harry potter book of crimes

As a newspaper reporter, Rita Skeeter is absolutely disgusting. She can distort the facts without hesitation, stain the innocence, uglify the beauty, and then add all kinds of gimmicks to it.

False topics use any means to attract people who are ignorant of the truth.

But as a voyeur who gets first-hand secret information, she is very capable.

Rita Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus. Her Animagus form is a very small beetle. In terms of concealment effect, it is even better than Maka's hummingbird.

The shape is even better.

Therefore, even Maka has some expectations. He would like to hear what new news this woman has obtained from other places. Because he knows that since this woman can have the confidence of a lion to open her mouth, she must have something in her hands.

There are some quite weighty secrets.

"...Hurry up and tell me!"

Maka casually waved her hand and cast a silent spell on the outside of the rest area, then signaled to Skeeter. Seeing this, the latter was still uneasy and looked around for a while before lowering his voice and speaking.

"Mr. McClain, the thing is like this..." Skeeter said mysteriously, "Look, there is news that the Indian magic community is sending a delegation to compete, right? But they haven't shown up yet.

Don’t you think…”

"You want to talk about the Indian delegation's stay in Iran?" Maka waved her hand and said, "I already know about this, so you don't need to provide anything special."

"Oh?" Skeeter paused after hearing this, but her expression became more mysterious, with a hint of pride in it, "So, Mr. McClain... do you know which other countries have wizards in Iran?"

Within the territory?”

"What other ones?"

After Maka heard this, she couldn't help but frowned slightly.

If one or two families meet together, it is not a big deal. After all, this game is full of disputes about power and profit. But if there are too many, it will easily get out of control.

He did get the news that the Indian delegation had settled in Iran, and even knew that the two parties were getting together for some unknown negotiations. But if there were wizards from other countries, he didn't know.

"Yes," since this was originally a transaction of intelligence and interests, Skeeter did not intend to be overly pretentious. She quickly continued, "mainly the countries around Iran, and Egypt.

There seem to be some wizards... However, except for the Indian delegation, those wizards should avoid the Ministry of Magic in their own countries."

"In other words, is it mainly the personal actions of certain forces?" Maka said thoughtfully, "Well, what about the joint delegation of Mesopotamia? Since the wizards of Egypt are involved..."

"No, as far as I can see...as far as the information I have received, there are no wizards in Mesopotamia." Skeeter has always refused to admit his Animagus ability, even though she

Knowing that Maka is in the know is no exception.

"Yeah?"

Since the old wizard Bosa had left a good impression on Maka, he didn't want him to get involved. After all, it was unlikely to be a good thing if wizards from many countries were involved -

Naturally, the more friends the better, even Maka thinks so.

"Then did you find out what they were discussing?" He asked, "Also, who is the leader?"

Although the magic circles of many countries are excited about this alchemy competition, there are also many countries that have not had much interest in it from the beginning. Maka is now worried that although some people are indifferent on the surface, they want to secretly

He cheated and cheated, causing some troubles that were difficult to deal with.

"The security there is very tight, and I don't have any specific information..." Skeeter shook his head, but said cautiously, "However, I have got some fragments of their plan to attack the game... As for

Their ultimate goal is naturally the legacy of Mr. Nico Flamel."

This woman said that she had obtained "some fragments", but she didn't say it outright right away. She was obviously planning to wait for Maka's promise.

Seeing that she was showing off her attitude, Maka didn't bother to argue with her and nodded immediately.

"Exclusive right to collect materials, for the first day - I agree." He said, "Of course, the premise is that these so-called 'snippets' of yours are true! Let's agree in advance, and I will also investigate carefully.

Yes, do you understand?"

"Oh, of course! And I guarantee that the information is reliable, because this is what I heard directly from the mouths of those wizards -" Skeeter said happily immediately, "Then, the first point is to 'coordinate inside and outside'..."

There was no need for Maka to lie to her, Rita Skeeter knew this very well. If Maka was willing, she could even directly use violence to coerce her into telling the truth, not to mention that Maka seemed to have a handle on her.

.

Therefore, after receiving Maka's promise, she immediately began to talk about the latest information she had obtained. Although it was only a small part of the other party's plan, it was undoubtedly very useful information, and Maka listened very carefully.

