harry potter book of crimes

Who secretly came to this community? Why did they come here?

The answers to these two questions are naturally difficult to guess. After all, those figures do not look like the most troublesome "living corpses" at present - they are living human beings, no doubt.

However, it may indeed be difficult to guess the purpose of coming here that is too specific, but coming here at this time of year, and looking at it with some "malicious intentions", both Minerva and Sirius obviously have deep feelings in their hearts.

Everyone has their own considerations.

Because the drama caused by the German Brandt family in the federation headquarters building was too typical. Now that the farce has not passed for too long, anyone who knows it will have some understanding of such incidents.

She had to be mentally prepared, not to mention that Minerva was already familiar with Madame Maxime, who had been involved in that incident.

And since there are people who dare to try to take refuge in Haierbo and try to do things that endanger the magical world and the whole of Europe, it is not difficult to imagine that there are still people who want to use the shadow of this disaster to make profits from the chaos.

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So... yes, now Minerva McGonagall actually thinks that those unidentified infiltrators may be just a few dark wizards who want to cause trouble secretly. It is naturally not easy to deal with such people.

, but it may not really be that difficult - powerful dark wizards like Voldemort or Grindelwald are, after all, in the minority.

Therefore, although Minerva seemed a little anxious about Colin's fainting this time, it was just a rush based on concern for the student's injury. When she actually dealt with the incident of outsiders sneaking into the community,

At the time, I was actually not that nervous.

This is actually quite obvious - Minerva has experienced the rise and fall of the Dark Lord twice in her life, and now there is an ancient wizard Herbo in front of her, making the whole of Europe breathless.

These sneaky people sneaking into the community did not make her panic.

However, Sirius, who had not spoken much since the incident, had a slightly different view of those people than Minerva...

"Then I'll go out and take a look at the situation first."

Seeing Professor McGonagall leaving the ward in a hurry, Sirius paused for a moment, then quickly said hello to Madam Pomfrey, who was looking after Colin, and walked out of the room.

"This kid... is still as restless as before, and gets excited when things like this happen..."

Hearing Madam Pomfrey's muttering faintly from the ward behind him, Sirius, who was standing at the door, couldn't help but curl his lips, showing a slightly nostalgic look.

When he was a student at Hogwarts, Madam Pomfrey was already the school nurse, and Sirius, who was restless at that time, was also a frequent visitor to the school hospital ward.

It was obvious that Madam Pomfrey was already such a sharp-tongued character back then, and now that she meets her, it turns out that she has not changed after all these years.

It's a pity that Sirius Black is no longer the same person he used to be.

Putting aside the slight feelings that floated in his heart, Sirius shook his head, and then ignored the few wizards in front of him who were guarding the door of the ward, each looking at him curiously, and turned to the apartment.

Walk outside.

As he walked, an idea that he had been pondering in the ward came to mind again -

"What does this matter...have to do with 'him'?"

With this in mind, Sirius, who had already walked out of the apartment door, glanced left and right and found that there was no one nearby. He immediately dodged into the shadow of the tree next to him. A few seconds later, a black dog took his place and appeared on the other side of the tree.

The corner of one end disappeared for a moment, and he turned to the other side of the apartment building and disappeared without a trace.

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Finding a few sneaky wizards in a small Muggle community is definitely what Sirius is best at, without a doubt. But this time, he did not use his Animagus to transform around.

After running around looking for the guys who hurt Colin, he turned left and right in the community and returned to the small building where he had talked with Professor McGonagall before.

Then, after sniffing around at the door of the small building, Sirius, who seemed to have found something, started trotting along the street in a certain direction.

Yes, Snape was right when he said something before. After he transformed into a black dog, Sirius was really good at using the canine's keen sense of smell to find things... Of course, the same goes for finding people.

After he wandered around the community for a while, seemingly blind but always looking confidently, Sirius slowly slowed down in front of an alley that was already close to the boundary of the community. In the end, he even

Stopped completely.

I saw Sirius in Animagus form leaning against the wall at the entrance of the deserted alley, cautiously peeking in, and after making sure that no one was there, he dove into the junk piled in the alley.

, not even a single sound was made from beginning to end.

Not long after, Sirius, who was sniffing and touching through various sundries in the alley, finally got some of the feedback he was expecting under a certain window.

"Here?"

He regained his human body under the window sill, and he was raising his wrist to look at a black tattoo on his wrist. You can see that the chain tattoo that seemed to hang down from his arm to his wrist seemed to come to life at this moment.

Twisting slightly, the end has quietly tilted to one side.

That's right, it refers to the room inside the window next to it!

Sirius, who was squatting under the window sill, rubbed his wrists where the skin was somewhat tight due to the activation of the tattoo. He narrowed his eyes slightly and calmly glanced at the moss-covered brick wall beside him.

The tattoos on his body are basically derived from the study of name magic - he, James and Remus were all good at this kind of thing back then, so they were able to work together to create an ingenious and practical Marauder's Map.

Come.

At this time, his tattoo reacted, which meant that... the person he was looking for was probably in the house next to him! Because the reaction to the curse cast by someone here appeared.

"Is it a silencing spell?"

Although it is impossible to determine the specific curse based on his tattoo, based on his many years of experience, it is not difficult to come to this conclusion.

"What is that Snotlout guy talking to in there?" Sirius curled his lips and thought to himself.