harry potter book of crimes

This explosion made Maka feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Peter Pettigrew had also used this magic many years ago. At that time, he used this spell taught to him by Voldemort to blow up almost an entire Muggle street.

He took the opportunity to escape by cutting off his fingers, and framed the charges of betraying the Potters on Sirius.

However, although this magic is quite powerful, it is actually a cover-up and is usually used for emergency retreat. Only those who have experienced it personally will understand that any wizard who has time to cast a defensive spell can survive the explosion unscathed.

Survive.

But this time, Maka discovered that the wretched-looking Death Eater failed to escape through the explosion, and instead blew herself up directly.

"So simple?"

Maka stepped forward, stretched out her foot and pulled the body covered in black smoke.

The full-body binding spell he cast in advance made it impossible for the other party to move even a finger, but even so, he would not use the secret method to blow himself up so decisively. Since when did these people start to be full of malice and selfishness at all times?

Will Death Eaters have the spirit of sacrifice?

"Maka?" Sirius and Tonks had already caught up, "What's going on?"

"I think you must be familiar with magic that can blow up a whole street, right?" Maka pointed to the ground, obviously talking to Sirius.

"That magic Wormtail used?" Sirius reacted immediately.

"A very decisive act of suicide," Maka shrugged. "It seems that the Death Eaters have also learned to die heroically."

Tonks tilted her head with a confused expression, obviously disapproving of his statement. In the minds of most wizards, Death Eaters are the kind of guys who do all kinds of evil for their own benefit, and self-sacrifice happens to them.

It's really unbelievable.

"Let's go! Go back to the area just now -" Maka no longer hesitated, he made a move and said, "Although I controlled the explosion range just now, the movement must have spread. The Aurors were very quick.

I will come here to check. I think this guy was sent out to find out the situation, maybe with the mission of looking for opportunities to cause trouble... Unfortunately, he was unlucky and met us... those Death Eaters

The hiding place shouldn't be too far from there."

Indeed, those Aurors arrived very quickly. Not long after Maka and the other three left, they gathered around like wild cats that smelled a fishy smell. Except for one team that continued to patrol and guard, the other three teams all

They immediately surrounded the explosion site.

"Shacklebolt, a body was found here—"

Three teams surrounded the place, and one of them, a skinny Auror, looked among the pile of sparking wooden boards and quickly found the dead Death Eater Mulciber.

"I've seen it." It was Kingsley who spoke. Judging from his energetic appearance, it was obvious that he had completely recovered from the initial weak state of poisoning, and the recovery was not ordinary. "We don't need so many here."

People, you..."

He was about to dispatch two of the teams to avoid falling into the enemy's plan, but after taking a few more glances, he stopped what he almost blurted out.

"Well... find out his identity and don't miss anything." Kingsley paused, pointed at the body on the ground and ordered.

Needless to say, based on the suspicious explosion traces on the ground, he has already judged some signs. Especially the almost perfect circular separation, which is clearly black and white from one mile to the other. God knows what magic spell was used to limit the explosion.

?At least with his own ability, it may be more than enough to block one direction, but this kind of all-round sealing method is simply unimaginable.

Based on the situation in front of me, and recalling that Black's old house had asked for news about this place before, I am afraid that that guy Maka has already come over.

…

"Maka, did you find anything?"

On the other side, the three of them had returned to the location where they met the Death Eater before, but after a careful search, they found nothing suspicious.

It's not that this place is unsuitable for hiding. In fact, on the contrary, there are simply too many places to hide here. If I have to mention a shortcoming, it is that each place cannot hide too many people, but if those Death Eaters

If we disperse and hide, we can say that we can go anywhere.

"There are no signs of wizards hiding, only Muggles." Maka shook her head.

It's not like he hasn't thought about it, maybe the other party will choose to hide in a container with the Traceless Stretch Curse cast on it to avoid other people's detection. But that thing is really hard to find, because the function of the Traceless Stretch Curse itself is to stabilize it.

It expands the space, and the magic wave it emits is quite inconspicuous, and it is very difficult to sense it.

