harry potter book of crimes

Walton McNeil is a big man.

As an executioner serving on the Dangerous Animals Committee under the Office of Beasts of the Ministry of Magic, he often has to carry a long-handled ax to execute executions. He does have a strong physique that ordinary wizards do not possess.

Of course, compared with his height of nearly two meters, his figure still looks a little thinner.

But even so, when such a tall man hunches his shoulders, arches his waist, and nods and smiles in apology to another guy who is not conspicuous among ordinary people, it must be a rather strange feeling.

"McNeil, I won't say anything else...like your and Nott's previous status as Death Eaters, and the things you did to me in the past, I don't want to care about it at all now. You just need to

Give me another Time-Turner and everything will be fine."

In the study room upstairs at McNeil's house, Maca stood in front of Walton, and while speaking, she opened her right palm to him.

"Hurry, take it out."

Regarding Maca, Walton now doesn't dare to make any mistakes.

He can be regarded as an old employee who has worked in the Ministry of Magic for ten years. He got to know Maka very early because of the incident with the Hippogriff Buckbeak.

So obviously, Walton has completely seen how Maca has gotten to where it is now in recent years.

He knew very well that whether it was in terms of strength or power, this Maca McClain was not something he, a small character who had been secretly hiding in the Ministry of Magic for more than ten years but had accomplished nothing, could afford to offend.

As soon as he heard Maka asking him for another time turner, Walton nodded quickly, fearing that he would cause some unnecessary disaster if he agreed too slowly.

"Okay, Mr. McClain... just wait a moment, I'll get it right now! I'll get it right now!"

Nott, who was leading Maka over from the side, saw this and had a vague tendency to have an attack. In his opinion, as long as Walton said that there was indeed a converter, it meant that the other party had used a fake one before.

to deceive yourself.

But Maka was naturally aware of Nott's mood, and saw him glance back slightly. The warning in his eyes immediately made Nott shut his mouth.

In fact, Maka doesn't care if there is any dispute between Nott and Walton, let alone what kind of past there is between the two. All he needs now is a time turner.

What's more, these two people are not good people to begin with.

As long as he waits for the real time turner to be obtained, they can quarrel as much as they like and have a life-or-death duel on the spot, and it has nothing to do with him.

But the prerequisite is that he gets the converter.

Watching Walton leave the study in a hurry, Maka, while secretly paying attention to his whereabouts, casually pulled out a back chair next to him and sat down.

Although Nott next to him wanted to follow Walton's footsteps and chase him out, Maka's look just now stopped him from moving around at will.

"Sit down too!"

After sensing that the magic source representing Walton entered a room, Maka pointed to the sofa not far away and motioned for Note to stand in the middle, looking uneasy.

To be honest, he was already annoyed enough, and looking at Nott's appearance, he was obviously even more impatient.

After Nott hurriedly sat aside, Maka thought about it and suddenly remembered the daughter Joy who was raised as a maid in the other party's family.

"By the way, I heard Mrs. Parkinson say that the little girl named Joy is your daughter?"

"Ah!" Nott didn't know why Maka suddenly asked this, but now that Maka had asked, he could only nod his head with some confusion, "Yes, yes, my daughter... Joyno

special."

"Then..." Maka recalled it again, and then asked again, "Is her mother's name Amanda?"

"Uh, this...how did you know?"

Nott never expected that Maka actually knew about this.

In fact, his son and daughter, Theodore and Joey, are actually half-mother. This is just because his son Theodore’s mother passed away early, and at that time, he was eager to create a career and revitalize the family.

, and did not seek his next marriage.

Therefore, he fell in love with the family's maid Amanda almost naturally.

However, Amanda was just a squib, and Nott, who claimed to be the heir of a pure-blood family, would never tell anyone about this. It was impossible for him to admit the fact that he and Amanda were together, let alone marry her into the family.

Nott's relationship with Joey's mother has always been kept secret.

But not long after that, he was arrested as a Death Eater and was quickly thrown into Azkaban. Even before being imprisoned, he didn't know that Amanda was pregnant with a daughter.

