Homecoming from Hogwarts

Chapter 268 Ferry
Amosta led the way, leading two people and a house elf fish through the Shuomen Cave. In an instant, time and space changed, and a very strange scene appeared in front of them.

Although I heard Kreacher narrate it before, the real scene I saw with my own eyes shocked the soul much more powerfully than words.

They were standing on the shore of a large black lake. The lake was so vast and endless that they couldn't even see the opposite bank in the distance. It was conceivable that there was probably an underground river at the bottom of the lake connected to the sea.

This is a huge hollow inside the mountain, and the cave is so high that even if the light from the magic wand in Amosta's hand is bright enough, they cannot see the top of the cave.

Far away, as if in the middle of the lake, there was a dim, green light shining, reflected in the dead lake below, except for the green light and the brilliance of Amosta's wand, the surrounding area was completely empty. The thick, insoluble darkness seemed to be denser and thicker than ordinary darkness. Just looking directly at it could make one despair.

Kreacher curled up in fear, while Sirius and Remus were also shocked by this unearthly scene, speechless for a moment.

Anti-apparition, no-flying, no-summoning, magic-power ban, curse--Amosta squinted his eyes, staring at the space above the lake, filled with countless types of powerful magic, his complexion darkened slightly.

Such a huge magical project is by no means a day's work.

It is conceivable how much effort Voldemort spent to protect his Horcrux.

And when Amosta's eyes fell on the mirror-like flat black lake, he narrowed his eyes, and his whole body exuded a faint hostility.

It's a corpse!
Infernal Corpse is not a scary thing, even, Amosta himself used Infernal Corpse to give lessons to little wizards, but...
Just in the area covered by his eyes, Amosta 'saw' hundreds of infernal corpses. Judging from the clothes of these corpses, they were all Muggles, and among these Muggles, there were men and women. , There are old people, there are children, and even, Amosta saw a baby with edema all over his body, who looked like he was only one or two years old!
By analogy to the entire Great Lake, there are at least tens of thousands of Muggles who were buried on the lake and turned into corpses by magic!

Massacre, only the inhuman massacre of Muggles can produce such a large number of corpses, and there is no record or report of this extremely brutal massacre in the magic world today, perhaps because it is too brutal. The situation of condemnation, even the entire wizarding world will be distracted, so the Ministry of Magic and the Muggle government chose to conceal it at the same time.

"what happened to you?"

Both Remus and Sirius asked in unison.

They are not students who have just graduated from Hogwarts, but experienced adult wizards, and they can all sense the strong killing intent lingering around Amosta who is gazing at the black lake. The killing intent was so cold that even both of them had the urge to turn their heads and run away.

"nothing--"

Amosta exhaled lightly, suppressing his emotions in his heart.

"Kreacher, Regulus back then."

Sirius thought about his younger brother, and soon he stopped worrying about Amosta's abnormal state. He lowered his head to look at Kreacher at his feet, his voice was thickly nasal, mixed with a trace of uncontrollable sadness,

"Back then, where was it?"

"There's an island in the middle of the lake, Master Sirius—"

Kreacher whimpered, it didn't dare to face Regulus' death directly, covered its big gray eyes and pointed in the direction of the green light with its slender fingers,
"Kreacher was there at the time and saw Master Regulus being dragged into the water by the hands of those corpses."

Hearing Kreacher's words, Sirius rushed forward immediately, as if he wanted to slip off the shore and swim over as before.

"Wait, Sirius!"

Remus grabbed his arm,

"Have you forgotten what Kreacher said, there are ghost corpses in this lake, and there may be a lot of them!"

"Let go of me, Remus!" Sirius yelled, "I'm going to find Regulus, those Inferi can't stop me!"

Remus wanted to persuade him again, but Amosta said flatly,
"He wants to die, why do you stop him?"

When Amosta said that, Sirius fell silent instead, and stopped trying to jump into the lake.

"Do you remember where that boat was, Kreacher?"

Seeing Sirius quiet down, Amosta turned his gaze to Kreacher.

"Kreacher remembers being there, Mr. Blaine."

For so many years, Kreacher has been secretly trying to destroy the locket. Every time he fails, he will seduce the scene of Regulus's death that he doesn't want to recall. Hearing the question, he jumped out from Sirius' side, sideways Leaning against the rock wall, he led them to the right.

A few minutes later, they stopped at another location, but there was nothing there.

"Kreacher forgot the exact location of the ship."

Kreacher said in a trembling voice, punishing itself by banging its head against the rock wall.

Remus stopped it from self-harming, and when he was about to question Amosta, he saw Amosta pass by Kreacher, hurried forward, and finally stopped thirty feet away from them .

"I think I've found it."

Amosta stuck his hand out of the rocky path where only one person could walk, grabbed something, and then tapped his fist with the wand in the other hand.

Immediately, a thick green copper chain suddenly emerged from the lake, and quickly stretched towards the shore, until it reached into Amosta's clenched fist. Seeing this, Amosta's left hand slammed After the last pull, the copper chain suddenly ran wild, and it made a loud sound, quickly pulling a small boat out of the bottom of the lake.

"If you hadn't known the situation beforehand, Amosta,"

Remus hurried over, staring at Amosta's expressionless face, and said in a strange voice,

"I might think you've been here many times."

"How did you discover it?"

Sirius was also expressing his wonder.

"Where there is magic, the concentration of magic power will be different from that of the surrounding environment. As long as wizards with a little better perception, they should be able to find the clues--"

Amosta looked at the wizard leaning against the shore, who could only carry two people at most, with a thoughtful expression on his face,

"This is probably the obstacle Voldemort set up to prevent too many wizards from approaching the locket at the same time."

"Why can't we let this boat make two extra trips?"

Sirius said puzzledly.

"I don't think the ship will automatically return once it reaches the island, unless it senses that the person on the island is dead and, well, the mana meter. Got it, it's not weight that counts, it's mana—"

No one could understand what Amostar was talking to himself, so Remus and Sirius also gave up thinking, and they waited impatiently for him to say what to do next.

Amosta did not hesitate, he took a step forward, and jumped to the center of the boat neatly, and the moment the cabin fell, the boat fell heavily, and the waterline grew five or six inches upwards, and the hull Shaking violently, it looked like it was about to overturn at any moment.

"Come back, Amosta!"

The two people on the shore yelled in unison. They used their hands to catch Amosta standing in the middle of the cabin, trying to drag him back to the shore, because it is not hard to guess what will happen if he falls into the water. matter.

But after rocking, the boat eventually stabilized and nothing happened.

Amosta looked at the edge of the boat, and there was only an inch left before the lake would go over the side of the boat and submerge into the cabin. Then he looked at Sirius and Remus on the shore, and Amosta made a rough estimate. After reading it, I suddenly knew what was going on in my heart.

"Kreacher can Apparate to the middle of the lake, you two, come up, it won't be a big problem."

In fact, the problem still exists.

Both Sirius and Remus are adult wizards of normal size. Although their magic power will not cause too much burden on the ship, their size is indeed a big problem for the small cabin.

Amosta went through a lot of twists and turns, turning Sirius into Lenny, and Remus stepped into the boat with Lenny in his arms, and the fact was just as Amosta said, the boat was halfway down. Inches later, it swayed for a while, then calmed down again.

"Let's go--"

Following Amosta's calm words, the boat vibrated for a bit, accelerated gently from a static state, and slowly sailed towards the island in the lake.
(End of this chapter)