harry potter book of crimes

"...Can't you figure it out yet?"

"Yeah! It doesn't seem that easy."

Early the next morning, on the hillside outside the school gate, Maka was sitting on the ground holding a stack of manuscript paper.

It can be seen that there is a small pile of scrap manuscripts pressed with stones next to him, which is also filled with various diagrams, formulas and notes.

More than half a month has passed since the last time he made an emergency escape from the black and white space. This time Maka wanted to take the initiative to go in again, but unfortunately without the guidance of the circular stone slab, he has not been able to until now.

Find a way back.

What's more important is that the magic node discovered by Luna when she came out has now disappeared without a trace.

As a result, Maka, who had no suspicion at first, now had to guess that the round stone slab buried deep in the ground might just be something that Haierbo left there deliberately to disturb his sight.

After stuffing another piece of parchment under the stone, Maka put down the stack of blank manuscript papers piled on her body, and then stretched out.

Suddenly, a gust of breeze blew by quietly, stirring the blades of grass around him and at the same time taking away a few pages of paper inadvertently.

He subconsciously wanted to wave his hand to call the papers back, but he was stunned for a second, and then he got up and picked them up with his own hands.

There was nothing he could do. There were only Muggle figures in front of the hillside right now, so he had better not reveal his magic easily.

After picking up all the blank manuscript papers that had been blown away, he saw Maka standing there, turning his head and looking not far away.

The first thing that comes into view is naturally the huge panel.

On a base that is about the same size as the Weasley family's burrow, there is a square metal panel with supports. The panel points straight to the sky, with almost no inclination visible.

There is no doubt that this is the Muggle detection tool - early warning radar - that Maca borrowed from the old bishop and the Queen of England through Scrimgeour.

Of course, since a lot of equipment is still in the process of being assembled, this thing can only be seen for the time being.

If we can say whether this big thing can be put into normal use in the end, we have to wait until the trial operation and see the "face" of Hogwarts.

After all, the large amount of magic in Hogwarts Castle will have a huge impact on modern electrical equipment. Even if the radar is placed on the hillside outside the school gate, it may not be able to avoid interference!

On this point, even Maka can't be sure.

"If it can be used, at least it should be able to determine the position of the meteorite after it breaks into the atmosphere in time." He raised his head and looked at the blue sky, thinking to himself.

In fact, using early warning radar is not a great idea. After all, the data provided by Maca even includes the specific time and landing point.

But the main problem is how to destroy it in just a few dozen seconds after it enters the atmosphere.

According to old Victor's calculations, it would be extremely difficult for a missile to complete such an arduous task, because as long as it cannot explode, no matter how powerful it is, it is useless.

Therefore, the task of trying to destroy the large stone that fell at high speed will only fall on Maka.

After looking at the sky for a while, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

"Do you want to continue counting?"

Next to Maka, the windbreaker wizard who always followed him suddenly asked again.

"Of course."

…

Just as Maka was preparing to pick up her pen again outside the school gate, the bell for the end of get out of class happened to ring again in the castle.

The new round of Quidditch is about to start recently, but it has nothing to do with Harry anymore.

After quitting the academy team, he and Neville spent more time together than before. And Neville was also a good friend. When he usually accompanied Harry to exchange magic experiences with each other, it was even more boring than spending time with Hannah.

There is a lot of time.

No, after the second period ended, the two people who had no classes scheduled went upstairs together and walked to the Requirement Room together.

"Harry, how are you today?"

"Yeah, it's not bad - so I want to try it again."

"Then come on! If you can make it bigger than last week, it will be worth looking forward to... But if you ask me, mine is definitely bigger!"

"Hey, don't worry! I will definitely let you know how powerful I am..."

On the stairs, three Slytherin students passed by the two of them. They turned back secretly and stared at the backs of Harry and Neville.

"What are you looking at!"

Harry felt the needle-pricking eyes keenly, and immediately turned around and glared at several of them.

"Look what's wrong with you!"

One of the Slytherin juniors seemed a little unconvinced and couldn't help but said something back, but was immediately pushed behind by another senior senior.

"Uh... no, it's nothing. We'll go down right now."

"snort!"

