harry potter book of crimes

"It's just a blender. The fragrance of pearl flowers can soothe people's emotions. There are no bad side effects... Well, but sometimes, being too expensive can be considered a 'side effect', right?"

Maka and Hermione sat across from each other at a small round table that was slightly off, watching the bloated Mrs. Puddieffe, her body swaying with fat, struggling to squeeze in between the two tables next to her.

"Oh, this gentleman must be very good at potions... Yes, this is my personally customized pearl flower essence incense. Although it is indeed very expensive, it is of great benefit to our body."

Although this lady's figure is not very good, and even her walking posture is quite inelegant, her speaking and temperament cannot be concealed by her fat body.

Of course, with all the jewels and jewels on her body, Maca still somewhat disagrees with her in terms of taste.

After Mrs. Padif followed Maka's words and explained something like this, she asked softly:

"Excuse me, you two, what do you want?"

"Let's have a pot of black tea! We want some refreshments - you can choose for us if you are specific! I think the lady who came with me is not a picky person..." Maka smiled and said, "Oh

, that’s right! Just don’t pick anything too sweet.”

"In this case, two strawberry cream crepes are definitely indispensable - when I went to a food exchange meeting last time, a French wizard recommended this local Muggle dessert to me. I thought it tasted delicious.

Got it!"

As Mrs. Puddifu walked into the teahouse while talking, Maka couldn't help but nodded.

"It seems that if it's just dessert, we can still look forward to it!"

When it comes to food, wizards are no worse than Muggles.

Generally speaking, the life of wizards is quite good. With basically no worries about food and clothing, they enjoy food more abundantly than Muggles. So in modern times, there have been many wizards like Helga Hercules.

A wizard who specializes in cooking magic like Chipachi.

Under the guidance of this topic, Maka simply chatted with Hermione about some things about Muggle Studies. After all, both of them were pure Muggles, so they had a good time chatting in this regard.

It wasn't until Mrs. Puddieff held up her magic wand and placed black tea and desserts in front of the two of them one by one that they temporarily suspended some strange discussions on "how to use magic to make French mille-feuille more conveniently."

"We can ask Mrs. Weasley later. I believe she can give us a lot of good ideas in terms of cooking!"

Maka moved her fingers and let the teapot automatically fill their teacups with steaming tea, and then she looked around the teahouse with interest.

It can be seen that, as mentioned before, almost all scenes here are of a man and a woman.

Since most of the people here today are Hogwarts students, these young lovers are relatively thin-skinned and usually sit facing each other.

It was just the inner excitement of the young people that caused pairs of hands, big and small, to be clasped on the table and under the table. Some people even crossed the sugar bowl in the middle of the round table and put their two red faces together.

Together.

Hermione opposite just glanced around twice at first, and then didn't dare to look around anymore.

"...Maka?"

Hearing her suddenly calling him, Maka looked away again and looked towards her with a smile.

But because the lights in the teahouse also had a hazy pink color, and Hermione was wearing blush on her face today, even Maka couldn't tell which part of her face was the actual blush.

"What's wrong?"

"I want to talk... about Haierbo."

"Now?"

Macca shook his head in slight surprise.

"Isn't it a little inappropriate to talk about this today? I think it's better for us to talk about something lighter! For example... what brand of glue do you think Padma and Anthony use?"

"Glue?" Hermione was stunned when she heard this, "What glue?"

"Here," Maka pointed to the two figures in the other corner of the teahouse and said with a chuckle, "They are over there! From the time I noticed them just now until now, their lips have been stuck together.

——I bet they put glue on their lips."

The Anthony he was talking about was actually the dark-haired boy who was a little introverted at the time and only pretended to look out the window to look at the scenery.

As for Padma, who is sitting opposite Anthony, she is the younger sister of the Indian girls Patil sisters - Hermione is very familiar with her sister.

Both of them are members of R.A., but since they don't usually show off much, their presence is not very strong.

"ah!"

After Maka pointed it out, Hermione saw the two people hiding on the table in the corner, kissing secretly.

Immediately, she hurriedly turned around and glared at Maka angrily. But when she looked at Maka's face, her eyes inevitably glanced at Maka's lips.

