Chapter 90

In the last time before returning to Hogwarts, Maka didn't go anywhere. He took Luna to the three broom bar for a while.

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

Ms. rosemotta, the owner of the bar, is a very popular woman. She is always good at talking. Many wizards like to talk to her.

Well, especially male wizards - even Hogwarts professors mostly know her.

"There's an interesting little story about this bar," Maka said to Luna, sitting at the table. "It was called 'two brooms' before Ms. Rosmerta took over the bar."

"Is this interesting?" a sorcerer on the other side came up and looked at Maka.

"The interesting thing is not here," Marca said. "Do you know what it is to go further?"

"Well..." the wizard thought and naturally guessed, "a broom?"

"No, earlier, it was a private broom workshop," Maka said. "The moon cover at the end of the 19th century was born here. It was the creative source of Grady Busby's design of the moon at the beginning of the 20th century."

"It's really unexpected. It's really an interesting allusion..." the wizard smiled. "You know a lot. Are you little wizards from Hogwarts?"

"Yes, you know, today Hogsmeade village is full of Hogwarts students."

"Yes, that's right." the wizard smiled, "but there aren't many people as calm as you."

At this time, Ms. Rosmerta came over with a tray, talked and laughed with the wizard, and put the glass in front of him.

"Shall I buy you a drink?" the wizard put his arm around Maka and said, "what if it's the reward for your interesting little allusion?"

"Hey! Talino, don't teach bad children!" Ms. Rosmerta slapped him on the back and warned.

"Come on, Rosetta, I won't invite you, I won't invite you... Ha ha!"

The scruffy wizard called "talino" by Ms. Rosmerta pretended to dodge, with a naughty smile on his face. He looked completely greasy, as if he had always been this virtue.

"Ignore him, he's a slob." Rosetta smiled at Marca and went straight behind the bar.

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

Perhaps he finally realized Maka's age, and Luna had been watching his relationship curiously. He finally controlled his mouth and didn't continue to say anything unpleasant.

But Maka stared thoughtfully at talino for a while, as if thinking about something.

He paused for a moment and suddenly said, "Mr. tarino, I think it would be more appropriate for me to invite you."

Maka said, suddenly turned around and shouted to the bar: "Ms. Rosmerta, give Mr. tarino a blue card, John. It's my treat."

"Oh, of course, but --" Ms. Rosetta hesitated.

"Don't worry, no problem."

Talino put away his smile and looked at Maka in surprise.

"How can that be --" he said. "I was just kidding."

Maka smiled at him and said calmly, "but I'm not... Enjoy the beautiful bar, sir. I just want to ask a few questions."

Talino was stunned, then shrugged and said, "Oh, all right! Blue John, what reason can I refuse?"

The wine came up soon, but Marca was not interested in touching it. He was only interested in obtaining useful information.

"Mr. tarino, you must be familiar with the dark side of the magic world. Can you talk to me at will?"

"I think so, but... There aren't any interesting stories there. Are you sure you want to hear them?" talino confirmed.

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

"Hey! I can't see it. You're quite clear about the Tao here... Well, well, tell the story..." talino took a sip of wine carefully, and then continued, "speaking of it, it's not very stable recently - well, seriously, it's never been stable..."

In talino's intermittent narration, Maka learned for the first time about the messy things hidden in the shadow of the magic world.

In fact, it is somewhat scattered. After all, Britain has the greatest White wizard today - Albus Dumbledore. In recent years, no major events have taken place.

But there are no big things, but small things are always forbidden and endless.

The Aurors of the Ministry of magic are very dedicated to their duties, and there are black wizard search teams and batters specialized in dealing with dangerous criminals, but no matter how strict the prevention is, there are always times to take care of one and lose the other.

What's more, there are werewolves and vampires who are prone to crime by nature. There are many small troubles.

Of course, the recent hot events, of course, are Sirius Black's prison break. Criminals like those who can escape from Azkaban are the real headache.

"That is to say, someone has seen him recently?" Marca asked.

"Yes! I heard he was lurking in Hogsmeade!" talino whispered. "But he seems to have hurt his leg. If it were true, the risk would be much lower -"

"You know, a madman like black doesn't want to provoke even those black wizards with bad deeds."

"That's true... As far as I'm concerned, there were a lot of doubts about the incident at the beginning. Black didn't even go through the trial process before he entered Azkaban." Maka nodded.

"Who knows?" tarino immediately glanced. "What's in it? No one can say it clearly now."

After that, Maka talked about something else along the topic, learned about the little things about sneaking around, and left with Luna.

It's getting late. It's time to go back to school.

"When you go back, take another secret way. By now, the public lounge in Ravenclaw must be full of people."

Maka took Luna to the screaming hut not far away.

The secret road leading to the beating willow was still so narrow that they finally bent down all the way to the other end of the secret road.

But Maka just showed up and found a black dog staring at him with its big round eyes.

"... good evening," Marca said with a wink.

He didn't expect to meet Sirius Black here. Because of the sudden incident, he really didn't know what to say for a moment.

But the next moment, black, who had become Animagus, made a forward dive.

"Marca?"

While Maka hesitated to take out the wand, Luna, who was still bending in the secret way, made a sound.

Suddenly, Maka stopped, and so did black.

The other party looked at Maka, then turned decisively and ran to the forbidden forest not far away, and soon disappeared into the bushes by the forest.

You know, Marca's wand is still the one shot down from black.

On that day, Marca still had a disguise on her body, so she didn't let the other party find her identity today. But if you take out your wand, the other party will recognize it at a glance.

He can't reveal his identity so soon. After all, since he couldn't subdue black last time, he had to go a long way. There's something he has to get from black.

It's a matter of urgency. His relationship with black can't be too stiff at the moment.

"It's all right. Come on up. The dinner will begin soon."

Maka climbed to the ground and reached for Luna. Then they walked quickly to the auditorium.

In the shadow of the edge of the forbidden forest, black was looking at the back of Maka and Luna, with a glimmer of doubt in his eyes.

……

As Ron said to Harry, today's dinner was really great.

There are hundreds of pumpkin lanterns hanging in the auditorium, a group of bats flying up and down, and many orange streamers spitting flames - they float lazily under the ceiling like a group of brilliant water snakes.

The food was so exquisite that even people like Hermione and Ron who ate the honey Duke's candy and were about to burst open asked for a second share of every food.

In the teacher's seat not far away, Lupin looked very happy and as funny and natural as usual - he was chatting actively with Professor flavy, the spell teacher.

Look down the table and you can see where Snape is sitting.

He was still as cold as ever, and he was still so out of place in the festive auditorium.

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

Ghosts suddenly appeared from the walls and tables for a kind of line sliding - the "almost Headless Nick" of Gryffindor college succeeded in reproducing his beheading.

Everyone had a good night.

Many students are discussing all kinds of things about going to Hogsmeade village today. Excitement and happiness still remain in their bodies, like they can't sleep tonight without spilling them clean.

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

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

There are so many people ahead that they can't see what happened.

Harry tried to tiptoe over his head and look forward - the portrait seemed to be closed.