harry potter book of crimes

"Crack."

A slight explosion sounded in Maka's office, and the sudden fluctuation of magic power immediately caused Maka, who was still sleeping, to wake up suddenly.

It is now the next morning, and although the sky in the east is still only slightly bright, it also means that another day has arrived in a hurry.

Maka opened her eyes and glanced at the bed, then yawned loudly.

"...Lark?" he asked rather vaguely, "What's the matter so early?"

While secretly sighing at the wonder of the elf's innate magic, Maka finally rubbed her eyes and sat up, leaning on the copper-colored bed frame at the head of the bed and looking at the other party.

Yes, the space within the school grounds of Hogwarts has been reinforced, so apparation and other similar spells cannot take effect here. However, the innate abilities of the elves can still take effect smoothly. This is

Rather curious.

However, although Maka was determined to study the differences between the two, she has never been able to spare the time.

"McLean, there is something that Old Luck needs to tell you," the older elf stooped slightly and said softly, "Yesterday, an invisible creature appeared near the fort construction site, and we caught it at first.

But later at night, he took advantage of the sleeping opportunity of a few remaining tribesmen to escape."

"Invisible creature?" Maka immediately thought of the invisible beast. After all, he had just helped Hagrid catch it yesterday. "Oh, escaped? Won't you take turns sleeping?"

"Well..." When Lao Lak heard this, he suddenly said, "This is a good idea."

Hearing this, Maka couldn't help but smile helplessly.

The few elves who stayed as guards were not actually decided last night, and the objects they were guarding were not invisible beasts - that was just convenient.

But in fact, what they were guarding was the stone door leading to the Dragon Cave.

"Okay, as long as it doesn't go in," Maka nodded, "I understand this."

"Then Lao Luck will go back."

Before he finished speaking, the elf elder was very straightforward and immediately disappeared from the room with another weak explosion.

"Invisible beast..."

Maka sat on the bed and thought about it for a moment, but soon shook her head.

"Well, just to be on the safe side, let's go to Hagrid's place later!"

Although he felt that the invisible beast running there was purely an accident, under the current circumstances, he still wanted to be more cautious.

After all, it doesn't take much effort to visit Hagrid. If there is really no problem, then just get up and take a walk in the morning.

Now that he was awake, Maka had no intention of going back to sleep or anything. So he quickly got out of bed, neatly solved the personal hygiene problem, then got dressed and went to the outside of the office.

It's just that it's still too early now. Even now, the sun has just revealed its shining head. Usually at this time, everyone is basically still sleeping in bed!

Therefore, Maka was not in a hurry to go out. Instead, she made herself a cup of tea and read the information for a while.

In the days since Voldemort's defeat, the intelligence updates at Black's old residence have not been completely interrupted. However, only a few people such as Sirius and Mundungus are still wandering around.

In addition, the information they collected had to go through Lupin's screening, so the amount of materials that could be sent to Maka was much smaller than before.

After a while.

"It doesn't look like there's much going on this week."

While Maka was sipping the special Gordig root tea in the cup, she was flipping through the information documents at hand seemingly carelessly, looking like an ordinary office worker reading the morning newspaper.

"Except for the series of 'little commotions' before."

After muttering softly, he turned over the last page of paper and stuffed it into the pocket on his waist.

"However, Lu Ping has too few manpower after all. Many things may not be possible for them, let alone dig out specific information."

That being said, sometimes, even with enough manpower, it is not enough. In some cases, finding clues in advance depends on luck.

Maka didn't think about it anymore. After drinking the tea in the cup, she stood up and walked out of her office.

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"Woof... woof woof... woof woof!"

"Ya Ya, shut up! Don't scare little Demi... Hey, it's okay! Yaya just feels a little scared because he can't see you... He is actually very timid... Come out quickly! Xiao Demi?"

"Woof woof!"

"Stop, you stupid dog."

"Woooo..."

Maka stood in front of Hagrid's hunting lodge, listening to the messy noises coming from inside, and paused for a moment as she was about to knock on the right hand.

"What is Hagrid doing..."

While hesitating slightly, he waited for a few minutes with some doubts. After all, it sounded like Hagrid was obviously busy!