Therefore, it can be said that when old Nott stepped into his home for the first time after returning, he was very surprised. Who would have thought that after more than ten years in prison, he would actually have an extra daughter?

But what makes Old Nott very fortunate is that his maid Amanda seems to be quite "reasonable".

Before he came back, the other party had learned about the major prison break in Azkaban from the newspaper, and after realizing that Old Nott might be returning home soon, he took the initiative to leave.

What makes Old Nott even more happy is that according to his son Theodore, Joey did not show any magical talent even after he was twelve years old. There was no abnormal performance, and there was no magic rampage.

And Amanda has no idea of ​​sending Joey to Hogwarts.

Amanda's sensibleness made Old Nott remember some of his old friendship. So he finally accepted Joey as his daughter, but of course he accepted her as his "goddaughter".

He knew that this was probably the reason why Amanda left Joey in her Knott family. Even if the Knott family was in dire straits, life here would definitely be better than leaving with her as an orphan and a widower.

But Nott didn't expect that with Maka's opening, he would reveal what he had been trying to hide.

Fortunately, Nott soon discovered that Maka's focus was obviously not on his abnormally bloody and chaotic family relationships.

"Don't worry about how I know it," Maka followed closely and continued casually, "Anyway, while I'm waiting for McNeil to come over, I would like to remind you to send Joey as soon as possible.

Let’s go to Hogwarts!”

"What, what do you mean?" Nott immediately asked in confusion upon hearing this, "Joy is just like her mother...a squib?"

"Um?"

After Maka heard this, she couldn't help but shook her head.

"I don't know if that Amanda is a Squib, but your daughter Joey is definitely not telling the truth. That child has been bored at home for so long without turning into an Obscurial. You should feel lucky for your son!"

"The one who is silent...?"

Of course Nott doesn't know what "The Obscurial" is, but

"I heard Theodore said that Joey's kid has never had any demons go berserk? How could this be..."

Seeing that he still looked in disbelief, Maka was about to say something more, but then he sensed Walton coming towards the study.

At the moment, the time converter is the most important thing, so he immediately waved his hand and said simply and clearly:

"Anyway, after these things have settled down, remember to send Joey to Hogwarts. Do you understand?"

Before they finished speaking, and before Nott could speak, the two of them saw the study door finally opening again.

"Mr. McClane, look, the time-turner!"

Walton was seen holding something in his hands, hurriedly came to Maka, and carefully placed it in Maka's hand.

Upon seeing this, Maka reached out to hold the chain and raised the converter in his hand to her eyes.

That's right! This time I was finally right. The fluctuations in time rules unique to the Sands of Time made Maka feel very familiar.

But at the same time, the extremely real fluctuations in the rules also inadvertently aroused the old injuries in his body. Even if he took long-term potion to neutralize the injuries, it still made him cough twice.

"Okay," Maka took another look and put the converter away, "McNeil, I don't care if you intentionally deceive Nott, or you don't know that the first converter is a fake.

Anyway, I have already received the things, so I won’t argue with you about the previous matters.”

After saying this, he waved his hand and walked straight to the door.

"Nott, you should have remembered what I said. Then after I leave, you can do whatever you want! But I still have to remind you that you are not allowed to go out at will during this period."

Looking at the door where the figure disappeared soon after he finished speaking, Nott and Walton both let out a sigh of relief. It was indeed a wizard who could fight with Haierbo back and forth. With him, the two of them

Almost everyone was suffocated by the invisible momentum.

But this is natural, because in the past two days, Maka has been in a bad mood. If the incident at Delphi had not relieved his tense nerves, these two guys would definitely have suffered a lot.

sinful.

After a while, Nott, who had regained consciousness slightly, suddenly turned around and glared at McNeil as if he had remembered something.

"Walton! You actually gave me a fake before. Do you know that you almost hurt me?"

Nott could even imagine that if Maka had been replaced by his last master Voldemort, he would have bid farewell to this miserable life in a flash of green light!

But on the other side, the tall McNeil also glared at Nott, and said in a low voice:

"Then why don't you first find out who really wants the time turner... That's McClain! You actually brought him to my house!"