"Excuse me, is Miss Hermione Granger at home?"
Landing at Hermione's doorstep, Adam walked straight up and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and a middle-aged woman looked at Adam with some confusion and replied, "Young man, you might have the wrong place. There's no one named Hermione Granger here."
"She's Mrs. Granger, Hermione's mother. I've seen her photo with Hermione. How could she not recognize Hermione?"
In the mental space, Harry looked at the situation outside, also completely bewildered.
Adam, however, understood immediately and politely replied to Mrs. Granger, "Madam, perhaps I have the wrong address. I apologize for the intrusion."
He swept the entire house with his mental power and, sure enough, all the photos in the house had no trace of Hermione Granger.
Clearly, Hermione had erased all traces of herself to protect her parents from Death Eater attacks.
At this moment, in the memories of Mr. and Mrs. Granger, they had never had a daughter named Hermione Granger, nor had they ever interacted with the Wizarding World.
"It's Memory Charm. Hermione used Memory Charm on her parents."
Explaining to Harry, Adam became invisible with an Disillusionment Charm and continued flying towards 12 Grimmauld Place.
Meanwhile, at Grimmauld Place.
Figures in Dark Wizard robes appeared one by one via Apparition. Leading them was a Witch who looked utterly insane.
She was Lord Voldemort's number one fan, Bellatrix Lestrange.
She was also Sirius Black's cousin.
"Little Avery, are you sure it's here?"
Bellatrix pulled out her wand, a cruel smile on her face.
A male Death Eater next to her also drew his wand:
"It's definitely here. I followed that Wizard named Ron Weasley, and he went into this building."
"Hahaha, Dumbledore, that old man, thought we'd never find this place with the Fidelius Charm.
Today, we'll deal with all these Order of the Phoenix members who always disrupt our plans. Remove Dumbledore's hands and feet, and let's see how he can still fight the Dark Lord!"
After Bellatrix and all the Death Eaters set up the anti-Apparition charm, she didn't try to find the Order of the Phoenix's location within this seemingly Muggle-occupied terraced building. Instead, she led the Death Eaters to raise their wands in unison.
"Bombarda!"
Dozens of Bombardas were cast simultaneously.
In an instant, the entire residential building in front exploded as if dozens of C4s had been thrown at it, collapsing into a pile of rubble.
The Muggles living inside were either instantly killed by the Bombardas or crushed by the collapsing building, with almost no one surviving.
However, the Death Eaters, witnessing this tragic scene, were completely unmoved.
Under the Dark Lord's leadership over the years, although they hadn't completely broken ties with Muggles, they were no longer bound by the Statute of Secrecy, and killing Muggles was a common occurrence.
This was a perfect way to force the Order of the Phoenix members to reveal themselves.
Otherwise, even if they knew an Order of the Phoenix Base might be hidden in this building, they wouldn't find it without the Secret-Keeper's guidance.
"Bellatrix, I'm going to kill you!"
Just then, accompanied by an angry roar, over twenty people emerged from the rubble of the residential building.
Leading them were Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, followed by the Weasley family, Hermione, Moody, Nymphadora, and others.
Upon sensing the anomaly, they immediately protected themselves with a Shield Charm, thus avoiding injury.
However, seeing all their Muggle neighbors, who normally lived in the same building, killed, their hearts were filled with rage.
"My dear cousin, you were lucky I didn't kill you at the Ministry of magic last time. This time, I'd like to see where you'll run!"
Facing her enraged cousin, Bellatrix showed no fear, only a mocking expression.
As one of the most powerful Dark Wizards under the Dark Lord, she didn't believe anyone on the opposing side was her match, and the number of Death Eaters she brought was nearly three times that of the Order.
This was a pressure-free encirclement and kill.
"You murderer, I'm going to avenge Harry!"
Just then, Ron suddenly darted out from behind, aiming a spell at Bellatrix's neck:
"Diffindo!"
This spell normally wouldn't be fatal, at most leaving a cut on a person's body, but if aimed at the neck and cast with full power, it had a chance to sever the head directly.
As Harry's best friend, Ron had personally witnessed Harry being killed by Bellatrix at the Ministry of magic. How could he hold back now?
"You? Avada Kedavra!"
Bellatrix waved her wand, easily deflecting Ron's spell, then immediately followed with a Curse of Slaying aimed at Ron.
"Ron!"
Fortunately, Hermione, quick-witted, pulled Ron aside, narrowly dodging the Curse of Slaying's attack.
Seeing that Ron hadn't died from her Curse of Slaying, Bellatrix didn't pursue further:
"Dying sooner or later is still dying. Why bother with futile struggles?"
"It's not certain who will die. I think it might be you."
Sirius and Lupin, along with others, collectively stood in front of Ron and Hermione.
Seizing this opportunity, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley gathered all the younger ones at the very back.
"Hermione, Ron, Bill, Charlie, we'll hold them off for a while, and you take the chance to escape."
An anti-Apparition charm had been cast here, preventing them from Apparating away, and the numerical disparity was so obvious that they were clearly doomed to lose.
To avoid complete annihilation, they decided that they, as parents and teachers, would do their utmost to block the Death Eaters, using their lives to buy these children time to escape.
"We're not leaving. If worst comes to worst, we'll all die together."
Ron and the others were clearly unwilling to flee. They were all adults and had fought Death Eaters many times over the years. They couldn't abandon their parents and teachers to escape alone.
They had long since come to terms with death.
"I know what you're trying to do. This time, none of you will escape!"
However, their plan had already been seen through by Bellatrix.
Bellatrix waved her hand, and the Death Eaters spread out in a circle, surrounding all the Order of the Phoenix members.
"In that case, let's fight to the death.
Bellatrix, everyone else can live, but you must die today!"
All the Order of the Phoenix members raised their wands, ready for a desperate fight.
"Then let's see if you have what it takes!"
The Death Eaters' faces were filled with cruel smiles.
Just as a major battle was about to erupt, a faint yet unignorable voice suddenly echoed above them:
"It seems we arrived just in time. Any later, and it would have been truly troublesome."
Everyone looked up into the sky.
But when they saw the figure floating above their heads, they all looked as if they had seen a ghost:
"Harry Potter!"