The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 444: Blocking the Door (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
In the Death Hour at the Ministry of Magic, a fierce battle broke out between the Death Eaters and the members of the Order of the Phoenix, with the arch as the center. Ryan and Hermione teamed up to knock out a Death Eater when they saw Dolohov firing a killing curse at them, and the two had to jump to the side in an ugly posture to dodge the curse.

Just as they were about to fight back, a long snake made of fire rushed over from the side and knocked Dolohov flying at least five feet high.

"Professor McGonagall." Ryan and Hermione turned their heads and saw that the one who had knocked Dolohov away was McGonagall, who had neatly combed her hair, pursed her lips and had a serious face. She was now staring at Dolohov who had gotten up from the ground and was ready to fight back.

"Professor McGonagall is really amazing." Hermione cast a Stunning Spell on Dolohov while controlling the shadows under the feet of nearby Death Eaters to interfere with their actions. Ryan attacked Dolohov together with Hermione, saying, "All wizards who can be professors at Hogwarts are very powerful, not to mention our Dean."

Under the attack of three people, Dolohov was soon knocked unconscious. After seeing Dolohov fall, Professor McGonagall quickly ran to where Lupin was fighting, and shouted to Ryan and the others, "Stay away from the battlefield. It's not my students' turn to go to the battlefield yet."

At this time, Ryan saw a Death Eater rushing towards a wizard who was lying on the ground. He immediately hit the Death Eater with an Obstacle Spell, and then he and Hermione covered each other and rushed to the fallen wizard.

The one who was knocked to the ground was Moody, his gray hair was soaked with blood and stuck to his forehead. The magic eye had fallen out of its socket and was spinning on the ground.

Ryan rushed to Moody and started fighting with the masked Death Eater, while Hermione bent over and grabbed the collar behind Moody's neck, and dragged him towards the obstacle with the help of the shadow. At this time, Tonks with purple hair ran over from the side and knocked out the Death Eater who was so focused on fighting Ryan that he had no time to pay attention to other things.

"Thanks." Ryan shouted to Tonks, who simply nodded quickly and ran to her colleague Kingsley to help him fight the three Death Eaters on the opposite side.

"Hermione, how's Moody?" Ryan asked as he turned a large rock.

"It should be a kind of black magic that can make people unconscious. I have treated the wound on his head with distilled essence. Now it's up to you." Hermione half-knelt and raised her wand to look around vigilantly. Ryan walked to Moody and tried to wake him up with natural magic.

"Uh, I just--" Moody soon opened his eyes and looked at Ryan who was treating him and Hermione who was on alert not far away. "Ryan? You did a great job, but I suggest you stay here now. Dumbledore will be here soon."

After saying that, Moody stuffed the fake eyeball into his eye socket and turned out from behind the stone. He leaned against the row of stone steps, bent down to avoid a green killing curse, and then knocked out a Death Eater who was trying to attack Tonks.

Since several people did not allow them to join the battle, Ryan and Hermione simply hid behind the stone and occasionally poked their heads out to observe the situation, while using shadow magic to create obstacles for the Death Eaters. This worked very well, and several Death Eaters had to choose to take the magic when they could not dodge.

Taking advantage of this gap, Ryan saw Harry and Ginny dodging Lucius Malfoy around the stone platform with the arch. Malfoy didn't dare to attack Harry for fear of breaking the prophecy. So he poured all his spells on Ginny, who dodged left and right, which was very thrilling.

"Don't - touch - my - child." Mr. Weasley, who had just fought off the Death Eaters on the other side, saw this scene with bloodshot eyes, and his red hair seemed to be on fire. He rushed to the edge of the stone platform and fought with Malfoy, and while dodging a spell, he shouted at Harry and the others. "Run, children, run."

But this time they could not run away. Nearly ten Death Eaters came out from the door above one after another. They cooperated with the Death Eaters on the field and suppressed the Order of the Phoenix and Ryan step by step onto the platform with the arch.

