Old Blood at Hogwarts

Chapter 40 The Duel



Aaron followed his previous plan and prepared to destroy Riddle's diary.The previously unexplained teleportation greatly shortened the distance between Aaron and the diary.Aaron was now only 10 feet away from the diary.

I saw Aaron pointing his wand at the diary and shouting: "The flames are blazing!"

Flames immediately burst into flames on the diary.

"Stop!" Riddle roared, an Apparition came to the burning diary, pointed Harry's wand at the burning flames and shouted: "The curse stops!"

The flame went out immediately.But the diary, which had been burned in the fire for a while, was not damaged at all.

Riddle turned to look at Aaron, with a ferocious look on his face, and shouted with a distorted face: "You stinking little mudblood, how dare you?" He raised his wand, "Avada Kedavra!" and another dazzling light. green light.

But with the lessons learned from the previous time, Aaron was already prepared in advance this time.As early as when Riddle apparated, he retreated to a stone pillar. As soon as the green light appeared, he ducked and hid behind the stone pillar.

Aaron hid behind the stone pillar, thinking about his next move.

Riddle's previous reaction had already confirmed Aaron's guess: that diary was Riddle's destiny.As long as that diary is destroyed, Riddle can be defeated.

However, it is obviously not an easy task to destroy that diary.Although it was just a glimpse before, Aaron could clearly see that Riddle's diary was not damaged at all in the flames.Come to think of it, that diary is not an ordinary diary, and it may not be destroyed using ordinary methods.In addition, after what he had just experienced, Riddle would definitely pay attention to the protection of the diary.

If he wants to destroy the diary that cannot be easily destroyed under Riddle's protection, Aaron must first think of a careful plan before he can act.

On the other hand, Riddle didn't want to do useless work before he understood Aaron's strange moving magic.

As a result, the two sides faced off across the stone pillars.

While Aaron and Riddle were in a stalemate with each other, Harry on the other side was still playing a hide-and-seek game with the basilisk.

Harry was seen holding the Sorting Hat and running forward desperately.And the blind basilisk was chasing closely behind him.

Suddenly, Harry felt a strong wind coming from behind, and he hurriedly fell forward.A thick tail swept over his head, and then he heard an explosion-like crack above his head.

Harry crawled on the ground, put the sorting hat on his head haphazardly, and kept shouting in his heart: "Help me - help me - please help me."

Clang!

Suddenly, something very hard and heavy fell on the top of Harry's head, almost knocking him unconscious.Venus appeared before his eyes.He grabbed the top of the hat and tried to take it off, but felt a long, hard thing underneath the hat.

A gleaming silver sword appeared in the hat, with a dazzling egg-sized ruby ​​inlaid on the hilt.

Harry stood up holding the sword, and the basilisk's head turned towards Harry. Its body coiled up in circles and knocked on the stone pillars.Harry could see its two huge, blood-soaked eye sockets, and saw its mouth open so wide that it could have swallowed him whole, revealing two rows of swords as long as his silver sword. The fangs are thin, glowing coldly, and contain venom...

The basilisk lowered its head and lunged at Harry.Harry dodged in a hurry and hit the wall of the Chamber of Secrets. He could feel the basilisk's forked tongue swiping across his body.

Harry raised his silver sword with both hands.The basilisk pounced again.This time its purpose is clear.Harry put all his strength into the silver sword and plunged it deeply into the basilisk's roof of the mouth, so deep that it reached the hilt.The basilisk immediately twisted in pain and rolled to the ground aside.

The shrill roar of the basilisk reached the ears of Aaron and Riddle, and they quickly turned to look.

Seeing the basilisk being killed by Harry, Riddle immediately cursed: "Damn it! If it weren't for that damn bird..."

"Chance!"

Seeing that Riddle was attracted by the death of the Basilisk, Aaron immediately realized that a fighter was coming.He quickly jumped out from behind the stone pillar and pointed at the diary with the wand in his hand.

Although the diary seemed unable to be destroyed by ordinary methods, Aaron happened to know an unusual kind of magic, which was the Fire Spell he learned from Riddle.

Orange flames ignited from the diary.

"Do not!!!"

With a terrible, long-lasting scream that penetrated the eardrums, Riddle twisted and struggled, waving his arms constantly, screaming from his mouth, and then... he disappeared.With a snap, Harry's wand fell to the ground, and then everything fell silent, except for the diary, which was still hissing and emitting black smoke under the intense fire.

