Harry Potter and the Obscurus

Chapter 135 The Darkness Will Eventually Pass

“All shortcuts are thorny, and all gifts come with a price.”

"Unrestrained study of black magic is like borrowing fire from the abyss; the flames will eventually turn against the one who holds the lamp."

“Every time you commit a cold-blooded murder, it’s like cutting a crack in the canvas of your soul. These cracks don’t heal over time; instead, they continue to split and break until they devour everything.”

For centuries, both teachers and students have come to realize the horror of Horcruxes after consulting books.

They made bookmarks, left annotations, and tried every means to warn future generations. Unfortunately, even after Dumbledore sealed away the forbidden book that recorded the methods of making Horcruxes, a very small number of wizards still failed to pull back from the brink and took that unforgivable step.

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The clash of magical powers between Voldemort and Mo Ran shattered the understanding of everyone present.

Before they could think too much, the sense of crisis that made their hair stand on end forced them to mobilize all their magic power to cast a super-strong armor protection spell.

"Protego Horribillis!" (Super armor protects you)

boom!

boom!boom!

Click, click...

In just a few seconds, the aftershocks from the clash of magic caused several tiny cracks to appear in the Ironclad Curse.

Through the densely packed, cracking protective shield, Harry discovered that the dark substance gushing from Moran's body was no longer the mist he was familiar with.

Strands of thick, black liquid, congealed into a tar-like consistency, trailed distorted paths through the air, each drop seemingly weighing a ton. They surged toward Voldemort relentlessly, ultimately colliding with the oncoming black wind to form that eerily smooth black sphere.

hum!

hum!

The earth swayed in rhythm with the vibrations of the air.

The white light emanating from the black sphere split into two slanted halos in the strong gravitational field. From a distance, it looked like liquid diamonds accidentally spilled by Merlin, or like space itself constantly repairing its wounds, shimmering incessantly.

Soon, the boundaries of the material world began to tremble, and ripples of magic poured out from some higher dimension.

"Why? Why did this happen?"

Harry's brain was working at lightning speed.

He could sense that Mo Ran's total magical output was higher than Voldemort's, but strangely, Mo Ran, who should have had the upper hand, was now only barely able to fight Voldemort to a standstill.

Could it be that Voldemort also used some kind of potion to amplify the power of magic?

"Huff..."

"Ugh..."

Before Harry could figure it out, a series of vomiting sounds interrupted his train of thought.

Because the situation was so critical, Ms. Maxime and the Weasleys didn't have time to protect the subdued Ministry of Magic staff, which resulted in most of the wizards affected by the Imperius Curse being directly exposed to the aftershocks of Moran and Voldemort's magical clash.

"Help! Help me!"

"I don't want to... Ah!"

The pitiful cries for help turned into silent wailing in the blink of an eye.

Looking at this group of guys with black veins bulging on their necks and mouths agape as if about to dislocate, Harry suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu about the scene before him.

Could it be...?

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"That's not manifested magic!"

Suddenly, Harry, realizing something, loudly reminded Mo Ran:

"The black wind Voldemort released probably contains some kind of curse, and it's very likely that it's specifically targeting you. Don't try to fight him head-on with your magic!"

Upon hearing this, both Voldemort and Mo Ran, who were still engaged in battle, narrowed their eyes.

Yup!

Wasn't Voldemort's most outstanding achievement in the realm of dark magic his curses?

From his position as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts to the traps and mechanisms used to protect Horcruxes in the original books, even a wizard as powerful as Dumbledore, after knowing and seeing them, concluded that he could not erase them.

It is no exaggeration to say that curses are one area where Voldemort truly surpassed Dumbledore in terms of magical skill.

Worse still, when Mo Ran reviewed the black magic teachings imparted by Grindelwald, there was very little information about curse magic; apart from knowing that curses required a great price, he could find no other useful information.

"When did Voldemort curse me? I have absolutely no recollection of it... Damn it, what should I do?"

Mo Ran's mind raced, but even after racking his brains, he still couldn't find any answers. Just when he thought the flaw Harry had painstakingly found was going to go to waste, the look of terror that had flashed across Voldemort's face returned to him.

"Why does Voldemort seem panicked? Isn't his curse an incurable poison that even Dumbledore couldn't cure? Does he think he has a chance to break it with my current abilities? Or is his curse not aimed at me, but only at dark magic creatures like the Obscurus?"

Opportunities in battle are always fleeting, so without further thought, Mo Ran immediately began to test them in actual combat.

With a "poof" sound, Mo Ran's humanoid body vanished.

The thick black mist transformed into the appearance of boiling water, but instead of rushing directly at Voldemort as everyone had expected, it slowly approached Harry and, right before everyone's eyes, melted into his skin.

"what?"

"That thing actually!"

Ignoring the sounds behind him, Harry, who had taken over from Mo Ran to engage Voldemort in a magical duel, immediately entered a state of selflessness.

