harry potter book of crimes

Just as Lupine, who had transformed into a werewolf, was charging toward Maka again fiercely, Maka stepped back and pointed the tip of her wand firmly at the ground between Lupine and him.

"Shattered to pieces!" "Bang!"

With an explosion, large pieces of mud and rocks mixed with turf flew up, and Lupine, who was rushing towards him, was completely enveloped in it.

Although the noise is quite loud, it obviously will not cause any harm to the werewolf, and this kind of behavior seems a bit unnecessary.

But at the next moment, Maka pointed the wand in Lupine's direction again - more precisely, he aimed at a large ball of mud that hit Lupine's arm!

What is he going to do?

If someone were watching at this moment, they would definitely have such doubts. But unfortunately, there was no audience present, so no one could see the magic application skills he was going to show next.

The lump of mud deformed in mid-air and quickly wrapped around Lu Ping's left arm, turning into an iron ring shining with metallic luster.

"Floating into the sky!"

This was the last spell. Maka controlled the iron hoop to directly lift Lupine's feet off the ground. Then, he suddenly flicked the wand, and the iron hoop dragged Lupine forward and fell on Maka's feet.

side.

Maka, who had been waiting there for a long time, raised the syringe tightly held in her left hand, stabbed it smoothly on the side of Lupine's neck, and pushed the medicine into his body.

This is a beautiful combination of spells. Each spell is closely connected to the next, quickly and accurately, and cleverly avoids the weakening effect of the spell directly applied to the werewolf.

No matter the type or power of the spells used, they are not beyond the scope of what ordinary students can learn. Theoretically, any senior student in Hogwarts can do it.

Lupine, who had been injected with the medicine, was still struggling, trying to get up from the ground. After a while, he finally fell asleep.

I have to say that the various resistances of the werewolf are really terrifying.

Seeing that Lupine had calmed down, he had time to take a look at the castle, and then used the floating spell to drag Lupine all the way to Hagrid's hut.

Soon, he found Blake who had returned to human form under the Whomping Willow, but he found no sign of Scabbers here.

"Where's Peter?" Maka asked Blake, who was sitting next to the secret passage.

In fact, he had roughly guessed it without asking.

"...He ran away again!" Blake's eyes flashed with anger, and his dirty face was terrifyingly hideous.

Maka glanced into the secret passage that had been opened, but it was too dark to see anything inside. No need to ask, Blake must have already searched the Shrieking Shack, but obviously he couldn't find it.

He turned his head again and glanced at Lu Ping, who was still sleeping, and his brows furrowed tightly.

Although Maka didn't know when Peter Pettigrew escaped, it definitely wasn't now.

To be honest, he didn't care too much about this matter, because he had already made up his mind to face Voldemort on his own strength - that guy would definitely come back, and the outcome would probably be the same with or without Peter Pettigrew.

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But now things still deviate from his expectations, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.

"Although we have prepared a backup plan, the inexplicable advance of Peter's escape time has added an unknown factor to the original plan..." Maka kept thinking in her mind, and after a while she shook her head again,

"Forget it, let's figure out what happened to Lu Ping first!"

"I'm afraid this has something to do with Peter Pettigrew's escape..." he couldn't help but think.

Wolfsbane potion needs to be taken in advance. If you drink it now, it will definitely not work, so you can only wait patiently.

As for the period of weakness after returning to human form, it doesn't really matter.

At Maka's urging, Black took Lupine and him to the Shrieking Shack to avoid being discovered by people who came out to search.

It wasn't until the sky became brighter that Lu Ping gradually recovered his body.

"Professor Luping?" "Luping."

Maka and Black shouted to Lupine who had just opened his eyes.

"Um...why..." Lu Ping had just finished speaking, and he understood it himself, "I transformed again? And... didn't the Wolfsbane potion work?"

He raised his head hurriedly, and was about to ask something, but he immediately saw Blake.

"Sirius?"

Blake nodded silently as a greeting.

Lupine looked at him intently, with some suppressed emotion in his tone: "Why did you come out, Sirius?"

There was no expression on Blake's face. He sat motionless. After a few seconds, he said solemnly: "I have something I have to do..."

