harry potter book of crimes

"...After we get out, I will be responsible for leading those guys away, and then you can go pick up that boy Remus. Okay, don't think about it, it's settled!"

In the Leaky Cauldron, Aberforth had already put one hand on the door frame, pretending to be ready to take action at any time.

Kingsley saw this and could only nod his head.

However, before asking the Aurors to remove the magic barrier, he thought again, and finally turned to Sirius and said:

"You and Aberforth go together! Your Animagus form is agile and more suitable for this kind of work. Be careful, take them in a small circle and come back. I will get Lupin as soon as possible.

Brought here."

"Well, no problem," Sirius agreed readily, and even said casually, "Would you like me to go out and explore the surroundings later?"

"No, no need!" Kingsley said quickly, "Maka previously recommended me a person who is very suitable for investigation work. Before coming here, I asked her to monitor the nearby area centered around the Leaky Cauldron Bar.

To be honest, her Animagus form is much more hidden than most people!"

"oh?"

While Sirius asked the Aurors and Strikers to start lining up to prepare, he asked with some curiosity:

"What is it?"

"It's a beetle!" Kingsley shrugged, then turned his head and greeted, "After Aberforth and Sirius go to lure most of the dark wizards away, you can rush out with me and remember to stay in line at all times.

Xing, don't be too eager to fight. The rest of us will stay here and wait for our return!"

Having said this, he gestured to the team members supporting the magic barrier, and then continued:

"Wait until I count three and you will be released."

"Wait a minute!"

Before Kingsley could finish speaking, Aberforth suddenly reached out and held him down.

"Look outside, there are new changes!"

When Kingsley heard this, he immediately turned around and looked out the door of the bar.

It can be seen that there are still many dark wizards with cloudy eyes wandering outside, and because the blue flames of the fire bottles at the door have long been extinguished, there are even many who are crowding outside the magic barrier and attacking here.

But when Kingsley looked over the shoulders of these people and looked outside, he discovered that a small number of the wandering dark wizards had begun to retreat in the same direction for no reason.

It seems that the number of dark wizards who retreated for no reason should be around thirty or forty. Of course, this does not include the part that Kingsley did not see at first.

What's more important is that these people's withdrawal seems to have a purpose.

"The leader just left went that way, and now a group of people are also going that way... Do you think there is any connection between the two evacuations?"

"Maybe?" Sirius said, "But wouldn't this just make it easier for us to pick up Remus!"

…

Just as Kingsley and the others were preparing to go out to meet Lupine, a small insect was crawling slowly on a street lamp not far outside.

And if you take a closer look... yes, that is obviously a beetle.

As Kingsley said before, this beetle was an investigator recommended by Maca, and her original identity was a columnist for the Daily Prophet.

Needless to say, this is undoubtedly the female reporter Rita Skeeter who likes to collect events from everywhere and then make them up with her shorthand quill.

To be honest, she has never been very likable, especially by the people she interviewed and wrote articles about.

However, apart from her annoying tendency to do whatever it takes for the sake of gimmicks, I have to say that her Animagus form is quite practical. In addition, she has always been cautious in her actions. As long as she is coerced and lured, she can make her

It's really good to be responsible for being an investigator.

But speaking of it, Ms. Skeeter, who has turned into a beetle, is actually quite happy now.

Because from the day she worked for Kingsley, the other party had already acquiesced in her identity as an illegal Animagus. From now on, as long as she doesn't go too far, she will be exposed accidentally one day.

Since I am an unregistered Animagus, I don’t have to worry about being prosecuted and punished.

Not to mention, this time she was performing an investigative mission as a war correspondent for the Ministry of Magic. She was the only reporter in the world who could make detailed reports on this London disaster.

As a reporter and writer, what could be more wonderful than getting an exclusive report?

However, every inch of the air in this mist was filled with the smell of danger. If she hadn't had such a small and hidden Animagus form, she felt that she would probably refuse this job.

"Oh, actually I feel quite relaxed so far."

After lying on the old street lamp for a while, staring at the dark wizards below carefully, she fluttered her wings and took off again, flying to the other end of the street with an extremely small buzzing sound.

