Chapter 36: Second Night Attack

Chapter 36: Second Night Attack

Jon panicked and helped Slughorn, who was covered in blood, to his feet from the ground.

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The old walrus' face was bloodless, visibly pale from blood loss, and he fumbled out a vial of potion from the pocket of his robe while waving his hand at Jon.

"Don't worry, I won't die."

At the last moment when the exploding charm started to work, due to the need to protect the student in front of him, Slughorn only had time to use a non-verbal shield charm at the final moment.

The effect of a spell that was cast silently and hurriedly was bound to be diminished, and although that spell saved the life of both him and the student, it also deprived Slughorn of the ability to fight back, and he could only escape to the wagon under the cover of the magic cast by Dumbledore using Apparition.

Lily and McGonagall, who had originally entered the wagon to settle the students heard the commotion and ran out of the wagon.

They saw Slughorn who was covered in blood and drinking a Blood-Replenishing Potion and also saw one after another black-robed wizards with metal masks holding a wand emerging from the woods at the edge of the crimson flames.

These people obviously are not Aurors, even the current Ministry of Magic which is under Voldemort's control, will never let the Aurors who maintain order in the wizarding community confront the public with this ghastly appearance.

On the left sleeve of their robes, there's a tattoo of a serpent shrouded in green poisonous gas passing through a skull, which had revealed the identity of these people.

There is only one organization in the entire wizarding world that is entitled to embroider this symbol called Dark Mark on their clothes -

Death Eaters!

Once that man's die-hard zealots, and now under his personal command alone, with far more power than the wizard escorts known as Auror office.

When they saw the metal masks, it became clear to every Hogwarts professor that this attack differed from the last skirmish.

Lily's hands were trembling.

She looked at all the Death Eaters shrouded in darkness, her eyes filled with bloodshot hatred.

McGonagall who sensed her emotional shift, could not help but frown and speak.

"Lily, you take Horace inside and look after ..."

"Professor!" But she interrupted McGonagall's words with clenched teeth.

Instantly, red and green light shone in this originally black-and-white forest!

Inside the wagon.

When McGonagall and Jon were helping to support Slughorn into the wagon, Hagrid immediately pulled up the reins of the wagon horses, which had been stagnant for almost a day, once again began to run.

After bringing Slughorn into the wagon's hospital room, they all made their way back to the great hall.

The old walrus is not in such a bad state, he has enough means to take care of his injuries as long as he remains conscious, and there is no need to keep someone to look after him.

McGonagall did not forget that there might be someone from the enemy side lurking inside the wagon, and tonight's attack carried out by the Death Eaters confirmed her previous suspicions.

Hogwarts wagon's movements are completely devoid of any sort of pattern, and it would randomly appear anywhere, even Hagrid, who is driving, would not necessarily know ahead of time, where they are actually going this day, so it would not be possible to know its location unless someone had been delivering the route in real-time from inside the wagon!

If the last night attack could be explained as coincidence and luck, then the second attack just three months later, could never possibly be a coincidence.

As a precaution, she once again gathered all the students together inside the great hall, where she personally stood guard.

The happy mood the students originally had at Christmas turned to fear and dread at this moment, everyone huddled inside their sleeping bags, very few people fell asleep, but no one made a sound, only the occasional sobs of a few timid girls rang out.

After entering the great hall, Jon chose a position close to the door to sleep, Neville and the rest of them were confused by his behaviour, because the temperature near the door is the lowest in the whole hall, so no student chose to sleep there.

But Jon did not give them much of an explanation, after burrowing into the sleeping bag distributed by Professor McGonagall, he kept his face towards the door side and waited quietly.

The cold wind from the door crack blew the bangs in front of Jon's forehead, his face felt a little numb, but he did not have the slightest intention of changing the place to sleep peacefully.

He felt that it might be possible that the purpose of those Death Eaters outside was not actually to hold or kill them, but rather it was to ensure that the wagon would be in the present state.

The vast majority of the professors are not present, the students are gathered together, and the whole wagon could be described as completely empty except for the great hall and the hospital room!

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