harry potter book of crimes

"Yes, Harry... take it, put your finger on the dot on the paper, and stand there without moving."

"Ron! Didn't I tell you? Lift the piece of paper in your right hand higher...it must be above your head! Go up, go up -"

"Okay, that's right... Then I should take the last piece of paper and walk among you..."

In the Room of Requirement, Hermione was directing Harry and Ron to pose in a strange pose - the two of them stood facing each other with a certain distance between them, and at the same time, one hand was lowered and the other was raised high, and they were both careful in their hands.

Holding a piece of hard cardboard.

The front of the four pieces of paper—that is, the side with several runes drawn on it—is facing directly toward a spell training dummy not far away.

However, it is worth mentioning that, without exception, all three of them wore armor. This was obviously because they were worried that some possible accident might suddenly happen.

"Remember, just keep this action, don't move!" Hermione kept reminding her as she walked between the two of them, "The first time you have to be as accurate as possible, and then you can adjust the error tolerance.

test……"

Although she kept talking, there was no hesitation in her hands. Soon she came to her position and used her eyes to directly confirm the distance between her and Harry.

"Hermione," Ron couldn't help but said, raising his arms, "I can probably guess what you want to do, but... can't we use the levitating spell to fiddle with these pieces of paper?"

After hearing this, Hermione didn't even look at him.

"Casting magic spells at close range will cause interference to them -" she said without raising her head, "Don't ask me why, I only know for now that those interferences do exist."

"Oh, I didn't want to ask why..." Ron couldn't help but muttered in a low voice after hearing this.

But this time, Hermione finally turned her head and glared at him as usual.

"Then don't ask anything!" She said angrily, "Just do as I say... Also, your right hand has retracted again! How many times do you want me to say this?"

When Harry saw this, he could only shake his head secretly in his heart.

When Hermione is focusing on studying and research, the best way to deal with it is to talk less and do more - why doesn't Ron understand it until now?

Just as Harry thought this for a moment, Hermione seemed to have finally confirmed everything.

"alright!"

She suddenly stood up straight between the two of them, holding the fifth piece of paper she was responsible for in her hand, and gently lifted it up and held it in front of her.

"Now, listen!" She said seriously, "Do you still remember what I said at the beginning? If you find something bad, immediately throw away the paper and lie down with your head in your hands. Now listen to me count... three... two...

…”

"laugh--"

Just as Hermione put her right index finger on the dot on the piece of paper, she suddenly heard the sound of the piece of paper being ignited, followed closely by an explosion.

At that moment, Hermione made a decisive decision and let go of the paper in her hand, and watched helplessly as the paper with many runes on it completely turned into a small ball of blue fire, which burned out before falling to the ground.

"oh!"

Harry's reaction was even faster than Hermione's. He had already removed the piece of paper when he noticed that it started to spontaneously combust for no apparent reason.

Only Ron, because he seemed to be half a beat too late, his fingers were burned by the flames that quickly spread on the piece of paper.

"Ron, are you okay?"

Harry asked his good friend with concern in front of him, who was jumping up and down with his fingers covered, for fear that the strange blue flame would burn Ron in some way.

But between the two of them, Hermione didn't even change her expression. After seeing that the piece of paper she had spent a lot of effort drawing was burned in an instant, her eyes only flashed with a trace of regret, and she turned around again.

Go to your book bag.

As for Ron... wasn't he just burned by the flames?

Although the blue flame looks a bit weird, there is nothing unusual about it. It is even slightly lower than the temperature of ordinary flames.

"It really is the material, isn't it? Well, at least this is enough to prove that my idea is correct! If the combination of runes wants to work better, the wizard must provide some kind of energy..."

While muttering to herself, Hermione picked up some wooden pieces from the floor next to her book bag that were about the same size as the pieces of paper. It seemed that she had already guessed that the pieces of paper would not work.

"But at that time, why could Maca use cardboard pieces to make them effective?"

The ancient magic text experiment she prepared early this morning was based on the application method that Maka had demonstrated in class. Of course, Hermione spent a lot of time and energy on this experiment, which was also

The same is a fact.

"Forget it, let's not think about this for now, now we have to seize the time to conduct experiments..." Putting the doubts in her mind aside for the time being, Hermione grabbed a few pieces of wood and turned around, "It's still the same as before.

