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Chapter 48.4- Doom Days

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“The spell didn’t work. Nothing worked. And then he told me the dome would feed n my own magic while I remained within. He’d shut off the air as well .So I had two time bombs ticking— one ws the air, the other was my magic. So I thought it through. He didn’t seem like he wanted to kill me. That was way too much effort to kill someone when a killing curse to the back worked just as well as anything did. And with their resources, I had little reason to doubt there would have been any difficulty in doing that. So I decided that it wa better to run out of airtime than magic. I hastened it by doing some exercises so I would run out of air even faster.”

“So you consciously decided to suffocate yourself?” Dumbledore asked, looking genuinely gobsmacked. Sirius looked incense, and Fleur had pulled back a bit to look at me. I wondered what all the fuss was about.

“Air was better to lose because I was sure that they would drop the barrier once I lost consciousness and there was little reason to believe that the experience would hamper my ability to escape from wherever they held me. Running out of magic would have basically made me a sitting duck for days” I said, explaining the logic to them.

“Did you never consider the chance that we could help— that I could help?” Sirius asked.

“The dome blocked sound as well. Calling out to you did nothing” I said.

“You should have still waited, Harry. That was so stupid. You allowed yourself to get taken because you wanted to have good odds of escaping later on? What if they’d just killed you or held you somewhere you couldn’t have escaped from?” at the end of the sentence, he was shouting, and I found myself genuinely lost for words. What else could I have done? Facing Voldemort with no magic would have been stupid.

“Well, neither of those happened because I’m here now, aren’t I?” I shot back.