harry potter book of crimes

Luna, in a daze, sat on the armchair where Hermione was supposed to sit.

Then there was silence.

Not only Luna, but after that, everyone on the tower platform fell into silent waiting one after another under the influence of Hermione who kept silent.

Today's negotiation is the same as what was agreed upon with the twin zombies at the beginning. The time and location were chosen and decided by the humans. But in fact, the location can be accurately determined in advance, but the time is very different.

Difficult.

According to the other party, since the Lord of the Living Corpses still had to deal with the demon going south, three days after the agreement was made on that day, the other party limited the specific appointment time to the morning of the fourth day.

Therefore, whether the time is short or long, they need to wait patiently here for a period of time.

It must be said that this feeling of waiting around with nothing to do is actually very bad. Regarding the future, everyone has no confidence; everyone is actually secretly worried about the recent negotiations; and regarding the recent negotiations,

After everything they have experienced in the past, everyone is even more tired and uneasy.

To be able to persist in resisting in the face of so many powerful enemies such as Haierbo, living corpses, demons, etc., they don't even see much prospects and hope. All they rely on is just a belief.

It was a rebellious belief that was planted by the original Maka, nourished by the abilities and achievements of Hermione and a few others, and sprouted from the grief and unwillingness of losing her hometown and family and friends.

However, just three days ago, everyone saw the body of the person who had planted faith in their hearts - the man who was a genius, who single-handedly defeated two generations of Dark Lords, and was even able to defeat the ancient dark wizard Haierbo.

The stronger, young and strong man who seemed to always be so calm and unhurried, actually died?

No one dares to believe it, but they have to believe it, because it seems to be a fact, a fact that has been completely exposed in front of everyone.

Today, Harry, Safina, Hermione, Delphi, Blois, Sarah...the strength of these people has been fully demonstrated. They can use powerful and mysterious magic to eliminate large numbers of living corpses and kill high-level people.

The living zombies defeated demons several times. They were able to design and deploy powerful ancient magic formations, which withstood the joint attack of a massive army of living zombies and demons for a long time. Even if they were finally defeated, they did not lose too many manpower.

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And even among such a group of people with different abilities and abilities, but all of them surpassed most modern wizards in terms of magic, none of them could find any abnormalities in the ice coffin or the body in the ice coffin.

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Then the thought in everyone's mind that "Mr. McClain may not be dead" became the only abnormality.

Therefore, although everyone has been busy preparing for the past three days, everyone's hearts are in confusion. Some people even began to wonder whether the things they were doing had any meaning.

Obviously, this confusion is the same for everyone at the moment - even Hermione and Delphi, who have more speculations about Maka's death, before the speculation in their minds is truly confirmed, they and other

People are just as uneasy, just as worried, and just as confused.

So they are all waiting here, extremely uneasy, but forcing themselves to wait patiently. Those on the tower, those under the tower, those on defense, those on guard, they may not all realize that there may be an answer soon, but except for

Besides habitually trusting Hermione's dispatches and arrangements, what else could they do?

As a result, time slipped away bit by bit as everyone waited silently.

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The sky refused to clear up as expected by most people, but remained gloomy, as if it would rain again at any time, making the roads Hermione walked yesterday even more muddy.

It was very quiet around the tower. The wizard volunteers always held their wands tightly in their hands and never relaxed for a moment in accordance with the prior orders. This team, which had fought against armies of zombies and demons, had already experienced enough discipline.

Due to Yan Ming's role, and the fact that most of them didn't know about McClain's ice coffin, they just regarded it as performing an important defense mission, and most of them behaved normally.

It was still quiet on the tower platform, although... perhaps "dead silence" would be more appropriate to describe it.

Of course, if you remain silent for a long time, someone will inevitably speak first.

"Hermione," it was Harry who spoke, "I know you must have your own reasons for letting Luna negotiate with the other party on your behalf. Otherwise, with your character, you would never do such the most dangerous thing.

I will only go into battle in person...I won’t ask you what the reason is, but don’t you need to tell Luna what to say later?”

Harry spoke first, and before Hermione could answer, Ginny couldn't help but add:

"Yes! And I think Luna hasn't even figured out the situation yet. This is not only dangerous for herself, but also if the zombies really want to negotiate and cooperate later, they won't be able to negotiate, right?"

However, after hearing Harry and Ginny's concerns, Hermione quickly shook her head.

"Why do you underestimate Luna? Many times, she just doesn't want to think too much. In fact, her wisdom is no less than any of us... Of course, this and today I will choose her to sit

It doesn't matter there." She said this and then said, "In fact, she is the only one among us who has a direct relationship with the living corpse. Today she will be more suitable than all of us.

And I am more qualified to do this.”

Although Hermione's words basically meant no explanation, these side reminders alone were enough to make everyone wait a little more patiently.

Of course, perhaps among the people waiting silently here today, no one is more patient than Luna. Since she has been in a trance these past few days, she is even sitting there right now.

She wasn't quite sure what she was waiting for, but none of this prevented her from putting aside all her thoughts and continuing to be in a trance.

Until...the sky became gloomier, and as soon as one looked up one could remember the seemingly boundless lead clouds above the British land.

“Crack—boom!”

A bolt of thunder suddenly fell, scaring away the seagulls on the reef.

"Is it going to rain again?"

When everyone on the platform was waiting in silence in the atmosphere where a shower was approaching and the air was sticky, without any warning, a thick, slightly hoarse voice spread through everyone's ears.

Everyone was startled and suddenly looked up, but they didn't know when a burly figure as black as ink appeared on the empty seat opposite Luna.