Chapter 445 Gradient

"...Harry, Hermione, we can't get depressed like this... remember? We have so much to do, we can't waste our time in a place like this."

Ron, who had misunderstood Maca before, understood the feeling of being deceived now. But the more he understood, the more he understood that this kind of inner entanglement was actually of no help to him.

If there is no Maca, then he will probably be the most annoyed one now.

But now he vaguely knows that instead of filling his heart with regrets, or even having doubts about friendship, it is better to put this energy on other more important places.

If they have enough strength to prevent the crisis from happening, they will have more leeway when facing this situation.

With Maca's help back then, he saw clearly his mediocre talent. In order not to be thrown further and further away by Harry and Hermione, he had to work harder.

It was this vigilance that made him cheer up at this moment.

Under Ron's rare reminder, Hermione and Harry couldn't help but look at each other. Only then did they realize that, at some point in time, their vision was blocked by the gloom in their hearts, and they became only immersed in their own world.

"Oh—" Hermione said with some chagrin, "I think you're right, Ron."

After Harry came to his senses for a while, he suddenly bent over and flipped through his schoolbag.

"Thank you, Ron." He said gratefully while turning the pages, "If you don't tell me, I almost can't remember—we have to continue learning the magic information that Maca sent us last time as soon as possible. "

Their extra Defense Against the Dark Arts class had only been taken once, but it contained enough material for them to practice for a long time. As Ron said, they really didn't have that much time to think about anything else now.

Especially after witnessing the arrival of another danger, their desire to try to increase their strength became more and more intense.

Soon, they completely let go of the worries in their hearts, and focused their attention on the heavy spell restoration.

...

Truth be told, there should be a lot going on with Maca.

He is going to convey the news of the death of the girl named "Zoe", and try to sort out a clue about the previous incident. Of course, he still needs to make some preparations for going to the secret island of Rowena again. To find a more suitable place for the children he sent to Hogwarts.

Obviously there are so many outrageous things, but right now he dare not leave easily.

For this reason, he had to write a letter first and send the letter to Dorset, which is located on the coast of the English Channel. The Scamanders are living there now, and Zooey's grandma should still be visiting relatives there.

This letter is undoubtedly very heavy. In fact, the best way to convey it is for him to go there personally and tell the matter face to face.

But the current situation really does not allow Maca to go out casually. In desperation, he can only hope that Zoe's relatives can be a little more considerate.

As for the children who were rescued from the dungeon, people from the Order of the Phoenix could still arrange them. Even without him, those children might be a little anxious, but I believe that once they settle down, they should be fine.

So, now Maca was by Luna's side, thinking about how to write the letter so that it would be less obtrusive.

After all, this letter will definitely be sent to Mr. Newt Scamander. That is a highly respected wizard in the field of magical creatures, and he should be more cautious in his words due to emotion and reason.

When he was shaking the quill and hesitating, Luna, who was leaning on the hospital bed in a daze as usual, suddenly came back to her senses, and her eyes fell on the bed in the corner of the ward unconsciously.

Lying there was Joshua, and at the moment he was curled up in the bed without making a sound, without moving at all.

He didn't dare to speak at all,

After the fainting before, he became even more silent. Not only did he not speak, even when others asked him, he never responded, as if he had covered his whole heart with a hard shell.

Maca also said a few words to him, trying to get some information about that night from him. After all, that night, apart from Helen Schoen and Acromantula, he was the only one left in the ward.

But apart from the most basic eating, drinking and lazing, this guy can only lie on the hospital bed and pretend to be a corpse. There are still many students in the school hospital, and even Maca cannot use Legilimency to get information under such circumstances.

Of course, Legilimency cannot be used, and Maca naturally has Veritaserum that can be used. Maca was planning to "put some ingredients" in the water he drank after writing this letter and finishing reporting Zoe.

But before that, Luna seemed to have some interest in that Joshua.

"... Maca?"

After looking at Joshua's raised bed for a while, she spoke softly.

