harry potter book of crimes

Speaking of which, the reason why Snape discovered Luna's outing last night was because of Aberforth.

Luna's words at that time suddenly opened the knot that had been binding Aberforth for many years, so that the latter immediately drove away all the drinkers in the bar under strong regret.

For such an offending thing, let alone Aberforth, who is still a member of the Order of the Phoenix - even if he has nothing to do with the Order of the Phoenix, "that night there was a weird old shopkeeper with big muscles and a round waist, abandoning his customers and running after a certain girl."

Anecdotes will spread like wildfire.

So in fact, not to mention Snape, even Lupin and others in London had already learned about this nonsense through Mundungus.

Snape, however, only concluded that the person traveling at night was Luna through the rather specific description in the rumors.

"...What did you do when you left Hogwarts so late last night?"

At this moment, Snape stood quietly behind the podium, looked at Luna on the seat and questioned.

"Huh?" Luna immediately tilted her head and recalled, "Professor Snape, where did you see me? Why don't I remember it?"

The entrance to the secret passage she took was entirely within the Ravenclaw Tower, and if you wanted to enter the tower, you had to pass the bronze eagle knocker - even the school professors were no exception to this.

Therefore, Luna was really a little surprised at this time.

"Can you walk through walls like a ghost... Oh, you are actually a ghost, right?"

When Aberforth drove away the guests angrily, Luna had already left the bar, so she had no way of knowing how her night out was exposed to Snape in the first place.

Otherwise, with her extremely quick thinking, she might actually be able to guess the source of the leaked news like a flash of inspiration!

However, no matter how out of touch Luna's words were, Snape didn't pay much attention to them.

"Miss Lovegood, you don't have to worry about how I know it," he raised his chin and said, "Just tell me! Where did you and Aberforth go after leaving Hogwarts last night? London?

?”

"Oh! How come you know everything?"

After hearing Snape's question, Luna suddenly looked at him with an expression of admiration.

"I see, you are not only a ghost, but also a 'know-it-all'! Wait, if 'Miss Know-It-All' is Hermione...then you must be 'Mr. Know-It-All'!"

The nickname Hermione was given by Snape, and most of it was malicious sarcasm. But now Luna conveniently put it on top of his own head, and Snape was so angry that the corners of his eyes twitched.

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After waving his hands slightly impatiently, Snape skipped the topic again and finally said bluntly:

"In short, not only did you leave the dormitory last night, you even sneaked out of the school and went to London. In order to give appropriate punishment, starting from today after school, you will go -"

The matter of punishing students should be left to the dean of the school where the student is located, and Luna is a young wizard in Ravenclaw, so Flitwick has to deal with it no matter what. But Snape doesn't want to worry about it anymore.

, just go and tell Flitwick later.

After all, in the final analysis, he didn't really dislike Luna - even when Luna violated school rules, he didn't actually feel that bad.

To be honest, Snape's punishment of Luna this time was really just to warn her not to run to London again.

Obviously, Snape today is no longer the somewhat absent-minded Potions professor he once was.

Okay! Of course, he seems to have some partiality for the Slytherins after all.

But before Snape could say the content of the punishment, he heard footsteps at the door. Then, the front door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom was opened from the outside, and Professor McGonagall suddenly appeared in front of him.

The doorway appeared.

"Severus, so you are here?"

It can be found that Professor McGonagall came in a hurry, because she just stood outside the door, so she didn't even see Luna sitting in the middle of the classroom.

Behind her, there were Flitwick, Sprout and Slughorn, all of whom were following closely in the corridor outside.

Before Mag's last sentence could be finalized, she followed up:

"Over at the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Scrimgeour sent someone to deliver an urgent message - you know, Maka gathered all Muggles who may have been infected by dark magic into the dungeons of the Ministry of Magic. And just this morning

, those Muggles collectively experienced mutations without any warning...that level of the dungeon has been lost."

Just hearing this, Snape probably understood what Scrimgeour meant by sending urgent news.

"So, he wants to ask for help?"

He said he was asking for help, but people who knew the inside story actually knew that he actually wanted to invite Maka over.

However, no one knew where Maka was now, and Scrimgeour obviously knew it too. So in desperation, he had no choice but to go directly to the current principal of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall.

