harry potter book of crimes

"Uh... excuse me, please... do you know how to get to Hogwarts?... I seem... lost."

Obviously, this sudden sound was actually very inappropriate. Generally speaking, would anyone choose to go to the window of a stranger's house to ask for directions?

Especially, it came out when the Dursleys were looking angry.

Therefore, when the voice sounded suddenly, the Dursleys, the Dursleys and Harry, with six pairs of eyes, all stared at the visitor in surprise.

This is a woman who looks dusty, with regular but mediocre features. She is wearing a washed-out printed T-shirt and light blue jeans. Her long hair is tied up behind her back, but just look at that

The way the hair looks tangled and tangled, I guess it has been a while since I washed my hair.

Her skin looks very fair, well... or to be more precise, pale. That kind of malnourished complexion makes people worry about her health.

Overall, this is a fairly young woman.

"Hogg...Woz?"

Of course Harry's Uncle Vernon didn't know much about this term - he had never cared much about anything about Harry, but Aunt Petunia knew it all.

"Oh! Owls don't come recently, but people come directly, right?" Aunt Petunia put her hands on her hips and teased sarcastically.

"No, I don't know her either!" Harry argued immediately.

"I don't believe it," Aunt Petunia said immediately.

"I won't believe it either." Uncle Vernon immediately followed the rhythm forcefully.

"We know you're going to do something outrageous again!" Aunt Petunia said.

"We all know it, do you understand?" Uncle Vernon said.

The couple kept talking to each other, both with straight faces and acting unreasonable.

"I said I didn't recognize—" Harry was halfway through his sentence. It seemed that he finally realized that he and the Dursleys couldn't make sense at all, so he simply swallowed the second half of the sentence.

"Oh, that's news to me." Harry's anger grew, and he simply choked the Dursleys.

Then, without waiting for the Dursleys to call him back, he turned around and ran across the lawn in front of the door, jumped over the low garden wall, and strode into the street.

"Oh, please come with me! You want to know how to get to Hogwarts, and I know a little bit about it."

Harry thought for a moment, turned back and added something to the woman, and then walked straight forward, regardless of whether she was following her or not.

He's in trouble again this time, and he knows it.

Although he succeeded for a while just now, he would still have to face his aunt and uncle later and pay the price for his rude words and deeds.

Even though he is treated differently by so many wizards in the magical world, in the Muggle world and the Dursley family, he is still just an ordinary boy who depends on others.

But now he can't care so much. He has more urgent things to consider in his mind!

Harry was certain that the explosion just now was caused by someone apparating or apparating. He had seen apparating and apparating several times, although it seemed that not every wizard would make a fuss about it.

.

"Could it be...that woman?"

Yes! Isn’t that woman looking for Hogwarts? Then she must be a witch!

Thinking of this, Harry turned around suddenly and looked at Privet Drive behind him, only to see that the woman had really followed her. Seeing her hesitant expression, Harry couldn't help but feel that she was even more suspicious.

"Why...why do you want to go to Hogwarts?"

Hogwarts had been cast an "unplottable" secrecy spell. He remembered Hermione once mentioned it. But in fact, the effect of this secrecy was not very strong. Although Muggles would never be able to find it, for

Not necessarily for wizards.

"I'm going to...find someone." The woman hesitated for a while before answering.

"Who?" Harry asked.

"He..." The woman hesitated again, mouthing a few times before making a sound, "He... I heard others call him Snape... Professor Snape."

"ah?"

To be honest, Harry has never had any good impressions of Snape - that guy is always targeting him! God knows why! Is it because he is a Gryffindor?

However, this is not the time to think about that. The key is, what is the woman in front of Snape doing? Is she really looking for someone, or is it just an excuse?

"You just said you were lost? But why did you come to my uncle and aunt to ask for directions?"

It was really strange that this woman suddenly appeared and asked for directions. She was just dressed as an ordinary Muggle, and the Dursleys didn't look like wizards in any way. Why did she just hide in the flowers?

How about asking for directions?

Perhaps because of Voldemort, Harry's nerves have been tense recently. Under such circumstances, he really couldn't help but think about things.

