harry potter book of crimes

"ah!"

Suddenly, Luna, who was sitting on the base of the mercury statue in the center of the square, couldn't help but let out a soft cry, causing Neville who was guarding not far away to look back quickly.

"What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing," Luna waved her hand, "The bracelet Maka gave me suddenly became hot. It's probably... those bad things are about to arrive, right?"

When Neville heard this, he couldn't help but clenched the wand in his hand.

"Is it finally here?"

"Yes!" Luna said as she stood up, patted the dust on her butt and said, "Since Maka gave the signal, it's time to get ready."

Before she finished speaking, Neville watched her climb up to the base briskly, and with familiarity reached out to the mercury statue with various postures, like a living creature.

Soon, Luna was slowly wrapped in the bright and soft mercury, and her whole body got into it.

After waiting for a while, the originally blurry face of the mercury statue seemed to have the delicate outline of Luna's face.

"When you get in there...won't you feel out of breath?"

Just as Neville was muttering secretly in his heart, he saw the statue that looked more and more like Luna suddenly raised its arms. And then, two magic shields began to form from the sky above the statue, and quickly moved towards the spiral.

The edge of town spread out.

…

"Mr. Lupin, the army of zombies has broken into the city of Canterbury and is heading here quickly!"

"knew."

In the hall on the ground floor of the new Ministry of Magic, the previous busyness has calmed down, and people from all walks of life are no longer in a hurry. Because by now, everyone has done what they should do, even if there is anything else next

Omissions can only be adjusted according to the temporary judgment of several leaders such as Lu Ping.

"Convey the news to Minister Shakur immediately! Be ready to activate all protective measures at any time... But there is no need to rush yet, wait for McClain's signal."

"yes!"

Several wizards who were waiting nearby responded at the same time after understanding what Lu Ping meant, and then immediately left the hall.

After the people who delivered the news had gone out, Lu Ping turned back and looked down at the sand table in Spiral Town. He could see that the layout of the town was clearly visible at this moment.

Kingsley's elimination teams, who had withdrawn from the front line, and the support wizards from the Federation, had guarded the intersections in the four directions of Spiral Town. Although there was only one entrance, if even Herbo came, where would they come from?

No one can predict the direction of attack.

In addition to the wizards, the wild elves who were tricked by Maka from the island have also been stationed at the edge of the town. They are responsible for the sky above the town.

Of course, before the zombie army enters the town, the first thing they need to overcome is obviously the defense of two magic shields.

Just as he was thinking this, Lu Ping suddenly turned his head again, and happened to see two layers of translucent magic film spreading out in the originally dark sky. The two shields of different colors overlapped each other,

It emits a faint brilliance, and at first glance it looks even more brilliant than the aurora at the North and South Poles.

"Come on! Success or failure depends on tonight..."

While whispering like this, Lupine couldn't help but gradually tightened his grip on the wand in his hand.

…

When the army of zombies attacked, everyone in Spiral Town could not help but gradually tighten their nerves. But there were only two people who were not thinking about how to protect the town and destroy the incoming enemies.

One of them was Maka, who had always remained calm except when Hermione was injured. Even when he was seriously injured and fell into coma, and couldn't use both arms afterwards, he didn't seem to be shaken at all.

As for the other person, it's probably Macca's unexpected "good daughter" Delphi.

Right now, she was staying in the town's central square like Neville...or rather, staying by Luna's side. Whenever Neville happened to look back at the other side of the mercury statue, he would inevitably see her staring at it.

The statue that became one with Luna stood in a daze.

Neville didn't know what Delphi was thinking, and... maybe that girl was so beautiful that Neville never dared to talk to her.

But even without speaking, Neville could somewhat tell that Delphi seemed to have a lot of things on his mind that were difficult to express to others.

As a person who is not good at words, Neville knew very well that if this state lasted for too long, he would get sick. He himself was a good example earlier.

"Delphi...uh, miss?"

Using a somewhat nondescript form of address as the beginning of the conversation made Neville himself feel very awkward.

But there was nothing we could do about it, because Delphi rarely told anyone his last name, at least Neville obviously didn't know it yet.

After all, if she had to choose, she would definitely want others to call her "Miss MacLean", but this would be difficult to explain to others.

Needless to say, in that case, others would definitely misunderstand the relationship between her and Maka.

"Well?"

Hearing Neville speak on the other side, Delphi looked away from the statue and looked across the way.

"Mr. Longbottom, what's wrong?"

"Oh, no...it's just that the enemy will arrive outside the town at any time. We'd better be careful and concentrate more."

Neville said this, but then he shook his head and said:

"Ah! I'm sorry, I forgot that you are much stronger than me... Maybe for you, my suggestion doesn't have much reference value at all..."

"No, please don't say that Mr. Longbottom's strength can be regarded as the best in the modern magic world! Well, you are right. I was too absorbed in thinking about things just now."

Sense of distance!

To be honest, Neville didn't want to have a deep friendship with the other party, and he also had a girlfriend now. With his character, he would not think about those things.

Not to mention, girls like Delphi who look "cold" no matter how you look at them, are the most troublesome type for Neville.

However, let's not talk about this. At least for Maka's sake, Neville still hopes to make friends with the other party, and they will probably fight together. He doesn't want to find it very difficult to even talk to the other party.

things.

It's a pity that the kind of rejection and rejection exuded by Delphi made the distance between the two people not lessen but increase after the conversation.

"When did this feeling of alienation... start to become more intense?"