harry potter book of crimes

The next morning, Maka returned to Hogwarts before the start of the third class.

He didn't show any abnormality about what happened last night. Not only that, he even went to give lectures to his classmates as usual.

Dumbledore's death had a big impact on the young wizards, but with the calmness shown by the professors, everyone gradually accepted this sad fact.

In other words, most students were actually distracted by something.

Because after news of Dumbledore's death reached the Ministry of Magic immediately, Umbridge was temporarily recalled.

However, since this is only a "temporary" recall, she may return to Hogwarts again and bring new troubles to everyone.

The fact that the frustrating Umbridge was gone for the time being was enough for the little wizards to breathe a sigh of relief.

"...Okay, this class will end here. When class comes tomorrow, everyone remember to hand in a copy of the interpretation notes of the rune character group. Let's finish the get out of class!"

On the podium, Maka waved her hand, then picked up the textbook and turned around and walked towards the door.

"Professor Maclean, what's the length of the notes?"

Maka, who was stopped by Hermione, turned around and spread her hands casually.

"There is no limit to the length," he said. "Of course, I will write an annotated interpretation note for each combination, but I won't accept it - use more!"

Probably because Maka's two magic literature "shows" were too shocking, even though Maka, an incompetent teacher, had missed several times, the students' enthusiasm for this course only increased.

drop.

Of course, the fact that the textbook written by Maka is very easy to read may be one of the reasons. It was originally edited from his own research notes. Rather than using it as a classroom textbook, it is actually more suitable for self-study.

Some.

After giving his last words of advice to his classmates, Maka walked out of the classroom at a leisurely pace. But before he took a few steps in the corridor, Hermione in the classroom had already packed her things and caught up with him.

"Maka, we have something to tell you..." She came to Maka's side and said softly, "You know, because neither Harry nor Ron took the ancient magic text class, I will tell you-"

"Huh?" Maka turned her head and stopped, "What's the matter?"

"We'll meet at Hagrid's place after the last class in the afternoon!"

Hermione said, and was about to rush to the classroom for the next class, but she probably felt that it was inappropriate to talk to herself like this, so she stopped again.

"...Um, what do you think?"

"Oh, of course... no problem." Maka nodded, "Speaking of which, I have only met Hagrid once since he came back, and we haven't even had a proper conversation with him... Just enough to chat for a few words."

…

In the afternoon, Hermione and the others naturally had classes to attend. But after Maca finished her second class of the day, she had no reason to stay in the office.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still one class after school today, Maka went to Hagrid's hunting cabin first.

“Bang bang bang”

No way, the door to Hagrid's cabin seemed to be a little loose recently, and there was quite a lot of noise when he knocked on the door. But after Maka knocked on the door, Yaya's usual barking sound didn't come from inside.

"...Have you gone out?" Maka glanced at the Forbidden Forest subconsciously, and then suddenly slapped her forehead, "Does it mean that he still got his precious brother back?"

Without thinking much, Maka immediately walked towards the edge of the forbidden forest not far away.

But before he stepped into the Forbidden Forest, he suddenly heard a vague muffled sound coming from the forest, and then a small group of birds suddenly jumped up in the sky above the Forbidden Forest, huffing and puffing away into the distance.

Fly away.

"It seems that Hagrid has indeed brought Grawp back..." Maka shook her head, "Fortunately, his younger brother is a bit stunted, otherwise the forest might not be able to hide him!"

Most adult giants are taller than trees, and even the trees in the Forbidden Forest are not short. But if there is a giant inside, you can definitely see it right from the window of Hogwarts Castle.

As he walked towards the direction where the birds were frightened, he was thinking about how to properly arrange Hagrid's troubled brother.

Because the destination was clear, Maka started running quickly and soon heard a sound of fighting.

When he passed the trunks of several trees, he suddenly saw a familiar scene - Hagrid was being beaten up by his big brother.

Okay! To put it bluntly, Graup was probably just having a "giant-like" play with his brother.

Among the thicker trees, Graup was tied around the waist by several strong ropes.

But I don’t know if Hagrid accidentally walked into the range of the rope, or if he deliberately wanted to strengthen the relationship with his brother. Right now in front of Maka, Hagrid was lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, being held down by Grawp.

The upper part of the body was slapped hard against the high-rising part.

