harry potter book of crimes

Familiar horse paths, familiar iron gates, and even more familiar lawns, lights, Christmas woods... and the outline of the castle that was mostly covered by the drifting snow.

Even the sweet smell of Christmas pudding filling the air is quietly rolling in the mouth and nose with the wind.

In just a blink of an eye, the gloom and desolation of Azkaban suddenly transformed into the tranquility and warmth of Hogwarts. But at this moment, in Maka's heart, this warmth was as unstable as falling into an ice cellar.

"...How is it? Are you surprised?"

A muffled voice came faintly from the large lump of ice. If it weren't for the silence around it, it would be difficult to hear clearly what was said.

Maka didn't answer.

He just silently raised the staff in his right hand and then punched it on the ground. The hard black stone then made a solid knocking sound.

There is no doubt that at that moment, he, the rune array, and even the layer of black stone under the carved stone slab had all been transferred here...

And the so-called "this side" is right in front of the "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry".

Maka licked her lips, the prickly touch made him feel very uncomfortable.

"That's right——"

He glanced behind him, and saw that the faint blue light had quietly disappeared... many curved stone slabs had developed fine and interlaced cracks as the magic power dissipated.

"It's a surprise."

Before she finished speaking, Maka suddenly thrust her staff forward, and the sudden burst of floating spell threw the lump of ice as tall as a person into the air.

The next second, a dazzling, almost scorching beam of light emerged from the top of the staff, blasting the ice cube and the person inside into frost-white powder.

It's a pity that some of the most important things in that lump of ice have already left silently.

"call……"

I raised my head and looked at the heavy snow falling in the gloomy night sky, and my face felt a bit cooler as the snowflakes melted with body temperature.

But at this moment, Maka, what he wanted to see was not Bu Xue, but a certain boulder that was approaching in the distance.

To be honest, he had thought enough about this plan that he was even on alert for the extremely low possibility of "Helpo seizing Old Eun's body on the spot".

But he never expected that Haierbo would forcibly "cut out" the running rune array and use the magic of space movement to move the entire thing near Hogwarts.

Looking at the scene, if the space within the campus had not been reinforced by the founder, he would probably have made the formation appear directly in the center of the school.

But...of course, for a meteor falling from the universe to the ground, such a small distance is nothing.

"There are still three months."

Maka stood there and nodded to himself, then waved his hand to clean up the black stones and carved boards on the ground, and then completely repaired the messy horse path and lawn.

In three months, when the earth's revolution reaches a fixed position, the giant rock from the universe will follow the established path and plunge into the atmosphere, and land exactly here.

As far as the accuracy of the data given by Ewan Ravenclaw was concerned, the error would not even exceed three feet.

Perhaps, this will be the biggest crisis Hogwarts has faced since ancient times.

…

"Tuk-tuk."

There were two knocks on the door, and Mag, who was immersed in sorting out recent information, suddenly raised his head.

"Please come in."

The last three days and two nights should have been the most joyful time in the school.

Although it was already late at night and wandering in the school courtyard outside had stopped, everyone should still be playing in the auditorium, other classrooms, and corridors. Even the school professors were having fun with the children at this time.

The wizards laughed heartily together.

Who would come to the principal's office to look for her at a time like this?

No, before today, it would not have been a rare thing for that child to come. It's a pity that he has left temporarily now.

As Professor McGonagall said "Come in", the office door opened.

"Professor McGonagall, good evening."

"Maka?"

It can be seen that Mag looked very surprised. Because in her impression, Maka is a person who sticks to his word. Once he makes some decisions, he will definitely do what he wants.

When Maka proposed the idea of ​​temporarily resigning, Mag tried to retain her several times, but failed. But who knew that within one night, he would actually appear in front of her again.

"You're not..." Mag was stunned, and then said, "Oh, of course I hope you can stay - we can discuss some things together, and you don't have to bear it alone. But... you

Why are you back so soon?"

Maka turned around and closed the door, then gently walked to the chair not far from the desk and sat down.

"Because there are some things that no longer need to be done."

