Office of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Harry's stubborn look really made Umbridge very angry.
"Mr Potter, it seems that you really don't intend to reveal who the person you contacted is, right?"
Seeing Harry shake his head, she sneered: "You will tell, I promise. Draco, please go find Professor Snape."
"Yes, Madam Umbridge." Draco walked out of the office with a nasty smile.
The moment he stepped out of the room, his face became filled with worry.
'How did Harry break into Umbridge's office? This is really troublesome, I have to tell Professor Snape the news as soon as possible.'
The Defense Against the Dark Arts office wasn't very far from the dungeons.
When Draco knocked on the door of the Potions Office, Snape was staring intently at the Spirit Purifying Potion in the cauldron.
According to the records in ancient books, the potion is blue like a starry sky, which means that the potion is still two months away from being completed.
Snape watched the potion in the cauldron gradually transforming into starry sky blue, with a faint excitement in his eyes.
"Two more months, about the same as Lucas expected."
"Professor, there is something wrong with Harry!"
Looking at Draco Malfoy who rushed in rashly, the cold light in Snape's eyes flickered away.
If the boy wasn't the son of his friend and his godson. At this moment, he might have become a corpse.
"I've said many times that you have to knock before entering. Since when did you become as reckless as those Gryffindors whose heads are stuffed with troll snot?"
If it was a normal situation, Draco might calm down and apologize first. But now that the situation is critical and he can't care about those things.
"Professor, something happened to Harry."
"Potter?" There was an expression on Snape's indifferent face.
"Yes, he broke into Umbridge's office and was caught red-handed."
Snape nodded calmly, turned and continued to look at the potion in the cauldron.
As the first member of Lucas' instigation plans, Snape knew more than anyone thought.
Lucas also told Dumbledore unreservedly about many things that the headmaster didn't know.
Certainly, Lucas also had Snape's heartfelt approval.
The two are no longer just in a cooperative relationship, but more like a sort of friendship.
So what was going to happen to Potter tonight, he knew it very well.
But hearing Draco tell what happened in the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, he still felt a little shocked inside.
Because Lucas had predicted the current situation three days in advance, and even detailed every sentence of the conversation.
'He's getting more and more scary.' Snape thought.
Waiting until the potion in the cauldron has completely turned a starry blue, he walked to his potions cabinet.
"Professor, what is this?"
Draco saw him take out a bottle of Veritaserum and thought that Snape wanted to use it on Harry.
Before he could utter the words of pleading, the professor poured the veritaserum in the bottle on the ground.
"Remember, I don't have any Veritaserum here."
Draco nodded and Snape turned and walked out of the office.
"Inquisitor Umbridge, what do you want me for?"
"Professor Snape, I would like you to fetch me a bottle of Veritaserum, there is a very stubborn fellow here."
Umbridge looked expectantly at Harry, as if waiting for him to show a frightened expression.
Harry knew Snape's identity so he wanted to ask him for help, to get the professor to find a way to bring the news to Dumbledore.
The innocent messiah was giving Snape winks desperately. It's just a pity that they were all ignored by him.
Snape withdrew his gaze from Harry and turned his head to look at Umbridge beside him: "Sorry, Your Excellency Inquisitor, you just took my last bottle in stock not long ago."
"Have you used it up already? I remember telling you that you only need to use three drops each time."
Umbridge's expression turned slightly awkward.
She didn't answer the question, but repeated her own words sharply.
"I want a potion that will make Potter speak the truth, you have to give it to me right now!"
"Sorry, as I said just now, I don't have any Veritaserum in my inventory. Unless you are willing to wait a month, I can help you to brew it."
"A month?" Umbridge's eyes widened.
She looked at the gloomy man beside her angrily, thinking that he was deliberately trying to embarrass her.
"You just wait, I will tell him, and he will definitely punish you then."
Snape sneered, turned around and walked outside.
"Padfoot, he's got Padfoot!" Harry struggled to shout the words to Snape. But what made him desperate was that the professor didn't respond.
He didn't even pause.
Umbridge was quick to notice the word "Padfoot" and began pressing again, but the results obtained remained unchanged.
So feeling impatient, she drew out her wand.
"It seems that you need to taste some hardships."
"Professor!" Draco held her wrist and said with a flattering smile, "Why bother you, Potter and I have had a grudge for a long time, why don't you let me take them to Filch to entertain them?"
Umbridge thought about it and agreed to his request.
When Draco walked out of the office with Harry and the others, she sat alone in the chair and guessed when Voldemort would take over the Ministry of Magic.
As everyone knows.
It was because of her that Voldemort's important event was almost delayed.