After pausing for a few seconds while staring blankly at those two lips, she pursed her lips tightly and turned away.

"Don't change the subject!"

Hermione hurriedly drank a sip of black tea to moisten her dry throat. Hermione turned sideways and looked in the direction of the window, and said vaguely:

"There are some things that cannot be avoided. Both Luna and I understand. We know that as long as the hidden dangers of Haierbo have not been resolved, we will not be able to truly settle down and deal with the matters between us."

"So, I know you want to use this method to prevent me from touching those terrible things, but... temporarily forgetting can't make me stop worrying forever. I'm not Luna, and I can't adapt to my emotions.

Think about the problem from your perspective. Therefore, even if I understand that the best way to reassure you is not to get involved in danger, I cannot turn a blind eye to such a serious problem."

In the past, although Hermione and Luna had different ideas, they still made roughly the same choice due to limitations in strength.

But now, Hermione has some power to help Maka, which makes her want to be a help to Maka even more.

Of course, it's not that Maka doesn't want everyone's help at all, it's just that the enemies standing in front of him are really not the ones that ordinary wizards can fight against.

Therefore, Hermione's idea was indeed correct. What was wrong was that the enemy was too powerful.

"Well..." Maka nodded and said, "I know, I know what you mean. In fact, there are some things I plan to tell you after today. After all, this is a rare 'date'

Well!"

He shrugged slightly and then continued:

"However, since you are so anxious, I will tell you first!"

Having said this, he suddenly reached for his waist and took out a roll of parchment, reaching out in front of Hermione.

"I do intend to ask you to help with something," he said. "You know, soon something will fall from the sky, and then I will be responsible for smashing it-that requires

I have to make a lot of complicated preparations, for which I have been busy almost all the nights these days."

As he spoke, he pointed to the scroll that Hermione took and said:

"As for this... this is a huge formation. Its function is to open a large magic barrier around the entire Hogwarts. Do you remember? There was one when we were dealing with Voldemort and Grindelwald.

, the difference between it and that one is just 'turned over'."

Hermione listened and soon suddenly said:

"I remember that the original barrier was to 'cover' Voldemort and the others...so the effect of this is to defend against external attacks?"

"That's right," Maka said, "a very common magic barrier - it has basically the same effect as a protective spell, but this one is more physical."

"...That is to prevent the broken stones from the meteorite from destroying the castle."

Hermione opened the parchment and looked at it, and found that the array diagram was not complicated.

Although most of it was still Phoenician runes that she couldn't understand, Maka had already designed a complete formation for her, and all she had to do was lead the R.A. members to copy the formation.

"I have already carved the key runes on the stone slab. I will get them for you later. I believe you will be fine with the rest." Maka pointed to her head and said, "Remember what I mentioned in the magic text class?

? Pay attention to the 'imagine' - you and Luna try it together, I think the effect will be very good. "

"Um."

From the past to the present, Maka rarely takes the initiative to entrust things to them, and almost always does everything by himself.

Now, Maka was finally willing to entrust them with such an important matter, which made Hermione feel a sore nose.

It's obviously just a magic text formation diagram, and it doesn't even seem to have much to do with Haierbo. Why is she so excited?

Obviously, this is her long-term hard work, and she has finally received the most direct recognition from Maka!

"I will make it the best it can be!" Hermione held the parchment roll and said firmly, "I will let this magic text array designed by you and produced by all of us to keep Hogwarts intact.

Protected without damage!"

"Then I can rest assured and wait for the inspection," Maka spread her hands and thought for a while before adding, "Oh, remember to tell Professor McGonagall when you go back - she doesn't know yet that I plan to hand over this matter.

Let’s do it for you!”

When Hermione heard this, she immediately stared and said:

"Then... doesn't that mean that I still have to be responsible for convincing Professor McGonagall?"

"I believe you can do it!"

Maka smiled brightly and said that he just let this matter go, just like an irresponsible Muggle foreman.

While watching Hermione's face full of confusion as she began to think about what to say to McGonagall, Macavus glanced at the previous corner, and then whispered:

"Look, look, look! Anthony and Padma's 'glue' has finally run out..." (To be continued)