Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

"When I saw you, I understood in my heart."

When the party was halfway through, right next to a large stone-carved reindeer, the tall fountain splashed with water, giving out misty flashes.

There, two huge, vague figures were sitting on a stone bench, looking at the spring water under the moonlight.

After a short silence, one of the figures was speaking with a strange hoarse voice.

"What do you understand, Hagrid?" Mrs. Maxim asked, a ho-ho sound in her low voice.

"I understand—I understand that you are like me! Is it your mother or father?"

"I—I don’t understand what you mean, Hagrid..."

"My mother is my mother," Hagrid said softly. "She is one of the few remaining in England. Of course, I don't remember her well... She left, you know? Probably in my third birthday. Years old."

"To be honest, she doesn't look like a mother. Well...they don't have motherhood in their nature, don't they? I don't know what happened to her... as far as I know, she is probably dead..."

Mrs. Maxim said nothing, she just pouted and looked at the silver fountain in front of her.

"After my mother left, my father was very sad. My father was a short man. When I was six years old, if he annoyed me, I would lift him up and put him on the top of the closet, always making him funny haha Laughing..." Hagrid's low voice choked even more.

Beside, Mrs. Maxim listened, she was motionless, as if she was not listening.

"Dad brought me up... but, alas, he died, just after I went to school. After that, I just managed to get around on my own. Dumbledore helped me a lot, really. He treated me a lot. very good……"

Hagrid took out a silk bandanna with dots on it and blew his nose loudly.

"That's it...I'm done...I'm done. What about you? Where did you get the inheritance?"

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Maxim stood up suddenly.

"It's too cold," she said, "I want to go in."

But in fact, no matter how low the temperature is right now, it won't be as cold as her current voice.

"Huh?" Hagrid said bewildered. "No, don't go! I—I've never seen anyone else before!"

"The other person? You make it clear!" Mrs. Maxim said in a cold tone.

"Another half-blood giant, that's just enough!" Hagrid said.

"You are so bold!" Madam Maxim screamed."I've never been insulted like this in my life! Half-blood giant? Me? I'm just—I'm just a big skeleton!"

Her voice cut through the quiet night sky like a corner of fog.

At this moment, Lotus and Roger jumped out of a rose bush—no way, Mrs. Maxim would run into them in the bush if they didn't come out.

Madam Maxim glanced at them, then walked away angrily.She drew the blooming bushes angrily all the way, shocked groups of colorful little fairies flying into the air.

Hagrid was still sitting on the bench, looking at her back, not knowing what was thinking.

"Hagrid, you are still too direct to ask... You know, not everyone can accept their blood with peace of mind."

A voice sounded from a corner not far away, and after a short while, two figures walked out from there.

"Maca?" Hagrid looked flustered, he stood up hastily, "Oh, and Miss Lovegood...how long have you been there?"

"Is there anything I shouldn't hear?" Maca asked with a shrug.

Hagrid hesitated for a while, but finally dropped his shoulders and sat back on the stone bench.

"But...you see, you don't care..." His voice sounded depressed, even a little unwilling.

"Yeah! I don't care," Maca sat down beside him and patted Hagrid's thick arm vigorously. "But I know very well that other people are hostile to giants... ...And even fear."

"Stop talking about me, you clearly know it yourself, don't you?" He continued, "You never mention your life experience, let alone why you are so big—"

"Because it's not necessary—" Hagrid argued.

"No need?" Maca shook his head, "Is it really unnecessary? Knowing that everyone's first impression of you is'God! You are so tall!'?"

"I..." Hagrid wanted to find another reason, but he was discouraged in an instant. "Yes, you are right-I can understand what she thinks... like sometimes, I I also worry that my children will be scared like that..."

"But to be honest, I will not deliberately conceal like she did, that's dishonest!"

Hagrid said stubbornly, he also had his own perseverance.Maca didn't directly deny his insistence, but started talking about the giant...

"Hagrid, have you seen them?" he asked suddenly, "you know, I mean giants."

Hagrid nodded, then shook again.