"What's the matter?" Maca heard the sound, and immediately drew his attention away from the letter paper that had just written an opening format, and looked at Luna on the hospital bed, "Do you want some afternoon tea?"

Luna shook her head slightly, and gestured there with her slender fingers.

"He looks very painful..." She said softly, "If you only focus on the pain, you usually ignore more beauty, don't you?"

"Really?" Maca followed her gaze, "I think you are right, his heart should be very painful."

After all, it was a silent person, and pain and depression were the source of their strange power. If there is no such indescribable anguish, then they will not be silent.

"Maka, do you know Thestrals?" Luna's topic suddenly started to jump again, and she asked in a trance, "That's an interesting creature."

"Well," Maca nodded, "Only those who have witnessed and understood death can see their figures... They fly very fast, and their sense of direction is astonishingly good."

"However, some people think that seeing them is an ominous sign, saying that they will bring disasters." Luna blinked her eyes, and said disapprovingly, "So many people don't like to see them, and even if they see them, they dare not approach them. Instead, he ran away in a hurry."

"yes……"

Maca didn't know why Luna suddenly mentioned the Thestrals. He only knew that this girl would often be like this, always speaking in a wild and unremarkable way.

But when Maca was about to continue talking about the Thestrals, he seemed to realize something, and turned his gaze back to Joshua again.

To be honest, isn't the existence of the Obscure just like thestrals?

Everyone has disgust and fear of them, thinking that they will cause disasters and cause unnecessary losses to themselves. But all of this has nothing to do with them.

Thestrals are just a special kind of magical creature, and the silent ones are just a special kind of wizard.

The special features of thestrals are reflected in their characteristics. Once they are linked with death, people will always feel uneasy and instinctively avoid them.

As for the silent ones, they are even more unfortunate.

Originally, they were all children with magical potential. If their talents were not suppressed, they would all become real wizards and embark on their own magical journey.

A few centuries ago, when wizards were still mixed in the Muggle world, the huge number of Muggles did everything possible to persecute them because they were afraid of the power of wizards. And several large-scale witch trials have spread the concept of hatred of witches on a large scale.

During that dark age, which was aimed at wizards everywhere, it became the period with the largest number of silent people.

But at least now, as wizards and Muggles live in other places, the chances of the Obscure being born have been greatly reduced. Over time, even the word has been forgotten by most wizards.

Undoubtedly, the silent people who were forcibly "manufactured" in this era, each of them, is the most unfortunate.

Thinking of this, Maca understood what Luna wanted to express.

Silent people who are suffering and have not been understood by others need everyone to convey goodwill. There is nothing wrong with them themselves, only those who made them like this.

This is true of Joshua who is in the same ward now, and Helen Schoen, who is lurking in Hogwarts and violently hurting people, is probably the same.

Similar to Joshua, who had a tragic past hidden in his heart, the reason why Helen Schoen created such an attack would most likely make people sigh.

Of course, it's hard to know exactly why she did this.

"No," Maca thought for a while, but then secretly said, "Maybe this Joshua knows."

Although Helen was already dead, and the old wizard who was one of the culprits also exploded into a rain of blood, most of the other silent ones were still alive!

Even if you know it, it is probably useless, but maybe you can get some clues about Greenwald from it?

Maca nodded silently in her heart, keeping this question in mind.

At this time, seeing Luna flipping through the latest issue and turning her attention to the magazine again, he gripped the quill again, staring blankly at the letter paper that was still blank.

When he sometimes frowned and thought, and sometimes wrote, the faint sunshine was covered by the clouds floating in the distance. Not long after, snowflakes filled the world outside the window again.

Most of the students in the ward turned their eyes outside, quietly admiring the pure white flying all over the sky.

"...It's almost Christmas, right?" Someone suddenly asked.

Immediately, amid the soft discussions among the young eagles, the gradually enriched festive atmosphere dilutes the coldness in the ward, and a sense of warmth emerges from everyone's hearts.