Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

"……What's your name?"

"Joshua Rockwell."

"Why don't you speak during this time?"

"I...I'm afraid of Miss Schoen..."

"How much do you know about the girl Helen Schoen?"

"The master discovered her three years ago... She is different from us. Before being taken to the monastery, she already possessed such terrible powers. She can control them without the help of the branding, and is more than us. powerful."

"……anything else?"

"No, I don't know... Then she was taken by her master to another place..."

Under the effect of Veritaserum, Joshua could no longer keep silent.When Maca began to ask questions step by step, he responded sentence by sentence.

"So, did you see something that night?" Maca continued.

"Yes," Joshua nodded immediately, "I, I didn't notice Miss Schoen lying behind the curtain at first, and that day I always followed Ms. Pomfrey's instructions to sleep in bed. But at night, I was awakened by a sudden movement—I saw a huge spider fighting with a cloud of black fog."

When he recalled the situation at the time, he still seemed a little frightened.

"At that time, I was thinking, the master must have sent someone to come to me, and the master must punish me again. But the big spider is very powerful, and its ability slowed down the speed of the black mist a lot... "Joshua said tremblingly, "But afterwards, the volume of the black fog suddenly increased several times, and the big spider was knocked out!"

Having said that, he paused, and his whole body trembled like chaff.

"I didn't dare to move at all," he said in fear, "Then...then the black mist suddenly rushed in front of me and gathered into Miss Schoen...I think she must have recognized me..."

Maca felt that no matter how scared he was, he shouldn't have become such a virtue.Perhaps behind Joshua's fear, there is a specific experience hidden.

"Why are you so afraid of her? What did she do to you?" Maca asked suddenly.

"I... she..." Joshua seemed to want to grit her teeth, but made a chuckle, "Miss Schoen once killed my former companions...killed several! She...she hates Master, and hate us too!"

"I can understand how much I hate that old man, but why does she hate you?" Maca wondered.

Joshua pursed his mouth and couldn't help saying what he was thinking, which made him more tense, and his breathing became rapid and messy.

"No... I don't know, I don't know..." he said intermittently.

"Then... what happened before she was taken to the monastery, do you know?" Maca shook his head slightly, and had to ask another question.

"No, she never takes the initiative to speak to us, and we rarely speak to her."

The inability to communicate normally is one of the characteristics of the silent person.Although Maca didn't intend to get too detailed information, there is no gain in asking and asking, which is a bit too...

"Last question," Maca thought for a moment, "Do you know anything about Helen Schon's mission?"

"Nothing," Joshua replied. "The master sent us to attack the Minos School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Greece overnight, and then made Miss Schoen pretend to be one of the students."

Maca nodded first, but then frowned slightly.

"It's not that you don't know, but that your master hasn't given a specific order at all, is that right?" He thought for a while, and then immediately confirmed.

"Yes." Joshua said surely.

"Then your master had explained to Helen Schon beforehand without you knowing it?"

Regarding Maca's natural guess, Joshua shook his head decisively.

"Impossible..." he explained.

Maca immediately noticed the phrase in Joshua's words "come out of the study as usual". He was thinking, maybe he was in contact with Greenward?

Just to put it this way, when Greenward was in Newmontgard, he would always communicate with the old man in secret?Does Dumbledore know about this?

After that, Maca continued to ask a few more questions, and finally ended the conversation after finding that there were no other valuable answers.

But he didn't expect that, the next day, Joshua gradually started to speak again.Probably for him, yesterday, inexplicably, you asked and answered with Maca for a while, unexpectedly opened his self-sealing.

The Veritaserum agent, which was originally used as an interrogation tool, became active in the treatment of mental illness. Maca was also quite surprised.

Because of this, the silent curse that Maca placed around yesterday before starting to interrogate was logically regarded as a confidential treatment by the little wizards in the ward.Because at that time they only saw Maca and Joshua's mouths moving, but they couldn't hear anything.

For such a benign misunderstanding that happens to be a book, Maca is naturally happy to see it happen.So when a student praised him for the effectiveness of the treatment, he gave it a cheeky acquiescence.

"There is nothing wrong anyway, is it?" he thought to himself.

...

That night, after dinner time.

After finishing his notes in the ward, watching Luna finish the sick-looking meal, he finally left the school hospital under the urging of Madam Pomfrey.

Today it was the turn of the defense team's second meeting to begin. Such activities that can bring more resistance to Hogwarts, he will naturally not ignore it.

Although the growth of those little wizards will definitely take time, if these fine linen can be twisted into a rope, the strength they can withstand cannot be underestimated.

After all, the main opponents are Voldemort and Greenward, but they will not only rely on two people to attack.Once Maca confronts a powerful enemy, the biggest threat will actually be the large number of black wizards that follow!

When Maca came to the responsive room, Harry, Hermione and Ron had already arrived first.

"Maca." Hermione stepped up immediately and greeted softly, "Good evening."

Behind her, Harry and Ron, who were still looking at some Defence Against the Dark Arts books by the shelf, also followed.

"How is it? Are you okay?" Maca confirmed one by one, "I remember you and that Helen were very close, this time--"

"It's okay, of course it's okay." Hermione was saying, but she shook her head slightly, "...No, how could it be okay? But... this time thanks to Ron reminding me and Harry, we didn't waste it. Too much time."

"Yeah!" Harry said hurriedly, "If we hadn't said Ron's words, we wouldn't know when we would be depressed! Obviously time is not enough, but I—"

After Maca heard it, he glanced at Ron subconsciously, but found that this guy was still embarrassed.

"Don't say that! If I don't mention it, you will surely understand it soon." He put Harry on his shoulders and said, "I understand you, none of you are the kind of people who hold things in their hearts and let A fool who can't breathe. To be honest, only the me who used to be like that..."

"Don't be shy, Ron." Maca smiled. "You did a great job! Your friend has a problem, so you should remind them as soon as possible-you made me feel the true friendship!"

He paused for a while before thinking again: "For this, I think I should give you a gift."

"What are you talking about!" Ron hurriedly ran to Maca, but he hesitated slightly, then patted his shoulder, "Aren't you our best friend?"

When Maca couldn't help feeling so touched, he happily said, "Well, I said buddy... what good things are you going to give me?"

Looking at Ron's alive and kicking appearance, Maca seemed to have seen him when he first met him in the Burrow.A large proportion of Weasley's children have this kind of personality.

Obviously, Ron has indeed come out of the trough of his life, a kind of vivacity similar to his father Arthur, who has awakened from his bones.

"When I think about it," Maca shrugged, "maybe... a big fully automatic gold crucible is a good choice?"

"Hey!" Ron jumped up immediately, "Isn't that the gift I gave you before?"

But Harry prodded him hard in the back.

"Gold crucible! It's gold crucible!" Harry reminded repeatedly, "It's not gold-plated, it's pure gold!"

"Pure-oh-Merlin's calf!" Ron's eyes widened in an instant, "Really? Maca, are you serious?"

"What's real?"

Just when Ron was pleasantly surprised, the door was opened again, and Neville, Ginny and other members of the Gryffindor House walked in together.

And it was Fred and George who were in the front who asked this sentence. The twins said it almost at the same time, even their voices were superimposed.

"No! Nothing!" Ron shouted hurriedly waving his hands.

If this pair of living treasure brothers learns about the Pure Gold Crucible, they will do everything possible to get it, and then they will not hesitate to exchange it for research on their magical prank products.

"Come here! We don't have enough time. Those who arrive first will immediately start to show the results of your self-practice these past few days..."

Maca stopped talking nonsense, and greeted everyone to check their study of rebuilding the spell one by one.