Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

Chapter 98: Inevitable Coincidence

This was Harry's first visit to Hogsmeade, and he felt a little excited.

The Honey Duke deserves to be a popular shop among the little wizards, and there are people everywhere.Harry looked around, squeezing through the crowd.

Then Harry was pleased to see Ron and Hermione standing under a sign—they were looking closely at a plate of lollipops exuding blood.

Harry sneaked behind them.

"...Um, no, Harry won't want it, I think it's for vampires." Hermione was talking to Ron.

"How about this?" Ron said, pushing a squeezed can of cockroaches under Hermione's nose.

"Definitely not." Harry couldn't help but said.

Ron heard Harry's voice and almost fell the jar in his hand.

"Harry!" Hermione screamed. "What are you doing here? Why—how did you come?"

"Wow!" Ron's eyes lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised, "You learned to stealth!"

"Of course I didn't." Harry lowered his voice to prevent other students from hearing it.

Then he told them in detail about the live spot map.

"Why did Fred and George never give it to me!" Ron was furious, "I am their brother!"

"But Harry won't take it for a long time!" Hermione hesitated, "I think it's better to give it to Professor McGonagall..."

Hermione's mind-bending problem was apparently committed again.

"No, I won't pay!" Harry said.

"Are you crazy?" Ron said, glaring at Hermione. "Handed in such a good thing?"

"If I hand it in, I have to say where I got it! Filch will know that Fred and George got it!"

"But what about Black?" Hermione worriedly said, "He may have used a secret tunnel to enter the castle! If Professor McGonagall had this map—"

"He couldn't come in through the passage!" Harry immediately retorted. "There are seven secret passages on the map, right? Fred and George estimated that Filch might know four of them."

"Of the other three, one has collapsed, and no one can enter through that passage; the entrance of one is planted with the beating willow, and it is impossible to get in and out. And the one I just walked through...well ...It's really hard to see where its entrance is in the cellar...So, unless...he knows that there is this secret passage..."

As he spoke, Harry also began to hesitate.

What if Black does know that there is this passage?

However, Ron cleared his throat solemnly and pointed to a notice pasted inside the candy store's door.

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Upon order of the Ministry of Magic, customers please note:

Until further notice, the Dementors will patrol the streets of Hogsmeade every day after sunset.This move is purely for the safety of the residents of Hogsmeade and will be cancelled once Sirius Black is captured again.It is better for customers to finish purchasing before evening.

Merry Christmas!

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"Look?" Ron spread his hand. "There are dementors everywhere. I would like to see how Black can break into the candy store in this situation. Anyway, Hermione, the owner of the candy store You will hear someone breaking in, right? They live upstairs in the candy store!"

"Yes, but...but..." Hermione seemed to be trying to find a specific place to provoke her. "Look, Harry still shouldn't come to Hogsmeade Village. He didn't hand in the signed application form! If anyone finds out that Harry is here, Harry will be in big trouble! And it's still light now-what if Sirius Black appeared today and now?"

"Actually, I am more concerned about the open-air party that Maca held tonight-look at the announcement

Harry and the three were arguing with each other, but they didn't realize that Maca was actually looking at them in an alley not far away!

At this moment, a sloppy wizard turned around seemingly casually, and got into the alley where Maca was very naturally from the crowd on the street.

"Tarino, how is it?" Maca said calmly.

"It's indeed time, my old buddy is following over there, don't worry!"

This sloppy wizard is the same Tarino that Maca met in the Three Broomsticks bar last time. At this moment, he is still the dangling and unconventional appearance.

"Isn't it?" Maca asked again.

"Impossible, without this ability, how can I dare to mix in the underground world?" Tarino said with a smile.

"That's fine..." Maca nodded and said, "The time is almost here, I'll go over there to take over. Tomorrow you go to the Tyrande store to get the other half of the reward, and this transaction will be completed."

"Thank you for your patronage, you can find me whenever you need it next time-you already know the place."

Maca waved his hand and turned back to the depths of the alley.Although Tarino was also walking in the same direction, after turning a corner, he found that there was already no figure of Maca ahead.

