harry potter book of crimes

"...It still doesn't work! Sure enough, the magic node at that time can no longer be found?"

Slowly flying out from the cave that led to somewhere underground, Maka frowned and thought about it for a moment, and finally shook her head helplessly.

There is certainly a reason why he wants to return to that black and white space. Because no matter how he thinks about it, there must be a very important clue hidden there.

However, once he got out of trouble, he could never find his way back.

"Ahem... How about we look elsewhere?" Probably seeing that Maka was a little bored, the windbreaker wizard who came out behind him asked hesitantly.

When Maka heard this, she quickly waved her hand.

"No," he said, "If it could be found by perception, I should have found its existence when I first tried half a month ago. I still can't find it now, which means it's purely a search method.

wrong……"

In order to get out of trouble, he used spiders to build a huge magic web. After that, he tried to find it again in the same way.

But obviously, even though he had included the location below the ground within the range of induction exploration that time, he still failed to gain anything.

The magic node must exist, otherwise Haierbo himself would not be able to enter. But this time, he must have completely covered up the node.

Even for Maka, it is not very difficult to find it again.

"Let's go! Forget it for today, let me think about it carefully before talking about it!"

In fact, it's already afternoon.

Since early this morning, Maka had taken her to the Ministry of Magic. After chatting with Scrimgeour about the current situation of the British wizarding world, she went to the Black Mansion to pick up a thick

material.

Those documents are all information about the Muggle world and the British wizarding world, compiled by Mundungus and his other intelligence dealers.

Subsequently, from the time she left her old house in the morning until she came here to investigate the magic node, Maka has been running around the UK based on some special information in the data.

From the coast to the interior, from the city to the countryside, we even visited some Muggle farms in the wilderness a few times.

That is to say, the UK is not a big place, and Maca is just for a walk, otherwise I would not be able to finish even half of it in half a day.

It can be seen that Maka did this just to personally examine the general situation in the entire UK, including the wizarding world and the Muggle world, and did not spare either side.

However, knowing that Haierbo would never give up, there is still no gain today - this is probably what the so-called waste of time refers to, right?

Seeing Maka wave her hand gently and continue walking forward, the windbreaker wizard couldn't help but ask:

"Where are you going next? Yes...ahem, are you going to continue patrolling?"

"Huh?" Maka stopped, then shook her head and said, "Oh no, that's the end of today's 'hanging out' - it must be boring to follow me around, right? Don't follow me tomorrow,

Wouldn’t it be nice to go to class with Luna and the others?”

"No, it's not boring at all," the windbreaker wizard said immediately, "Really... if there's no problem, let me follow you tomorrow!"

"Yeah?"

"Yes!"

Although she knew that Maka would definitely be puzzled by her insistence on following her, it was not something that could be explained. So, she just nodded.

"That means it's time to go back to Hogwarts today?"

"Yes, that's right." Maka said, "I thought it would take more time, but actually walking around was faster than expected..."

As he was speaking, he immediately shrugged and said:

"Of course, before we go back, let's settle the lunch issue first! I'm a little sorry to say it, but it's already afternoon... Are you already hungry?"

"No, it's okay. It's good to have something to eat every day..."

As soon as these words came out of her mouth, the windbreaker wizard felt a little regretful - logically speaking, she should have paid more attention to her mouth.

But as for some of the information hidden in the windbreaker wizard's casual words, Maka just pretended that he didn't notice it at all. She saw him walking forward slightly lazily as before, with his head on his head.

Didn't even reply.

The windbreaker wizard took two quick steps, followed Maka again, and returned to the nearby Muggle town.

"There is a tavern here opened by wizards, just in a corner of this Muggle street," Maka said while walking on the street, "The owner of that tavern is also a Hogwarts graduate. Last time Sirius and

I mentioned—"

There were not many pedestrians on the streets of this Muggle town. The two of them walked forward for a while, and Maka saw a slightly sunken brown storefront.

The wooden grille windows, the old store door, and the strange signboard nailed up with old wooden boards make people want to go in and find out.

