harry potter book of crimes

The next morning, Maka woke up from her bed in the dormitory.

To be honest, I sat in Lupin's office until early in the morning last night and didn't get much sleep. At this time, he yawned, put on his clothes again, and then left gently.

There are still many things to do today, such as the Quidditch match that will start soon.

The thunder outside was still continuous, and fierce winds hit the outer walls of the castle. Of course, the windows were not immune.

Fortunately, all Hufflepuff dormitories are located underground, and there are obviously no windows here - there are only many tiny vents arranged in the corners to maintain adequate air circulation.

But as soon as Maka came to the corridor on the first floor, she immediately discovered the strong wind and heavy rain that were roaring outside. They were obviously bigger than yesterday!

Maka cast a waterproof spell on herself and walked toward the greenhouse regardless of the weather.

Most of the students had just gotten up when Maka finished taking care of the flowers and plants and came to the auditorium to fill her stomach.

"Hey, Maka, I heard that you are also going to appear today?" Hermione spotted Maka walking towards the Hufflepuff table, she went over to meet him, and asked curiously.

Harry and Ron also came over, but neither of them looked very good.

Maka didn't know what Ron was thinking, but it was easy to guess Harry's mood. Recently, he must have been bored to death by the matter of Sirius Black, as if everyone was telling him to be careful about being attacked.

In fact, we have to take into account Snape's Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson yesterday.

He tried his best to belittle Lupin's teaching level in class, and even called Hermione a "know-it-all" again because she kept raising her hands to speak, which made Hermione burst into tears.

Of course, the most unlucky one was Ron. He couldn't help but contradicted Snape, and was punished by going to the school hospital to clean the chamber pot - and was not allowed to use magic.

Comparatively speaking, Hermione's mood recovered the fastest.

"Yes!" Maka looked at Hermione and nodded, "After all, I am also a member of Hufflepuff, so I have to make some contributions, right?"

Although this is just Maka's excuse, at least it is a very reasonable explanation and no one will be surprised by it.

"Oh - I think so." Hermione smiled and encouraged, "I hope you and Harry can show their best strength, although the weather is not very good."

"Thank you!" Maka said, walking over and hugging Harry's neck, "Don't worry about what's there or not, Harry. If you feel better, come to me if you have any trouble. I'll help if you can."

You solved it."

"It would be best if Snape could stop saying bad things about Professor Lupin." Ron suddenly said, "For this, I spent nearly two hours cleaning the chamber pot last night!"

Maka spread her hands after hearing this and said: "I'm afraid I can't do this. Probably no one's words will work except Dumbledore... As for Professor Lupin, he will be back for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class tomorrow.

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"Oh, really?"

Harry finally showed a look of surprise. This was probably the only good news he had heard in the past two days.

"Yes, that's right." Maka said, "You can feel a little more energetic now, right? You'll be in better shape in the game later, but I won't be merciful."

"Although Slytherin escaped the bad weather, if you think about it from another perspective, at least we don't have to deal with Slytherin's little tricks in the storm. This is also good, what do you think?"

Harry felt that what Maka said did make sense and couldn't help but nodded.

The sport of Quidditch has always been extremely popular. As usual, all the teachers and students in the school came out to the stadium to watch this game.

They ran across the lawn to the Quidditch pitch, heads lowered against the strong wind.

But after all, not everyone can cover their whole bodies with waterproof spells like Maka. Most people held their own umbrellas and braved the storm. Halfway through, several people's umbrellas were blown out of their hands by the strong wind, and they were blown all the way.

Mid-air.

But even so, it couldn't extinguish everyone's enthusiasm.

In the Hufflepuff dressing room, Cedric was mobilizing everyone before the game.

Speaking of which, Maka knows a lot of magic spells that can be used to slightly improve the team's level in the rainstorm. It may be illegal in official games, but if you want to win the Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts,

Some leaks are relatively easy.

But he didn't have this idea. To put it bluntly, he didn't come here to win.

After Cedric finished what he had to say, everyone walked out of the locker room and entered the entrance passage.

Maka got on the broom with everyone and flew out into the dense rain curtain one after another.

The wind was really strong, and almost everyone was affected to varying degrees, even Maka. But he quickly stabilized his figure and flew to the middle of the field and stopped amid the cheers of the audience.

Below, the captains of both sides flew to the center of the field to shake hands - Digory smiled at Wood, but Wood looked like he was suffering from lockjaw now. He just nodded, and occasionally raised his head to glance at Maca.

