Chapter 183 Not worthy of her nobleness
Snape quickly snatched the knife from his hand and prevented the blood from flowing like a river.
"Is your brain full of slugs? I just asked you to get some blood, where are you going to cut it?" Snape said angrily.
Realizing that he had made a mistake, Lupin didn't dare to say a word and obediently put a little blood into the paint bucket.
Jiang Li took the paint bucket and began to draw a magic circle on the ground. In fact, he could have drawn it in advance, but Jiang Li was afraid of any accidents, so he planned to draw it on the spot.
Others stood aside and watched.
Lupin had come across alchemy before in his alchemy class and knew how difficult it was to draw alchemy patterns. He couldn't help but marvel at Jiang Li's ability to draw magic patterns without hesitation and various complex and varied formation patterns taking shape under his hands.
Professor Malfoy is too strong.
He had to think for a long time before putting pen to paper for each magic pattern, but for Malfoy, drawing several magic circles superimposed on each other was as easy as drinking water.
Lupin had never seen how other alchemists drew array patterns, so he thought they all did the same thing as Jiang Li. He felt that there must be a reason why there were so few alchemists.
The magic circle was successfully drawn. Jiang Li said to Lupin who was watching curiously, "Stand in the middle."
Hearing this, Lupin stood over obediently.
Jiang Li warned Lupin earnestly, "You will feel a lot of pain in a moment, but this is normal. No matter what, you cannot leave the magic circle, otherwise everything will fail and you will suffer irreversible damage. Do you understand?"
Lupin wrote them down one by one, and then took the potion given to him by Snape.
Jiang Li looked up at the night sky.
There is not a single cloud in the sky tonight. A bright crescent moon hangs high in the night sky. The stars in the distance are not as bright as before, but are still faintly visible.
The air was very quiet, without even the sound of wind.
Jiang Li watched the moon move slowly until it reached the position he wanted, and then he immediately poured magic power into the magic circle.
Suddenly, the magic circle shone brightly, and the entire rooftop was as bright as day. The moon and stars in the sky seemed to fall from the sky, and the light fell into the magic circle.
Lupin felt as if he was in the sky, with the moon under his feet, and all the stars in the sky were circling around him, enveloping him.
The next second, a star hit his body. He felt a sharp pain and blood flowed out instantly from the place where he was hit.
The stars that were originally floating slowly beside him immediately drilled into his wound the moment the blood appeared.
Lupin in the formation let out a shrill scream, which made people feel chilled.
The light of the magic circle enveloped Lupin's figure, and the originally human-shaped Lupin gradually turned into a werewolf.
"Roar--"
A terrible roar came from the formation. Lupin, who was struggling in pain on the ground, completely turned into a werewolf, with black air coming out of his body, trying to break through the range of the magic circle.
The moon pattern under his feet suddenly lit up, and vines emitting white light stretched out and entangled the werewolf covered in black air.
Light and darkness intertwined, the air around them became violent, and the wind was blowing hard.
Jiang Li stood outside the magic circle, her hair messy from the wind. She raised her wand and knocked Lupin back when he was about to walk out of range.
It seems that he had underestimated the werewolf curse. He did not expect it to awaken at this moment and devour Lupin's sanity.
The roar in the center of the magic circle was getting louder and louder. If Jiang Li hadn't used a shielding formation nearby, it would have probably been heard far away.
Jiang Li looked calm, with his hair on his forehead blown by the wind. He picked up the magic wand and directly beat back the werewolf's black energy that was about to break through the barrier.
The light inside was getting brighter and brighter. Jiang Li felt something had triggered the formation on the periphery. He said to Dumbledore:
"It seems that a mouse has run in. Please take care of it. It seems to be in a pipe."
The formation cannot be interrupted, so Jiang Li has arranged several layers of shielding formations outside in advance. No matter who or what creature touches it, there will be a reaction.
She didn't want to fail in small matters just because she was afraid of trouble.
mouse?
Snape thought of something, and immediately said to Dumbledore seriously: "Peter Pettigrew's Animagus form is a mouse."
Dumbledore was somewhat surprised at how sharp these two men were and immediately went over to deal with it.
Peter, in his Animagus form, crawls through the sewers.
It's dark, damp and filled with unpleasant odors here, but you can occasionally get some unexpected wealth and hear some secrets.
He had followed Sirius and James when they left the dormitory and noted down the route they took.
