Chapter 312 - The Easiest Part (2/2)

”Professor, if we step into the river it won't make us a little wet, it will sweep us with it straight down the waterfall,” she said watching the black swirling gushing water.

”Where are we going?” Harry inquired.

”There,” Dumbledore pointed his finger down at the place where the water of the waterfall had divided into a few narrow, shallow streams after falling and had disappeared into a dark forest.

This is crazy.

”Don't worry, your magic will hold you,” And with the sudden agility of a much younger man, Dumbledore stepped into the fast gushing river.

Harry was just behind him and as Chris said, the water started to sweep them away towards the waterfall very fast.

”I have O.W.L.s tomorrow,” Chris muttered under her breath. ”I really hope I live to get six or seven 'Outstandings'.”

And she plunged into the water after them. Unlike Dumbledore and Harry, she did a swan dive and started to fall with the water. The water was icy and no matter what, it was harder than she thought. Stones cut around her body as she fell, water pressed into her nose and ears, and as she hit the water down headfirst, the water felt so hard that Chris thought her skull might be cracked. But it wasn't done. Now they needed to swim and reach the forest. Chris kicked toward the surface and emerged, then started to swim with a perfect breaststroke, but her waterlogged clothes billowed around her and weighed her down. She could see Dumbledore ahead of her and Harry a little far from her.

At last, they reached the slippery grassland and Chris pulled herself onto it, coughing and panting.

”It was the easiest part, wasn't it?” She asked looking up at Dumbledore, who was getting on his feet.

”I think so,” Dumbledore smiled at her.

Hearing this Harry quickly got to his feet, his wand held high. He extended his other hand towards Chris and she took it and stood up.

”Lumos.”

Now that they were entering into the woods, the light was coming from their wands. They walked for a long time, and Harry informed more than ten minutes had passed they are walking inside the forest. But Chris had a different concern.

”This place is unnaturally quiet. There's no sign of birds or animals or any sound of them,” she whispered.

”I felt that too,” Harry said looking around. ”But can't it be dark magic? Maybe some kind of dark magic drove them away.”

But her intuition told her that wasn't the case.

”Something dark did drove them away but it isn't a spell,” she said.

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To be continued. . .