Chapter 338 The Cranky Tonks

( ) "Good evening, Miss Betsy. How offensive it is to come uninvited at this late hour."

"No, please call me 'Mrs. Longman'." Maca's address to her seemed to arouse her dissatisfaction. "What are you two doing at our couple's house so late?"

"Oh, sorry--"

Maca glanced sideways, only to see that her husband hadn't recovered his sanity the way she had.

"Then, Mrs. Longman. Let me answer your question first..." He paused and said calmly, "I am a professor at Hogwarts, and she is an Auror of the Ministry of Magic."

"Auror?" Mrs. Longman asked vigilantly when she heard this.

"Yes, I'm an Auror, and I think you'd better—" "Tonks."

Maca gestured to Tonks before continuing: "Please rest assured, we are not here to investigate your husband's cases..."

As he spoke, he looked again at the empty potion bottles that had rolled to the floor.

"What we need is the source of the potion, and..." At this point, Maca stared closely at the other party's eyes, "The details of the potion you two have taken recently."

Mrs. Langman lay stiff on the floor, barely able to move her face. Coupled with being attacked late at night by Maca and Tonks, it stands to reason that such a weak woman should always feel terrified.

But on her seemingly timid face, there was no fear that should have been revealed.

"Potion..." She pursed her thin lips, showing a strong temperament instead, "Are you sent by the Ministry of Magic to investigate this potion... As long as you two don't make things difficult for my husband, I will I can tell you all I know."

"Of course," Maca nodded, "Then let's sit down and have a good chat?"

After finishing speaking, he waved his wand, and the chair that fell in the corner immediately flipped up and fell behind him and Tonks. After he sat down, he finally released the spell on the other party.

Mrs. Longman suddenly felt her whole body relax. She hurriedly collected her breath, and then rushed to her husband's side with a trace of panic, and examined it carefully.

Mr. Langman still lay motionless on the bed, but it could be seen that the madness in his eyes still existed. Other than that, there were no other abnormalities.

"Your husband is all right,

I just restrained him with the Body Binding Charm. "Maka's eyes jumped back and forth on the couple, as if comparing something, "Madam, please sit down first... We don't really have enough time here, wait for me to ask After all the questions, we don't need you to rush, we will leave by ourselves. "

Hearing this, the other party rubbed the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and finally left her husband's side temporarily, and sat quietly on the edge of the bed.

"Ask what you want to know!" she said softly.

"Well, the first question is very simple..." Maca pointed to the potion bottle on the ground with his wand, "Where did you get this potion?"

"I bought it on the black market."

Mrs. Langman propped her slender arms on the edge of the bed, lowered her head slightly, and looked at the empty potion bottles together, as if she was remembering something.

"Where?" Maca asked again.

"……do not know."

Mrs. Longman shook her head lightly, her shoulder-length curly hair swaying leisurely.

"How could you not know?" Tonks frowned. "Or, are you the one who sold them?"

"No, I really don't know..." The other party raised his head, with a trace of pain in his expression, "I can only vaguely remember that it should be somewhere in the black market... a very dark and humid place ..."

"Okay," Maca waved his hand, "then ask the second question first—as far as I know, when your husband showed abnormal symptoms, you should not have been exposed to this potion, right?"

"Yes." Mrs. Longman said sadly, "I tried my best and begged everywhere, but nothing worked... I can't save him..."

"Since you have seen your husband's appearance, how did you get caught?" Maca asked suspiciously, "It stands to reason that you should stay away from such harmful potions anyway. Bar?"

When the other party heard this, a look of confusion gradually emerged.

"this……"

She frowned and thought, her distressed expression getting heavier. After a long time, she finally just said "I'm sorry", and her expression became a little nervous.

"I don't know this, I don't know that, what exactly do you..."

Tonks seemed a little irritable. But it's no wonder. After all, Kingsley is her boss, and he takes good care of her on weekdays. Recently, she has been feeling very heavy.

Although she is often rough and rough in front of everyone, she will always make everyone laugh, but her heart is actually very delicate.

She knew that as a rookie Auror, she was not capable enough; she also knew that both Moody and Kingsley cared about her growth.

