Chapter 697

"... Put down your wand! I warn you, put down your wand immediately! This is the British wizarding world, and it is against the law to cast spells on others for no reason—"

In a vendor area close to the Forbidden Forest, Hermione was reprimanding a man harshly. However, when trying to maintain her upright expression, her cheeks inevitably flushed a little, and even the roots of her ears seemed to heat up unconsciously.

There's no way, it's really because the wizard's attire in front of him is really too... um, too embarrassing for a young girl who hasn't graduated yet.

Yes, right in front of her at this moment, a guy with only a piece of animal leather wrapped around his waist was holding a crooked wand, talking to Hermione with wide-eyed eyes. It's just that he doesn't seem to know English, and even though he was babbling for a while, he couldn't make Hermione understand a word at all.

Probably after realizing that it was meaningless to warn the other party, Hermione quickly chose to keep her mouth shut. However, with her temperament, she would not give up.

I saw her racking her brains and stretching out her hand while thinking, pointing to the strange wand in the opponent's hand for a while, waving her hands vigorously and shaking her head for a while.

However, the facts tell us that even in body language, there are huge cultural differences. I don't know which action Hermione made went wrong, the wizard who seemed to belong to the African delegation suddenly became nervous, and the magic wand that was pointing obliquely behind Hermione also moved to where she was. .

Due to the sudden increase in hostility of the other party, and even changed the target to herself, Hermione had to tense up and stop her body movements.

The open space among the crowd that had appeared due to the sudden dispute also expanded a little at this moment. As a result, the third party standing behind Hermione suddenly became much more eye-catching.

"Luna, you go first... Hurry up and find Maca," Hermione could only whisper to the girl behind her while keeping as still as possible in order to avoid provoking the other party again, "He is in charge He is the only person who can deal with this matter as quickly as possible with the delegations of various countries... I will try to hold this person down as much as possible."

In fact, this incident started when Luna and the African wizard met by chance, but if we want to investigate the reason, it is still a mystery because of the language barrier between the two parties.

If I have to use words to describe the situation at that time, I am afraid that I can only use the sentence "just because I took one more look at you in the crowd" to describe it.

That's right, at the very moment when Luna's and the wizard's eyes crossed each other, the wizard pulled out the strange-shaped magic wand hanging in the leather pocket around his waist after being a little dazed.

And now, although things still haven't become clear, the atmosphere between the two parties present is becoming more and more tense.

However, regarding Hermione's proposal to let Luna leave first...or the decision, Luna did not act accordingly. At this time, she was the same as in the past, looking ahead in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

In the past two years, the number of times she was in a daze when she had nothing to do was actually much less than when she first entered school. But now it seems that the reduction in the number of times does not mean that she has completely bid farewell to this inexplicable habit.

"Luna? Luna... Lu..."

Because she was still confronting the "shameless" African wizard wordlessly, Hermione didn't dare to look back. But even if she didn't have eyes at the back of her head, she could clearly feel that Luna hadn't moved.

Just as Hermione called again in a low voice, the crowd on both sides suddenly commotioned again. Immediately afterwards, a familiar figure struggled to push through the crowd and got into this not-so-large open space, abruptly breaking into the sides of the confronting two sides.

"H-"

The uninvited guest who suddenly barged in was naturally Harry who heard the sound not far away. He was about to call out Hermione's name subconsciously after seeing Hermione, but he immediately spotted the weird male wizard opposite Hermione.

No, to be precise, he found the magic wand in the opponent's hand.

Compared with Hermione, who is used to reasoning as the first response option, Harry obviously has the style and spirit of Gryffindor College. So when he quickly sensed the sense of threat, the magic wand that was still inserted inside the robe fell into his palm immediately.

Just as loaded guns are to Muggles, for a wizard, I believe there is nothing more nerve-wracking than pointing the tip of a wand against each other. Harry's appearance, instead of relieving the tense situation, further intensified the conflict between the two parties.

As expected, the tip of the African wizard's wand shifted again, and Harry and his eyes collided suddenly.

If the line of sight is also a kind of curse, just this one, I am afraid that a brilliant spark has already been knocked out.

