harry potter book of crimes

When Maka saw the light of fire suddenly rushing out of the building in the distance, he immediately realized that it was the Woolworth Building, where the Magical Congress of the United States of America is located.

Unlike the British Ministry of Magic, the United States did not hide their head organization underground. Although they had also concealed the location of the organization, their several relocations made their cover-up seem a bit porous.

"Have all the Obscurials gone to the Magical Congress?" Maka shook her head, "But I'm not qualified to say this. Aren't there also a group of Death Eaters hiding in the British Ministry of Magic?"

At the moment, he had no intention of meddling in other people's business. Needless to say, he immediately turned around and entered the entrance of Jackson Square without any further delay.

This time, it did not go beyond Maka's expectations. When he entered the shack in the West End of Jackson Square, which seemed somewhat heavily guarded, he saw the figures he was looking for.

"Oh! It's Mr. MacLean!" Abigail, who opened the door for him, immediately urged, "Come in quickly, come in first and let's talk about the rest..."

After Maka passed by her and stepped into the house, Abigail quickly closed the door of the shed. There were wizards patrolling outside day and night for the past two days, and she didn't want anyone to see what was hidden inside.

There are so many people who can.

"To be honest, we can hardly hide anymore..." She turned around and whispered to Maka, "Just now we were discussing where to go somewhere else!"

"No need to discuss it, everyone, come with me to England immediately!" Without saying a word, Maka took out some kind of cloth that he had made into a door key, "This is located in front of the main entrance of Hogwarts.

door key."

"I understand the truth," Sirius, who was half leaning against a pile of barrels, looked at Maka with a strange look, "but why..."

"Of course it's easy to hide," Maka said matter-of-factly, "If I hadn't told you, who would have thought this was a door key?"

He paused and then continued: "Okay, hurry up! Everyone gather here, we are about to leave-"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped.

"Where's that boy...um...Joshua?"

Maka looked around the small shack. All the children he had brought out of the dungeon were here, but he could not find the big boy who always looked timid.

After he asked this question, the expressions of the children looked a little sad.

"...We don't know the specifics," Sirius frowned, "but he probably encountered an unexpected situation on his way back here."

"'Go back here'?" Maka repeated doubtfully.

"Yes," Sirius nodded, "perhaps it would be more appropriate for you to ask these children directly for details. He disappeared before we came here, but we picked this up on the path in front of the door."

As he spoke, he pointed to the small round table in the middle. On the small table, there was a smashed cake.

"What's going on?" Macadamia looked at the children.

Most of the children were silent, but almost all eyes were turned to one of the little boys. Seeing this, Maka also set her sights on him.

"...Sir," the little boy said hesitantly, "I'm...sorry, it's...I'm not good."

"No need to apologize, let's tell you what happened first." Maka said calmly.

After that, the little boy's words made Maka roughly understand the whole story.

In fact, the thing is very simple - yesterday was the little boy's birthday. Even though he is not old, he knows that now is not the time to care about this.

But sometimes, it is difficult to suppress emotions, not to mention that he is only a young child. Under the depression, he couldn't help crying.

And Joshua, who never knew how to interact with others, naturally became a little overwhelmed - he was the oldest person here, and he should be responsible for comforting these children who were younger than him.

But how does he know how to coax a child?

Maka did leave a lot of food and drinking water here, but he didn't leave a book teaching others how to coax their children?

But just letting him cry like that is obviously not the case.

Maybe Joshua felt compassion, or maybe he recalled his past, or maybe he was afraid that someone was passing by and hearing the cry.

In short, he impulsively agreed to buy him a birthday cake!

So, after much hesitation, Joshua finally left the shack alone and ran outside to Jackson Square to find a cake.

And once he left, there was no news from him again.

After Maka heard this, she first glanced at Sirius. He didn't need to think too much to know that this guy's expression seemed to say - if I hadn't been able to move more, I would have gone to find someone long ago.

He glanced at another type of child, and the anticipation on their faces was almost vivid.

"Okay! I understand..." Maka sighed, "You go back with me first, and then I'll come back to find him. Do you understand?"

