You Need to Calm Down!!

Hermione spoke painfully.

Harry said nothing.

He had hurt Darren again, hadn't he?

"Don't, don't cry... Why can't we go back to Darren's house? I think I saw it just now..."

Ron said painfully.

Hermione's eyes reddened again.

"We can't go back... Yaxley grabbed me while we were Apparating. He..."

[He'll blow that place up...]

Hermione burst into tears again.

Ron and Harry covered their faces in despair.

In the end, Hermione was the first to pull herself together.

"We'll stay here for the night first. Then tomorrow, we'll go back to Grimmauld Place and find out about Darren's... condition. He can't be dead..."

"Then why don't we go back now?"

Ron said irritably.

"We can't. We can't go back now," Hermione said angrily. "If Darren... then Grimmauld Place won't be safe anymore. It will..."

She did not continue, but Harry and Ron both understood what she meant.

If Darren really was dead, Grimmauld Place would be exposed.

Everyone who knew the location of Grimmauld Place would become a Secret Keeper.

Unless another wizard as powerful as Darren appeared, they could not establish the Fidelius Charm again.

But now... there was only silence...

You Need to Calm Down!!

Darren had deliberately allowed himself to be hit by those spells. After all, otherwise he would have had no reason to stay here!

Voldemort arrived very quickly.

He appeared almost as soon as Darren was attacked.

He watched Darren being sent to St. Mungo's, then flew into a rage at the Death Eaters.

"I thought I had already made it clear to you that you were not to lay a hand on Darren Potter. Do you intend to defy the Dark Lord's orders?"

He raised his wand.

Every wizard in the room let out agonized screams.

"Master, Master, I didn't attack him,