"Begin!" Sirius shouted, pulling open the lid, and the surroundings suddenly became cold and dark again.

The Eater of Souls slid forward, gurgling and breathing, and a fetid hand reached out to Harry - "Expecto Patronus!" Harry shouted, "Expecto Patronus! Expecto Patronus -" The white mist made him lose his mind, and there were vague figures moving around him, and then there were new sounds.

It was the sound of a man shouting, in panic - "Lily, take Harry and run! It's him! Run! Run! I'll hold him off -"

Someone stumbled out of the room—a door burst open—a burst of shrill laughter—

"Harry! Harry, wake up." Lamia slapped Harry's face hard. She was so scared by Harry that he fell straight to the ground as if his soul had been sucked out.

It took Harry a minute to realize why he was lying on the dusty ground again. "I heard my father's voice," Harry whispered. "That's the first time I've heard him - he managed to fight Voldemort on his own, giving Mum time to escape."

Harry suddenly realized that tears and sweat were mixed together on his face. He lowered his head as much as possible so that Lamia would not see his face. He wiped the tears and sweat on his robe and pretended to be tying his shoelaces.

"Did you hear James?" Sirius asked, his voice odd.

"Yes." After drying his face, Harry looked up.

"Godfather, you know about my father, right?"

"I - to be honest, I know," Sirius sighed and said, "We were very good friends at Hogwarts..."

Lamia also listened to Sirius talk about his life at Hogwarts, but after a while, she lost interest and began to wonder how she could summon the Patronus so easily.

While Sirius was still telling Harry his story, Lamia had already walked to the front of the box. She recalled the feeling of her first success and kept it in her mind, "Expecto Patronus!"

As Lamia shouted, she opened the lid of the box, and a dazzling silver light curtain blocked the Soul Eater that stretched out its withered claws.

Sirius's voice stopped abruptly. Harry and he looked at Lamia together. A strange snake slowly crawled down from the light curtain, aimed at the Soul Eater's head and bit it. With a scream, the Soul Eater disappeared on the spot.

"Merlin, is this true?"

Sirius opened his mouth in disbelief. He had never seen a Patronus summoned by anyone that could directly devour the Soul Eater. You know, almost everyone's Patronus only had a protective function, but Lamia's Patronus was actually the type that actively attacked.

"Lamia, you are amazing, can you teach me?" Harry looked up at Lamia in admiration. In his hand, he was holding the chocolate that Sirius had handed him - said to be the best in Honeydukes' shop.

"It's nothing, Harry. All you have to do is keep thinking about the most profound happy memory in your mind, or remember that feeling like me, how should I put it—" Lamia closed her eyes, "—it's like having a stream in your mind, and you just have to draw water from it."

Harry closed his eyes as well, experimenting with Lamia's method.

"Why don't we stop here today? I'll let Lupin teach you later, Harry. I can't be so ostentatious anymore. The Ministry of Magic might come looking for us at any time."

Sirius said.

Lamia rolled her eyes in her heart. It turned out that Sirius also knew that she was flamboyant. She thought he was not afraid of anything.

Harry paid no attention to it. He was concentrating on recalling every moment with Lamia, from the first time they met to now.

The corners of Harry's mouth rose involuntarily, and Sirius beside him stopped talking.

The two of them just looked at Harry, and he was about to succeed.

Sure enough, after Harry chanted the spell, it was as if his wand had been replaced with a new one, and a silver light screen exactly the same as Lamia's appeared in front of him.

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