harry potter book of crimes

Before going to Parkinson's house, Nott had no idea that the real acquirer was Namaka McLean. To be honest, if he had known the true situation earlier, he would never consider crossing Vanessa again.

This middleman.

However, just when Nott left the Parkinson's house in a hurry, intending to give up some greedy ideas and go home directly to complete the deal with Vanessa, he bumped into the person he least wanted to see in his own home.

"...I didn't expect that this time turner turned out to be what you wanted, Mr. McClain."

As for Maka's ability, Nott knew much better than Mrs. Parkinson. So when he saw Maka, his first reaction was not to turn around and run away, but to try his best to fool him.

If you run, you will definitely not be able to escape.

"Oh! Yes...time turner..."

Just as he was talking, Nott suddenly took the initiative to walk towards Maka while flipping through his pockets. Seeing this, Maka also had some expectations.

I have gone through a lot of trouble today for this time turner. It would be great if I could get it.

But at this moment, a rather familiar fluctuation of magic power made Maka slightly stunned.

"Mr. McClain, it's right here, take it." Nott took out the time turner he got from Walton from his pocket and handed it to Maka happily, "Of course.

It doesn’t cost a single galleon, it’s free!”

However, Nott soon saw Macca's gradually frowning, which made him tremble in fear.

"Mr. Maclean?" He couldn't help but asked cautiously, "What's wrong?"

At this moment, opposite him, Maka held the time converter in her palm with one hand, but shook her head slightly and said:

"Is this stolen from the Ministry of Magic?"

"Uh, no"

When he heard Maka's question, the first thought that flashed through Nott's mind was to deny it. But when he thought that denying might be meaningless, he immediately stopped talking.

Then, I heard him say honestly:

"Okay... yes, I got it from the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries... Oh, but I didn't get it, it was"

"who is it?"

Seeing him stop mid-sentence, Maka asked casually.

It can be seen that Nott seems to be a little hesitant. Walton is a rare friend in his life, and he is the kind who has been playing with him since childhood. No matter who is betraying a friend, he will definitely be hesitant.

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But...it's obvious that the deep friendship with Walton in the past was completely erased by a forgetting spell cast by him long before he was imprisoned in Azkaban.

Although he was very familiar with the other party before, to Nott now, Walton McNeil is just a slightly familiar stranger.

"Well..." After a brief pause, he immediately said, "It's Walton MacNeil, a staff member of the Department for the Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic. He used to be a Death Eater."

"McNeil" Maka thought for a moment and quickly said, "Oh, is he the executioner from the Dangerous Animals Committee?"

To be honest, Maka's reaction when she heard this sentence was obviously very different from Nott's imagination.

Nott thought that Maka would at least frown and be slightly surprised when she heard "Death Eater". But in fact, he found that Maka seemed to have known that there was such a Death Eater lurking in magic.

As if he was a minister, he didn't even show the slightest bit of surprise.

In fact, Maka did know the identity of "Walton McNeil" as a Death Eater. Not only that, he even had a few words with that guy in the early years!

"Mr. MacLean, do you... know Walton?"

"Um?"

Maka was still staring at the time turner in her hand, and said rather casually:

"Yes... there was a hippogriff that needed to be executed in the past, and he was the executioner at that time."

After saying that, he suddenly put the time turner into Nott's hand again, smacked his lips, and then said impatiently:

"Take it back! It's fake."

"What!"

Nott only felt his hands sink slightly, and then he heard Maka's words. Immediately, he froze on the spot as if he was dumbfounded, and it took him a few seconds to react.

"How... is this possible? At that time, I clearly..."

"I obviously saw Walton take it with my own eyes in the Time Hall." He added secretly in his heart.

Nott obviously did not dare to say this. After all, in the Department of Mysteries, they had ambushed Maka under the leadership of Voldemort.

But just because these "little ones" were inconspicuous at that time, to this day, Maka seems to have lost track of who they are. If he dares to say it now, wouldn't he be asking for death?

However, this does not prevent him from having a lot of confusion about the current situation. Is this fake? How is this possible? How can there be a fake time turner in the Ministry of Magic?

unless……

"...that guy Walton, did he lie to me?"

"I'm afraid that's not the case." Maka shook her head and said, "In fact, I personally made this time turner using the transformation technique. I made five of them in total, and used them to replace the five in the Department of Mysteries.

real."

Having said this, he couldn't help but rubbed his forehead in annoyance, then waved his hand and said:

"If you have any clues about the time turner, tell me as soon as you think of it. Do you understand? As long as you can find one that can be used, whether it is reducing Azkaban's prison sentence or more gold Galleons, everything

It’s all easy to say.”

"I'm leaving first...if I have any news, I'll send an owl to the Leaky Cauldron."

Before she finished speaking, Maka walked straight to the door, and soon left the sight of the three people present.

Walking in the alley outside, Maka couldn't help but shake her head again. She had already wasted so much time and was happy in vain.

And more importantly, the clues he finally found at the beginning were not only a dead end, but the wall of the dead end was actually built by him himself back then!

It has to be said that after this time, Maka still felt some uncontrollable irritability in her heart.

"Calm down...calm down..." He paused, lowered his head slightly and muttered to himself, "Think about it, where else can I find a time turner? Who else..."

All in all, let’s go find Lucius first! Let Lucius ask as many pure-blood families as possible, while he himself goes to the Witte family in the underground black market.

Such a two-pronged approach would at least be much more efficient than him alone.

…

Just when Maka was planning to go find Lucius, inside Malfoy Manor.

Since both London and Hogwarts are undoubtedly unstable at the moment, as Draco's parents, the Malfoys are obviously half-hearted.

Fortunately, Draco also participated in the Hogwarts study tour program, which somewhat relieved the couple.

Seeing that London has become more and more dangerous in the past two days, Lucius and his wife can only hide at home and dare not go anywhere. While secretly praying for their son to have a smooth journey, they seem to have nothing else to ask for.

Yes, although some time ago, under the right opportunity, the Malfoy family has returned to the attention of many families and ordinary wizards. But now, they have no time to care about that.

There is no doubt that compared to one's own life, that little bit of honor may not be a big deal.

However, even though they don't want to go out at all, things will always come to them.

"Dong dong dong"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the mansion, causing the uneasy Malfoy couple sitting in the side hall to tremble slightly.

"At this time...who will come?"

Lucius's expression was a bit unnatural, and Narcissa's expression was not much better than that of her husband. Seeing the house elf standing aside waiting to open the door, Lucius immediately said:

"Wait, don't go yet."

"Yes, Master."

Although the elf who succeeded Dobby to serve the Malfoy family was not as smart as Dobby, his greatest advantage was obedience. Lucius asked him not to go, but he immediately hunched over and lowered his head, staying in place.

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Unfortunately, the person knocking on the door right now has no patience left in his heart.