harry potter book of crimes

Yes, remember what I said before?

Even dark wizards usually have their own principles. What needs to be done and what should not be done will be weighed by them on the balance of interests.

It should be said that Pansy actually thought things through quite well, knowing that she should use gold galleons to shut up Old Tim's mouth. And in order for the old man to keep his word, he also specifically mentioned the other half of the hush money afterwards.

However, there was one very important thing that she accidentally ignored.

"Three Auror gentlemen - that! That is the person you want to arrest. Just now when I found the three of them coming this way, they asked me if there was a back door!"

When the three Aurors walked in from the door of the store, Iluli breathed a small sigh of relief. Because she found that she had never seen any of the three people who came. Now, even she had just thought about it for herself.

The excuses may not be used.

But she didn't expect that Old Tim, who had just accepted the hush money, would actually betray her as soon as he turned around.

And just when Pansy was stunned on the spot, and the Auror who had just entered the door looked towards her subconsciously, she heard Old Tim speak again quickly:

"Oh, by the way, there's another -"

"Collapse!"

He couldn't let him talk any more. If he even told Pansy, he would really be wiped out. What's more, that was the first friend he made when he grew up, wasn't it?

"stop!"

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Auror's voice of restraint was inevitably delayed.

However, you can be slow with your mouth, but you cannot be slow with your hands. The three of them are trained and tested formal Aurors, and their body reaction speed is even faster than their thinking.

It was at the moment when Eluri waved the wand that Pansy had given her as a gift and released a burst of red fire that the Auror standing at the front cast a silent disarming spell almost at the same time.

The next moment, Iluli was knocked away by a huge impact, and the wand in her hand was thrown high into the air, landing at the Auror's feet in the blink of an eye.

What followed was a control spell cast by another Auror standing behind.

The combination of daily cooperation training and good judgment ability made Iluli's whole body tied tightly with a magic rope as soon as she hit the wall.

Suddenly, the pain of being slammed into the wall and the worst situation in front of her made Eluli fall to the ground with her back slightly arched and fell into silence.

Obviously, no matter how resourceful she is, it will be difficult for her to make any excuse when she is betrayed on the spot. And if she still wants to make excuses, she might accidentally let the matter slip and let the three

The Aurors guessed Pansy's whereabouts.

But when the Aurors saw that Eluli could no longer move and walked towards her, out of the corner of her eye, Eluli saw the tip of a wand quietly revealed in the other corner.

"No!"

Iluli glanced over there, and then shouted with unusual determination.

And then she added:

"Let me go! You can't do this to me - I'm just an ordinary person and have never done anything. You can't use violence to arrest me! You can't listen to that old man's nonsense!"

The series of words that followed were obviously used to temporarily divert attention. Only the first word "no" was what Iluli really wanted to say.

And the person she wanted to convey to was naturally Pansy in the corner who almost wanted to attack the Auror.

"You haven't done anything?" the leading Auror said seriously, "Since you haven't done anything, why did you cast the coma spell? All I can see with my eyes is your guilty conscience!"

Before he finished speaking, the Auror waved his hand again and said:

"No need to say more, take it away! And that... Tsk, why does it smell so bad? Anyway, take it away together - at least before you get rid of the suspicion, I will trouble you to undergo a period of detention and review."

Just as he was talking, he heard a colleague on the other side suddenly point to Old Tim behind the counter. It can be seen that the stun spell that Iluli cast earlier was so powerful that he is still completely unconscious even now.

Woolen cloth!

"He... let him be sent to St. Mungo's for treatment first! Huh, after all, how many honest people are there in Knockturn Alley? This old man may not be a good bird, and he is probably the same this time.

I only spoke because of the bounty on my head!"

This Auror was obviously very experienced, and he just guessed what Old Tim was actually thinking.

That's right, the reason why this old man decisively chose to report the news was that he didn't even want to take the other half of the hush money promised by Pansy, all for the reward from the Ministry of Magic.

Because he knew that even if he didn't hear the specifics of what happened, as long as the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic was dispatched to conduct a search, a certain reward amount would more or less be set for the person they were searching for.

