Harry Potter’s Book of Sin Chapter 317: Unlucky hybrid giant
()To be honest, Maca’s small life during this period was actually quite stable.
Probably because of his special status, Umbridge didn't dare to act too outrageously, so as not to be caught by him when he was already at a disadvantage.
Umbridge’s most important goal right now is to stand firm at Hogwarts.
To say that Maca is now a nail between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, Umbridge’s purpose is to become the nail that the Ministry of Magic penetrates into Hogwarts. .
At least until the nail is firmly nailed, she must dare not do anything unusual.
Of course, the premise must be that Maca stays in school and stares at her all the time. Nowadays, Maca is equivalent to a deterrent against Umbridge.
However, sometimes the reality will always make the anticipated things splinter...
"Tuk Tuk Tuk"
One morning, Maca was nestled in his office as usual. When he slammed against the piles of theoretical materials that seemed to be endlessly studied, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in."
Maca said without raising his head, but his thoughts remained between the pen and the paper, quite a bit thoughtless.
With a soft creak, the door of the office was opened.
"McLean, put the things at hand first, Dumbledore will come to you for a visit..."
Hearing the voice of the visitor, Maca finally raised her head, craned her neck to let her gaze over the pile of books, and looked towards the door.
"Professor Snape?" He said, then glanced down at the manuscript, hesitating, "Is it urgent? I still need a few minutes--"
Snape, who was standing in the doorway, didn't react. He just nodded slightly, indicating that Maca would be fine for a few minutes.
"Let’s do it first, I'll be ready soon..."
Maca casually polite, and then immediately lowered his head, the sound of the previous brushing and writing rang again.
For Snape, Maca’s attitude towards research is worthy of recognition. At least he himself believes that the priority of magic research should be relatively high, which is the quality that every wizard should have.
Soon, six or seven minutes passed, and Snape waited calmly, without the slightest impatience. Then, Maca finally raised his head again, and then drew out his wand and knocked it on the table.
With a squeaky noise, the tip of the quill was cleaned of ink, and he lay quietly back in the pen case; the lid of the ink bottle flew back to the mouth of the bottle automatically and squeaked tightly; the manuscript paper also followed The order was re-stacked neatly, and it fell to the top of the pile of materials on the right hand side.
As soon as the magic was in effect, Maca stepped out of the desk and walked over to Snape at the door.
"Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long-let's go!"
Snape nodded casually, and then the two walked forward side by side.
It's just that Maca was a little surprised that this time Snape was the first to ask a question.
"Are there any new discoveries in potions recently?"
Speaking of which, the potions that Maca was best at at the time are not his best subject now. Although his current level of potions is still improving, the speed of running forward has dropped.
On this subject alone, Snape is still much better than Maca, especially in some of the more in-depth potion theories, Snape is not even better than him.
Seeing that Snape was interested in discussing a few words with himself, Maca also cheered up. The two of them walked and talked, and it didn't take long to find that he was standing in front of the principal's office.
"...The side effects of Fu Ling can't actually be called side effects, because that is the principle of its effect, so there is no possibility of eliminating the side effects." Snape said as he reached out and knocked. I knocked on the door of the principal's office.
"It is true, but the pharmacology of Fu Ling Ji is really difficult to understand..." Maca said, "It's luck, it's invisible and intangible, even the possibility of data. Nothing."
After saying this, the door slowly opened, and the two of them stopped talking.
In fact, since Maca took over the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's number of visits to him has dropped sharply. At least since the beginning of school, Maca has hardly been to the principal's office.
Looking here today, he found that Dumbledore's complexion recently seemed to be better than before, especially his energetic appearance, which made him look like he was ten years younger.
Of course, even if Dumbledore is ten years younger, he still cannot erase the fact that he is over a hundred years old.
"Professor, what's the matter with me?" Maca asked immediately.
Because Dumbledore has not been looking for him recently, once he is called, it means that the focus of this meeting is undoubtedly the reason for calling him.
In other words, he doesn't need to talk nonsense, just ask.
Sure enough, although Dumbledore's expression was still gentle, but he didn't have any thoughts of homely, he went straight to today's theme as soon as he opened his mouth.