It wasn't until Skeeter said everything he could say that Maka half-closed her eyes and fell into temporary contemplation. But after he thought about it for a while, the woman Skeeter took the initiative to say that she should go back to the auditorium.

Went to the side hall.

"I understand," Maka said, "Your information is indeed very useful. I will let someone notify you when the time comes to open the inheritance."

He watched Rita Skeeter, who was quite knowledgeable this time, leave the small hall, and then walked towards the dining table again.

No matter what the Iranian magic world wants to do, at least the competition itself must be fully prepared. The contestants are on the one hand, and the judges are on the other hand, and they all need to be treated with caution.

"Mr. Hohenheim, everyone," Maka sat back in her seat and said with a smile, "I have kept you waiting for a long time."

…

If Maka's side is the intrigue of the adult world, then the conflict between Alexander and Enns can only be regarded as a simple play between children.

Due to his previous attempt to test medicine with Neville, Alexander immediately entered the small circle of senior students. Recently, he and Harry have had a lot of interactions.

Right now, they were in the auditorium, which was separated by only one wall from the side hall where the participating delegations were, enjoying a somewhat sumptuous lunch than usual. If they were taking advantage of the competition, that would be okay.

It's a pity that the richness is rich, but today's dishes always feel wrong.

"Ahem, I said, can someone try this dish first? After you taste it, please tell me if you can eat it..."

At the long Gryffindor table, Ron was holding up the fork in his hand, his face full of hesitation. But what he was pointing at was a plate of unknown dishes that looked pitch black.

"Rather than that, you should take a look at this plate first..." Harry covered his mouth and said dryly, "What kind of bug is this? It's still moving... Is this... can this really be eaten?"

"These are special foods from the African magical world..."

Hermione's face was obviously a little blue. She didn't even pick up the knife and fork, she still put it on both sides of the dinner plate. But she still tried her best to show her extensive knowledge and introduced to her friends how to see these things.

Questionable dishes.

"Harry, those you are talking about are bamboo insects. The book says that they have high nutritional value..." She cleared up Harry's doubts, and then said to Ron opposite, "The plate in front of you

Yes...um...I'll go to the bathroom first."

Hermione couldn't say anything after all, because she suddenly felt her stomach churn, and then she covered her mouth. Under the concerned eyes of Harry and Ron, she stood up suddenly, dragging her limp hands.

My feet went straight to the side corridor.

"Hey," Ron thought for a moment and suddenly looked diagonally across from him with a smile, "Alexander, how about... you come and help me give it a try?"

"...I...haven't offended you, have I?"

On the other side of the long table, Alexander, who was eating bread with his head down, didn't even raise his head when he heard this. Because today's lunch was so impactful, he didn't have the guts to look at the table anyway.

"Ron, don't bully Alexander -" Harry said, looking at the plate of worms again, and then he also grabbed a piece of bread and gnawed it, "Although I have no appetite anyway, I still have to fill it up.

Are you feeling hungry? By the way, Alexander, I heard that you plan to learn ancient magic script on your own?"

"Well?"

Alexander, who stuffed his mouth with bread, nodded vaguely after hearing this. After he swallowed the food in his mouth with the juice, he continued.

"...Yes! But it's really difficult...there are a lot of things to memorize."

"When Hermione comes back later, you can talk to her. She should be able to teach you how to learn it." Harry mentioned this, but then asked doubtfully, "But why do you want to learn Runes?

At the beginning, many people went to attend Maka’s class, but not many of them really planned to learn it!”

"Um……"

Alexander took another sip of juice, obviously hesitating for a moment. He was hesitating whether he should talk about Enns in front of these seniors.

Although the relationship between him and Enns has deteriorated a lot in recent days, there is no friendship between the two. At least they still have the "shared secret" of lucky chocolate. The matter of using Neville to test the medicine must not be mentioned.

Yes, and in order to keep this secret, the best way is not to spread anything between the two to the outside world.

"The ancient magic texts are indeed very complicated and boring..." Alexander thought for a while, and finally said slowly, "But since Professor MacLean is so powerful, it is definitely not wrong to study with him, right?"