harry potter book of crimes

It turns out that adult mandrakes are not the only magical plants that can run away on their own. Not only that, there is obviously a "personality plant" in the seventh greenhouse that can run faster than many animals!

When that strange plant, which looked like a petal-less sunflower, suddenly jumped up from the flower pot deep in the greenhouse, shook off its thick rhizomes and ran over like a gust of wind, everyone was frightened and started to scramble.

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You know, this is the seventh greenhouse!

Professor Sprout had just taken the trouble to reiterate the dangers here, but now that he had just entered, he immediately staged such a scene of plants running wild...

This sudden sight almost made everyone's little hearts seem to stop beating for half a beat.

However, perhaps this moment came so suddenly that most people did not realize that they had actually just seen the plant not long ago.

"Hey? What's wrong with everyone? Why are you shouting so much...I don't think I look scary at all?"

Yes, this is obviously the rare magical talking plant that Maka brought back to Hogwarts.

During previous Christmas activities, Professor Sprout placed it in a flower pot at the exit of the greenhouse and asked it to say a few Christmas blessings to all the little wizards who passed by it.

It's a pity that most of the students were too panicked at this moment, so they couldn't connect it with the "interesting plant" in their memories for a while.

Besides, it wasn't allowed to run around like it does now!

"Hey! I said, do you all like running as much as I do? If that's the case, maybe we can make an appointment to go for a morning jog together every morning?"

It can be seen that this guy doesn't seem to understand the situation at all. It looks at the students running around in a panic and thinks they are running with it!

On the other side, everyone wearing soundproof earmuffs naturally cannot hear what it says.

"Oh, Merlin's beard—"

Sprout, who was unable to use the magic spell due to the students running around, had no choice but to raise his wand and try to find an opening while sighing in a voice that no one could hear.

But at this moment, Luna, who had been watching all this, suddenly ran to the table and pushed away a heavy object that was pressing on the mandrake flower pot.

Then, without anyone noticing, she grabbed the grass stem in the flowerpot and pulled it up by the roots.

Speaking of which, the mandrake roots in their infancy are actually really scary. They all look like wrinkled babies. But after they grow into adults, the child-like roots become smooth.

Of course, overall, it's still pretty ugly.

"Wow--"

Suddenly, a heart-rending cry echoed in the greenhouse—a fatal sound that could make the heart stop, the blood coagulate, and the spirit collapse.

If everyone hadn't been wearing earmuffs that could completely block the sound, a large number of people would have fallen in the greenhouse in the blink of an eye.

However, it seems that the only one who can hear this sound right now is the "fake sunflower" that is still chasing everyone.

"What the hell? Oh, don't cry——"

Plants don't have hearts and blood, so it won't die if it hears this kind of cry. But even if it can't die, it obviously won't feel comfortable at this time.

"Stop it! If you don't stop, you crybaby, I'll...forget it, I can't afford to offend you, I think I'd better run away!"

Having said that, it turned around and ran towards the depths of the greenhouse, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Luna, who was holding a mandrake, looked at the direction it was leaving, and stood there in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

It wasn't until Professor Sprout came over and patted her hand and pointed at the flowerpot that she came to her senses and stuffed the mandrake roots back into the soil.

After such a farce, Sprout naturally did not dare to continue the classroom practice as if it had never happened. She quickly brought everyone back to the open space outside the greenhouse.

"Take off your earmuffs."

After everyone took off their earmuffs, Sprout said:

"I'm sorry, the commotion just now can be said to be my fault, and I didn't expect that root grass to suddenly run out. Although it is not actually harmful, I can understand why you are panicking.

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"In addition, if Miss Lovegood hadn't driven it away with Mandrake in time, there might have been real danger next! So, Ravenclaw adds 10 points, this is Lovegood

The lady deserves it..."

While Sprout was speaking, the students were still gasping in shock, and some of them cast a grateful look at Luna because of the professor's words.

However, Luna herself seemed not to notice the sights around her, and her eyes became increasingly dazed.

