Chapter 479: Big Fish (2 in 1)

Chapter 479: Big Fish (2 in 1)

Jon, who was still in the Department of Mysteries, had no idea about what was happening in Carrow Manor.

He was still inside the Time Room conducting a detailed inspection of all the magical artefacts here, one by one, while those Purebloods who had stayed behind were all brought together by Slughorn who had found a reason to have a banquet, so no one would interfere with Jon at this point in time.

As the time entered the second half of the night, Jon had already checked all the hourglasses in the Time Room, and even absorbed some of the more suspicious magical powers, trying to see if it was possible to open the door.

But without exception, they all failed.

In the end, Jon could only place his eyes on the bird ornament, which was the most conspicuous thing in the entire Time Room, because compared to the hourglasses that were constantly dripping with sand, it was a bit more obvious.

At first, Jon didn't bother to look into it in detail because it was too conspicuous, so conspicuous that if someone just came to the Time Room, the first thing they would notice would definitely be it.

According to common sense, if one really wanted to make use of something in this room to make a key to open the door, then one would not normally choose such a conspicuous item.

But Jon couldn't really think of anything else suspicious in the room either, and it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility that Voldemort was using the most dangerous place as the safest.

So Jon set his sights on the bird-shaped ornament and began his own research.

To be honest it was an ancient type of magical timepiece, except that instead of showing the passage of time in the way that an hourglass does, it showed the progression and regression of time through the hatching of the bird from an egg and its transformation from a bird to an egg.

At first glance, one may or may not feel the magic in it, but after a closer look, Jon realised that there was no deep magical mystery in this bird ornament.

The bird that hatched from the egg was just an ordinary specimen of a magical bird, and those liquids that contained it within, although it is a special kind of magical potion, it only worked as a kind of potion to help the object undergo metamorphosis, and there was nothing much more profound about it.

The only thing to note was that the egg from which the bird hatched was a real and living egg.

The potion in the ornament was constantly helping it to change, and that change took the form of this process of having a bird break out of its shell, and then the change effect ended, and so the bird devolved back into the egg's manifestation once more.

From start to finish the egg was unaffected, it was still a living egg, it was just that the morphing potions that enveloped it, while allowing it to undergo magical changes, also prevented it from actually hatching.

Jon stared at this ornament in front of him for a long while, he didn't readily absorb the magic power contained in it, partly because the strength of the magic power that could be absorbed in his ring's gemstone had already reached a limit, and partly because he always felt that he couldn't just violently destroy this thing like this, that would have a very bad consequence.Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

Just as Jon was doing various experiments with the ornament, he suddenly realised that this thing wasn't completely embedded in the top of the desk and that there was a movable clasp underneath the desk, which made it completely possible to remove it from the desk in a smooth manner.

"Click!"

The crisp sound echoed in the quiet Time Room as Jon easily removed the ornament from the desk, and at the same time was able to see a single flap underneath the base of this ornament that would allow it to be opened up!

This was a very important discovery, generally, after this kind of item was made, there should be no need to open it again, just like those other hourglasses in this Time Room, all of them were not designed in a way that the sand in them could be taken out normally.

But this bird-shaped ornament was the only exception.

Without much hesitation, Jon turned the ornament upside down and opened it from the bottom.

It was also the moment he opened it that the egg-to-bird change in the potion suddenly came to an abrupt end, and then those morphing potions evaporated rapidly like drops of water sprinkled on a hot pan, disappearing almost in the blink of an eye! Only the lone egg remained inside.

Jon tilted the cylindrical transparent tube and took out the egg, it was only the size of a normal bird's egg, it didn't look like anything special from the outside, but it could clearly make people feel that there was a weak life still alive inside.

After weighing the egg and observing it for a few moments, Jon tried to bring it to the door that could not be easily spotted.

It wasn't like he couldn't guess the little thoughts of Amycus, if there were others behind them, then they would surely collide with those who had left following the Carrows, and that would be none of his business.

"We only have this one chance!"

Lucius stared at all the purebloods present as he said with a fierce gaze.

"Whether we live or die depends on whether we dare to fight! They are going to encircle the entire Manor, then for them to form such an encircling net, their personnel will inevitably be spread out! According to normal habits, there will be two squads in front of us, that is, a squad of six people, each squad being no more than 30 metres apart, and then the space will be continuously compressed inwards!"

"To this position, the distance between the two squads should already be less than 20 metres, even if they are fast, they can only gather all the people within 50 metres within a short period of time, that is to say, three different squads with a total of 18 people, and our current number of people is far more than theirs, as long as things go well, there is a good chance that we can still rush out! "

Lucius's words made the purebloods around him perk up a lot, if it was really like what he said, then there was indeed a good chance.

But in fact, there are still some possibilities Lucius did not speak out bluntly, generally, this kind of encirclement network will not be only one layer, the innermost layer is now a squad for 20 metres, and if there is an experienced person to lead the troop, the periphery will surely be arranged two more layers of the "big net" along the 20-metre gap, so once they really attracted the attention of the Witching Horizon Wizards, they will not be able to escape from the net. So once they really attract the attention of these Witching Horizon Wizards, there will definitely be more than just three squads of 18 wizards targeting them in the siege.

But now is the time when the purebloods need morale and confidence, so of course Lucius won't say such a truth, he can only hope that everyone's desire to survive here is firm enough, and then maybe a miracle will happen.

Just a little further away, there is also the voice that keeps shouting through the amplifying charm for Aurors to put down their wands and surrender is getting closer and closer, and through that Fountain of Magical Brethren, Lucius can already vaguely see the silhouettes of that group of two Witching Horizons squads when he gave the order to charge!

"Charge!!!"

The purebloods around him were on full alert, and just the moment they heard Lucius' voice ring out, the desire to stay alive took over all of their brains, so they raised their wands in their hands without hesitation!

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Stupefy!"

Those who could use the killing curse naturally used it without hesitation, while the purebloods who hadn't learnt the killing curse ultimately knew that they wouldn't be able to kill anyone even if they used it, so they used the stunning spell.

Almost instantly, green and red lights intertwined in the middle of the open expanse!

At the same time as they had fired the spells, led by Lucius, the purebloods rushed out of this corner where they were hiding, and using that Fountain of Magical Brethren as a cover, they began to start launching an attack on this Witching Horizon squad!

The target they chose was very coincidental, this team of six happened to be the squad led by Moody and Tonks!

The moment he heard the killing curse's incantation sound, Moody's professional Auror experience came into play, he yelled "Lie down", at the same time waved his wand and immediately used transfiguration to turn a handrail of the staircase that was shattered in the explosion in front of him into an iron shield across the ground!

The killing curses and stunning spells struck the shield like rain, and Moody had already roughly judged the number of people in Lucius's group from the denseness of the spells.

Now that the Aurors had all been completely cleared out, there would only be one type of person who could still organise such a group of resistance within the Manor!

Moody knew that they had encountered a big fish!

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