harry potter book of crimes

After Charlie informed Ron that he would ask some of his friends to pick up the dragon from the highest tower of Hogwarts late at night, Ron went to the library to inform Maka and asked

Should he go with them at night?

But not long after, Maka saw a blue-faced Ron in Hagrid's room.

He collapsed on Hagrid's sofa, his hand almost swollen into a ball, and the wound was still slightly green.

"Dragon tooth poison," Maka looked at his hand and said, "Were you bitten by it?"

"Oh - I think Norbert didn't mean it, he was just a little scared..." Hagrid looked apologetic.

"I think this must be very painful." Harry also looked frightened.

"It's not just my hand," Ron whispered at this time, "although it hurts like it's about to break. What's worse is that Malfoy laughed at me to his heart's content when get out of class was over just now, and he also Pretending to ask me to borrow a book, he took this opportunity to touch my wound hard——"

Harry and Hermione tried their best to calm Ron down.

"At midnight on Saturday, it's all over." Hermione said, but this did not comfort Ron at all. On the contrary, he stood up from the sofa and broke into a cold sweat.

"Midnight on Saturday!" he said hoarsely, "Oh, crap! Oh, crap - I just remembered that Charlie's letter was in the book that Malfoy borrowed. He must have known that we were going to get Nobel.

Damn it!"

"It's too late to change the plan," Harry said to Hermione. "We don't have time to send another owl to find Charlie, and this is probably our only chance to get rid of Norbert. We have to take a risk."

"We have an invisibility cloak! Malfoy doesn't know this."

"It's okay. I'll go too. It'll be no problem. Compared to this, Ron, you'd better go to the school hospital," Maka said with a smile, "before your hands start to rot."

"Or I can make you some ointment to treat dragon tooth poison."

The week passed quickly.

But that night, when Maka stood in the corridor and saw Harry and the others emerging from under the invisibility cloak, he saw Harry looking at him with an embarrassed expression.

"Sorry, Maka," he said, "I mean, I'm afraid I can't fit you in the cloak."

"Oh, no," Maka said with a smile, "You can be invisible without the invisibility cloak. Let's go! But I can't speak when I'm invisible. You don't need to worry about me, I'll be by your side."

After that, he took out the Immortal Hidden Potion and took a sip. Suddenly, Harry realized that he couldn't even figure out how Maka disappeared, as if there was no one there in the first place.

This is the most outstanding advantage of the Immortal Potion - it can make people disappear from the sight of others in the most inconspicuous way.

"Well - let's go quickly!" Harry scratched his head and put on the invisibility cloak again, hiding everyone's bodies.

It was a dark, overcast night, and they arrived at Hagrid's hut a little late. Because Peeves was playing tennis against the wall in the hall, they had to wait until he left.

It wasn't until they laboriously carried the large crate containing Little Dragon Norbert to the top of the tower that they suddenly heard a movement in front of them.

The little lions were so frightened that they almost dropped the boxes in their hands. In a moment of panic, they seemed to have forgotten that they were invisible, and they all crowded into the shadow of the stairs.

Maka had to take a few steps out of the way because he was almost hit.

He saw two dark figures struggling with each other about ten steps away from them. A lamp flickered in the darkness.

One of them appears to be Professor McGonagall.

She was wearing plaid pajamas and a hairnet, and was tugging Malfoy's ears angrily.

"Solitary confinement!" she shouted, "Twenty points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you—"

Malfoy hurriedly argued: "You don't understand, Professor, Harry Potter is coming - and he brings a dragon with him!"

"Total nonsense! How dare you make up such a lie! Go away - I want to see what Professor Snape will do to you this time, Malfoy!"

Professor McGonagall held Malfoy's ear and left. When he walked past Maka, he looked at Malfoy's slightly red face with interest.

After getting rid of Malfoy, the steep spiral staircase leading to the tower was unobstructed for them. Harry and his party did not take off the invisibility cloak until they came under the cold night sky.

They waited, giggling and laughing at Malfoy, and Norbert stirred violently in the box.

"Where's Maka? Are you still following?"

Harry suddenly thought of Maka. He looked back, but there was no movement. Hermione couldn't help but become worried when she saw this.

About ten minutes later, four broomsticks suddenly landed from the darkness.

Charlie's friends were jovial people. They showed Harry and Hermione some makeshift ropes they had tied so they could hang Norbert between them.

