harry potter book of crimes

As soon as Maka finished speaking, there was sudden movement in the bushes behind Ronan. Hagrid raised the stone bow again, but it turned out that it was just the second centaur, with black hair and a black body, and he looked more rugged than Ronan.

"Hello, Bane," Hagrid said, "How are you doing?"

"Good evening, Hagrid, I hope everything is well with you."

"It's not bad. Look, I was asking Ronan just now, have you seen anything weird here recently? There is an injured unicorn - do you know anything about it?"

Bain came over and stood next to Ronan, looking up at the sky.

"Mars is very bright tonight." That's all he said.

"We've heard this before." Hagrid said irritably, "Okay, if any of you see anything, just come and tell me, okay? Then let's go."

"Oh, okay." Maka said, turning around and saying hello to the two centaurs, "Goodbye, you two."

The four of them started searching again. Harry, Hermione and Hagrid chatted about centaurs, while Maka looked around cautiously.

Just as they turned a bend in the path, Hermione suddenly grabbed Hagrid's arm.

"Hagrid! Look! Red sparks, the others are in trouble!"

"You two wait here!" Hagrid shouted, "Stay on the path and don't move. I'll be back as soon as I can."

He crackled through the low bushes, and Harry and Hermione stood looking at each other, looking scared. Gradually, Hagrid walked away, and they could only hear the leaves rustling in the wind around them.

sound.

"Maka, they won't be hurt, right?" Hermione asked in a low voice, "I don't care if Malfoy gets hurt, but if something happens to Neville - it's us who dragged him down and made him come here to be punished.

Yes."

"Don't worry, with Hagrid and Yaya here, the creatures in the Forbidden Forest won't hurt him." Maka smiled at her.

After a while, Hagrid led Malfoy and Neville back, and Fang followed behind while walking and smelling. It seemed that there was no danger.

In fact, it was Malfoy who deliberately scared Neville, but Neville was too timid and sent out a distress signal.

"You two have made such a big fuss, now it's all up to luck for us to catch that thing. Okay! Let's change the team - Neville, you are with me, Harry and Hermione

.Maka, you, Yaya, and this idiot are in a group."

"I'm sorry," Hagrid whispered to Maka again, "but it's not that easy for him to scare you. Let's get the matter done quickly!"

Malfoy obviously didn't want to be with Maka at all, but Maka looked back at him and he didn't dare to say anything more.

So, Maka, Malfoy and Yaya walked towards the center of the Forbidden Forest together.

Yaya is already very familiar with Maka. It always likes to circle around Maka, but it finally remembers the search, but it doesn't suddenly rush up to lick his face like usual.

Maka's footsteps were very fast, and Malfoy had to trot to keep up to prevent being left behind. They walked for only fifteen minutes at most. As they went deeper and deeper, the surrounding trees gradually became denser.

, the path is almost impassable.

The blood stains on the ground became more and more obvious. A tree root that protruded from the ground was splashed with blood. Maka didn't look at it much and continued to move forward. After a few steps, they saw an open space in front of them.

Maka stretched out her arm and stopped Malfoy's progress.

A pure white thing shines in the middle of the open space, looking very eye-catching at night.

"Stand here and don't come out." Maka whispered, not caring whether Malfoy heard what he said or not, and took two steps forward.

Yaya stood obediently on the side of a tree, shrinking his head and looking across the open space.

This is a unicorn. It is silver-white with a silky mane and a long spiral silver horn on its head. It looks pure and beautiful - even though it is dead.

Maka stood quietly behind the branches of the trees on the edge and waited. He knew that it would be soon.

In the silence of the night, the flow of time seemed very slow. Malfoy was obviously a little anxious. He looked left and right, and occasionally glanced at the body of the unicorn in the open space. Maybe it was because of Maka's

existence, or perhaps because of the fear of the Forbidden Forest, he did not dare to move at all.

About ten minutes later, a sudden sliding sound came from the edge of the open space opposite. Maka immediately focused his attention there - the nearby bushes were shaking.

After a while, a hooded figure emerged from the shadow of the bushes. It crawled slowly on the ground, came to the unicorn, and began to drink its blood from the wounds on the corpse.

"Ah! Ahhhh——!"

Malfoy let out a terrible scream. He only froze on the spot for a moment, and then ran away immediately. At this moment, Fang's timid character was also exposed - he ran away without his life.

