harry potter book of crimes

Let's go back to the afternoon of that day. Willie, who was taking a break in the mountains and forests on the border of southwestern Germany, found that she seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.

But it's obvious that no matter how long it takes, she won't be in a hurry - judging from the current situation, the ones who should be anxious are the Brandt family and the International Federation of Wizards.

"Miss, Mr. Butler, we saw Madam Maxim's Talisman Horse and Carriage on the east side of the forest. She should have entered the forest now. Before I come back to report, I asked my team members to guide her.

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While Willie was still taking care of the plants and casually chatting with the old housekeeper and Sirius, a team leader who was patrolling the east hurried over and reported his latest discovery in person.

It's just that this was something that was expected. When he heard him say this, no one made a fuss about it.

"Is Mrs. Maxim alone?" Seeing that Willy didn't speak immediately, the old housekeeper took the initiative to take over the responsibility of confirming the information. "Is there anyone else traveling with her?"

"No." The squad leader immediately shook his head.

"Okay, then you go and join the team first! Miss and I -" At this point, the old housekeeper turned to look at Willy, saw Willy nodded slightly, and then continued, "

The lady and I will come soon."

Willy didn't seem to care much about the fact that Mrs. Maxim finally came to join us. The time it took for the other party to arrive here was not long or short, which could explain the current chaos in western Germany, but it also proved that there was a place not far away from here.

After all, the distant second battlefield has not reached the terrifying level of being almost a life-limited area like the UK.

In comparison, Willie actually has to care more about the Brandt family now. After all, they are the one currently resisting the invading zombie army.

"Sirius... want to come together?"

Before planning to get up, Willy suddenly thought of Sirius who was sitting not far away watching all this, so she asked him a question.

"Oh, I won't! I have to come over anyway, so I can just wait here."

As a member of the team who had sneaked into the company, Sirius naturally had no reason or necessity to come out to meet him, so he refused decisively based on his character.

"Um."

Willie nodded, then stood up and followed the old housekeeper to the east of the camp.

The team leader also said before that he had already sent his team members to guide Madame Maxime before coming here, and the forest was not that big at all, so the people arrived in a short time.

"Miss Blois... and Mr. Butler, hello! This time... I must say, I'm sorry to trouble you."

Mrs. Maxim, who entered the camp from the east entrance, did not seem to be in a very good condition. Perhaps it was because of the recent changes in the war situation that she was already prepared to take on some of the responsibilities. Naturally, she was running around constantly during this period. At this moment

Sirius, who was still sitting there, glanced over there from a distance, and soon caught a glimpse of her tired face.

"What a strong woman." Sirius sighed to himself with some emotion.

Nowadays, anyone who has a little understanding of the changes in the current situation can see that a lot of hard work and dangers are actually "asked for by himself" by Maxim. If he does not take the initiative to take over these things, as the principal of Beauxbatons,

In fact, she only needs to manage the professors and students under her.

However, when Hogwarts collapsed before the disaster and Durmstrang was leaderless? As the principal of one of the top three magic schools in Europe, she deeply felt that there were things that had to be shouldered by someone.

Let's not mention whether she can "carry" it! At least no one can really hate someone like her... Right? Especially since Dumbledore was the first in the history of modern magic.

Down.

So even if Sirius could feel it? Maxim has been acting a little thoughtlessly recently, so he could only express a simple emotion like this.

After all? If you can do it, it’s already good. Not everyone dares to take on this responsibility!

"Sirius Black?"

More than ten years ago? When Sirius was arrested for trial and escorted to Azkaban, Maxim was not the principal of Beauxbatons. But she was already teaching at Beauxbatons at that time? For this former "

"Prisoner" is obviously no stranger.

What's more? In recent years, she has often seen news about Sirius on her desk.

"Have you met Madam?" Sirius stood up at this moment and bowed his lower body slightly towards the other party, "Oh, he should be the president now."

To be honest, there was nothing in common between the two of them. So when Maxim saw Sirius here, he was only slightly surprised. Then he turned his attention back to the conversation with Willy.

She made a special trip this time to discuss plans with Willie, who had promised to aid Germany, and her purpose was naturally not convenient. After Willie and the old housekeeper invited her to sit down casually, she immediately shared all the information she had about the Second World War.

The battlefield information was explained in detail.

She did not shy away from Sirius, who was also present, because in fact, even she did not understand the new changes on the battlefield as well as others imagined.

"In short, the Netherlands and Denmark, that is, the western battlefield of Germany and the northern defense line, have particularly powerful enemies. Because the enemy came so suddenly, the Brandt family team could not even bring back accurate on-site intelligence. I

I just went to the Brandt house and had a brief conversation with Edward Brandt, who had just taken over as the head of the family, but I didn’t gain much..."

Madame Maxime was still talking hurriedly, but Sirius couldn't help but shook his head secretly when he heard this.

"Maxim went to Brandt's house to have a chat, it would be a nice scene." He muttered secretly in his mind.

Of course, since he was silent, no one would notice his complaint - even if what he was thinking about would inevitably come to mind for almost everyone present.

But at least here, that's certainly not the point.

"Madam," the old housekeeper seemed to be more accustomed to addressing each other in the previous way, "I think you should know something about our young lady's previous experience - she and the head of the family both stayed in England for a period of time.

, so it can be said that we are not unfamiliar with the situation of living zombies. The situation has changed in the battlefield this time. From the young lady’s experience... she thinks it seems to be a kind of 'high-level living zombie' causing chaos."

"'High-level' zombie?"

It is conceivable that in fact, the outside world still knows almost nothing about the situation in the disaster area in the UK.