Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 193 Hostage Rescue Operation (Part )

Experts will know if there is one as soon as they take action.

As the only legally violent department in the Ministry of Magic, everyone in the Auror Office is good at combat.

Even if he is an Auror who mainly does some detective work rather than a striker in real front-line combat, his combat prowess is by no means comparable to that of ordinary wizards.

Before the attack could be launched, Kingsley Shacklebolt sealed the house using a confusion spell kept secret by the Auror Office.

This kind of confusion spell is different from the "Anti-Apparition Curse". In the area locked by it, even house elves have a hard time bringing people around.

Of course, what he did also led to Dobby's failure to save people just now, but this situation is difficult to avoid when there is information asymmetry.

Thanks to Bourne's quick hands and eyes, otherwise, the house elf would probably have to answer here today.

After sneak-attacking two old hags and rescuing Dobby, Bourne threw the little guy into the closet under the stairs, and left a stunned Dudley with a sentence: "I am one of my own, please be honest." Here, leave the matter of rescuing people to me."

Immediately afterwards, he closed the closet door and used a transformation spell to make the closet door disappear.

At this moment, Kingsley Shacklebolt and the others also broke into the Dursley's house, and Bourne almost immediately cast the Disillusionment Curse on himself.

Now, it is not suitable for him to show up. After all, there will be a confession game to be staged here soon.
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The old hag, who had been transformed into a prototype by Bourne's chain lightning version of "Everything Petrified", was immediately taken care of by Tonks and Delis.

No way, who made them look ugly?

Delis swung his wrist from side to side in an elegant manner, and fired "Expelliarmus" at the two monsters at the same time.

Although the spell he fired was neither deep nor lasting in terms of quality, it was better than "fast".

In the entire Auror office, there were few wizards who could cast spells faster than him.

With just one attack, the wands in the hands of the two old hags were all thrown away by Delis.

Tonks, who was skimming the formation on the side, also cooperated skillfully with his colleague Delis.

While studying at Hogwarts, Tonks was extremely good at the Transfiguration Charm (she was a rare Metamorphmagus). Professor McGonagall had even wondered whether the Sorting Hat was too stupid to sort this promising child into Gryffindor House.

With a fluttering "Vero Veto", Tonks easily transformed a large leather sofa into a lion. The color of this lion's mane was exactly the same as the color of the leather of the sofa. After it was transformed, he shook his head and pounced on the two old hags who had their wands thrown away.

Relying on its weight, this male lion immediately overwhelmed the two old hags who had transformed into their original appearance, and their heads were about to hit the ceiling. Ignoring them scratching and biting him, it waved its powerful front paws, started working from side to side, and each of them gave them a big ear post.

"boom--!"

"boom--!"

One old hag was beaten to death on the spot, bleeding from all her orifices, and fainted immediately; the other old hag struggled to stand up and escape, but was bitten off one of her legs by the agile lion.

"what's the situation?"

The sound of fierce fighting downstairs could not be hidden from Mrs. Zabini and others upstairs.

However, as soon as the figure of an old hag appeared from the corner of the stairs, Kingsley Shacklebolt, who had been prepared for a long time, launched a powerful "fainting" on her.

Don't look at the name of this spell. But in fact, if an average person is hit by several shots in a row, they are likely to die suddenly on the spot.

In particular, for a wizard like Kingsley Shacklebolt who is good at fighting, not everyone can catch the stupor he unleashes.

At least, not that hapless old hag.

The guy was directly hit by an invisible shock wave, and the whole person was directly knocked out, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

The three old hags received the lunch boxes as soon as they appeared, and the pressure immediately spread to Mrs. Zabini.

Staying upstairs, she couldn't care less about Blaise Zabini hiding in the bathroom. She immediately screamed for her two remaining men to quickly use the special skills of the Dominatrix Reform Committee.

"Use poison, use poison quickly!"

Immediately afterwards, a round-bellied flask with the cork unscrewed was thrown down from the second floor, bouncing down the stairs and emitting black smoke.

Seeing Shacklebolt twisting his wrist in the opposite direction, as if he wanted to use the "Alarte Ascendare" spell, Arthur Weasley quickly reached out and took his arm.

"Don't use this spell, it will explode!"

While speaking, Arthur Weasley did not recite any spells, he just pointed forward with his wand.

He seemed to be using a variant of the "Flocking Birds Curse": his wand instantly sprayed out swarms of mustelids instead of birds.

