At the end of the road, Katie Bell rose into the air.
She was lying on her back, her posture was very elegant, her arms were stretched out around her, and her whole figure seemed to be sleeping in the air.
Her eyes were closed tightly, and she couldn't tell she was suffering any pain. There was no expression on her face. This situation was too weird.
Louis was the first person to rush to the bottom. He wanted to use magic to rescue Katie Bell from the air, but the black magic attached to the necklace was too bizarre. He tried any feasible method to no avail, and finally had to pass A shock-absorbing spell to soften the impact of Katie's landing.
However, at this moment, Katie, who was lying on the ground, suddenly shouted involuntarily, the sound was deafening. Louis kept searching despite the huge scream, and then he saw a brown paper bag in Katie's hand.
The obstacle spell flew out from between his wands, and the brown paper bag landed not far behind Katie.
After the thing was taken away, Katie collapsed on the ground, her body twitching continuously, and her expression was very painful.
"Senior!"
Harry and the three of them followed and were shocked by the scene that suddenly happened in front of them.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"It's black magic." Lewis briefly summarized. "She was cursed by a black magic item, but fortunately there is no danger to her life."
Katie was lucky, her hand did not directly touch the necklace itself, so even such a weird black magic item would have a greatly reduced effect when separated by brown paper and clothes.
"Don't touch that thing directly, Harry."
Louis reminded, because he saw that Harry had found the opal necklace that had fallen not far away.
"Excuse me, help me."
Louis drank a bottle of Fountain of Life to Katie. Although it couldn't cure anything, it could relieve her pain.
"She needs treatment and she needs to be sent back to school quickly." Louis said. He was worried about how to bring a big living person back. Katie's friend Lini was already frightened at this time, and Hermione was comforting her.
"Everyone give in, everyone give in, what's going on?"
At this moment, Hagrid, the gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts, walked over from not far away despite the wind and snow.
"I was patrolling Hogsmeade and heard screams not far away. Harry, are you okay?"
"It's Katie, Hagrid."
Harry and the others shook their heads, "She was under black magic."
"Black magic? How could it be?" Hagrid quickly went up to check the situation. Katie's body stabilized a little, but she was still shaking uncontrollably.
"I have to take her back to school to see Dumbledore."
After saying that, he picked up Katie from the ground, which solved Louis' problem.
"You should also go along, as witnesses." Hagrid said to them, "By the way, be careful with that dark magic item."
Before Hagrid could finish speaking, Louis had already used a floating spell to hold the opal necklace wrapped in kraft paper in his hand.
The necklace was still shining. Harry stared at the thing and spoke immediately.
"We have seen this thing before. He displayed it on the window of Borgin Blog's store. I remember it was marked as a high-risk magic item."
"But this doesn't make sense." Hermione said, "Remember Harry, during this summer vacation, Senior Oliver caused an explosion in the Borgin blog. At least many magic items were affected. Normal magic items cannot be repaired. It is absolutely impossible to succeed in a year and a half, because the magic items themselves are precision props."
"That's exactly what I want to say." Louis continued, "Besides, there are almost no wizards who can repair dark magic items nowadays..."
He did not continue talking, but suddenly thought of a person, but this idea was quickly rejected by him. Now that Zuko could not even protect his own life, why would he choose to help Borgin repair black magic items?
"How did Katie get this?"
Hermione asked Lini beside her. After the comfort just now, Lini's mood became more stable.
"We were arguing about this matter just now." Lini was a little frightened. "She came out of the toilet of the Three Broomsticks with this thing in her hand. She said she wanted to give it to someone at Hogwarts. She must hand it over. Her expression was strange when she spoke, oh no, she must have been under the Imperius Curse at that time, how could I not see it!"
Linnie's tone was very remorseful, and she cried loudly, and Hermione gently patted her shoulder.
"Did Katie say who she wanted to give it to?" Ron asked from the side, but Lini shook her head.
"No, she...she refused to tell me. I told her that you were so dizzy that you could never bring this thing into school. But she didn't stop, so I...I reached out and grabbed it from her arms. This thing, but... But later..."
Lini was already crying so much that no one continued to ask questions.
Although Lini didn't say who she was going to give this thing to, Louis understood that it was one of the Death Eaters' methods against Dumbledore, or Malfoy's method against Dumbledore.
It was indeed a good move, but he missed one point. Even if this thing really got into Dumbledore's hands, he would not die for it, and he might not even be able to weaken his power.
Dumbledore's power is rare among today's wizards. Even in ancient times, his level was in the middle and upper reaches.
They were silent all the way, and they met no one on the snowy road, but at the entrance to the Hogwarts castle, Professor McGonagall and Snape were already waiting there.
Members of the Order of the Phoenix were notified immediately. It was definitely not a small matter that something like this happened near the school.
Hagrid said something to Professor McGonagall and left with Katie Bell. Professor McGonagall called them up.
"Hagrid just told me what happened. You five are witnesses. Please come to the office upstairs immediately!" She stopped and saw the opal necklace wrapped in Louis' hand. "Wait a minute, Lu. ...Hmm...Mr. Ducatan, what is that in your hand?"
"This is the dark magic item, Professor." Louis said matter-of-factly.
"Oh my God." Professor McGonagall was a little nervous. "You can still control it. You did a good job. Now bring this with you. We have to study it. I said, Filch, they are following I’m with you!”
Filch held up the detector and walked out happily.
Professor McGonagall waved her wand, tied the opal necklace together with a rope, and said to Filch.
"Send it to the principal's office immediately and tell Dumbledore that Snape, I, and the five remaining students will come right away. Don't touch it and carry it around like this!"
"Okay, you guys, come with me."
Filch took the necklace and went down, while Louis and others followed Professor McGonagall and Snape through another passage. . .
