Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

"Um... can it still be operated this way?"

Draco was stunned for a moment, then tentatively called out, "Dobby?"

Sure enough, just as he finished speaking, with a "bang", the figure of the house-elf appeared in the messy box.

"What are you doing? Lycos was right..." Draco felt embarrassed when he saw Dobby. "Tell me, why did you come back?"

"Little master, Dobby... Dobby just..." Dobby sobbed, and big tears kept falling from his eyes which were as big as tennis balls.

As it spoke tremblingly, it was about to hit the table with its head.

"Okay, stop."

Lycos held down Dobby's head to prevent it from banging its head.

"Draco, give me permission. I have some questions I want to ask it alone..."

I don't know when the sky darkened, the air was gloomy, and the high mountains next to the train blocked the slanting sunlight, shrouding the entire train in shadow.

Lycos frowned and looked into the distance, feeling a growing sense of unease in his heart...

"Lumos."

Cedric lit his wand beside him, illuminating the dim carriage.

"Wait a moment, Lycos... look over there." He patted Lycos' arm with the back of his hand, then pointed to the top of the mountain.

Over there, there seemed to be a crimson glow, and around it were clouds of thick black smoke...

Lycos's expression suddenly changed.

It wasn't that the sky darkened, but the entire sky was covered with thick black smoke!

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Chapter 114: Raging Fire

"How is this going?"

Draco looked at the thick smoke that dyed the entire sky ink-black and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Lycos frowned and suddenly thought of a question, so he immediately opened the door of the compartment and turned to walk to the window on the other side of the compartment, next to the corridor.

It's more obvious from the window on this side -

Because there is no towering snow-capped peaks blocking the view, there is a vast plain in the distance. You can see that the red flames have burned very high, almost merging with the thick smoke high in the sky.

"Dobby, you didn't do this...?" Lycos murmured.

"How could it be? Dobby would never do such a thing!" Dobby screamed. "Dobby is a qualified house-elf. He would never disregard the lives of wizards!"

"That's good, that's good..." Lycos breathed a sigh of relief, but then his heart immediately began to pound again. "No, that's not a good thing either... This means there are other forces trying to harm us students."

"Wait, Lecos...what are you talking about?" Draco walked out of the box with a confused look on his face. "Did Dobby do this? Are there other forces involved?"

"Why couldn't it be those stupid Muggles who did something bad and set the surrounding area on fire?"

Draco said nonchalantly as he stood at the window looking at the flames in the distance.

"What's the big deal about this little fire? We can put it out with a water-making spell each!"

"But the premise for using the Water Creation Charm is... that this is truly an ordinary fire caused by Muggles." Lycos sighed, "And those large-scale wildfires in the Muggle world can't be easily extinguished. Some can burn for decades."

"Yes, I also think this is no ordinary flame." Cedric also came over. "Its color is too bright, its scale is too large, and it burns too fast..."

"If it was just a normal fire, it wouldn't have covered every corner of the train before anyone on board could react... and I can't imagine how the flames could be connected to the dark clouds."

Thinking of this, Cedric's expression became a little solemn.

Just as they were talking, two figures suddenly appeared under the dark clouds, with the huge wall of fire as the background. They became bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a pair of red-haired twins.

"Hey, Hayden!" Fred landed on the ground in front of the car window and greeted Lecos.

"Oh, Cedric is here too, what a coincidence." George recognized Cedric next to Lecos.

The Weasleys and the Diggorys both lived in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon. They were neighbors and occasionally played Quidditch together, so they were quite familiar with each other.

However, the two twins ignored Draco tacitly, and did not notice Crabbe and Goyle behind him at all. After all, the Weasley family and the Malfoy family had been on bad terms for many years.

"Fred, George? Why are you riding brooms?" Cedric looked at the two twins in front of him and asked in surprise, "What kind of pranks have you two been up to?"

"Merlin's beard, Cedric, is that the impression you have of us?" Fred complained loudly, sticking his broomstick in the dirt. "Do you think we're just good at mischief?"

"That's not what I meant..." Cedric was stuck.

"That's so sad, Cedric," George echoed. "We just happened to see Hayden and Harry chasing the train on their broomsticks when we were just starting out..."

Fred naturally took over the conversation, "Yes, we thought it was interesting and wanted to try it ourselves!"

They both smirked and blinked at the same time.

"So as soon as the train stopped, we flew out on our brooms... Luckily, we brought our brooms back home during the summer vacation so we could play Quidditch, otherwise we wouldn't have had this opportunity."

"Let's not talk about why you were flying around on brooms..." Lycos interrupted the twins who were still talking and said quickly, "Did you see anything unusual while flying in the sky?"

"That's real!" Fred and George said in unison.

"You can't see it from a distance, but once we get closer, we'll see. Those flames are definitely caused by magic!" George nervously leaned towards the window. "That kind of heat can be felt from a distance!"

"That's right. If you don't believe me, just look at my broom." Fred pulled his seven-star flying broom out of the soil and held it upright in front of Lecos and the others.

"Look here, a large area of ​​the broom handle is burnt, almost bald... We didn't dare to get close, but then a ball of fire turned into a giant bird and flew after us!"

