Chapter 480 478 Big Fish

Chapter 480 478. Big Fish

Jon, who was still in the Department of Mysteries, was unaware of what had happened at Carrow Manor.

He was still conducting a detailed reconnaissance of all the magic items in the Time Hall one by one, and the purebloods who stayed here were gathered together by Slughorn under the pretext of holding a party, so no one would disturb Jon at this time.

When the time entered the second half of the night, Jon had checked all the hourglasses in the Time Hall, and even absorbed some of the more suspicious magic power to see if he could open the door.

But all failed without exception.

In the end, Jon could only focus on the bird ornament, which was the most conspicuous thing in the entire Time Hall, because compared with those hourglasses that were constantly passing, it was more obvious.

At first, Jon did not study it in detail because it was too conspicuous, so conspicuous that if someone just came to the Time Hall, the first thing they would notice would definitely be it.

According to common sense, if you really want to use something in this room to make a key to open the door, you generally won't choose such a conspicuous item.

But Jon really couldn't think of other suspicious things in the room, and Voldemort might not have used the most dangerous place as the safest place.

So Jon focused on this bird-shaped ornament and began his own research.

To be honest, this is actually an alternative hourglass, but its expression of the passage of time is not like an hourglass, which is reflected in the movement of certain things. Instead, it shows the advancement and regression of time through the performance of the bird hatching from an egg into a bird and then retreating from a bird back to an egg.

At first glance, you may feel the magic in it, but after Jon's careful observation, he found that this bird ornament actually does not have much deep magical secrets.

The bird hatched from the egg is just an ordinary bird specimen, and the liquid that contains it is a special potion, but the effect is just a potion that helps objects to transform, and there is nothing more profound.

The only thing to note is that the egg that hatched the bird is a real and living egg.

The potion in the ornament is constantly helping it to change, and the form of this change is the process of a bird breaking out of the shell, and then the effect of the change ends, so the bird also evolves and degenerates back to an egg.

From beginning to end, the egg was not affected. It is still a living egg. It is just that the transformation potions that wrapped it, while making it undergo magical changes, also inhibited its real hatching.

Jon stared at the ornament in front of him for a long time. He did not easily absorb the magic contained in it. On the one hand, it was because the strength of the magic absorbed by the gemstone in his ring had reached a limit, and on the other hand, he always felt that he could not destroy this thing violently, otherwise there would be a very bad consequence.

Just as Jon was trying various things with this ornament, he suddenly found that this thing was not completely embedded in the table. There was a live buckle under the table, which could completely take it off the table smoothly.

"Click!"

The crisp sound echoed in the quiet time hall. Jon easily took the ornament off the table. At the same time, he could see a hole under the base that could open it!

This is a very important discovery. Generally, after such things are made, there should be no need to open them again. Just like the other hourglasses in the time hall, none of them are designed to take out the sand normally.

But this bird-shaped ornament is an exception.

Jon didn't hesitate much. He turned the ornament upside down and opened it from the bottom.

That is, the moment he opened it, the transformation of the egg to the bird in the potion suddenly stopped. Then the transformation potions evaporated quickly like water drops on a hot pot, and disappeared almost in the blink of an eye! Only the lonely egg was left inside.

Jon tilted the cylindrical transparent tube and took out the egg. It was only the size of a normal bird egg. From the outside, it looked like there was nothing special, but it was clear that there was a weak life still alive inside.

After weighing the egg and observing it for a while, Jon tried to bring it to the door that was not easy to find.

At first, there was no special phenomenon, but soon Jon found that every time he brought the egg close to the door, there would be a concave sign in the lower middle of the door!

This discovery immediately made him excited. He held the egg and carefully brought it close to the concave position. When he completely attached the egg to the door, a round hole appeared in that position that could perfectly embed the egg.

Jon accurately stuck the egg into the hole, and in the next second, the door that had been closed seemed to be given a different kind of magic by the egg, and then gently opened an entrance inward for people to enter and exit!

"Get up! Get up quickly!"

Amid the roars around him, Lucius pulled up an Auror whose arm and leg had been blown off.

He knew this Auror. He was a mixed-race backbone whom Lucius had commended when he was the director of the Auror Office at the Auror Command. At that time, he encouraged the young man and told him to work hard. There are great things to come. The future is waiting for him, but now he is dying, with more air coming out and less air coming in.

Lucius didn't care at all whether he died or not. He needed to know information about these people outside. He wanted to know how many people Wu Pingxian sent and who their leader was!

"Tell me! How many people did you see? How many people in total ate their team!"

The Auror team is usually composed of three people per team, and now the Auror with a broken arm and leg was lying next to the bodies of his other two teammates!

"Six has six people"

Blood foam continuously spurted out from the corner of his mouth, and he finished his report to Lucius in a weak and dying voice.

Such news made Lucius's already ugly face turn even darker. He angrily threw the Auror, who was already on the verge of death, back to the cold ground.

Six people surrounded three, which means that the number of people sent here by the Wu Leveling Line this time is definitely more than the Aurors guarding here, and after the unexpected attack at the beginning, coupled with the speed and speed of the Weasley Ball The killing methods caused many Aurors to die from the killing curse and explosion before they even saw the enemy!

