harry potter book of crimes

The Whomping Willow feels that he may be unlucky this year.

Why?

Why do those damn caterpillars have to go all over themselves to spin cocoons? Why are those cocoon threads so tough and strong? And if you say you want to spin a cocoon, just spin it! Why do you just tie it up like a broken spindle?

If I had known I shouldn't have taken it seriously from the beginning, I should have shaken off those little spitting bugs while I was still able to move. If I had done that earlier, I wouldn't have ended up like that unable to move later.

An embarrassing situation?

But the good thing is, it's a tree.

For these days, even if it is wrapped so that it can hardly move, it does not prevent it from absorbing water and nutrients from the ground. As long as it does not starve to death and waits for the dead bugs on its body to break out of the cocoon and leave, then the cocoon silk that trapped it will

Sooner or later it will become inactive and age, right?

Yes, just like now!

Just when Ms. Kern was standing not far away and looking at this strange tree, she saw that this big tree covered with cocoon silk and hung with empty cocoon shells suddenly began to twist crazily. This

The scene does seem a bit ridiculous, but even Kern wouldn't understand it. At least the Whomping Willow is serious - it wants to get out of trouble, move freely again, and beat up all the guys who try to get close to it.

!

"Tsk-"

During the violent twisting, the cocoon silk threads, which were originally strong but now finally began to wither and become brittle, were broken and torn, and more and more cocoon silk threads and cocoon shells fell on the grass under the tree.

Perhaps this scene was a bit strange, even Kern had never seen it before, which made her stay aside and watch quietly with interest, probably because she wanted to see the result of the tree's struggle.

"Oh, is it a hybrid between 'Crazy Man's Tree' and some other tree? But it's much smaller than the Crazy Man's Tree I saw at that time."

After watching the Whomping Willow twisting and turning for a long time, Kern seemed to have retrieved information about tree species similar to this magical tree from his distant memories.

After just muttering something in ancient Greek, she shook her head hesitantly.

"But, what are these cocoons?" she asked to herself, "There are many, many ways to tie up the crazy tree, but using cocoon silk... what kind of insect is this?"

Kern was thinking about it, but he didn't really have to figure it out. He was just looking around and thinking about it during his leisure time.

And just as she leaned over to pick up a cocoon shell and thought to herself, the Whomping Willow, who tried its best to twitch every piece of paper, finally shed most of the cocoon silk from her body, leaving only a small amount still entangled.

Hang it on a hook and flutter in the wind.

However, after all this tossing, it had obviously expended too much strength, and its branches were hanging weakly and trembling slightly, making it seem like the whole tree had lost its energy.

Naturally, Kern wouldn't help it or anything, and in fact, the Whomping Willow didn't really need help. On the contrary...

"Um?"

Ms. Kern raised her head and took another look. Suddenly, as if she had discovered something again, she raised her head and let out a light sigh.

From her angle, she could vaguely see that among the not-so-dense branches of the Whomping Willow, there was an intact cocoon hanging there alone.

The bugs are still there, and the cocoon silk seems to be as tough as ever, stubbornly surviving the crazy dance of the Whomping Willow just now.

But it is obvious that when there are enough viable cocoon silks, they can tightly tie the Whomping Willow to prevent it from moving randomly. But now, there is only one cocoon left, which has become very weak.

Li Gu, when the Whomping Willow regains its strength, sooner or later it will be pulled off its branches.

At that time, it may not be able to survive the strong whipping until the day it breaks out of the cocoon.

Kern thought for a while and felt that the tree would probably not let go of this little thing, so he finally raised his hand and took it off the high branch, letting it fall gently into his palm.

"Just think of it as having a pet to relieve your boredom."

This cocoon may not look big from a distance, but it's actually quite big. It's quite heavy in your hand. Kern weighed it gently, and stopped looking at the trembling and resting Whomping Willow tree.

Taking the cocoon with him, he walked towards the lake unhurriedly.

…

It is a rare thing for a Florber caterpillar to form a cocoon and turn into a butterfly. Because it is so rare, even Kern did not recognize it. However, insects break out of their cocoons quickly and slowly. Most of the troops have flown away, but there are still so many people left behind.

It's not unusual for one or two to fall behind.

Just like among living corpses, there are always a few lucky ones like Silly Bo. Because Luna saved it, it will no longer be involved in some complicated things; and among demons, there are always those like "

An alternative individual like Greed actually wants to kill other people of the same kind.

As for whether Hermione and the others are considered alternative existences among human beings, it is hard to say. They just hope that they are not a minority among the minority, otherwise, this resistance cause will never see the future.

Where is it?

Of course, what Hermione and others are more concerned about at the moment is not this, but... If the Lord of the Living Corpses is really Maka, then what are his plans now? Why would he rather waste so much effort?

You have come up with this cooperation negotiation, but you have never acknowledged it personally?

Through Luna's previous judgment, Hermione and Delphi once again confirmed the possibility that the Lord of the Living Corpses is Maka. Even though there is still no conclusive evidence to completely prove it, they have begun to use this judgment as a basis.

Let’s wonder what happened to Maka during this time.

"Tomorrow it's time for us to go to England to finish the rest of the negotiations, and then maybe we can really cooperate to deal with those demons." Hermione looked at everyone here and said, "To be on the safe side, I want to share half of the people here.

In the past, the remaining people will stay here in the camp and make next plans based on the situation."

After the negotiation, everyone returned to the Granger camp and began to discuss the next action plan.

However, no matter how urgent the situation was, the news that the Lord of the Living Corpses might be Maka still made everyone feel complicated and it was difficult to concentrate for a while.

But... yes, after all, the cooperation has not been completely negotiated, and we may have to fight side by side after a long absence. There is always time to figure out some of the reasons.

At this moment, Bill, who was sitting at the other end, suddenly knocked on the edge of the table, holding a report material in his hand and frowning.

"By the way, there is another not-so-good news that I must tell you," he said seriously, "It is true that the devil hasn't discovered anything more yet. Maybe it really is the Lord of Living Corpses... Well, it's Maka.

I don’t know... In short, the clouds are still spreading from the UK to France, and have already crossed half of the English Channel - regarding this issue, I think we must make preparations early!"