As he spoke, a wry smile appeared on his face. You know, this kind of expression is extremely rare to see on him.

"What happened?" Mag asked quickly after seeing this.

However, Maka didn't know where to start with Professor McGonagall's question.

In the past, when Dumbledore was still around, Maka had a lot of secret communications with him. For example, he discussed with Dumbledore how to plan against Voldemort, and they also collaborated on a staged battle.

Prison escape drama.

But since Dumbledore left, it has been difficult for him to find anyone who can actually help him.

Although, Maka has never been the kind of person who needs to be reminded of everything.

Even when no one could tell him what to do, he still struggled to solve many problems, and even solved the crisis on his own when the Devouring Mirror almost destroyed Hogwarts.

But this time, some things must be said.

"Professor," Maka was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Please prepare for the evacuation of the entire school within three months."

"Evacuate the whole school?"

Hogwarts has never had a history of requiring teachers and students to evacuate the castle. Even in the wizarding wars of the past generations, Hogwarts Castle has always been one of the few last lines of defense for the British wizarding community.

There are various defensive magics left over from ancient times, and there are also many powerful wizards here, and there have even been several powerful men who are famous in the world of magic.

For Minerva McGonagall, who has always been proud of this school, "evacuating the whole school" is simply equivalent to "abandoning the family"... No, it may be much more serious than that.

But since this sentence came from Maka, Magna couldn't help but take it seriously.

"...Why? Is this happening...no, I mean, what terrible thing is 'going' to happen?"

Hearing this, Maka sighed slightly and said:

"About three months from now, a huge stone flying towards the earth from space will turn into a meteor and fall at the gate of the school."

"Space? Meteor? Hogwarts?" McGonagall said in astonishment, "How did you know? Did any prophet make a prediction?"

"No, there is no need for prophecy." Maka shook her head and said, "Because I personally 'picked' that meteor..."

To be honest, his words were even scarier than the sentence "Meteor will fall at the school gate" just now. If he hadn't said this, Maka McClain, I'm afraid McGonagall would have directly

The person who spoke was driven out of the principal's office.

"Why...why?" Professor McGonagall's chest froze, and after holding it in for a while, she said in disbelief.

Not far away, Maka, who was sitting on a chair, leaned on the cushioned back of the chair and thought for a while before speaking again.

"Professor McGonagall," he sat up straight and asked quite seriously, "do you know a wizard named 'Ewan Ravenclaw'?"

Maka still couldn't tell Professor McGonagall much because some things were too involved.

Therefore, he could only choose to talk about many things casually, and only carefully selected information related to the meteor crash to be informed to the other party.

Just like the secret of Old Eun's identity, Halbo's Horcrux, and the "Star Reaching Plan" that uses meteors to destroy the Horcrux.

Of course, there are also terrible failures such as "shooting oneself in the foot" that just happened in the past.

After all, it's not complicated at all. It can be summed up in one sentence, that is - I was severely tricked by the cunning Haierbo.

"...So now it seems that Halpo tonight has actually been hiding his true purpose. From the beginning, he tried to pretend to be Yoon and was discovered by me, then showed his power to force me to fight with him, and then used

Old Yoon's soul induced me to block his actions, and made me activate the final step of the formation when I thought I had caught the best opportunity."

Maka believed that his loss this time was indeed not unfair at all, but the price was indeed too heavy.

After listening to his narration, Mag couldn't help but ask:

"So, you can't change the flight path of that meteor again?"

"It's possible," Maka said immediately, "but it's far too late in terms of time - I could only design that array after having Old Yoon's data. But even with such detailed

data, and a huge amount of time was spent during this period..."

If we wait for the meteor to smash this land into ruins and then calculate the results, even if we can create a new rune array again, it will obviously be of no use.

"so……"

"So, in short, let's be prepared to give up the castle first! Then... I will try my best to think of other ways."

Finally, Maka said this, stood up, said good night and left.

Mag originally wanted to stop Maka and try to understand more about his thoughts. But when Mag saw his slightly tired profile, she just opened her mouth and let him disappear into the office in silence.

door.

"Alas..." (To be continued)