"Ron!!!"
The sudden turn of events startled Harry.
How could Harry possibly expect that there would be a fourth person present in the middle of the night, other than himself, Ron, and Filch, who was chasing behind him?
And this person also attacked Ron for no reason at all.
Luckily, the location of the explosion was still some distance away from Ron, and Ron was only knocked away by the explosion's shockwave and didn't seem to have suffered any serious injuries.
Andy revealed his form and waved his wand again, the dead branches on the ground turned into ropes and tied Ron up tightly.
"Andy! It's you?" Harry gasped.
"Harry!" Andy nodded at Harry before looking at Ron with a cautious face, wand in hand, and slowly approaching Ron one step at a time.
"What, what the hell is going on here?" Harry asked with a shocked look on his face.
He looked over at Ron, "How's Ron doing?"
Andy didn't answer, and in a few steps, he had come as close as within ten metres of Ron.
Ron was bundled up on the ground like a caterpillar, he tilted his head awkwardly, his blue eyes staring at Andy in disbelief.
"Andy Collins ..." Ron uttered in a creepy voice.
"Ron!"
Harry exclaimed, he rushed to Andy's side and looked at Ron with a panicked look on his face, "Andy, is Ron being controlled?"
"By the looks of it, yes!" Andy nodded, not continuing to approach Ron.
"What should we do now?" Harry asked anxiously.
"Huff, huff, huff!"
Filch panted, running over, his face filled with excitement as if he had done something great, "Haha, look who I've caught! Potter, Weasley, and the famous Collins."
Andy: "..."
Shouldn't it be the famous Harry Potter?
Also, are you sure you caught us?
Filch glanced at Ron, who had collapsed on the ground, and his expression became even more excited, a grim smile appearing at the corners of his mouth, "Are you boys fighting? I'll be sure to suggest for you three to be locked in the basement by Sir Dumbledore, there are plenty of fun little toys there."
"Gulp!"
Harry swallowed as he stammered out an explanation, "Ron is being controlled, we're doing this to save Ron!"
Filch grinned, "You can explain those reasons to Dumbledore and see if he believes what you say. All I see is that you are the ones controlling him."
Filch said as he walked towards Ron, looking like he intended to untie the ropes from Ron's body.
"An, Andy?" Harry looked at Andy at a loss for words.
Ron is being controlled, but Ron is his friend. Although Filch was annoying, he was a member of the Hogwarts faculty.
When faced with such a situation, the righteous protagonist tended to be clueless.
"Don't rush, let's have a look first." Andy was unmoved.
If Ron were only being controlled by Imperius Curse, then Filch would not be in any danger.
But if the one controlling Ron is Voldemort's Horcrux ... then it won't be unreasonable to let Filch go over there and try his luck.
As for whether Filch can save Ron... Andy does not think that a Squib can do such a thing.
Seeing Harry standing by like a minion, Andy couldn't help but remind him, "Harry, get your wand out."
"Erm ... okay!" Harry took out his wand.
The quality of the young wizards in this session was so poor that they didn't even know to take out their wands when they encountered a crisis.
Filch walked over to Ron and fiddled with the rope on Ron.
That was altered by Transfiguration, so the whole rope was one and the same, and there was no such thing as a knotted hook at all.
It couldn't be untied.
"Collins, remove your magic!" Filch said.
Harry turned his head to Andy hastily.
Ron is now in an unstable situation, so he doesn't want Andy to lift his magic. But then again, Filch was a member of the school's faculty, and they couldn't refuse Filch's orders.
Andy didn't even look at Filch, but stared intently into Ron's eyes, his Occlumency spell operating at full power, as he blandly said, "What if I don't lift it?"
Ron didn't say anything, Filch suddenly got up and looked at Andy with a hideous expression on his face, and his voice was a little sharp, "Collins, lift your magic, or I'll have Sir Dumbledore expel you from Hogwarts."
Andy's wand pointed up a bit, and a bright white magic beam shot out swiftly and instantly, Filch's entire body flew backwards more than three metres away, and collapsed on the ground unconscious.
"Andy!!!" Harry opened his mouth wide and he looked at Andy with incomparable shock.
You attacked the professor ... Well, Filch is just a caretaker.
But ...
He is still an employee of Hogwarts.
May I ask which student dares to attack the school staff?
Andy glanced at Harry, "As long as you don't say anything, no one will know."
"Of course, I won't say anything." Harry had always been righteous in this regard.
"Andy, what about Ron?" Harry continued to ask.
After watching Filch's reaction just now, Andy was pretty sure that Voldemort's Horcrux was on Ron's body.
Andy glanced back in the direction of the castle.
If there were no surprise, there would be another person holding back Dumbledore tonight.
That was the original holder of the Horcrux, but now he/she should have been controlled by the Imperius Curse.
"Andy Collins ..."
Ron stared at Andy dead in the eyes, his voice raspy and completely different from the usual Ron, "You should have been to that lab already, right?"
"You, who are not a Slytherin descendant, were able to discover that place, I have to say, you are a very brilliant young wizard."
Harry exclaimed, "Ron, what's wrong with you?"
Andy said calmly, "Voldemort, no more pretending?"
"Voldemort!?" Harry looked at Ron in shock.
"You're very decisive!"
Ron, or rather a fragment of Voldemort's soul said, "Dumbledore has been lured away by me, that guy is senile, so it was actually quite easy to fool him."
"Your presence was actually unexpected."
Voldemort's soul fragment continued, "It was because of your appearance that Dumbledore was able to comfortably focus on the other end."
So it turned out like that!
Andy raised his eyebrows, "But you still miscalculated."
Like Voldemort said, Andy was too decisive.
Andy didn't care about hurting Ron at all, much less Filch.
After noticing the abnormality, Andy immediately made a decisive move.
If Andy had not dared to make a move because he was concerned about hurting Ron, at this moment, Ron would have long run into the forbidden forest.
In that case, Voldemort could control Ron to use Apparition at any time.
Not only that, after discovering Ron's abnormality, Andy even let Filch go over to try and determine whether Ron was controlled by the Imperius Curse or Voldemort's Horcrux.
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