Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

On the morning of Halloween, Harry woke up with everyone and went downstairs to have breakfast.He was in a terrible mood, but on the surface he had to try to pretend to be as usual.

"We will bring you many sweets from Duke Honey." Hermione felt very sorry for him.

After all, for most little wizards, Hogsmeade Village is a magical and charming place.

"Yes, bring a lot." Ron also agreed.

As Harry was depressed, he and Hermione finally forgot their quarrel about Crookshanks.

"Don't worry about me." Harry hoped he looked casual, although he had to suffocate his breath, "See you at the dinner party, I wish you a great time!"

He accompanied them to the front hall, where the caretaker Filch was standing by the gate, checking everyone with a long list.He looked at everyone's face suspiciously, guarding against anyone who shouldn't slip out.

"Being left, Potter?"

Malfoy looked around and found that Maca was indeed not here, and then yelled at Harry-he was standing in the line with Crabbe and Gore.

"Oh! Poor! Poor Potter—"

Crabbe and Gore also laughed, and all three of them are of the same virtue.

Harry ignored Malfoy and them. He walked up the marble stairs alone, through the corridor where no one was walking, and returned to the Gryffindor Tower.

"Password?"

At the entrance of the lounge, the fat lady in the portrait yawned and asked-she had just woke up from a nap.

"Good luck." Harry said listlessly.

At this time, Maca was dragged by Luna's sleeve to the Ravenclaw tower.

"...Ms. Gray told me there," she said softly while pulling Maca forward, "she said, that's the best secret road to Hogsmeade."

"That's really good." Maca nodded, letting Luna walk by pulling her sleeve.

The bronze door knocker in the Ravenclaw common room still didn't respond to him much, just working as usual.

After Luna answered the door knocker's question, the two of them walked around the bookshelves and tables and chairs in the common room and came to the back of the marble statue of Ravenclaw.

There is a small marble platform here, which looks like a protruding part of the base of the statue.On the smooth surface of the marble table, there are dozens of rows of slightly sunken dots, which I really can't see unless I look closely.

Luna drew out her wand and carefully clicked on certain dots.

Suddenly, a few straight lines appeared between the dots, connected to each other, forming a peculiar pattern.

"This should also be some kind of puzzle... It really is Ravenclaw's style." Maca thought.

With the formation of the pattern, Maca immediately felt a slight vibration from under her feet-the marble platform moved away automatically, revealing an old trapdoor underneath.

As Luna said, this secret passage is not as narrow and cramped as the others, it appears very spacious.People do not need to bow themselves when walking inside, even Maca and Luna can walk side by side.

After they had walked a short distance, Maca heard a slight vibration again behind him—the marble platform moved back automatically.

The exit of the secret road is in an abandoned underground warehouse in Hogsmeade Village.

Probably because almost no one knew about this secret passage, the underground warehouse outside the exit looked very messy.The crooked shelves around are all covered with thick dust, which makes people feel like covering their mouths and nostrils, so as not to be choked by the raised dust.

The two avoided the dirty shelves and stepped on the creaky wooden stairs to a private house above the underground warehouse.

Here is the same as below, not only black, but also very dirty.It can be seen that no one has lived here for a long time.

This house is at the end of the avenue in Hogsmeade, next to the back door of the Devis and Bans magic equipment shop. If you walk a few steps back, it will be the Pig's Head Bar.

Today’s Hogsmeade Village looks wonderful.

Although it was still covered with snow and the same chill as walking on the street, the huge pumpkin lanterns everywhere in the snow dispelled the gloom brought by those dementors for a while.

Occasionally, you can see enchanted snowmen, waving the dead branches on the snowball in the middle, greeting the wizards passing by.

"Oh, that's my nose, please return it to me—"

When Maca and Luna passed by a snowman, a carrot rolled to Maca's feet.

"Ok?"

Maca bent down and picked up the carrot-it just fell in the snow and didn't look dirty at all.

"Thank you," Maca took a bite, crunchy!

As he chewed, he vaguely said to the furious snowman, "Oh, it's very fresh...Happy Halloween, Mr. Snowman."

"Gosh--my nose--" the snowman waved its slender arm vigorously, angrily, "Yes, happy Halloween, Mr. Robber!"