"You don't think that the great Dark Lord is unprepared and only brings such a small number of people." Looking at the reinforcements, a hoarse voice came from under the mask of a Death Eater.

Ryan felt that this was most likely because he had learned his lesson after being tricked during Voldemort's resurrection ceremony last time, so he had prepared enough backup plans this time.

"Tonks, you are the youngest, you take the children first." Moody said to Harry and the others who were surrounded by the Order of the Phoenix. "Yes." Tonks nodded, but Ryan could feel that she was crying. She knew that the others had made a decision and were ready to cover them at all costs.

"Dad!" Ginny, with a wound on her face, looked at Mr. Weasley, who nervously raised his wand to point at the Death Eaters outside. "Ginny, follow Tonks and the others and rush out. I'll catch up with you soon."

"None of you can leave." Bella suddenly appeared from the bottom of a staircase. The bleeding from her wound seemed to have stopped. She sat on a magical wooden board and floated up. "Since you can't complete the Dark Lord's mission, you all die!"

As she spoke, she cast a killing curse that directly hit a pattern on the arch. After being hit, the pattern began to emit green light, and then began to spread to the pattern of the entire arch.

"That lunatic." A Death Eater said in a voice that was almost a groan, "I clearly told them the taboos here before the action, but she actually took the initiative to do it."

After that, he ran towards the exit frantically, and even his hood fell to the ground when he ran away. Ryan recognized him as the former Unspoken Man August Rookwood.

At this time, Ryan was protected by the members of the Order of the Phoenix, so he happened to be the person closest to the arch. He immediately felt that the arch behind him had undergone some bad changes for them.

Ryan turned around and clearly felt that there was a force of death about to rush out of the archway. At the same time, this force also affected the surrounding environment, making it difficult for Harry and the members of the Order of the Phoenix standing on the platform to move. Harry and the members of the Order of the Phoenix tried to leave the platform, but even if they used all their strength, they still couldn't move a step.

Ryan lowered his head at this time, and found that there were also a lot of green glowing lines written on the stone platform under his feet. At the same time, these lines were spreading rapidly around, and some Death Eaters who ran slower were fixed to the ground like the members of the Order of the Phoenix after these lines reached their feet.

"It seems like I have to risk my life—" Ryan thought as he raised the wand high with the hand wearing the ring, and then desperately poured magic power into the ring to activate the eternal fire inside with the knowledge he had gained from studying the rules. From the archway, he could see several tentacles made of gray mist extending out from behind the curtain. If he looked closely, he could find that those tentacles were made up of countless twisted human bodies.

"You—don't—get—through—" the Lion shouted in Quenya. "I am the master of the Eternal Flame, and the death force that does not belong to the world of the living cannot defeat me."

After shouting, Ryan thrust his wand forward, and most of the wooden wand was immersed in the stone archway, and the transparent barrier was suspended there. A cloud of mist that seemed to emit white light emerged from the head of the wand, forming a thin wall of mist that sealed the entire archway.

"Leave as soon as you can move. I can't hold on for much longer." Ryan shouted to Harry and the others who were looking at him in surprise. At this time, the green lines on the ground stopped spreading and began to fade towards the arch. Perhaps absorbing the spreading power, the tentacles kept whipping the fog wall, making a thunderous sound. Ryan soon felt a sudden increase in pressure, and blood began to ooze out of his facial features.

It didn't take long for Ryan to feel that he might not be able to hold on, but the lines on the stone platform had not faded yet. Just when he was about to fail, Ryan felt an arm reaching out to hold the hand holding his wand, and then another power of the same source of eternal fire passed through that arm to Ryan's body.

This is Hermione. There is a little bit of the Eternal Fire in the ring Ryan gave her before. When Ryan tried his best to activate the Eternal Fire in his ring, the Eternal Fire in Hermione's ring also reacted. After she found this, she immediately made a decision that was extremely dangerous to herself.

With Hermione's help, the barrier finally held until the moment when the lines on the stone platform disappeared. Moody made a prompt decision and led everyone out.

(End of this chapter)