Tom Riddle was eventually killed by the curse he taught Aaron.

"All curses end!"

Seeing Riddle disappearing, Aaron quickly extinguished the flames that were gradually getting out of control.

After the flames went out, Aaron saw that Riddle's diary was only half burned, and the other half was not completely burned.

Aaron picked up the tattered diary and Harry's wand, quickly came to Harry and asked, "Are you okay?"

Harry was seen sitting on the ground leaning against the wall.A big fang was piercing his arm. It was the fang of a basilisk.

Harry grabbed the fang that was spraying venom into his body and pulled it out of his arm. Blood spurted out from the wound.

"You're hurt." Aaron knelt down in front of Harry and reached out to help him cover the wound.But blood still continued to flow from the wound, slowly soaking the robe.

Harry threw the fangs aside and said vaguely: "Aaron, you did a great job killing Riddle. Listen to me, I might die. Please take Ginny out and put this place Tell Dumbledore what happened..."

"Hang in there, Harry." Aaron comforted Harry, "You're going to be fine."

"No." Harry held Aaron's hand and said, "I know my situation. My whole body hurts so much now, and I can't see clearly. I'm going to die. Please take Ginny with you." Get out and tell Dumbledore what happened here."

Aaron looked at Harry's pale face and blank eyes and knew that his situation was indeed not good, so he nodded and agreed, "Don't worry. I will take Ginny out and tell everyone what happened here."

Harry suddenly smiled happily.

Suddenly, a bright red light passed lightly in front of Aaron and Harry's eyes. It was the phoenix named Fox.

The phoenix landed on the ground and rested its head on Harry's arm.Then, big drops of tears like pearls flowed from its eyes.

"Fox, you are so great." Harry's voice became more vague, "Fox, do you also know that I am going to die? Fox..."

Tears rolled down the phoenix's lustrous feathers and landed on Harry's wound.

Then, something magical happened.

Harry's wound stopped bleeding instantly and began to heal.

By the time Aaron and Harry noticed this, Harry was completely healed.

Aaron immediately exclaimed in surprise: "Oh, Harry, you're fine!"

"Phoenix tears..." Harry stared at his arm and whispered, "It can heal injuries...Thank you, Fawkes."

Although Harry's poisonous wound had been cured, he was still a little weak because he had a lot of blood.Aaron helped him up from the ground and gave him his wand back.

"Thank you." Harry took the wand and picked up the Sorting Hat from the ground.Then, with the help of Aaron, he went to the dead basilisk and used all his strength to pull out the shining silver sword from the upper jaw of the basilisk.

At this time, a soft moan came from the other side of the secret room.Ginny started to stir.Ginny sat up as Harry and Aaron hurried over.Her blank eyes first fell on the huge corpse of the basilisk, then on Harry who was wearing a blood-stained robe, and finally on Aaron and the diary in his hand.She shuddered, gasped, and burst into tears.

"Harry - oh, Harry - at breakfast, I - I wanted to tell you, but I couldn't - couldn't in front of Percy. It was all my doing, Harry - - But I - I swear I - I didn't mean to, Riddle forced me, he - he controlled me. How - how did you kill that - that guy? Riddle Where - where? I - the last thing I remember is him coming out of the diary -"

"It's all right now," said Harry. "Riddle is finished. He and the basilisk are finished. Come on, Ginny, let's get out of here."

"I'm going to be expelled!" Ginny cried as Harry helped her stagger to her feet. "I've been looking forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since Be-Bill came. , now I have to leave, what will mom and dad do - what should I say?"

"We can talk about other things later. We'd better get out of here first." Aaron interrupted at this time, "After experiencing so many things, I think everyone needs a good rest now. In addition, although Riddle has been eliminated, it is obvious that He once used some terrible dark magic on Ginny. I don't know if this will have any side effects. It would be best to have Madam Pomfrey or Dumbledore check it out."

"You're right," said Harry, "Ginny, let's go quickly."

Aaron walked towards the secret room with Harry and Ginny.Fox hovered at the entrance to the chamber, waiting for them.They stepped over the basilisk's motionless, coiled body, through the dark, empty, echoing chamber, and back into the tunnel.Aaron heard that the two stone doors slid shut behind them.


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