harry potter book of crimes

This is a dark corridor, and except for a few torches fixed on the wall that are still flickering with flames, there is nothing else that can provide illumination.

At a glance, it's almost impossible to see the road ahead.

At this moment, Maka is walking in this corridor step by step...

The sound of footsteps echoed hollowly.

He held the wand in his hand tightly - yes, he rarely used modern short wands. But today he had to use this, because for some reason, he could not exert his due strength.

To be more precise, in fact, he is just an ordinary Hogwarts student right now.

Suddenly, he shook his wand slightly.

"Fluorescence."

A ball of light lit up from the tip of the staff, emitting a soft light. But not long after, the light seemed to be absorbed by the surrounding environment, and soon gradually dimmed, and finally went out completely.

Seeing this, Maka didn't say anything, but continued to pace forward.

"Ta...ta...ta..."

Maka's expression was very serious. He ignored the sound of the soles of his shoes rubbing against the ground, and always looked at the places he could see, both in front of and behind him.

And suddenly, his progress stopped because he heard a slight "click" sound.

It was only a small sound at first, but in the very quiet corridor, it was suddenly amplified a lot. If you can't hear this, you must be deaf.

Maka didn't speak. He just raised the arm holding the wand and pointed in the direction of the sound. But the other party seemed to know that he had discovered it. After he stopped, the sound no longer appeared.

With poor vision, waiting was undoubtedly difficult. About five or six seconds passed before Maka heard the second similar sound.

"Click."

It sounded like a hard object hitting the ground, but when you couldn't see the actual situation, it felt more like another kind of footsteps different from your own.

If those were the soles of someone's shoes, then those shoes must be hard, right?

The guy hiding in the darkness did not continue to delay time. At the next moment, the third "click" sound was accompanied by a tall figure walking out of the shadows behind the torch.

At the same time, you can see that the other party also stretched out a magic wand, pointing accurately towards Maka.

"Except weapon for you!"

It was a voice that sounded a little awkward, as if the speaker had a bad cold. It was not only muffled, but also a little rough.

But no matter what the opponent's voice was, a disarming spell had already been completed - red light quickly struck Maka from the tip of the opponent's wand.

"Armor protection."

Maka turned and shook the wand in her hand calmly, and the red light of the disarming spell was flicked aside.

"Imprison quickly!" "Everyone——"

After resisting the disarming spell, he immediately released his second spell. The magic rope conjured by the confinement spell suddenly rolled towards the opponent, interrupting the whole body binding spell the opponent was preparing, and tied him up.

A solid one.

Obviously, Maka won an absolute victory in this one-on-one ambush battle.

However, after it was over, he did not step forward to check. Instead, he stood there and thought silently. After a while, he stepped forward, but when he walked to the tied figure, he couldn't even look at it.

Didn't take another look.

"Ta...ta...ta..."

In the corridor that was quiet again, Maka's footsteps continued to echo. They overlapped and intertwined again and again, lingering in Maka's ears.

Not long after, when he walked in the dark for a few more minutes, a wall suddenly blocked his way.

It can be seen that there is only an ordinary wooden door on that wall - this is clearly telling visitors that it is the only way through here.

Maka first reached out and pushed, but the door leaf didn't move at all. Then he grabbed the rusty door handle and twisted it twice, but the door still showed no sign of being opened.

"The Alajo Cave is open."

This is an ordinary unlocking spell. As far as ordinary door locks are concerned, even if the keyhole is completely blocked and the lock tongue is firmly welded, it can still be opened again.

Of course, if the door that cannot be opened is related to magic, it will be difficult for the universal unlocking spell to be effective.

It was obvious that this was a place that required a lot of thinking to get through. But Maka didn't think much about it. He just glanced at the doorknob and waved his wand again.

"The true form appears."

As the spell was recited clearly, the rusty door handle suddenly twisted, and then turned into a latch with an iron lock!

"The Alajo Cave is open."

This second unlocking spell finally produced its intended effect, and with a soft "click" sound, the lock automatically popped open.

After successfully breaking through this obstacle, Maka nodded to herself, then pulled out the latch and pushed the door open.

