harry potter book of crimes

Fleur abstained.

Shortly after the red light suddenly exploded in mid-air, turning into sparks and flying in all directions, the rescue team quickly arrived on broomsticks and took her and her sister Gabrielle out of the maze.

For her, although she was always a little unwilling, she already understood that with her strength, she could not even rescue her sister. Even if she was allowed to continue playing, she would not be able to bring her sister out of this dangerous maze.

ability.

After saying goodbye to Fleur and Gabrielle, Maka left first. However, before he took a few steps, he discovered that Hermione was following him silently.

"Is she pretty?" Hermione asked abruptly.

When a girl asks you if other girls are pretty, it means something is wrong. Maka understands very well, but this question is not easy to answer...

"Hmm..." A complex look flashed across his face, and then he nodded and said, "Beautiful."

Maka had noticed some of Hermione's thoughts before. To be honest, he didn't dislike Hermione, but for now, his troubles were not suitable for puppy love.

"What about Luna?"

Hermione didn't dwell on this question, but what Maka never expected was that there was actually a follow-up question waiting for him.

"Well, it's also very beautiful."

Just think of me as a playboy - Maka thought to herself.

"Where's Professor McGonagall?"

"Ahem—" He almost choked on his own saliva.

Maka breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at Hermione, only to find that she was actually snickering. In desperation, he had no choice but to shake his head - it seemed that he had probably been tricked by this smart little witch.

once.

"When I get the chance, I will definitely ask Professor McGonagall for a portrait of her when she was young. Then I will show it to you, so you can know whether she is pretty or not." Maka spread her hands and made a little joke.

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However, what Maka didn't notice was that although Hermione had a smile on her face, there was a faint sense of loss in her eyes.

When the two of them encountered another fork in the road, Hermione suddenly spoke.

"I have to go this way. My 'treasure' is Krum. He should be in that direction -" She stretched out her hand halfway, but retracted it, and just waved it gently in front of her.

"I won't lose to you!"

After leaving these words, Hermione turned around and ran towards the intersection on the right without looking back.

Maka looked at her back and couldn't help scratching her head.

"...It seems that a girl's heart is much more difficult to guess than the Sphinx's riddle."

He sighed slightly and put all these messy things aside. Now he had to concentrate and be in a perfect state to welcome the key point of the plan.

For him, there is no time to think about other things now.

It had been a while since the previous explosion, and the fog over this area had gathered again, and the surrounding area had become pitch black again.

However, Maka's pace quickened again.

There were a lot of magical creatures in the maze, but most of them were not difficult to deal with. After running all the way, he finally found that the route he had recorded matched a corner of the first map fragment.

And the first fragment partially overlaps with the fragment in Luna's area, so the next thing to do is simple.

"This should be the shortest route."

After checking the map again, he quickly rushed towards Luna's location.

In fact, Maka understood Fleur's mood at that time. Not to mention the affection between children such as whether she likes her or not, as far as Maka is concerned, Luna does have a big status in his heart.

Maybe Dumbledore's protection method for "treasures" is quite reliable, but what if? For example, for example, Gabriel, what if the troll suddenly gets a twitch in his head and smashes the stone pillar?

Maka didn't intend to win the championship, but Luna still had to stay by her side to reassure him.

With the accurate route, Maka quickly found Luna's location in another open space - a steel cage embedded in the ground.

And just above the cage, a huge snake-like magical creature was entrenched there, staring at Maka who suddenly appeared in front of it with its three pairs of eyes.

This is a three-headed snake. Its belly is white, but its back shows a bright orange color, and there are black barbs growing on it. It looks extremely ferocious.

And its three heads...

The one on the right was raised high, with ferocious eyes, and it was spitting its bright red tongue towards Maka, making a hissing sound; the one on the left was lying on the coiled snake, with a cold light shining in its eyes.

As for the snake head in the middle...it seems to be in a daze?

"What kind of creature is this?" Maka looked at it with a rare hesitation.

He seemed to have seen this kind of snake in some illustrated book, but with such a large size - was it really what he thought?

This three-headed snake is huge. Although it is far less than the basilisk, it is still more than 20 feet tall. It does not look difficult to deal with. Especially the one on the left, it seems to be quite intelligent at first glance. Perhaps it should not be treated as a beast.

