harry potter book of crimes

"Miss Lovegood said she wanted to go to the square to see the statue!"

Looking at Luna's back who ran to the window and looked out, Ron muttered to himself, with a look of helplessness on his face.

Obviously, this matter made Ron feel very embarrassed. After all, Hermione had specifically told him to stay in the house and not run around before leaving. How could she not listen to her words?

When he thought about being beaten to pieces by Hermione, he almost wanted to hit the wall.

Besides, it's already night now! If you can't follow Hermione and the others to help with things, you might as well go to bed early, right?

"Luna, how about... don't go?" Ron scratched his head and cautiously asked, "If it really doesn't work, why not wait until dawn tomorrow?"

"Well?"

After Luna, who was still peeking out from the window, heard this, she couldn't help but look back at him, then blinked and said:

"Aren't you going? It's okay, then I'll go by myself!"

Before she finished speaking, she turned around with a more decisive movement that Ron imagined, and ran towards the door of the room with a "boom boom".

It was not until Luna ran out of the room that he reacted slowly. As soon as he thought about it, he realized that he could never let her run out alone in the dark.

He didn't listen to Hermione's reminder and it was a trivial matter to go out. At worst, he would be scolded by Hermione and complained that it was not like he had not been scolded before!

But if Hermione knew that he watched Luna go out alone but neither stopped nor followed her, that would be a big deal!

Thinking of this, Ron no longer had any worries and quickly stood up and chased after him.

…

To be honest, Luna had actually wanted to walk around since she first arrived in this town. If nothing else, just the winding and crisscrossing roads in the town were attractive enough.

Yes, this Spiral Town is indeed a "spiral" array worthy of the name. None of the streets in the town are straight, they are all winding and twisting from left to right.

What's even more amazing is that even the various buildings on the street are mostly irregular, spiral-shaped horizontal, vertical, and diagonal overlapping structures. They look chaotic, but in fact they are chaotic.

sequence.

Of course, if you really want to live here, it may be a big problem to understand the road signs at each street corner. Sometimes if you accidentally read the wrong sign, you might follow the ramp and climb to the roof of someone else's house!

For Luna, such a wonderful town is like an amusement park that one can never get tired of playing. It is extremely interesting.

Unfortunately, Luna was happy, but she was suffering from Ron, who had been trying to catch up all the way. She saw him walking along the winding snake-like street, using the scattered street lights that seemed to have no regularity, and wasted no time.

It took a lot of effort to finally catch up with Luna, who was flying freely like a little bird.

"Wait...wait...wait for me!"

"Huh?"

Luna, who finally heard the shouts from behind, stood under a street lamp extending horizontally from the wall, turned around and looked curiously at Ron, who was running up and down.

"Are you here too?" She said with a smile, "You must have wanted to see this interesting town as soon as possible, so you ran out, right? How about it, now that you have seen it, aren't you very satisfied?"

"Oh! Miss Lovegood, me"

Ron wanted to complain, but as soon as he saw Luna's cheerful look, he knew that anything he said was absolutely useless. Therefore, he quickly swallowed the frustration and then fell deeply into it.

Sighed deeply.

"Yes, I am 'very satisfied'!"

"Oh, that's great!"

Luna said, and suddenly turned around, staring at the signpost not far away covered with layers of road sign arrows, and looked at it for a while.

He didn't know how she found the place she wanted to go from the extremely complicated road signs, but Ron saw that after looking at it for a while, she ran towards a fork in the road that led to an unknown direction with great certainty.

"Why!"

At the moment, all Ron can do is probably follow closely behind and see when this helpless "Miss Lovegood" loses interest and can go back.

Not long after, he suddenly discovered that he was actually led by Luna to the square in the center of Spiral Town.

Seeing that there were no more messy and dazzling buildings on both sides, Ron couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that if he continued to wander on the jagged roads like before, he would have to get lost.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, Luna gave a soft cry of surprise, causing Ron to look forward. In fact, he had already seen the silver statue standing in the center of the square as soon as he stepped onto the square.

Under the illumination of the circle of street lights, it indeed looks extremely eye-catching.

However, like most other people who saw this statue, Ron couldn't help but stare at the hazy face again and again.

Beautiful, this mercury statue is indeed beautiful!

However, the face that should be the most beautiful cannot be seen clearly, which is a pity in the eyes of those who appreciate it.

However, Luna's focus was obviously different from that of ordinary people. In addition to her and Ron, there were several wizards and witches in the square who were also looking at the statues. But except for her, no one seemed to be just staring at the statue.

Look at the skirt at the feet of the statue.

"Oh..." Luna stretched her neck and leaned close to the statue that was nearly two people tall. While looking at it, she muttered thoughtfully, "This dress is so beautiful... If I can wear it to a party."

, will definitely attract everyone’s attention. Well, I don’t know if Maka will like it..."

While she was talking to herself, she subconsciously reached out to touch the flowing mercury skirt, but she saw that hand naturally penetrated through the middle.

"Um?"

Luna then raised her eyebrows and continued to poke inside as if she was surprised. Soon, her whole arm was inserted into the slowly flowing mercury.

“It’s cool and very comfortable.”

"Hey Luna!"

Ron, who had been pondering the appearance of the mercury statue since just now, only then saw clearly what Luna was doing, and he immediately subconsciously felt that something was wrong.

"Take your hands out quickly! Well... look, everyone else is looking at you!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Luna looked back at Ron with one hand in the mercury. But at that moment, something no one expected happened!

Only Luna let out a soft cry of "Yeah". The next moment, everyone in the square, including Ron, saw her being dragged into the mercury by an inexplicable force in the blink of an eye, and suddenly she was in full view of everyone.

disappeared below.

"Luna!"