Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 705

Snape stretched his arms, his whole figure seemed to fit into the world tree,
The skin, flesh and blood are closely connected with the wooden texture.

With his eyes closed and his head bowed, as if he didn't even breathe, his figure gradually became woody, melting into the gully of the World Tree.

"This this……"

Rufus Scrimgeour was terribly surprised when he saw the appearance of Snape's body, and backed away again and again, almost falling off the cage ladder behind him.

It was McGuffin who stretched out his wand and pulled this guy, so that he didn't let him experience a high-altitude fall.

Of course, Scrimgeour was so surprised, not to mention Harry, who had been at odds with Snape.

Harry Potter, he couldn't imagine that this guy who always made trouble for him and made him think he was a Death Eater... actually paid such a high price for them...to kill Voldemort.

Harry peeked at... the expression of Snape's phantom, and then turned to look at Dumbledore who was smaller than him beside him.

He yelled, swallowed, and finally remained silent...

He didn't know what to say.

DeLS Malfoy was frightened by this scene and screamed, breaking the silence here.

She even startled Fox, the phoenix that had been hovering around them all the time,

Fox screamed a few times, flapped his wings, and flew to the tree trunk on the left side, where there was a bird's nest the size of a car.

It was built from the leaves and branches of the golden tree, and an old and half-rotten stone spear.

(The spear straddles the ravine and gets stuck there...supporting the entire bird's nest, allowing it to be built in mid-air)

This small nest is an ellipsoid, very common bird's nest shape.

The phoenix folded its golden-red wings, and continued to make high-pitched, melodious, ethereal and beautiful music, which gradually calmed down everyone's emotions.

De LS was still screaming, Lucius Malfoy could only cough twice, and pulled her back to his side.

After stopping the German LS guy from losing control, everyone withdrew their attention and looked at Severus Snape's body again.

"What's going on here?" Scrimgeour and Lucius lowered their heads almost at the same time and asked Dumbledore after seeing that Snape's phantom next to them was not in the mood to answer their own questions.

Dumbledore's wooden beard twitched stiffly, he sighed lightly with a disappointed expression on his face, and didn't mention much about the reasons why Snape became like this.

He just vaguely said to several people: ... This is his original backup plan. When things develop the worst possibility, Snape can use the characteristics of [World Tree] to protect Harry and defeat Voldemort.

"According to the original plan, in fact Snape doesn't have to go this far... However, it's fine now... to deal with [Jormungandr], and now Snape's form can avoid the sacrifice of others..."

"Okay, Lucius...give me back that gem that I asked you to give to Albert?" Dumbledore said, and at the same time stretched out the wooden claw to Lucius.

After Dumbledore got the thing, he straightened his arms, held the resurrection stone, and pressed it on Snape's gradually lignified forehead.

Then, he nodded to Professor Snape beside him.

Snape grimaced, like a ghost, and returned...attached to his body.

"McGuffin, activate the magic power in the wands of the two Thestral tail feathers, and tap on Professor Snape's left and right wrists..."

"Harry, your Invisibility Cloak..."

"And Mr. Malfoy, please take some of the blood of LS and fill this crystal bottle..."

Dumbledore directed everyone, and finally he took out a small crystal bottle the size of two fingers from his cloak, and handed it to Lucius Malfoy, who looked puzzled.

Lucius Malfoy originally wanted to ask why he needed the blood of his daughter Dilson, but when he saw Dumbledore's inscrutable face (in fact, the wooden face, it was impossible to detect any expression from it), and associating the only special feature of Dilson, he didn't have much to say.

However, Rufus Scrimgeour couldn't help the doubts and worries in his heart, and he asked, "Albus...what's the point of all you do..."

"I remember I should have told you guys? The three elements to break through the boundaries of magic power..."

"Connection, shielding, magic power..." Rufus said slowly.

"Well, but I didn't fully explain one point. The Three Deathly Hallows are not just a symbol of these three elements. They are products that break through the boundaries of magic power... So if we want to fight against [Jomungandr], we need some magic power beyond the limit, such as intercepting the power to awaken the World Tree."

"And at this time, the three holy artifacts are indispensable elements...they can greatly reduce certain elements and sacrifices necessary for us to activate magic rituals..."

As Dumbledore spoke, he asked Harry to unfold the Invisibility Cloak and put it on Snape, and asked McGuffin to tap two wands on Snape's wrists...and reached out to take the small crystal vial filled with blood that Lucius handed over.

"Kud LS Malfoy, why do you need this girl's blood..."

"Not only his, but Harry's and McGuffin's..." Dumbledore motioned for McGuffin and Harry to draw their own blood, before explaining to Rufus and the others.

"The three of them are very special. Not to mention Harry's connection with Voldemort, which used to be one of the pillars of that magical ceremony. McGuffin has a Thestral tail feather wand, which can touch the boundaries of magic..."

"De LS is the subject of another magic ceremony. In that magic ceremony, we borrowed the power of the World Tree that just woke up... She has the residual magic power of the World Tree in her body, so we need the blood of De LS, and the blood of Harry and the three of them as an introduction to start the magic ceremony."

"You said that you have borrowed the power of the World Tree, what's going on?" Scrimgeour immediately noticed the unknown information in Dumbledore's words.

"Well, that was when the World Tree was just awakened. At that time, we could break through the World Tree's defense mechanism...to borrow its power. But now that the World Tree has grown to such an extent, we have to use it, wake it up...the price we have to pay is probably not much less than Voldemort... You must know that evil guy, in order to activate the magic ceremony..."

"Sacrificed the whole city..."

Scrimgeour murmured unconsciously, and he immediately remembered...the scene where Voldemort's magic ritual completely destroyed London and turned countless Muggles into living corpses.

