harry potter book of crimes

Maka is not a person who likes to be sensational... well, at least not on the surface. If I have to say it, he is actually more pragmatic, and he pays more attention to efficiency in dealing with others.

So why did he take the initiative to talk about family ties when facing Lucius at Malfoy Manor this time? Is it really just to give Lucius enough time to mentally prepare?

The facts tell us that Maka is still the same Maka, and he still doesn't have much sympathy for the suffering Malfoy father and son. The reason why he cares so much about Lucius's state of mind is simply because he has already made a decision.

"Mr. Malfoy, please remind your house elves - for the next time, you must not enter this room without order."

In an empty room on the top floor of the mansion, Maka was scribbling on the floor, apparently sketching a rather complicated rune pattern.

Even Snape had only seen Maka's strange use of ancient magical literature a few times.

At the moment, he was standing quietly on the side, his eyes fixed on the gradually forming pattern on the floor, as if he wanted to see some clues from it.

Snape had also read through the textbooks that Maka used for his students many times. Now when he looked at the rune arrays that Maka had constructed with his own hands, he could only regretfully find that they were on two completely different levels.

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"...In this kind of formation, the combination of ancient runes is basically not used?"

After watching for a while, Snape couldn't help but ask. After hearing this, Maka nodded immediately, but the speed of drawing the magic text on his hand did not slow down at all.

"Well, how do I put it..." He explained casually, "To put it simply, the meaning of the ancient runes is too vague. A simple combination may not be a problem, but if the combination is too complex, it will be difficult to do it.

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He said, but added a special sentence: "Of course, as the 'last ancient magic text', it can play a very important role in guiding students to get started. It can even be said that it is irreplaceable.

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At the beginning, Maka herself also started with runes. Without it, Maka would not have been able to understand how to understand more in-depth runes.

After he squatted on the ground and tinkered for a while, a tangled rune array was finally completed.

Although it is just patterns and lines scrawled on the floor with pen and ink at the moment, when it is infused with magic power, it will bloom into a beautiful blue light.

"Mr. Malfoy," Maka stood up and told Lucius, who was also standing uneasy outside, "Although I told you about Draco's condition before coming here. But I

I think you'd better listen carefully again, including what you need to do later..."

"Remember, Draco is still the same Draco, your son," he paused and added, "He may show a completely different personality than before, and may say a lot of nonsense...

He might even use begging or scolding to disturb your heart..."

"However, as long as you find a way to awaken the other half in Draco's heart, even for just a moment! I will firmly seize the opportunity to help him recover."

At this point, Maka took out his staff and waved it casually, and a small statue immediately flew out from the pocket on his waist. The statue was seen getting bigger and bigger in mid-air. When it fell to the map,

When he was in the center of the formation, he had completely changed back to his original appearance after being petrified.

"Remember carefully what I said to you before." Maka reminded again.

Draco's appearance after being petrified naturally did not change at all. The anger and panic at that time were still vivid on his face. And his expression naturally had a great impact on Lucius.

"Draco..."

Seeing his son's petrified state, especially the panic and fear on his face, Lucius seemed to feel his heart being tightened.

Although he, a father, usually does not dote on his children as much as his mother, Narcissa, and sometimes even teaches them harshly, it does not mean that he does not love his children.

And since Maka also needed him to reveal his true feelings next, he did not suppress the other party's emotions with words. Because it can be seen that after the series of mental preparations just now, Lucius has been able to barely restrain his inner agitation.

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"Are you ready?"

Maka asked one last time while taking out another potion bottle from her waist.

On the other side, Lucius rearranged his face, and after standing directly opposite his son, he calmed down and nodded. At this moment, Draco was within the rune formation, and Lucius was within it.

Outside, the distance between the two is like an unbridgeable chasm.

There is no way, Maka said it earlier - even one failure is not absolutely difficult to accept, but if you walk into that formation, everything will be over.

After Lucius nodded to confirm, Maka immediately waved the staff again, causing the potion bottle with the oak cork to fly smoothly to the head of the stone statue.

