Chapter 427: Cat Mark (Edited)

Of course, the spell Fish knew was not exactly the same as the Dark Mark, but Fish knew a spell similar to the Dark Mark.

It was a variation of the Lumos Charm that Fish himself had developed with Hermione over the summer vacations, based on Muggle cartoons, and it was similar to the Dark Mark, except on a smaller scale....

After all, they were still at Hermione's house, surrounded by Muggles, so they couldn't make too much noise.

But Fish didn't have much trouble making the spell bigger, after all, it was a spell he had developed himself, so he could just use it with an expansion spell or something.

So not only could Fish tweak the spell to give the light source different shapes, but he even worked with Hermione to come up with weird things like bending the light source and controlling the simple movements of the shaped light source.

Fish jumped off Hermione's shoulder, regained his human form and pulled out his wand.

Professor McGonagall's attention was on the Dark Mark in the sky, so she didn't notice Fish's movement first, and by the time she realized something was wrong, Fish had already pointed his wand at the sky....

"Brilliant cat's head!"

(●ΦωΦ●)つ━☆*.

"Swoosh!"

With a sharp whistle, a thumb-sized silver-white ball of light flew out from the tip of Fish's wand, trailing a long tail of flames into the night sky, after reaching a certain height, the ball of light exploded, and a silver-white cat head, which was even bigger than the Dark Mark, appeared above Fish and the others, the cat head emitted a silvery-white glow, covering the nearby woods with a soft white veil.

"Nya~!"

The silver-white cat head grew its mouth and let out a feline meow, it complemented the green skull with a poisonous snake in the distance.

Everyone around her was dumbfounded, and Professor McGonagall almost gasped when she realized that the variant of the Lumos Charm that Fish and Hermione had worked on over the summer was, enlarged, something akin to the Dark Mark!

Fish didn't care about the surprised faces of the people around him, it was the first time he had created such a large magical light source and it was a bit difficult to control, Fish had to concentrate on it.

"Come on, hit it!"

(? `ω′?)?

Fish waved the wand and aimed at the Dark Mark in the distance, and the silver-white cat's head in the sky smashed into the green skull under his control.

"Nya~!"

The silver cat head floating next to the Dark Mark let out another meow, then opened its mouth wide and made a nibbling motion on the skull.

Whether it was because the Shadow Mark's time was about to run out, or whether it was the nature of the thing to dissipate when touched, I don't know, but as soon as Fish's silver cat head bit it, the Shadow Mark disappeared like a bubble that had popped and turned to light green smoke.

"What the hell, why did you admit defeat so quickly?"

?(? `ω′?)?

Fish bellowed in disgust, still wanting to fight the green skull with its glowing cat head.

"Quickly cancel the spell!"

Professor McGonagall finally came to her senses and snarled at Fish.

"Oh..."

(〃｀へ′〃)

With his opponent out, Fish did as he was told and cancelled the spell, but the latter was not in a very good mood because he had failed to fight the skeleton.

Professor McGonagall was in an even less pleasant mood. She approached Fish, arms crossed, and was about to give him a good lecture when a dozen wizards flew in from the distance and landed in front of them.

"Professor McGonagall... Is it really Fish?"

After the lead wizard landed, he looked at the innocent looking kitten and Professor McGonagall, who was standing next to him, and smiled helplessly.

The man's name was Amos Diggory, father of Cedric Diggory, and they lived with the Weasleys and the Lovegoods in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole, where Fish had been a guest at the Burrow and had visited his store during the day.

In fact, as soon as Amos saw the cat's head in the sky, he guessed that it was probably Fish's fault, after all the trouble he had caused them back in Ottery St. Catchpole.

Knowing how mischievous Fish could be, he was worried that his colleagues who didn't know him might get into trouble with the cat, which was why Amos had left Harry behind and volunteered to deal with the situation.

The other reason was that he had so offended Crouch with his own words that he was looking for an excuse to avoid his wrath and let Crouch deal with the house elf suspected of releasing the Dark Mark.

"Ahem, Professor McGonagall, while I know this may have been an impulsive act on Fish's part, there are procedures to follow, so let's have him release the spell again and make sure it's not some variant of the Dark Mark."

Mr. Diggory cleared his throat, speaking in an official voice.

The group of wizards behind him naturally agreed with this, some had seen Fish before, others for the first time, but whether it was the first time they had met or had known each other for some time, under the influence of Fish's affinity, they all tacitly chose to make a big deal out of it.

"I see..." professor McGonagall smiled and nodded to them as a token of her appreciation, then turned a stern look to the kitty next to her, "Make another cat head, not so big, just the size you usually play with."

"Oh..."

Fish also knew he was probably in trouble, even though the cat didn't understand what he had done wrong, he was the one who had hit the scary skull....

But Fish knew this was no time to be stubborn, so he raised his wand meekly and pointed in front of him, "Brilliant cat's head!"

(●ΦωΦ●)つ━☆*.

A mist of white and silver light emerged, forming a fist-sized cat head, which at first glance looked like the Patronus Charm, then Fish waved his wand, and the white and silver cat head began to flicker in different colors....

Red, orange, green, green, blue and purple... they were as colorful as the light from a Muggle disco ball....

Especially when Fish got his to start singing the theme song of his favorite Muggle cartoon in his voice....

Then...

"Don't do unnecessary things!"

Professor McGonagall smacked Fish upside the head, causing the indolent puss to stop his "disco dancing" behavior and dispel his spell.

"Good, good, thank you for your cooperation."

Mr. Diggory nodded dumbfounded, after observing closely, they could both clearly distinguish the difference between the two.

For starters, Fish's cat head created by Fish has a much higher technical content than the Tenebrous Mark. The Death Mark itself is actually a simple trick, but Voldemort endowed the symbol with a terrifying meaning.

"Minerva, what the hell is that skull for?"

(??ω??)?

Fish asked curiously, now he understood why Mr. Diggory and the others made such a big deal out of it, it had nothing to do with the cat's head, but with the green skull.

"That's the Dark Mark, the symbol of You-Know-Who."

"You-Know-Who?"

?ω?

Fish cocked his head to the side for a moment to remember who he was referring to.

"Oh, it's Riddle..." muttered Fish in a whisper of understanding.

Professor McGonagall ignored the cat's mutterings and immediately turned to Mr. Diggory and asked, "Have you caught the person who released the Dark Mark, Amos?"

"No," Mr. Diggory shook his head helplessly, "The other party is too cunning. After he released the Dark Mark, he disappeared and escaped. He used Potter's wand when he cast the spell, and then Mr. Crouch's house elf picked it up..."

When Mr. Diggory spoke of this, his expression looked a little strange, after all, he offended Barty Crouch over this incident before he came.

"Potter? You mean Harry Potter?" asked Professor McGonagall with concern.

"Yes, the unknown Death Eater was not far from him and Arthur's youngest son when he released the Dark Mark and heard the man's voice."

Mr. Diggory stroked his short brown beard and said effusively, "Good thing he left after shooting the Dark Mark, without endangering Harry Potter."

He smacked his head in annoyance, he had been foolish to suspect Harry Potter of creating the Dark Mark, it was no wonder he had upset Mr. Crouch.

But it couldn't be helped, Mr. Diggory had been through a time when the Dark Lord was at large and when it came to such things, he couldn't control his emotions.

"Minerva, Fish can help with the smell nya, maybe we can even catch the man!"

?(?ΦωΦ?)?

Fish knew Voldemort and his men were no good, and volunteered.

Besides, he suspected he might be Draco's father, so he wanted to make sure.