Chapter 361: William's Last Stand

"You know about Regulus's action?" Harry didn't really want to talk about these things in front of the members of Deng Buliduo's Army, but he was indeed eager to understand the situation, because according to the original plan, Sirius should have let Bellatrix and Delphini go.

"We have informants in his gang." William said. "But he did indeed play a surprise attack; when the informant sent back the report, he had already caught Bellatrix and Delphini."

Sirius captured the mother and daughter alive; Harry felt that this matter looked better on the surface, but in reality, it was probably a hot potato.

"Lu Xiusi held a dance party at home; you really have good calculations. I don't know if Lu Xiusi has turned to your side, but this dance party did indeed make us relax our vigilance." William showed a gentlemanly demeanor. "And at this time, Snape is quietly taking action against Nagini, right?"

Harry didn't pick up the conversation; he didn't want to expose any information.

"When the news reached me, I was still on the dance floor at Ma Erfu Manor. I knew then that Bellatrix was finished, and the Lestrange family had collapsed." William looked at Rabastan. "However, based on professional ethics, I still came up with a clever move in a short time, which was to secretly capture Harry Potter."

"If we caught you, then we would have bargaining chips to negotiate with Snape and Regulus," William said. "But I have no one left to use; at most, I pulled a few people from the dance floor—me, my partner Sinde, Rabastan, the Carrow siblings, and Antonin and Mulciber, but those two are fence-sitters, I'm afraid they've already fled back by now."

"Is this the list of the seven attackers?" Harry said. "You were quite straightforward in supplying them."

"No difference; anyway, Sinde and I will always wait for the extradition of the Magical Congress." William said with a relaxed expression. "And the others, even if they don't participate in this operation, will be liquidated by you sooner or later."

"You say it so easily, you bastard!" Rabastan suddenly became excited and slammed William to the ground with his shoulder.

Harry greeted the students to separate them, then signaled William to continue.

"We calculated at the Ma Erfu house; it just so happens that all parties are busy now. If Harry finds his friends in danger, he likely can only come to save them himself." William said. "And I happened to know some stories about Deng Buliduo's Army, so I stole the ring of that little fatty and secretly ambushed you here."

"How could you be sure I would really come?" Harry was somewhat puzzled.

"I had no way; I could only bet," William shook his head. "Bet that one of your friends happened not to be at school, bet that you believed the ring's call for help, bet that Snape hadn't returned, bet that you were eager to save people and rushed out with only one or two good friends."

Just at this time, Zhang Qiu walked over with a dozen students, chatting and laughing. They threw the five captives who had been tied up like sticks beside Rabastan, and the latter immediately showed an even more desperate expression.

"It's fine, you continue." Harry also couldn't help but laugh.

"I have nothing else to say; clearly, I lost the bet." William sighed.

Looking at Harry showing a disdainful expression, he added: "But you have to think, for me to come up with such a feasible countermeasure in such a short time, it's already not easy. If it succeeded, wouldn't it be turning the tide and making a comeback? I can only say that luck just didn't happen to be on my side."

Harry shrugged; he already knew the ins and outs of the matter. Indeed, this operation was very hasty, which led to their failure being so fast and thorough.

"Where's Luo En?" Harry stood up and looked for familiar faces in the crowd.

"I'm here." Luo En's voice came from another direction; he led four or five students and was walking toward here—they were even bringing a captive.

Harry narrowed his eyes at William and asked somewhat jokingly: "Can't you count?"

"Fine, that's my other good partner Adams; it seems he can't be counted on either." William showed a relieved expression only now.

"We'll wait here for a while; when people are gathered, we'll go back directly." Harry glanced at the ring in his hand; the ring was still burning, and at this moment it was pointing in William's direction.

While waiting for the students, Harry suddenly felt something fly over his head. When he looked up, that thing happened to fly back—it was the TARDIS.

"They are here." From the half-open door, a very familiar face poked out.

After the TARDIS landed, several people walked out, all unfamiliar faces. Then Lupin walked out, looked around, and asked: "What's going on, Harry? Who is calling for help? Why are you all gathered here in the middle of the night?"

"It was a trap..." Harry said somewhat embarrassedly. "Fortunately, there were many of us, and we broke through by sheer strength, uh, you can interrogate them for details."

Lupin looked at the people lying on the ground and suddenly exclaimed: "The Carrow siblings! Antonin! You caught big fish!"

