harry potter book of crimes
Chapter 317: The Unlucky Half-Blood Giant
To be honest, Maka's life was actually quite stable during this period.
Probably because of his special status, Umbridge did not dare to do anything too outrageous to avoid being caught by him in an already disadvantaged situation.
Umbridge's most important goal right now is to gain a foothold in Hogwarts.
If Maka is now a nail between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, then Umbridge's goal is to become the nail between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.
At least until the nail is driven in, she will definitely not dare to do anything unusual.
Of course, the premise must be that Maka stays in school and keeps an eye on her. Now, Maka is equivalent to a deterrent force against Umbridge.
However, sometimes reality always makes things unexpected go sideways...
“Tuk tuk tuk”
One morning, as Maka was sitting in her office as usual, studying piles of theoretical information that seemed endless, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in."
Maka said without raising her head, but her mind was still between the pen and paper, quite unfocused.
With a soft creak, the office door was opened.
"McLean, let's put the matter at hand aside for now. Dumbledore will come over to see you..."
Hearing the voice of the visitor, Maka finally raised her head, stretched her neck, and looked past the stack of books toward the door.
"Professor Snape?" he said, and glanced down at the manuscript paper again, hesitatingly saying, "Is it an emergency? I still need a few minutes -"
Snape, who was standing at the door, didn't react at all. He just nodded slightly, indicating that Maka would be fine after a few minutes.
"Let's do it first, I'll be ready soon..."
Maka was polite for a moment, then immediately lowered her head, and the sound of writing started again.
For Snape, Maka's attitude towards research is worthy of recognition. At least he himself believes that the priority of magic research should be relatively high, which is a quality that every wizard should have.
Soon, six or seven minutes passed, and Snape waited calmly, without the slightest hint of impatience. Then, Maka finally raised her head again, then took out her wand and tapped it on the table.
With a loud clatter, the tip of the quill was cleaned of ink and quietly lay back in the pen box; the lid of the ink bottle automatically flew back to the mouth of the bottle and was tightly tightened; the manuscript paper was also folded again in order.
They were placed neatly and landed on top of the pile of information on the right.
When the magic took effect, Maka had already stepped out of the desk and walked towards Snape at the door.
"Sorry to keep you waiting - let's go!"
Snape nodded casually, and then the two of them walked forward side by side.
What surprised Maka was that this time it was Snape who asked the question first.
"Have you made any new discoveries in potions recently?"
Speaking of which, Potions, which Maka was best at at the time, is no longer his best subject. Although his current level of Potions is still improving, his speed has slowed down.
If we talk about this subject alone, Snape is still much better than Maka. Especially in some more in-depth potion theories, Snape is not even a little better than him.
Seeing that Snape was interested in discussing something with her, Maka also cheered up. The two of them walked and chatted, and soon they found themselves standing in front of the principal's office door.
"...the side effects of Fuling Elixir cannot actually be called side effects, because that is the principle of its effect, so there is no possibility of eliminating the side effects." Snape said as he reached out and knocked on the principal.
room door.
"That's true, but it's really difficult to understand the pharmacology of Fuling Elixir..." Maka spread her hands and said, "Luck and other things cannot be seen or touched, and there is no possibility of digitizing it.
"
After saying this, the door slowly opened, and the two of them stopped talking.
In fact, since Maka took over the Order of the Phoenix, the number of times Dumbledore visits him has dropped sharply. At least since the beginning of the school year, Maka has rarely been to the principal's office.
When he came here today, he found that Dumbledore seemed to be looking better than before, especially his energetic appearance, which made him look ten years younger.
Of course, even if Dumbledore is ten years younger, it still cannot erase the fact that he is over a hundred years old.
"Professor, what do you want from me?" Maka asked straight to the point.
It is precisely because Dumbledore has not been looking for him recently, so once he is called over, it means that the focus of this meeting is undoubtedly the reason for calling him.
In other words, there is no need for him to talk nonsense, just ask directly.
As expected, although Dumbledore's expression remained gentle, he had no intention of making things up and went straight to today's topic as soon as he opened his mouth.