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"Hiss... Wizard, that little witch down there... hiss... is it your 'treasure'?"

Sure enough, the left head of the three-headed snake spoke first.

"That's right." Maka nodded, "Give her to me. If you have any conditions, just tell me."

"Hiss... Dumbledore said that if someone can solve our troubles... hiss... we can hand over the 'treasure'."

"Hiss... Just rely on this little kid? I think this is a bad idea!" The head on the right suddenly screamed, "Hiss... bad idea!"

"Shut up!" the head on the left shouted immediately.

"Hiss... you are so messy, why don't you let me say it? Hiss... if you ask me, it is stupid to cooperate with the wizard! Hiss..."

"Hey - I'm telling you! Shut up!"

Maka saw that the two heads were about to quarrel, and the middle head was still in a daze, so she felt a little sure in her heart.

"But... are there any rune snakes that big?" He hesitated, "In the records, the largest rune snake is only about eight feet long, and this one is obviously over twenty feet long."

The Rune Snake is a three-headed snake from Upper Volta, Africa. They were once associated with dark wizards. Most of what wizards know about them comes from conversations with them in Parseltongue.

Yes, this kind of snake should not be able to speak human language.

"Perhaps it's because this one has lived long enough..." Maka thought for a while and couldn't help but secretly thought, "It's right to think about it. The left head of the rune snake is quite intelligent. If it can learn human prophecies, it won't be

What a surprise."

In fact, Maka guessed well.

All records related to rune snakes show that their three heads always quarrel. This is because their three heads have distinct personalities——

The one on the left is the planner, who will decide where the body should go and what it should do; the one in the middle is the dreamer, who is always indulged in brilliant visions and fantasies; and the one on the right is the critic, who will constantly comment

All the actions and words of the other two heads, and of course, it is also the beginning of all quarrels.

Because of this, when the other two heads can't stand it anymore, they will work together to bite off the right head directly - so the lifespan of the rune snake will not be too long.

But this rune snake is different from those of its kind. Although its three heads often quarrel, due to some abnormalities in the middle head, they will not escalate to the point of fighting at the slightest disagreement.

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For example, right now——

"Roar——"

This was a roar with magic power. As this roar continued, even the surrounding ground began to tremble, completely suppressing the quarrel between the two heads on both sides.

Maka frowned and waved her wand, casting an area silencing spell, and then she felt a little quieter.

Seeing that the snake head in the middle closed his mouth, he lifted the silencing spell and said calmly: "What you want me to solve is to stop quarreling when nothing happens, right?"

"Yes, that's right!" the head in the middle said in a muffled voice, "These two guys are always arguing, which makes me unable to think about anything!"

"Isn't this easy?" Maka waved her hand casually and said, "Can't we just bite them both off?"

"Hiss... do you think our boss is stupid?"

"Click——"

"Hiss... you are really stupid!"

"Click——"

Even Maka didn't expect that he just said it casually, and the head in the middle bit it from left to right very neatly, biting the other two heads clean -

"Wizard, you are so smart... I have lived for more than 300 years, why didn't I think of this method?" It said in a daze, "But why do I feel a little weak?"

"Forget it, it doesn't take much effort to think about things anyway..."

After it finished speaking, it put its head down on its body and slowly closed its eyes.

Maka looked at the two huge wounds and the gurgling snake blood, and shook her head with a strange expression.

"It seems that the reason why this rune snake can live so long is because the head in the middle is strong enough and stupid enough!"

The magical world is full of wonders, but such strange experiences are really rare - for the first time, he had the idea of ​​writing this story down.

After regaining her composure from being left speechless by this strange snake, Maka quickly came behind the strange snake.

Right there, there was a steel cage that was entirely embedded in the ground. When Maka looked down, she happened to meet Luna's eyes.

"Maka?" She tilted her head and said in a daze, "I'm a little hungry, is there anything good to eat?"

Maka looked at her, and then at the strange snake behind him. He suddenly felt that, to some extent, Luna was quite similar to the middle head of the strange snake!

"I have snake meat that's three hundred years old. Do you want to eat it?" He shrugged, "It's just a bit silly."