The hooded figure raised his head when he heard the sound, but Maka had already moved to another location and he was not discovered.

At this time, Maka was leaning on the trunk of another tree. He tilted his head and looked at the figure moving in the direction where Malfoy left, thinking secretly in his heart.

"Should we take action here?" He thought, "Although I didn't deliberately want to meet him here, but now that I have met him, maybe I can kill him again while he is weak and push things back.

It’s okay to push—”

Just as she was thinking about it, Maka shook her head again.

"Forget it. It's useless to kill him here anyway. It's better to take this opportunity to experience his character personally. Well, we also need to confirm the impact of making Horcruxes and splitting his soul on him."

Thinking of this, Maka took a decisive step forward.

"Wait a minute." Maka pretended to be horrified, "Who are you! Did you kill the unicorn? What on earth are you going to do?"

The figure had already walked into the forest, but because of Maka's sudden appearance, he turned around again.

The other party didn't seem to want to say anything, but rushed towards him quickly.

"There are many obstacles." Maka's panic suddenly disappeared. He waved the wand in his hand and quickly released an obstacle spell.

"Everything is petrified." Taking advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, the second curse followed.

Just when the opponent was restricted by Maka's surprise attack, Maka suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves.

"Huh?" Maka looked very surprised. He didn't remember this happening. "The petrification was lifted."

Maka cast a counter-spell, and the unbound opponent immediately ran into the bushes and disappeared into the depths of the forest. From the beginning to the end, Maka didn't say a word to him, which obviously blinded him.

Some calculations.

Almost at the same time that the figure left, a centaur jumped out from behind Maka, ran a few steps in the open space, and looked at the direction in which the figure left.

"Are you okay?" He turned around and asked Maka.

"I'm fine," Maka sighed secretly, but a trace of gratitude showed on her face, "Thank you."

"You'd better go back to Hagrid. It's not very safe in the forest at this time..." the centaur said, and then added, "My name is Firenze."

"Nice to meet you, Firenze." Maka smiled, "But I have to call Hagrid over first. We came here just to find him."

He raised the wand, and green light began to gather on the tip of the wand, emitting a dazzling light in the darkness.

After a while, Hagrid emerged from the darkness on the other side, and he seemed to be carrying someone under his arm. Maka took a closer look and saw that it was Harry. He seemed to be a little injured.

"What happened to him?" Maka asked in surprise.

"He was hit by a figure. I think that was the person who killed the unicorn." Hagrid gasped, "I scared him away, but it's a pity that I didn't catch him!"

Maka looked at Harry who was in a bad mood, her eyes flickered, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

"This is because killing a unicorn is an extremely cruel thing." Firenze looked at the unicorn corpse on the ground and said, "Only people who have nothing and want everything would commit such a crime.

A heinous crime.”

He paused, then turned to look at Harry.

"Is this the Potter boy?" he said, "I saw his forehead."

"Hello, I am." Harry looked at Firenze weakly and said.

"Stop talking now, put him down and let me take a look." Maka suddenly said, "Harry, where are you injured?"

After hearing this, Hagrid asked Harry to lean against the trunk of a tree. He thought this would at least make him feel better.

"Leg - I feel my leg hurts. Is it broken?" Harry endured the pain, pointed to his left calf and said.

Maka leaned down and touched his injury slightly. The pain made Harry groan and break out in cold sweat.

"It's okay, it's not magic damage, and the bones should not be broken."

He took out a bottle of bright green potion, pulled out the cork, and handed it to Harry.

"Drink it and you'll be fine soon."

While waiting for the medicine to take effect, the two centaurs they met at the beginning also came here. They whispered to each other about the body of the unicorn on the ground, and the sound of conversation could be heard faintly.

"The person who hunts unicorns may want to extend his life."

"It should be good, but this is obviously too crazy."

"Yes! The blood of unicorns can extend life, but you have to pay a heavy price for it. In order to save yourself, you slaughtered a pure, weak and helpless life, and therefore received the curse of eternal life. This is crazy.

…”

"Alas - Mars is so bright tonight."

"Yeah, it's unusually bright..."

Harry leaned on the tree trunk, looked at them, and couldn't help but asked loudly: "But, who is that desperado?"