The two hooded men were still struggling and screaming on the ground.

But at this moment, everyone's attention was on the sound of approaching footsteps below.

Neville was the first to react, frantically making tactical moves, ordering everyone to return to their positions and hide, while he stood on the steps with his wand raised high and stared down.

As the footsteps got closer, Neville felt his heart beating faster and faster, and the tension was slowly seeping into every trace of his flesh and blood, causing his muscles to become more and more tense.

How terrifying would it be to subdue those two hooded men with one blow?

If it is an enemy, can they really fight it?

All this put great pressure on Neville.

But he still chose to stay because he had a conjecture that he wanted to confirm.

Finally, dozens of black shadows slowly appeared from the bottom of the stairs.

Neville could hardly resist attacking again.

But the next moment, when he really saw the appearance of the person who came, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and gestured to Ron and others to stop the attack.

Because the dozens of people who appeared were all wearing Ravenclaw uniforms.

There were even a few familiar faces Neville had seen at the D.A. Army rally.

"Arthur, it's you!"

Neville led Ron and others out of the shadows, and greeted the leader Ravenclaw with a smile.

But it was said that the man named Arthur didn't have the slightest smile on his face.

His gaze swung over Neville and the others before finally falling on Ron's face, and said indifferently:

"I thought I just heard someone say we Ravenclaws are cowards?"

Ron's expression froze when he heard the words, and he wanted to refute but couldn't say anything, he could only bow his head in dissatisfaction.

Because he has already discovered that although there are not many Ravenclaws on the opposite side, many of them have bloodstains and signs of wounds and bandages.

This means that they obviously joined the battle to protect Hogwarts earlier than the Gryffindors,

And the battle has been going on for quite a long time.

If anything, they themselves are the belated cowards.

"In this situation, we are all comrades-in-arms and our own people, so please stop arguing. If you want me to say, let's deal with these two hooded men first!"

Neville also stood up, and he stood between Arthur and Ron and persuaded with a smile.

It's just that his smile is a bit forced.

Because Ron and Arthur had animosity at all.

As early as when the D.A. Army was first established, the two of them would fight every now and then, not to mention later.

As for the reason, Neville felt that it was most likely that Arthur's name was exactly the same as Ron's father, and that Arthur himself was rather shy.

Fortunately, Arthur also knew the priority of the matter. After listening to Neville's persuasion, he just gave Ron a final look, and then walked towards the two hooded men.

This made Neville very relieved.

Seeing this, the other Gryffindors also scratched their heads, and stepped forward to help.

It is not an easy task to control these two hooded men according to the method taught by the D.A. Army. If there are more people, it will be simpler and more convenient.

But to their surprise, in the face of their help, Arthur, who was the leader on Ravenclaw's side, just waved his hand.

Then everyone saw that the two senior Ravenclaw boys behind Arthur took out their wands and pointed at the hooded man casually.

"Puff--"

Two more iron rods appeared out of thin air, piercing through the brains of the hooded people.

Seeing this, almost all the people on the Gryffindor side froze, with disbelief written all over their faces.

Just like Slytherins are a bunch of little Death Eaters, Hufflepuffs are a bunch of idiots, and Gryffindors are a bunch of simple-minded fools.

Ravenclaw naturally has its own derogatory nickname in the other three colleges, that is, the nerd.

But it was such a group of nerds who killed two people right in front of them without even blinking!

What kind of violation is this?

In the whole scene, only a wizard born in a traditional pure-blood family like Neville could barely maintain his composure.

Because only they have had an understanding of the real image of Ravenclaw through family education.

Ravenclaws are by no means as harmless as they appear.

You must know that the Death Eaters back then were not all composed of Slytherins.

A large part of the Death Eaters are all Ravenclaws.

Moreover, these Ravenclaws occupy quite high positions in the Death Eaters organization, and their methods are quite cruel.

Their extraordinary ingenuity gave them greater strength, and also made it easier for them to break through the truth of the world and become more rational and indifferent.

Without reasonable guidance, they will become the most terrifying demons!

On the other side, watching the reaction of Gryffindor and others, Arthur curled his lips and said:

"Don't you still want to leave them to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for trial? Come on, what's the value of living on such garbage? Anyway, they will be dead when they are judged, so they might as well just kill them, It can also save some oxygen and food."

Arthur's words were full of contempt for everyone in Gryffindor, but this time Ron was not angry, he just said in a complicated tone:

"But private execution is illegal. Aren't you afraid that you will be held accountable and your future will be affected?"

As soon as this remark came out, the atmosphere in the stairwell instantly became tense.

Ravenclaw stared at the Gryffindors expressionlessly. After a long time, the two Ravenclaws behind Arthur who had just killed the hooded man snorted coldly:

"Future? Who cares about that kind of thing?!"

Ron and even the rest of the Gryffindors were a little speechless after being so stunned.

How can anyone in this world not care about their own future?

But looking at the blood stains on the Ravenclaws and the bandages, Ron quickly showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

He thought of Wade who had just died in battle, and Lani and Joseph who were tortured.

Presumably these Ravenclaws also witnessed the death of their companions, right?

That's why they are so angry.

Gu Hou\u003c/span\u003e "Stop talking nonsense, Ron, and Neville. You Gryffindors came out too late, and the battle has already started. Now, let me explain the current situation to you .”

Arthur stopped the desire of the two Ravenclaws to continue talking, stood up and explained.

Hearing that Neville and the rest of the Gryffindors also stood up straight.

"The enemies we are going to face tonight are all wizards from France. Although it is not clear how these people sneaked into Hogwarts, there is no doubt that each of them has abilities comparable to Aurors, or even top Aurors. Luo's strength cannot be underestimated!"

