[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-510":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250748,4210,"Chapter 510: Walking Through Dreams for Five Hours","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-510",510,"\u003Cp>The open fields had become a distant past; the hills were gradually revealing their true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius could hear distinct snarls behind him, each one making his legs go weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thousand thoughts flashed through his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What were those black dogs? Why did he instinctively feel he must not resist them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And why did they insist on hunting him down?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, where was he running to? Where were James and Lily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confusion drowned Sirius, and with it came the endless black dogs, shadowing his every step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius stepped onto the hill’s grass, and a mass of black mist spread behind him—if he had eyes on his back, he would have seen these misty blobs drifting straight from his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sirius, what right do you have to face anyone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hoarse voice rose behind him, sounding like accusation and sorrow intertwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice made Sirius involuntarily freeze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, his feet felt as if filled with lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not help but recall that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>James, Harry’s father, his brother, the only son of the Potters who treated him like a son…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of his mistake, his arrogance, his foolish actions, he was brutally murdered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he not force himself to find out what happened that night?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wormtail betrayed James and Lily’s location to Voldemort, Voldemort found them in their cottage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene of Harry’s parents’ deaths was not hard to imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And how could he not imagine it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He imagined how Voldemort first killed Harry’s father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How James fought desperately, shouting for his wife to flee with Harry…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How Voldemort advanced on Lily Potter, ordering her to step aside—he would kill Harry…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How she begged Voldemort to kill her instead, not to touch her son—she protected her child even in death… So Voldemort killed her too, then turned his wand on Harry…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sirius, what right do you have?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius clutched his face in agony, tears streaming down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What you fear controls you, Mr. Black.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A child’s voice came from behind Sirius; he suddenly felt his body loosen, and he returned to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard a roar right beside him, foul stench flooding his senses—he looked up and saw a massive mouth stretched beside his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black dog had opened its jaws wide enough to swallow a man, yet it froze, as if stuck on a fishbone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius broke into a cold sweat, trembling as he searched for his god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without effort, he found it—standing atop the dog’s head, watching him with emerald-green, regal eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius swore he had never seen such a majestic cat—it looked like a giant, expanded version of the mystical magical beast, the leopard cat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant cat’s paw struck down; the black dog let out a pained whimper, then dissolved into wisps of black mist, lingering like ghosts around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fear never vanishes, Mr. Black—it lives forever in every heart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But even those burdened by fear can still run.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant cat shrank like a deflated balloon, finally becoming no larger than a housecat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly are they…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius asked, trembling, his throat dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll discuss that next time, Mr. Black—we don’t have much time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black cat stared at the rising mist around it; it knew it had overused the Empty Talisman’s power and interfered too deeply with the Boundary’s rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything has a price—the cost of Sirius’s fear and hesitation was expulsion from the dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he not been the cat’s guest, he would have vanished like Voldemort’s soul fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the effect of soul disappearance in reality, one may refer to the Killing Curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm… yet this is also strange—the Killing Curse directly kills a wizard’s soul, which is why it leaves no physical wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how can a wizard killed by the Killing Curse return to the Boundary?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless… the Killing Curse does not kill the soul—it lacks such power. It merely expels, driving the soul from the wizard’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here is evidence: Harry’s Resurrection Stone can summon the souls of his parents and Cedric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What does that mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius asked urgently, staring at the black cat with a look of despair and desperate longing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your steps are too heavy. Those who walk in dreams must tread lightly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you cannot shed something, you will never reach far.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black cat sighed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Farewell, Mr. Black. When you are ready to face the future instead of living in yesterday, come find me again…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh—and at Hogwarts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist grew thicker than ever before, accompanied by a searing heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Boundary seemed to punish the wizard who broke its rules—it could not punish the cat licking its paws, so it punished Sirius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius felt only heat, unbearable heat—his skin burned, yet his heart turned icy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That voice was right—what right did he have to face James and Lily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless… he remembered the infant—within his mind, the image of the baby always outlasted the face that resembled James.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we win, revered god, I will return.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius looked as if he had reclaimed something—his face set in terrifying resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at his god—the cat stared blankly at its own paw, whiskers twitching slightly, as if surprised its paw had instinctively stuck to its whiskers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was too amusing—even Sirius couldn’t help but squint slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have many guests,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the black cat said solemnly, pressing its tail over its paws,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If one day I encounter a wandering soul-guest rather than a wizard, I will Making Guide them out of the dream.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black cat finished speaking, ignored Sirius’s one-second stunned silence followed by wild joy, and walked into the depths of the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Sirius awoke from the hazy illusion, staring at the box still playing its hypnotic music, he suddenly spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord of Dreams and Mist, Bridge Between Life and Death, Symbol of Eternal Fortune—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured, like a devout believer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his god, at that moment, frowned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five hours and thirty minutes… Too long. 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