"Give you a better one." Maca held the carrot in his mouth, reached out and grabbed a cloud of snow from the wooden fence beside him, and pointed his magic wand at it.

Suddenly, the mass of snow quickly deformed, and in a blink of an eye it turned into a crystal clear pumpkin-colored carrot.

After the transformation was completed, Maca was inserted in the snowman's nose, but the next moment he pulled it out immediately.

"Sorry, it's the reverse."

He tossed the translucent "carrot" up and adjusted the direction so that the pointed end faced him, and then inserted it back again.

"Let it flash again," Maca lighted the snowman's new nose with a magic wand on a whim. "At night, you will become the most eye-catching snowman."

Following the last point of Maca, the Snowman was surprised to find that its nose seemed to be equipped with a light bulb, and it began to sparkle with pumpkin-colored light.

It was bright and dazzling like a neon light invented by Muggles.

"It's beautiful." Luna looked at the snowman's nose and patted her hands gently.

The snowman tilted his head and said happily; "Oh! Thank you! This is much more beautiful than carrots! Thank you..."

With the snowman's frantic wave of hands, Maca and Luna continued to walk to the Duke Bee Candy Store-the candies there were indeed not bad, at least those that seemed normal were like this.

"jingle"

With a pleasant doorbell ringing, the fiery atmosphere in the store immediately rushed toward them.

The Honey Duke has always been one of the Hogsmeade shops most popular with little wizards. Every Halloween, here is always crowded with enthusiastic little wizards.

The arrival of Maca and Luna hardly disturbed anyone—it was so lively here.

Most little wizards just bought the candy they wanted, and couldn't help eating it in the store.From time to time, you will see that some little wizards chewed on sorbet balls, and they floated inadvertently; other little wizards probably ate some pepper-flavored candies, and they were spraying them continuously. With thick black smoke.

There was even a little girl with freckles who was spraying fire at her friend, and when the flame was about to go out, her friend's face was completely dark.

"Hahaha..."

They laughed happily with each other, as if it was not a big deal.

Here, everyone's mood is clearly written on their faces.Those seemingly naive jokes made Maca somehow moved.

"Maca, what's the matter?" Luna touched Maca's hand and leaned forward to ask.

"Huh? Oh, it's okay..." Maca walked out of the touch, and he shook his head slightly.

Perhaps that subtle touch is not an illusion, but an opportunity-it actually tells Maca that his emotions still exist.

On this basis, using Dumbledore's story as a reference, trying to crack this test, but it seems that only passive waiting is left.

"...Maca?"

Suddenly, a voice came out of the crowd. It was Hermione—she was with Ron, holding a lot of various candies.

"Hermione?" Maca nodded at her, looked at the candy in her arms and said, "Brought Harry?"

"Oh, yes." Hermione said, and subconsciously glanced at Luna next to Maca. "Harry can't come over today. Ron and I will bring him more home... Is she?"

"Luna Lovegood, from Ravenclaw College." Ron said suddenly.

Maca looked at Ron and nodded again.

"Yes, this is Luna-my friend." He said, "We met before the first grade started."

"Oh, this is great... hello, this is Hermione and Hermione Granger."

"……Hello there."

Luna stunned, watching Hermione respond.

For some reason, the scene seemed a bit awkward.

"Well, can you introduce me to the candies here? Ron, I remember you are good at this." Maca patted Ron on the arm.

Ron seemed interested when he heard this, and he said, "Then you must not miss this...Come with me!"

Under Ron's leadership, the four rushed into the crowd.

Before long, Maca and Luna also had a lot of candies in their arms, and after bidding farewell to Hermione and Ron, they left.

Behind them, Hermione and Ron stood at the door of the Honey Duke, looking at the backs of Maca and Luna, watching them leave.

"I heard Fred and George say that Lovegood is often called a "crazy girl" by others. She and Maca often walk together, so they never call her in person." Ron whispered, "but it is said , She has a good reputation in Ravenclaw."

"Crazy girl?" Hermione showed a puzzled expression.

"You have also seen that she always wears weird clothes, and she often promotes her weird ideas to others... and, in some ways, she seems to be a little divorced from reality, and she has a weird concept of behavior. ."

"It's not so good to say that others!" Hermione accused.

"Oh, yes... but everyone else is talking secretly." Ron argued in a low voice.