The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

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"Everyone keep quiet!"

Neville's roar was mixed with the aftermath of the explosion just now.

This sudden scene made almost everyone present look at him in surprise.

If the change in everyone's cognition from Neville's transformation from low self-esteem to self-confidence can be described as 'refresh', then the scene just now was completely 'subversive'.

Everyone is really unimaginable.

The cowardly chubby boy in the past actually had such a brutal side.

Under the influence of his power, everyone instinctively quieted down.

Even the girls who were crying together before were no exception.

But looking at all this, Neville, who had been stern before, was a little more flustered and helpless.

His throat twitched violently, then quietly looked at Hermione, and said in a low voice:

"Hermione... Hermione! What now?"

Hermione was also in a state of shock, and she finally came to her senses after hearing the words. After a few "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" she hurried over, looked at the crowd and said:

"I believe everyone has heard the alarm just now, what I need everyone to do now is to stay in the common room honestly, don't run around, don't fight, the most important thing is, please keep quiet! Please believe me, as a prefect, I will never harm you. You may not obey my orders in the past, but today, please obey my orders! Because we, and even the whole of Hogwarts, are welcoming A huge disaster. At least until the professors have completely solved the problem, we must not hold them back!"

"But...but..."

Ron stammered, and as soon as he spoke, the surrounding eyes immediately converged, which made the bare-legged Ron a little flustered, "Hermione, are you sure we want to stay in the common room, not Should we go to the auditorium to gather? I remember that in the past, if there was an emergency, we would all go to the auditorium, such as when the Forbidden Forest was on fire, and when Sirius broke into Hogwarts."

As soon as Ron finished speaking, there were many echoing voices.

It's just that the voice is not very loud, obviously the speaker has not yet come out of the shock caused by Neville just now.

Hermione glared at Ron viciously.

Originally, with the help of Neville, she was already about to control the situation, but she didn't expect Ron to jump out at a critical moment.

This is simply the perfect pig teammate.

But at this time, Hermione didn't have time to talk to Ron anymore.

She just said with an extremely ugly face:

"If it's just a general emergency, we should indeed go to the auditorium to receive the centralized protection of the professors. But do you know what the alarm just now means?"

No one spoke at all in the audience, and Neville only echoed softly when Hermione was embarrassed to announce the answer directly.

Hermione glanced at Neville excitedly, and then continued:

"What we heard just now was the highest level of disaster alarm! If you are familiar with "Hogwarts-A School History", you should understand what it means! You must know this kind of alarm, but it was not in the Big Four back then. Created during the war-torn period when Hogwarts was founded. Its representative meaning is that Hogwarts encountered an unprecedented invasion of powerful enemies, which is likely to bring a devastating disaster to Hogwarts! In this At any moment, all the protective forces in Hogwarts will be concentrated against foreign enemies, and there is no way to protect us! So please don't go out, this is the only thing we can do!"

The audience was silent.

Hermione is quite famous throughout Hogwarts.

She was known as Miss Know-It-All, although the nickname was slightly pejorative when it was first proposed by Snape.

But it also proved Hermione's erudition on the other hand.

People may question Hermione's character and character, but they will never question her knowledge.

This,

It also made everyone panic.

The girls started crying again.

However, unlike before, they were covering their mouths hard this time to prevent themselves from making too much noise.

It's as if if one's voice is louder, monsters will be attracted.

The boys all lowered their heads. Although they were also very quiet, they all gritted their teeth, very unwilling.

Hermione finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She felt that her eyes were a little astringent and her nose was a little sour.

In fact she wanted to cry very much too.

But as the prefect of Gryffindor, at this juncture, he couldn't show any cowardice.

Because if she cried too, what would the other students do?

Hermione rubbed her nose vigorously to suppress the sourness.

Then she turned her head to look in the direction of the bedroom.

There should still be a lot of quilts piled up there, maybe I should organize some people to transfer them all over.

And of course, there's food.

Only in this way can we better appease the students in these common rooms.

With that in mind, Hermione was about to set off to do it.

But at this moment, Neville, who had been silent before, suddenly said loudly:

"Hermione, you just said that the alarm means that Hogwarts has encountered an unprecedented invasion of powerful enemies and is on the verge of destruction?"

Hermione nodded subconsciously.

Then Neville said with a resolute expression:

"Then I'm sorry, Hermione, I can't follow your orders and stay here! I'm going out to help and fight with the professors!"

"Neville! You know you're talking..."

"The battle outside is very dangerous. I might die if I go out. Of course I know that!" Neville interrupted Hermione, "But I'm a student at Hogwarts! I'm a member of the D.A. Army , and Hogwarts is my home, how can I just sit back and watch it be invaded without being moved!"

Hermione blushed and shouted angrily:

"You don't understand how terrible death is! And the professors...the professors don't want you to go out and mix in at this time. Compared with the little help they might be able to help, they I hope you can live safely!"

Neville ignored Hermione's words at all, and silently pulled out his wand and walked towards the exit of the lounge.

During the whole process, he never said a word to ask others to follow him.

His figure was still a little fat, but at this moment, looking at his back, everyone present felt a powerful force.

"Wait!"

Finally, a man stood up growling, "I'll go with you!"

Neville turned his head back with a smile, but after seeing the face of the person who spoke, he showed a surprised expression.

Because that person was the senior Gryffindor whose teeth were knocked out by his punch just now.

His face was even bruised at the moment.

But he heard him say viciously:

"I will return that punch to you sooner or later, but now, as a member of the D.A. Army, I also want to fight against foreign enemies!"

