Boom, boom, boom!
Although Alecto Carrow and her group's way of fighting was extremely crude, it had to be said that it was very effective.
Especially the pressure brought by the Killing Curse.
It felt like a blade hanging over one's neck, ready to fall at any moment.
After all, with its terrifying effect of killing on contact, even Professor McGonagall and the others had to take it seriously, let alone young wizards who had not even graduated yet.
Of course, all of that depended on the curse actually hitting its target.
"Granger!"
"I know, Delacour!"
With Fleur Delacour's intelligence, she could naturally tell what was going on from Ginny's hair color and her reaction just now.
But as Alecto Carrow and the others drew closer, Fleur Delacour, who had seen everything, still called out to warn Hermione.
After all, she did not care in the slightest who Ron Weasley was.
If she had not been considering Ginny's feelings, Fleur's warning would probably have been far less polite.
In any case, after Ginny suddenly "figured it out," and with Fleur's warning, Hermione finally seemed to make a new move.
Leaning against the wall, Hermione noticed the expectant gazes the others were casting toward her, and a little pressure rose in her heart.
To ease that tension, Hermione began muttering to herself as if trying to give herself confidence. "There's nothing to worry about. Don't forget, we trained specifically for situations like this before."
As the commander of the combat team, Hermione had naturally trained them for all kinds of battlefield situations.
How to face Giants.
How to deal with Werewolf attacks on the battlefield.
They had even carried out practical simulations from various angles for a direct confrontation with Voldemort.
And of course, Death Eaters had also been included in their training.
So although tension could still be seen on Goyle and the others' faces, at least they remained calm.
And as the commander of the combat team, Hermione quickly came up with a countermeasure.
...
No matter how powerful a Charm was, there would always be places it could not cover, or things it was not suited for.
The Killing Curse was the same.
It looked all-powerful, but in reality, this powerful magic also had certain weaknesses.
As Hermione recalled everything she knew about the Killing Curse, she raised her wand and looked back at Goyle and the others.
If one looked closely, one could see that Hermione seemed to be quietly saying something into the badge at her chest. From time to time, Goyle and the others could be seen nodding toward empty air.
Anyone who did not know what was happening might have thought they were greeting invisible ghosts.
In any case, the moment the doors of the Great Hall collapsed with a crash and the Death Eaters rushed in with strange laughter, Hermione was the first to fire her spell forward.
"Transfiguration!"
It was like a signal.
The team led by Goyle also cast the same Charm as Hermione.
And the target of their spell was...
"I see them! Avada Kedavra!"
Boom, boom, boom!
Broken stone.
Dust and smoke.
In that instant, everyone lost their vision.
The figures that had been visible moments ago disappeared from sight all at once.
Noticing this, Alecto Carrow, who had just led the Death Eaters in casting the Killing Curse, realized something was wrong. "That was... a stone wall rising from the floor?"
As it turned out, Hermione and the others had used that kind of physical method to block the volley of Killing Curses just now.
...
One way to counter the Killing Curse: its physical destructive power is weak, inferior to Reducto.