Dumbledore stretched and softened his wooden fingers into the shape of a long pen, sucked the mixed blood of the three people in the crystal bottle, and then wrote many complicated magic runes around Snape's body little by little.

And instructed Lucius Malfoy to inject his own magic power into the joints of those runes one by one, completely lighting up all the magic runes.

The blood-colored runes exuded a golden light, and like tadpoles, they swam around Snape, even attached to the invisibility cloak.

"Okay, gentlemen..." Dumbledore paused, and after glancing at DeLS Malfoy, he added, "...ladies..."

"For the next magic ceremony, we must be more vigilant and be extremely careful... We only have one chance to awaken the power of the World Tree to fight against [Jomungard]..."

After saying this, Rufus Scrimgeour suddenly interrupted Dumbledore, "Wait, Albus... In this case, why did you call Lucius Malfoy over? You must know that he was not on our side just now, in case he has ulterior motives..."

Harry nodded secretly in his heart, and he also very much agreed with this.

Lucius' face darkened.

He immediately huffed and said in a strange way, "Yes, Albus...Although I was only forced to do some small things for him because of Voldemort's threat, obviously some people don't think so..."

"Although I want to do something to make up for the mistakes I have made, since it is such an important matter, let the great Minister Rufus Scrimgeour arrange some more trustworthy Aurors to come over?"

Dumbledore shook his head, then nodded, "Rufus...it's not like that."

"Personally, I trust Mr. Lucius Malfoy, he will not disrupt our magical ritual."

"...Although in other aspects, Mr. Malfoy may have a little disagreement with us. He said on this point, he should understand that if [Jormungandr] cannot be stopped,...his family, the entire Malfoy family...will not be repeated."

"Besides, in this magic ceremony, we must need three sacrifices, three witnesses, three law enforcers, and three inevitable pillars as anchors... And because the last time he used the power of the World Tree to heal De LS Malfoy, and Mr. Malfoy was there at the time..."

"So he and Miss de LS are undoubtedly indispensable elements of this magical ceremony. We need them both. Rufus..."

Dumbledore looked at Scrimgeour, and said in a deep voice.

"Okay... okay! But the sacrifice?" Rufus asked again about the terrible words in Dumbledore's words.

It sounds like something to do with black magic.

"Me, Snape, and MacGuffin can be sacrificed..."

"what!"

McGuffin yelled out in fright, he really didn't expect... the old bee hit his head again.

——Sacrifice!Listening to this vocabulary, you know it's not a fun thing.

"It's okay, Albert...you should have seen Voldemort use himself, Nagia...and Harry as anchors, sacrifices, and pillars, right?"

"The power of the World Tree and [Jomungandr] is too far beyond the limits of ordinary magic, and it is simply not something that humans can accommodate and use... To bear its power, we must have three pillars to share its cost and disperse the pollution of its magic power, so that we can use it reluctantly."

"Compared to Voldemort, we can't... and don't need to use his methods."

"I separated the functions of... the three pillars in the magic ceremony, imitating Voldemort's magic ceremony and... the specifications of the magic ceremony we used to perform on DeLS Malfoy."

"In this way... the price we will have to pay will be very small, and we will not deeply integrate ourselves with [Joermungandr] like Voldemort..."

"But the sacrifice..." McGuffin was still extremely worried.

"It doesn't matter, the sacrifice is not a price to pay, but an element that meets the specifications of the magic ceremony..."

Speaking of which, Dumbledore pointed to himself, Snape, and McGuffin said respectively, "In my body, the intense emotion that is missing in Snape's soul, your heart..."

Shirui, it turned out to be waiting for me here.

"It's all missing, it's a part that just meets the requirements of the magic ritual...it can be used as a sacrifice"

"Don't worry, Albert, when this is over, we just use the power of the World Tree to restore your heart to its original state, and it is even possible to restore everything to its original state..."

After Dumbledore finished speaking, he turned back and pointed to the black and red sky in the distance, and the approaching [Jomungarde], and said, "Okay, gentlemen, we don't have much time... let's get started!"

"McGuffin... not only your heart must be sacrificed. You must also be witnesses with DeLS Malfoy and Harry... You are the most critical connection point in the whole ceremony... You are also under the greatest pressure, so you must be careful..."

said the old bee at last.

"Okay, let's get started... First, McGuffin, give me your heart?"

That sounds so weird!
After muttering a few words in his heart, McGuffin had no choice but to take out the box containing his heart from the pocket where he had cast the [Untraceable Stretch Curse].

Under the disbelieving gazes of others, Dumbledore took over and opened the box.

Under the fuchsia velvet cushion, a heart glowing with ruby ​​was beating slowly in the box.

At this time, everyone really believed what Dumbledore said.

McGuffin is indeed a careless person now.

Shir!
Looking at the weird gazes in everyone's eyes, McGuffin cursed again in his heart.

"Okay, Mr. Albert, inject magic power?"

McGuffin reluctantly raised the wands of two Thestral tail feathers, and tapped them on Snape's wrists.Then, according to Dumbledore's instructions, activate the connection between the magic power in the wand and those runes, and float it around Snape.

"Severus... get ready!"

After Dumbledore finished speaking, his figure shrank rapidly and turned back into the figure-sized doll. Then he held the black box containing McGuffin's heart and jumped onto Snape's right shoulder. After putting down the black box,

He jumped onto his left shoulder again, sitting there motionless like a statue.

Then, Snape's woody figure recovered,

That phantom like a ghost... rushed out of his body suddenly, and under the stimulation of magic power, it quickly expanded thousands of times, like a hill, occupying a large part of the trunk of the World Tree.

The bark changed like a rock wall, closely matching Snape's phantom without distinguishing each other.

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(End of this chapter)