Lucius originally thought that the Aurors might have just been dispersed, but in fact there was still a lot of vitality left, allowing him to take over the command. Coupled with the purebloods who came out later, the situation might be able to continue in a stalemate. opportunity, and then wait for the magic world's detection network to discover the situation here and wait for support.

But now I can’t hold on anymore!

When Lucius ran down from the manor with the pure blood, the Aurors who had retreated from the fence into the yard had already suffered heavy casualties. Now the situation has fallen into a street battle that can be said to be a rout. People were not in a hurry to rush directly to where the purebloods gathered and catch them all, but to eliminate the remaining Aurors bit by bit and remove the effective strength of the Ministry of Magic.

Obviously for Moody and others, this is the optimal solution.

Almost all means of getting out around the manor have been blocked, leaving only a floo network that can only be used by one person. It doesn't matter even if a few more purebloods are allowed to escape. These people only dare to escape and dare not fight. The more waste that escapes, the better it will be for the attack behind the Wizard Line, and those who dare to stay and resist must be eliminated, including the remaining Aurors in the manor.

Wu Pingxian has no intention of driving them all out. The situation has reached such a point that anyone who is not a fool can see that if they continue to resist stubbornly, there is basically only a dead end. If these hybrids have any influence on the current Ministry of Magic, No matter how loyal he is, that's not true, because after all, Voldemort's rule over Britain only lasted less than twenty years. Twenty years is not enough for the old people who have experienced the previous wizarding system to die, nor is it enough for those who have been brainwashed. New people in education completely replace all positions.

So after hearing Wu Pingxian's people shouting "throw away the wand without killing" as they pushed forward, many mixed-bloods threw the wands in their hands on the ground without much difficult ideological struggle. , and then he squatted down with his head in his hands.

These Aurors who gave up resistance all had their wands broken, and were temporarily placed in the rear, leaving two teams of people to guard them, while Moody continued to advance deeper into the manor with the remaining people.

The purebloods brought by Lucius were hiding less than twenty meters away from Moody!

There is a ten-meter wide open hall between them. The Magic Brothers Fountain that was previously placed in the Ministry of Magic is placed in the hall. The Carlo family kept this precious antique privately and placed it in their own home.

The people led by Lucius were hiding in a corner in front of the hall. His former director of the Auror Office was not in vain. Based on his rich experience, he judged the progress of Moody and his team, which was only a few steps away from them. The group of people was not very far away. As for whether there were others outflanking him behind him, and if so, where they were, he no longer cared that much.

It's not like he couldn't guess Amycus's little thoughts. If there were people behind, they would definitely bump into those who left with the Carlo family, and that was none of his business.

"We only have this one chance!"

Lucius stared at all the purebloods present and said fiercely.

"Whether we live or die depends on whether we dare to fight! They want to surround the entire manor. To form such a siege network, the personnel must be dispersed! According to normal habits, two teams will be arranged , that is, six people form a group, each group is no more than 30 meters apart, and then continuously compress the space inward! "

"At this position, the distance between the two groups should be less than 20 meters. No matter how fast they are, they can only gather all the people within 50 meters in a short time. That is, there are 18 people in the three groups. And our current numbers far exceed theirs. As long as our actions go smoothly, we still have a good chance of getting out!"

Lucius's words cheered up the surrounding purebloods a lot. If it was true as he said, then there was indeed a good chance.

But there are some possibilities that Lucius did not say directly. Generally, this kind of encirclement network will only have one layer. The innermost layer is now a group of 20 meters. If there is an experienced person leading the team, there will definitely be two more layers of "big nets" along the 20-meter gap on the periphery. So once they really attract the attention of these wizards of the Witch Horizon, there will definitely be more than just three groups of 18 people to encircle them.

But now is the time when the pure bloods need morale and confidence. Lucius will certainly not tell the truth. He can only rely on everyone's desire to survive here to be firm enough, and then maybe a miracle will happen.

In the distance, the voice that kept shouting through the amplification spell, asking the Aurors to put down their wands and surrender, was getting closer and closer. Through the magic brother fountain, Lucius could vaguely see the figures of the two wizard teams in the group, and he gave the order to charge!

"Charge!!!"

The purebloods around were on full alert. The moment they heard Lucius' voice, the desire to survive occupied their brains, so they raised their wands without hesitation!

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Faint!"

Those who could use the killing curse naturally used it without hesitation, while the purebloods who had not yet learned the killing curse and knew that they could not kill people even if they used it used the coma spell.

Almost instantly, green and red lights intertwined in the hall!

At the same time as the spell was released, led by Lucius, the purebloods also rushed out of the corner where they were hiding, using the magic brother fountain as a cover, and began to attack this wizard line group!

The target they chose was very clever. This six-member group happened to be the team led by Moody and Tonks!

The moment he heard the sound of the Death Curse, Moody's professional Auror experience came into play. He shouted "Get Down" and waved his wand to use Transfiguration to turn the stair railing in front of him that was broken in the explosion into an iron shield lying on the ground!

The Death Curse and Stunning Curse hit the shield like raindrops, and Moody had roughly judged the number of people in Lucius's group from the density of the spells.

Now that the Aurors have been completely cleared out, there is only one kind of person who can organize such a group of resistance forces in the manor!

Moody knew that they had encountered a big fish!