The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 679: Alarming the Snake
This indifferent attitude and disregard for Voldemort, Ada's silence at this moment was more powerful than her words just now.

Voldemort's full-strength punch hit a ball of cotton, which was soft and feltless. The Dark Lord was really angry. He swore that he had never seen such an angry person in his life!
If a person's brain is not used for a long time, it will rust and become dull, and the same goes for his speaking skills.

Voldemort is a good example. He used to be a very charming person with good use of words, but now... his mind is full of fighting and killing. The once eloquent Tom Riddle is long gone.

“Born in poverty but extremely intelligent, his parents are both dead but he is both wise and brave, he is the school’s prefect and a model student”. This is how most people evaluated Voldemort when he was studying at Hogwarts.

At that time, Tom Riddle was still a fledgling actor in the wizarding world. He was a handsome, polite, and excellent boy, and the most talented student in Hogwarts.

But in fact, Tom Riddle had already recruited a group of Slytherin students for himself, and called himself Voldemort, and showed his cruel, arrogant and tyrannical side in private.

Only Albus Dumbledore, the professor of Transfiguration at the time, knew all this. Everyone else was kept in the dark by Tom Riddle's sweet words, and many people still expected Tom to become the youngest Minister of Magic.

More than fifty years later, Tom Riddle has long since abandoned his own name and has become the feared Voldemort. His wish of "making wizards all over the world afraid to mention his name" has been fulfilled.

However, it is not only the world that has forgotten Tom Riddle, Voldemort has also forgotten his past self. His obsession with bloodline, power, and fear of death gradually drive Voldemort to extremes.

He was no longer eloquent and eloquent, but turned into a complete terrorist who wielded the Cruciatus Curse in his left hand and the Killing Curse in his right hand.

The night wind blew Ada's long golden hair, and the long hair fluttering on her temples covered her beautiful face.

At this moment, Voldemort suddenly attacked and fiercely sent a killing curse to Ada. After the curse was cast, Voldemort felt much better and his anger was vented.

However, it is unrealistic to defeat Ada by sneak attack alone. As a nurse who "has the thickest blood and suffers the most vicious blows", sneak attack does not work on her.

And who is Ada? She is an old sap player.

The old wand was raised lightly, and the flat ground under his feet suddenly rose up, blocking the flying killing curse. The frozen soil was shattered by the killing curse, but it instantly turned into a sharp spear and stabbed Voldemort.

Snape, who had been a bystander for a long time, also took action at the same time, but his target was not Voldemort, but the transparent magic ball that protected Nagini.

Voldemort swung his robe sleeves, and the earth spear returned to the ground, and then another killing curse hit Ada. Voldemort really loved this single-point instant kill spell.

Ada dodged sideways, and the Elder Wand was raised again, triggering the double casting of the Gift of Liberation. The two spells went forward at the same time, shocking Snape's scalp.

The black robe disappeared in a flash, and Voldemort chose to dodge rather than resist forcefully.

Seeing the deep pit that exploded after the spell failed, Voldemort was still frightened, but fortunately he did not block it.

Ada and Voldemort attacked each other non-stop, their wands were swung out with afterimages, and the speed of their casting was equally amazing. Not to mention the power of the spells, the speed alone was enough to make many wizards unable to resist.

Although they were attacking each other, Ada and Voldemort had completely different ideas.

Voldemort's idea was simple: to vent his anger. Voldemort was just venting his anger and regaining his previous composure. Of course, it would be best if he could defeat Ada directly.

Ada's idea was also very simple, to contain. Ada wanted to contain Voldemort by fighting him, giving Snape a chance to kill Nagini.

As the Horcruxes were destroyed one after another, Voldemort had increased his protection of Nagini. Snape's failed sneak attack further alerted the enemy. I'm afraid Voldemort will not let Nagini out of his sight again.

If we don't take this opportunity to try to destroy Nagini again, it will be even more difficult later.

Ada and Voldemort were fighting fiercely, but Snape made no progress.

Snape kept waving his wand back and forth, trying everything from ordinary spells to dark magic, but he still couldn't break the glass-like protective shield.

Fortunately, there was still hope. Under the continuous bombardment of spells, the protective spell formed by magic was gradually weakening. Nagini, who was also angry, could do nothing except raise her snake head and make threatening hissing sounds.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Snape's wand spewed out a small piece of black fire, and the devil's flames from hell instantly surrounded the protective shield, greedily devouring the magic power that Voldemort had placed on the protective shield.

Nagini's hissing became shrill, it was afraid of the black fire!

As his beloved Nagini fell into danger, Voldemort became anxious. He chopped down with his yew wand, and the pale green spell turned his pale cheeks green.

Ada raised her left hand, and a golden shield instantly appeared to block the killing curse. The green light disappeared, leaving only a terrifying muffled sound.

When Ada wanted to fight back, Voldemort had already distanced himself from her and rescued Nagini again.

Voldemort waved his wand, and the protective ball in the fierce fire lit up with a soft light. The extremely weakened protective shield became solid again and flew towards Voldemort.

While waiting for Nagini to fly towards him, Voldemort was not idle. He first pointed his wand at Snape and forced the opponent back with two consecutive spells. Then, a black light with an ominous aura flew towards Ada.

Voldemort's ominous spell suddenly exploded halfway through its flight, and a ball of fire exploded near Ada.

At the same time, Voldemort himself also received Nagini who had escaped from the Fiendfyre. He turned into black mist and flew away with the big snake without any hesitation.

Surrounded by flames as tall as a person, Ada could only watch Voldemort leave, watching the best chance to kill Nagini go away. Feeling a little annoyed, Ada suddenly pressed down her wand, and the fierce flames immediately dissipated.

Snape was also watching Voldemort go away. The former Potions Professor and former Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor was filled with regret. If only he could be faster and stronger!

After about a minute, Snape loosened his clenched fists and walked towards Ada.

"You..." Snape only said the beginning of the words of concern and swallowed the rest. The girl in front of him didn't need his concern. It was she who saved him.

"I'm fine." Ada said, "I'm glad you're okay." Although she felt a little regretful, she was glad that Snape was rescued in time.

For Ada, Snape is far more important than the Horcrux Nagini. There is still a chance to destroy the Horcrux Nagini, but Snape only has one life, and once it is gone, it is gone.

"Was what I just said to Voldemort not cruel enough?" Ada asked suddenly.

Her words were meant to attack Voldemort, but also to attract his hatred, in order to dilute the Dark Lord's concern for Nagini and instead magnify his murderous intent towards herself.

Unexpectedly, Nagini was the most important person in Voldemort's heart, and this hatred was completely unattainable. Could it be that Voldemort also knew that Nagini was once a girl, and a very beautiful girl?

The sudden and inappropriate question made Snape's head a little confused.

After a few seconds of silence, Snape said, "I don't know if it's poisonous or not. Anyway, if I were him, I would be very angry. You can't escape a semester of detention..."

Snape's voice got lower and lower until it finally became a breath.

Snape suddenly realized that he no longer had the power to put Ada in detention, not because Ada had left the school, but because he was no longer a teacher at Hogwarts.

"Let's go, things here are over." Ada said, "Let's go back."

"Go back? Go back to where?"

Ada looked at Snape strangely and said as a matter of course: "Of course it's Hogwarts, where else can we go!"

(End of this chapter)