The medicine bottle is tilting, and the potion inside is pouring out little by little.

As the liquid drops from the head of the stone statue, the petrifying effect is continuously weakened and eliminated wherever it passes.

In fact, this process is not long. The effect time of the Mandrake resurrection potion is quite short. But in Lucius's feeling, these few tens of seconds seem as long as several months.

Of course, Maka didn't completely lift Draco's petrification state. All he wanted was to be able to talk normally. Soon, when he noticed that Draco's eyes began to tremble slightly, he immediately took the potion bottle back.

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"...Ah! You are lying to me! No..."

Draco's thoughts were obviously still stuck on the moment when Maka petrified him. At that time, he mistakenly thought that Maka was going to kill him on the spot. But at the last moment, when he realized that he was completely

Only when my face was numb did I realize that I had been cheated.

Then, he completely lost consciousness.

Now that he was partially lifted from the petrification effect, he couldn't help shouting, but it didn't take long for him to find that he had arrived in a new environment.

"……Father."

"Draco," Lucius looked at his son's face with a complicated expression, "Draco... you... are you feeling okay?"

As Maka said before, Draco is still the same Draco. When facing his father, his face showed an unspeakable hesitation, as if he was remembering something.

Sons worship their fathers. This sentiment has been commonplace since ancient times, and there is nothing unusual about it. Draco is one of these people.

From a very young age, he felt that his father was very cool. He always looked arrogant and confident in everything he met and did. For a long time, he thought his father was the most powerful wizard in the world.

And he wanted to imitate his father's every move.

But after that, he enrolled in Hogwarts, Voldemort was resurrected, the Malfoy family fell into turmoil, and the father he admired at the beginning became increasingly blurred in his mind.

Then one day, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have grown up.

As for Draco's mental condition before he had problems, Maka's judgment on him was generally correct - Draco had indeed endured a lot of pressure from his parents and family, which made him almost breathless.

But there was one sentence that Maka said wrong.

Draco was not overwhelmed by the heavy reality. He was indeed timid about himself and the future of his family, but he still tried to straighten his waist.

Even when he was disturbed by nightmares and gradually discovered that there was a problem with his condition, he still did not give up, but made his last struggle.

If not, I'm afraid Maka won't have this chance to "save" Draco now.

When Lucius asked a tentative question, Draco's expression changed slightly, but after a while, his eyes showed a strange edge again.

Immediately afterwards, he simply stopped looking at his father's face, and reluctantly turned his head to look at Maka, who was standing beside Snape.

"McLean, it seems we...have met again."

While throwing this sentence at Maka, a sarcastic smile appeared on Draco's face.

He is still alive now, which proves that his observations and inferences about Maca seem to be correct. In other words, as long as he is still Draco Malfoy, Maca cannot really kill him.

Now, even his father Lucius has appeared in front of him. Doesn't this prove that he is right?

"Yes! We meet again."

Maka nodded expressionlessly and didn't say much. His eyes were also looking in Draco's direction, but rather than looking at Draco, it was better to say that he was looking through Draco.

Coe's body looked at something else.

Seeing Maka's somewhat casual expression, Draco slowly narrowed his eyes, his eyes becoming sharper.

"You finally deceived me and petrified me before I had time to react. Didn't you guess that I could assimilate and devour 'that guy'..." He said in a low voice, "Why, do you think that I will be able to do it as long as my father is here?"

Are you going to cry and kneel down and beg for forgiveness?"

At this point, Draco curled his lips, his disdain getting stronger.

"Huh... OK," he said with a smile, "Unpetrify it! I will do it as you want... After all, this is my most respected good-for-nothing father!"

"Draco, you-"

"Shut up! Dear father," Draco turned his head sharply and said with a cold face, "haven't you made me miserable enough? Haven't you made this family miserable enough? If I were you, I would definitely

I will cast a life-killing curse on myself so that I don’t have to sit in this house and endure the continuous curses from the ancestors’ portraits every day!”