Maka on the side couldn't help but shook her head and said: "Professor Lupin, he is out to capture Peter Pettigrew."

"What?" Lupine suddenly turned to Maka.

"Do you know Ron's pet rat?" Maka asked, "The one called 'Scabbers'."

There was a hint of surprise on Lu Ping's face, but that was all. It could be seen that he had actually already had some kind of guess in his mind.

"That is to say - but -" Lupine turned back and looked at Black intently, as if reading his mind, "Why didn't he reveal the truth before?"

"Unless—" Lupine's eyes suddenly widened, as if he was looking at something other than Black, and the focus of his eyes wandered to the air in front of him.

"Unless he is the one...unless you just...changed it without telling me?"

Black raised his head and stared at Lupine's face, then nodded slowly.

Regardless of his physical weakness, Lupine struggled to get up and walked to Black, grabbed his hand and pulled him up, and then they hugged each other like two brothers.

"Friendship between men?" Maka touched her chin, showing a thoughtful look.

The two patted each other on the back and then sat down separately. It seemed that they needed to have a good chat - especially about Peter Pettigrew.

"Professor Lupin," Maka spoke first, "I think, before that, I need to understand the problem of the Wolfsbane potion... Do you still have the bottle on you?"

"It's in my office, but it's not lost yet. Let's go take a look together later." Lu Ping said, "In fact, I also really want to know what went wrong... I hope I didn't hurt anyone."

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Maka shrugged and said, "Probably not. You jumped out of the window as soon as the transformation howl ended, and then you ran towards me. You had no chance to hurt anyone else."

"Oh -" Lupine asked nervously, "Are you okay?"

"Of course, I injected you with some medicine that can make you sleepy. There is no problem." Maka said, spreading her hands to show that it was nothing.

Lupine had long been accustomed to Maka's strange behaviors. After he confirmed that Maka was not injured, he couldn't help but knock on the iron ring still hanging on his arm.

"So, what did you do to me?" he couldn't help but ask.

"You know, the werewolf's skin has a strong anti-magic effect, so... I can only rely on other things to knock you down." Maka explained, "Otherwise, it would be really difficult to get close to a standing werewolf.

It’s a very difficult thing.”

"...I really want to score some points for you." Lu Ping said with a grimace.

"That's not necessary," Maka said, then stood up, "Professor Lupin, and Uncle Black, you guys are here to catch up on old times, and I'll go back to have breakfast first."

The two of them looked at Maka's leaving figure and couldn't help but glance at each other, with a trace of confusion in their eyes.

…

The Easter holidays aren't exactly relaxing.

There had never been so much homework for third graders, and Neville seemed to be having a nervous breakdown, and he wasn't the only one.

"It's called a holiday!" shouted Seamus Finnigan in the common room one afternoon. "Exams are still far away. What are they doing?"

But no one is as busy as Hermione.

Even though she no longer takes divination classes due to some reasons, she still takes more classes than anyone else.

She was usually the last to leave the common room in the evening, and the first to arrive at the library the next morning. She already had shadows under her eyes like Lupin's, and the endless busyness seemed to make her

She was a little nervous and felt like she would shed tears at any time.

Ron has taken over the Buckbeak case.

When he wasn't doing his homework, he was concentrating on reading thick volumes with titles such as: "Hippogriff Psychological Manual", "Fowl or Monster?", "Hippogriff Savage"

Sex Research" and so on.

He had been so immersed in it recently that he even forgot to be cruel to Crookshanks.

At the same time, Harry had to squeeze in time to do his homework after Quidditch practice every day, not to mention endless discussions on tactics with Wood.

By the way, the match between Gryffindor and Slytherin will be held on the first Saturday after Easter.

As for Maka, after he detected the sugar in the Wolfsbane potion bottle, he already knew in his mind - it must have been secretly done by Peter Pettigrew.

Although we don’t know when he did it or how he did it, the suspicion is almost clear at a glance.

Now, he has probably gone to show his loyalty to his old master - or simply sought refuge, who knows?

It was useless to think any more, Maka decided to settle Buckbeak's matter first. Although he missed a whole day due to the accident, this matter was not that urgent after all.