harry potter book of crimes

Outside the window, there is nothing.

The strange "hissing" sound seemed to come from the water pipe next to the window. And this water pipe leads from the eaves to the manhole cover in the alley downstairs, and its function is naturally to pour rainwater on rainy days.

Of course, little Kevin didn't understand this - he was even too short to stick his head out of the window, let alone see the pipes attached to the exterior wall.

After pondering for a long time, he finally gave up looking for the source of the sound, yawned and got into bed to sleep.

So, there was no talking all night.

Until the next morning, when the window slowly changed from dark to bright again. Little Kevin's mother, who had been busy all morning, finally pushed the door in and pushed him to wake him up.

Yesterday was Sunday, and today would be Monday again - she had to squeeze in time to send her child to a preparatory school.

There is no way, after all, I am a mother, and I always hope that my child can sleep a little longer. But it is obvious that school cannot be delayed. In two years, this child will go to a private middle school like little Demi next door.

After helping her son wash up in a hurry, and then having a peaceful breakfast, she picked up the schoolbag she had prepared and took her child to the independent preparatory school not far away.

"Hey, Kevin! Come on over here!"

Just as he walked across the street from the school, little Kevin heard a familiar voice calling his name across the street.

When he was about to cross the street with his mother, he took a closer look and found that it was indeed his best friend at school, Candice. She was also waiting for him at the school gate today!

"Mom, I'm going over first!"

"Wait a minute, cross the street and keep a closer look... Oh, really, what should I do if something happens to me?"

Little Kevin's mother didn't catch her, but she saw her child snatching the schoolbag from her hand and quickly crossing the street, straight to the little girl standing next to the school gate.

"Tsk," he heard his mother slap her tongue, "This boy is just like his father back then. When he sees a girl, he runs away like a pug and can't even pull her back!"

But after muttering something like this, she suddenly couldn't help laughing. After watching her son and the girl walk into the school gate together, she turned around and left with relief.

However, almost as she turned the corner at the other end, the little girl in the school vestibule reached out and grabbed little Kevin's clothes.

"Wait a minute!"

The girl named Candice turned around again and checked carefully, then she came to the side of Kevin who looked confused and whispered:

"Follow me quickly!"

After that, she didn't give little Kevin any time to think. She grabbed his clothes and ran towards the playground on the right side of the school courtyard.

"Hey! How-"

"Easy!"

Kevin wanted to ask another question, but Candice immediately lowered her voice and interrupted him.

"Don't let the teacher at the school gate hear it... Of course, don't let her see it! Quietly, just come with me..."

Candice ran as she spoke, taking Kevin all the way across the playground and into the woods at the edge of the playground. Although her little hands could no longer grasp Kevin's clothes on the way,

, but the latter still followed her subconsciously and continued running until they reached the innermost wall of the woods.

It was only then that the two children finally stopped running and held on to the tree trunk to catch their breath for a while.

After he was able to speak, little Kevin said intermittently:

"Candace, you...what did you bring me here for? The teacher will be entering the classroom in a while. Do you want us to be late?"

But soon, he saw a proud smile on the face of his good friend across from him.

"Late?" Candice straightened up and said with her hands on her hips, "No! To be precise, it's 'truant'!"

"What--"

When little Kevin heard this, his mouth opened wide, and then he shook his head hurriedly.

"No, no, no, why do you suddenly want to skip school... I can't accompany you. If my mother finds out, she will hang me on the street lamp outside my house!"

"Oh, what a terrible mother!" Candice curled her lips disapprovingly, and then said with dignity, "Let me tell you, one of my brothers told me that everyone will skip school in middle school - because of this

The students are the coolest, understand?”

"What does that have to do with me?" Little Kevin stood up straight and gestured above his head, then said gloomily, "I am the shortest in the class, and going to middle school certainly has nothing to do with the word 'cool'!

You see, this is not a problem that can be solved by just skipping school."

"Kevin!"

Seeing that her good friend refused to skip school, Candice bit her lip and seemed a little angry.

"Didn't you promise me? You'll do whatever I want with you. Why are you regretting it now? Okay, forget it if you don't go. It's up to me whether I'll pay attention to you in the future!"