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Everyone could see that Maka's sudden participation put a lot of pressure on him.

Harry also flew over the opposite field, and Maca nodded to him. Harry smiled, but his smile was stiff. The wind and rain on the field were really too strong, and it was quite cold, and he felt like

Almost freezing.

Mrs. Huo Qi put the whistle to her mouth and blew hard, making a sharp whistle. The whistle was covered by the violent sound of rain, and it sounded more like it came from a distance.

The Quaffle flew high in the hazy rain, and the game began!

Maka was the first to move, and the Nimbus 2000 he was sitting on instantly accelerated, leading him to break through the rain and rush straight towards the Quaffle.

He accurately caught the Quaffle, and then like a sharp knife, it rushed towards the Gryffindor half without any tricks.

The heavy rain kept falling, everyone's vision was greatly restricted, and Maka's speed was extremely fast. For a moment, the Gryffindor team didn't even have time to see clearly where Maka had gone.

Soon, Maka rushed directly in front of George Weasley.

George saw Maka clearly, but Maka was so fast that the two of them almost collided!

At this moment, Maka's body instantly leaned to the left, and her whole body slipped under the broom, as if hanging upside down on the broom. He and George narrowly missed each other, scaring George to the point of being stunned.

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After breaking through George, Maca immediately adjusted his body shape, and before anyone else arrived, he sprinted directly towards the captain and goalkeeper Wood.

Wood was under a lot of pressure, very much! But he was a veteran player after all. At this moment, he barely controlled his mentality, defended seriously, and planned to intercept Maca at all costs.

"At least once! Even once!" Wood kept muttering, looking directly at the direction in which Maka was rushing.

Close! Closer! Already in the scoring area! He's about to throw the ball!

Wood rushed towards the door knocker on the left, because Maka chose that side! The speed was so fast that it was impossible for him to change direction.

But in this almost impossible situation, Maka suddenly moved the broom handle to the right and back!

In order to increase the small arc deflection caused by high-speed steering, his whole body fell to the right, and his whole body was almost maintained at a horizontal angle to the ground.

Nimbus 2000 quickly drew an arc in mid-air, and even the rainwater was drawn out of the arc.

The Quaffle was thrown into the right knocker by Maka, and the first ten points occurred less than two minutes into the game!

The commentator roared excitedly - such difficult goals are rare in semi-professional competitions!

But after five minutes, all the players were soaked from the inside out.

The weather was very cold, many people were frozen, and it was difficult to see other teammates clearly, not to mention the long and random flying Bludgers.

Everyone was flying around the court, only seeing blurry red and yellow figures, and had no idea what was going on in the game.

In the strong wind, the audience hid under their cloaks and umbrellas that had been blown apart by the wind, and the cheers and cheers could only be vaguely heard.

Many players were almost knocked off their broomsticks by the Bludgers. The heavy rain made it almost impossible for everyone to open their eyes, and they couldn't see the ball hitting them from the opposite side.

In fact, Maka was also greatly affected. Except for scoring a goal at the beginning when he was in good condition, he has never found any opportunities to win the ball.

Of course, this has a lot to do with his not focusing on the ball.

But even so, when he found Gryffindor Chaser Katie Bell throwing the Quaffle towards another teammate, Maka intercepted the ball as it happened to fly by.

Time passed little by little, and before you knew it, the score had risen to 60 to 10, and Hufflepuff was already leading by a full fifty basic points.

At this moment, Mrs. Huo Qi's whistle sounded along with the first lightning since the beginning.

On the Gryffindor side, Harry could vaguely see the outline of Wood in the dense rain curtain, and the other party was motioning to him to get down to the ground.

The whole team splashed down onto the muddy field lawn.

"I called a timeout!" Wood yelled to the players, "Come on, get down there—"

They huddled under a big umbrella on the edge of the court, and Hufflepuff also got under another one on the other side. Both sides took advantage of the timeout to hold an emergency meeting.

Harry took off his glasses and wiped them hastily on his robes.

"What's the score?" he asked.

"We're fifty points behind," Wood said. "I think we have to catch the Golden Snitch as soon as possible, otherwise the score will continue to grow——"

"But I can't see clearly at all - I can't see anything clearly. There's nothing I can do with my glasses on!" Harry said in frustration, waving his glasses.

At this moment, Hermione appeared next to Harry.