harry potter book of crimes

"The change in the mist? Is it related to that Muriel?"

To be honest, Maka didn't have a deep impression of Muriel. If Pansy hadn't failed to rescue her from the Ministry of Magic dungeon, which triggered the second prison break, Maka might not even be able to hear about it now.

I remember her name very quickly.

On the opposite side, Lupine was sitting on the bench where Neville and Hannah were sitting before. He thought for a while and said:

"Yes, at least that's what Haierbo's words meant at that time. Of course, I don't quite understand what exactly happened... What do you think?"

At this moment, the two of them were sitting face to face, and on the ground between them were scattered letters and notes. While the two of them were talking, they were rummaging through them to find useful information.

It has to be said that this is undoubtedly a very laborious task, but neither Lupine nor Maka complained about Mundungus. After all, that guy is really not good at doing this kind of thing.

Not only that, Mundungus was able to send all the intelligence data. This decision may seem stupid, but it is actually quite correct. Because in today's special period, Maka would rather spend more time on her own.

, and I don’t hope there will be any omissions.

After about half an hour, Maka and Lupine both stopped sorting out information. Maka twisted her neck, which was a little sore from lowering her head all the time, and then said thoughtfully:

"It seems that all of Haierbo's apprentices are 'crazy'... Of course, according to what you just said, Martin seems to be an exception."

Since there is one exception, there might be a second one. Maka felt that it was necessary for someone to look for it. Then, Maka continued:

"...Then, similarly, those lunatics should have been summoned by Haierbo for the time being. Although I don't know what purpose he has, but thinking about it, it probably won't be a good thing."

After saying this, Maka paused briefly and frowned slightly.

"As for the changes in the fog that you are most concerned about... Lupin, I just have something related to it that I want to tell you..."

Lupine was also shocked by the demon summoning technique. However, because even Maka didn't know what the process and results of this summoning technique were, so after hearing this, Lu Ping had questions in his heart.

On the contrary, there are more.

But, of course, a coherent question is better than one that has no beginning or end. After all, Luping, who has already understood the general context, will not be confused about where to start investigating.

He nodded with a serious expression and said in a deep voice:

"So, what should be the first priority now is...finding the witch named 'Muriel'?"

"Well, yes," Maka nodded slightly, "but she is obviously very important to Haierbo now, so she must be hidden very deeply by him. It will not be easy to find her."

"Anyway, we can only go look for it hard," Lupine handed the information at hand to Maka, then stood up and said, "Then I'm leaving, and I'll go to Sirius first... If there's nothing unexpected

If so, Kingsley should be with him. Before the manpower assigned by the Federation arrives tonight, we will mainly focus on defending the two evacuation points... We will leave the matter of finding people after the support arrives!"

"Okay," Maka immediately stood up and said goodbye, "That's settled for the time being. During this period, I will also ask my spiders to help search... Be careful when you go there."

…

Just as Lupine and Maka said goodbye, the situation in Diagon Alley temporarily turned dangerous.

The arrival of Aberforth made the defense line of the Leaky Cauldron much more solid and reliable. In addition, the most difficult to deal with Helbo's apprentices were temporarily recalled, and they even had a chance to counterattack.

However, what troubled Kingsley was that Aberforth was somewhat uncooperative.

"Don't allocate manpower to me. I'm used to being alone, but I won't adapt to more people..."

The old man waved his hand and insisted that he did not want a group of Aurors from Kingsley and would rather work alone. According to him, it was because he was not good at commanding and cooperating.

But there are still many dark wizards outside now, and their number is at least double that of theirs. If he fights alone, no matter how good Aberforth is in fighting, he will inevitably be in trouble.

What's more, judging from the previous situation of fighting so many people alone outside, the advantage he gained mainly relied on the unexpected blow at the beginning. But after that, the battle situation gradually turned to a stalemate. If it were just a head-on confrontation,

, I’m afraid the situation may not be that optimistic.

"Aberforth, I believe you must also understand. In this situation, fighting in a group is obviously better than fighting alone. Even if you don't know how to cooperate with others, at least bring some people around, who can at least help

You relieve some of the pressure of dealing with the enemy."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about it later!" Aberforth said casually, "Anyway, we have to wait for those guys from the Federation to come over, otherwise, we won't have much trouble if we just attack here.

significance."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand to pull up a chair and sat down at the door carelessly. Looking at the dark wizards outside the magic barrier, he didn't know what they were thinking about.

