harry potter book of crimes

Facts have proved that when people are constantly suspicious of something unknown, some accidents will always happen unexpectedly. The brisk waltz is still continuing its elegant melody, but Maca

Suddenly he stopped whirling in the air and let himself and Madame Maxime fall back to the ground.

It wasn't that he didn't want to continue spinning around a few more times and enjoy the surprised looks from others, but because something happened again.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Maka constantly patrolling the surrounding crowd, Mrs. Maxim couldn't help but ask. But Maka frowned and her eyes continued to wander nearby, as if she was looking for something.

"Someone cast a spell just now," he said with a confused look on his face, "I did sense it, it was in that direction - but I couldn't find it after I stopped."

"What?"

When Mrs. Maxim heard this, she was suddenly startled, and her demeanor and movements became much more alert.

"That gave me a very bad feeling. It must be some kind of shameful curse." Maka said, and then thought about it for a moment, "...maybe it's the Soul Imperius Curse?"

"No, Mr. Edward!"

Maka was still looking for anyone suspicious in the crowd, but while he was still searching, Mrs. Maxim couldn't help but let out a low cry.

"Mr. Edward? What's wrong with him..." Maka quickly looked back, but before she could finish her words, she noticed the situation over there, and her brows frowned even more.

As he saw, the old housekeeper who was sitting at the table and resting his feet was now completely missing.

"Everyone, has anyone seen where Mr. Edward went? I believe he will not act alone - everyone must know this. If you see anything unusual, please inform me as soon as possible!"

Mrs. Maxim's reaction was not unpleasant. She just had a second thought and immediately decided to mobilize everyone present to search for traces of old Edward. And her choice this time was obviously the right one.

Even though a group of people had ignored her before, although these people could not buy her fault, they could never ignore the old housekeeper. When the location of the astonishingly valuable inheritance had not yet been announced,

Edward is like a living key that has legs and can think.

If you want to get in touch with what Nico Flamel left behind, you can't get around old Edward.

"Mr. Ajinbad, did you see what happened just now?"

Under Madame Maxime's inquiry, the president of the Federation, who had been sitting not far from old Edward, shook his head in confusion.

"I was enjoying the dance between Madam and Mr. McLean just now," Mr. Akinbad said with the same frown. "I believe that many people were doing the same thing at that time - although I was ashamed, it was indeed a move.

A good time.”

Maka seemed to regret it at the moment. He seemed to have been a little careless before. If he hadn't focused so much on controlling the air flow at that time, he might have been able to respond more promptly.

But it was definitely too late to think about this now. The only thing he had to do next was to find a way out.

"Madam, although it may be a little late now, we should seal off the school as soon as possible! I will go outside to see how the situation is, and maybe I will have a chance to find Mr. Butler back."

After hurriedly explaining her intentions to Madame Maxime, Maca didn't stop any longer and walked quickly towards the still closed door of the auditorium. Fanny, who was sitting at the table and watching all this, saw that

Like this, he was just stunned for a moment, and then he immediately chased after him.

When Fanny caught up with Maka, they had already arrived outside the auditorium. If she looked back at this time, she could immediately see more wizards walking out of the door of the auditorium.

Maybe Mrs. Maxim has tried to stop those guys, but how could they listen to Maxim's words? Even though this is likely to make the culprit sneak out of the auditorium, they would rather try their best to find the target than stay.

Waiting in the auditorium.

"Sir, why did you choose to come outside so quickly? Did you find anything?" Fanny followed Maka, strode forward, and asked while turning her head.

"No, there are no clues yet. However, it is impossible to find anything if you stay in there now. If you can steal a living person under the noses of so many people, a guy with this ability will definitely not leave any traces.

It's easy to find him." Maka shook her head and said, "What's more, there are too many disturbances in Beauxbatons Castle. It would be very difficult to find someone inside who is not sure whether he is still there or not."

In fact, in a space where the magic response is extremely complex, Maka's ability to sense magic will also be disturbed. It feels like he is being asked to taste some kind of compound fruit drink, with some fruits in it.

