Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

In the last period of time before returning to Hogwarts, Maca didn't go anywhere, so he took Luna to the Three Broomsticks bar to sit for a while.

For this very popular bar in Hogsmeade Village, most wizards choose to sit here every time they come.

The owner of the bar, Ms. Rosmerta, is very social and a very popular woman.She is always very good at talking, and many wizards like to talk to her.

Well, especially the wizards—even the professors at Hogwarts knew her.

"Speaking of which, this bar has an interesting little allusion." Maca sat at the table and said to Luna. "Before Ms. Rosemerta took over the bar, this was called'Two Broomsticks'."

"Is this funny?" a shaggy wizard on the other side approached him, looking at Maca and asked.

"The interesting part is not here," Maca spread his hands, "you know, what is going on?"

"Hmm..." The wizard thought for a while and guessed naturally, "A broom?"

"No, earlier, here is a private flying broomstick workshop." Maca said, "The Moon Cover of the end of the nineteenth century was born here. It was at the beginning of the twentieth century. The creative source of Spey’s design of the "Moon"

"This is really unexpected, it is indeed an interesting allusion..." the wizard smiled. "You know a lot. Are you little wizards from Hogwarts?"

"Yeah, you know, there are Hogwarts students everywhere in Hogsmeade today."

"That's right, that's right." The wizard smiled, "but not as calm as you are."

At this time, Ms. Rosmerta came over with a tray, and while talking and laughing with the wizard, she put the glass wine glass in front of him.

"Should I buy you a drink?" The wizard suddenly hugged Maca and said, "Just treat it as a reward for that funny little allusion you talked about, how about?"

"Hey! Tarino, don't teach bad kids!" Ms. Rosmerta slapped him on the back, warningly.

"Don't do that, Rosmerta, I'm not inviting, I'm not inviting... Haha!"

The sloppy wizard named "Tarino" by Ms. Rosmerta pretended to dodge, with a mischievous smile on his face, a completely slippery look, it seems that he has always been this virtue.

"Don't pay attention to him, he is a sloppy ghost." Rosmerta smiled at Maca and went straight behind the bar.

"Look at that figure... ahem, I mean, Ms. Rosmerta is a charming witch."

Probably he finally noticed Maca's age, and Luna had been watching his relationship curiously, he finally controlled his mouth and didn't continue to make any unbearable remarks.

But Maca stared at Tarino thoughtfully for a while, as if thinking about something.

He paused for a while, then suddenly said: "Mr. Tarino, I think it would be more appropriate for me to invite you."

As Maca spoke, she suddenly turned her head towards the bar and shouted: "Ms. Rosemerta, give Mr. Tarino a glass of blue-labeled John. I'll treat you."

"Oh, of course, but—" Ms. Rosmerta hesitated.

"Relax, no problem."

Tarino put away his smile and looked at Maca in surprise.

"How can this—" he said, "I was just joking."

Maca squeezed a smile at him, and said in a calm tone: "However, I am not... enjoying the beautiful bar at ease, sir, I just want to ask a few questions by the way."

Tarino was stunned, then shrugged and said: "Oh, okay! Blue card John, what reason can I refuse?"

The wine came quickly, but Maca was not interested in touching it, he was only interested in getting useful information.

"Mr. Tarino, you must be familiar with the dark side of the magic world, can you chat with me?"

"I think so, but... there is no interesting story there. Are you sure you want to hear it?" Tarino spread his hands and confirmed.

"Of course, otherwise, why do you think I invited you to drink for no reason?" Maca said naturally, "This is a bar, except for wine, it is a story-now that there is wine, of course we need some stories."

"Hey! I really can't see this, you are quite clear about what's inside... Okay, let's tell the story..." Tarino took a sip of wine cautiously, and then continued, " Speaking of it, it's actually not stable recently-well, to be honest, it has never been stable...

In Tarino's intermittent narration, Maca learned for the first time the mess hidden in the shadow of the magic world.

In fact, it is a little bit scattered, after all, there is the greatest white wizard in the UK today-Albus Dumbledore, and there has been little major incident in recent years.

It's just that there are no big things, but small things are always forbidden and inexhaustible.

