The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 589 Sneak attack and counter-sneak attack
After entering the Room of Requirement, they soon came to the Vanishing Cabinet. The Vanishing Cabinet now looked much worse than before, with most of the cabinet appearing to have been burned, and even one of the cabinet doors had been completely burned to charcoal.

"Is this the trap you mentioned? It looks like it's working quite well." After seeing the scene, Hermione said something that shocked Malfoy.

"Of course it's great. You should believe in my level as an alchemist." Ryan said, turning his head to look at Malfoy who was shocked. "Who is the sixth one to come?"

"——I don't know him." Malfoy shook his head. "I only know that he is a dark wizard from Turkey who is good at illusion."

"Well, today we killed a non-core Death Eater from Turkey." Ryan said while checking the Vanishing Cabinet. At this time, Malfoy finally couldn't stand his inner curiosity and asked. "What did you just say? Trap?"

"Yes, a trap." Hermione said with her arms folded across her chest. "In fact, Ryan discovered you were playing tricks here at the beginning of this semester, so he set up a few traps on this vanishing cabinet just in case. He didn't expect you to really run into it. But now it seems that the trap is quite effective."

"You guys - how did you do this? Why didn't I ever find any traps when I was repairing it?" As someone who had been working on this Vanishing Cabinet for a whole semester, he was a little shocked that he hadn't discovered this fact for a whole semester.

"It's strange that someone who needs a whole semester to fix this thing can find out what I did." Ryan looked at Malfoy with contempt. At this time, he had just confirmed that his trap was fully functional. The only thing he didn't know was who the guy who ate three nuclear bombs in Borgin and Burke's store where the other disappearing cabinet was located was. But he thought he should be able to get the information tomorrow. "We've finished here, let's go out."

"So what do we do next?" Hermione asked.

"Go get this guy's mother first. After all, we just promised him that." Ryan turned his head to look at Malfoy huddled in the corner. "By the way, go out and see if his hand is still there. If it is, help him connect it. After all, he is on our side now."

Fortunately, Malfoy's left hand was still lying at the door of the Room of Requirement, but it was pressed under the body of the bearded Death Eater. It only took Hermione two or three minutes to reattach his hand.

"Let's go and pick them up. I think the You-Know-Who probably already knows that the Hogwarts operation isn't going well. We have to act fast next." Ryan said as he removed the protective barriers blocking both sides of the corridor.

Just as the three of them reached the stairs, a figure in a black robe came up, and then a deep male voice sounded. "I didn't see any patrols on the seventh floor just now. Why are you hiding upstairs and not patrolling?"

"Professor Snape, I--" Malfoy answered in a panic after hearing the voice, but Ryan interrupted him and said, "Hello, professor, there were a few intruders upstairs who tried to infiltrate the Room of Requirement. They have been cleared out now, thanks to the help Malfoy just provided us."

"I didn't..." Malfoy's face changed drastically after hearing this. Just when he was about to say something, he felt Hermione, who was standing behind him, holding his lower back with her wand. He immediately forced himself to change his words. "I mean, this is what I should do as a prefect."

"--Very good." Snape lowered his head and looked at Malfoy's face carefully. Malfoy was very nervous when he saw him, and even a few drops of sweat flowed from his temples. However, Snape did not seem to notice that Malfoy's expression was wrong, or he noticed it but thought it was just the aftermath of the battle just now. So he just pointed downstairs to Ryan and the others and said, "You can go downstairs and rest now. Leave the things upstairs to me."

"Then we'll take our leave." Ryan bowed slightly and walked downstairs, but he conveyed a message to Hermione through the Phoenix Mark. After receiving the message, Hermione tightly grasped the wand in her right hand, and her whole body became alert.

When Ryan and his companions were about 1/3 of the way down the stairs, Ryan suddenly turned around and cast the Armor Charm, which blocked an unknown silver-glowing spell launched by Snape. At the same time, a red and black light fired by Hermione forced Snape to leave the position where he had just attacked.

Ryan ran upstairs quickly, and at the same time, he tapped his wand and released a series of silver-white balls with a trace of electricity on the surface at Snape. Snape felt the power contained in the balls and had to give up the magic he was about to release and use the armor to protect himself. The balls hit his magic defense and burst into groups of dazzling lightning, forcing him to retreat again and again, while other deflected gravel blew holes in the floor one after another, and the flying gravel scratched Snape's robe. After Ryan rushed to the corridor on the eighth floor, he waved his wand at the chandelier on the ceiling. The chandelier immediately turned into a metal skeleton with only a body and limbs, waving its sharp claws to grab Snape, but soon Snape flicked his wand and made the paving stones on the floor turn into giant snakes that crushed the metal skeleton, and then rushed towards Ryan without hesitation.

Ryan waved his left hand with the ring on it, and the giant snake instantly disintegrated and turned into the stone slabs that had just been laid on the ground, floating in the air. Ryan pointed the wand in his right hand at Snape, and all the stone slabs turned into lava emitting rolling heat waves and flew back to Snape.

Snape used a spell to hit the ceiling, and a large piece of the ceiling fell down to block the lava, and at the same time created smoke and dust that filled the entire corridor. Ryan had to use a spell to make the dust settle down, while looking nervously ahead, worried that Snape would attack him.

A few seconds later, the smoke and dust cleared, and Ryan saw Snape running away with his back to him. He immediately chased after him, but after running a few steps, Snape turned into an empty classroom, and then there was a sound of broken glass from inside.

When Ryan ran into the empty classroom, he found that the window glass had been broken. Through the hole in the window, he saw a large, bat-like figure in the distance, flying towards the wall through the darkness.

"How's Snape?" Hermione grabbed Malfoy's neck with her left hand and held his chin with her right hand. She walked to the door of the empty classroom. "I heard a lot of noise upstairs and came up."

"I think I won. Snape escaped." Ryan pointed to the big hole in the window. "By the way, be gentle with your hands. Malfoy has fainted now."

"I was a little nervous just now, and I used too much force, but I promise he's alive." Hermione said a little embarrassedly, then put Malfoy on the ground and pointed her wand at his face, which turned a little purple due to the strong strangulation just now, and said "Resurrection quickly".

Malfoy took a deep breath and then started to cough violently, then burst into tears. "You are killing me. Snape will definitely tell the You-Know-Who that I messed up everything today. I am really dead now."

"It's okay. The mysterious man's goal is to kill you anyway. No matter how bad it is, you can't die twice." Ryan comforted, but it seemed that this comfort had no effect, Malfoy still had a sad face.

"Okay, let's go." Ryan pulled up Malfoy who was lying on the ground. "If you want to save your mother, I think we can't waste any more time now."

"But how do we get there now?" Malfoy asked.

"Grab my arm."

Malfoy did so, then asked, "What do we do next?"

"Next, let's go. Hermione, the old place." After a sound like a whip hitting the ground, Ryan disappeared with Malfoy, and then Hermione also disappeared after turning half a circle on the spot.

(End of this chapter)