Chapter 376

"Luna, do you want to participate in protecting Hogwarts?" Maka looked directly into Luna's eyes as if to find the real answer.

But Luna shook her head gently.

"Not to protect Hogwarts," she smiled. "It's to protect 'friends'."

"Really?"

"Yes..." she reached out and broke her fingers. "Hermione, Harry, Ron, Hagrid, toothy, Hannah..."

Luna tilted her head and counted one by one. She didn't mean to stop at all. Maka looked at her innocent smile and couldn't help sighing.

"... you have so many friends!" Marca shrugged. "Well, don't count, I see - Harry, Hermione, Ron, you go and gather the students who are willing to participate to find out what everyone really thinks. It's not urgent. We have to do it step by step!"

He paused, looked at Harry again and said, "also, Harry, you should be well prepared. Maybe you will face 'it' again soon."

Harry was stunned for a moment, a trace of gloom flashed in his heart, but the next moment he clenched his hands and nodded resolutely.

"I see," he said forcefully.

"Hey! I said, do you think I don't exist?" Hagrid said angrily. "It's no good. You're so big... It's too dangerous!"

"Don't worry, if my strength doesn't meet my requirements, I won't let them really participate." after Maka said something to Hagrid, she turned her head and confirmed to everyone, "that's it... Understand?"

"Of course! If we can't help you, cough..." Hermione coughed and turned, "I mean, if we can't become the combat power of the enemy, we won't be willing to run out and be a burden!"

"Yes, I think so too!" agreed Harry. "I don't want the same accident as that... Not at all!"

"Ron, what about you?" Marca asked Ron, who was a little silent sitting on the barrel.

"I..." Ron said unnaturally. "Can I really... Do it?"

"You don't think you can?" Hermione looked at him discontentedly.

"I --"

Ron's words seemed to be stuck in the monkey's head, showing an expression of desire to speak and stop.

"Say what you want!" Marca smiled. "We are all friends and won't laugh at you."

"Yes! Ron..." Harry said slowly. "What's the matter with you?"

Ron held it for a while before he took a long breath.

"Maka, you taught me how to think from the perspective of others, so I understand many problems I ignored before... Even, because of this, I can look at myself from other perspectives..."

"However, no matter what I think, I can't see the future I can really do. I really... Really think I... Can't do..."

Marca looked at Ron, who was a little dejected, and couldn't help praising him.

It would have been impossible for Ron to say that under such circumstances. He is a person who keeps a lot of things in his heart. Although his qualification is ordinary, he is not willing to admit defeat.

It is because of the lack of talent that he makes the same efforts as others, but there will be a big gap in the results obtained. This gap will make people despair, make people give up, and then live a life without bright spots in mediocrity and inaction.

If it were more extreme, this despair would even become an incentive for jealousy and revenge.

But now Ron, although put on a lost and helpless expression, but he can say this powerlessness, which is really a very difficult thing.

Sometimes, admitting one's own weakness may not be another kind of strength.

Like Maka, I'm afraid no contemporary wizard can ignore his power. But in the face of the vast magic mystery and the mysterious and unknown future, he still feels infinitely small.

Only when we recognize our weakness can we move forward in a down-to-earth manner and avoid gradually losing the direction of the road under various temptations on the way.

"... as long as you make enough efforts for your progress, you won't regret that you haven't done anything at least, will you?" Marca nodded to Ron with a smile. "We will all help, I think... You may not be able to do anything well, but you haven't found what you're good at!"

He paused, then spread his hands and said, "didn't you say that you have learned to think from a different angle? It's better to think from another angle -"

"If you haven't found it yet, isn't it equivalent to that you have unlimited possibilities in the future?"

……

Dalimaka can say a lot at will, which may encourage others, but the fact is to change with real actions.

After talking in Hagrid's cabin, it was almost a decision.

Hermione and others shoulder the task of convening the students. This kind of thing is not difficult, but it still needs them to spend a lot of time to make the restless students clear their will.

So after Ron thanked everyone gratefully, the little wizards with mission soon left.

"Hagrid, it's time for me to go back too - there's a lot of research yet to be completed, and now's not the time to be lazy!" Maka also stood up and said goodbye to Hagrid. "By the way, you should keep an eye on glop and try not to make any big noise these days."

"Well, I know. I'll be careful!"

Maka waved, then pushed open the creaking wooden door and walked out of Hagrid's cabin.

"Luna, why don't you go with them?" he knew Luna was still at the door, so he asked as soon as he came out. "It's dinner time soon. Aren't you hungry?"

"I want to talk to you..."

Luna stood by the steps outside the house and looked at the residual afterglow in the West. Her eyes seemed to become much clearer.

"It's necessary to have a rest. You've been busy lately."

Maka smiled and said, "yes! I'm really busy..."

"I remember, you always like to stay in bed... I've tried many ways to wake you up!" Luna said leisurely.

"... the most effective thing is Pu Rong," Marca added with a wry smile. "Of course, it's best not to use that method."

"Pu Rong is very cute and close to people," Luna blinked her big bright eyes. When she talked about the topic of magical creatures, she seemed a little interested. "They are very interesting."

They stood side by side in front of the hut, chatting about meaningless topics and looking at the sky from a distance. Immersed in this leisure, none of them took the lead.

After chatting aimlessly for a while, Maka and Luna closed their mouths tacitly and quietly enjoyed the long lost peace.

After a while, Luna took the initiative to break the warm silence.

"Marca, what are you moving forward for?"

Hearing that Luna asked such a vague question, Maka fell into meditation.

Yeah! All along, what on earth is he moving forward for?

For someone like Snape? Or for everyone like Dumbledore? Or... He was simply pushed away by established facts?

In Dumbledore's words, it is - what is his cherished, persistent and guarded "love"?

Even Ron knows the importance of examining himself, but tamaka has been trying to avoid it. He is just a coward. He is afraid that he will come to a frightening conclusion in the process of looking for the answer.

Maybe he had already vaguely seen the conclusion, but he was always unwilling to confirm it.

"... what on earth... Is it for?" Marcello said to himself in a daze.

Luna did not continue to ask. She just looked at Maka's side face strangely gently and took the initiative to hold Maka's slightly cold hand.

"You'll protect me, won't you?"

Maka's heart was shocked. He turned his head and suddenly ran into Luna's soft and delicate eyes. In that sight, he felt a warmth full of inclusiveness.

"... of course."

When he received Hogwarts' admission notice, he had an illusory goal called "magic". That was the reason why he was motivated to struggle, but it was not enough for him to face all obstacles.

As Luna just said, he was originally a lazy and casual person. If nothing pushes him, he is likely to be content with the status quo.

However, since he glimpsed the pale golden light in the cemetery, he gained a driving force to move forward.

At the beginning, it was Luna who inadvertently gave him a reason; Now, the girl with long light blonde hair once again put this reason into his hands.

Marca knew very well that Luna had no private thoughts when she held his hand. She just kindly hoped that Maka would not lose her way, that's all.

But it is because of her simple kindness that Maka, who is strong and calm in appearance but timid in heart, can approach her safely.

"Then I can rest assured," Luna smiled again, and her eyes were in a trance again. "I'm responsible for protecting everyone, Maka is responsible for protecting me... That sounds good."

"Yes, it's very good." Marca also smiled. "Let's go! It's time to go back to dinner - you're not hungry, but I'm hungry!"

Under the quietly lit stars, the two figures walked along the path between the lawns and gradually integrated into the shadow of the huge castle.

The night seems to add a bit of indescribable serenity.