“Okay,” Seokmin agrees in a heartbeat. “Besides, if we ended up dead, it’ll be less painful
because we’re basically sleeping.”
Mingyu gives him a stink eye, “For a Hufflepuff and the potion maker, you are surely a very
pessimistic person, Seok.”
Seokmin replies with one of his blinding smile, “I’m joking. Of course we’ll be fine and bring
Hao home.”
“I hope so,” Mingyu stares at the sleeping Minghao. There’s no traces of pain in his face,
Minghao looks perfectly like he just fell asleep. But Mingyu cannot shake the nagging feeling
in the back of his head, screaming to help Minghao despite his silence over days.
Minghao once saved them both, now it’s their turn to save him.
“Don’t forget the spell before you fell asleep,” Mingyu chides in when Seokmin takes out the
vial. “Legilimens.”
“Legilimens, yes I’m aware, Gyu,” Seokmin is slowly uncapping the cork of the vial, careful-
ly use the pipette to takes in a few drops of the potion. He stares at Mingyu with nervous eyes
before trickling two drops of Draught of Living Death into his mouth and hands the dropper
to him in a hurry.
Mingyu does the same. And at the same time as the bitter taste invades his sense, he feels his
eyelids grow heavy. It is that lethal, now Mingyu feels like he’s loosing the control of his
hands and limbs. Slowly drifting into unconsciousness, the last thing he saw was Seokmin fell
asleep in his chair and Minghao, unmoving as ever.
He hopes their plan will work, otherwise they’re all going to die.
“Legilimens.”
Seokmin wakes up with a gasp.
He takes in the sight of his surrounding with bleary eyes. Then slowly, he catches Mingyu’s
figure standing across him, eyes fixed in the night scenery outside the windows. They’re still
at the Hospital Wing,
“Does it work?” Seokmin asks.
“Yeah,” Mingyu jerks his chin at the bed in front of them. The bed where Minghao was
supposed to lie unconsciously, is now empty. “He was here some time ago.”
Seokmin scans his surroundings. There’s nothing different with dream-Hogwarts, it’s just
perfect as it is. But he immediately reminds himself that this is the dream projection. It was