harry potter book of crimes

"Bang!"

Snape walked down from the podium and slapped the table top with his hand, making a loud noise. Suddenly, the classroom, where no one was talking, immediately became silent.

However, Luna, who was sitting behind the desk, just raised her head in a daze, then narrowed her eyes and showed a puzzled expression at Snape who was standing next to her.

"Oh, Professor Snape..." she greeted inarticulately, "Good morning?"

Perhaps it was because Luna's performance really made everyone laugh. Even in Snape's class, many people couldn't help but laugh secretly.

"Quiet!"

Snape looked around coldly for a week, then lowered his eyes and looked at Luna.

"Miss Lovegood, since you think it's still morning... after class, don't go to lunch. Stay in the classroom and read the chapter 9 of "Encountering the Faceless Monster" about resisting the Imperius Curse.

Copy it three times before speaking!"

"Isn't that possible?" Luna pursed her lips and said pitifully, "There is caramel pudding for lunch today! I saw it on the bulletin board at the entrance of the auditorium this morning..."

"snort."

Snape ignored Luna's intention at all, turned around and walked towards the podium. Luna looked at his back and blinked at the classmates next to him, with a bit of confusion in his eyes.

"What should I do?"

As soon as she said these words, the laughter that had just been stopped by Snape sounded again, causing Snape to turn around again.

"I said, be quiet!" he snapped. "If anyone is willing to stay with Miss Lovegood, just raise your hand and tell me, and I will agree!"

For the same person who hadn't slept all night, Snape was obviously much better than Luna - not only did he not see any changes at all on the surface, but even the words he warned the students were the same as usual.

, full of powerful sarcasm.

Yes, Luna also spent the whole night in London last night, and was not sent back by Aberforth until dawn.

To be honest, she still couldn't find Maka's location quickly last night. But because of Aberforth's help, she avoided the Aurors who were also searching around London several times. This was already a long time.

What a blessing.

Otherwise, if Luna was wandering alone in London, she would have been discovered by the Aurors. If that were the case, the outcome waiting for her would be either to be sent back to Hogwarts to Professor McGonagall, or to be sent directly to Professor McGonagall.

Went to the Ministry of Magic.

"It seems..." Luna muttered in the end, "Cream pudding is going to be far away from me."

…

Compared with Luna, who searched all night but found nothing, Hermione, who faced the rune array underground in the old Black mansion, finally achieved certain results.

Well, no! Maybe you can’t say that yet.

Right now, while Luna was lamenting her lunch pudding in Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Hermione was rarely bowing her head in silence in Slughorn's Potions class.

She is similar to Luna, and she didn't attend much class today.

Of course, this was not about secretly catching up on the lost sleep time last night - under the care of Lu Ping and others, she still had some time to rest before breakfast after returning to school.

The reason why Hermione didn't speak actively as usual, and even lowered her head all the time, was actually because she was silently flipping through one of her own notebooks.

According to Maka's rune pattern, Hermione collected and sorted out many magic symbols that resembled Phoenician letters. After that, she compared those symbols with ordinary Phoenician letters, trying to find out which ones

The connection between magic script and Phoenician alphabet comes from.

And now, she has found three groups of characters that can correspond to each other.

Suddenly, the sound of the end of get out of class bell suddenly came from the corridor outside the classroom, causing Hermione, who was still immersed in the artistic conception of the magic text, to come back to her senses.

"Hermione, get out of class is over!"

"I heard it."

After raising her head and nodding towards Ron, Hermione packed up her things with everyone, stood up, and left the Potions classroom together.

In the corridor, Harry suddenly turned around and asked softly:

"The day after tomorrow it's Hogsmeade Day again, Hermione...you're going to the old house then, right?"

"Well," Hermione nodded immediately, "Finally some progress has been made. I will definitely go. Sorry."

"No, no, why are you apologizing?" Harry said, "I just want to ask - do you think that after you leave, should we all go to London?"

To be honest, Hermione can actually understand how Harry and the others feel. If she hadn't joined the Order of the Phoenix now, she would probably be even more anxious than Harry.

Maybe he would sneak out of the secret passage at night!

but……

"I don't think so," Hermione said, shaking her head. "You should also know - there are a lot of Aurors searching in London right now. If you go there, it's very difficult not to encounter them. Not to mention that there will be an apparition tomorrow.