"That scene was so exaggerated. I'm a little scared just thinking about it now." George patted his chest and took a deep breath. "Even though we flew at our fastest speed, that bird was faster than us..."

"We used the Water Creation Charm, the Iron Armor Charm, the Repel Charm... We used all kinds of spells, but we just couldn't repel the Fire Bird."

"Yes, that scene was truly terrifying," Fred nodded, and stuck the broom handle back into the soil, as if afraid it would catch fire again. "Finally, we tried all the spells we knew, and finally found that the Universal Breaking Charm was somewhat effective."

"We were already quite far away from the wall of fire. The Firebird had left the sea of ​​fire for a long time and was burning in the air. I don't know what it was using as fuel..."

Listening to Fred and George chattering outside the window, Lycos felt that their descriptions sounded familiar...

Transforming into a firebird, escaping from the fire source, and flying out in pursuit... these characteristics all seemed to point to a powerful magical flame—

Fiendfyre!

Because the fire shield that Lycos was good at was similar to Lihuo's, he knew very well that—

When this flame becomes strong enough, it can easily destroy almost everything in its path and appear in the form of extremely huge fire beasts and fire magical animals.

As far as Lycos knows, there are only three ways to dissolve powerful flames like Fierce Fire or Fire Shield:

One is that the user, with excellent control, can personally retract the Fiery Curse he cast;

The second method is for a wizard who is more powerful and more familiar with the Grimfire Curse than the one who cast the flame to completely devour the opponent's flame with a more powerful flame, and then return to the first method to take it back;

As for the third point, during the Global Wizarding War, Nicolas Flamel united all the wizards present and used a spell to break the powerful fire shield.

All incantations come to an end (Finite Incantatem).

The universal spell to break the spell, "Finite", is the basic version of the spell that ends all spells.

It would be reasonable for Fred and George to use the Breaking Spell to free the Firebird from the source of the fire.

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Chapter 115 A way to break the situation

"So how did Fred's broom catch on fire?"

Lex glanced at Fred's broomstick stuck in the soil and asked in confusion.

"Didn't you use the Breaking Spell to destroy the Firebird?"

"Oh, this..." said Fred, "Who would have thought that after the big firebird disappeared, it would scatter a lot of sparks, and one of the sparks flew onto the handle of my broom..."

"We didn't pay much attention to it at first, but who knew the wind would ignite the spark again, and it kept getting bigger and bigger..." George took over the conversation, "We had to use several water-generating spells and breaking spells to barely suppress it."

"That's right, otherwise why would I stick the broom into the soil as soon as I got here?" Fred spread his hands.

Lycos nodded and fell silent.

Broomsticks are usually specially made to provide strong protection against flames... so a spark can burn the handle, and this type of flame is even more obvious.

"I now suspect that those crimson flames in the distance... are Fiendfyre."

Lycos looked at everyone standing around and spoke slowly.

"What?!" Cedric was the first to exclaim, "Why would it be Fiendfyre? Who would dare to unleash such a forbidden curse in public?"

"I'm not sure, but judging from Fred and George's description, it's pretty close." Lycos sighed. "Now we have to see what their purpose is. I feel like they're most likely coming for us..."

Then he looked at the Weasley twins and asked, "Apart from the flames, have you found anything else? Have you found a suitable breakthrough point?"

"Nothing." Fred shook his head. "We circled in the sky and saw only the flames completely surrounding us. There was no visible gap in the middle..."

"Oh, that's a bit troublesome." Lycos rubbed his forehead in distress.

"This place is already very remote. We are the only students currently nearby. Add to that the problem with the tracks... I'm afraid those guys who cast Fiendfyre are targeting Hogwarts."

"But who would suddenly appear and target a group of students?" Cedric asked.

Lycos shook his head blankly.

This incident was completely out of the original plot, leaving him feeling somewhat lost...

In Lecos's opinion, the only person who could have such great malice towards a group of students was the Death Eaters in the final period of the original plot.

Moreover, their ultimate goal of attacking Hogwarts Castle was not to kill students, but more to find Harry Potter, eliminate stubborn elements, and promote their own tyranny.

However, Voldemort is still recuperating in the forests of Albania. Most of the other Death Eaters don't know whether Voldemort is dead or alive. Even the fanatical believers who believe he is still alive are mostly in Azkaban...

Obviously, the Death Eaters were unable to organize such a large-scale Fiery Curse.

So... who was it that cast Fiery Flame?

"I think it's just an arson, no big deal." Draco said suddenly, looking nonchalant. "Where's the conductor? He must have a way to notify the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, right?"

"Yes, the Hogwarts Express has always had a comprehensive crisis response process." Cedric nodded and said, "When a problem occurs, the conductor will immediately send a message to Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic."

"The book I read said that there's a two-way mirror on the train that connects to the Ministry of Magic and the Deputy Headmaster's office at Hogwarts. Mr. Scrimgeour in the Auror Office and Professor McGonagall will be the first to know if we're in danger..."

"So I really don't understand what you're worried about." Draco raised his chin proudly.