Chapter 1045 “Burial”

Harry chased the swamp and dug for a while, and the surroundings became more and more strange. The muddy swamp gradually became solid land again, and a gloomy grove appeared in the fog of the swamp.

This small forest is extremely quiet and makes people feel creepy. Thick dead leaves cover a winding path in the forest like unfortunate lives that have lost their support.

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew from the top of the tree, causing the branches to wave wildly, but the wind did not blow downward, and the dead leaves on the ground did not move at all, so it looked particularly strange.

"Harry Potter..."

A hoarse voice came from deep in the forest, sounding like a hopeless sigh.

"Potter!"

Just when Harry was unsure whether he should climb up and take a look, there were footsteps behind him.

"Did you call me just now?"

Harry asked the unknown man in black.

"Of course it's me. Who else is here besides us?" the man in black asked inexplicably.

"What's your name?" Harry asked.

"Why do you ask this?" the man asked in alarm.

"It should have a name."

"You can call me wormwood." The man in black said.

"You joined the Death Eaters?"

Wormwood ignored Harry and pointed his fluorescent wand at the weird forest. The forest path looked very long.

"Are you going to check this place out?" Wormwood asked.

"That's the idea."

"Then why don't you act?"

"Because, I don't think it's a good idea to act without authorization." Harry raised his wand and fired a red spark into the sky, just like he did in the maze during the Triwizard Tournament, and then walked onto the dry soil

, found a stone and sat down.

Wu Miao also found a stone to sit on. They waited for a while, but no one came.

"No one seems to have seen our signal," said Wormwood.

"Wait a moment." Harry said cautiously.

"The fog in the swamp is too thick." Wormwood said, "Maybe there is nothing suspicious about this forest."

"Do you think we can investigate first?"

Wormwood stood up and took the lead to walk deeper into the forest, followed closely by Harry.

After walking about a dozen yards, they found a fence, just like the kind used on a farm, and there were some farm tools scattered in the woods, as if this place had once been a farm.

They walked forward for a while, and then they came across a lonely gatehouse. The trees began to become sparse, and rose vines were crawling everywhere. Maybe it used to be a garden, but now it has become overgrown with weeds due to lack of people to take care of it.

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After passing through a ruined wall that seemed to be the entrance, Harry saw a strange-shaped tree, all kinds of tangled, twisted, and gnarled. The roots of the tree were winding around the surface of a fountain like a grapevine. From the roots of the tree,

In the gap, you can see an incomplete stone tablet carved on the sandstone, which looks majestic and strange.

A dark green bird suddenly flew over their heads.

Harry and Wormwood followed it until it landed in a teardrop-shaped nest made of thorns hanging from the top of the weird tree branch.

It was an augur with a sad expression and a short body, looking a bit like a malnourished vulture.

"I remember you had a white owl." Wormwood looked at the augur and said, "That bird is much cuter than it."

Harry pursed his lips tightly and did not answer. After all, Hedwig was not a phoenix. She would die after being hit by the Unforgivable Curse and could not be reborn.

This kind of Irish phoenix was regarded by the wizard as a harbinger of death, so he and Wormwood were careful to avoid the big tree.

When they reached a clearing, Harry's scar suddenly began to hurt without warning.

He was in so much pain that he couldn't help but reach out to cover the scar on his forehead. He could hardly see with his eyes, and his head was about to split, as if someone was trying to pry open his skull with a chisel.

"Merlin..." Wormwood groaned loudly.

"What's wrong?" Harry narrowed his eyes and came to Absinthe's side.

The area behind the fountain that should have been a garden has now been dug up, because the burial was very perfunctory. After being exposed to the sun and rain, human bones can be seen exposed on the land, stretching as far as the eye can see, like a sea of ​​bones.

Making dementors requires Muggles, and Muggles cannot fly. When Voldemort returned in 1997, a large number of Muggles disappeared, and not all of them were eaten by werewolves.

"Do you think this is one of his 'farms' or have we found the headquarters?" Harry asked.

Wu Ai opened her eyes wide, as if she had lost the ability to speak.

Dementors once helped Malfoy escape from Azkaban. If Voldemort and Peter Pedro were planning to go to Scotland, they would have to fly across the sea.

Harry understood why Voldemort came to this place.

This is a "farm" similar to a death camp, and the "crops" grown are monsters like dementors.

But what do they grow mandrakes for?

Harry remembered what he had encountered in second grade. Mandrake could be used to make a resuscitation potion. Maybe there might be a basilisk on this island or even in the swamp.

"Let's go!" Harry pulled Wormwood and quickly turned back.

On the way back, he saw a lot of climbing nets and some traces of magic. It seemed that someone had trained here.

It seems that he is not only looking for the dementors, but also his former subordinates.

Harry thought a little desperately, and his steps became faster than before.

Just as they passed the big tree, the fortune teller suddenly screamed, the sound was like a cry of distress. Then, the forest seemed to come alive, and the branches were trembling even if there was no wind.

"Ah~"

There was a cry like a baby.

Harry recognized the sound. It was the cry of a mandrake seedling.

Then the cries became more frequent and louder, and Harry and Absinthe were rolling around on the ground before leaving the strange forest before the cries became fatal.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, as the forest woke up, a group of black-robed monsters slowly rose into the sky.

The water where they passed turned to ice, and all the happiness disappeared. Harry tried to use Apparition, but found that it couldn't be used.

"Can you use Invocation Guard?" Harry asked Wormwood.

"No, use that spell quickly!" Wormwood yelled.

"I..." Harry looked at the overwhelming Dementors. He was not sure that his Patronus could drive them away.

This is different from the last time in the Forbidden Forest, because at that time the dementors had to obey the orders of the Ministry of Magic and could not harm wizards outside of Azkaban.

I don't know if it was his imagination, but there was a dwarf standing in the mist not far away.

He looked to be about the same height as a six or seven-year-old child. He was wearing a hooded cloak, and a large part of his face was blocked by the hood. Only his silver and blue hair could be seen.

Next to him stood an even more illusory figure, and as a gust of wind blew by, they both disappeared into the fog.

Not long after, the noisy forest became quiet, and the dementors that came out in droves returned to the forest as if the rewind button had been pressed, as if nothing had happened.

"Am I dreaming?" Wormwood said to himself.

"Don't be in a daze, let's go!" Harry grabbed Wormwood's arm and continued running wildly, meeting Blaise Zabini on the way.

The group of people didn't bother to say anything and ran back directly. They didn't stop until they were near the castle to catch their breath, because they could apparate at this place.

"You...what did you do? There are so many dementors, why are they gone?" Blaise asked.

Harry didn't answer him.

Although he was once a Quidditch player, he was no longer as good as he was when he was young due to neglect of exercise after working.

"I understand what happened here." Harry said in a hoarse voice, "Let's go back."

A few people almost couldn't wait to disapparate.

"Can you tell me what happened?" Blaise asked.

"You can ask him." Harry pointed at the wormwood and said, "I'm going to see my friends. See you at St. Mungo's."

After saying that, he apparated in front of Zabini.
Chapter completed!