At Rodolphus's rebuke, the Curse-Breakers on the platform who were tending to their crippled colleagues shuddered. Not daring to delay any longer, they half-ran, half-stumbled down from the platform. Under their wands, the Dementors before the door all fell apart and disintegrated, their rotting cloaks dropping to the ground.
Several of them began casting curse-breaking spells on the door, but even after they switched through Charms from several different schools, the door still did not budge or react. One Curse-Breaker glanced back at Voldemort on the platform, only to meet Voldemort's sharp, savage gaze. Cold sweat instantly broke out on the Curse-Breaker's forehead, as though that inhuman stare truly possessed lethality.
In his panic, the Curse-Breaker rather impatiently cast Alohomora at the door, but there was no response. His heart hardened. "Open Sesame!"
This was an ancient unlocking charm invented before Alohomora. It was not as refined as Alohomora; its effect was to tear a door straight off its hinges and split it entirely into timber or neat fragments. But because it made too much commotion, wizard thieves disliked it, and it had gradually been phased out—however, in terms of effect alone, it was far more powerful than Portaberto, which had replaced it and could only smash the lock apart, leaving a smoking hole behind, and also far stronger than the latest Alohomora, which simply opened locks.
However, precisely because Open Sesame was not as gentle as those previous curse-breaking spells and was full of aggression, the unknown magical force arranged here treated the charm as an attack and triggered its counterattack conditions. In an instant, the Open Sesame spell was absorbed by the stone door, then warped and reversed back out, striking its original caster, the Curse-Breaker. The man was instantly torn by his own unlocking charm into tiny