As Harry asked, he turned around and continued walking forward. He almost didn't pay attention to the road under his feet. He was hesitating all the time. He had even considered whether he should go to the right if the other party suddenly attacked him.

Dodge...or go left.

But he never expected that the woman's answer would be so direct:

"...I didn't ask your uncle and aunt for directions, I asked you."

This made him somewhat at a loss.

Recently, he often dragged his heavy steps around these streets, and his feet took him to his favorite places.

But now, his feet stopped.

"To me?" Harry turned around again and asked warily, "Do you know me?"

In the entire British wizarding world, there are still a few people who don't know you - Harry often hears people say this to him, but his hair has grown a bit long recently, and the scar on his forehead should not be visible.

right.

Although he also knew that he was famous, almost everyone had to see his lightning-shaped scar before they could recognize him. He had never met anyone who could recognize him as Harry Potter just by looking at his face.

So special!

But little did he know that after the publicity of that audio-visual meeting, many wizards would remember his face. It was just that it was difficult for him to get in touch with things in the magical world during the summer vacation, and he had been worrying about the Muggle world recently.

The situation was something I couldn't have imagined for a while.

"I know you...your name is Harry, right?" The other party looked at his face carefully, as if he wanted to confirm again, "I remember you...you are a student at Hogwarts."

She paused again before saying hesitantly: "Can you tell me how to get to Hogwarts?"

Harry pursed his lips, thought for a while and said, "School is on summer vacation now, and I can't just go back to school... I think you can wait until school starts."

Anyway, let's delay it for a while! Besides testing it like this, what else can he do?

"oh."

The woman nodded, but had no intention of leaving - did she really have some intention?

Harry didn't know what to do.

He turned around, stepped on the curb and continued walking forward, but his whole body was tense and looked stiff, and his walking posture became a little strange.

Should he inform Hermione and the others? But it was still an emergency, and he didn't know how to get out, so how could he inform them?

Speaking of Hermione and the others, those good friends only replied to him once after the last audio-visual meeting, and the content of the letter also made him a little panicked:

"Sorry, Harry! I'm afraid we can't talk too much. We've been told not to reveal anything important in case our letters are hijacked. We're very busy right now, and a lot has happened. We'll talk to you next time we meet.

you said."

But when can we meet? No one would give a specific date.

It's like Hermione scrawled on her birthday card to him: "Hopefully we'll see you soon!".

But, how fast is it?

Before this, although they often had some quarrels, at least Hermione and Ron would not hide from him, and they even had almost no contact with him.

Harry could tell from the clues revealed in their letters that Hermione and Ron were in the same place, probably at Ron's parents' house.

The thought that they might be having fun at the Burrow while he was being restrained in Little Whinging rummaging through rubbish bins made him so angry that he felt uncomfortable.

Because it was so irritating, he threw away the two boxes of chocolates from Honeydukes Candy Shop that Hermione and Ron sent for his birthday before he even opened them.

But that evening, when looking at the dry salad that his aunt served him for dinner, he felt quite regretful.

"As for Maka..." Thinking of that guy, Harry couldn't help but shake his head.

There is no doubt that Maka is very kind to the three of them. Although he rarely sends greeting cards or anything like that, every year on his birthday, Maka's share of the gifts he receives is always there.

I believe that if he goes to Maka for help, the other party will not refuse - but then he must be able to find him!

Harry couldn't help but feel lonely - of course he had been lonely since he was a child, but after he found good friends at Hogwarts, he felt even more lonely once this happened.

He turned a corner and came to Magnolia Crescent.

When he turned the corner, he quietly glanced back - the woman was still following him!

"What on earth is she going to do? Does she have nowhere else to go? Or is her target really me?" Harry couldn't help but take a deep breath, and the irritability and uneasiness in his heart made him a little bit nervous.

I want to touch the wand in my pocket.

"...Is she... from Voldemort? Is she a Death Eater?" He couldn't help but think so.

Continuing to move forward on the deserted street, he passed by a narrow alley next to a certain garage. It seemed that his godfather was here when he first saw him.

Sirius, will you still be here?