The Auror office also has alchemy tools for detecting magic fluctuations. Although the inspection range is much smaller than his sensing ability, so many people have searched and searched but still haven't found it, which shows the problem.

"What should we do? Should we go to other areas to have a look?" Tonks asked.

"We can't talk about it for a while! I think the possibility here will be greater..." Maka thought for a while and said, "At least the Death Eater just now has made us understand that they should be hiding here.

Somewhere in Tifki, instead of fleeing somewhere else long ago.”

"Then keep looking!"

As Sirius said that, his body shape suddenly changed, turning into a black dog in the blink of an eye. In the Animagus form, his body senses will change accordingly, especially the sensitivity of the sense of smell will increase sharply.

This was one of the reasons why he was able to escape Auror's pursuit many times in the first place.

Of course, there are still many gaps compared to real dogs.

After he nodded his head at Maka, he threw away his limbs and ran out nimbly. His figure flashed among the messy shacks, and he disappeared after a while.

This Animagus transformation has helped him a lot in the past, and it is also one of his most proud abilities. It is obvious that he has spent a lot of time practicing on it.

"This dog's nose is really nice." Maka smiled at Tonks and joked casually.

In fact, he really envied this practical ability. You know, although his Animagus form can fly flexibly, his sense of smell is... Forget it, hummingbirds have no sense of smell at all!

In the next ten minutes or so, none of them achieved much. Except for Sirius who followed the other person's scent for a certain distance, Maka and Tonks just continued walking around for two more laps.

This place is so messy that it's extremely difficult to find people or things.

But just over ten minutes later, an incident occurred and they no longer had time to search the surroundings step by step, because Maka sensed several rapidly moving magic sources in an instant. They were far and near, but there was no one.

It's not very conspicuous, as if it ran out on purpose.

There are generally only two ways to break through this situation where there are several Auror teams patrolling and searching with tools. One is to break out as a group and concentrate their strength to force a breakthrough; and the other is to completely disperse.

Come on, while the search team can't take care of all directions, try to escape as many as you can.

It seems that the Death Eaters chose the latter.

Sirius moved very quickly. He did not change back to his human form, but ran hard in the form of a big black dog. He stared at one of the Death Eaters and ran away.

But Tonks and Maka hesitated for a moment. One of them was hesitant because of the Aurors who also started chasing, fearing that they would be caught by their colleagues if they were not careful; while the other immediately turned around, thinking

With a hint of suspicion, he glanced at the direction where those guys appeared out of thin air.

"You chase Sirius. If he acts recklessly, remember to stop him." Maka hurriedly warned, "If necessary, use the Immortal Hidden Potion immediately without hesitation."

"OK."

Tonks also knew that Sirius had a bad temper. A wizard who usually seemed quite shrewd would be careless when his blood was on his mind. Sometimes this would be an advantage, but more often it would give him

He brings trouble upon himself.

After Maka gave Tonks instructions, she rushed off in a certain direction. It was similar to what he had guessed at first. Although it was not very close to here, it was actually not that far away. If it had just been

If things don't happen like that, if they expand the search scope a little more, I'm afraid they'll be able to find the right place soon.

Not long after, he saw a shed with a closed door. It could be seen that there were no traces left here, but the more it looked like this, the more confirmed Maka was in his guess.

Because now only he knows that those guys did suddenly appear from one place, and they were within the range of his magic induction. If it had been anyone else, they might have been deceived by the false breakout they created.

.

Yes, Sirius and the two teams of Aurors just now are the best proof.

"After all, it was Kingsley who led the team and knew that the two teams should be left behind to stay in place."

Maka glanced in the direction of the previous explosion, then waved her hand and opened the old wooden door of the shed, and immediately a musty smell rushed out from the dark shed.

He reached out and fanned himself in front of his nose, then walked in with a frown.

It was very dark inside the shack, with only the holes in the dilapidated wooden walls letting in a little light. Maka squinted her eyes to adjust to the darkness, and then looked at the inside of the shack with the few rays of light.

Condition.

He could sense that there seemed to be a person hiding inside, in the shadow in the corner of the shed. There, there was a curtain made of disassembled cardboard boxes, and the other person was hiding in the paper

behind the curtain.