And compared to the small pile of gold galleons given by Pansy, no matter how small the amount of the bounty is, it will definitely be larger than what Pansy gave.

However, the leading Auror seems to have a very deep understanding of these low-character guys, and he can figure it out just by guessing without even interrogating them.

After a short pause, he continued:

"That's right! Before he wakes up, let's dig out his details and see if there are any previous criminal records. If we can find out something valuable, we can save the reward money for the ministry.

When the time comes, when Chief Shacklebolt is happy, he might be able to share some of the bounty with us as this month’s bonus!”

To be honest - after all, everyone needs to live, so how many people don't like money? In this regard, even the Aurors who work for the Ministry of Magic are no exception.

But just as the three Aurors were chatting and joking casually while arresting Iluli and the surprisingly honest sloppy witch Muriel and preparing to take them away, Pansy, who was hiding in the corner with her invisibility cloak, held her hand tightly.

wand in.

She naturally heard Eluli's reminder just now, but the restlessness in her chest could not be calmed down.

She was obviously just pretending to be close to Iluli, so why did she feel so uncomfortable and uneasy when she saw the other person shouting loudly to protect her?

With an almost uncontrollable mood, Pansy almost wanted to take action several times - if she could seize the opportunity, there might not necessarily be no hope of rescuing Iluli.

After all, they don't need to fight Aurors head-on, they just need to find an opportunity to escape.

But she also understood that her chances of success were not high.

"Yes, taking action at this time is tantamount to throwing yourself into a trap! What's more, if you can escape this disaster first, can't you also find another way to rescue Iluli later? If it doesn't work, go find McClain.

Ask him to help, this is also a very feasible way..."

Pansy never dreamed that she would actually become a true friend with a goblin hybrid. But, of course, having one more friend is not a bad thing.

While she watched the other party being taken away by the Aurors, she kept thinking in her mind and used a series of "post-event plans" as an excuse to barely comfort herself.

Not long after, after the Aurors had removed old Tim and closed the store door, Pansy closed her eyes and disapparated with a crackling sound.

…

This morning, before dawn, Maka got up from the bed after just resting for a few hours, and went to the greenhouse for a walk as usual.

To him, it was both a walk and a way to take care of some of the magical plants he had planted there.

In fact, this habit of his was something that Willie made him keep in the past.

And after he went out for a walk and took a few breaths of fresh morning air, he had to continue to be busy due to the many remaining tasks.

It wasn't until the sun rose in the sky and breakfast time began that he temporarily put down the work at hand and walked towards the auditorium.

"Come to think of it, am I just eating and drinking?"

The life after leaving the company gave Maka some spare time - although most of that time was filled little by little by other things.

But since he is no longer a professor at Hogwarts, he still has three meals a day at school, but no one else has any objections.

After so many years since Hogwarts was founded, he is probably the only one.

The moment she stepped into the auditorium, Maka glanced at the Gryffindor table out of habit. As expected, Hermione and Luna have not been together recently, and the latter is currently in her own college.

Sitting over at the dining table.

After that, Maka looked towards the Slytherin table again.

Soon he saw that Draco had already taken his seat and was eating breakfast alone. Recently, he had another habit of reading newspapers in time. A copy of the "Daily Prophet" was on the

There are some on the side of his dinner plate so that he can learn about the current events in the entire magical world.

However, the figure that had been hanging around him all these years and had never left him has not yet appeared.

"Can you come back today?"

Maka thought for a moment, then didn't bother Hermione and the others, and just shook her head and walked to the staff table.

Even Maka has no way of knowing the specific current situation of Miss Parkinson. However, what he is concerned about is not the details, but the overall general direction.

For example, he now hopes to learn more about Haierbo from the witch who turned into a basilisk. Because in that way, he can have a more accurate control of the entire situation.

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As he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a sound of slightly hasty footsteps coming from the corridor outside the side door of the auditorium, causing him to turn around suddenly.

"Oh, are you back?" (To be continued)