harry potter book of crimes

The things that need to be explained have been explained, and then comes the warm reminiscence between godfather and godson. Maka sat next to Buckbeak, watching Sirius and Harry quietly, but she couldn't help but feel a little emotional in her heart.

It was not until 3:30 in the afternoon that Harry and others left the cave at the urging of Sirius.

"Uh... Maka, aren't you leaving?" Harry looked at Maka, who was still sitting still.

"I have something to do later, you go back first!" Maka waved her hand.

Of course he has something to do. To put it bluntly, he came to see Sirius this time just by the way. What happened later in the evening was the real purpose of his running out today.

"What else can you do later? Do you need my help?" Sirius asked casually.

"No, I'm just going to meet two people." Maka smiled casually, "After all, the plan has been terminated, and some things need to be finalized."

Maka said it in an understatement, but Sirius knew it well - how could anything related to that plan be easy?

"Two people?" Sirius then asked, "Who are they?"

"They are all people from 'over there', Lucius Malfoy, and old Avery." Maka, "They are all guys who are violating Voldemort's control. I asked them to help me keep an eye on Voldemort's movements before.

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"It's the two of them?" Sirius looked at Maka in surprise, "Can they listen to you?"

"As long as there are enough benefits and the deterrence of strength, smart people will know what to do..." Maka said with a smile, "Voldemort himself is a mixed blood. He can make so many pure-blood families do things for him.

It relies on promoting pure-blood belief and pure and powerful dark power, doesn’t it?”

"Yes... the argument of pure blood supremacy can bring more benefits to the old wizard families, including the Black family..." Sirius said boredly, "You also used this method to convince them?"

"Hey... using such tangible and intangible benefits to gain the support of those pure-blood families, it's no wonder that few of Voldemort's Death Eaters are absolutely loyal," Maka chuckled, "Voldemort is indeed very ambitious.

, and he also understands the benefits of winning over people's hearts. But speaking of his methods... Grindelwald back then was obviously much smarter than him."

"Grinwald?" Sirius thought for a moment and said, "I remember that what he preached was..."

"It was a series of regulations that opposed the protection of Muggles," Maca continued. "He took advantage of the fact that several Ministry of Magic-related regulations promulgated at that time were not complete enough, and actually won the hearts of many elites in the wizarding world. And he

Those behaviors were aimed at seeking a psychological balance for all wizards - the protection provisions against Muggles during that time were indeed a bit excessive."

"What about you?" Sirius asked curiously, "How did you convince Lucius and Avery to come to your side?"

"It's not that they are siding with me," Maka shook her head, "I don't need them to be swayed with me either - I don't need to dominate the magic world, I just gave them a chance to choose..."

"What choice?"

"I asked them a question at that time: Do you want the number of wizards in the magical world to decrease and decrease, and eventually their family's business will suffer losses and become an ordinary family in name only? Or do you want the so-called mixed-bloods and mudbloods to increase in number?

In this way, their sacred twenty-eight tribes will once again be glorious and prosperous——"

Speaking of this, Maka said with a smile: "You know, the current magical world is no better than in ancient times... Since wizards and Muggles were completely separated, the power of those pure-blood families has been shrinking. In fact, they are all

Understand that when the so-called 'higher class' loses the support of the bottom class, it is only a matter of time before it collapses."

"...So, the reason why they sided with Voldemort was just to use Voldemort's power to remind the wizarding world. It was just because Voldemort was too powerful and now he was unable to stop..." Sirius said thoughtfully,

"But by doing this, aren't you helping those pure-blood families continue to dominate?"

"Humph, even if I don't intervene, do you think they really can't do it?" Maka shrugged and said nonchalantly, "My appearance just gave them a chance to escape from Voldemort! Once Voldemort fails

Yes, they must have slipped away faster than anyone else - just like they did more than ten years ago."

"However, it is not easy for those families to return to their former glory... No one knows what the magic world will be like in the future."

After saying that, Maka turned her gaze to the sky outside the cave, looking at the clouds rolling in the blue sky, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Yes! What will the magical world be like in the future?

In the past, he had been troubled by the fact that the future deviated from his expectations. But now, he sincerely hoped that every next step would be unknown.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Maka dressed up in advance and arrived at the Pig's Head Bar in Hogsmeade Village.

Maka has been here many times, but this small bar with hundreds of years of history is still so narrow and dirty.

