Lucas and Dumbledore did not expect that Voldemort would attack in advance which disrupted their original plans.
Just now, Dumbledore was in the office making arrangements for what was to come.
Thanks to reliable sources they knew in advance that Voldemort would send Death Eaters to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic on Christmas night.
But when Professor McGonagall took Harry into the headmaster's office, Dumbledore sensed something ominous, maybe they miscalculated something this time.
"Harry, what do you want from me?" Dumbledore asked softly. But Harry looked panic-stricken, obviously unable to answer the question.
"Minerva, can you tell me what happened?"
"Albus, Harry, he had a dream..."
"That wasn't a dream!" Harry interrupted Professor McGonagall roughly.
Seeing Harry reacting like this, Dumbledore hurriedly comforted him: "Calm down Harry, speak slowly, and tell me what happened."
Harry took a deep breath and said, "I saw something strange in my dream again."
"Just like I told you last time, this time I know what I became in it. It was a snake, a very big snake."
"So what did you see this time?" Dumbledore guided him to tell what he saw. He knew that Harry must have seen something very important this time.
"I attacked Mr. Weasley, the feeling was very clear, and I bit through his skin with my fangs."
"Professor Dumbledore, hurry up and rescue Mr. Weasley, you said that there is a connection between me and Voldemort, so it must be real that Mr. Weasley has been attacked."
"Calm down, Harry, can you tell me where the Mr Weasley you saw in the dream is?"
Harry didn't understand the use of asking such useless information, but he still grumpily described the hallway in his dream.
After listening to Harry's description, Dumbledore immediately looked at Professor McGonagall beside him.
"Please inform Mrs. Weasley and the Weasley children to come."
When Professor McGonagall left, he drew his wand and summoned his Patronus.
Lucas, who was discussing alchemy with the twins, suddenly looked up to the sky above the secret room.
Immediately afterwards, a silver-white phoenix appeared.
Dumbledore's voice came from Phoenix Patronus: "Lucas, please come to my office immediately, Voldemort attacked ahead of time, Mr. Weasley is injured."
"Dad!" the twins exclaimed.
Lucas frowned and said, "You two come to the headmaster's office with me."
When the three entered the office, Dumbledore was giving orders to the old portrait near the ceiling.
"Everard, and Dilys Derwent, did you all hear that?"
A wizard with short black hair and an old witch with curly silver hair opened their eyes at the same time.
"certainly."
After receiving the reply from the two portraits, Dumbledore immediately ordered: "That boy has red hair, go look for him immediately."
"Also pay attention to whether there are enemies, and send an alarm to your own people!"
The wizard named Everard nodded, and disappeared from the portrait together with the old witch.
"Everard and Dilys Derwent are the famous headmasters of Hogwarts, so many places have their portraits."
"As the owners of the portraits, they can freely shuttle among their own portraits, please be patient, the two of them will send back news soon."
At this moment, the Weasley family had gathered in the office.
Mrs Weasley looked worried, and Ginny immediately threw herself into Lucas's arms when she saw him.
"Lucas, Dad will be fine, right?"
"Don't worry, leave it to me!"
After comforting her, Lucas came to Dumbledore's side.
The old man was fiddling with a silver instrument, while Harry stood by and watched curiously.
"Headmaster, can you tell me exactly what happened?"
Dumbledore didn't look back, but simply told the story.
Hearing that everything was Harry's snooping from Voldemort, he couldn't help but give him a look.
Perhaps sensing Lucas' gaze, Harry's eyes showed a little smugness.
At this moment, Dumbledore finally got the instrument ready.
They saw him tap the instrument a few times with the tip of his wand and it released a cloud of smoke, then it gradually formed the shape of a snake.
"It turns out that it is actually separated."
As soon as Dumbledore's words fell, the smoke snake split into two, dancing and spinning in mid-air.
Harry didn't understand what Dumbledore was saying, but Lucas knew that Dumbledore identified Nagini's Horcrux through Harry's dream and this instrument.
The two looked at each other, and Rigier remained silent.
"Dumbledore!"