The four people worked hard to tie Norbert to the rope safely, and then Harry and Hermione shook their hands and said many words of thanks to them.

Finally, I watched the four people take the box away and disappear into the night sky.

They quietly walked down the spiral staircase, finally getting rid of Norbert's heavy burden, and even their steps became much easier.

The dragon is gone and Malfoy will be in solitary confinement. Is there anything more joyful than that?

There is indeed nothing happier than this, but there are obviously many worse things than this.

As soon as they stepped into the corridor, Filch's face suddenly emerged from the darkness.

"No, no, no," Harry whispered, "we're in trouble."

They were overjoyed for a moment and forgot the invisibility cloak on the top of the tower. Just when they were extremely anxious, a thin thing suddenly covered their heads.

"Maka?" Hermione whispered in shock.

Maka smiled bitterly at them, because it was too late. The moment the invisibility cloak was just put on, Filch had already seen him.

"Hermione, you have good observation skills." He and Filch looked at each other, but they didn't rush to joke softly.

The biggest drawback of the Immortal Hidden Potion is exactly this. As long as you take the initiative to be seen by others, the invisibility effect will be completely gone. Just now, Maka was clearly hiding in the shadows behind them, but she was still caught by Hermione in the first place.

Saw it.

"Oh, yes, Mr. Maclean!" Filch looked at him with a vicious look and said gruffly, "I think I should hand you over to Professor McGonagall - Professor Sprout treats students

It’s too mild.”

Under the invisibility cloak, Harry and the others watched worriedly, and Maka followed Filch's footsteps. He even had time to quietly wave his hand towards them, telling the three little lions not to be too impulsive.

When Filch led Maka to Professor McGonagall's study on the second floor, they found that Professor McGonagall was not here. After waiting for a while, Maka discovered that Professor McGonagall was followed by a short, fat, timid figure.

The shrunken little boy - that's Neville Longbottom of Gryffindor.

"Maka!" Neville blurted out in a trembling voice as soon as he saw him, "Why are you here? Malfoy said he was coming to arrest-"

"Neville," Maka interrupted him immediately, "I think Malfoy must have intentionally framed me, but that's not important. Also, thank you for your concern."

After that, he turned to Professor McGonagall and said with an apologetic expression: "Professor, I'm really sorry. But please listen to my explanation."

Professor McGonagall was obviously very angry because she saw Maka in this situation again.

"Before explaining, do you have to tell me, Mr. Potter and Miss Granger, where they are now?"

Maka thought with her buttocks and knew that Neville must have been reckless and confused about the situation, so he spoke out.

He didn't even look at Neville, but looked at Professor McGonagall with a calm look, and said very calmly: "It's like this, Mr. Malfoy had a problem with Harry before, so when Harry and I discussed the matter,

When I learned about dragons, he heard me. I think Mr. Malfoy mistakenly thought that we really had a dragon, but how is this possible? "

"As for what happened tonight, I'm sorry to say it. It was indeed my fault." Maka said, placing a bottle of potion on Professor McGonagall's desk, "I accidentally mentioned it to Harry and the others.

I originally wanted to test a new type of potion I have researched tonight, but unexpectedly they seem to be very interested in it."

"A new type of potion?" The anger on Professor McGonagall's face suddenly disappeared, and instead he showed a shocked expression, "You mean, this is the potion you invented?"

"Yes, Professor." Maka continued apologetically, "Harry and the others originally wanted to come find me, but I persuaded them to go back early. Maybe they and Neville got sidetracked."

Maka saw Neville in a confused state and couldn't help but sigh to herself - even though Neville is usually not very courageous, at critical moments he was so brave and reckless that he was worthy of being a Gryffindor student.

Professor McGonagall obviously didn't listen very carefully. She still looked in disbelief at this moment!

"Mr. Maclean, I would like to know what the potion you invented does?" Professor McGonagall carefully picked up the potion bottle on the table and asked seriously.

After Maka explained the uses, advantages and disadvantages of the Immortal Potion to her in detail, Professor McGonagall immediately decided to tell Dumbledore and Snape the good news overnight. Although Maka had expected it,

But I still felt deeply for Professor McGonagall’s spirit of caring about students and the school.

"So, you invented this?" Snape took a whiff of the Immortal Yin Potion and corked it again, with a rare look of surprise on his face.