harry potter book of crimes

One night, the dark sky was lit up twice in a row.

In the past, this would have been an abominable act that disturbed one's sleep. But now in this spiral town, how could most of the refugees who had just moved in sleep so easily?

Ever since the night when London was shrouded in fog, everyone has been living in unease. Whenever night falls, the first thing that refugees think about is no longer the beauty of sleeping peacefully, but that no one knows when the attack will come again.

The fear that will come.

When the light shines across the entire town like exceptionally bright moonlight, it will make people feel surprised and relieved that the darkness has been dispelled.

Especially this second time, it was different from the previous "self-entertainment" after Luna entered the statue. After Maka's fiddling in the darkness underground, he had already jumped over the mercury statue's control.

, directly activated the most powerful protective magic in Spiral Town.

It was a huge, translucent shield with a faint silver light. Just looking up, you could easily see that the shield was upside down on the town like a big bowl, completely isolating the inside and outside of the town.

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The refugees who had already seen Luna's ball of light poked their heads out of various windows again at this moment. If you observe carefully, you can find that among the expressions on the faces, the most common expression is one.

A smile of relief.

But at this moment, Delphi, who had just returned to the ground with Maka, raised his neck and looked at it for a while, then a trace of worry appeared in his eyes.

"Dad, this protective spell...is probably not strong enough?"

"Yes!" Maka also raised her head and agreed as she looked, "Let alone Haierbo himself. If he comes to attack this place in person now, no protective spell will be used. But even if

It’s just that he sent his men to attack..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but shake his head, and then subconsciously turned around and said:

"...Speaking of which, the people who built this town and set up this protective spell were not guarding against Herbo at all. Therefore, this barrier may be able to prevent Voldemort and Death Eaters."

Before she finished speaking, Maka suddenly realized that she shouldn't mention the name "Voldemort" in front of Delphi.

But who would have thought that when Delphi saw him stop, she turned back and gave him a calm smile.

"It's okay, dad... To the me in the past, my real life experience is no longer important, let alone now... isn't it?"

To be honest, at this moment, Maka actually saw a little unnaturalness in her expression. However, he did not say anything, but just nodded to her with the same smile.

"In short," Maka continued quickly, "Next, I will also find ways to transform the following things, including the half about magic and ancient magical literature, and the half about alchemy."

Even though he is not good at the latter, he can quickly find people who are good at it, which is obviously not a problem for him.

"But before that..."

He paused for a moment, then waved to Delphi, then walked straight to the base at the foot of the statue and sat down.

"We still have to pick up the unfinished topics we discussed below and continue talking."

When Delphi heard this, he couldn't help but think about it for a moment, and then he seemed to suddenly say:

"Is it about the meteorite?"

Just now, because of her panic from memory, she interrupted Maka abruptly, but since Maka specially called her over, she would naturally not forget the most important thing in the blink of an eye.

of.

But before Maka could answer, she immediately said first as if she was asking a question to herself:

"Do you need me to stay here to protect this town on your behalf while Dad rushes to Hogwarts to solve the meteorite problem?"

"Well," Maka nodded slowly, "You can say that. But... of course, your own safety is also very important. Don't force it. If Haierpo appears outside in person, all you have to do is bring him with you.

With Hermione, Luna and others secretly evacuating Spiral Town, you should know who they are."

After a short pause, Maka went one step further and said:

"I will show you some secret passages for evacuation in a moment... Remember, this is a decision I made for you, for you, so don't have any psychological burden."

When he said these words, his expression became very serious. Especially in the tone of the last sentence, Delphi could easily hear the heaviness contained in it.

After all, that is almost equivalent to a declaration of abandoning the vast majority of refugees. It can be said that most people will fall into a dilemma when faced with this choice.

Sometimes, even if it only determines the life or death of one life, this is enough to make many people extremely distressed, let alone the life and death of so many refugees?

Maybe it's easy to say with Delphi's character, but if it were Hermione, she probably wouldn't be able to make such a decision in her life.

"I understand," Delphi couldn't help but remain silent for a moment after listening to Maka's instructions, and then nodded gently and said, "I will do whatever my father says. I listen to my father."

"Thank you," after hearing her firm answer, Maka couldn't help but reach out and pat her shoulder, "Then I'll leave it to you... But by the way, you won't be the only one who has the burden of protecting this town.

It's one person's responsibility. I'm afraid even if I don't mention it, Hermione and the others will take action on their own."

"...But I think there is one person I must talk to you about."

Having said this, Makafu stood up from the base of the statue again, turned back and pointed at the lifelike mercury statue and said:

"After I improve the defensive spells below, the statue will still be able to control their opening and closing. And as far as I know, the only person who can control this statue is Luna...

In other words, if necessary, she will become the core of the entire town's comprehensive defense."

"Therefore," Maka said and couldn't help but shrugged, "At least until you have no choice but to abandon the defense, you must protect this statue... and her in the statue."

Seeing Maka say this, Delphi couldn't help but pursed her lips, stared at Maka's face and whispered:

"Dad, I have a question for you. Do you want me to focus on protecting Miss Lovegood? Is it really just because she will be the 'core of a comprehensive defense'? Or..."

Maka looked at her slightly awkward expression and could only helplessly shake her head.

"Well...I know what you want to say, but...it's both!"

He replied calmly.