"Really..." Tarino couldn't help but curled his lips. "Fortunately, he doesn't grab food from us."

Of course Maca was already invisible. After turning a few turns, he returned to the main road from another alley.Immediately, he hurried towards the post office.

Following the secret mark left by Tarino's partner, he quickly saw an ordinary-looking wizard at the mouth of a deep alley.

Maca threw a note at his feet, and the other side looked left and right calmly, and then a strange color flashed in his eyes.

He picked up the note and looked at it, then glanced at the alley without a word.In the next moment, he decisively mixed into the crowd, and soon disappeared.

"Mute."

After Maca muttered a silent sentence in his heart, he ran to the depths of the alley quickly, but his footsteps miraculously disappeared completely.

I have to say that those abilities of the assassin are indeed very practical. Although they are not very useful in front of the battle, they can play a very important role in the current situation.

Soon, he found a slightly thin black dog at the end of the alley. It was walking in the shadows, but its hind legs did look a little awkward.

"It seems that the last blow did leave him some injuries."

Black had no healing conditions, and for some reason, Maca's wand seemed to refuse his use.So until now, he is still dragging his injuries in action.

"In terms of determination, maybe few people are better than him." Maca couldn't help thinking.

At the same time, Maca was not idle.He used Blake's wand to point to the corner of the wall beside him. A broken plate that hadn't been discarded here immediately began to deform, and in a blink of an eye it became a big rat jumping around.

If you look closely, the mouse and Ron's spots look exactly the same.

Maca waved his magic wand again, and the big mouse sprinted past a corner not far from the black dog. After deliberately making a noise, he immediately ran into another alley at an extremely fast speed. Up!

But Black's alertness was always within Maca's judgment, and the black dog suddenly turned his head, and immediately saw the big mouse flashing by.

Blake's appearance of the mouse can no longer be described by the word "familiar", it is really only a strong impression of "hate into the bones".

At that moment, Black seemed to have forgotten the injury on his leg, and he ran away into the alley.When he passed by Maca, who was in a state of invisibility, the pair of dog eyes that implied anger and madness left a deep impression on Maca.

"Hate it too much?" Maca also quickly chased after him. He calmly pondered as he ran, "I hope it doesn't affect the plan for a while."

Black's speed is very fast, there is no sign of injury at all, and the distance between him and the rat that Maca conjured is constantly shortening.

Fortunately, the destination is almost here!

When they turned a turn again, Maca controlled the mouse and got into a trash can by a window.Just when Black tried to knock over the trash can and catch the mouse, he heard Harry's voice.

Although Blake was stunned for a moment, he didn't hesitate too much. Instead, he overturned the trash can and scattered the trash all over the place-but the mouse was nowhere to be found.

Of course he couldn't find it, because the mouse had already changed back to the broken plate the moment it got into the trash can.

Maca walked by the angry Black and took a look outside the alley, just in time to see Harry, Hermione and Ron, walking through the door of Three Broomsticks.

It turned out that the place where Black was now was under the side windows of the three broomsticks.

Maca glanced at Black, and when he saw that he was standing up and lying on the edge of the window looking at Harry, he nodded in relief.

At this point, the plan is more than half a success.

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Inside the Three Broomsticks Bar, it was still so crowded and noisy.

There are many guests, and the room is warm and smoky. A mature woman with a graceful figure and beautiful face is taking care of a bunch of noisy wizards at the bar.

"That's Ms. Rosmerta." Ron's face suddenly flushed, and he added, "I'll get a drink, okay?"

Harry and Hermione walked to the back of the room, where a small table was empty between the window and the beautiful Christmas tree, and near the fireplace.

But Harry didn't know, Sirius Black was secretly looking at him outside the window!

Five minutes later, Ron came back, holding three large glasses of frothy hot butter beer.

"Merry Christmas!" He said happily and raised his big glass.

Harry raised his glass, then took a big sip.

He felt that this was the best-tasting drink he had ever drunk, and it seemed to warm him from the inside out, and he immediately took another gulp.

Suddenly, a breeze blew through his hair, and the doors of the three broomsticks opened again. Harry looked to the door from the side of the big glass, but this look almost choked him.