Chapter 317 The Unlucky Half-Blood Giant

( ) To be honest, Maca's life was quite stable during this time.

Probably because of his special status, Umbridge didn't dare to act too outrageously, so as not to be caught by him when he was already at a disadvantage.

Umbridge's most important goal right now is to gain a foothold in Hogwarts.

If Maca is now a nail between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, then Umbridge's goal is to strive to become the nail that the Ministry of Magic drives into Hogwarts.

At least until the nail is nailed, she must not dare to do anything unusual.

Of course, the premise must be that Maca stays in the school and stares at her all the time. Maca now acts as a deterrent against Umbridge.

However, sometimes the reality always makes the expected things go sideways...

"Tuk Tuk Tuk"

One morning, Maca was nestled in his office as usual, and when he was slamming on the piles of theoretical materials that seemed to be impossible to study, there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Maka said a word without raising her head, but her mind was still between the pen and paper, as if she had no other thoughts.

With a soft creak, the door of the office was opened.

"McLean, put the matter at hand aside, Dumbledore asked you to go there..."

Hearing the voice of the visitor, Maca finally raised his head, stretched his neck so that he could look past the pile of books, and looked towards the door.

"Professor Snape?" He said, glanced down at the manuscript paper again, and asked hesitantly, "Is it urgent? I still need a few minutes—"

Snape who was standing at the door didn't respond, he just nodded slightly, indicating that Maca would be fine for a few minutes.

"Do it first, I'll be fine soon..."

Maka was polite for a while, then immediately lowered her head, and the previous sound of brushing and writing sounded again.

For Snape, Maca's attitude towards research is worthy of recognition. At least he himself believes that the priority of magic research should be relatively high,

This is the quality that every wizard should have.

Soon, six or seven minutes passed, and Snape waited calmly, without the slightest impatience. Then, Maca finally raised his head again, then pulled out his wand and tapped it on the table casually.

Accompanied by a rattling noise, the nib of the quill pen was cleaned of ink and returned to the pen case quietly; the cap of the ink bottle automatically flew back to the bottle mouth and was tightened creakingly; the manuscript paper was also refolded in order Put them neatly, and landed on top of the pile of materials on the right hand side.

And when the magic took effect, Maca stepped out of the desk and walked towards Snape at the door.

"Sorry to keep you waiting—let's go!"

Snape nodded casually, and the two walked forward side by side.

To Maca's surprise, this time it was Snape who asked a question first.

"Any new discoveries about potions recently?"

Speaking of which, Potions, which Maca was best at at the beginning, is not his best subject now. Although his current level of potion science is still improving, his running speed has slowed down.

In terms of this subject alone, Snape is still much better than Maca, especially in some in-depth potion theories, Snape is not even a little bit better than him.

Seeing that Snape was interested in discussing a few words with him, Maca cheered up. The two walked and chatted, and it didn't take long before they found themselves standing in front of the principal's office.

"...The side effects of Felix Elixir can't actually be called side effects, because that's how it works, so there is no possibility of eliminating the side effects at all." Snape reached out and tapped the principal while speaking. room door.

"That's true, but it's really hard to understand the pharmacology of Felicia Potion..." Maca spread his hands and said, "Luck is something that can't be seen or touched, and it doesn't even have the possibility of being digitized. "

After saying this, the door opened slowly, and the two of them stopped talking.

In fact, since Maca took over the Order, Dumbledore's visits to him have dropped dramatically. At least since the beginning of school, Maca has hardly been to the principal's office.

When he came here today to take a look, he found that Dumbledore's complexion seemed to be better than before, especially his energetic appearance, which made him look ten years younger.

Of course, even if Dumbledore is ten years younger, it still cannot erase the fact that he is over a hundred years old.

"Professor, what do you want me to do?" Maca asked straight to the point.

It is precisely because Dumbledore has not looked for him recently, so once he is called, it means that the focus of this meeting is undoubtedly the reason for calling him.

In other words, he doesn't need to talk nonsense, just ask directly.

Sure enough, although Dumbledore's expression was still gentle, he didn't have any homely thoughts, and went straight to today's topic as soon as he opened his mouth.

