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Chapter 864: Night Talk
🕑 Added 2023-09-19 17:50:21 +0000 UTC"Lupin didn't tell us that much confidential information, but he still revealed a lot of useful information," said Evan carefully, and, by the way, reorganized his thoughts. "We know that there are three main things Voldemort is doing. Firstly, he wants to build up his army again. He’s certainly not going to try and take on the Ministry of Magic with only a dozen Death Eaters."
"Yeah, we know about this, that's why you went out looking for giants some time ago," said Harry, looking at Evan’s outline lying on the bed, "I’ve only got a rough idea from your letter. I haven't heard you talk about it in detail."
"I also want to know how powerful those giants are,” Ron followed. "How did you..."
There was a loud crack!
"OUCH!"
"Keep your voice down, Ron, or Mum will be back up here." Fred's voice sounded in the darkness.
"You two just Apparated on my knees!"
"Yeah, well, it's harder in the dark." George continued.
Evan saw the blurred outlines of Fred and George leaping down from Ron's bed, and Fred sat next to Ron.
There was a groan of bedsprings and Harry’s mattress descended a few inches as George sat down near his feet.
"What are you discussing?" George asked. "There wasn’t much valuable in Lupin's words."
"We were listening to Evan talk about giants," Ron grumbled.
He gripped his quilt tightly as Fred tugged on the other side.
"That's an interesting topic. What’s the difference between those giants and the trolls, except that they are taller, aren't they the same stupid?"
"I heard that they can uproot a big tree and directly swallow their prey alive..."
"Shhh!" said Fred, half-rising from the bed, holding his breath, "What’s this sound?"
There was a slight sound of footsteps coming up the stairs, followed by a soft knock on the door.
"It's us, open the door!"
"It's Hermione and Ginny!" George said, and hurriedly got up and went to open the door.
The two of them stood there in their pajamas, barefoot, wary of being seen.
"Mum has just gone down!" Ginny jumped in, followed George and sat next to Ron.
"The two of us couldn't sleep. The thought of what Lupin’s said just now made our heads messy."
Hermione hesitated and climbed onto Evan’s bed.
She pushed him to the side in the darkness, and unceremoniously pulled the quilt on herself.
Regarding Hermione putting her feet into Evan’s bed, the others around were not surprised. Anyway, the two of them were now intimate friends. Not to mention this slightly intimate behavior, there was no need to make a fuss even if they lay together.
But Hermione was shy, and she was embarrassed to lie down with Evan in front of so many people.
If she were to do it, it had to be discreet...
Under the quilt, Evan could feel Hermione's feet and lower legs, and the softness caused a slight flutter in his heart.
Since it was delivered to his door voluntarily, there was no saying. He took the initiative to smooth out the quilt to Hermione's side, and pulled her right foot.
Hermione was sitting there with her arms crossed, but her right leg was suddenly pulled over and she was shocked.
She forced back for a while, but did not succeed. So she did not dare to move or struggle, for fear of being seen.
She glared at Evan, and she didn't know if it was too dark or if Evan was too bold, it didn't work at all.
The next second, Hermione felt Evan's hand getting a bit too adventurous, and it kept stroking through the sole and instep of her foot.
His touch seemed to be magical, itchy and numbing, which made her feel an electric sensation.
With Evan's touch, a heat flow followed her blood from the bottom up.
She’d come here to discuss serious matters, how did this suddenly happen?
If she had known, she wouldn't have sat next to Evan. Now she was simply trapped here.
"Well, now that everyone is here. It seems that everyone can't sleep and wants to continue talking about Voldemort," said Evan, stroking through Hermione's little foot with both hands and pulling her left foot over. “We can talk about the giants tomorrow. I’ve had a lot of things during this trip with Sirius, Hagrid, and Madame Maxime. We can't finish talking about it overnight. Let's talk about Voldemort's current plan first."
"That’s why we’re here," said Fred. "Evan, what do you think the Dark Lord is going to do?"
Everyone looked at him, and everyone knew that Evan had many sources of intelligence that they didn't know. In everyone's impression, he knew almost everything.
"As I said just now, he’s going to rebuild his army first," said Evan quickly, lowering his voice. "Just look at the past information and you'll know that Voldemort had huge numbers at his command in the old days; witches and wizards he’d bullied or bewitched into following him, his faithful Death Eaters, giants, werewolves, and a great variety of Dark creatures."
"Much stronger than it is now," said Hermione, blushing, feeling Evan tickling the sole of her foot.
"Yeah!" Evan nodded.
"Lupin’s said that the Order of the Phoenix is trying to stop people joining him."
"Yeah, but he didn't finish. We have to analyze the rest," Evan continued. "The most powerful and loyal of Voldemort's followers are the Death Eaters, and where is the main force of those Death Eaters?"
When Voldemort fell, many of the Death Eaters who’d supported him were arrested and put on trial.
The Death Eaters who stayed outside now were either extremely cunning or insignificant.
"You mean Azkaban?" Harry understood the meaning of Evan’s words, his eyes widened suddenly, and he said in disbelief, "Oh my God, Voldemort wants to attack Azkaban and save those Death Eaters!"
The others were taken aback by this sentence, but the more they thought about it, the more they realized it was possible.
The truly loyal to Voldemort and capable Death Eaters were locked in Azkaban, and he was definitely going to get them out.
"Voldemort doesn't have to attack Azkaban. The Dementors are with him."
"Yeah, that's it!" said Harry quickly, seeming to have grasped the point of the matter. "I’ve been attacked by Dementors the other day … was it because the Dementors have joined Voldemort?"
Did this mean that Azkaban would soon fall, and all the prisoners inside would come out...?
