Chapter 382: The Greengrass House is in Danger
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Chapter 382: The Greengrass House is in Danger
"Where is my house?" Daphne looked around furiously.
"Tsk! Something's wrong," Harry said, just a second after they appeared.
He had aimed his Apparition much closer to the house than this, but they were in the middle of a field instead.
"Wait… this is the stone road that leads home." Daphne followed it with her eyes, but it disappeared after a short distance.
"Someone must have put a ward around the place, and it's blocking our view." Harry noticed that the image was distorted when looking ahead.
It was clear that this was an improvised distraction.
"Stand back. I'm going to take this down." Harry aimed his staff upward but in the direction he remembered the house being.
"Do you know how to remove wards?" Daphne asked.
"I know at least one way." The green stones embedded in his staff began to shine as he channeled his magic through it.
"Confringo!" A loud, fiery explosion blasted against the surface of the wards, momentarily revealing them.
Daphne gasped. "There really is a foreign protection around my house."
This confirmed her fear that someone was attacking her family.
"I see you now…" Harry poured much more power into the next spell, aiming to pierce the protection in one go.
"Fulguras!" Lightning emerged from the tip of his staff, forming a concentrated beam of light that shot forward.
As the beam collided with the protections, it pierced through, opening a path.
Greengrass Manor came into view shortly after.
"Oh no!" Daphne could see fire burning in her house already, and part of it had been destroyed. The entire west wing appeared to be missing.
"A giant?" Harry quickly spotted the culprit, as it was hard to miss.
This was the largest giant he had seen in a while, and it appeared to be very busy destroying as much of the house as possible.
"Wait." Harry had to physically stop Daphne from running toward the house.
"Let me go, Harry! I have to find my family," Daphne snapped at him.
"There are three people standing by the front gate, and they've already noticed us. If you go there without caution, you may get killed," Harry warned her.
His entrance wasn't exactly subtle, so of course, they had noticed their arrival.
"Stay by my side," Harry said as he began to approach.
Daphne knew he was right. Rushing into the house carelessly would only cause more problems.
Her manor had many more defenses inside, and her father was no pushover. She was sure they were still fine since the attackers hadn't even gotten past the entrance.
At the gate of the manor, the Carrow twins and Draco, who had been about to walk through the broken entrance, paused when they saw the blood wards being pierced.
"Are our wards down?" Amycus asked.
"No, that spell only made a hole in the outer layer. It's already regenerating," his sister, Alecto, replied, being a bit more versed in this type of magic.
"So those two intruders are trapped, then," Draco said, narrowing his eyes and trying to figure out who the two might be.
"Who goes there? This is a private party!" Amycus shouted.
"Wait, that's… Daphne?! Why isn't she inside the house?" Draco had expected to find her in the manor, not coming from outside.
"Maybe she left to do something, then felt someone breaking into her family home and came to check," Alecto said. "It's not important right now. She's one of the targets… but who is that with her?"
"Harry Potter… what is he doing here? And what's he doing with Daphne?!" Draco clenched his teeth, anger beginning to boil inside him.
"That's Draco Malfoy!" Daphne finally recognized him as they got closer.
"His magic feels… off." Harry tried to scan the area, searching for any hidden threats.
He found none, but he did detect something else.
"Daphne… I found your family."
"Where are they? Are they okay?" she asked nervously.
"I can sense their magic inside the house. I have no way to know their condition, only that they're alive. But we have no reason to believe they've been harmed yet. Those three were about to enter when we arrived, and the giant is only destroying the house."
Daphne felt a massive weight lift from her shoulders.
But with some of her worries gone, they were quickly replaced by anger.
"How dare they…" She glared at the three individuals by the front gate.
"How dare they come here to harm my family!"
Harry continued forward, recognizing the two others beside Draco as the Carrow twins.
"Two adult wizards, a giant, and… Draco. This is going to be quick."
"Grom! Get over here! We have guests!" Amycus shouted at the giant, who was still holding a piece of the roof and hadn't even noticed Harry and Daphne's arrival, too busy enjoying the destruction.
"Huh?..." Grom walked back slowly, glancing at Harry and Daphne. "Guests?..."
"Daphne!" Draco called with a wide grin. "Did you miss me? I came all the way here for you." In reality, she was only half the reason he had requested to join this raid. He also had a bone to pick with Lord Greengrass, who had rejected his family's offers of alliance so many times.
Draco glanced Daphne up and down. It had been a while since he last saw her, and she had grown even more beautiful.
At first, he had been interested only in her family's assets and connections, but seeing her like this now… there was something else he wanted.
"Malfoy… how dare you attack my family!" Daphne spat.
Draco laughed. "Tonight, I'm planning to do more than just get back at your traitorous family. I'm going to make you mine!"
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