Chapter 253

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<There's a powerful anti-apparation barrier over the area. You can't get out of here that easily. Not even with a portkey. You need some special charms when you create a portkey to enter this dome.>

What's the plan?

<Create a powerful destructive spell, like Fiendfyre. It might do the trick.>

While I was thinking, Voldemort decided to arrange a demonstrative reprisal in the form of a duel with Potter. Henry Greengrass untied the boy from the tombstone and came almost close to me. Picking up the wand, he returned to Potter and handed it to him. Voldemort, as if mocking, bowed to Potter, but he didn't wait for a response, forcing him to bow with crude magic like telekinesis. And then...

"Crucio," a thin red blob flew from Voldemort's wand and hit Harry, instantly knocking him to the ground and causing him to writhe in agony. It lasted a few seconds before Voldemort canceled the spell, and Harry struggled to his feet.

What a... disgusting picture. If you want to kill somebody - just kill. That's what I do.

After enjoying the sound of his own voice for a moment, Voldemort tried to use the Crucio again, but Harry dodged and hid behind the tombstone, which was cracked open by the Dark Lord's spell.

After Voldemort's brief monologue, Harry literally jumped out from behind the tombstone, pointing his wand at his opponent.

"Expelliarmus!" he shouted, and Voldemort launched a green Avada beam.

The two beams met halfway, turning from red and green to gold.

It's time. Full throttle, Rowena. Let's begin the dance with death.

<Possible mental overload. I hope that we will lead.>

Not only Rowena, but I myself began to amplify to the best of my ability, pumping a whole sea of magic into the spells. Jumping up, I launched the oversaturated with magic Stupefy, which scattered as many as four dozen fast clots.

<I'll be your onboard guidance system. Keep casting spells.>

I gave the guidance control to Rowena's mind, went into transgression, and flew as quickly as possible to the dome of light that was already forming around Potter and Voldemort. I'm no Dumbledore, but I can do some things, yes.

Before I fully emerged from the transgression, surrounded by black smoke, I twisted in place as if drawing the line at the Death Eaters' feet with my wand.

"Protego Diabolica."

A bright blue flame shot up to the sky for a couple of meters, fencing off me, Harry, and Voldemort from the Death Eaters, who had just begun to fight off the sudden Stupefy that fell on them in a hail. Then, in the essence of the spell's filter, I put: "Only me, the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter will pass. Burn Henry Greengrass."

I immediately went back into transgression, penetrating the Priori Incantatem dome and releasing a powerful shockwave from the Grimoire, the Vaglift, toward Voldemort. The wave, similar to the distortion of space, broke the bond between Voldemort and Potter's wands. Avada went into the sky and Expeliarmus into the ground. Without leaving the transgression, and while Voldemort, shocked by everything that was happening, did not recover, I rushed to Potter with black smoke, taking him into the transgression.

"Accio, the Goblet of Fire."

I had to fly with Potter in the transgression for about a meter before the Goblet flew into the materialized hand, and we were carried again by the portkey.

***

The wizards in the judges' stand, as well as the rest of the audience, were in shock at what was going on at the third task of the Triwizard Tournament. First, Victor Krum's observer golem was disabled, and a minute later, Fleur Delacour's golem was disabled as well. Of course, everyone immediately focused on the screens showing the adventures of Potter and Knight. The only pity was that there was no sound. Potter and Knight changed direction at the same time. After Harry had just barely dealt with Hagrid's wonderful chimeras, under the sighs and groans of the audience. The half-giant affectionately calls them "Blast-Ended Skrewts," harmless little creatures.

When Potter's screen showed an unconscious and badly injured Fleur, the audience gasped. When Knight turned into a black panther with a cat harness and holster, the audience laughed, and when few recognized Krum's Crucio spell as Moody was showing, the audience went silent in shock.

When Knight got to the Cup, the audience was perplexed by his amusement with the button, and when they realized that he and Potter had decided to take the Cup at the same time, they exulted.

"Outrageous," complained Fudge, while Dumbledore, sitting next to him, only smirked into his beard. Sherbet lemon to all of you, and not 'humiliate Hogwarts and an impudent old man.'

However, the cup did not Apparate the champions to the spot in front of the bleachers where they would be accorded the proper honors. Instead, through the only golem that survived but lost the ability to fly, everyone saw a deserted and frightening cemetery, the moon, and the starry sky ...