Chapter 288 - 288 He is not dead yet

Chapter 288: Chapter 288 He is not dead yet

On the other side, earlier.

At the edge of the Quidditch field at Hogwarts, Snape, who had not paid much attention to the game, suddenly stood up, hurriedly pulled Dumbledore from the judges' seat, and came to an empty corner outside the maze.

"Do you know what happened in the maze?" he asked anxiously.

"What's wrong, Severus?" Dumbledore asked curiously, "Did you find any problems?"

Snape suddenly rolled up the wide sleeve of his left arm, revealing the hot and red Dark Mark.

"This is..." Dumbledore's expression also became solemn.

"This is the Dark Lord calling his servants!" Snape said heavily, with an unconcealable irritation on his face, "He's back, Headmaster, at this time! At this time when no one knows whether Potter is in trouble!"

Dumbledore's face finally changed.

"Where is Professor Dracula?" he asked quickly. "Isn't he always in the maze? If he is here, the chances of Harry getting into trouble are not high..."

"Also, when Voldemort summons the Death Eaters, you should respond immediately... With what happened to Tom before, he should trust you more than other Death Eaters. Don't waste this trust."

"No, he told me to stay in Hogwarts at that time. I can say that I can't get rid of your attention..." Snape said with an ugly face, "I want to know what happened in the maze now."

Just then, a strange little girl with half white and half black hair suddenly fell from the air.

"You are the principal of this school, right?" She looked up and down at Dumbledore's long white hair and beard, and asked.

"Yes, you are..." Dumbledore asked doubtfully.

He could clearly feel that the little girl in front of him was not the same as the wizard's magic, and the dark meaning was very obvious. She looked like a... vampire.

"It doesn't matter who I am. Anyway, he asked me to be a temporary security guard, so I came here." Selina said casually, "I wanted to go to the judges' seat to talk to the principal, but I couldn't find him. Fortunately, I heard someone talking here and came here."

"Excuse me, this 'he' is Professor Dracula, right?" Dumbledore asked politely.

"Who else can it be except him?" Selina curled her lips, "I was thrown here as a temporary security guard without even saying it clearly, and I have such a heavy workload right at the beginning..."

"Wait, you mean, Dracula is not on the scene now?" Snape's expression suddenly froze.

"Well, he suddenly has other things to do." Selina said as a matter of course.

As she spoke, she clapped her hands.

Dumbledore and Snape only then noticed that two people who were originally floating behind Selina were now placed on the ground in front of them.

"I picked up these two little guys in the maze, and now I'm handing them over to you." Selina said.

Judging from their appearance, Selina is younger than Fleur and John, but she calls the two warriors "little guys", which makes Snape feel awkward.

"Are these two... Miss Delacour and Mr. Kowalski?" Dumbledore didn't care about Selina's age. He looked at the two people on the ground and asked Selina, "After Mr. Krum, did they also have trouble..."

Dumbledore frowned tightly.

"There may be some problems here... I don't think there is anything in the maze that would prevent Mr. Kowalski from even casting the red spark."

Then, he looked at Selina with a serious expression and asked, "Madam, what was the state of these two warriors when you saw them?"

"This girl must have been unconscious for a long time. She was already like this when I got there." Selina said thoughtfully, "As for this boy, he was originally attacking the other two boys..."

"Don't worry, wait until I finish... I guess he was controlled by the Imperius Curse, so I knocked him out and brought him out."

"How could he be controlled by the Imperius Curse when he was playing the game?" Dumbledore asked in a deep voice, "What about the other two warriors? How are they?"

"They were not far from the trophy. After I help them get rid of the boy controlled by the Imperius Curse, the game should be over soon." Selina said.

He took out his wand and cast several complex and powerful healing spells on Cedric in succession, but none of them worked.

"Severus, do you have any ideas?"

Dumbledore looked at Snape who came with him and asked softly.

"You should have figured it out... He's dead." Snape said expressionlessly, but his eyes looked a little dim. "I don't know why his soul didn't dissipate, but his body is completely dead."

"No... How is that possible!" Harry still held Cedric's wrist tightly, tears filling his eyes involuntarily. "He was clearly wearing the amulet made by Professor Dracula. The amulet can resist the Cruciatus Curse for me, and it should also be able to resist the Killing Curse..."

Dumbledore's eyes moved, and he found two identical inverted cross pendants on Cedric's neck.

Both pendants were bright red like blood.

"They have both taken effect, and they should have resisted a powerful black magic respectively." Dumbledore said softly.

"Two amulets..." Harry muttered, "Yes, Qiu Zhang should have given her share of the pendant to Cedric, how could Cedric get into trouble?"

"Harry, the killing curse is different from any other dark magic." Dumbledore said in a sad tone, "The killing curse is a spell that works on the rule level and cannot be completely resisted by any defense."

"But... Professor Dracula..." Harry still refused to accept his fate.

Obviously, this glimmer of hope has just risen, how can it be extinguished so easily?

"Enough, Harry, let him go." Fudge said standing by, "Amos Diggory is coming, let his father see him again."

Fudge began to twist Harry's fingers, trying to make him let go of Cedric's "corpse", but Harry still held on tightly.

Then Dumbledore's face came closer, still unclear.

"Harry, you can't help him, it's over. Let go." He said.

"It was clearly a trap for me..." Harry murmured in a low voice, "Why did Cedric get hurt... It's all my fault, I shouldn't have suggested that we win together..."

"It's okay, Harry, I don't blame you." Dumbledore said softly, "Let go..."

Dumbledore leaned down and helped Harry stand up with extraordinary strength for a thin old man. Harry staggered, as if there was a hammer hitting his head, and his injured leg could not support the weight of his body.

He vaguely saw that Amos Diggory, who had met him twice, fell beside Cedric, and a witch burst into tears... and many girls from Hogwarts were also sobbing softly.

...

When Dracula solved Andros's troubles and dealt with the despicable Herpo, he came back to see such a sad scene everywhere.

"Can anyone tell me what happened?" Dracula casually grabbed a girl who was sobbing in a deserted place and asked with a frown.

"Professor Dracula, where did you go just now?" The girl who was pulled over sobbed and cried to Dracula, "Cedric... Cedric he... he died! I had clearly put my amulet on him before the game, I just hope he won't get into trouble..."

Dracula then noticed that the girl he pulled over was Cedric's girlfriend, Qiu Zhang, a fifth-year student in Ravenclaw.

"Where is he?" Dracula's face darkened and became extremely scary, "Tell me, where is Cedric now!"

Qiu Zhang wiped his tears and pointed his finger to the center of the lawn.

Dracula's figure disappeared from the spot and instantly appeared on the lawn surrounded by the crowd.

"Get out of my way!"

As his cold words fell, the dense crowd was suddenly pushed aside by an irresistible force, leaving a wide passage for Dracula.

Dracula walked over to Cedric and looked at Amos Diggory and Mrs. Diggory who were crying bitterly.

"Let him go first, you two." He took a deep breath and said in a low voice,

"He's not dead yet."