"...The Hanged Man Tavern?"

"Well," Maka said casually, "a card in a Muggle card game. Muggles use them for divination. Of course, whether it is accurate or not depends on luck..."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand, opened the door with a creak, and walked in gently.

"jingle."

"Welcome, two guests."

As soon as he entered the door, Maka heard the voice of an old man next to him. He turned his head and saw a portrait hanging on the wall by the door.

"Oh, hello..." He looked at the nameplate below, and then continued, "Mrs. Grayman."

"Hello, young guest." The old woman in the portrait squinted her eyes and said, "Please sit down wherever you like, Ted will come with his menu - of course, you can also order from me, I

I'll tell Ted over there in the kitchen."

"No need to trouble you," Maka said with a smile, "We are not in a hurry, just wait!"

With that said, he turned around and walked inside.

As you can see, this is an old tavern with simple decoration.

Many places are decorated with inlaid wood, but those decorations that were supposed to be exquisite have now been changed due to years of wiping, and they no longer look like they did at first.

Probably because it was not lunch time, there were only two or three guests in the tavern, and most of them were drinking alone in boredom.

Not long after the two of them sat down at the mottled table, a man in his thirties at most walked out of the small tavern.

"Sorry, I actually heard it just now, but I still have some work on hand, so I wiped my hands first... I didn't keep you two waiting for too long, right?"

"It's okay!" Maka waved her hand and then said to the other side, "Come on, have some! You can decide what you want to eat."

After asking the boss to give the menu to the windbreaker wizard, Maka said to the boss:

"Sirius Black told me about you here. He said that if I want to know about the news around here, I can ask you?"

When the windbreaker wizard sitting on the other side heard this, he couldn't help but secretly said "Sure enough" - there was a reason why Maka chose this place.

Because the node we came out of before is located near this town, it is undoubtedly a natural thing to come here to inquire about information.

However, even Maka, who can sense magic, cannot find the magic node. Can such a tavern owner know it?

"Oh, Sirius?" The boss named Ted immediately smiled cheerfully and said, "No problem - just ask whatever you want! If it's something I've heard of, of course I can tell you!"

"No, on the contrary, I want to hear what you know." Maka said, "Anything is fine. If something strange happened around here, you can tell me..."

"Something strange?" The boss tilted his head and said, "It's such an ordinary Muggle town all day long, what can be so strange..."

After thinking about it carefully, he said again:

"If I really want to talk about it, it must be the terrible disaster not long ago... Although it happened in downtown London, it can be seen from here. At that time, I almost packed up my bed and ran away!"

Although this town also belongs to London, it is already considered a "suburban suburb". The disaster that originated in London has never affected this place from beginning to end.

But listening to what the boss said, you can understand that for ordinary wizards and civilians, it is definitely a very terrible disaster.

"Well, yes!" Maka nodded, "It was during that time, were there any special situations here - for example, were there any magic spells such as Muggle expulsion spells in some places around the town?

Pass?"

"Expelling Muggle curse?" The boss followed his words and thought about it, but finally shook his head and said, "As you can see, there are very few residents in this place - less Muggles, and even fewer wizards. Correspondingly.

Comparatively speaking, the area around the town is huge..."

Although the other party didn't finish speaking, Maka could understand the meaning.

However, originally he just wanted to try his luck.

Although he felt that as long as Helbo had done something here, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he would definitely prevent the Muggles who are almost everywhere in this era from approaching. But if he wanted to find any clues based on this idea, it would be impossible to find any clues.

It's no different than getting lucky.

After inquiring to no avail, seeing that the windbreaker wizard had already ordered today's belated lunch, Maka put these incidental matters aside for the time being.

"Boss, I'm fine here!" he said, "I heard that the boss is also a Hufflepuff, so I'm looking forward to your cooking skills!"

"Of course! This is my ability to eat. Guests, please wait a moment. I will..."

"ah!"

Suddenly, the boss seemed to remember something, and his eyes suddenly lit up. (To be continued)