What Luna, who was still in a daze, was thinking at this time, Hermione had no way of knowing. She only knew that if someone took out the wand now, this inexplicable dispute would immediately escalate into a real cursed chaos.

Undoubtedly, a way must be found to end this situation - too many wizards have gathered in this temporary market formed due to the competition, if something goes wrong, it will not only belong to one or two people little thing.

But at this moment, Alexander's appearance interrupted Hermione's meditation again.

He came after Harry, and although he was advancing through the crowds of people who was not quite a few years older than Harry, he still worked very hard to appear in everyone's sight.

"What happened—"

As the number of people intersecting increased one by one, the wizard in the African magic world finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Thus, Alexander, who had just entered from the crowd of onlookers outside, was only halfway through speaking, and as a spell that Hogwarts had never taught flashed past everyone's ears, a cloud of dusty mist suddenly emerged from there. The top of the wizard's grotesque wand burst forth. The mist seemed to be light and erratic, but in fact it was very fast, covering him all at once, and then spreading rapidly.

Although they have never seen such a spell, the trainees understand that keeping calm in the face of the unknown is one of the most important things.

.Calm cooperation is undoubtedly the key point for the practice of simultaneous casting of spells advocated.

Therefore, before the surrounding crowd even had time to create a commotion, Harry and Hermione looked at each other tacitly—now it is not just now, one more wand ready to cast a spell is one more Opportunities to deal with situations.

Both of them understood that it was already an extravagant hope to solve the problem without causing any trouble.

After exchanging glances with each other, Harry immediately waved the wand in his hand that had been waiting for a long time, and a gust of wind suddenly changed from small to large, and quickly swept away towards the gray fog in front of him.

The "whirlwind sweeper" that was originally used to clean up dust and garbage was rationally used by him. From this point alone, it can be seen that some understanding and flexible use of various spells have been inherited to a certain extent through the spell analysis materials distributed by Maca at the beginning.

And when the airflow successfully began to disperse the gray fog following Harry's guidance, Hermione, who had been keeping a close eye on the scene, also moved. But seeing that she saw the right moment when the gray mist was stirred by the whirlwind and the figure of the African wizard was slightly exposed, a red light flashed across the tip of her wand.

It was another magic spell using the silent spell technique, and the red light belonging to the disarming spell crossed the short distance between the two sides in the blink of an eye, and landed on exactly the point she was aiming at.

Undoubtedly, such a high accuracy of casting spells is also derived from the repeated simultaneous training of casting spells. It can be seen that the training content of ... will be continuously proven in actual combat.

It's a pity that Hermione knew that her disarming spell was blocked by the other party when a cloud of gorgeous red light particles suddenly exploded in the slightly thinner gray fog.

The opponent is naturally not a wooden stake nailed to the ground. Even if there is not much room for movement due to terrain constraints, at least it is inevitable to cast a defensive spell on yourself.

In fact, the African wizard's intention to spread the gray mist may have been to prepare for a situation where one enemy is many...

Of course, the situation at the scene is long-winded, but in fact it is nothing more than what happened within a few seconds. And after the two sides went back and forth like this, the crowd of onlookers finally seemed to come to their senses—the commotion is about to begin!

"wait?"

Nobody would have understood that a question was used for this "wait a minute," but that's not important anymore. Because when the pale golden color suddenly flowed to the middle of the three magic wands, the radiance of the magic spell that was ready to go out suddenly and quietly extinguished from the tips of the two wands.

"Harry, Hermione..." It was Luna, "It's all right."

At this moment, both Harry and Hermione were dumbfounded. Because they never expected that Luna, who was still in a daze just now, would suddenly rush out and just stick to the most dangerous place.

"Lu—"

"nothing."

Luna repeated again, interrupting Hermione's call.

It wasn't until this moment that Hermione realized to her surprise that the African wizard standing on the other side of Luna actually lowered his strange wand. Although it was impossible to see the real expression due to the colorful paint on the other party's face, Hermione felt for no reason that the "shameless" African wizard should also be greatly relieved.

"What the hell is going on?"

Harry's words probably represented the aspirations of everyone present.