[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-war-at-hogwarts":3,"chapter-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-122":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Wizard War at Hogwarts",{"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},2358095,4612,"Chapter 122","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-122",122,"\u003Cp>“...Only the sage can be divine in spirit without being dominated by divinity, master all things while holding their pivot, able to gather them and disperse them, able to govern them—responding to myriad things, his heart remains still.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long incantation so drawn-out it nearly put one to sleep, a white Dementor slowly took shape in the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its veiled face turned toward Harry; a scarred hand gripped its cloak, and the lights around the classroom flickered—before the white Dementor instantly turned dark and shadowy. With a deep, rattling breath, a bone-chilling cold swept over Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Expecto Patronum!” Harry strained to recall the moment of victory, but his thoughts slipped back to that night ten years ago. After a fleeting wisp of white smoke, Harry’s wand fell utterly still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! Harry! Please, face me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get out of the way. Stand and watch, woman!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lily, take Harry away! It’s him! Quick! Run! I’ll hold him off...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice from the next room slowly approached... the door exploded open... his loud, cackling laughter...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Harry! Harry... wake up...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lupin’s hand waved before Harry’s face; he snapped back to awareness and saw Zhang Qiu had dismissed the spell. She was quietly muttering another incantation to restore her composure. Harry drew a deep breath, feeling ashamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard my father,” Harry said slowly, his emotions tangled, “It was the first time I remembered his voice... He tried to stop Voldemort, to buy time for my mother...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry’s voice cracked with tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You heard James?” Lupin said in a strange tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes...” Harry sniffed, “Oh, right—I’ve heard people say you were friends. Moony and Wormtail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I... actually,” Lupin looked embarrassed, “I wanted to do something, but I couldn’t do anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s take a break,” Zhang Qiu suggested. “Professor Lupin, could you tell us a story from your school days? Harry really wants to learn more about his father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright,” Lupin sat down and handed each child a chocolate bar. “At school, I, James, and Peter... were in the same dorm...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And Sirius,” Harry knew he couldn’t avoid mentioning him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, I meant to say...” Lupin struggled to find a cheerful tale, but his face remained grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could Lupin say? That James cheated on homework, broke rules, sneaked out at night? Or that the four of them tormented Filch and Slytherin students? Even the most touching part—the Animagus transformation—he felt unsuitable to tell a third-year Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me about Peter,” Harry said lightly. “Of Dad’s friends, he’s the one I know least about.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“About Wormtail,” Lupin gave a weary smile, “He wasn’t as clever as the others, and he was timid—but whatever James did, he’d follow. After all, we were all Gryffindors.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where is he now?” Harry asked, and a sudden dread rose in his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He... he went to America,” Lupin said with difficulty, “out of fear of Voldemort.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me the truth, Professor,” Harry said, staring into his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That night,” Lupin sighed, “he couldn’t bear it—he went to find Sirius.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We only found one finger. Sirius killed his friend for the second time,” Lupin said, his expression complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry sat still for a long while, thinking of Hannah—a girl who always had the courage to keep up with Neville. If something terrible happened, and Hannah rushed to avenge Neville, only to be utterly outmatched...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Ginny and Ivy—he still remembered Ginny trembling in the Forbidden Forest, forcing herself to keep pace with them. The thought made him heartbroken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Actually, Harry,” Zhang Qiu said softly, “the Patronus represents hope. Hope doesn’t come only from your happiest memory—it also comes from your most painful one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Lupin’s puzzled gaze, she continued, “My senior cousin once said: transcend awakening, and you will see hope. When all is worst and most painful, what remains beside you, holding you up—that is hope.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry pondered: when he won the Cup, how much of that intense joy, pride, and triumph was tied to hope?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dementors drain all your positive emotions, leaving only despair. What truly repels them is not joy—but the faint spark of hope within despair. The new path you see when you rise in darkness, even if it is thorned.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Expecto Patronum,” Lupin suddenly said. White mist surged from his wand tip, pouring like mercury onto the floor—then a white wolf appeared, utterly silver, its eyes calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry stared in surprise. He hadn’t expected Lupin’s Patronus to be a wolf—especially since Lupin himself was a werewolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Zhang,” Lupin whispered. “I thought I’d never be able to summon a full Patronus again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry could imagine how Lupin, tormented by his werewolf nature, had once rejected this white wolf Patronus. But he pretended ignorance, only feigning astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Harry, perhaps my approach was wrong,” Lupin said. “If your happiest memory fails, and the Dementor always drags you back to that night—then think of that night.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your parents gave everything so you could live. Think of that. Think of their love for you. Knowing your parents loved you—that may be the key to summoning your Patronus.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try again,” Zhang Qiu stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Dementor approached again, Harry thought of his parents—their living faces in the Mirror of Erised, in the Forbidden Forest after death, in photographs—countless identical, vivid faces merging into a single beam of light in that terrible night of cold and despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Expecto Patronum.” Harry had never felt so focused, so centered—he seemed to see James and Lily smiling through the white mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silver-white stag leapt from his wand, driving back the advancing Dementor. The room brightened; warmth returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“James,” Lupin murmured, stunned. “So you’ve always been here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Qiu dismissed the Dementor, then closed her eyes again to restore her composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father?” Harry hesitated. “Why do you say that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Patronus is him, child,” Lupin quietly wiped a tear from his eye with his robe. “I thought I’d never see him again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Him? But it’s a stag?” Harry blinked. “You don’t mean... he was an Animagus?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh,” Lupin looked awkward. “I wasn’t planning to say anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So ‘Prongs’ hinted at his animal form? Professor, your Animagus is the white wolf? And Sirius ‘Padfoot’ is a bear? And Wormtail Peter is a rat?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Something like that,” Lupin said, uneasy. “But I think you should head back now. It’s late, and you’ve learned enough today.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Qiu tugged Harry’s arm. He realized Lupin had no intention of saying more, and politely took his leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, after Defense Against the Dark Arts, Lupin kept Harry behind again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think our lessons on the Patronus Charm can end,” Lupin said. “You’ve learned how to summon it—even better than I ever could.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Professor...” Harry truly enjoyed spending time with Lupin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t need to waste more time on this, Harry,” he stated calmly. “Your goal in learning the Patronus was to face Dementors. You’ve already surpassed most. In fact, your unusual experiences make you more vulnerable to Dementors—but also more capable of mastering the Patronus.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry knew he was right. He had no counterargument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first Saturday of term, Ravenclaw faced Slytherin. Everyone in Gryffindor who cared about Quidditch went to watch. Last term’s end had seen Ravenclaw defeat Hufflepuff 240 to 160—meaning every house might now be a rival to Gryffindor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hufflepuff’s finished all their matches,” Ron said, his notebook showing Gryffindor’s pitiful 120 points. “Their total is 480—sounds like a lot. But the good news? They’re done. Their score can’t rise anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The trouble is,” Ginny said, troubled, “Hufflepuff beat us, then lost to the other two houses. Now both Ravenclaw’s 240 and Slytherin’s 180 are our rivals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No big deal,” Ivy said confidently. “Harry’s got the Firebolt. We just need to beat them by 240 and 180 points respectively.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, Harry, don’t worry,” Neville chimed in—he rarely joined group discussions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll win!” Wood clapped Harry on the shoulder, excited.\u003C\u002Fp>",1307,"2026-06-21T04:54:27.874Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","13ffe1feab9ab8ea2f1e78b4757ca67033e84c05b9042bacfdff186ce3776266","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-123","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-121",528,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwizard-war-at-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]