Stay where you are - Ron! Don't look at me like that, what we have to do today isn't even the first step!"

After that, the three of them cooperated with each other and tried several carriers made of wood and metal.

Hermione soon discovered that most boards engraved with runes took effect very quickly, but the effect came and went even faster, causing wood chips to fly many times in a row.

For this reason, a sharp wooden thorn was pierced into Harry's palm, which caused him to wave his hands in pain and said that he needed to go to the school hospital to find Madam Pomfrey.

Contrary to Hermione's guess, the material she thought had great potential - metal, showed almost no reaction.

However, this also made Harry and Ron secretly relieved, because they both felt that if the metal piece exploded, their hands might not be able to save it.

"The last one, after trying it out, we should go to class!"

As Hermione spoke, she distributed four palm-sized slates to Harry and the others. After such a series of attempts, the two of them had already become accustomed to posing with their arms raised, and after receiving the slates, they raised them very consciously.

hands.

"Many ancient magic texts were found on stone slabs, so we have reason to believe that this is the most reliable carrier material..." Hermione said while walking towards the middle, "Of course, this is just a conjecture on my part.

.”

"So if it doesn't work, we have to keep trying this every day?" Ron said weakly, "Oh, Hermione, my arms are sore! I mean seriously-"

"Every day?" Hermione pursed her lips and shook her head before continuing, "Do you think carving runes is an easy task? Stop complaining and lift the stone slab to where it should be!

"

After that, she confirmed the position and orientation of the four stone slabs again, and then grabbed her own stone slab and stretched it forward.

"Get ready," Hermione whispered, "three...two..."

After the countdown sounded, she placed her index finger on a dot groove on the stone slab. When her fingertips slightly felt the grainy feeling produced by the drying of the special ink in the groove, Harry

Ron and I suddenly felt our hands shake slightly.

In an instant, a layer of soft blue light emerged from the rune carvings on the four stone slabs, and suddenly converged from the four corners towards the stone slab in Hermione's hand.

It may sound complicated to say, but in fact, in just a blink of an eye, a blue beam of light visible to the naked eye immediately shot out in a radial pattern to a large area ahead.

"boom!"

I saw a certain ray of light that seemed to have penetrated directly through the dummy's shoulder, and continued unabated, falling heavily on the wall behind it.

And more of them were distributed over a large area in the area around the dummy, on the walls, floors and even ceilings, completely bombarding the front without any order.

At the same time, the entire patch of dust and gravel suddenly scattered in all directions.

In order to block the stone chips flying towards them, Harry and Ron quickly turned their backs, presumably to avoid injury to their handsome faces.

The next moment they changed their movements, the light beams were also interrupted. Only Hermione was still standing there holding the slate with a surprised expression on her face.

"Oh..." she said blankly, "It succeeded! It really succeeded... I really succeeded!"

"You called what you just did 'success'?" Ron said with a miserable expression, covering the back of his head, "Hermione, you are trying to commit murder..."

"Of course it worked!" Hermione immediately waved her hand and said, "Did you see it? No need to recite a spell or wave a wand, just set the position and it can be triggered directly! It is even much faster than Maka's reduced crushing spell.

!”

"You mean... this is the Crushing Curse?" Harry on the side said in surprise, "'Broken into pieces'?"

After hearing this, Hermione quickly shook her head.

"No, it's not -" she explained, "It's just that the effects are somewhat similar... Based on the 'purple shirt', 'harvest' and 'expansion' in the runes, through the 'oblique cross interpretation' combined with 'flowing water'

To increase the power..."

"Wait! Wait..." Harry immediately waved his hands, "It's useless even if you tell us this, we can't understand... I just want to know, this... was all your idea?"

"Huh?" Hermione looked at the slate in her hand over and over with joy and said casually, "Maka taught me a lot of knowledge. I just found a way to combine them. This can't be regarded as something I came up with."

"Oh! Come on!" Ron said helplessly, "You are not the only one taking the ancient magical literature N.E.W.Ts course. Why haven't I seen anyone else figure this out?"

As he spoke, he paused for a moment, and then said frankly: "Hermione, if you are smart enough, just admit it! If you continue to be humble, how will others live?"

"Really?" Hermione spread her hands, "Isn't this the first time you know that I'm very smart?"