…
Draco was grabbing Harry as he walked across the hall.
Looking at the empty corridor, he relaxed his grip.
"Potter, I will let you taste the whip later, and then don't cry for your father."
"Oh, I forgot, you have no father, what a poor little boy!"
After saying this, Draco was the first to laugh, and Selwyn, who was following behind him, also laughed loudly.
As Voldemort's staunch supporters, the Selwyn family quickly pledged their allegiance to Voldemort after his return.
And Angus Selwyn quickly turned to Draco Malfoy.
The previous conflict between the two families seems to have never happened.
Harry's face turned red instantly at the mention of his father.
But it's not shyness, it's anger.
As Harry's former friend, Draco certainly knew very well how to irritate him.
"Malfoy!" Harry growled, throwing his head back suddenly. And Draco, who was standing behind him, was hit in the nose.
His nose began to bleed and tears flowed instantly.
Draco also took the opportunity to let Harry go.
Ron and the others quickly resisted.
In addition, Pansy and others intentionally let them, and they all broke free from the shackles at once.
"Run!"
Following Harry's yell, several people ran out through the oak gate.
Draco and the others chased after him for a while and didn't give up until Harry and others entered the Forbidden Forest.
Harry, who was hiding in the Forbidden Forest, was very worried at the moment.
"Although we have escaped, how can we get to the Ministry?"
Everyone looked at each other and didn't know what to do for a while.
Parvati looked back at the Forbidden Forest behind her, then suddenly clapped her hands and said, "I have a solution."
Everyone turned their eyes to her.
Parvati pointed to the depths of the Forbidden Forest and said: "My sister Padma once mentioned that Luna Lovegood from her House always feeds thestrals outside the Forbidden Forest…"
"Thestrals are the magical animals that are responsible for pulling Hogwarts' carriages."
"It is said that only those who have seen death can see them, and thestrals fly very fast. If we can find them to help, we can go to the Ministry of Magic."
After hearing this, Harry also thought of the skinny black horses he saw every time he rode in a carriage.
"Come with me, I can see them!"
Not long after, five thestrals soared into the sky, with two of them carrying two people on their backs.
Seven people and five thestrals quickly disappeared into the night sky.
…
Headmaster's office.
Lucas and Dumbledore stood by the window watching Harry's group disappear.
Neither of them spoke.
Because they understand that after tonight, the external situation will undergo earth-shaking changes.
The wizarding world of England will return to the era of Voldemort's "rule" and ordinary wizards will live in constant panic.
However, in order to successfully eliminate Voldemort, they must let it happen.
Dumbledore sighed and said, "Come with me, I have something for you."
Lucas glanced at him curiously and the two came to the bookshelf behind the headmaster's desk.
With Dumbledore waving his wand, the bookshelves immediately parted to the two sides and a rectangular groove appeared in front of the two of them.
Inside the groove, there were four smaller grooves.
Seeing the shape of the groove, Lucas froze for a moment.
Dumbledore's voice came from beside him at this moment.
"Actually, I have planned to tell you since you collected the relics of the four founders, but I have always been worried."
"But now that the war is approaching, I'm afraid that if I don't tell you, I won't have the chance to tell you this secret."
"Now is the time, take out the four relics and place them in the grooves."
Lucas frowned.
"What is the use of this?"
Dumbledore shook his head: "I don't know either. It has been said by word of mouth that if Hogwarts is in a crisis, the four relics should be put into the grooves."
"But they have been lost for a long time, and no one knows the specific function of this mechanism."
Lucas nodded slightly.
Then the four relics were taken out and placed in the grooves one by one.
But when the four relics were put in place, nothing changed around them.
"Strange!" Dumbledore frowned tightly.
Lucas frowned as well, his eyes swept over the four relics and when he saw the Slytherin locket, he suddenly thought of the reason.
He reached out to take the locket back, and then took out the drop of Slytherin's blood that was in the locket.
This drop of blood should be the true relic of Slytherin.
With the blood dripping into the groove, the four relics gradually disappeared, and then an iron box appeared.
The box was so old that it looked like it would break if you touched it.
But the contents of the box were as new as ever.
Looking at the Hogwarts crest inside the box, Lucas was puzzled, but still reached out and picked it up.
As soon as he got the school badge, a message sounded in his mind.
After a few seconds he chuckled and said, "I see. Is this the true meaning of 'Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon'?"
For those who don't know, that's Hogwarts' motto, Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.
Putting the school badge away, he turned to look at Dumbledore next to him.
"Headmaster, it's almost time, and it's time for me to go."
"Well, be careful on the road!"
As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, Lucas' figure disappeared.