In Harry Potter as Neville Longbottom - Chapter 90: It's Her?!

“Why is there no one on the map? Has he already jumped inside? Fuck…” Neville was moving stealthily on the second floor, and he checked the map, but he found no one was near the second-floor washroom and it was clearly empty.

While he was cursing his luck, he suddenly saw two Aurors coming down from the fourth floor, he knew he could not run straight anymore.

Finding no other option, he took out the portkey he was using as a necklace for this special purpose. It was a simple locket, but this was his key to jumping the Hogwarts apparition rule.

Tonight, he had to avoid the eyes and ears of Aurors, Professors and the great Dumbledore. Moving without alerting them was really hard and hence, Neville had to prepare himself for this in advance.

He does not have an invisible cloak, but he does have the skill to make his own portkeys. In the wizarding world, the most common thing to travel is Portkey and to use one, one must know his precise destination.

“Hooo…..” Letting out a big puff of air and calming his emotions, he grabbed the portkey with his hands, and he was soon sucked inside before being thrown off on top of the place where the snake-marked tap should be present in the washroom.

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“Did you hear that?” One Auror asked another.

“Nope. Maybe those elves.” The other older one replied.

“Yeah! Those are really working hard today. Moving here and then jumping to another place to decorate. Wish I could own one. My wife is killing me with all the nagging about homework.”

The Auror said sadly, and both walked crossed the third and then second floor. The hallways were empty, and they made sure no lovers or night walkers were on some adventure hiding somewhere.

Headmaster Dumbledore felt a slight tingling but before he could grasp it, it disappeared.

“These elves are truly working hard on Halloween…” Headmaster chuckled.

This slight apparition where it was done in a few seconds was only allowed inside Hogwarts for today and the Elves were doing it constantly today to prepare for the big feast.

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Neville appeared out of thin air just above the tunnel. He should be standing in front of the marked Tap, but the tunnel was opened, and he just fell straight into it.

The tunnel just closed behind him, and no one noticed that the two destined boys disappeared inside.

“AAAHHH!…” Neville screamed like a bitch at the sudden fall before he closed his eyes and focused for a second.

“Come Out!” He screamed inside with the intention of using his Grimoire and the book that has been silent in the bag, flew out itself and floated in front of Neville.

“Shield!” Neville said and a shield with magic covered him.

Neville never knew what he had to face on the other end, so he prepared himself. The Shield will not only protect himself with Physical but also magical attacks.

This was the most powerful shield he could create to protect himself.

“BOOOM!” He landed on his feet safely, but he couldn’t really believe what he was seeing.

In some distance, he could see the outline of the culprit, the owner of the diary – the weak, feeble, and sickly – Daphne Greengrass.

And using her wand, she is choking Harry Potter like a fucking chicken who is flapping his hands like he wants to fly away.

“Merlin Fucking Tits!” Neville quickly hid himself behind a snake’s head in shadow and decides not to intervene for the time being.

When Harry Potter gets injured and poisoned with Basilisk venom, Dumbledore’s Phoenix obviously came to rescue him from death. So, when did Dumbledore found about this place? Or did the Phoenix come on its own?

He has no idea, but he knows, Harry Potter has indestructible plot armour. And, he does not have the same luxury.

So, hiding from the two who were debating their life meaning, their life goals and the girl choking Harry Potter, he tried to check for the Basilisk.

No, he was not looking in the air like a fool but listening to the sounds on the ground. However, he found the only sound in the room was from these two humans and other than that, the flickering of flames inside the snakes’ statue that were present on the sides of chamber.

“Okay… not bad… not bad..” Giving himself more confidence, Neville took out the pure vial of Mandrake Juice and drank it in one gulp.

It was fucking horrible. Neville can swear he had never drunk anything more bitter and worse than this potion.

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“Hello, Harry Potter. You know ever since I met this weak girl, I had learned so much about the outside world, about you, about me… that I cannot believe it!

A baby… A newborn baby… killed me!” Daphne Greengrass spoke in a strange mix of man-woman language.

Daphne waved her wand and Harry who was floating and flapping his hands was suddenly smashed to the ground in front of her feet.

Daphne stepped on Harry’s head and kicked it to one side so she could see the bruised and battered face of Harry Potter. The Greatest Saviour of the wizarding world who managed to kill him.

“Potter…. Potter… Potter. How could I fall so low! It seems…. I did make a lot of mistakes…” Daphne spoke and tried to use her wand again but suddenly Harry moved.

“Expelliarmus” Harry shouted loudly and used his wand to attack Daphne Greengrass whose wand flew out of her hand, and she fainted after the attack.

“Well…well…. There is … something about you…” A floating translucent body of a young man, almost eighteen, handsome with a charming face appeared in front of Harry.

Harry could not recognise the spirit.

“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, or you may know me better as The Lord Voldemort!” The spirit spoke and he walked towards a large statue of snake’s head.

“Open!” Lord Voldemort ordered, and the snake’s head slid slowly down.