(Note: In English, the word 'Weasley' means 'weasel'.)
They climbed up the stairs in a swarm, and in groups, they held the bottleneck of the flask in their mouths and "supported" it back up the stairs. The rest rushed up to the second floor of the Dursley's house without losing strength.

Soon, a woman’s scream and the sound of feet jumping “bang, bang, bang” came from the second floor.

Maybe she was driven into a hurry, and I don’t know if it was Mrs. Zabini, but someone among the old hags on the second floor recited a "blasting curse" to the floor.

The spell blew down the ceiling on the first floor of the Dursley's house. Tonks and Durx tried their best to avoid being hit by the falling ceiling. But the two old hags on the first floor were not so lucky. Together with the lion transformed by Tonks, they were all buried under large blocks of ceiling.

The splashing smoke and dust suddenly reduced the visibility in the room to extremely low, almost to the point where you could hardly see your fingers. Mr. Weasley and the three Aurors, Shacklebolt, were all on guard, guarding against anything that might come from the smoke. Sneak attack in the direction.

However, what they didn't expect was that Mrs. Zabini and the remaining two old hags were "sneak attacked" by others first - they wanted to make a sneak attack, but they forgot about the fireplace on the first floor. There was also a big pot on the table.

Bourne had put a porcupine quill into the pot a few minutes ago!

However, I don’t know whether the effect of the old hag’s blood (magic stabilizer) was too good, or whether the spike he put in was too small compared to the amount of medicine in a large pot.

Anyway, it had been simmering for several minutes, and the veritaserum in the pot was almost ready, but the big pot had not exploded yet.

It wasn't until the people upstairs punched through the ceiling that the whole house shook violently, and the potion simmering on the fire finally reached a certain critical point.

"歘,歘,歘——!"

Like a fountain, the nearly boiled Veritaserum sprang out of the pot, splashing and sloshing around.

Because they were the closest (jumping down from the big hole between the second floor and the first floor), Mrs. Zabini and her two old hag minions deserved the most care.

They were forcefully "fed" a dose of truth serum, and it was (literally) given while it was hot.

"Ahhhh——!"

The three of them were immediately burned to the point of screaming. A sneak attack was impossible, so they might as well use some tougher methods.

However, the accident happened again.

A gust of wind rushed into the Dursley's house like a herd of frightened buffalo.

Everyone present was blown around. Tonks, who was relatively light, even had to hold on to Delis next to her to prevent herself from being blown to the ground by the gust of wind. But this gust of wind was fierce and fierce, and it went away as quickly as it came. After replacing the remaining air in the house, the gust of wind broke through a window on the second floor and rushed out of the house.

Obviously, this gust of wind is not a natural phenomenon, but someone is casting magic on the Dursleys. It should be "whirlwind sweep", but it's just a little more powerful. Fortunately, the strong wind did not cause the house to collapse toward the geometric center, otherwise Dursley's home would have been lost.

Even that doesn't matter, because the old man who summoned this strong wind can actually restore the entire house to its original appearance with a wave of his wrist.

"Sorry, I'm a little late."

Dumbledore, wearing a wizard's robe decorated with moon and star patterns, lowered his head and walked into the door of the Dursley's house.

And walking in with him was a man with a sinking face. His greasy hair, coupled with his expression as if someone owed him eight ounces of money, showed that this man's mood and happiness at this time had nothing to do with it.

"The letter sent to Hogwarts Castle was delivered to me by Severus when I was not in school at the time." Dumbledore said to Shacklebolt.

When the old man was talking, he didn't even look at Mrs. Zabini and the others, whose faces were ashen, but they still didn't dare to move.

"At that time, I was still visiting patients at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies... and it turned out there were still two patients."

Dumbledore sighed and said in a helpless tone, seeming to mean something.

"After receiving the letter, I had to announce the contents of the letter to the two patients I was visiting - because this matter was closely related to them, and they should have the right to know - I It took a lot of effort to persuade those two people not to rush to Privet Drive."

While speaking, his eyes looked at a certain position behind Mrs. Zabini...

Byrne knew he had been discovered.

Sure enough, things like the Disillusionment Curse are a joke in front of powerful wizards.

He simply stopped pretending and directly revealed his figure.

However, he still pointed the wand that had been turned into a bolt gun at Mrs. Zabini's head, and the other hand reached for the deformed lizard skin purse - to bring the bolt gun and the chain sword. Let me ask you clearly - to be a good person, you must keep your word.