But when Maka discovered that the noise inside had almost no tendency to stop, he finally reached out and knocked on the wooden door in front of him again.

"Bang bang bang——"

"Woof woof woof!"

"Ya Ya, don't scream." After Hagrid scolded him again, he continued, "Who is it? Sorry, it's not convenient for me to open the door right now. I'm worried that Xiao Demi will slip out when I open the door..."

"It's me, McClain." Maka said loudly, "Who is 'Little Demi'? Is it that invisible beast?"

"Oh, Maka!"

As soon as he heard that Maka was coming, Hagrid's tone became much lighter.

"You came just in time, I will open the door for you right now!" He said happily, "Of course, I mean - if you can help me stop Xiao Demi when the door opens?"

A doorway is only so big, which is obviously much more convenient than catching the invisible beast on the grass last time, so Maka immediately responded.

"Go ahead! I will help you block that little guy -"

After he finished speaking, Maka waited at the door for a few more seconds, and soon he saw the wooden door of the cabin being gently pushed open.

But at that moment, Maka didn't take any action when the door opened. She just watched with a calm face as the door was opened by Hagrid from the inside.

"Maka?" Hagrid looked at him doubtfully, "How..."

Maka waved her hand before he finished speaking, and then walked directly into the house.

"This little guy is very smart. He probably had a premonition that he couldn't escape from me, so he didn't choose to run away."

"Oh, is it that short-term prediction ability?"

Hagrid nodded immediately and immediately closed the door again.

Behind him, Maka walked to the small round table and sat down, as casually as if she had returned to her own home.

Of course, Hagrid never regarded him as an outsider.

"Yes!" Maka said, "A very convenient innate ability... Hey, a certain bald old man went to great lengths to draw tattoos on himself in order to obtain a skill similar to this!"

After casually complaining about the bald old man who was still imprisoned in Azkaban, Maka turned her head and looked at the firewood pile in the corner on the left, and even waved to that side.

"Are you little Demi?" he shouted, "come over here and let me see."

After Maka said this, the invisible beast actually lifted the invisibility effect.

But this is naturally not because of Maka's words - the invisible beast cannot understand human language. It has just realized that Maka can clearly "see" himself.

However, Hagrid obviously didn't know this.

"Oh, can little Demi understand you? This is really amazing..."

"No, no, I just tried to say hello to it." Maka shrugged and said, "Don't you even try to talk to Florob caterpillars? The same reason."

"Oh, I see."

Hagrid seemed a little regretful about this.

Maka was sure that if he claimed that he could communicate with invisible people, Hagrid would have to chase him until he learned it too!

But now that he could finally see 'Little Demi', Hagrid seemed to feel much more at ease.

So, taking advantage of Hagrid's distraction to observe the invisible beast, Maka also looked at the little guy. After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and shook his head secretly.

There is nothing wrong with this invisible beast. There is no abnormality in the magic power fluctuations. It is just a simple rare magical creature.

"Hagrid, I wanted to ask yesterday...where did you get the invisible beast?"

Of course, Maka is very aware of the high value of invisible beasts. To be honest, it is not easy for him to get an invisible beast by himself, so he is also quite curious about it.

However, when Maka asked this question, Hagrid became unusually shy.

"this……"

Maka couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body when she saw his thick hands wrangled together, hesitating like a girl who was not yet married.

But when he saw this side of Hagrid, he felt a little bit better.

"Is it...Mrs. Maxim?" Maka asked tentatively.

"How did you know?" Hagrid's eyes suddenly widened, "I didn't even tell anyone this time?"

"Come on!"

Maka waved his hands dumbfounded, but stopped delving further. He just thought that it would be good if these two giant hybrids became a pair.

"Oh, by the way," he put aside the topic and said, "I heard that this little guy escaped again yesterday? And he also ran into the Forbidden Forest... did he come back on his own?"

"Maka, are you omniscient? You know it just after dawn?" Hager suddenly said in surprise, "Well, at least we don't have to keep it secret from you... It was Harry and the other three who helped me.

, Well, they have really grown up..." (To be continued)