The black mist that continuously spewed from his wand and palms, like the throbbing blood vessels and nerves beneath his skin, became part of his body. As the immense power of the Obscurus washed over him, Harry realized that the black sphere before him was beginning to undergo some peculiar changes.

Just like when he used the Disarming Charm to connect his wand with Voldemort's Killing Charm, a golden light suddenly appeared on the white light on the surface of the black sphere.

An indescribable echo came from the lawn, and golden light burst outward from the black sphere, eventually forming the same sky full of arcs of light as at the Gaunt old house.

hum!

The shaking became even more intense!

The vines on the maze walls gradually turned to stone, the towering trees at the edge of the Forbidden Forest trembled slightly, and all sorts of magical creatures emerged from the surface of the Black Lake... Before long, Hogwarts Castle, which had stood for a thousand years in the Scottish Highlands, began to show signs of shaking.

"Great!"

Mo Ran was overjoyed and gave a congratulatory shout.

He had initially worried that using Harry as a conduit for his magic might be too risky, since transferring his own magic to someone else would inevitably cause more loss. But as it turned out, by releasing his magic through Harry, Voldemort's curse or other schemes truly wouldn't work.

Was it because of the lingering protective charms on Harry? Was it because of Lily Potter's love that Harry felt restraint towards Voldemort?

That's not true at all.

It all started from the moment Voldemort believed Snape's prophecy and recognized Harry as the savior.

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“The one capable of defeating the Dark Lord is approaching… He was born into a family that has resisted the Dark Lord three times, and he was born at the end of July…”

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The prophecy divined by Cassandra Trelawney's descendants forced Voldemort to take it seriously.

He identified the Potters, who had escaped from his clutches three times, as the parents of the prophesied child, and regarded the infant Harry as his greatest enemy.

What a pathetic person.

He regarded the power of life and death as power itself, but ignored the love and loyalty that he did not value.

He still hadn't learned his lesson after his failed attempt to assassinate an infant.

He believed that the reason for the failure to seize the Philosopher's Stone and open the Chamber of Secrets was because of Dumbledore's protection and Lily Potter's protective magic.

He believed that Harry Potter was able to grow up so quickly because he possessed the power of the Obscurus.

Just over an hour earlier, when he was resurrected using Barty Crouch's blood; when Harry Potter, having lost all protection, appeared alone in the graveyard of Gauntlet's old house.

Even when his strength returned to its peak and he used all his skills, he still couldn't kill the boy who had miraculously survived.

Voldemort finally wavered.

He wanted to say that his fate was in his own hands, not in the heavens, but he couldn't forget Trelawney's prophecy.

Then, just like in the original story, the two wands with the same core triggered the Flashback Charm effect when they attacked each other.

Voldemort was truly terrified when one by one, those he had killed emerged from his wand.

With extraordinary courage and powerful willpower, Harry's wand defeated Voldemort at that moment. His wand absorbed some of the power and qualities of Voldemort's wand, becoming a powerful weapon specifically designed to fight Voldemort, who was both a fellow human and a mortal enemy.

As the saying goes:

The more people try to deny something, the less they can defeat it.

From the moment the Dark Lord saw Harry as his mortal enemy, their fates became inextricably intertwined.

In fact, Sprout's original prediction was not just one sentence; she said this to Dumbledore in the Hog's Head pub:

"The Dark Lord has marked him as a formidable foe, but he possesses an energy that the Dark Lord does not understand. One must die at the hands of the other, because neither can live; only one can survive."

In other words, the most important part of this prophecy is that the Dark Lord marks him as a formidable enemy.

If Voldemort hadn't accepted this prophecy, perhaps no savior would have appeared in the world.

However, since Severus Snape only overheard the first half of the sentence, and Voldemort was too obsessed with dark magic and immortality, he would never allow anyone in the world to possess enough power to defeat him.

Therefore, it was both accidental and inevitable that Voldemort personally gave birth to the savior capable of ending his conspiracy—Harry Potter.

Ironically, at the end of the original book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Dumbledore revealed these secrets to Harry, but because the film director cut some content that he considered unimportant, Mo Ran, who had only seen the movie, was unaware of all the secrets between Harry and Voldemort.

Even so, thanks to his exploration of the true meaning of magic and a little bit of inspiration, Mo Ran still found a way to break Voldemort's curse after losing the most important weapon of a transmigrator.

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Finally, the black sphere that had been stuck in mid-air began to slowly move toward Voldemort's location.

"It's time to end this, Tom!"

Harry shouted.

"How dare you..."

Before Voldemort could finish speaking, loud "bang bang bang" sounds came from behind him.

A wave of heat, and a silver-blue figure broke through the petrified maze vines and arrived at the entrance of the maze.

Hey!

The roar that echoed through the sky made everyone present recognize the true form of the silver-blue figure.

The Swedish short-nosed dragon, which had been eliminated in the first event of the three-way competition, surprisingly led Nagini out of the maze at this crucial moment.