"Hagrid!" Maka stretched her neck and asked, "Are you okay? Do you want to help?"

"No, no need... ow! Graup, be gentle! You bad boy... oh! Remember... the etiquette my brother taught you... yaa! No, it's not 'baiya'... it's 'etiquette'

!”

"...Look who's here! Oh...ask your brother Maka...oh! Say hello!"

"Hagrid - isn't this seniority right?" Maka reminded, "Judging by his age, I probably have to call him brother!"

"No, Maka...oh!" Hagrid groaned, "What if little Grawp...ouch! I mean, if he doesn't study hard, he will only be able to...oh!

You can only be a senior."

Maka shrugged indifferently, leaned against the tree trunk next to him, and stared at the brothers for a while. At the same time, he took the opportunity to chat with Hagrid.

"...Okay, I think you two should stop playing." Maka took out her staff and waved it casually, pushing Grawp over and dragging Hagrid away from the length of the rope.

"Just talking to you like this, I'm tired of listening to you no matter how tired you talk!"

Hagrid straightened up with difficulty, and while breathing heavily, he rubbed his buttocks. It seemed that although Grawp must have only used a small amount of force, the force was still very fierce.

Graup, who was pushed to the ground, stood up again within a few moments and looked around with a confused expression, as if he wanted to find out who pushed him.

But after just a few glances, he zeroed in on Hagrid's position and started running towards it.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the clang of the rope being tightened, the two big trees that Hagrid used as tethers creaked and groaned, and even the roots of the trees loosened slightly.

It looked like those two trees would be ripped out of the ground by their roots before long.

Because his momentum was blocked by the rope, Graup fell to the ground again with a bang, causing a cloud of dust to fly up.

"Wait a minute, little naughty boy...brother will play with you later!"

Hagrid stretched out his hands and made a "stop" motion, and spoke at a slower pace, as if he wanted to teach Grawp a few more commonly used words first.

Grawp sat on the ground, shook his round head like a rock, and then watched Hagrid dancing and gesticulating towards him with a puzzled expression.

"Look, who's here to see you?" Hagrid pointed back at Maka and said to his brother seriously, "When you see someone, say hello - say 'hello'!"

Maka saw that he was very serious in teaching, so she also walked forward and stood next to Hagrid.

"Try, little one - try it!" Hagrid coaxed Grawp, "say - 'Hello'!"

Grawp swayed and looked left and right at Maka for a while, then suddenly leaned forward and got in front of Maka.

"Roar--"

Maka reached the staff between Grawp's and her own faces in time, and an invisible barrier suddenly formed, blocking all the roars mixed with saliva in front of her.

After Grawp finished his breath and stopped his sudden roar, he took away the staff in front of him and looked at Hagrid.

"Before letting him learn etiquette, I think you should teach him some more basic things," Maka spread his hands and said, "Also, it may be necessary to follow the giant's education method to make him remember it first."

"The giant's education method?" Hagrid asked curiously, "What is that method?"

"It's very simple. For example, if I want him to remember my name, then..." Maka said, "We have to do this-"

Before he finished speaking, Maka put her staff on the ground for a moment, and the ground roiled. Then the giant hand of mud and stone suddenly stretched out, grabbed Graup's head and pulled it in front of him.

"Maka——" He stretched out his hand and pointed at himself, and then shouted his name loudly with the amplifying spell.

Grawp obviously didn't buy it, because his head was grabbed by Maka, and he struggled for his life. His two big hands pulled hard on the fingers of the giant mud and stone hand, and occasionally hit him twice hard.

For a moment, clods of earth and gravel flew everywhere.

However, the giant hand that can replenish its concentration at any time is obviously not afraid of this. Even if it is broken by him, it will re-gather in the next moment and grab his head again.

Maka adjusted the volume of the amplification spell, focused the sound into Grawp's ears, and shouted her name loudly again.

After repeating this for a dozen times, Grawp seemed to realize that he couldn't get rid of the giant hand, so he finally responded to Maka's cry.

"M-Maga?"

Upon seeing this, Maka let go of Graup. Graup immediately shook his head, which was shaken by the loud sound, and then moved his butt back, further away from Maka.

Maka didn't speak, and pointed at herself again.

"Maka!" Graup immediately covered his head, and then called Maka again.

"I can't learn this method!" Hagrid said with regret as he rubbed his butt.