"That's it," Dumbledore sat behind his desk, looking at Mackay. "A secret letter came from Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim, saying they met at the Polish border. Some troubles. As for whether you want to rush over and help them, you can make your own decision..."
Speaking, he picked up his wand and waved it, and a small piece of paper on the table flew towards Maca lightly.
"Mrs. Maxim asked her white-cheeked warbler to send it back. Check it out!"
Maca didn't say much, he reached out his hand to take the note, and took a look at the content.
This note is written carefully.
In order to avoid being robbed by Voldemort’s Death Eaters and seeing something, the actual content is quite limited, but a few cipher words are used in key points, but they are now In the embarrassing situation.
"Is it driven into the monster community by three crazy monsters? Then I was chased all the way and trapped in the cave?"
Maca just wanted to say, can those two be more unreliable?
It was Maca's decision to still let Hagrid find the giants to negotiate, because after all, they are hybrid giants, and they must be more efficient than ordinary wizards. This judgment is absolutely correct.
And Dumbledore also contacted Mrs. Maxim and accompanied Hagrid.
Because Voldemort definitely can't care about dealing with the giants at the moment, even if he still has the manpower to go there, he will not send it at this time.
In the absence of the Death Eaters making trouble, Hagrid's chance of success is actually very high-even if the giant can't be convinced to stand on the side of the Order of the Phoenix, at least the possibility of the two not helping each other.
At that time, all you need to do is move a nest to the remaining giants, so that the Death Eaters can't find them in the future.
Who knew that Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim would be blocked by a group of subspecies of giants, giant monsters, and were caught in a dilemma.
Yes, even though giants are not high in IQ, they can communicate and influence at any rate.
But the trolls are different. With the "almond" brains in their disproportionately small heads, let alone negotiation, even their own trolls' language has only a few pitiful syllables. .
It was a group of "mobs" who lived in the magical world.
"Um..."
Maca groaned, and went through the matters to be dealt with in Hogwarts again, and then roughly weighed the situation on Hagrid's side. Even if he decides, he still has to go there by himself. Just work.
First of all, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim must be rescued. Seeing that they still have room for the pet bird to send the letter back, it means that they can continue to survive.
The key point is that the giant monster community is not so easy to deal with, and it may not be effective for ordinary wizards to go to a dozen. Those guys have thick skins and thick flesh, and they become quite difficult to deal with as they grow in quantity.
But again, if it was easy to deal with, they would have been cleaned up by the local Ministry of Magic long ago.
However, if Maca leaves Hogwarts now, who will Umbridge rely on? Once no one restrained her, then Hogwarts probably would be unstable again.
It is difficult for Dumbledore to come forward to that uneasy old woman, because he can't openly confront the Ministry of Magic.
Thinking about it, Maca shook his head.
Umbridge, this person cannot move yet.
Although she will be a nail that the Ministry of Magic will drive into Hogwarts, her presence in Maca is still useful. If you start to stun the snake now, it will only make this one doomed to be "unfixed." The nails were wasted for nothing.
If this is the case, then I can only go with her, I believe she will not make too much trouble for a while.
Because as long as Maca will come back, she has to keep a little bit of dread, although the restriction on her will be greatly reduced during this period.
"...Then I'd better go!" Maca said after some consideration, "Of course, I will be back as soon as possible."
Dumbledore heard ~IndoMTL.com~ and still didn't say anything, he just smiled and nodded, nothing more.
"Professor Snape, please ask Filch to post a notice. During the time I am away from school, the magic text class will be changed to reading and self-study—"
Maca turned her head and said to Snape, who was standing silent.
"Currently, the students who are currently taking the ancient magic texts course are basically really fond of this subject, and it is certainly not a problem consciously."
When Snape heard this, he said suspiciously: "Are you sure?"
About half an hour later, I roughly packed up the necessary supplies of Maca, and immediately set off for the border between Poland and Belarus.
According to the cipher text in the note, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim were somewhere in the mountains over there. Since there is a giant monster community there, I believe it won't be too much trouble to find them.
It's just Maca who went there, but he didn't expect that he would meet an "old acquaintance" who had been missing for a long time there.