harry potter book of crimes

"...Luna...Luna?"

As soon as she ran to the lawn under the Ravenclaw Tower, under the moonlight, Maka immediately caught a glimpse of a familiar light golden color.

Luna fell sideways to the ground, still wearing a rather strange set of pajamas. At first glance, she didn't seem to have any obvious injuries.

Maka hurriedly stepped forward, half-kneeling, lifted the girl's upper body and let her rest on his lap. Then he began to examine her a little anxiously.

"...Fortunately, I probably just hit my head and fainted."

After a while, Maka finally breathed a sigh of relief. After carefully feeding her a few sips of the potion, he picked up Luna.

Only then did he have time to observe the conditions of other students.

A rough count showed that there were nine little wizards who fell from the tower. Three of them were obviously scratched directly by the black mist, and some parts of their bodies had already shown signs of gray-black shrinkage that had been eroded by the vitality.

Fortunately, when the black mist was heading straight towards the tower, Maka's patron saint deflected its flight direction a little, otherwise it would have been even worse now.

Just as Maka cast another floating spell and planned to take them all back to the castle, McGonagall and other professors also arrived quickly.

"Maclean?" Professor McGonagall asked anxiously, "What just happened? What is your Patronus dealing with-"

She was asking questions quickly, but when she saw Maka's appearance clearly, she was immediately startled.

"...You...Maka, are you okay?"

Hearing this, Maka looked at Professor McGonagall with some confusion, and then he looked down at the other person's gaze. The wizard robe he was wearing was covered with dark red dripping blood, and even some

It is no longer possible to distinguish the original sticky pieces.

"Oh, it's okay! This is not my blood..." Maka said quickly, "We will talk about the details later - I don't fully understand it now. In short, bring all the students in first and conduct examination and treatment immediately."

He used the levitating spell to hold up the little wizards who were mostly in coma, holding Luna in his arms, and walked quickly to the gate of the castle. Behind him, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout had the same expression on their faces.

worries.

The little Professor Flitwick seemed quite calm. He just frowned, seeming to be thinking about the word "Obscurial" that Maka just mentioned.

Snape, who was standing at the back, still had his expressionless face. He looked at Maka, who was striding ahead, and the girl in Maka's arms, and paused for a moment.

Followed again.

Probably because the commotion just made was too loud, many students were awakened one after another. At this time, some students had already ran out of the dormitories and passed through the common rooms of their respective colleges and came to the hall.

Professor McGonagall immediately scolded them sternly and drove them all back.

In a hurry, Maka vaguely caught a glimpse of Hermione and the three of them. Perhaps they not only saw themselves, but also saw Luna who was unconscious in his arms.

But Maka obviously didn't have time to explain anything to them yet.

After walking all the way to the campus hospital, Madam Pomfrey was waiting by the corridor - her office was on the other side of the corridor, and she was safe and sound at this time.

But the ward was a complete mess.

Inside, not only was there a big hole in the outer wall, but even the interior was extremely messy as if it had been swept by a hurricane. Joshua huddled in the corner of the room, seemingly fainting.

Professor Flitwick, who followed, quickly cast a repair spell. For a moment, various damaged objects immediately flew up and began to be pieced together one by one.

The collapsed hospital bed creaked and straightened, the torn sheets and quilts automatically closed the cracks, the fallen portraits were rotated and hung back on the iron nails on the wall, and the broken bedside tables were pieced together piece by piece...

…

When the last brick in the damaged wall was automatically filled into the brick hole, everything became intact as if it had never happened.

Of course, except for the big spider leaning in the corner of the ward.

After Maka glanced at the dead "Little Eleven", she first placed the little wizards floating behind her, Joshua in the corner, and Luna in her arms onto the empty hospital beds one by one.

"...There is actually a spider here," Professor Flitwick stared cautiously at Little Eleven with four pairs of spider legs bent, and asked hesitantly, "Did we miss one before?"

"No, that was raised by me." Maka said with some seriousness, "In fact, I originally kept it here to monitor it, but I never thought..."

"Surveillance?" Professor Sprout on the side suddenly looked sideways and asked, "Surveillance for what?"