Everyone nodded at the same time.

"Come over if you understand!" He urged again, "There are a lot of people, so just stretch out your fingers and touch them, so hurry up!"

When everyone gathered in a circle and put their fingers on the door key, Maka looked at Sirius again. Because Sirius was still very weak, everyone was squatting next to him now, which seemed quite crowded.

"How is it?" Maka asked, "Can you withstand the movement of the portkey... If it weren't for this emergency, I would have wanted you to stay in the United States to recover!"

"It's okay," Sirius said decisively, "I can tolerate this little discomfort."

"Well, then-"

As Maka spoke, she activated the door key. As the space expanded and contracted, the group of adults and children who were close together suddenly disappeared in the shack in a twist.

…

Almost at the same time that Macca and others crossed the North Atlantic in an instant, the Woolworth Building was still in chaos.

The American Aurors stationed at the headquarters immediately took action as quickly as possible, setting up defenses and those responsible for the pursuit to immediately attack. The other staff were also busy moving the injured people to the infirmary in the building.

Go in.

As for the place where the incident occurred, which was Zoe's office, only the leader of the Aurors came over and made a quick inquiry. After leaving one person to temporarily guard the place, he hurriedly left.

Of course Zoe didn't know anything, but she had to be temporarily guarded like a prisoner, and she obviously felt a little aggrieved.

"...Forget it, it's an emergency after all," she sat on the chair, looked at the Auror standing at the door, and thought helplessly, "But it was really scary just now...I thought I was dead.

!Fortunately, the attacker has escaped..."

However, there is no doubt that she was relieved a little too early.

Just as she was sighing secretly in her heart, suddenly there was a muffled groan from the door, and then she saw the Auror fall to the ground quietly without making any sound.

Immediately afterwards, a wizard wrapped in black robes Shi Shiran walked in from outside the broken doorway. Beside the wizard, there were two guys who exuded a gloomy aura.

"Hmph... humph... little girl..." the black-robed wizard said with a sinister smile, "This is the filing office of the Archives and Records Administration. Am I right?"

"you--"

Zoe was stunned. She immediately discovered that her Legilimency talent was not working this time.

"Don't ask me who I am," the black-robed wizard sneered. "You'd better keep such a stupid question to yourself! Now, immediately hand over all the recent important meeting minutes to me - of course, the most important thing is

Don’t miss out on your Auror placement documents!”

"We won't keep that kind of thing here." Zoe replied tremblingly.

"Really?" the black-robed wizard snorted, "Are you sure?"

He walked towards Zoe step by step, ignoring that Zoe had huddled up on the chair, and almost got in front of her.

"Back then, ever since Lord Grindelwald lurked in the Auror office for a long time, these kinds of documents were hidden here... Do you think I wouldn't know?"

The old and cold voice sounded directly into Zoe's ears, and the inexplicable sense of danger made even the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.

"No, there is really...there is really nothing here..." Zoe shrank her neck and said with a shivering expression, "The director of the Legal Enforcement Department has just arrived - he took away all the important information."

"Huh?" There was a trace of hesitation on the face of the black-robed wizard hidden in the hood. He squinted his eyes to look at Zoe's expression, and after a while he snorted heavily, "If that's the case, then...

"

He stood up suddenly, waved his long sleeves, reached out and pulled out his wand.

"Legilimency!"

The black-robed wizard cast the spell very decisively, trying to directly read Zoe's memory. But the next second, his expression changed involuntarily.

"Occlumency?" He glared at Zoe and said, "Remove your Occlumency! Immediately!"

"No, I don't-" Zoe shook her head vigorously and said in a hurry, "I don't know how to do that...I am born with this..."

The black-robed wizard stared at Zoe coldly and waved his hand impatiently.

"Really? Innate?" he said harshly, "Interesting! What a funny joke -"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the door. When he passed the two people who were following him, he waved to them slightly angrily.

"Take it away!" the black-robed wizard ordered, "Bring this woman and that damn Auror on the ground to me!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Zoe felt a black mist shrouding her eyes, and she lost consciousness in an instant.