"It's like this," Dumbledore said while sitting behind his desk, looking at Maca, "Hagrid and Madame Maxime sent a secret letter, saying that they encountered some troubles on the Polish border. As for whether you want to rush over to help them, that's up to you to decide..."

As he spoke, he picked up his wand and waved it casually, and a small note on the table flew towards Maca lightly.

"Madame Maxime asked her white-cheeked warbler to send it back, just take a look!"

Maca didn't say much, he reached out to take the note, and took a rough look at the content.

This note is carefully written.

In order to avoid being robbed by Voldemort's Death Eaters and see something, the actual content is quite limited, but a few ciphertext words are used in key points, but it shows what kind of embarrassing situation they are in now among.

"Drove into the giant monster colony by three crazy giant monsters? Then you were chased all the way and trapped in the cave?"

Maca just wanted to say, can those two be more unreliable?

It was Maca's decision to still ask Hagrid to find a group of giants to negotiate, because after all, they are half-blood giants, and they must be more efficient than ordinary wizards. This judgment is absolutely correct.

And Dumbledore also contacted Madam Maxim and accompanied Hagrid to go.

Because Voldemort definitely can't take care of dealing with those giants right now, even if he still has manpower to go there, he won't send them there at this time.

In the absence of Death Eaters making trouble, Hagrid's chances of success are actually quite high—even if he can't convince the giants to side with the Order of the Phoenix, at least the possibility of the two not helping each other is not small.

At that time, it is only necessary to move the remaining colony of giants to a nest, so that the Death Eaters cannot find them in the future.

But who knew that Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim would be blocked in the middle by a group of subspecies of giants—trolls, and fell into a dilemma.

Yes, even though the giant's IQ is not high, it can still communicate and influence.

But the trolls are different. As for the "almond" brains contained in their disproportionately small heads, let alone negotiations, even their own troll language has only a few pitiful syllables.

It was a group of out-and-out "mobs" living in the wizarding world.

"Ok……"

Maca groaned, went through the matters to be dealt with in Hogwarts again in his mind, and roughly weighed Hagrid's situation, and then decided that he still had to go there by himself.

First of all, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim must be rescued. Seeing that they still have enough time for the pet bird to send the letter back, it means that they can continue to hold on.

But the key point is that the giant monster group is not so easy to deal with, and it may not be effective for ordinary wizards to fight. Those guys are thick-skinned and thick-skinned, and when there are too many of them, they will become quite difficult to deal with.

But then again, if they were easy to deal with, they would probably have been cleaned up by the local Ministry of Magic long ago.

However, if Maca leaves Hogwarts now, who will Umbridge rely on to hold him back? Once no one restrained her, Hogwarts would probably be unstable again.

It was difficult for Dumbledore to come forward to that uneasy old woman, because he could not openly oppose the Ministry of Magic.

After thinking about it, Maca could only shake his head.

Umbridge can't move for the time being.

Although she will be a nail driven into Hogwarts by the Ministry of Magic, her existence is still useful to Maca. If you start to scare the snake now, it will only make this nail that is destined to be "unstable" in vain. wasted.

That being the case, we can only let her go, I believe she won't cause too much trouble for a while.

Because as long as Maca will come back, she has to keep some fear, although it is certain that the restriction on her will be greatly reduced during this period.

"...Then I'll go there!" Maca said after some consideration, "Of course, I will hurry back as soon as possible."

After Dumbledore heard it, he still didn't say anything, he just smiled and nodded, that's all.

"Professor Snape, please ask Filch to post a notice that during the time I'm not in school, rune lessons should be changed to self-study by reading books—"

Maca turned around and said to Snape who was standing silently by the side.

"Currently, the students who are taking the ancient magic text course are basically sincerely fond of this subject, so it's definitely not a problem in terms of self-awareness."

Upon hearing this, Snape said suspiciously, "Are you sure?"

About half an hour later, Maca, who roughly packed up the necessary supplies, immediately set off for the border between Poland and Belarus.

According to the cipher text in the note, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxime are in a certain mountainous area over there. Since there is a colony of trolls there, I believe it won't be too much trouble to find them.

It's just that when Maca went there, he never expected that he would meet a long-lost "old acquaintance" there.