"That's it," Dumbledore sat behind his desk and looked at Maca and said, "Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim sent a secret message, saying that they encountered some trouble on the Polish border.
As for whether you want to rush over and help them, you can make up your own mind..."
As he spoke, he picked up the wand and waved it, and a small piece of paper on the table flew lightly towards Maka.
"This is what Madame Maxime sent back with her white-cheeked warbler. Take a look!"
Maka didn't say much. He reached out to take the note and briefly read the contents.
This note was written very carefully.
In order to avoid being kidnapped by Voldemort's Death Eaters and seeing something, the actual content is quite limited. It only uses a few code words in key places, but it tells what kind of embarrassing situation they are in now.
among.
"Being driven into a troll colony by three crazy trolls? And then being chased all the way and trapped in a cave?"
Maka just wants to say, can those two be more unreliable?
It was Maka's decision to still let Hagrid go find and negotiate with the giant community, because he is a hybrid giant after all, and it will definitely be more efficient than ordinary wizards. This judgment is absolutely correct.
Dumbledore also contacted Madame Maxime and accompanied Hagrid.
Because Voldemort definitely doesn't care about dealing with those giants at the moment. Even if he still has people to send there, he won't send them there at this time.
In the absence of Death Eaters causing trouble, Hagrid's chance of success is actually very high - even if the giant cannot be persuaded to side with the Order of the Phoenix, at least the possibility of the two sides helping each other is quite high.
At that time, all we have to do is move the remaining giants to a nest so that the Death Eaters can't find them in the future.
But who knew that Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim would be blocked halfway by a group of trolls, a subspecies of giants, and fell into a dilemma.
Yes, even though the giant's IQ is not very high, he can still communicate and influence.
But trolls are different. With the "almond" brains in their disproportionately small heads, let alone negotiation, even their own troll language only has a few pitiful syllables.
That was a group of outright "mobs" living in the magical world.
"Um……"
Maka pondered, going through the matters to be dealt with in Hogwarts again in her mind, and roughly weighing the situation at Hagrid's side, and then decided that he still had to go there by himself.
First of all, Hagrid and Madame Maxime must be rescued. Seeing that they still have room for the pet bird to deliver the message, it means that they can continue to hold on.
But the key point is that the troll swarm is not that easy to deal with. It may not be effective for ordinary wizards to fight them. Those guys are thick-skinned and thick-skinned, and they will become quite difficult to deal with when there are more of them.
But then again, if they were easy to deal with, they would probably have been wiped out by the local Ministry of Magic.
However, if Maka leaves Hogwarts now, who will Umbridge rely on to hold her hostage? Once no one restrains her, Hogwarts will probably become unstable again.
It was difficult for Dumbledore to show up to that ill-intentioned old woman, because he could not openly oppose the Ministry of Magic.
After thinking about it, Maka could only shake her head.
Umbridge cannot move yet.
Although she will be the nail that the Ministry of Magic hammers into Hogwarts, her existence is still useful to Maka. If we alert the enemy now, it will only be in vain.
Waste it.
In this case, we can only let her go, I believe she won't cause too much trouble for a while.
Because as long as Maka comes back, she has to retain some fear, although it is certain that the restrictions on her will be greatly reduced during this period.
"...Then I'd better go there!" Maka said after some consideration, "Of course, I will come back as soon as possible."
After Dumbledore heard this, he still didn't say anything. He just smiled and nodded, that's all.
"Professor Snape, please ask Filch to post a notice. During the period when I am not at school, the magic text class can be changed to self-study by reading books——"
Maka turned around and said to Snape, who was standing silently aside.
"The students who are currently taking the ancient magic text course are basically all sincerely fond of this subject, and there is definitely no problem consciously."
When Snape heard this, he said doubtfully: "Are you sure?"
About half an hour later, after roughly packing up the necessary supplies, Maca immediately set off for the border between Poland and Belarus.
According to the secret text in the note, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim are somewhere in the mountains over there. Since there is a community of trolls there, I believe it won't be too much trouble to find them.
But when Maka went there, she never expected that she would meet a long-lost "old acquaintance" there.
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