Apparition class, when the time comes..."

As she spoke, Hermione glanced behind her. What she looked at was Ron, who was discussing the potion ratio with Neville.

"...I'm worried that Ron will be under greater pressure by then. After all, he is the only one among the three of us who has not learned how to apparate in advance."

Disapparation is a very difficult spell, and its characteristics make it difficult for young wizards to practice it without the help of an experienced professor.

However, with the support of Maka's magic potion, the danger of splitting caused by failure to manifest is no longer a problem.

However, it is obviously not enough to have the ability to practice but no place to practice.

Since the entire Hogwarts space has been firmly fortified, no one can practice the Apparition spell here unless the principal temporarily lifts it.

Therefore, not to mention Harry, who had learned it from Sirius a long time ago, even Hermione and others practiced it during the last period of the previous Christmas vacation.

There is no doubt that although this spell is difficult, once you learn it, it will naturally make everyone's actions more convenient.

It's a pity that Ron couldn't complete it until the beginning of school.

"So, if Ron still can't do it tomorrow, you and Neville will bring potions and help Ron continue to practice on Hogsmeade Day!" Hermione whispered, "I should have gone too.

…”

"It's okay," Harry said, "I understand. Your suggestion is right. It's best to let Ron learn how to speak. This will also allow us to--"

"What are you talking about?"

Suddenly, Ron's voice sounded from behind the two of them, which startled them.

"Oh, no...it's nothing," Harry said with a quick smile, "I was asking Hermione to lend me the notes from the Potions class just now. You know, how the joy potion works..."

"Ah?" Ron suddenly said with a puzzled look on his face, "During Potions class, Hermione has been studying ancient magic texts, hasn't she? And I said, you didn't listen well in class, right? The elixir of joy was already taught in the previous class.

It’s over!”

"Oh, is it...?"

Harry turned his head in embarrassment, trying to get Hermione to answer Ron's words for him, but to his surprise, Hermione had already taken a step ahead and headed to the auditorium.

Seeing this, he had no choice but to turn around again and give Ron a stiff smile.

"Well... look, no wonder Hermione is angry again, ha..."

"Why are you still laughing? Then go apologize quickly!"

Ron took Harry's shoulders and pushed him towards the side door of the auditorium. But when he passed the bulletin board in the foyer, his eyes suddenly stopped on a certain notice on it for a few seconds, and then he remained silent.

He averted his eyes.

It was a large notice that had been posted on the bulletin board since the beginning of this semester. The content of the notice was naturally the twelve-week Apparition course. The instructors were dispatched by the Apparition Test Center of the Ministry of Magic.

.

In fact, even though he had been talking to Neville just now, he still heard a few words in the conversation between Harry and Hermione.

Although he didn't hear the whole thing, just the words "Apparition" and "Ron" allowed him to guess what the two people said.

However, even if Ron was indeed depressed that he had not yet been able to master Apparition, he was not as stressed as Hermione imagined.

How should I put it? Is it because I am used to being one beat slower than the other two?

Shaking his head, Ron pushed Harry into the auditorium and took his seat at the Gryffindor table.

At this time, at the faculty bench at the other end of the auditorium, Slughorn was looking curiously at the empty seat at the edge of the long table.

"Where's Severus?"

"I don't know," Professor Sprout said, "Maybe he's still in the office?"

But they didn't know that Snape was actually not in the office at the moment, but still in his Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

With Luna.

…

"Miss Lovegood, that's all right, please stop writing for a moment!"

Luna, who was immersed in copying textbooks, heard Snape's voice in front of her. She suddenly stopped at the tip of her pen and raised her head in confusion.

"What's wrong, Professor Snape?" She looked at the professor who was still standing on the podium and said in a daze, "I haven't finished the first copy yet!"

"I know," Snape said calmly, "You answer a question for me. If you answer it correctly, you can just copy it once."

Luna nodded immediately, as if she saw the caramel pudding that had gone away reappearing in front of her, twisting her smooth and sweet body, waving at her!

"Oh! That's great!" she said quickly, "What's the problem?"

Snape waved his hand and asked concisely:

"It's very simple, I just want to know - what did you do when you left Hogwarts so late last night?" (To be continued)