Chapter 112: Chapter 109
"Oh. Um…music. It falls asleep if you play music." Hermione replied.
Snape's face turned a little purple. He started muttering to himself. Hermione caught some phrases like "senile old coot" and "protecting a legendary artifact using a guard dog that drops with a lullaby" and the occasional swear word in between.
As soon as they reached the corridor, Professor Snape handed Hermione one of the vials.
"We will use it to bypass my trap," he said to her as the only explanation.
Walking up to the door, he slammed it open and before the dog could even do as much as move, conjured up a small violin that started playing itself. The three heads slammed to the floor asleep. He pulled out his wand and levitated the dog from over the trapdoor and Hermione opened it.
Snape looked down the trapdoor before he waved his wand and sent a floating orb of light down the entire fall. The bottom was illuminated. There was pure stone and what looked like ashes there. Snape quickly cast a cushioning charm and jumped down.
With her fingers crossed, Hermione jumped too.
She landed with a small oompf and quickly bounced back onto her legs, only to run after Professor Snape who was already walking as fast as he could down the long passageway.
They came upon a brilliantly lit chamber, with hundreds of winged keys fluttering and tumbling through the air.
Hermione noticed Snape halt to take a long look at the door with a massive hole in it before looking back up at the fluttering wings. A corner of her mind realized that those must have taken hours to enchant. She felt a stab of pity for poor Professor Flitwick, whose hard made trap wasn't even given the consideration of being solved.
They stepped through the hole into the pile of rubble that was the next chamber, which genuinely made her fear for Harry's life more than ever. Snape stared grimly at the rubble for a second before vanishing most of it away with his wand and clearing a path to the next room.
As they entered the chamber and Hermione's eyes adjusted to the relative darkness, the only reason her knees didn't buckle was the calming potion Snape had fed her minutes ago.
A troll was sitting in the middle of the chamber, rubbing its head, which seemed swollen.
"Stay close" Snape said before snapping off a powerful stunning spell at the troll's eyes, which were its weak spot. It should have been knocked out in that one shot.
The spell didn't do anything but make it angry.
"GURH!" it yelled angrily before pushing itself up.
The troll stood to its full height, larger than even the one in Halloween. Hermione whimpered.
"Stupefy! Stupefy! REDUCTO! SECTUMSEMPRA!"
Snape kept sending jet after jet of magic at the troll, only for it to dissipate as if it never hit.
Unknown to him, much like the other troll in Halloween, Quirrell had put magical wards on this troll too, making it immune to most forms of offensive magic.
The troll, now rankled with rage, swept an arm to punch whatever was trying to hurt it.
Hermione dropped to the ground with a loud shriek. Snape, instead, fell prey to the same lack of common sense that wizards often gained by becoming overdependent on magic. Instead of dropping, he started yelling obstructing spells at the incoming hand.
"Impedimenta! Impedimenta IMPEDIMENoompf"
The troll's hand slammed Snape straight across his midsection and sent him flying straight back towards the chess chamber that was previous to this one. The troll ignored Hermione and angrily stomped over to the door that was ten times too small for its size and tried pushing his hand through and grab Snape to wring the life out of him.
Peering through the small gaps, Hermione was relieved to see that while Snape's head was bleeding and he looked unconscious, he was too far for the troll to reach. All she'd have to do was wait for the troll to let up and she could sneak out and try to wake hi-
BOOM! BOOM!BOOM! BOOM!
Hermione's head snapped towards the direction of the explosions which were coming from the next chamber. Any thoughts of helping Snape vanished from her head as she shot like a bullet towards the door that led onward, opening it and passing through before the troll even so much as noticed her.
As the hellfire started up and trapped her inside the room, she eyed the small bottle of potion that she held in her hand. With a swig of the vial of potion and a chill travelling down her body, she stepped through the black hellfire and into the final chamber, helping her friend the only thing on her mind.
An interesting thing about magic draining wards is how they become stronger and larger as they absorb more magic. The ward around the Mirror of Erised, having sucked up the not insignificant amount of magic Voldemort had fed it, had stopped absorbing magic, overfilled for a while.
But as Voldemort's spirit fled, the ward finished assimilating the magic, and without the other protective wards suppressing it; that Voldemort had destroyed; it grew in size to cover the whole room, placing Harry inside the ward's sphere of influence.
Hermione, who had just entered the room through the hellfire, came in contact with the ward's new boundary and let out a gut-wrenching scream as her magic started being slowly ripped away from her body.
Upon hearing her scream, Harry's Gamer's Mind went into overdrive fighting his panic as he forced himself to get to his feet and quickly observed at the now glowing hemisphere of crackling yellow light that Hermione's hand seemed stuck to.
Exhaure Ward
A magic draining ward spell capable of growing, sucking any magic from any creature it touches. Usually used along with suppressors to only magically exhaust the target. When used without them, it can keep absorbing magic and grow upto a hundred meters in radius.
Harry stared aghast at the description. This could end up killing everyone in the school.
He quickly cast an observe and took a look at Hermione's mana,
Hermione Granger Lv-7 (Status: Magical Drainage -1MP per second)
HP: 350/350
MP: 200 . . . . . 199 . . . . .198 . . . . . 197/200
It seemed to be falling slowly, but he still barely had four minutes. Harry tried to remember anything that could help. He tried using Healing on the status. It didn't take.
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