Harry curled his lips and was too lazy to talk to the three Slytherin snakes. He greeted Neville and continued to go up the stairs.

"Baker, why don't you let me say a few more words-don't the two of them rely on their good relationship with MacLean! What's so great about it."

"Yes!" Another little girl in the same grade as him also said, "And Professor MacLean is not the kind of person who helps whomever he has a good relationship with. Last semester, the red-haired Weasley and Malfoy almost had a quarrel.

, wasn’t it Professor MacLean who persuaded us to open it?”

But who knew that the senior Slytherin immediately waved his hand and said:

"Who said that's what I did? Alas, you are still young and don't know about those dirty things. Look at that Potter and Longbottom, they have been together all day long this semester... tsk tsk tsk."

"What?" The little girl asked in confusion at that time, "What 'dirty thing'? What happened to them?"

"Hey," the senior student couldn't help grinning after hearing this, "Don't you understand? It's better if you don't understand... just forget about today's matter! If you understand it, I'm afraid you will feel sick during lunch.

I can’t eat anything!”

"Ahem."

Just when the little girl looked puzzled, a dry cough suddenly sounded behind them.

"What are you doing here? If you have class, go to class as soon as possible. If there is no class, go to the common room to study - or do you want to follow me to the Forbidden Forest?"

"Professor Snape?"

When the three of them heard this, they hurriedly turned around to take a look, and then quickly went downstairs.

Snape, who suddenly appeared here, glanced at them sideways for a few times before raising his head again and looking in the direction where Harry and Neville left.

After a while, he didn't say anything, just clicked his tongue in displeasure and turned around to leave.

…

On the other side, Harry and Neville didn't know that they were almost being regarded as "good partners" with some illicit relationship.

Of course, even if they heard about it, it wouldn't actually be too painful - after all, in this regard, there are still rumors spreading widely behind Ron's back to block them!

After Harry locked the door, Navieden, who had already walked inside to light up the room, waved his wand and gestured to Harry:

"Hurry up! There's only one class left, and there's also a History of Magic lesson coming up later!"

After saying this casually, Neville suddenly pointed his wand forward and shouted:

"Call the gods to protect you!"

Although he has already been able to use the silent spell technique to cast the Patronus Charm, according to the theory in Maka's information, only by reciting the spell clearly can it be possible to exert the most powerful effect of a spell.

strength.

As Neville waved his staff and recited the incantation, a large cloud of silver-white brilliant light mist immediately erupted, condensing into a strong and shining lion in front of him.

Here, Harry took a good look at Neville's lion patronus, and then took out his phoenix tail feather wand.

If there was a certain period in the past, when he saw Neville, the patron saint, he would immediately feel envious. But now, he no longer does.

From the time he sincerely asked Neville for advice to today, Harry already had a deeper understanding of the Patronus Charm.

Moreover, his understanding was not something that came to him due to chance and coincidence like Neville, but was something that he really worked out bit by bit on his own.

Obviously, the reason why Neville was able to summon the current lion patron saint must be because his intention to protect grandma completely broke through the cowardice appearance in the past. When his courage suddenly burst out, the courage of guardianship

His true inner self was instantly revealed.

However, the image of the patron saint is actually just a symbol, and it does not represent the strength of the patron saint spell itself.

Harry's own patronus is a stag, so if he wants his patronus to grow, the best way is not to try to change his image, but to continue to explore the meaning of the "stag".

"To cast the Patronus Spell, you need happy memories or the belief of protection."

After reciting these words silently again, Harry also took out his wand, his eyes no longer confused as before.

"Call the gods to protect you."

The moment the silver light erupted, the images of his long-dead parents flashed in his mind, and then Dumbledore's kind smile flashed in his mind, and of course Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville and a series of others.

companion.

But in the end, those pictures that flashed by quickly settled on Maka's back.

The next second, the huge amount of silver mist surrounding him suddenly shrank, and a stag with huge antlers like a tree crown suddenly ran out of it and jumped around him.

There is no doubt that this patron saint is still the image of a stag, but it is quite different from the past in many details.

More importantly, its size is not inferior to that of Neville's lion.

"Hey! Look! It's definitely bigger than yours this time!" (To be continued)