"I only met my mother, and I was too young at the time, I can't remember..."

"Looking at the information, the average height of modern giants is close to 30 feet... but did you know? In ancient times, the ancestors of giants were much taller and stronger than today." Maca said calmly, "I I think you should understand, what does that mean to ordinary people..."

"Higher?" Hagrid said curiously, "How tall?"

"I don't know this. In ancient times, there were several types of giants...Anyway, as far as I know, the smallest one is more than twice as tall as the current giant..." Maca said, again He patted Hagrid's arm and said, "And the most massive kind, even in ancient times, only existed in the legend-as huge as a mountain."

"It sounds like those fairy tales my father told me when I was a child." Hagrid subconsciously looked at the towering mountain in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, and then he laughed.

"Is it that big? I really want to see it with my own eyes..." Luna, who had been sitting quietly on the other side of Maca, said in a daze.

She was also looking at the mountain, vaguely yearning.

"Perhaps one falls asleep somewhere in this world!" said Maca, "but we still don't see it. If such a big guy wakes up, it will cause a big earthquake to stand up. ..."

"...Well, let him continue to sleep," Luna said seriously.

Look at her, as if she had really thought about where to find the legendary "giant as big as a mountain" just now.

"Thank you, Maca..." After a long time, Hagrid suddenly said, "At least you let me understand, true friends don't care if I have a hybrid of giants..."

"Then you have to thank a few people." Maca spread his hands and shouted, "Harry and Ron, don't hide there!"

Not long after, as a sound of Xisi Suo Suo sounded, two embarrassed boys walked out from behind the reindeer stone sculpture.

"Sorry, Hagrid. We didn't plan to—" Harry was interrupted by Maca before he could finish.

"Come here and sit down for a while, no one here will blame you— right, Hagrid?"

"Oh-of course, but..." Hagrid hesitated, "Where did you start listening?"

"From'I knew you when I saw you.' There..." Harry confessed with regret, "In fact, we just happened to pass by..."

"Isn't that the beginning!" Hagrid patted his forehead vigorously. "Oh, the kids are watching...I wish I didn't say anything strange."

"We are not kids anymore--" Ron said loudly, "rest assured Hagrid, we won't be afraid of you!"

Maca looked at Ron strangely—when did he become so active?To say that the wizard family should know a lot about giants, and most wizards are very hostile to the giants.

In the minds of wizards, giants are always cruel and bloodthirsty, and even cannibals—of course, this is also because there have been cases in history.

To be honest, Maca had a good relationship with Hagrid from the very beginning. In addition to being worthy of Hagrid, he naturally had the idea of ​​personally contacting the giants through Hagrid.

He is indeed very curious about such a race full of magical colors. If he has the opportunity, he would like to see what a giant is like-of course, that is by no means now!

After a few people chatted by the fountain for a while, Hagrid went back to the hut first-he couldn't go to see Mrs. Maxim today, so why not go back to accompany Yaya!

Harry, Ron, and Maca returned to the auditorium together.

The prom was still going on, Parvati and Padma were sitting at a table in the distance with a large group of Busbarton boys.Hermione didn't know where she was going, they hadn't seen her since just now.

They sat down at a table far from the dance floor.

For the rest of the ball, Harry and Ron had been sitting in the corner talking about the giant, and neither had the intention of dancing.Harry restrained himself from watching Cho Chang and Cedric, which would make him have a strong urge to kick things.

And Maca talked with Luna casually, occasionally answering a few words when Harry and the others asked something.

Soon, at twelve o'clock at midnight, the weird sisters stopped playing, and the leisure time was over.Everyone gave the weird sisters a warm applause for the last time, and then began to walk towards the hall.

At this moment, in a girl's bedroom in the Gryffindor Tower, Hermione was staring at the opened gift box.

Just in that flat gift box, a beautiful white dress was still stacked, faintly reflecting the brilliance under the light.

"Ron is right. Even if I can't disturb Maca now, I shouldn't have agreed to Wick... Krum's invitation..."