"Hmph..." Snape chuckled and said rather sarcastically, "I guess at the moment, our minister doesn't know whether to praise Maka for his foresight or to blame him for bringing big trouble to the Ministry of Magic!

"

Snape never had a good impression of Scrimgeour.

This former Auror had always been mediocre in ability, but when Fudge was killed by Voldemort to scare the monkeys, Maka and the Order of the Phoenix intervened in the chaos, he took up the position almost half forced and half voluntarily.

And now, the stability of the British magical world relies mostly on Maka's prestige. Although he has done a lot of things, they are all trivial.

Of course, at least that's how it seemed to Snape.

However, no matter how much he looked down on the current Minister of Magic, he still had to help. Just like the reason why Maka was happy to let Scrimgeour continue to stay in that position, at least this guy always believed

Standing on Maka's side is the most correct choice.

"Don't talk about that yet." McGonagall pretended not to hear Snape's sarcasm and continued, "Severus, anyway, I plan to let you and Slughorn take a trip -

—Let’s go check out the situation first! How to deal with it specifically, remember to keep in touch.”

There were some words that McGonagall didn't say clearly, but Snape understood them clearly.

As we all know, the dungeon of the Ministry of Magic is not directly connected to the upper floor. Even the elevator cannot go down directly to that floor. And the stairs leading to the dungeon can actually be completely blocked.

Therefore, what Professor McGonagall actually means is that if the current situation in the Ministry of Magic is not so bad that the isolation is broken, then just delay it a little longer! If it can be delayed until Maka comes back, that would be the best.

After all, who knows what kind of shit the Muggles down there have become now?

"Yes, I know--"

Due to this sudden incident, even Snape accidentally forgot Luna's existence. But before he could remember it again, everyone present suddenly heard a light voice, interrupting Snape.

answer.

"Professor McGonagall, if you can let me go to the area where Maka disappeared," Luna suddenly stood up from her seat and looked at the door calmly, "Maybe I can find where Maka is."

"What? You...are you serious?"

If she had gone to Professor McGonagall yesterday to request that she be allowed to go to London, she would have been rejected; but now that the Ministry of Magic is in trouble, the possibility of the other party agreeing to her is very high.

It can be said that Luna realized this almost instinctively, so she spoke without thinking.

"Well, it's true!"

…

Luna relied on her own talent and hard work to gain the ability to perceive magic.

The ability to use one's own spirit to sense magic surpasses contemporary detection alchemy tools in terms of subtlety. If used properly, it can even help Luna greatly deepen her study and application of magic.

However, her talent in magic and her spiritual talent are obviously two completely different aspects. In addition, the study of magic is definitely not a day's work, so she can put it aside for the time being.

Now all she needs is to use the basic function of sensing magic to detect traces that other wizards cannot detect.

To be honest, it is still unknown whether the space where Maka is located can be found through this more detailed search.

Therefore, the word "maybe" used by Luna before was really not that she was being modest.

The words were divided into two parts. When Professor McGonagall made a prompt decision and asked Flitwick to take Luna to London to try to find Maka, Snape and Slughorn followed the original plan and soon appeared in

Fireplace foyer at the Ministry of Magic.

"Mr. Scrimgeour."

When the two of them arrived there, they immediately found that the entrance hall, which was supposed to be bustling with people, was completely empty. It must have been that Scrimgeour had something to do with it, so he simply found some excuse to bring people from the Ministry of Magic to handle matters.

All the wizards were invited out.

"Ah! Professor Snape, Professor Slughorn, you are here..."

Scrimgeour watched the two men walking toward him, and while approaching them, he glanced several times at the place where the two men had just appeared.

It's a pity that the person he had complained about not long ago because he kept filling the dungeon with Muggles has now disappeared no matter how much he hoped for it.

Brother, don’t leave the mess and run away!

"Don't look, we haven't found where Maka is yet -" Snape said with an indifferent expression, "Of course, he will reappear in front of us sooner or later, there is no doubt about it."

No matter what the situation in the Ministry of Magic is, it will never go wrong to give Scrimgeour a shot of vaccination first. Later, if it is confirmed that it can be delayed, his words will naturally have the effect they should have.

function.

"Oh, yes, yes!" Scrimgeour smiled reluctantly. (To be continued)