said indignantly, "That woman is so rude, using the Minister's power to be particularly insolent to Professor McGonagall. If it weren't for Headmaster Dumbledore not being around...""She had a conflict with Professor McGonagall?""Yes, Professor McGonagall questioned her about why she brought Dementors into the school, but Umbridge didn't even glance at her. She only fawned over Fudge.""I see..."Felix looked ahead. With Sirius injured, the group was moving slowly. Especially since they had to climb a hill, their pace slowed even more.The wind carried snippets of their conversation. Sirius's voice, filled with hesitation, reached them: "I don't know if anyone has told you, Harry, but I'm your godfather..."Ten minutes later"They're here!"Felix suddenly broke the silence. Hermione looked in the direction of his gaze and faintly saw a pink, round, bobbing shape. She asked in astonishment, "Is that woman?"Then they heard a long whistle. Hermione shivered as a black object floated out. It looked like a black plastic bag caught by the wind. It flew rapidly toward Harry and the others, who were still some distance away from the bridge.Hermione took a deep breath. More and more Dementors were appearing. They seemed like a black plague, answering Umbridge's call, covering nearly half the sky."It's Dementors!" She heard Professor Lupin's voice in the distance. "How could Dementors appear in the school? The Ministry guaranteed... Cast the Patronus Charm quickly!"As the sun neared the horizon, the twilight painted the scene with a half-shrouded rosy hue. Half the light was devoured, and the Dementors loomed high in the air, emitting a black mist, as if night had fallen prematurely.Silver light pierced the darkness, Lupin's incantation. He conjured a silver barrier, but it wasn't a complete Patronus."Not far from them," Felix said. He cast a shallow silver glow over both of them."Professor, what is this?" Hermione looked at her glowing hand in wonder."Unpleasant memories. Dementors instinctively avoid us, of course, if they have better choices." Felix remarked.They moved closer, close enough to see the expressions on Lupin and the others' faces. Lupin urgently called out, "Harry, Sirius, quickly cast the Patronus Charm, and Sev... if you can!"The silver barrier he had conjured kept gathering, forming a massive corporeal Patronus, a wolfLupin's most dreaded form, now reluctantly called upon.With the appearance of the Patronus wolf, the crisis was momentarily eased. The giant silver wolf silently howled, leaping and batting away Dementor after Dementor.Harry's mind cleared momentarily. His lips quivered, and he subconsciously uttered the incantation, "Expecto PatronumEx, ExpectoExpecto Patronum!" A silver mist emerged from his wand, and with the faint light of the Patronus forming, he felt somewhat better. The initial suffocating feeling vanished, and he took deep, gulping breaths."Not enough! Not enough..." Lupin shouted urgently. "Sirius, Sev!"However, Snape remained motionless. His expression was stiff, his wand gripped tightly, his knuckles white.Sirius lightly tapped his leg on the ground. Raising his wand, he kept chanting, "Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum! Expecto Patronum... Damn it, I can't do it!""What do you mean you can't? We all learned it together," Lupin called."I can't... those happy memories are all related to James." Sirius painfully covered his face. Under the influence of the Dementors, his lips turned as blue as Snape's.Harry looked at Sirius, as if seeing the man for the first time and truly acknowledging his role as godfather. Gathering his courage, he recalled numerous joyful memories. The silver light surged continuously, and something started taking shape.But there were simply too many Dementors. "Let's get on the bridge!" Lupin said decisively.Peter Pettigrew, who had been bound, was now set free. He shifted his gaze around, contemplating an escape route. "Behave, Peter! There's a cliff below..." Sirius threatened, giving him a shove to make him walk on his own.The green light on Snape's wand vanished. He glared at Sirius hatefully, leaving him utterly baffled.They ascended the bridge, fighting and retreating. On the field, only Lupin remained as a complete combatant, but his Patronus couldn't fend off the hundreds of Dementors, especially with their constant emission of dark smoke, their chilling cold causing everyone's breath to form white clouds, almost freezing them.Snape sent several red sparks into the sky, his face grim. "Others will come, they will..."They targeted the students behind the Aurors, circling and swooping like ominous black birds. However, facing their former captors, they seemed hesitant. They hovered around, drinking in the air, causing the temperature to plummet visibly. White clouds of breath formed as many students paled in fear.On the other side, Harry leaned against the railing, gasping for air. He was utterly exhausted, barely keeping himself from collapsing. His Patronus trotted back to him. It wasn't a horse or a unicorn but a stag. Its entire body glowed, and when Harry