Chapter 45.5- Doom Days
Added 2025-07-18 20:55:00 +0000 UTCSo what could I do? Fuck all. There was not a single thing I could think of that would have any effect on my situation. Looking at it, it was a perfect trap. I already tried to apparate twice and it ad failed, Hogwarts’ wards as airtight as they had always been. And then there was the fact that the portkey was inert. Touching the cup again did nothing. Instead of a two-way protkey like the one that had been used in the Goblet of Fire, it was clear that these agents of Voldemort were more confident than Pettigrew and Crouch.
Why was I so sure they wrecked Voldemort’s men? Well, it was obvious. For one, hwho else would want me captured, but unharmed. It was clear that the dark lord intended to use me in his return somehow and my only choice seemed to be to go along with it for the time being. Not like there was a choice one way or the other. There were two ways for me to fall unconscious here— magical exhaustion or suffocation. Magical exhaustion would have knock-on effects that would take days to recover from. Oxygen deprivation? Well, it was just a matter of getting some air back in me, wasn’t it? And even if it wasn’t then I could carry my body with magic coursing through it.
I wouldn’t get the same effects from a fit body with no magic. The choice was simple then. So I began to do jumping jacks. As many of them as I could. Now could have just used a somnum charm to charm myself unconscious but then there was no guarantee that they would deactivate the dome immediately. If they wanted me to keep breathing and not die in transit which was definitely the case if they had gone through all this trouble then they would deactivate the dome once I lost consciousness and that would save my magic from being sapped down to dangerous levels. At least that was the best I could come up with.
