harry potter book of crimes

The street was very quiet. Except for the group of refugees who came out of St. Mungo's, there was no one in the formerly noisy street.

Yes, even the constant fighting in the past few days no longer happens. If it weren't for the mottled blood on the street and the collapsed and damaged buildings beside the road, which are always reminders of what happened not long ago, everyone would almost

I thought the danger of the past few days was just a terrible dream.

However, the reality is cruel. Walking along the street, everyone can't help but feel frightened by the scenes of chaos around them.

Hermione, Luna and others followed the long queue and moved forward without saying a word.

This time, according to what Maca sent to Delphi, the dean and President Akinbad of the Federation gathered everyone in St. Mungo's and divided into two groups to head towards the suburbs of London.

Right now, Hermione and the others were following the first group of people led by Mr. Dean and Delphi.

By now, their first team was far away from St. Mungo's. Since they didn't encounter any obstacles in the streets, they were traveling surprisingly fast along the way.

"...Ginny, are you okay?"

Hermione was walking when she suddenly noticed that Ginny who was following her had a very bad expression on her face. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked worriedly.

"Well?"

Hearing this, Ginny responded absently at first, then seemed to realize that Hermione was asking her, and shook her head again this time.

"I'm fine, I'm just... you know, I'm just worried about Harry."

"Harry must be fine," Hermione said, "Look... although there are terrible marks everywhere on the street, the battle is obviously over. Although we don't know what will happen next, at least for now

It’s still very safe.”

"Oh, I know...I just can't help but feel worried."

The two of them were talking casually when they suddenly heard an exclamation of "ah" coming from behind the corner in front of them, causing them to stop talking.

The next moment, both of them saw shouts and screams coming from the other side of the corner.

"what happens?"

Hermione and Ginny both put aside the content of their conversation and walked forward quickly, following Luna who was also curious.

Obviously, there must have been some problem ahead, causing the entire team to temporarily stop.

Before the three of them reached the corner, they were about to turn around to see what was blocking their progress.

"etc."

As expected, when Delphi, who was standing there to prevent others from passing by, saw them coming, she immediately stretched out her hand and said:

"Wait here for a moment. There is something blocking the way over there. Mr. Dean is leading people to clean it up."

"Uh... we can help too!"

Seeing Hermione say this, Delphi couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and then waved her hand.

"No need to go," she said, "it will be cleaned up in a while."

"Oh alright!"

Seeing this, Hermione could only nod her head, but she still couldn't help but couldn't help taking a step forward, turning around and glancing at the other side of the corner.

Delphi naturally saw Hermione's little move, but she still didn't say anything more. Because she saw that Hermione must have seen something in that glance, and her expression became worse than Ginny just now.

"That"

Hermione's mouth was half-opened, her face full of doubts and panic, and it took a while before she finally regained consciousness.

"Hermione, what did you see?"

Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ginny wanted to poke her head in to take a look, but this time she was pulled by Hermione's arm, who had already seen it.

"Ginny, don't look at it. We can just go back and wait."

Ginny was obviously a little puzzled by this. Just now, Hermione wanted to know the situation as much as she did, but it didn't take long before she stopped her from seeing it.

"Hermione?"

"Don't ask anymore." Hermione's expression looked very complicated. "Let's go back to the front of the team! There is some lack of defense there. We'd better not leave Luna for too long. Come here quickly!"

She didn't say much at first because she was still far from calming down.

But what exactly did Hermione say just now, and what exactly did she see... In fact, what she saw was a scarlet patch in that neighborhood!

From what I could see just now, although it was still an ordinary street, there should have been at least a medium-sized battle there before.

And, that battle looks bound to be thrilling.

There was blood and mutilated bodies everywhere, nearly half of the houses along the street had collapsed, and the road was full of potholes and terrible marks.

Although the battle has ended long ago, you can smell the pungent smell of blood just by getting closer.

Probably because the team behind were ordinary refugees, and in order to prevent them from seeing it and causing panic, the dean led a group of therapists to personally clean up that section of the street.

The distance from that street to the outskirts of the city was relatively short, and they didn't want to take another detour.

"Hermione, what did you see just now? Why?"

"Ginny, don't ask."

On the way to the end of the line, Ginny couldn't help but ask again, but Hermione still just shook her head. She still felt a little sick after reading it, but she didn't want Ginny to feel uncomfortable too.

As for Luna beside them, she didn't ask any more questions.

The dean and the others cleaned up the battlefield very quickly. In a short time, they had basically finished cleaning up the battlefield. Although the terrible scene before had not been completely cleaned up, it at least seemed to be acceptable to ordinary people.

to a certain extent.

A few minutes later, Hermione and others who were following behind continued to follow the team and soon stepped into the street that was still covered in blood.

While walking forward, Hermione couldn't help but move her nose. After sniffing carefully, she could smell it. Although the dean and the others had cleaned it up, the thick smell of blood could still be faintly smelled to this day.

.

It wasn't until they passed that section of the block that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, Luna who was walking next to her suddenly raised her head and looked towards the fog in the sky. Her eyes looked extremely bright, as if she could see through the gray fog.

"what is that……"

"What?"

When Hermione heard this, she immediately raised her head and looked over there, and then she saw that there was indeed something behind the fog in the sky heading towards the suburbs.

When the thing got closer, she seemed to have seen some clues and said clearly:

"That's a carriage, and the one pulling it should be the Thestral... Hmm? The emblem of the Ministry of Magic?"

Hermione could tell that it was the Thestral Carriage of the Ministry of Magic, which was generally used to pick up and drop off some special guests of the Ministry of Magic.