Obviously it is difficult to distinguish accurately.

After that, Maka quickly circled around Beauxbatons Castle, trying to find some residual magic fluctuations. If the other party chose to use magic to leave, there would definitely be some people who had cast magic spells left behind.

There were signs. But Maka walked a whole circle, but couldn't find even the slightest useful clue.

This shows that the other party must be very cautious.

"It seems that the other party has only cast a magic spell once from beginning to end, and has not done anything extra since then." He and Fanny stopped in front of the castle again, and Maka thought carefully.

, "In this case, it is impossible to escape from Beauxbatons without using the magic spell. The person is most likely still hiding nearby."

"Then should we go back and look for it?" Fanny asked again.

"No, leave it to Madame Maxime! We have to guard around the castle until she and the professors seal Beauxbatons."

As Maka said this, he originally wanted to release all his spider babies to patrol, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

After all, this was Beauxbatons, not the Hogwarts he was familiar with. If the alien Acromantulas were to crawl around here unscrupulously, even if they were reduced in size, it would be somewhat inappropriate. To be on the safe side, he

However, this plan was quickly abandoned.

"Sir, how about I guard this direction first? You can go to the other side and search again."

When Fanny said they could split up, Maka waved her hand. After looking around again, he stopped what he was doing.

"...No need." Maka said, "Let's stay here for a while and check out the situation first!"

He found that there were enough people around the castle now, so many that it even seemed a bit messy. It was obvious that all the forces were looking for themselves and there was no cooperation at all.

…

Trouble occurred one after another at Beauxbatons, and the frequent occurrences of abnormal situations made the situation more complicated and confusing. No one knew what the situation would be like next.

Compared with this, Hogwarts, which is also a magic school, seems very stable and peaceful.

It's already dark now, and it won't be long before they turn off the lights and go to bed. But before that, the little wizards still have a lot of homework to complete, and not many of them are actually planning to go to bed.

"Harry, have you finished your paper on the history of magic? Let me take a look -"

"Don't ask me, I don't know anything."

"I mean the paper! On the history of magic!"

"Huh? Oh...here you go! Pass me your divination class homework——"

Ron and Harry were still in the common room, busy as other students. This was almost their daily life these days. Especially recently, Hermione insisted that they complete their homework by themselves, which made them even more worried. The sorrow is added to the sorrow.

"Neville, where is your Herbology homework?" Another Gryffindor student suddenly raised his head, rolled up the parchment in front of him and threw it aside, and then shouted to Neville.

"No - I don't know either -" Neville shook his head repeatedly, but his eyes were still on his homework and he had no time to look up and answer.

"Come here again! Seamus, do you want it? Just wait..."

Well, although the scene alone is actually not much better than Beauxbatons' auditorium, at least everyone is just busy with the huge workload, right?

However, in this chaotic scene, Hermione was the only one sitting on the sofa with her book in her arms, reading page by page. She would occasionally look at other people, especially Harry and When Ron, two good friends, saw them working hard on writing, she nodded with satisfaction.

The exam is coming soon, and you still want to copy your own homework? Hermione doesn't think this is a good idea. You still have to remember what you should remember, and doing your own homework is the best way to remember it.

Just when Hermione nodded and planned to continue reading for a while, the door to the common room suddenly opened. She immediately looked around, only to find a figure outside the door that should not have appeared here.

"Malfoy?"

Hermione sighed softly, closed the book in her hand and stood up.

As she opened her mouth, many people raised their heads. They first looked towards Hermione, and then followed her gaze towards the doorway.

"Potter, Granger, Weasley..." Malfoy stood at the doorway, his handsome face looking rather thin at the moment, "Come out...I have something to tell you."

"Why? What's the matter?" Harry frowned and looked at the other person with a somewhat complicated look.

Although Malfoy's attitude is somewhat better now, and because Maka has helped their family before, the two sides are at least not in a tit-for-tat relationship. However, the bad impression over the years has always made Harry unable to give a good look.

"You guys come out first." Malfoy said, turned around and left the doorway again.