However, as the two elders and chiefs had accidents one after another, the remorse in her heart almost exceeded her tolerance.

"Why...why wasn't I the one who had the accident?"

Recently, lying in bed every night, this sentence kept turning in her mind.

She really started to hate herself for being powerless.

However, the atmosphere in the Order of the Phoenix has always been tense right now, and she can't make the atmosphere worse just because of this little incident of hers.

So, she forced herself, forced herself, tried to maintain the usual joy, and tried to help everyone from where she could.

But it turns out that repressed emotions will always explode inadvertently.

"...Tell me everything you know! Don't think you can just say 'I don't know'! How many people do you think are going crazy because of this potion! What is your purpose?"

Tonks stood up abruptly, pulled out his wand, and at the same time as he knocked down the opponent heavily, the tip of the wand was already hard on the opponent's slender neck.

Mrs Longman was visibly taken aback by her.

However, she calmed down quickly instead, staring at Tonks' face for a moment, clenching her teeth without saying a word.

"Tonks!" Maca looked at the tense back, reached out and patted her shoulder lightly, "Don't worry, calm down..."

"How do you calm me down! Maca, seeing how leisurely you are on the way, you don't worry at all—"

Tonks stopped talking suddenly, as if regretting what he had said in the spur of the moment.

She paused, let go of the left hand that was holding Mrs. Longman's shoulder, and stood up with her head down, but the wand in her right hand was getting tighter and tighter.

"Don't force yourself too much," Maca patted her on the shoulder again, and said with a smile, "But having said that, that grimace you made outside is quite interesting, not worse than your Transformation Magus."

"Huh?" Tonks suddenly turned his head and looked at Maca in a daze.

"Forget?" Maca chuckled, "When I entered the room just now, you made faces at that brick hole, didn't you have fun?"

"what!"

As if recalling something, Tonks blinked.

"Sit down and rest for a while!" Maca pressed her shoulders and let her sit back on the chair, then turned her head and said to Mrs. Langman, "Sorry, I'm sorry..."

Tonks sat on the chair, lost in thought, and she almost didn't listen to what Maca and Mrs. Longman said afterwards.

Because of Maka's words, she remembered the faces she made outside just now. Of course, there was no one around her at that time, so naturally she didn't do that to make others laugh.

I'm afraid she didn't even notice it herself, but she was born with that kind of person.

Perhaps during this period of time, in order to enliven the atmosphere, she often forced herself to take some off-line actions. But those grimaces before were just what she wanted to do.

"Ah... Christine and Charles?"

Tonks suddenly recalled his first destination tonight.

If I had to say it, there really didn't seem to be any need to go there tonight. All important information was easily obtained in that strange clubhouse, and Maca seemed to have no intention of gaining anything from the potion shop in the first place.

Thinking about it this way, Maca took herself to see Christine and Charles tonight, it seemed that it was...

"Don't push yourself too hard" - Maca's words flashed through her mind.

"Did he... notice that I was forcing it?"

Tonks took a deep look at Maca.

Leaving aside Tonks' wild thoughts, Maca got some new clues from Mrs. Longman...

"...That is to say, after that, every morning when you wake up from bed, you will find an empty potion bottle on the floor?" Maca confirmed with a frown.

After Mrs. Langman nodded again, Maca looked at the empty potion bottle on the ground, and then at Mr. Langman who couldn't move, wondering what he was thinking.

After a few seconds, he pointed to Mr. Langman on the bed and said, "What about your husband?"

"A few days ago, I don't know why, he got sick again. I can only tie him up like this, otherwise he will throw things and beat people everywhere, and want to escape..."

"Really?" Maca raised his eyebrows lightly when he heard the words, "Let me guess... Is there one less empty potion bottle every morning since you tied him up?"

Mrs. Longman froze for a moment, then nodded immediately.

"That's right... how do you know?" She seemed a little surprised and asked back.

Maca didn't answer her question, but thought about it thoughtfully. For a moment, the messy bedroom became quiet, only a few breathing sounds intertwined with each other, inaudible.

After a while, Maca stood up suddenly, walked aside and picked up a potion bottle. He rubbed the clean bottle without any label, his eyes looked a little deep.

"This potion...is really interesting." He muttered to himself.