"Strictly speaking, it was this William who brought the big fish to our door." Luo En said triumphantly.

"They are very dangerous, very dangerous; I mean, quick, add a few more ropes." He greeted his men to come forward to receive the captives. Immediately after, Tonks and Sirius also walked out of the TARDIS.

"Godfather!" Harry said happily. "Why are you here too?"

"My business over there is finished; I just happened to go find Lupin." Sirius said vaguely. "Then I bumped into Krest looking for him about the ring matter. I was worried it was you calling for help, so I didn't dare let him follow. Just Lupin and Tonks, and I even let him bring a few werewolves; anyway, we just said we were coming to save people—didn't you go to the Ministry of Magic?"

"No, Snape wouldn't let us go." Harry didn't say it in detail in front of the students.

"That's still good; we almost broke in directly," Sirius nodded. "Fortunately, Tonks suggested we confirm the situation at Hogwarts first."

"Oh right," Harry leaned close to Sirius and asked in a low voice, "You didn't deliberately let Bellatrix go, did you?"

"I did," Sirius said in the same low voice. "I specifically arranged for a mole in the Lestrange family to be responsible for guarding the back door. Who knew that guy would turn traitor."

"I couldn't just let Bellatrix go in front of everyone when people were asking for credit, could I?" Sirius showed a very pained expression. "This makes it tricky; I had to lock her up first and see if Bellatrix could find a way to escape on her own."

"Fine. I can only say, many times things are just so twisted." Harry looked at the chattering students somewhat amusedly. "I feel tonight went too smoothly, all of us. I hope Professor Snape can also successfully complete his goal."

After Lupin finished cleaning up the captives and left behind a sentence of "You go back early, rest early," he left. Originally, he intended to use the TARDIS to send the children back to school, but Harry didn't really want to let so many people break into the TARDIS. One was worrying that the overexcited children would cause trouble, and the other was worrying that there were too many eyes and ears, exposing Sirius's true identity to the Death Eaters; after all, he and Lupin were actually also out in a hurry.

"Wow, so cool, Harry." After the TARDIS left, Jia Siting leaned over and said, "Professor Lupin is driving the TARDIS! Who are the others? Are they all Aurors?"

"Strictly speaking, no." Harry scratched his head. "You can just treat them as people from the Order of the Phoenix."

"Harry, do you have many battle plans." Marietta leaned over curiously and asked, "I just heard you interrogating William, saying that the Order of the Phoenix won a great victory elsewhere, so he took a risk and wanted to attack us?"

"Uh, things are about the same; it is indeed like that." Harry shrugged ambiguously.

"That is to say, we put a perfect full stop to the victory of the Order of the Phoenix!" Marietta's voice became louder unconsciously, and some students who were chatting in twos and threes also looked over here, their eyes shining.

"Great, the Order of the Phoenix won a great victory! And we played a key role!" Jia Siting cheered from the side, not knowing the truth.

In the boiling crowd, Harry smiled reluctantly; he didn't have the heart to pour cold water on them, and even less could he explain the truth to them, so he could only follow along and cheer.

Soon, the last lost student also found this place and naturally integrated into the cheering crowd. Harry spent quite a bit of effort to suppress their noise and announced to fly back to school.

The children were just like when they set off, riding on their brooms, chatting happily, and then slowly flying toward the school. They lit their wands again, forming a slowly flowing band of light in the sky.

I don't know who suddenly changed the color of the Lumos spell, so this band of light suddenly became colorful. Immediately after, others began to shoot fireworks toward the surroundings, and the constantly flashing firelight made the smiling faces look even brighter.

When the noisy singing also began to ring out, Neville showed a helpless smile at Harry.

"We were hoping to do big things." He said. "This turned into a float parade."

"We did indeed do a big thing." Harry said with a smile. "For students, it's already very big."

"Harry, what is that?" Luo En suddenly pointed in a direction and said.

The team slowed down; clearly, many people saw a black shadow not far away, charging toward here crookedly.

After that behemoth got a little closer, Harry couldn't help but widen his eyes: it was a Hungarian Horntail dragon that looked very ferocious at first glance, flying crookedly, and two girls were sitting on its neck.

"Excuse me! Someone! Catch us!" Elina shouted loudly. ===== CHAPTER 362 =====