"How about over there?" Dumbledore looked hurriedly at the portrait.
Not only him, but everyone in the room looked at Headmaster Everard who was wiping his sweat.
"I saw him, the situation was very bad, the big snake entangled him and dragged him in, I shouted in various portraits, hoping to attract people's attention."
"Strangely enough, there doesn't seem to be anyone on duty around. That's weird, Dumbledore. I have a bad feeling."
Everard's words made the hearts of those present sink and Mrs Weasley's tears started falling instantly.
She and Ginny hugged each other, both mother and daughter sobbing quietly.
The twins clenched their fists tightly, they didn't want to lose their father.
As for Ronald, he was holding his head in his hands at the moment, his face was pale, and his eyes were dull, it looked like he was already on the brink of collapse.
At this moment, Headmistress Dilys Derwent also returned to her portrait.
"I have notified St. Mungo's and they are ready to receive the wounded. The question now is how to get him out."
"Headmaster Dumbledore." Mrs Weasley's eyes were red, begging her most respected headmaster.
"Let me go, even if they have an ambush, I can easily deal with it."
The sudden voice woke everyone up.
Looking at Lucas who had his arms folded, Dumbledore nodded: "If it's you, it's totally fine, you go to attract attention first, rescue Arthur, and that person will arrive later."
Lucas knew who Dumbledore was talking about.
"It's not too late, I'm leaving now!"
Just when he was about to use a Portkey to leave Hogwarts, the voice of Harry suddenly came.
"Wait!"
Seeing the doubts in everyone's eyes, Harry hesitated and said, "I'll go too, maybe I can deal with that big snake."
He wanted to say that he was a Parseltongue, which might help him convince Nagini to let Arthur Wesley go.
Lucas sneered, and immediately activated the portkey and disappeared in place.
This caused Harry's face to turn red.
Feeling someone patting his shoulder lightly, he turned quickly and looked back.
Dumbledore smiled kindly and said, "Don't worry, everyone has their own mission, and your mission hasn't come yet."
"What you need to do now is to learn Occlumency as soon as possible. I have already told Severus to start teaching you from this Christmas holiday."
After Dumbledore finished speaking, he turned to look at the Weasleys.
"Don't worry, Lucas will bring Arthur back safely."
"Yeah Mom, Lucas will have no trouble at all rescuing him."
As Lucas' girlfriend, no one knows Lucas' true strength better than Ginny.
The twins also nodded in agreement.
During this period of time, they have been training with the study group, and the two also experienced Lucas' profound knowledge and power.
If it was him, he would definitely be able to bring their father back safely.
Among the brothers and sisters, perhaps only Ron was full of mistrust towards Lucas.
"You take a break here, Minerva, you stay with Molly, I'll ask the elves to prepare some hot food."
Dumbledore walked out of the office after speaking.
On the seventh floor of Hogwarts, Snape was standing under an oil lamp looking directly at the empty corridor.
"Professor Snape, why don't you rest at this late hour?"
Snape turned slowly towards the direction of the voice.
"Professor Umbridge wandering around the castle so late is not a good habit.
"I'm here to check if any students have sneaked out of the dormitory at night."
"Then you are probably worrying too much, it is already early morning, and even the naughtiest students know how to go back to sleep."
After Snape finished speaking, he turned his head back and continued to stare blankly at the corridor in the distance.
"Professor Snape, you haven't answered my question, what are you doing here so late?"
Before Snape could answer, Dumbledore's voice came from afar.
"I have something to do with Severus, Professor Umbridge, it's getting late, you should hurry back and rest."
Looking at the two people going away, Umbridge squinted, intent on following them to hear what they had to say, but worried that she would be discovered by Dumbledore.
…
Lucas, who left the range of Hogwarts, immediately used the void rift to rush to the Ministry of Magic.
When he came to the Department of Mysteries, he found that the staff of the Ministry of Magic who were on duty tonight had lost their breath of life.
"Quick! Don't let him escape, chase after him!"
There was a loud shout in front of him, Lucas's eyes froze, and he hurried towards the direction of the sound.
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