harry potter book of crimes

When Lupine, who was walking at the front, followed Higgs through the corridor and arrived at a rather gorgeous living room, he realized that what they had seen before was simply the back door of the potion workshop.

No, rather than saying that this is a potion preparation workshop, it is better to say that this is actually a private residence with a potion preparation room owned by Higgs.

Although it looks spacious and beautifully decorated, it still cannot change the fact that Ms. Higgs's family is empty.

After all, those pure-blood family members who are truly rich, powerful and sophisticated would not just put a dirty potion workshop into their homes!

Yes, even a female member like Ms. Higgs who left her parents' family and ran away to live on her own would never do that.

Because for a "noble pureblood", that is somewhat of a shameful behavior.

"You three, please take a seat!"

Now that he has put aside the honorable choice of gold galleons, Higgs doesn't seem to be so entangled anymore.

Although she still wasn't so shameless to talk to Sirius, she could obviously adjust her mood if she just talked to Lupine.

In this way, without saying a word, Lupine replaced Mundungus, who was supposed to be responsible for this negotiation, and seemed to have a serious discussion with Higgs about some matters related to the potion order.

Sirius on the side was impatient and naturally tilted his head and looked around.

Perhaps because he had shown a distaste for Higgs from the beginning, Higgs simply turned a blind eye to his current rude behavior.

Half an hour later, after Lupine and Higgs made an appointment for the next meeting to test the samples, the three of them were finally able to leave this really not a pleasant place.

Not long after, they performed an Apparition outside the real gate and arrived at a small river not far from Higgs' potion workshop.

"Did you find anything?"

Lu Ping frowned slightly and turned around, looking at the two of them and asked.

Sirius heard this, and after silently reminiscing, he finally shook his head. Mundungus, on the other hand, smiled and waved to let Lupine and Sirius come closer.

"When you passed through the potion preparation room, didn't you pay more attention to her preparation table?"

When Lu Ping heard this, he immediately urged:

"What did you see? Stop being so secretive and tell me now!"

"Hey," Mundungus laughed, "I saw a piece of parchment pressed under a set of test tube racks with something unappetizing written on it - if I look at it, it must be some kind of

Quite powerful black magic!"

Seeing him mentioning parchment, Sirius thought it was just a spread of his hands.

"Where's that piece of paper?"

"No."

Mundungus spread his hands, shrugged and said:

"Is it possible that you really want me to steal it? When Higgs goes back and takes a look, he will know that it was us who took it without guessing!"

"Humph, it's a good thing you could hold it back!" Sirius said contemptuously, "Do you dare to say that your hands weren't itchy at that time?"

This was not a slander to Mundungus. On the contrary, he was particularly proud of it:

"It's itchy! I almost couldn't hold it in anymore!"

"Okay, okay, you two should stop chatting there," Lupine quickly waved his hand and said, "Dunge, write down what you remember quickly, before you forget it all - Sirius,

You should go to Maka for a run later!"

"OK."

Sirius immediately nodded knowingly.

…

While Mundungus was still lying on the big rock by the river, holding the quill handed to him by Lupine and thinking hard, Maka was still studying the long-destroyed magic stone in his own room.

He drew a small rune array diagram for testing directly on the table in the room, and the dark red gemstone was placed in the center of the array.

With the steady input of magic power, the symbols in the array immediately floated around the magic stone, spinning and dancing according to established rules.

However, the Magic Stone did not change at all and was still lying quietly in its original position.

"It has no properties... no, it should be that its properties cannot be detected," Maka secretly analyzed in her heart, "Although the magic stone is often stable in solid form, it can also be converted into a liquid or even a gas under the same environmental conditions.

,So……"

Thinking about it, he quickly shook his head again.

"No, in the final analysis, these information about the Philosopher's Stone are just derived from legends and rumors. Only Nico Flamel knows what the real Philosopher's Stone is like."

Realizing that her thinking direction was wrong, Maka quickly rejected her conjecture and tried to find a breakthrough point from other angles.

"Speaking of which... why not ask Sarah what she thinks?"

Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly sensed two magic sources appearing in the corridor outside the room.