The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic are very dedicated to their duties, and there are even black wizard hunting teams and strikers specializing in dealing with dangerous criminals, but no matter how tightly guarded they are, there is always time to lose sight of one another.

What's more, there are also creatures like werewolves and vampires that are easy to commit crimes by nature, and there are more minor disturbances.

Of course, the recent hotter incident, of course, is the escape incident of Sirius Black.The type of criminals who can escape from Azkaban is the type that really makes people headache.

"In other words, someone has seen him recently?" Maca asked.

"Yeah! I heard that he was lurking in Hogsmeade!" Tarino whispered, "but he seems to have some injuries on his leg. If this is true, the risk will be reduced a lot— "

"You know, lunatics like Blake don't even want to provoke the evil wizards."

"It's true...Although as far as I am concerned, there were a lot of doubts about the incident. Before Black entered Azkaban, he didn't even go through the trial process." Maca nodded.

"Who knows?" Tarino curled his lips as soon as he heard the words. "What tricks are there, no one can say clearly now."

Afterwards, Maca followed the topic and talked about something else, and after learning about the sly things, he left with Luna.

It's late, it's time to go back to school.

"Let's take another secret road when you go back. By now, Ravenclaw's common room is probably full of people."

Maca led Luna to the screaming hut not far away.

The secret road leading to the beating willow was still so narrow, and the two men finally stooped all the way to the other end of the secret road.

But Maca just showed up, only to find a black dog staring at him with its big round eyes.

"...Good evening." Maca blinked.

He really didn't expect that by such a coincidence, he would run into Sirius Black here.Because of the sudden incident, he really didn't know what to say for a while.

But the next moment, Black, who had become an Animagus form, made a forward pounce.

"Maca?"

Just as Maca hesitated to take out the wand, Luna, who was still bending down in the secret tunnel, said.

Immediately, Maca stopped moving, as did Blake.

The other party looked at Maca, then turned around decisively, ran to the forbidden forest not far away, and quickly disappeared into the bushes near the forest.

You know, the wand that Maca uses now is the one that was shot down from Black.

On that day, Maca still had a disguise on him, so today he did not let the other party discover his identity.But if you take out the magic wand, the other party will definitely recognize it at a glance.

He can't reveal his identity so quickly. After all, since he failed to subdue Black last time, he can only make a long detour.There are some things he has to get from Black.

It's important, and the relationship between him and Black can't be too stiff right now.

"It's okay, come here, the dinner will begin soon."

Maca climbed to the ground, then stretched out his hand and gave Luna a hand.Afterwards, the two walked quickly to the auditorium.

In the shadow on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Black was looking at the backs of Maca and Luna, with a gleam of doubt in his eyes.

...

As Ron said to Harry, today's dinner is indeed very rich.

Hundreds of pumpkin lanterns hung in the auditorium, as well as a group of bats flying up and down, and many orange streamers spitting flames-they floated lazily under the ceiling like a group of brilliant water snakes.

The food is exceptionally exquisite, and even people like Hermione and Ron who ate Duke Honey’s candy so much that their stomachs were about to explode, they also asked for a second portion of each food.

In the faculty seat not far away, Lupin looked happy and as funny and natural as usual-he was chatting actively with Professor Flitwick, the teacher of the spell class.

Looking down the table, you can see where Snape is sitting.

He is still that cold and cold, and he is still so out of place in the festive atmosphere of the auditorium.

The dinner ended with entertainment provided by the ghost of Hogwarts.

The ghosts suddenly appeared from the walls and tables to make a kind of parade—Gryffindor College’s "Almost Headless Nick" successfully reproduced the situation where he was decapitated.

Everyone had a great night.

Many students are discussing various things about going to Hogsmeade Village today. Excitement and happiness still remain in their bodies, as if they can't sleep tonight without swaying them clean.

When the dinner was over, Maca went back to the common room with the other Hufflepuff students.But Harry, Ron, and Hermione found that there were many people crowded in front of the common room of Gryffindor Yard--that is, in front of the portrait of the fat lady.

"Why didn't everyone go in?" Ron said strangely.

There are too many people in front of them, and they can't see exactly what happened.

Harry tried to stand on tiptoe and looked forward over the head-the portrait seemed to be closed.