After saying this, Candice turned around and walked forward along the wall. She really didn't want to pay attention to Kevin anymore.

When the little Kevin behind him saw this, he immediately became tangled in place with a face full of embarrassment. He looked at Candice who was gradually walking away, and then looked back at the school on the other side of the forest, filled with hesitation in his heart.

But he also knows that Candice is a very boyish girl, and her personality is even more direct than most boys. If she says that if she ignores him in the future, she will definitely never be friends with him again.

After weighing several times between the reprimands from his friends and his mother, little Kevin finally gritted his teeth and chased after Candice's back.

"I don't care!"

…

After a while, under a damaged wall behind the school, two small figures emerged from the small wall hole one after another.

"Look! You can go outside from here!"

As soon as Kevin came out, before he could get up, he looked up and saw Candice crossing her hips again with a proud look on her face.

He nodded helplessly, and after carefully looking around a few times, he said with a grimace:

"Well, you're awesome... Candice, look, I've already accompanied you out of school. It's time for you to forgive me, right?"

"snort?"

When Candice heard this, she looked him up and down, and after a while she managed to say:

"Okay! Since you didn't run back, we are still good friends."

However, children are always very forgetful when they are passionate about something. No, as soon as she finished speaking, Candice waved her hand and a bright smile appeared on her face again.

"Don't stop, this is just the beginning! Keep following me!"

After saying that, she immediately grabbed Kevin's clothes and dragged her towards the opposite side - there was a river behind the school. It seemed that she wanted to go to the river with Kevin to play.

And just as little Kevin pursed his lips and followed Candice to another forest on the opposite side of the path, he heard Candice in front of him say enthusiastically:

"Kevin, do you know? Yesterday, my father took me to visit an uncle near the school. While my father and uncle were talking about things, I came here to take a look...guess what I found?"

"What?" Kevin asked confused.

"Guess!" Candice deliberately used force and made him stagger. "It would be boring if I told him directly... It's easy to guess. Do you remember last week that you said you wanted a girl?

What?"

"Last week?" Kevin tilted his head and thought about it as he walked. He walked a few more steps, and suddenly his eyes lit up. "Could it be that... you found the tree house here?"

I still remember last week, a classmate talked about his older brother during recess, saying that his brother built a tree house in his backyard.

Being able to have a secret base like that is obviously a very "cool" thing for every kid - at least it's much cooler than skipping school or something like that!

At that time, little Kevin said that he also wanted to have a treehouse of his own, and he also said that he would like to invite Candice to be his first guest in the treehouse.

It's a pity that he can only think about it that way. After all, there are no such thick trees near his home - besides, he doesn't know how to build a tree house?

However, just when little Kevin looked expectantly at the long brown hair on the back of Candice's head, he saw the other person following closely and shook his head.

"Not a tree house."

His full expectations were suddenly dashed, and Kevin immediately became listless—it was indeed wrong to skip school, so he might as well find a way to persuade Candice to go back later!

But just when he was thinking about what reason he should use to explain his lateness to the teacher, he heard Candice turn around and say:

"But... although it's not a tree house, it's a more interesting place than a tree house, and it can also be regarded as a secret base belonging only to the two of us!"

As Candice was talking, she suddenly saw a bright light in front of her eyes - the two of them finally walked out of the woods beside the road!

And the moment they came outside the woods, the wide river at the bottom of a downward-sloping slope suddenly came into view.

"There it is! See it?"

After Candice looked at the calm river for a while, she pointed to a location under the slope near the river. Little Kevin on the side heard the sound and couldn't help but follow her finger and look over.

"Oh! What is that? It looks dirty-"

It was not difficult to find what Candice was pointing to. Soon he saw a sewer outlet with a large diameter. It was just that the outlet seemed to have not discharged sewage for a long time. Although it looked dirty, it was not dirty.

There are no traces of water.

Not long after, the two children walked slowly down the slope and came to the side of the drainage outlet.

"I went in and took a look yesterday, and inside -"

"Shh!" Little Kevin suddenly covered her mouth, tilted his head and said, "I seem to hear something...ah! It's that voice again!" (To be continued)