38. Become a Hero (Part II) [70/100]

On the top floor of Hell's Kitchen's apartment building, black smoke rose from the burning house. It's like an ominous signal.

On the battlefield at the top, Harry, who volunteered to drag the betrayer Peter in order to save the ordinary people who had been held hostage, has also fallen into the most dangerous situation.

"Ah, Harry."

Peter's sickly pale face showed a strange smile.

This dark wizard who followed Voldemort wasn't a bastard to begin with. In fact, he was one of Harry's father's best friends when he was a student.

Like Harry, he was a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Gryffindor.

Unfortunately, more than ten years ago, when Voldemort was at his strongest, Peter succumbed to his inner weakness and chose to betray his friend. He leaked the hiding place of Harry's parents to Voldemort, which directly led to the death and tragedy of Harry's parents.

The traitor who had done evil looked at Harry, who was unyielding in front of him, and said:

"You fight like your father, I've been watching you, Harry, you're smart, you're optimistic, you're free, you're almost exactly like your genius father. Your kindness is the same as your beautiful mother... You are the most perfect treasure left by Jaime and Lily. As you know, they used to be my best friends. ”

"You should call me uncle, just like you called Lupin and Blake."

"No!"

Harry gritted his teeth and said:

"I would never call you that, you are a shameless traitor who killed my parents!"

"Betrayal? No! ”

Peter screamed as if he had been misunderstood:

"You don't understand! Harry, you're too young to understand! You don't know it, you can't imagine his weapons! ”

As if to justify himself, the Death Eater gritted his teeth and said:

"I was scared, Harry, I haven't been as brave as your father. Believe me, I never did that on purpose, Voldemort forced me, and you can't imagine his power at the time! ”

"Tell me, Harry, what's the benefit of rejecting someone like that?"

Peter had another sickly smile on his face, and he looked at Harry, and he said:

"If I get you back, he'll reward me for it."

With that, he raised his right hand, and the silver shiny fingers grabbed Harry like a poisonous snake, Harry tried to fight back, but Peter's wrist flicked, and his wand was smashed to the ground.

"Bang"

Harry struggled desperately with the silver fingers around his neck, but the power of the silver metal fingers was so great that he couldn't resist at all.

He was dragged back to Peter in embarrassment, and the Death Eaters looked at him condescendingly, and with a smile on his lips, he said:

"It's a terrible process to get back to England from North America, Harry, you'd better grit your teeth and not throw it up."

But Harry didn't care about Peter's "persuasion", instead, Harry's eyes fell on the ruins of the smashed wall in front of him, where a small black and white cat was crouching and watching him.

Harry recognized the kitten, it was Merlin's kitten... No!

That's not Merlin's kitten...

Oh my God, Ron's stupid fool misled him, that cat, that was Professor McGonagall!

She's here too!

The eyes of a man and a cat met each other, and Harry immediately understood what Professor McGonagall meant, and he grabbed Peter's arm, and he shouted:

"Peter... Uncle! Turn back, you're not going to end well with Voldemort! He doesn't care about anyone at all! Please, turn back, while you can still turn back. ”

Harry's "uncle" made Peter, who was casting a spell and preparing to leave North America, stunned in place.

He looked down at Harry, his watery eyes changing with guilt, pain, despair, fear, and a hint of viciousness.

"There's no chance, Harry. There's no going back..."

He was completely distracted by Harry, and at this moment he failed to notice that in the shadow of the ruins of the wall behind him, the cat had quickly transformed back into the vice-principal of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the famous and powerful witch of Britain, Minerva. Mcgonagall.

β€œStupefy!”

Professor McGonagall was extremely experienced in spellcasting, and the moment she turned back into her human form, she swung her wand at Peter, accompanied by an extremely formal, articulate, and elegant spell, and an enhanced version of the Sleep Charm was thrown at Peter.

The green light smashed into Peter's back like an arrow, interrupting the magic he was unleashing, and Peter felt an irrepressible sleepiness at this moment, but years of immersion in black magic made him very resistant to this non-lethal spell.

He didn't fall down immediately, he staggered, looked at Harry in front of him, and he screamed:

"You lied to me! Harry! You lied to me!!! ”

"Ahh

The guy who once betrayed his best friend, this moment was deceived by a child.

The guilt for Harry's parents immediately dissipated in Peter's mind, and he tightened his fingers and squeezed Harry's neck off in the face of the pain of Professor McGonagall's Heart-Piercing Curse.

The silver hand had been given to him by Voldemort and was able to unleash a mountain monster's power, and Harry could feel that his neck was rattling, and perhaps the next moment, he would actually have his neck broken.

Professor McGonagall's face changed, and a dangerous green light appeared on her wand.

That was the beginning of Avada's Death Spell, and it seems that the professor also had murderous intentions. But she was reluctant to use it, as Harry and Peter were now in contact with each other, and she was afraid that the Reel Charm would hurt Harry.

"Huh"

At this most critical moment, a shadow rushed like an arrow through the shattered window into the burning room, and the black fighting knife lit up with a penetrating light at the flip of Merlin's wrist.

Between Merlin's hand and his sword, a bloody spill of blood spilled on Harry's face.

Before his eyes, Peter's entire right arm was cut off from the shoulder.

"Ah!!h

The dark wizard let out a scream of pain, clutching his wounds with a look of despair.

"Huh"

Professor McGonagall's magic struck him from behind, not a Death Charm, but an enhanced version of the Sleep Charm, and the badly wounded Peter was no longer able to resist it, and he rolled his eyes and collapsed in a pool of blood.