Arthur stared and said, "At present, this group of French wizards has been blocked by the professors in the magic staircase passage above the main foyer of the castle, and Hufflepuff and Slytherin are also helping there. And we Ravenclaws have been ordered to patrol and search the entire Hogwarts castle, both to protect the juniors who are still in their common rooms, and to give you Gryffindors Bring notice.

Now, the notification has been delivered! Now that you have already prepared your team first, according to the order of the D.A. Military Student Self-Government Committee, please follow us to the hallway for support immediately! "

"Follow me! Sir!" *N

Neville, Ron and the others almost instinctively shouted respectfully.

At this moment, the object of their respect is not Arthur who is standing in front of them now, but the order conveyed by Arthur.

Similarly, Arthur and the rest of the Ravenclaws who read this order also had solemn and sacred expressions at this time.

Of course, such a solemn atmosphere did not last long.

To be precise, when the Gryffindors really walked downstairs under the leadership of the Ravenclaws, the atmosphere between the two groups returned to its original state.

Among the Gryffindors, except for Neville and the unconvinced Ron, the rest of them even deliberately distanced themselves from the Ravenclaws.

After all, they had just seen them killing people not long ago.

During this period, Arthur was also observing the number of Gryffindors.

This was supposed to be the first work to be done when the Gryffindor team merged, but it was postponed until now because Gryffindor believed too much in the name of courage.

And when he actually counted the number of people on Gryffindor's side and found that they were not even 30, his expression changed completely.

"Why are you so small? What about the rest of the students?"

Arthur spoke hurriedly.

Neville, who could hear the worry in his tone, said:

"The rest of them were sent back by us, you don't have to worry, most of them are fine."

"Are you sure they were sent back instead of fleeing?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's a very simple and literal meaning. They, shouldn't they run away timidly?"

Neville's expression froze, he stared into Arthur's eyes and said:

"I don't allow you to slander them like this, please apologize!"

"Why do I need to apologize, Hogwarts is at a critical moment..."

"Of course we know this, that's why we walked out of the common room. We came here to protect Hogwarts!"

"But you only have such a small number of people here!" Arthur growled, "It is obvious that the situation is so serious, but you only have such a small number of people here, isn't that true?"

"Then how many people have you guys come?" Ron finally couldn't help but said, "Looking at the current situation, your Ravenclaws seem to have fewer people than our Gryffindors, right?"

As soon as Ron said this, Neville noticed that the hostility in Ravenclaw's eyes, which were already a little strange when looking at them, suddenly became more serious.

He hurriedly intervened between the two of them again and persuaded:

"Ron, shut up and go back! And Arthur, I think you also need to be considerate of us. In fact, we also had an encounter before joining you, during which we sacrificed a companion to save One girl, the rest of us just escorted them back to the common room first!"

"You don't need to explain, Neville, these all sound like excuses to me. Do you think we have not experienced battles and sacrificed our comrades all the way here? Believe me, what we have encountered is far worse than what you have encountered. It's even more dangerous than I imagined!"

Arthur turned his head to look at Ron after speaking, "You asked me how many people from Ravenclaw came, and I can tell you very clearly that all Ravenclaw colleges who have passed the OWL exam since the fifth grade Students, you have all invested in this war! As for the number of Slytherins and Hufflepuffs, I suggest you count them yourself when you get there. I can guarantee that you will feel ashamed and want to die! Brave Gran Fendors!"

"you……"

Ron was furious and wanted to rush up to fight Arthur, but Neville pulled him back violently.

Arthur, on the other hand, led the Ravenclaws straight away, and took the initiative to distance himself from the Gryffindors, only hanging in the distance, playing the role of a guide.

"Neville, why are you stopping me? Didn't you hear what they said? Those bloody nerds!"

Ron was still roaring angrily, and the Gryffindors who followed behind all looked displeased.

If it weren't for the scruples just now that Hogwarts is in an emergency, they would have rushed to fight Ravenclaws.

Looking at all this, Neville first wiped the saliva sprayed on his face by Ron, and then pointed to the corner of the aisle with a wry smile.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and found the corpse of a hooded man in the corner of the wall, and not far from the corpse, there was a large pool of black blood.

The blood was so thick that it didn't look like it was accidentally splashed during the battle, but rather like a wounded person, or a corpse lying there with the open wound for a long time.

And there are quite a few bloodstains similar to it in the entire long corridor.

This moved all the Gryffindors present.

You must know that those Ravenclaws came here just now, that is to say, the blood is either from the hooded man or the Ravenclaws.

Of the two options, the latter is obviously more reliable.

Because just judging from the corpse in front of them and the situation after the death of the two hooded men in front, Ravenclaws had no idea of ​​​​handling the hooded man's corpse.

Ron turned his head to look at the retreating figures of the Ravenclaws in the distance, and the anger on his face was gradually replaced by guilt.

As early as when he saw the blood on the Ravenclaws, he had expected that the other party might have witnessed the casualties of his teammates.

But he didn't expect the reality to be so cruel.

At this moment, Ron felt that he was beginning to understand the thoughts of Arthur and others.

These Ravenclaws are the ones who really gave everything for Hogwarts.

The sacrifice they made was far greater than what they imagined!

Thinking in another way, Ron felt that if he were Arthur, he might have scolded him even more just now.

"call--"

Ron took a deep breath, patted Neville's arm, and motioned for him to let go.

Then he said to the people behind him with a heavy face:

"Let's go, we should do what we should do, but please don't let others look down on us!"

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