But at the very moment when the door was opened, a large group of small black things appeared behind it, flapping their wings and rushing towards them.

Because they appeared very suddenly and at no slow speed, it was not easy to see clearly what they were.

"There are many obstacles."

In this situation, Obstacle Spell is obviously a very good choice. Whether it is a single target or a group, it can control it for a short period of time, allowing you to free up some time to judge the response method.

At this time, you can intuitively use your eyes to figure out what those things are.

It turned out that it was just a large group of ordinary bats.

It can be seen that the bats blocked by the obstacle curse are all moving in slow motion. Although there are more bats coming towards the door, almost all of them have crashed into the effective range of the curse.

Since they are a group of basically harmless little bats, there is no need to do anything unnecessary.

After Maka canceled the obstacle spell, he let the noisy little guys huff and puff past him and disappeared into the darkness behind him.

With nothing else to hinder him, he passed through the blocking wall through the doorway and continued to move forward.

Even after leaving the previous corridor, the road after that has not changed much - the light is still seriously insufficient, and there are even more sections with no lighting at all than before.

However, those who can reach this point will definitely not choose to stop or turn back just because the road is dark. As for Maka, of course, it is even more impossible to give up.

He was still moving forward, but more seriously than before.

After that, about ten minutes passed, and after Maka had solved a few minor troubles, another wall stood in front of him.

The difference with the wall just now is that this wall is "invisible".

I believe that if someone walks here, they will probably bump into it, adding a harmless bump to their forehead.

But Maka didn't - he had stopped before he hit the invisible wall.

Gently brushing against the wall, although he couldn't see it, the touch on his hands was the same as an ordinary wall. He groped around and confirmed that this was indeed a wall, and it didn't even have a door.

"The true form appears."

This spell, which had played a huge role when passing through the first wall, had no effect at all this time. It can be seen that the invisibility effect on this wall cannot be removed by the object revealing spell.

"Emergency appearance."

What followed was another magic spell that revealed reality.

In fact, this magic spell is not as effective as the previous one in solving invisible magic, but it has a unique effect that that magic spell does not have.

As expected, the wall was still invisible, but a line of crooked text suddenly appeared in front of the seemingly empty space:

"What you see may not be true, because the truth is often hidden behind the visible."

When Maka saw this line of words, she couldn't help but smile, and then suddenly turned around and walked towards the wall of the corridor next to her. In the blink of an eye, he was like an incorporeal ghost, penetrating easily

past.

And after that, there was another dark corridor, which looked full of drowsiness at first glance.

It seems that what was there just now may be just a designed and arranged corner of the corridor.

Maka put away the smile on her face, calmed down again and walked forward. It was obviously darker than before. After walking twenty or thirty steps, there was an almost extinguished torch, providing the visitor with that

A pitiful little light.

This time, Maka walked for a long time, maybe twenty minutes in total. Of course, this also had to do with the fact that he didn't walk very fast.

In these twenty minutes, he encountered nothing and nothing happened. The only thing that changed was probably the gradually lowering ambient temperature around him.

That's right, the air slowly became colder, and by the end it felt like winter all of a sudden.

"call--"

When passing by a certain torch, Maka took advantage of the light and exhaled, and saw a cloud of white mist steaming up, which showed how low the temperature in the corridor was.

"Well, luckily it happens to be winter. If I had worn thinner clothes, I might have frozen here."

Maka secretly complained, following the pace that was speeding up under his feet, and not caring about anything else. Because he knew that if he walked a short distance, his little "journey" would be coming to an end.

About ten seconds later, a dark shadow suddenly appeared from behind another torch in front. The moment it came under the bright light, Maka pursed her lips and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Forget it, there's no need to experience it anymore -"

While he was speaking, the black shadow also floated over. It was hanging in the air, wearing a worn black hooded cloak, and a pair of skinny hands protruded from the sleeves.

Most of it.

This is obviously a dementor.

But what’s different from ordinary Dementors is that this guy also wears a Christmas hat with a fluffy ball on his head!

"Sarah, come out for a moment!" (To be continued)