Bellatrix had escaped from Professor Breen's grasp?
Harry felt that all the shock he was capable of had been used up by tonight's events!
"I'll go after her!"
Ignoring Alice's attempts to stop him, Frank urgently drew his wand and rushed for the door. He could accept any Death Eater escaping, except Bellatrix. He could not accept that outcome!
"It's already too late, Frank—"
Dumbledore glanced impassively at Amosta and said in a low voice,
"If Hagrid said she Apparated away, then by now, she has probably returned to her master—"
Crash!
Frank, who had reached the door, stopped short and viciously kicked the tottering door. The glass sliding door could bear the insult no longer and collapsed to the floor in shattered pieces.
"But that doesn't make sense, Hagrid!"
Hermione bit her lip, her face full of confusion.
"You said Bellatrix escaped from the Shrieking Shack. Then how did she know about that secret passage?"
"Maybe Peter—"
Sirius's face was grim as well at the thought that his cousin, like an indestructible cockroach, had escaped again.
"Maybe Peter mentioned it to his master before, and then Voldemort told Bellatrix."
There was no more reasonable explanation.
As for how Bellatrix had broken through Amosta's blockade, the only possibility was that Voldemort had perhaps taught her some powerful magic.
The Longbottom family all remained bitter about Bellatrix's escape, but they could not blame Amosta.
After all, to a certain extent, the capture of those Death Eaters tonight had been due to his planning.
And compared with Bellatrix, what Sirius and Severus cared about more was Amosta's promise just now.
"You really can... can let me—"
Sirius's hope of confirmation was no less than Severus's. He stared blankly at Amosta, and the tremor in his voice revealed both his longing and fear.