"Sorry, Principal Dumbledore." Bourne said with some embarrassment: "I didn't expect these people to come to Privet Drive and take hostages - Harry, his aunt's family, and their family today. Two guests. However, apart from being a little frightened, they did not suffer any other injuries."

Professor Snape also confirmed this at this time. He carefully checked the physical conditions of these people and also released Dudley who was hidden in the closet under the stairs by Bourne.

I don't know if Dobby and Dudley exchanged anything. Anyway, after coming out, this little chubby guy didn't mention the house elves at all. He was just more concerned about his motionless father and mother.

Snape had no time to coax the child. He just carefully examined Harry Potter's body and cast two small spells with his wand.

"The other Muggles are fine. They were just temporarily petrified by the curse, which is equivalent to falling asleep. They will wake up naturally in a few hours."

"As for that Harry Potter...

Hmm, it seems that not only did he suffer all the petrification spells, but also because he cast several powerful spells in succession, his body was overloaded, so he needed to rest for about a whole night. No big deal, I'll give him some tonic in a while, and he'll be fine tomorrow morning.

With such thin arms and legs, he still wants to imitate others and engage in a curse duel with a dark wizard. This kid simply doesn't know what the world is. "

Hearing Snape's complaints, Bourne couldn't help but secretly grin.

If you had been a little more perfunctory when examining Harry Potter, I might have truly believed what you said - even some symptoms of debility caused by the use of spells were discovered, even when the therapist at St. Mungo's examined the patient's body. , I guess he didn’t check it as carefully as Professor Snape did just now.

what is this?
This is an example of verbal integrity.

After confirming the physical condition of Harry Potter and others, Snape focused his attention on the three "witches" in the room headed by Mrs. Zabini, but he suddenly shrugged his nose. .

He frowned and said: "Vulture bile, Burlocka grass, half-eared grass buds... these are the ingredients in the formula of truth serum!"

Soon, he saw the cauldron still hanging on the fireplace, but at this time the fireplace had been extinguished by the previous strong wind.

Snape used his wand to lightly tap the solution that sputtered on the side of the cauldron, looked at it with his eyes, and sniffed it with a puff.

"Yes, this is Veritaserum."

His expression suddenly became extremely ugly.

"The solution in this pot is about one-third less. If people drink it, even a wizard will become a madman or an idiot, even if the person who drinks it will not have any physical problems."

He was really worried about Harry Potter.

"Don't worry."

Because he was worried that the professor would strike Mrs. Zabini in anger and prevent his questioning from proceeding, Bourne could only explain one sentence to these guys.

“I saw them making veritaserum, so I secretly threw a porcupine quill into it.

No one drank the potion in the pot, but it was sprayed out before it was almost ready to be brewed.

Now, the three behind-the-scenes committee members of the Dominatrix Reform Committee were almost all sprayed with the pot of fake potion. "

Byrne expressed three meanings in three sentences in a row:
First, Harry Potter and several other Muggles present are fine, so there is no need to worry too much;
Secondly, that Mrs. Zabini and her men are all members of the Dominatrix Reform Committee;

Third, truth serum is not only effective if you drink it. It can actually have an effect on normal people as long as it is touched on the skin - at best, it is less effective than taking it orally - not to mention, if it is sprayed on Mrs. Zabini and others The Veritaserum on her body was only one-third of a cauldron, enough for them to tell the truth.

"So……"

Dumbledore had something like a lighter in his hand. He opened the lid and fiddled with it a little.

An invisible barrier immediately spread from this alchemical item, covering the entire Dursley's house and everyone in the house.

As a "modestly accomplished" expert in alchemy, Dumbledore, in addition to researching the twelve uses of dragon's blood with Nick Flamel, this item called "Deluminator" was his The only alchemical creation I have ever made with my own hands.

Compared with the fame that the former brought to Dumbledore, the reputation of the latter is almost nothing worth mentioning.

Even those who know about this alchemical item only think that it is a gadget that Dumbledore used to practice when he was young. Its function is to extinguish the light emitted by non-magical light sources around it.

Maybe it can be used to do weird things, such as being able to extinguish some Muggle lights at will, but that's all it can do.

However, in fact, the magical principle used by this deluminator is much more complicated than its name suggests.

Even with Dumbledore's current ability, he was not sure that he could make a second Deluminator again.

Because Dumbledore was only in his early twenties when he made the Deluminator.

At that time, he was the most bold and preferred to innovate, and he even did not hesitate to do some very extraordinary things for this purpose.

For example, breaking the laws of the Ministry of Magic.

(End of this chapter)