"Smack"

Merlin pulled out the silver hand that was holding Harry's neck and threw it at his feet, the silver palm detached from Peter's body, and quickly melted, as if it had never existed, and quickly dissipated in the air in a decomposed manner.

"Almost late, right?"

Merlin smiled at Harry and handed him the handkerchief, who was indeed frightened, he wiped the blood from his face with the handkerchief, and looked at Peter, who was lying in a pool of blood, until this moment he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're being reckless, Mr. Potter!"

Professor McGonagall's orthal, extremely orthodox Scottish accent sounded behind Harry. The graceful professor waved his wrist and summoned a clear spring to extinguish the flames burning around her, and she looked at Harry sternly, and said:

"I don't remember any professor who taught you that you have to stand up in such a situation... Have you forgotten Dumbledore's warning to you? ”

"I..."

Harry was a little afraid of the stern witch, and he didn't know what to say.

Merlin stepped forward, resting his left hand on Harry's shoulder, and he looked at the witch in front of him, and said:

"Harry did the right thing. Madam, his performance today is worthy of the title of hero, because of his bravery, we have won a chance, 33 lives have been saved, at this time, you should praise him, criticize, or leave it until the beginning of the school year. ”

"You! Merlin! ”

Professor McGonagall looked up and glared at Merlin with a more stern gaze.

She still hasn't forgotten that this guy fed her cat food for 7 days, and that bastard cat he raised... It's a shame!

"It's hard for you to understand what Mr. Potter means to the wizarding world in England, we'd rather he live in peace than be a hero in the limelight! He almost lost his life! ”

"We all fantasize about being heroes before we become real heroes."

Merlin shrugged, he didn't understand why the witch was so angry with him, he just calmly retorted:

"Rather than having you put the name of a savior on Harry and wait for him to passively become a savior. It's better for him to choose to be a hero himself... The former is pushed to greatness, while the latter actively pursues greatness. ”

"I think it's only today that Harry has really grown."

"Don't fool this kid with your dangerous thoughts! He's only 14 years old! Merlin is on top, he should be at home at his age! ”

"What do you call my name for? Besides! Harry's fate has been..."

"Alright, don't make any noise!"

Harry, a little overwhelmed by the argument between Merlin and Professor McGonagall, shouted the boy as he pointed to the ground beneath his feet, and said:

"Let's get out of here first, and have something to say, okay?"

"Hmph"

Professor McGonagall snorted, and she turned and walked into the darkness, and she said to Harry:

"I'll be waiting for you at the Magic Congress tomorrow morning... I'll take you back to London via Floo.com. ”

With that, the haughty witch transformed into a little flower cat in the darkness and quickly disappeared into the shadows. And Merlin's eyes widened as he watched this scene, he always felt that Professor McGonagall's changed little flower cat was very familiar.

"Oh, she's an Animagus... No wonder. ”

Merlin knew that this spell of transformation into a critter was the supreme secret of Transfiguration, known as the Animagus.

It allows a wizard to freely transform into an unobtrusive small animal, and after the transformation, all the wizard's aura will be masked, that is, the transformed wizard is a real animal.

Not even the Scout spell can detect them.

Merlin glanced at Peter at his feet, the Death Eater was also an Animagus, and Merlin had seen him turn into a gray-haired rat in his previous warehouse.

"Let's go, Harry."

Merlin picked up the unconscious Peter and waved his hand at Harry:

"Go down, Hermione, Ginny and Ron are waiting for you, and we need to prepare dinner for the hero. Let me think about it, you helped Fury solve a big problem, so this time, let him have a treat. ”

"Hmm"

Harry nodded, picked up his and Peter's wands from the ground, patted the dust off his body, and took the elevator back to the ground with Merlin.

The 33 people who were rescued are being "questioned" by the Aurors.

In fact, it is one after another to be released the oblivion curse, so that they can forget what happened today and continue to be an ignorant and happy ordinary person.

Merlin knew that the Magic Congress would be busy for some time to come, with more than 100,000 people across New York seeing the dragon soar through the sky, and all of them would have to be dealt with with by the Oblivion Charm.

"Thank you."

As Merlin walked into the square, Jack, a boxer with his son in his arms, came up to Merlin. He obviously remembered Merlin and what he did 3 years ago, but at this moment, this stubborn boxer still thanked Merlin very sincerely.

After all, Merlin saved him and his most precious son.

"Thank you."

Little Matt, who was held in Jack's arms, also thanked Merlin, which made Merlin smile, he reached out and touched Little Matt's hair, and then let Harry, who was born, say to Jack and Matt:

"You should thank him... I couldn't have done all of this without his help. ”

"Thank you, kid."

Jack reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder, the boxer with scars on his face sincerely thanked Harry, and Harry was a little helpless.

A few minutes later, Harry said goodbye to the father and son, and he returned to his friends.

Hermione and Ginny looked at Harry's body worriedly to see if he was hurt, while Ron stretched out his fist and thumped Harry's thin chest, pointing to everyone around him, and said to Harry exaggeratedly:

"Look at these Muggles, Harry, you saved them! They call you a hero! Hahaha. ”

Ron patted Harry on the shoulder, and he asked:

"How does it feel to be a hero?"

Harry looked back at the ordinary people behind him who had survived the catastrophe, he looked up at the sunset in the twilight sky, he reached out and touched the lightning scar on his forehead, he whispered:

"This feeling..."

"It's really good."

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