His answer changed the tense atmosphere at the scene just now.

Everyone was silent for a while.

Then several people stood up roaring angrily.

Immediately afterwards, there were several more people.

In the end, except for some girls and students of lower grades who were forcibly pushed down by others in the lounge, the rest of the students stood in front of Neville.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Hermione's face turned pale, while Neville's lips were trembling slightly.

He clenched his fists, suppressing the excitement in his heart and said:

"Okay! Then let's go together and save Hogwarts!"

"etc!"

Ron's voice suddenly sounded, "Of course I have to go. But before you go, does any of you know where Harry is?"

"What Harry? Isn't he with you?"

Hermione asked back with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course not! When Neville and I came out of the dormitory, he seemed to be no longer in the dormitory!" Ron said hurriedly, "I thought he had already come out? Could it be..."

Ron's words stopped abruptly, and Hermione's expression gradually became flustered.

Both are aware of a dire possibility.

Harry...won't he go out for a night tour again?

Or go out alone!

So isn't his current situation...

Neville sighed deeply, but there was a little more determination on his face.

He stared at the people in front of him and said solemnly:

"Then it looks like we have another reason to go out!"

...

More than ten minutes later.

Fully dressed Gryffindors gathered at the entrance to the common room.

The portrait of the Fat Lady has long since disappeared.

The Gryffindor students have long been familiar with this.

The fat lady is a spineless portrait, and she is not the first to run away alone in danger.

As for the question of how they would get out of the common room without the fat lady, it was not a big deal in everyone's opinion.

Because just as Snape had thought earlier.

Although there are a lot of protective magic on the outer wall of the Gryffindor common room linking the outer corridor, it is not indestructible after all.

Ever since, under the joint bombardment of everyone, the front wall was completely blasted through in a short while.

And in the process, the empty portrait of the fat lady was also blown to pieces.

This is obviously revenge for the fat lady's funk.

It's a pity that the fat lady herself probably has no face to jump out to appeal again.

"So where are we going next? Dear Commander Longbottom!"

As soon as she came out of the dusty ruins of the wall, Hermione said in a particularly emphatic tone.

This made the look on Neville's face a bit dumbfounded.

Hermione's quotes had too much weirdness in them.

Of course Neville also knew that Hermione was angry at him for fighting her in the waiting room just now.

If it were normal, he would definitely not accept the name 'Commander Longbottom', but would directly apologize to Hermione.

But looking at the pair of bright eyes following him out at this moment, Neville finally took a deep breath and said:

"Go to the foyer and the auditorium first! Those two places are the last places where professors may exist, and whether we want to save Hogwarts or find Harry, we cannot do without the help of professors!"

"Then it's decided! Let's go!"

Ron said dryly, and then took the lead in thinking about the dark and deep corridor in the distance.

Seeing this, Neville and Hermione shook their heads, but they still led people to chase after them.

It was clear to everyone that Ron was worried about Harry.

The crowd quickly poured into the darkness under the cover of the Silent Curse and the Fluorescent Curse.

Pure darkness isn't actually the scariest thing.

In particular, everyone still has sparkling sparks on the tip of their sticks as lighting.

So everyone walking in the dark corridor was still in high spirits. Except for Ron and Neville who were walking in the front, a few people in the back of the team were still talking in low voices.

However, when they walked out of the corridor and stepped onto the covered bridge connecting the Gryffindor tower to the main body of Hogwarts, all this changed.

The cold fog at midnight in winter is extremely thick, and the already thin moonlight has become invisible after penetrating the dense fog and entering the covered bridge along the arched window.

But even such a dim light reflected each other with the sparks on everyone's wands, casting shadows layer upon layer.

The Whomping Willow not far away is slowly stretching its dead branches and leaves, and its weird afterimages are constantly moving in front of everyone, like devil claws, trying to catch everyone.

In such an environment, everyone finally lost their previous thoughts.

The tense heartstrings made them hold their breath and look cautious.

But in the main body of Hogwarts Castle, which is a little closer, bursts of dazzling afterglow of spells burst out from time to time, as well as screams and roars, which made everyone's bodies soaked in cold fear even more. Some heat.

That's the heat from the fire of vengeance!

Because the bursts of brilliance and screams that erupted in the castle represented their compatriots who were in a hard fight!

And their duty is to support and save!

At this moment, everyone gritted their teeth.

At this moment, the speed of the entire Gryffindor advancing team actually increased instead of decreasing!

There is a fire in everyone's heart!

But just when this was supposed to be full of energy, Ron, who was walking in the front row, suddenly stopped.

Nahmin behind him almost ran into him in a hurry.

Originally, she wanted to complain, but when she looked down at Ron's dull gaze, Hermione couldn't help covering her mouth.

I saw a shallow claw mark on the stone bridge under their feet.

The scratches were bright red, the blood was still wet, and there were even pieces of broken nails scattered around, and the shape did not look like a beast, but human.

The most important thing was that the claw marks continued intermittently until they reached the darkness at the end of the covered bridge not far in front of them.

All these combined with each other, and Hermione even had a picture of a person being dragged into the darkness in Hermione's mind.

"Neville, what...how?"

Hermione whispered instinctively.

At this time, more and more students found abnormalities on the ground, and from time to time there would be bursts of gasps and suppressed exclamations from the crowd.

Looking at the panicked crowd, Neville gritted his teeth and answered with his own actions.

He shook his wand, extinguished the light at the tip of the wand, and resolutely walked towards the darkness.