harry potter book of crimes

"This is a treasure passed down from generation to generation by our horse people. It symbolizes destiny and change... Remember this symbol, destiny, will guide you to make the final choice."

Maka still remembers what the old patriarch of the Centaurs said when he brought him here and opened the stone array, pointing to the rule runes that appeared on the stone tablet in the middle.

The old horseman said that this rune represents fate and change.

At that time, Maka, whose understanding of the rules and runes was not even basic, simply failed to recognize the mystery it contained.

He didn't know what the so-called "fate and change" was, let alone how he should accept its "guidance"... Well, he couldn't even remember the general appearance of the rune in his mind.

But to be honest, at that time when Voldemort was only a threat, Maka really didn't pay much attention to the extremely mysterious thing the old centaur leader did before his death.

But now, the old horse man's prediction has become a reality, and the circular stone formation he had shown to Maka a long time ago seems to have become one of the few clues for Maka to try to deal with this unprecedented disaster.

one.

At this moment, Maka has left the new tribe of the centaurs in the deep mountains and old forests, and has come to the dragon's lair deep in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts... No, it should be one of the "forbidden areas of the centaurs".

middle.

After the previous battle with Haierbo, this cave has collapsed in many places. It is still so dark here, but in this darkness, there are large areas of messy scenes hidden.

Maka walked on the uneven ground, one foot deep and one foot shallow, but the sound of footsteps still echoed regularly in this huge cave.

A moment later, when he followed his memory and returned to the stone formation deep in the cave, he found that fortunately it had not been affected too much by the aftermath of his battle with Haierbo.

A circle of stones carved with unknown ancient magic inscriptions is still in place, and the stone tablet in the middle has not fallen down, but there are just a few cracks on the ground.

Maka stepped forward, flicked her finger to summon the radiance of magic, and examined the formation carefully using the bright light.

It can be seen that there are linear grooves connecting each rock, and the symbols on the rocks form a circular magic circle that was popular among wizards in ancient times.

Simply repairing its misaligned formation due to cracks would be no problem given Maka's abilities.

That is, more than half an hour later, he repaired the entire stone array that was damaged due to cracks with a very high degree of precision, and finally waved away the magic power that remained in it, which might affect the normal start-up of the array.

Then, Maka took out the two-handed broadsword that the centaurs clan leader personally handed to him, reversed the blade and inserted it into the groove of the rock in front of the stone monument.

The next moment, with a slight tremor under his feet, the entire stone formation gradually emitted a blue light that was exactly the same as in Maka's memory.

Not long after, as the formation continued to operate, the magic symbols on the rocks flew towards the central stone tablet like illusory butterflies, and finally condensed into an unstable mysterious rule.

runes.

Maka held the hilt of the sword with one hand and stared at the shimmering runes on the stone tablet, which were slightly distorted from time to time. She pursed her lips and stared at them silently for a long time.

"Sure enough...is it 'time'?"

While muttering to himself, he took out the scroll of truth that he always carried with him, unfolded it, and compared the symbols on the stone tablet with the rule runes at the beginning of the scroll.

The third-level rule runes are still somewhat out of reach for Maka, who has only mastered one branch of the second-level soul rules.

Even after he used the time turner continuously, he has been trying to get in touch with it, analyze it, and understand it.

"The time rule rune is... impossible for me right now."

After hesitating in front of this circular formation for a long time, Maka finally shook her head with some regret. But until this time, the formation in front of her had already automatically ended its operation beyond the time limit and returned to peace.

"laugh!"

Maka grabbed the hilt of the two-handed broadsword, pulled it out from the groove in the rock, and put it back into the leather bag on her waist.

Then, he quietly disappeared from where he was.

…

When Maka returned from outside, it was already approaching noon.

In the half day since he left Chateau Blois early in the morning, Maca traveled to many places and did many things. But in the end, he felt as if he had done nothing.

"Maka!"

On the corridor beside the garden in the atrium of the castle, Maka met Ron, who seemed to be strolling around the castle. Seeing that Ron immediately turned around and ran towards her as soon as he discovered her, Maka couldn't help but stop for a moment, waiting for him to come to her.

in front of me.

"What's wrong? Did you just come down from Luna and Hermione?"

"Well, how did you know? Did you see me come out of there?"

Ron was about to say something, but after hearing Maka's words, he couldn't help being stunned.

"No," Maka shook her head, "It's because you still have some air cleaner jasmine scent on you. I'm very familiar with the smell. After all, I personally mixed the bottle in Hermione's hand!"

"ah!"

Ron was stunned again after hearing this, and then subconsciously raised his hand to ask. But soon, Maka saw him suddenly wave his hand again, and then said:

"No, no, let's not talk about Maka first. Big Fatty said he wanted to find you this morning, but then we heard from Ginny that you had already gone out early in the morning. Oh, he is probably still in your room now.

Waiting for you! Go and have a look!"

"Big fat?" Maka raised an eyebrow, thought for a moment and said, "Are you talking about Noah?"

"yes!"

Seeing Ron shrugging, Maka thought that the two of you got along quite well.

But he didn't say anything more. After nodding his head, he decided not to go to Luna's room to see her, but to go find the fat young master first.

Because after all, Noah probably came to him again to help Luna.

Maka's room is in the tower on the side of the castle. Willy's father asked the old housekeeper to prepare it for him. It is spacious and comfortable and is very close to the magic experiment area.

When Maka walked along the corridor to the end and turned into the castle, she soon saw the fat man sitting on the stone pier outside the entrance of the tower, dozing off alone!

"Hey! Noah? Wake up...I'm back!"

"No...wait a moment, just wait...wait until I finish eating this piece of milk pudding..."