"Have you forgotten?" Professor Flitwick soon showed a thoughtful look when he heard Maka say this, "There should have been a patient lying in this ward before."

Maka nodded slightly.

"Professor Snape, did she take the antidote you prepared?" He turned around and asked.

"That's right." Snape's expression looked a little gloomy, "But it takes time for the antidote to take effect. She shouldn't wake up tonight."

"Maybe there are other reasons?" Maka seemed a little absent-minded and answered casually, "Maybe it's because of the Obscurus's physical problem, or something else..."

He paused for a moment, but then immediately waved his hand: "Professor, Madam Pomfrey, let's check the students first, and we'll consider the rest later."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked to the bed closest to him.

The moon is quite bright tonight, and its cold silver light not only illuminates the vast campus outside the castle, but also makes the wards appear transparent.

While carefully examining a student who had been eroded by the energy of the Obscurus, Maka seemed to catch a glimpse of something dark out of the corner of her eye.

He immediately turned his head alertly and looked out the window at the lawn, but found nothing.

"……what?"

Maka frowned, thinking that she shouldn't be dazzled. But the lawn in the school yard is so flat that you can see everything from here, and there is no way to hide people.

Still a little worried, he decided to go outside and investigate more carefully after confirming that these students were fine.

…

Late at night, after searching several times inside and outside the campus, Maka returned to the ward.

After careful examination of those students, the casualties caused by this accident have been determined.

Except for Helen Schon, there were a total of ten students including Luna. Three of them were seriously injured due to being eroded by the energy of the Obscurus. The others only suffered varying degrees of physical damage.

If this incident had happened in the Muggle world, those bruised and bruised students would have died young. They had to be thankful that this incident had happened in the magical world after all.

As long as it is purely physical damage, in most cases as long as you still have breath, it is very likely to be cured quickly with the help of powerful healing potions and restorative spells.

And those students who were harmed by terrible magic were obviously even more fortunate.

Because here is not only Snape, the heavyweight potions master, but also Maka, who already knows something about the Obscurial.

It may take a lot of effort, but it's probably just a matter of time before you can recover.

As for Joshua who fainted, he was miraculously unscathed. Judging from his physical condition, it would be more reasonable to say that he fainted from shock rather than from being injured.

However, at this moment, Maka obviously didn't have much thought to concentrate on treating them. He was more concerned about Miss Lovegood, who was sleeping soundly on the hospital bed.

Well, it's the same even if the girl didn't actually suffer much harm.

In fact, before Maka left the ward to search, Luna had already woken up once. She was in pretty good condition, except that there was a light bruise on her forehead, probably from a bump somewhere.

That's all.

When she saw Maka with a worried look on her face, she still had that dazed look on her face. She smiled leisurely at Maka and asked him in a dreamy voice if she wanted to go look for nymphs in the mistletoe together at Christmas.

hook.

Right now, Maka was sitting on the stool beside her hospital bed, quietly looking at the soft contours of her face. Her long, delicate pale golden hair was spread out between the pillows, and with the clear moonlight, it looked like mist.

of brilliance.

This calming picture made the restlessness in Maka's heart calm down a little.

Only now did he have time to sort out his thoughts and replay everything that happened tonight in his mind several times.

First, there was the secret manor where the Obscurial One was hiding. Zoe, who appeared during the replay spell phenomenon, seemed to want to say something. But it was a pity that before she could finish her words, she was suddenly controlled by the old wizard Lun.

Grindelwald of Nigeria was dispersed.

There is no doubt that Zoe obviously knows the truth, or some clues close to the truth. And these are things that Greenwald absolutely does not want Maca to know.

He still remembered that Zoe said that she had read part of the memory of the old wizard Lenny.

However, Lenny himself was blown to pieces by Grindelwald very decisively, which directly caused Maka to have to change all her clothes.

Well, let’s not talk about trivial things like changing clothes. The key point is that at the same time that Lennie turned into a shower of blood, Hogwarts was suddenly attacked by the Obscurial.

That Helen Schon was indeed not a good person, and Maca had always had a vague suspicion about this. However, just because of this situation, he couldn't help but have an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

just like……

"I always feel... I might have missed something." Maka's eyebrows tightened slightly again.