HP: The New God from Hogwarts

Chapter 251: Almost Let You Survive

There is no other path on this level.

If there were, Professor Figo and Nicolas Flamel, who have lived for hundreds of years, would have taken their students away from this dangerous place long ago.

Of course, they couldn't stay in the basement any longer. It was already exposed, and staying there would only lead to them being caught by the witch hunters.

The elevator numbers kept jumping, announcing the approach of danger like a countdown. Tao Wu felt Percy's grip on her wrist increase a little.

"They are coming." Draco's voice trembled a little, and beads of sweat appeared on his face, which he had just wiped clean.

"Go this way!" Percy took a deep breath and walked to the end of the corridor. He kicked the wall hard. The wall sank inward and a foul smell of corruption spread out.

Harry looked at Percy in confusion: "What is this?"

Percy covered his nose and said, "The wastewater discharge pipe of the Ministry of Magic was discovered by George and Fred. They boasted to me that when my father worked in the Ministry of Magic when I was a child, they often used this pipe to harass my father."

Tao Wu covered her nose and walked over. It was a pipe that was only big enough for one person to pass through. Black sewage was flowing through the pipe. Some unknown sticky objects were hanging scattered on the pipe wall, and bursts of foul smell came out.

"Ugh! I'd rather be cut into raw wizard slices and dipped in mustard sauce by the witch hunters than have to go through such a smelly place!" Draco dry-heaved several times, extremely resistant.

Selwyn also covered his nose with a disgusted expression: "Oh, Percy, this is really disgraceful. Selwyn is a famous pure-blood family after all—"

"Then you just wait here and be caught and sliced up together with Malfoy!" Percy was in no mood to persuade the two of them. He tied a silk handkerchief around his nose and jumped into the pipe first.

No one else was in a hurry to jump in with him. Fuji looked into Taowu's eyes and suddenly asked, "Do you believe him?"

"How did the witch hunters find the basement?" Tao Wu did not answer Fudge, but asked her own question instead.

Fudge frowned. "They found the Ministry of Magic's schematics."

"The basement is shown on the structural diagram. How come you, the minister, don't know about it!" Draco covered his nose and accused Fudge angrily.

Fudge rubbed his head in shame: "I'm sorry, Mr. Malfoy, I haven't seen that picture."

Draco was so angry that he took a deep breath and almost vomited.

"So it was the insider who gave the schematics to the witch hunter." Luna spoke softly, giving her own analysis. "According to the information the Minister gave me before, the person who exposed the basement should be Mr. Weasley."

Selwyn immediately continued, “So, there could also be witch hunters at the other end of the passage.”

"but--"

Luna took a step forward, her pale blue eyes seeming to see into Selwyn's soul.

"Why can't it be you who took the schematics, Mr. Selwyn?"

Selwyn laughed awkwardly twice. "I didn't even know the existence of the basement. It was Percy who told us that the witch hunters were sabotaging the Department of Mysteries. Mr. Fudge can also testify to this."

"I can testify to that," said Fudge.

Luna smiled: "I was joking."

Tao Wu patted Selwyn's shoulder and said in a fatherly tone, "Luna likes to joke. As a man, you should be more generous and stop arguing with a little girl."

The elevator number was getting closer and closer.

Ginny and Tao Wu looked at each other and half of their bodies went into the passage: "Percy is my brother. I believe that even if he is a traitor, he will not harm me!"

Harry urged, "There's no time. If we stay here, we'll die. Let's take a gamble. I bet Percy won't hurt Ginny!"

Fudge thought what they said made sense: "You guys go quickly, I'll cover you!"

Draco suppressed his nausea and followed Harry into the passage. After all, he just had to clean up after getting out.

"Ding-dong-"

The elevator door opened and seven or eight witch hunters with guns rushed out.

Tao Wu immediately took out his pistol and shot down the first few witch hunters with a few shots.

Selwyn was still hesitating in disgust, but Fudge didn't give him time to hesitate. He kicked him into the water pipe and grabbed Tao Wu:

"Don't fight anymore, just go."

"Well, luckily the elevator has a capacity limit, otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle a hundred or eighty people!"

Tao Wu was stuffed into the pipe by Fuji, and when she was not paying attention, a bullet shot at her.

Fudge quickly used his body to block her, and a horrible bloody hole was left on his shoulder.

Tao Wu felt complicated, she didn't expect that Fuji could make such a heroic move to protect herself who had beaten him many times.

"go!"

Fudge endured the pain and jumped into the pipe. The secret door on the wall slammed shut, isolating the bullets outside.

After a long, stinking moment, they finally fell out of the pipe—

The exit was devoid of witch hunters, but familiar.

"here it is?"

Tao Wu looked around at the messy low houses and cast a cleansing spell on herself.

"Knockturn Alley." Draco recognized the place.

"What are you doing now, senior?" Luna looked at Tao Wu. Ever since she met Tao Wu at the beginning of the school year, she always trusted her.

Before Tao Wu could answer, Harry took out his wand: "I think we need to contact Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape as soon as possible!"

He waved his wand, and a bright silver deer leaped from the tip of the wand. Harry planned to use the Patronus to notify Dumbledore.

"Potter, I think we should go to Grimmauld Place and meet up with them right now. With Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel, we will be much safer. There is no need to contact Dumbledore now." Selwyn said suddenly.

"Yes, Mr. Selwyn is right." Draco agreed deeply with what he said. He seemed to have forgotten that the passage opened by Taowu at the beginning led to Hogwarts.

Fudge also felt that it was safer to stay with Dumbledore: "Yes, we must hurry to Grimmauld Place."

Percy frowned and said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking. Harry pursed his lips and looked at Taowu. They both knew that Grimaud had given a fake address.

But Draco and Fudge agreed with Selwyn, and he had no good excuse to refuse.

"I'm afraid that's not possible. Harry has to contact Dumbledore first--" Tao Wu said.

"Why?" Selwyn was a little anxious. "The devils might catch up with us soon."

"In order to prevent the base from being found by Voldemort and the Death Eaters, Professor Dumbledore cast the Fidelius Charm. Unless he leads the way, we won't be able to find it." Tao Wu found an excuse.

"Then how did they get there before!" Selwyn was a little out of control.

Harry added: "That transmission channel originally belonged to the Order of the Phoenix, so it didn't need a guide. But we are different. We need Professor Dumbledore."

"I think--" Fudge cast a healing spell on himself and stepped forward to smooth things over.

"All petrified!"

Fudge's body fell stiffly.

"Percy, you don't have to put on an act for them." Selwyn took the wand, tore off the disguise of gentleness and kindness, and revealed a ferocious expression.

"Percy—" Ginny said his name, trying to awaken his conscience.

But he raised his wand anyway.

Selwyn laughed grimly: "Luckily Snape and Flamel left, leaving only you kids, otherwise I wouldn't be sure -"

“Hahahaha——” Tao Wu suddenly shrugged and laughed. Against the dark backdrop of Knockturn Alley, she looked more like a villain than Sirwin.

She nodded at Harry.

Harry took out his wand and cast an Avada Kedavra curse on Selwyn. He didn't even need to recite the spell now.

Selwyn barely dodges: ?

Tao Wu stood beside Harry with his hands in his pockets:

"Yes, fortunately the professor is gone--

You almost survived!"