The several windows here are covered with thick dirt and almost no light can come in. Some candles are lit on the rough wooden tables.

Everything here is dirty, from the floor to the roof, even the butterbeer bottles are covered with a thick layer of dust. Even the cloth used to wipe the wine glasses in the boss's hand is also covered in dust.

"Butterbeer." Maka sat at the bar and said in a hoarse voice.

To be honest, customers who are willing to come to the Pig Head Bar usually have private matters that cannot be exposed to the light, so few people go to sit at the bar. Just like now, Maka is sitting there alone, which seems a bit awkward.

"Um?"

The owner of the Pig Head Bar is tall, with a full head of white hair and a white beard hanging down his back and chest. Although he is just slovenly, because of his strong physique and sharp eyes, others think he is just slovenly.

Rough and unruly.

In Maka's words, he looked more like a Viking berserker who could slash people with a two-handed axe, rather than a wizard who relied on magic to fool people.

The boss glanced sideways at Maka, then casually took down a bottle of butterbeer from the shelf at the back and placed it in front of Maka along with a wine glass.

"Clean up." Maka took out her wand, tapped it on the wine glass, then opened the butterbeer and poured it in.

The wine bottles here are very dirty, but the taste is very pure. Maca took a few sips, and suddenly, a buttery aroma spread in the mouth and nose, making people feel intoxicated.

He liked the pig's head pub's unique butterbeer with low sugar content. It was not as sweet as the one in the Three Broomsticks, and he could drink it several times in a row.

"Such a delicious drink only costs two silver coins a bottle," Maka wiped the foam around her mouth and sighed, "It's really a bit too cheap."

"Then I'll give you three sikos and one bottle." The boss said without raising his eyebrows.

"Are you trying to raise your price, boss?" Maka raised an eyebrow, "I'll give you four Sicos, can you give me a piece of news?"

The boss glanced at him again, and then replied: "One Galleung."

Before he finished speaking, Maca flicked his hand, and a gold galleon drew an arc in the air and landed accurately in the wine glass he was wiping, making a clear and sweet sound.

"Deal." Maka said decisively.

The boss picked up the gold galleons in the cup and threw it into the small drawer under the bar that contained coins.

"Ask! You can only ask one question. I will tell you if I know. If you don't know, forget it."

Obviously, even if the answer is not obtained, the gold Galleons will definitely not come back.

"Of course, you must know this question... I just want to ask..." Maka said with a smile, "What's so good about goats? Why do you like them so much?"

The boss stared at him for a long time, then snorted: "Because their meat is delicious!"

"Give me back the gold galleons." Maka spread her hands.

"Albus asked you to come here?" The boss put down the wine glass in his hand on the bar and said angrily.

"He did mention you to me, but this time it has nothing to do with him." Maka whispered, "I made an appointment with someone to come here today to talk about something, and I stopped by your place to get acquainted with you."

"Then sit somewhere else," the boss said, waving his hand like he was shooing away flies. "Go, don't be an eyesore here."

The owner of the Pig's Head Bar is none other than Dumbledore's younger brother - the wizard who especially liked goats and even committed crimes for it, Aberforth Dumbledore.

To be honest, Maka was really curious - what on earth did he do to the goat?

Not long after, two wizards wearing large cloaks and hoods pushed open the door of the Pig Head Bar and appeared in Maka's sight.

At this moment, Maka was already sitting at the round table in the room. When she saw the person waiting for her coming, she knocked on the table casually.

The two sneaky wizards heard the sound immediately. They looked at each other, then walked to the table where Maka was huddled, and sat down silently.

"Would you two like some wine first?" Maka took the lead and said in a hoarse voice.

"No need, just leave after saying that." One of them almost came to the middle of the table and lowered his voice and said, "What happened that day? Why didn't you show up? The situation over there is not good now..."

"Yes, many people are thinking about how to reverse the failure. Otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to the Lord when that person comes back." Another wizard also followed.

Maka shook her head and asked calmly: "What? He hasn't come back yet?"

"That's right...and no one knows when he will suddenly appear in front of everyone. This kind of life is not easy!"

It can be heard that when the other party said this sentence, there was a strong bitterness in his tone.

"You don't have to worry about that," Maka said. "You haven't done anything betrayal anyway, so what's there to worry about? You know, he is short of manpower right now!"