And at the next moment, she finally seemed to have solved a problem that had been bothering her for a long time, and suddenly said:

"Ah! It's called 'Xiao Hei' - Maka calls it 'Xiao Hei'!"

"What?"

All the students around her were confused and had no idea what she was talking about.

To be honest, Luna is really smart sometimes, but most of the time she is always a bit confusing.

But it was probably her strange confusion that made Maka feel that she would always have all kinds of fun when she was with her.

...

"...Actually, I'm a prophet."

"Look, if Maca McClain wants you to go to France, you'd better take his advice."

"I know you might want to go to Hogwarts and learn magic, but...not only will it be useless for you to stay, you will even die meaninglessly."

"So, when he lets you go, get out of here first!"

These were the last words that the wizard in the trench coat said before leaving.

Little Cathy actually didn't understand why the other person said this, let alone who the other person was. But in her heart, she really wanted to go to Hogwarts, and she didn't even discuss this matter in front of her mother.

mentioned.

So, where did the mysterious wizard know this? Is that person... really, as he said, a "prophet" that is extremely rare in the magic world?

And why on earth would the other party say these things to a child she has never met?

Oh no, judging from the previous conversation between the two, it seems that the other party really knows little Cathy - although little Cathy is sure that she has never met that person.

"If that man is really a prophet, then... Mr. MacLean will ask me to go to France?"

Little Cathy was thinking about it secretly with a confused look on her face, but even though she was as smart as an adult, she still couldn't understand the wizard's intention in telling her this.

The key is that what the other party said really made her feel like she had to believe it.

"Mom, tell me...what's going on?"

Standing in front of the tomb and looking at the tombstone, little Cathy pursed her lips and muttered in her heart. After a long time, she shook her head and left the wizard cemetery where her mother was buried with the blush in her eyes still not gone.

Outside, most of the parents, relatives and friends who came here to attend the burial ceremony were still there, waiting for her here.

"Where's Mr. MacLean?"

Out of doubts about what the mysterious wizard said just now, little Cathy looked around for Maka and Sirius as soon as she came out. However, they seemed to have already left.

"Oh, it seems like they...have left?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Pierce's friend Maggie couldn't help but look around. The space on this hillside can be said to be quite open. If it can't be seen at a glance, it obviously means it is no longer there.

"I think Mr. McClain and the others must still have a lot to do, especially dealing with that dark wizard. So, it's not easy to find time to come here..."

Maggie might be worried that little Cathy would be sad about this - after all, the child had just lost her mother, so she was probably very sensitive inside, so she hurriedly explained it to her.

But in fact, she really didn't need to explain Maka's busyness to little Cathy.

"I know, Aunt Maggie, I can understand." The latter then said softly, "It's okay, I just asked in passing."

"Oh, that's good! That's good!" Maggie said, suddenly turning to look at little Cathy's grandparents, "Then... do you want to go home right now? Or do you want to go somewhere to relax? I

feel--"

"St. Mungo's," little Cathy said immediately, "I want to go back to St. Mungo's!"

After saying this suddenly, she quickly looked at the Dean of St. Mungo's who was not far away.

"Mr. Bernthal, although I know what I can do is limited, I want to go there to help." She said, "You know, there are still some patients who were burned by the black flames who have not been discharged from the hospital. I hope to see it with my own eyes.

They are all healthy again!"

"Well..." Bernser touched the gray beard on his chin and considered it carefully before saying, "If we had followed the rules in the past, this would definitely not be possible now. However, I can feel that from your wish.

The kindness of not wanting others to experience sadness too..."

"Okay! You can come - of course, you have to get your grandparents' permission first."

A moment later, when little Cathy got the approval from her elders and followed Bernthal to St. Mungo's, Maka was just thinking about whether to see St. Mungo's again.

In fact, he felt as if he had found a very important clue.

But to be honest, what the mysterious wizard said came first, and now he is about to meet little Cathy again at St. Mungo's.

If it is just a "coincidence", isn't it also a bit "too much of a coincidence"? (To be continued)