It can be said that these two sources of magic power are very familiar to Maka. One is the windbreaker wizard who has been running around with him recently, and the other one walking next to him...is Sirius?

Just when Maka felt a little strange about this rare pair coming side by side, the two people in the corridor quickly came to his room and knocked on his door.

"Please come in!"

He removed his left hand, which was still pouring magic power into the rune diagram, and temporarily put away the magic stone, then stood up and walked towards the door.

There was no way, it would be fine if the windbreaker wizard came alone, but if Sirius was there, he might not have time to continue his research.

"How did you two meet?" Looking at Sirius, Maka couldn't help but said to the windbreaker wizard, "Aren't you in class with Hermione and the others... Oh, it's the end of get out of class now?"

Since he lived in the auxiliary castle, he could not hear the bells ringing in the main castle. Seeing the windbreaker wizard nod, he said again:

"Well, thank you for bringing Sirius here - but actually you just need to tell him. He is more familiar with this Hogwarts Castle than I am!"

"No, it's not," the windbreaker wizard immediately shook his head and said, "Although we did meet in the foyer, he took the initiative to ask me to lead him."

"Oh, is that so?" Maka smiled and said, "Sirius, this is not good! Although she is a woman, even if you think you are handsome, you should consider her feelings, right?"

"Okay, okay! I'm just chatting up, what's wrong!" Sirius said, but then he turned his head and took a good look at the windbreaker wizard.

"……female?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, he can't speak!" Maka ignored Sirius and said to the windbreaker wizard, "Go back to find Hermione and the others! There will be classes later, so it won't be convenient for you to go in.

Already."

However, although Sirius asked her to lead the way, he had asked questions from time to time along the way. But since she still brought Sirius here, it meant that she actually guessed that Maka might go out.

One trip.

In this case, how could she go back?

"No," the windbreaker wizard said immediately, "After I come back, I will go to them to explain. Just let me stay... I mean, if you think I can stay here?"

"Well," Maka thought for a while and then said calmly, "I don't have any objections. If you want to stay, just stay. Sirius, tell me! You came here to see me suddenly. What happened?

"

On the other side, Sirius was actually still wary of the windbreaker wizard, but since Maka had agreed, he didn't say much.

After all, during the past half month, Maka basically allowed the windbreaker wizard to follow him.

"Take a look at this first!"

As Sirius spoke, he took out a piece of parchment, then reached out and handed it to Maka.

"Today Lupine and I went out with Dunge. We originally planned to find a potion workshop that could supply healing potions for a long time - you know, to provide protection for the intelligence members below. But according to the list

, when he went to an old classmate of Dunge, Lu Ping wanted to find out if there was anything fishy."

"So that's where you found this?"

Maka lowered her head and glanced back and forth a few times, then asked with some confusion.

Sirius immediately shook his head and said:

"No, Dunge didn't bring out the parchment at that time in order to avoid alerting the enemy. He copied this piece of parchment from memory... What, is there anything wrong?"

"Something's wrong..." Maka shook the paper in her hand and said speechlessly, "How should I put it... What Dunge wrote seems like some kind of black magic ritual at first glance, but to be honest, I really don't understand.

I don’t know what the results will be if you follow it. To sum up, I think it’s time for Dunge to practice his memory!”

After saying that, he directly crumpled the parchment in his hand and threw it into the paper basket at the foot of the table.

"Let's go!" He waved his hand and said bluntly, "Anyway, you should be able to understand if you go and take a look... You said that is Dunge's old classmate? Doesn't that mean that the other person was also a Hogwarts student?

student?"

"From Slytherin House," Sirius curled his lips and said, "If I had to describe it, she would be a 'down-and-out older, unmarried pure-blood witch'?"

"Okay, you don't need to say any more," Maka grinned, "I probably know what kind of person he will be."

The two of them walked out as they talked. Upon seeing this, the windbreaker wizard immediately followed behind them. The three of them quickened their pace and walked straight to the foyer of the main castle.

Not long after, when they passed through the vestibule and arrived outside the school gate, they instantly disappeared into the woods beside the road. (To be continued)