However, the next moment, he could no longer feel angry.
Huckleton Apparated behind Harry, and before Harry could react, he grabbed the half-grown boy by the neck, while his other hand gently touched Harry's temple with his wand.
"Don't move!" he said coolly, a haughty expression on his face.
"Wait! Don't involve the child!!" Loreton cursed angrily, then looked at Howl.
"You—wait! Jones, don't act rashly!!"
As he spoke, he inwardly cursed Howl, that damned fellow, for bringing a useless brat on such a mission, calling him an irresponsible scoundrel.
Howl gave him a helpless glance.
"Anyone with a brain wouldn't move. No, in your eyes... am I that unconventional?"
Loreton clearly wasn't in the mood to answer him at the moment; he just turned back to Huckleton, spreading his hands forward.
"What exactly do you want to do?!"
"First, throw your wands down the corridor," Huckleton said calmly.
Below the stone corridor was a bottomless abyss.
Howl nodded, casually tossing the small wand he had just used down.
Seeing this, Huckleton breathed a sigh of relief.
Howl's pressure was simply too great, so great that he clearly knew that after revealing his hand, it would be impossible for him to establish a normal cooperative relationship with him.
He could only be like Charon, becoming his subordinate!
He could not accept this, and it was precisely for this reason that he decided to ambush and kill the other party.
Unfortunately, he ultimately failed; this guy's reaction was simply too fast!
However, heh heh. He was still too arrogant after all!!
To do such a dangerous thing and bring a useless little brat.
Up until this moment, even though the story wasn't proceeding on the preset track, the helmsman was still I, Rollo Huckleton!!
Then, he glanced indifferently at Loreton again.
Greece did have some status in the Wizarding World... but that was about it. This so-called Auror leader, in his opinion, was barely worth noticing.
In fact, if he wasn't worried that Howl might use his wand, he wouldn't even care about him much!
"Damn it..."
Loreton cursed under his breath, then threw his wand directly down as well.
"I'm very curious, who exactly are you? Your true identity," Howl's voice appeared.
"Me?" Huckleton's voice was a little higher.
"Professor of History of Magic at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States, yes, that's my identity. But that doesn't stop me from being the leader of the Hand of Glory, does it?
A Professor of History of Magic and the supreme leader of a notorious international artifact theft syndicate—don't you think these two identities fit well together?"
Howl stroked his beard, then spread his hands, a little puzzled: "Do you have cancer too?"
"Cancer?" Huckleton sneered, "Where did you get that idea?"
Saying that, he looked at Howl with an expression full of control.
"Yes, my answer is over, it's your turn. What about you? What's your true face? Harry Potter is with you? Do the Wizards in Britain know?"
"Me?" Howl was a little surprised; he didn't expect this guy to ask about him.
Thinking, he took the opportunity to remove the spell from his face.
Immediately, a face with pointed ears and fur appeared before everyone.
"What kind of form is this?!" Huckleton's mouth curved upwards, looking at him in surprise.
"You guys... really have no manners," Howl sighed, then waved his hand.
"Deal with it yourselves."
Huckleton's confusion had just begun to arise, and the next moment, his right wrist suddenly burst with blood, and a stinging pain, like an electric shock, shot straight to his brain.
At the same time, Harry, who had been held tightly, suddenly surged with power, directly breaking free from his control.
Harry twisted his waist, and a long sword suddenly appeared, following his body, and with flames, it suddenly swung out towards Huckleton behind him.
From the moment Huckleton had suddenly used the Killing Curse on Howl's back, he had already—been furious!!
"What?!"
"Petrificus Totalus—"
At the same time, Harry's incantation sounded, and the next moment, the sensation of the long sword cutting into flesh appeared.
But that feeling lasted only a moment.
In front of him, Huckleton's figure suddenly disappeared. The explosive sound of twisting air and the disappearance of the long sword's support point made Harry stumble violently.
Then, he saw Huckleton's figure appear on the other side of the corridor.
Harry stomped on the ground, about to continue forward, while also drawing his wand.
The next moment, a sudden, inexplicable force appeared behind him, pulling him backward.
Then, where he had just been, a black spell, like a falling lightning bolt, suddenly struck.
"Dark Arts? Looks pretty weak," Howl chuckled, pulling Harry back.
Meanwhile, on their opposite side, Huckleton's waist wound was rapidly healing.
Including his kidney, which had been cut in half.
At the same time, on the cliff behind him, or behind the rock wall, several figures gradually appeared.
There were five people in total, all wearing black robes to conceal their figures.
But one person, beneath the wide hood, revealed a flash of blonde hair and a limp that even the long robe couldn't hide.
It was their target for this trip, Jason Williams.
Loreton had just recovered from his semi-brain-dead state, then looked at Huckleton and the people behind him with some determination.
Then, runes suddenly appeared one by one on the surrounding cliff walls.
"Anti-Apparition Charm!!" Loreton murmured.
Then he turned his head to look at Harry and Howl, speaking in a serious whisper.
"Potter, give me your wand. I'll buy you time to escape. Jones, I know you can do some wandless casting; you must be able to get him out."
Howl helplessly put a hand to his forehead.
Loreton, though possessing the same sense of responsibility and justice as Scrimgeour, was... clearly more than a little slow-witted.
"My Apparition is different from yours, have you forgotten?" Howl reminded him... "Then let's first..."
"However, I refuse!" Howl chuckled, stepping towards the group.
"Ancient magic... Heh heh, I've been wanting to find someone to spar with for a long time."
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