There was a special reason Anton and the others had built this platform.
Perhaps Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the others couldn't guess what Anton intended to do to Voldemort through Harry, but they had already discussed what to do with Sirius and Barty Crouch Jr.
The sight of so many contestants transforming into Antlered Great White Bears all at once, then roaring at the sky as the smoke cleared, was still deeply affecting.
It was an Animagus's way of tapping into its animal nature. Though humans prided themselves on being the most intelligent creatures, deep in their blood they still retained a wild yearning for strength.
So no one noticed that Professor Sirius, who had gone up onstage as part of the security team, had vanished.
He hadn't left the area.
He had merely appeared beneath the platform, in a dark chamber with a three-meter-deep pit, its walls covered in Magic Runes.
The Aurors from the Ministry of Magic had cast several spells here, including spells to seal off space. At the same time, members of the Order of the Phoenix—Lupin, Arthur, Molly, Professor McGonagall, Professor Moody (Mad-Eye, the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor), and others—had been guarding the place for some time.
As Anton had stirred the Collective Consciousness, gathering it into the Young Wizards to give them their Antlered Great White Bear Animagus Bodies, Sirius had also been forcibly split into three parts by the repulsive force.
At that moment, he was bound spread-eagled to a silver frame.
The fluctuations of Magical Power made him tremble rapidly.
Through the blurred image of his body vibrating at such a high frequency, Lupin and the others could just make out Sirius, Barty Crouch Jr., and a Black Dog covered in scales, with two Runespoor heads. (Chapter 741)
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