Chapter 1177

"BAM BAM BAM BAM"

A knock on the door suddenly sounded in the streets of London, but Ginny's hand hurt when she knocked, but no one came to see the familiar door.

No, not even the least response, as if there was no one on the other side of the door.

"... Hermione? What shall we do?"

The Leaky Cauldron bar, which has always been noisy, seems to be gone now. The black oak door of the bar was so closed that there was no response even if someone knocked.

It's like even Tom, the owner of the bar, has left it.

"Maybe it's to keep the fog from entering Diagon Alley, so the Ministry of magic just blocked it?" Hermione thought, but quickly shook her head, "No, normally, it should be a temporary shelter - when the disaster happened in London last time, the broken cauldron bar and St. Mungo were the only two shelters in the city! It's impossible to suddenly decide to block it this time."

After thinking about it, she simply stretched out her wand and pointed it at the door lock. In short, she planned to try whether she could open it from the outside.

But to be honest, Hermione didn't have much confidence in unlocking.

However, just a simple "araho hole opening", the door of the broken cauldron bar opened with a "click".

"Huh?"

As soon as they saw the door opened, they hurried into the bar room, although they thought it seemed incredibly smooth.

After a little observation, it was not surprising that there was no one in the bar from the bar counter to the small round tables for guests, and the whole bar was in a rare silence.

It is worth mentioning that the closed door seems to be closed only after the event, because the bar is also filled with quite strong fog. However, the amount of fog is not as much as it seems to block out the sun outside.

Hermione closed the oak door again with her backhand in order to keep the fog from coming in and prevent the visibility in the bar from decreasing.

"Well?"

Suddenly, Luna stretched out her neck and frowned as if she smelled something when the wings of her nose closed slightly.

"Do you smell anything?"

"What?" Ron sniffed, but soon scratched his head in doubt. "No? Well... If you have to say, it's the smell of wine? And the musty smell that old Tom can't get rid of..."

But Ginny, who was next to him, frowned.

"Is there a strange smell, like... Bloody smell?" her expression became more and more serious, and her heart became more and more worried.

This is, Hermione also raised her eyebrows, greeted several friends and said:

"I smell it, too. Is it from the stairs? Someone may have been hurt... Upstairs! Let's go up and have a look..."

Looking at the three girls, it seemed as if they had determined the direction of the smell and ran to the stairs leading to the guest room on the second floor. Ron couldn't help but be stunned in situ.

"Is my nose broken? Or are girls naturally more sensitive to smell than boys?"

Of course, the current situation didn't give him much time to think about this kind of problem. After a little pause, he hurried to catch up.

When several people quickly climbed the stairs and ran to the corridor on the second floor, the large blood stains left here immediately proved that Luna and others did not have a wrong sense of smell.

Although the blood in the corridor began to solidify, obviously not left in a short time, several stalls of blood still left a lot of disgusting smell.

Someone was injured here. It seems that the injury is not light, and... There may be more than one person!

As soon as we saw so many blood stains that had turned dark red, we all took an uncomfortable step back, and then stood in the corridor and looked at each other for a while.

"It seems that London is not just foggy..."

Because they flew directly by Hermione's broom, they didn't encounter any black wizards on the way, so until now, everyone realized this under the reminder of these blood stains.

"All in all, take the wand! Let's open the door and have a look!"

Hermione stared at the shocking blood, said to everyone without looking back, and then took the lead in walking towards the door nearest to the stairway.

Like the bar doors downstairs, none of the doors of these guest rooms has been applied with a protective spell. Basically, they are easily opened with an unlocking spell.

Even they found that two doors were simply open, and the items inside were very messy. It can be seen that the guest living here must have left in a hurry.

Unfortunately, in addition to these situations, it seems that people can't find more valuable information. Including they searched downstairs as thoroughly as possible, but they didn't get any more results.

"Go to Diagon Alley... I hope there are at least people there."

After seeing the misery of the Leaky Cauldron bar, they just hope that Diagon lane is not like the bar and can't see a person. If there is no one there, they really don't know where to go.

A moment later, the four kept a certain degree of vigilance and came to the backyard of the bar. Then they saw that the wall with magic was wide open. Standing in the yard, they could directly see the street of Diagon Alley.

When they saw this scene, their hearts sank - it was obvious that Diagon Alley had been invaded, and it seemed that they had forcibly opened and destroyed the magic brick wall as the entrance.

A little stunned, Hermione was the first to recover. She quickly motioned for everyone to keep quiet, and then took the other three people to one side.

After they all leaned against the wall and hid, Hermione closed her mouth, leaned her head slightly, and glanced hurriedly into the diagonal lane.

"How's it going?" Ron quickly lowered his voice as Hermione shrank back.

Hermione blinked at him, then shook her head strangely.

"I think... We'd better go straight in!"

"Huh?"

Before Ron could react, he saw a man suddenly come in outside the open courtyard wall, which frightened him and hurriedly raised his wand.

"Why are you here?"

Everyone didn't expect that Sirius came in.

He just looked at the wand pointing to him at random, and then continued to say:

"It's very dangerous here now. A large number of black wizards are walking around in the fog and hurting people... I don't know how you came here, but I think you've seen it. Even Diagon lane has been attacked."

"So... How's Diagon Alley now?" Hermione asked immediately.

Sirius shrugged when he heard this.

"I beat those guys back for the time being. There's no one outside now, right? But I guess they should come again... Don't stand here and talk, come first!"

Then he turned and walked back, and Hermione and others hurried to follow.

As soon as they got into the street of Diagon lane, Ron and they realized why Hermione looked so strange just now.

It turned out that many Aurors and black wizard batters were standing on both sides of the back wall of the courtyard. Her previous probe must have found that she was being watched by a large group of people.

Oh, I think it must be very subtle!

Among these people, they also saw several familiar figures, such as Tonks and other members of the order of the Phoenix who had met several times in the past.

As she followed Sirius in, Ginny suddenly asked:

"Sirius, is Percy here? Or has he been here?"

"Percy?" Sirius paused, and then suddenly said, "Oh, is it your brother Percy Weasley? No, he hasn't been here... At least we haven't seen him since we came here."

At this point, he turned and said:

"But your parents have been here and said they came to find their two sons and daughter-in-law. Because London is really in danger, I wanted to keep them, but they both insisted on leaving. In order to ensure their safety, I sent several Aurors to accompany them to find someone..."

"Oh! Thank you, Sirius," Ron said gratefully.

As soon as Sirius heard this, he waved his hand casually and suddenly said:

"By the way, don't go away - the magical power of those black wizards is somewhat unexpected, and I can't assign any more people. As for looking for someone, I've contacted lupin, and he will arrange others to search."

"Oh, but -"

Ron was about to say something, but Hermione secretly pulled his clothes and made him stop suddenly.

"We know."

After Sirius placed them in the nearby crucible shop for the time being, Ron looked at each other and left. He looked at Hermione in doubt.

"Why didn't you just talk to Sirius directly?" he said. "You know, Sirius is different from other adults. He hasn't been very opposed to our actions."

"That's why I won't let you talk to him in detail," Hermione glared at him. "Didn't you hear all that? He doesn't have enough hands here. If we explicitly say we want to go, it will only embarrass him! You say, if he divides people again for our safety, and then puts himself in danger because of the lack of defense..."

"Ah! That's really not good," Ron nodded immediately. "So... What shall we do next? Do we have to leave?"

"Of course," Hermione said. "After all, Percy's situation must be very bad now! But before I leave, I want to ask someone about the situation - remember what Sirius just mentioned? There seem to be many very dangerous black wizards outside!"