When Kingsley saw this, he could only turn his head and shook his head helplessly at Sirius.

"Let's go up and keep an eye on it! The view from the window over there is wider. If there is any abnormal situation, we can detect it as early as possible there."

Tonks watched the two of them go upstairs. This time she did not follow them, but looked back and forth several times at Aberforth who was blocking the doorway with some curiosity.

"What are you looking at?" Aberforth said angrily, "What do I have to see? If you want to look at it, just look outside. By the way, think carefully about how to deal with these bastards who stayed up late at night!"

"Oh, sorry," Tonks leaned against the wall next to her and shrugged, "I was just wondering if there was anything special about the Dumbledore family. Otherwise, why would you and the professor be so powerful?

"

"Hmph, I knew it was my bastard brother again," Aberforth curled his lips, "You guys, don't always compare me with him... Maybe except for that MacLean, no one really can

Compared to that bastard."

When Tonks heard this, she immediately raised her eyebrows and said:

"Actually, I discovered it before when I was at the Pig Head Bar. Although you never get angry when you mention the professor, you still seem to respect him very much?"

"Of course," Aberforth snorted and said without turning his head, "In terms of talent and strength, he has been far ahead of his peers since he was a child; in terms of mind and heart, he has always been outstanding... don't look at me like this

, I feel very 'proud' of my brother in my heart!"

Even though she couldn't see his expression when he spoke, Tonks could hear the strong sarcasm in his tone. Although Tonks had no idea what the conflict was between the two brothers,

But she also knew it was best not to continue this topic any further.

After a short pause, Tonks suddenly turned around and said:

"What about Maka? In fact, not only you, many people also say that Maka is the second Albus Dumbledore... Regarding Professor, I think you must know better than anyone else, and I heard that Maka

I also often go to the Pig Head Bar... Do you think the two of them are very similar?"

However, Aberforth suddenly turned around and glared at her.

"I remember, you are that boy Remus' girlfriend, right?" he said, "No wonder you two can be together, you both have the same idea of ​​finding something to talk to... Kingsley asked you to talk to me.

Right? Go tell him, don’t worry about it. Instead of thinking about how to have a good relationship with me, you should think more about what to do next... Let me see, tonight’s things will not be that simple, the Federation

Support may not make the situation much better."

Before he finished speaking, he tilted his head and motioned to Tonks to do what she should do and stop getting entangled with this old man here.

It was obvious that although Aberforth seemed rough, he could quickly see through other people's thoughts.

Seeing that he ignored her after saying these words, Tonks could only curl up her neck and stick out her tongue, then turned around and planned to go upstairs.

But at this moment, Aberforth, who was sitting at the door, suddenly said:

"By the way, let those two guys come down...your man is here."

"ah?"

When Tonks heard this, she immediately turned around and came over, hurriedly looking out the door. But Aberforth pushed her and said impatiently:

"Ah, what? Go and call someone! From this angle, they can't see you upstairs."

Although Tonks was pushed aside by him, at that moment, she still saw the familiar figure in the alley opposite.

After realizing that Lu Ping was probably fine, she ran to the stairs with some relief and went upstairs.

Not long after, Kingsley and Sirius, who had just gone up, hurried back to the door with Tonks. After looking at Lupin's position, they immediately discussed a specific plan of action to pick him up.

There are still a lot of enemies outside right now, and they are all the kind of guys who are not mentally right. As Maka said before, those should be the believers summoned by Haierbo's apprentices, and almost all of them have been infected by black magic.

An ordinary wizard who takes control.

Unlike Aberforth, who is completely informal, at least Kingsley believes that they need to deal with these people more carefully. If there are too many casualties, the Ministry of Magic may leave a very bad impression on the wizarding public.

Influence.

After all, the people do not think that they can treat human lives lightly in critical moments, and it is not without history that similar situations have aroused public outrage.

Aberforth obviously disagreed with this.

"Can't we just fool around with it then?" (To be continued)