The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 642 Left Ear

In the village of St. Catchpole at night, Ada led Ted and Andromeda towards the Burrow.

Neither of the couple spoke a word. When they chose to help Harry Potter, they knew that this day would come. But when this day really came, they still felt a little uncomfortable.

The three of them walked to the door of the Burrow in silence, and happened to meet Sirius and Fred who had just returned.

Sirius pointed his wand at Ada and asked, "Who do I like best?"

According to common sense, the answer should be a choice between James, Lupin and Harry, but Ada's answer was not among these three, and the name she said was not even Lily's.

Ada replied, "Regulus Black, your dear brother."

Hearing this unusual answer, Andromeda was stunned. Andromeda was born in Black, and she knew the relationship between Sirius' brothers very well. These two people couldn't even get along, so how could they like each other?
However, Sirius put down his wand in the surprised eyes of Andromeda. Apparently, Ada's answer was correct. After checking each other's identities, the five of them walked into the Burrow together.

As soon as they entered the house, Kingsley stopped them and questioned them again.

But Ada and Fred had no time to answer questions. As soon as they entered the house, they saw George with blood all over his face on the sofa in the living room!
The two rushed into the living room, and Fred knelt down beside the sofa, calling his twin brother softly. Ada, who was standing beside him, looked pale as if she had lost too much blood.

Lupin stood at the entrance to the living room, with a worried-looking Harry beside him, and Sirius, Kingsley and Hermione behind him.

George, lying on the sofa, looked very weak, his left ear was gone, leaving only a small black hole, and his neck and clothes were covered with shocking red blood.

Perhaps because he heard the voices of Fred and Ada, George moved and slowly opened his eyes.

"How do you feel, George?" Mrs. Weasley asked softly. She couldn't make George's ears grow back, so she could only apply ointment to her son's wounds.

George's voice was very soft and he sounded completely powerless.

He comforted his mother, saying, "Ma'am, you should be happy. Now you can no longer confuse Fred with me."

Then George ran his fingers over the side of his head and murmured, "Listen, Fred, listen."

Perhaps it was because George's pun was too clumsy that Fred looked even more panicked. He looked around in horror: "Did he hurt his brain? There are so many humorous things about ears in the world, but he picked the most boring one, '动(洞)听'!"

"You'll be fined for puns, George." Ada said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Mrs. Weasley, let me do it."

With that, Ada replaced Mrs. Weasley and sat on the sofa. She did not continue to apply medicine to George, but took out the Elder Wand and moved it slowly along George's wound, chanting spells.

Lupin spoke up, "It was Snape. His hood slipped off while he was chasing us. And... the Sharpshooter Curse is his specialty."

"It's that damn snot again, don't let me catch him!" Sirius said angrily, and kicked the door frame to vent his anger.

With a nightingale-like humming, the bleeding in George's left ear gradually decreased and the wound began to heal. Ada recited the magic spell over and over again, which Snape taught her.

Although there is a counter-curse to the Shadowless Spell, the parts damaged by the spell cannot be regenerated by any means and can only be healed.

But Ada was the master of the Elder Wand. With the anti-spell of the Elder Wand, not only did the wound heal, but it also allowed George's severed left ear to slowly regenerate!
Everyone looked at Ada in surprise. This was not the bones that were lost by Lockhart. It was not a small problem that could be solved by a bottle of bone-growing spirit. This was a wound caused by vicious black magic. Even at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, George's left ear could not regenerate!

Suddenly, everyone seemed to see the omnipotent Dumbledore again, the trustworthy Dumbledore. Perhaps it was a little itchy from the healing and growth, George wanted to reach out and scratch it, but as soon as he raised his hand, Ada slapped it down. Fred, who was standing by, quickly held George down, preventing him from moving around and disturbing Ada who was casting the spell.

The left ear that "grew" again was as tender as a newborn's, with a layer of fine hair. Only then did Ada stop chanting and put away her wand. Her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, as if she had just been to the Flaming Mountain.

Although the ear has grown out, it looks very inconsistent with George's right ear. There is nothing that can be done about it, after all, the right ear is original and has been used for so many years, while the left ear is fresh from the factory.

George touched the wound tentatively with his hand. He could no longer feel the pain from the wound. Instead, he felt something strange. He muttered with a strange look on his face, "I thought Mom would never have the chance to twist my ears again."

"Ma'am, you're getting confused again," Fred said. "Is it Jord and Fridge, or Fridge and Jord?"

Mrs. Weasley burst into laughter, and the others in the room breathed a sigh of relief, especially Harry, who blamed himself. Harry felt that George's injury was his fault, and he brought misfortune to everyone.

After a while, Tonks and Ron, Bill and Fleur returned to the Burrow one after another. Among the seven groups, only Alastor Moody's group did not come back and would never come back.

"Mad-Eye is dead."

These were Bill's first words after returning to the Burrow. After a quick hug with his mother, he told everyone the sad news.

In an instant, the temperature of the Burrow dropped sharply, as if it had turned from a hot summer to a cold winter. The heavy news made everyone breathless. After losing Dumbledore, they also lost Mad-Eye Moody. Who will be the next?

Bill poured everyone a glass of wine, and when the fire whiskey burned everyone's throat, they buried their grief in the deepest part of their hearts. Sacrifice is inevitable, maybe you, maybe me, but today it happened to Alastor Moody.

Filled with grief and pain, the members of the Order of the Phoenix began to sum up today's failure and tried to find out who leaked the information.

The name of Mundungus Fletcher appears most frequently. He calls himself a "honest businessman", but everyone knows that he is just a thief. If it weren't for Dumbledore, Fletcher would never have joined the Order of the Phoenix.

Tonight, the experienced and powerful Moody was Voldemort's first target, and Mundungus ran away without looking back after seeing Voldemort. If Mundungus could help Moody, perhaps Ada could catch up.

However, it was Mundungus who came up with the idea of ​​a double, and Moody perfected it into the "Seven Potters". He was not the one who betrayed Harry, otherwise the Death Eaters would not have been confused about which one was the real Harry. Mundungus Fletcher was just a coward who feared death.

The person who really "betrayed" Harry was Snape, and even the idea of ​​a substitute was proposed by Snape through Mundungus.

Ada sat quietly beside George. She knew everything that happened tonight and she also knew that someone might die, but in order to hide Snape and for the final plan, she said nothing.

After some debate, everyone quieted down. They no longer looked for the person who leaked the secret. They were convinced by Harry.

Harry is willing to trust everyone tonight, and hopes that everyone can trust each other. Harry, like his father James, believes that not trusting friends is the most shameful thing.

Lupin and Bill stood up at the same time. They were going to look for Moody's body. They must not let his body fall into the hands of the Death Eaters.

"Call the gods to protect you!"

A silly silver-white Chow Chow appeared in the living room, and the guardian angel came in response to Ada's call.

"Take it, I left a rough mark on where Mad-Eye fell, it will help you find it." Ada said, there was not much she could do for Alastor Moody, just find his body and avenge him.

(End of this chapter)