harry potter book of crimes

John has begun to doubt whether his action was correct - he just accidentally caught some slight doubts at the banquet table and sneaked out. Is this trip really worth it? He also took a seat at the back of the first floor.

It’s not like I’ve never been here before. What can I see here?

Besides, even if there really is some secret here, how likely is it that it will actually happen to be useful to me? Judging from the situation in the past few days, the "Lord of the Living Corpses" has been against it from the beginning.

He didn't have any precautions at all, right?

"Maybe... it's just something that I simply don't want Weasley to find. As for whether I saw it or not, it doesn't matter?"

John thought to himself as he walked along the increasingly dark corridor.

However, now that he has come and taken the risks that he should take, he obviously has no reason to give up midway. The only thing he should do now is to continue to move forward and use his eyes to personally confirm what he has said before.

Does the perceived doubt have a consistent answer?

Of course, if you can really see something "something you shouldn't see", that will probably be the biggest reward of this impulse!

"...No, nothing, everything...at least it is no different from what I saw when I strolled over last time."

John rubbed the handle of the wand in his pocket, his eyes roving back and forth in the darkness, taking in everything in the corridor. If he hadn't been worried that casting a spell here would lead to exposure, he would actually have thrown a few detectors around.

Tried the curse.

Not long after, John finally reached the end of the corridor and stopped in front of a door.

According to the architectural structure of Buckingham Palace, this is right below the corner of the stairs where Ron's footprints were seen turning back. If there is any secret, it seems...mostly in the back garden outside this door.

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But what is there outside? Apart from a piece of grass that has long since died and dried up...or, more accurately, mud, there are only the same bare groves and a small lake - and the area in the middle of the palace.

Compared to the atrium that had been transformed into a garden, there was really nothing to see in the back garden. He had taken a look out of the upstairs window two days ago.

With this thought in mind, John stretched out his hands to grab the doorknob, gently twisted it and carefully pushed it open a little. Then, he stretched his neck and looked out from the middle of the opened door...

Bai Ye did not hang a light source outside today. It was already very dark at this time, and the night outside seemed darker than in the corridor. He waited for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust, and then his field of vision gradually expanded.

"Um?"

Suddenly, John felt like he saw something... In the middle of what should have been a flat open space in front of the door, there was something vaguely standing, seemingly standing upright?

"Is that... a tombstone?"

There are sporadic mentions in the information collected by the Stewart family that Macca McClain seems to have a mysterious large black stone tablet in his hand, which contains the secrets of ancient magic. Of course, John would also like to take a look if possible.

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But the one erected outside is obviously not the stone tablet mentioned in the information.

Although we can't see clearly from here, we can tell just by looking at the outline that there is a neat row of stone monuments standing on the land. Judging from the size... in any case, they look like tombstones.

John looked over there and thought about it for a moment, and finally pushed the door that was only a little open a little further. Then he pursed his lips, opened his legs and walked out quietly. He waited until he turned back and closed it again.

After entering the door, he checked around and found that there was indeed no one else around. Then he walked step by step towards the row of stone tablets that looked extremely suspicious of tombstones.

"The smell of freshly turned soil...is it really a grave? Who could be buried underneath?" He walked forward and soon saw that there seemed to be words engraved on the monument, so he simply bent down and approached one of the tablets.

Look at the stone tablet carefully.

"...Caroline...Stewart?"

There are not many words on the monument. Apart from a few numbers representing the year and date, there is only a name sitting alone in the middle. But this name is something he is very familiar with!

Caroline, although she is a little far apart in the family tree, can still be regarded as his cousin.

In the "workshop", unlike his cousin who was always careless, Caroline was very reliable in her work as a collector of wand core materials. Even he, an unreliable wand maker, had trouble every day.

I often have to trouble the other party when I complete the quota-assigned production tasks every month.

Because Caroline has a good level of dueling and actual combat, and she is very active in nature, she also participated in this mission. So... In fact, if we want to talk about the fact that the other party is dead, from the time he hid in

When the ruins were "shivering", he already knew it.

But……

"Why... are you here? What's going on with this tombstone?" At this time, John had forgotten to keep absolutely quiet, and subconsciously murmured to himself, "Wait! If that's the case, then what else will happen?

Is the tombstone..."

Talking to himself like this, John hurriedly turned around and ran to the side, looking along the row of tombstones one by one.

"Ryan...Gabriel...Christopher...this is Mr. Jonkel!"

This whole row of tombstones seems to have not been finished. Except for a few in the middle, the tombstones on both sides only have dates but no names. Of course, this little thing is not important to John for the time being. What he wants to know most now is

, why do these tombstones with the names of teammates appear here?

Was it done by the Lord of Living Corpses?

It must have been done by the Lord of Living Corpses!

But why would he do this?

To be honest, although the death of his teammates is sad to John, it is not an unacceptable thing. Everyone stepped into this disaster area with the consciousness of death this time. Even he himself, if Bai Ye did not come to him in time,

Even if he was rescued, he would probably have died there a long time ago.

However, since he, John Stewart, is fortunate enough to be alive, he should at least have the obligation to find out some things.

"Let's think of another way!" John, who had forced himself to calm down, thought as he looked at the tombstone in front of him.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"you saw it?"

At that moment, all the muscles in John's body tensed up, and goose bumps appeared on his back.