She wanted to follow the guys who turned around and evacuated almost at the same time to take a look, because her keen sense of smell as a reporter had told her that if she followed them, she would definitely see some latest discoveries that no one knew about.

She flew forward and stopped, and none of the dark wizards who were advancing below noticed her presence. Even if sometimes she accidentally flew a little lower, these guys didn't react in any way.

Needless to say, this immediately made her feel more at ease.

However, because the surroundings were filled with fog, it was easy for people to blur the passage of time. I don’t know how long it took, but Skeeter was a little tired from flying, and then he noticed that he suddenly walked out of the intersection in front of him.

A figure appeared, walking towards him with a slightly stiff step.

As she got closer, she suddenly saw that the man was no different from an ordinary wizard. But his eyes were the only one with a strange color as dark as ink.

Just looking at it like this, those two eye sockets seemed to have no eyeballs, and they looked quite human.

When Skeeter saw it, he couldn't help but trembled in his heart. He quickly moved a little farther away and quietly landed on the leaves of a tree on the roadside.

"This is enough. You can hear and see what they say and do...this is enough."

Skeeter whispered to herself in her heart. It was obvious that she was starting to feel a little worried.

But fortunately, the evil-looking male wizard didn't seem to notice the existence of her little beetle. He hadn't even glanced at her from the first time they met until now.

At this point, she couldn't help but let out a small sigh of relief.

Then, she saw the other party suddenly stop in the middle of the street, looking expressionlessly at the dozens of people gathered.

"Sin..." His harsh words suddenly echoed faintly on the street, "Trying to take one's life... is a sin. Contribute your sins."

Before he finished speaking, he didn't even move, and he saw that the faces of all the congregants with dull eyes and dull expressions suddenly turned ferocious.

These people seemed to feel some kind of severe pain. They all scratched their chests and necks with all their strength, and they did not stop even though they scratched their necks with scarlet blood marks.

But at the same time, looking at their originally gray and black chaotic eyes, they suddenly became clear. However, the appearance of the bloodshot eyes was really not back to normal.

Immediately afterwards, several of them suddenly seemed as if they could no longer hold on any longer, and their will suddenly collapsed and they fell to the street with a plop. One by one, they all lost their voice, their eyes widened with anger, and their pupils were faintly dilated.

trend.

And for every one there were two, and gradually, these dozens of people almost fell to the ground one by one, and soon they all fell to the ground without any escape.

It was at this moment that the wizard who was watching all this happened took a deep breath. Looking at him, it was as if he was trying to suck something into his body that ordinary people couldn't see.

Same.

After a few seconds, he calmly stopped breathing, walked around the area where people were lying on the ground as if nothing happened, and continued walking forward without saying a word.

Skeeter on the tree looked at the "corpse" in front of him, and suddenly began to regret what happened just now, wasn't it too evil?

Suddenly, she felt like an ordinary Muggle watching a wizard perform magic. It was obvious that the other person did nothing, but things happened out of thin air!

"No, I can't go on any longer, I want to go back! No, it's not going back... I'm leaving London, leaving this terrible place!"

Just when she thought of this, Skeeter, who was lying on the leaves, suddenly turned her head, and was shocked to find that the strange wizard she thought had left was actually under the tree with his neck raised, using his black pair of eyes expressionlessly.

The shining eyes looked directly at himself.

"ah!"

Skeeter burst out with a scream mixed with fear and panic in her heart. She opened her wings and was about to fly upward. But at the same time, she heard the man under the tree say coldly:

"Greed, distortion, jealousy... major sins... contribute your sins."

This time, Skeeter finally found that he could at least understand what the other person was doing. He saw a thick black substance suddenly emerge from the man's body. As he raised his hand and waved, the unknown black substance suddenly separated.

One drop came, hitting the beetle that had just flown into the air with great accuracy and speed.

Just for a moment, the drop of mysterious material returned to him and merged into it. But the beetle Skeeter turned into fell to the ground silently, still maintaining the movement of spreading its wings and making no movement anymore.

.

The man took another deep breath, then turned around and left silently.

And at some point, the "believers" who were lying on the ground have now climbed up from the ground and followed him silently away.