harry potter book of crimes

"What? Okay... But, is Luna okay?"

"Uh... I don't know. It looks like there should be nothing wrong with it, but I can't be sure."

When Ginny and everyone hurriedly sent Luna back to her room and handed her over to Hannah to take care of her carefully, she thought about it and decided to take the risk and tell Hermione about it at this time.

After all, no one of them is sure that Luna is fine right now.

"Neville, you can guard this place alone for now - don't worry, even if there are living corpses that forcefully break through the barrier, there are still gravity traps I have set up, so you just have to keep an eye on it to see if any fish slip through the net. Be careful.

Be careful, remember not to fight... I'll go back and check on Luna first."

"Okay, I understand." Neville raised the wand in his hand and nodded clearly.

"Okay, let's go!"

Hermione also nodded slightly to Neville, and then she and Ginny left the outer boundary of the northwest of the ancient city, riding a broomstick and flying quickly towards the church.

"By the way," Hermione asked while flying, "Ginny, you just said that was the guy in the shadows we met on the road? Are you sure?"

When Ginny heard this, she immediately shook her head.

"Actually, I didn't really see it myself. It was Ron who saw it - but I did notice a creepy feeling at that time."

"Oh!" Hermione couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, "Luna too... Didn't Sarah tell us not to go to her room? And Luna was the only one who listened directly to Sarah, so why bother?

Do you have to go?"

Hermione really had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Luna, a character who went her own way and was almost uninfluenced by others.

So far, Hermione has received a lot of help and inspiration because of Luna's always accurate intuition. Unfortunately, this kind of intuition that does not make any detours often makes Luna herself wander on the edge of danger.

If she were to miss the mark at some point, what might be waiting for her would be an abyss.

Thinking of this, Hermione, who was leaning on the broom and accelerating, couldn't help but raise her hand to smooth the hair that was blown back by the strong wind, showing a helpless expression.

Speaking of which, because Luna "fainted" more and more times, she seemed to feel a little used to it.

"You can't get used to this casually," Hermione muttered secretly in her heart. "After the zombie riot subsides, I have to find a time to have a good talk with her... While warning her, it's also a reminder to myself.

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Obviously, Hermione and Ginny wanted to go together.

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Of course, leaving aside Luna's matter, at least with the biggest problem at the moment - the zombie riot, the ancient city of Winchester is still relatively safe.

With the magic barrier left by Maka and Safina's powerful combat power, it does not seem like an impossible task to continue to defend the ancient city.

But at the same time, just as Hermione was worried, Sarah, who was still out collecting information on living corpses when the riot broke out, was really in trouble.

Without the help of magical barriers for protection, we were surrounded by enemies on all sides, and there were also flying zombies attacking from the air. Although the number was not that of ordinary zombies, the threat they posed was much greater.

Caught off guard, Sarah, who had just arrived in a small town, had to find a house in a hurry under the cover of a group of alchemy dolls.

After that, she continued to trade the wear and tear of the dolls for time, and finally managed to gain a foothold in the sudden wave of crazy zombies with the help of a hastily arranged alchemy formation.

"It's rare that Maka praised me as one of the pinnacle masterpieces in the history of alchemy, but apart from some alchemy skills I learned from Phillips's notes, I am as weak as an ordinary person... This is still considered

What kind of 'masterpiece' is it?"

Sitting in this room, listening to the chaotic noise outside, Sarah couldn't help but feel a little frustrated - there was no way to bring all the alchemy dolls into the room, and most of them were being consumed by the rioting zombies one after another outside.

Dropped. This is equivalent to saying that the combat power she possesses is constantly decreasing.

Thinking about the fact that she had worked hard day and night to make the dolls, nearly half of them were lost in one day... If she hadn't only taken away half of the dolls before leaving Winchester,

I'm afraid the accumulation over the past few days should be completely destroyed.

It can be seen that the power that Haierbo's living corpses can generate seems to have only been revealed before.

When Sarah hid in the room protected by the alchemy formation and was silent for a long time, she finally spoke again:

"That's it... Maka, I seem to finally understand what 'what I want' is. For me to 'become a complete person', that's just Phillips' wish, that's not what 'I want'

'.Or at least, this is just the beginning."

In fact, ever since Maka managed to give Sarah the emotions that humans should have, Sarah has been in a state of joy and satisfaction, but also a little confused.

Although her original soul was incomplete, and she did not actually have a life of her own. The years she has spent so far have been almost completely submerged in the shadow of Phillips Hohenheim, who created her.

But for such a long time, she at least had a goal to support her "survival".

However, when she, with the help of Maka, finally achieved the "long-cherished wish" in her heart that she couldn't even tell who the master was, the goal of allowing her to continue living disappeared.

A life without purpose is undoubtedly scary, because you won't even know what you should do.

But now, when Sarah felt that she might really die here this time, she finally understood some truths that she had never thought of before.

When a special object is given life, it is no longer an object, and at the same time it is no longer special. Because it has become one of all living beings.

"Yes, I am not a 'masterpiece in the history of alchemy' - maybe the incomplete me in the past was, but now, I am just a human being."

Sarah muttered to herself, as if she had been infected by Hermione a few days ago, and then she suddenly stood up from the floor.

"And a human being will always grow. If you don't have a goal, you just have to look for it."

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she heard a louder noise gradually coming from outside... There were more living corpses gathering nearby.

"Oh! A human should be afraid of death... I want to live!"

Sarah pouted and added in her heart.