reached out to touch the antlers on its head, the Patronus dissipated.He had succeeded! He had saved Sirius, Professor Lupin, and... Snape. Harry's gaze swept around, finding his godfather lying on the ground, breathing heavily, the expression of a survivor on his face. Lupin was sitting on the ground, worn out.He turned to look at Snape and saw Snape, wand wavering, sending a chilling green curse shooting from his wand. Harry's eyes widened, reality seemed to overlap with a dream. He heard his mother's scream once again, followed by a blinding flash of green light filling his vision...It was the Avada Kedavra curse!Why would Snape use that curse? No, who was he using it on?Only now did Harry realize that Wormtail was gone. All that remained were his clothes on the ground. His gaze followed Snape's spell, and he saw a rat frantically fleeing.Snape wanted to kill Wormtail!But just then, a hand emerged from thin air, grabbing Snape's wand. "Severus, he's not worth it," Felix said, his voice calm. Felix cast a spell, and suddenly the rat began to glow, its body elongating, transforming. It shed its Animagus form and fell to the ground, now kneeling and trembling.Wormtail's luck had run out. He had just managed to reach the other end of the bridge. Several steps away stood a group of Aurors and students, who had been watching the restless Dementors. They were now captivated by this sudden turn of events.Seven or eight Dementors glided in, and one of them grabbed Wormtail by the neck, lifting the tattered hood on its head"No! Spare me! I shouldn't have betrayed you all, James, Lily, it was Voldemort who forced me, he was too powerful... you don't know what he's capable of!" Wormtail cried out in despair.The Ministry's Aurors stared wide-eyed, wands held aloft, including Professor McGonagall. Everyone froze in place, shocked by Wormtail's sudden revelation.In his final moments, he had finally awakened. He cried desperately, "He's coming back! The one whose name we must not mention is coming back! I did wrong, forgive"His voice cut off abruptly as the Dementor sucked away his soul.Snape stepped back a few paces, his body slumping to the ground in a daze. He sat there, seemingly paralyzed, covering his face, muttering to himself.After a while, Fudge shouted loudly, "Absurd! What nonsense is he spewing!"Professor McGonagall retorted sharply, "Only you would think that. He was perfectly clear. And your Dementors have gone berserk!"The Dementors had indeed gone out of control. Wormtail's soul had agitated them. No longer satisfied with circling around the feast, they began to approach.Fudge retreated in fear, cowering within the crowd. "Protect me! Use the Patronus Charm!"Unfortunately, the Patronus Charm wasn't common knowledge, and even the Aurors wouldn't necessarily know it. Among the people present, only four knew how to cast a Patronus, including Professor McGonagall.McGonagall frowned. She hadn't expected the Ministry to be so ill-prepared, especially Minister Fudge. He seemed utterly terrified. She followed Harry's lead, summoning a powerful Patronus, an intense light gathering. But then she heard Felix's voice."Now's the time!"What time? She turned around in surprise, her eyes widening. Felix stood at the edge of the bridge, an invisible vortex held in his hands. His body radiated blue magical energy, and one by one, Dementors were torn away, shrinking into the vortex.One by one, ten by ten... The Dementors, now out of control, were drawn away from them and plummeted from the sky like a torrential black rain.Felix maintained the magic, light flashing around him. Gracefully, Hermione, hidden under her Invisibility Cloak, slipped past the Aurors and Professor McGonagall. She navigated through the crowd of students. "Who bumped into me?" someone grumbled. "Don't push, we can all see clearly. Professor Harp is just too cool, and Harry's Patronus, Merlin, it's unbelievable!"After a dozen seconds, the sky was void of Dementors. Felix held the spherical vortex and looked at the dumbfounded Ministry officials and Aurors. He said softly, "Since these Dementors have gone berserk and attacked students and Ministry officials, there's no need to keep them around...""Ventus!"White flames ignited within the spherical vortex. It spun violently, spewing thick black smoke that morphed into distorted faces. But the flames quickly consumed them, and one after another, the black spots within the vortex disappeared as if they had never existed.Umbridge, bloody and unconscious, opened her eyes and witnessed Felix incinerating the Dementors. Memories from the past flooded her mind, and she screamed before fainting."Mr. Harp..." Fudge trembled.Felix smiled, his teeth gleaming white. "No need to thank me. It's what I should do."Thank you for reading this far! You can access more chapters from HERE by joining my Patreon community. You'll gain exclusive early access to the COMPLETE NOVEL.As a member of my Patreon community, here is what you'll get:For $5Early access to 100s of chapters before they go public. 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