He had a hunch that this secret must be very important. If he could eavesdrop on it, he would be appreciated by the Dark Lord and would have countless wealth.
When he was halfway there, he suddenly felt his hair stand on end, as if he had met his natural enemy.
Snape raised his hand to look at his wrist, frowned and said, "Ella is gone."
"I was afraid that Dumbledore couldn't find the mouse, so I asked her to help find it." Jiang Li replied.
She watched as the white light in the formation grew stronger and stronger, enveloping the werewolf's black aura like a cocoon, and the werewolf's aura became weaker and weaker.
Peter ran back in fear, with the thing behind him chasing him closely.
Snakes! Why are there snakes in the sewers?
The snake behind him seemed to be getting closer and closer, and it bit off his tail in one bite.
Peter was so frightened that his soul left his body. He ran in the nearest direction with all his might.
He didn't want to be eaten as food.
A light appeared in the distance and Peter's eyes immediately lit up. He ran towards the bright ground, immediately released his Animagus form, and took out his wand to destroy the snake behind him.
As a result, he saw Dumbledore, wearing a dark wizard robe, standing not far from him, his wise blue eyes staring at him sharply.
"Mr. Peter Pettigrew, I think you should rest in your dormitory now."
Peter felt as if he was falling into an ice cellar, wondering what Dumbledore had seen.
He shrank his neck nervously, his back bent, and said with some fear: "Principal Dumbledore, I just saw James and Sirius running out. I was worried that something might have happened to them, so I came out. I...I didn't mean to break the school rules."
“So that’s how it is.”
Dumbledore looked at Peter gently, as if he could not see his fear, and said kindly, "They have just been sent back to the dormitory by Professor McGonagall. I think you should know the way back, so you don't need me to take you back."
Hearing this, Peter shrank back and said, “No…No, I can go back by myself.”
Although he was somewhat unwilling not to hear the secret, Peter did not dare to do anything in front of Dumbledore, for fear that he would know that he was working for Voldemort.
After all, this powerful white wizard founded the Order of the Phoenix and openly resisted Voldemort.
Peter turned away trembling.
"This is a very excellent Animagus form, but if it is not registered with the Ministry of Magic, you will be severely punished if you are found out. I hope you can register as soon as possible."
When he was halfway there, he heard Dumbledore's gentle voice behind him.
Peter's whole body stiffened; he had indeed been seen.
He pulled the corner of his mouth and said reluctantly: "I understand. I will go to register."
Dumbledore looked at him with a gentle smile until Peter disappeared in the corridor.
There was a slight noise in the water pipe, and Dumbledore saw a small snake sticking its head out of the pipe.
He stretched out his hand towards the little snake and said gently, "Are you Gardenia's pet?"
Ella tilted her head, not knowing what the white-bearded human was chattering about, and turned back into the water pipe.
Watching the little snake disappear, a gleam of wisdom flashed in Dumbledore's eyes behind his lenses.
On the rooftop, the werewolf's black aura had completely disappeared.
The black air was wrapped by the white light and pulled underground.
Lupin gradually returned to his normal state, his body covered in bright red blood, looking like a bloody man.
While the spell was repairing the wounds on his body, blood continued to ooze out, and the blood that came out from the back was a strange green color.
If an ordinary person lost so much blood, he would have died long ago. Fortunately, Snape had fed him the potion in advance, so new blood continued to flow into his body, so he did not die of shock due to excessive bleeding.
Jiang Li observed the scene inside. Ella swam back slowly, trying to get into her sleeves.
Jiang Li saw that her body was a little wet, so he cast a cleaning spell on her.
The little snake stiffened instantly, and the next second it swam towards Snape and wrapped itself around his wrist. It tucked its head into its sleeve and pointed its tail in the direction of Jiang Li.
"Ella seems angry with you," said Snape.
The thin snake tail swayed slightly at the cuffs, and straightened when it heard Snape's words.
"Maybe she thinks I dislike her because she's too dirty coming out of the sewer." Jiang Li pulled the snake's tail and asked Ella, "Do rats taste good? Do you want Mia to prepare some dried rats for you as your food for the next month?"
The little snake that had just been hiding in the sleeve reacted immediately, sticking its head out and making a hissing sound.
"No, rat meat is disgusting."
She was ignorant before and had never eaten any other food. She thought rat meat was delicious, but now she is no longer the same person.
How can dirty rat meat be worthy of such a noble woman?