Chapter 898: The Figure on the Top of the Astronomy Tower

For creatures living on the earth, the fall of meteorites is undoubtedly extremely terrifying.

Depending on the composition, sometimes an extraterrestrial rock with a size of more than a hundred feet can leave a huge crater with a diameter of more than a kilometer on the ground, not to mention the terrible disaster that the terrible shock wave will cause.

But what Maca and Old Eun chose was a "big guy" with an actual size of nearly 300 feet (100 meters)!

Of course, in terms of the magical properties of the Hale-Bopp comet, its main components are by no means those heavy metals in alchemy.

Although, it also seems to contain a certain proportion of some metal components in it.

According to the phenomenon of magic power shed when the two comet nuclei of the comet collided with each other at that time, Maca could more or less infer the scene when the big rock less than 300 feet hit the ground, so he chose to go to Azkaban to set up amulets. Wen array map.

Since those dementors were all created by Haierbo, it would be better to let them directly accompany Haierbo's Horcrux and turn into dust—this was Maca's thinking when deciding where to fall.

However, no matter what kind of ideas he had, they have now become empty talk due to unpredictable changes.

"Wow--"

In the office of the ancient magic text class, Maca crumpled up another piece of parchment, and then threw it at his feet.

Of course he won't compromise... The more he realizes that it's too late, the more he has to hurry up and find a way. If all the teachers and students in Hogwarts were forced to abandon the school, what face would he have to continue fighting Haierbo?

It's a pity that everything else is easy to say, but the data cannot be sloppy. Even if he can live without eating, drinking or sleeping for three months, without the basic data, there is no possibility of him even doing calculations.

"Wow--"

In just a few minutes, he once again constructed a sketch of the rune formation, but still squeezed it into a ball and threw it aside.

Using the power of the rune pattern to forcibly slow down the falling speed of the meteorite is also unrealistic.

"Since it is impossible to bear it directly, then... how about finding a way to intercept it as early as possible?"

After pondering left and right, Maca dipped the quill in his hand, and then buried himself in writing again. It didn't take long before he rubbed out another piece of meaningless waste paper, and couldn't help but raised his hand to rub the space between his eyebrows.

From the time he came back until now, he has been frowning for too long, and he has already felt soreness between his brows.

However, there is no time to give him a rest right now!

After a while, he leaned over again and continued to write and draw, and this was a whole night.

I don't know how long it took, when the first ray of morning sun suddenly penetrated through the gap in the curtains, Maca raised her head with a tired face.

"Is it sunny today?"

He twisted his slightly stiff neck, glanced inadvertently out of the corner of his eye, but caught a glimpse of a familiar star map of the solar system where the ray of sunlight hit.

"Oh?"

Suddenly, he was startled, and then his eyes suddenly lit up.

...

this night,

Maca was obviously very tired.

But his fatigue is not mainly due to lack of sleep - after all, staying up all night has long been a habit of his, and his fatigue actually comes from stress.

But on the same night, there was another person who had a very uncomfortable life.

Almost yesterday when Maca returned to the office, Hermione was lying on her soft bed, huddled under the covers and staring at the night sky outside the window.

At that time, it was actually still snowing outside, and the momentum was not small. She looked out of the bedroom window and could hardly see anything.

But it didn't really matter to her.

Because what she was looking at was not the scenery outside, but she was constantly speculating about Maca's whereabouts outside through this "far-seeing" action.

"Why did he resign? Why did he leave without saying goodbye? What is he going to do?"

To be honest, since Maca spent a whole day with these little friends before leaving, she couldn't help but feel suspicious.

It was as if Maca might never come back after leaving.

So, while thinking about it, Hermione became more and more restless.

She turned back and forth on the bed a few times, but her mind was full of imaginings of never seeing Maca again, and in the end she couldn't even close her eyes and take a nap, let alone try to fall asleep.

About an hour later, Hermione suddenly threw off the warm quilt, and got dressed in the dark in a state of anxiety.

And when she opened the door of the dormitory and went to the common room, the dead silence made her not want to stay here at all, so she simply walked quietly into the corridor outside the door.

The fat lady in the portrait was still dozing off, and Hermione's going out didn't wake her up.

Hermione, who always felt restless, really wanted to leave Hogwarts secretly like this, and go to the outside world to find traces of Maca.

But reason told her that this kind of behavior was tantamount to nonsense.

Therefore, Hermione, who had no more good ideas, walked silently in the dark corridor.

Perhaps her behavior cannot be described as "walking", because walking at least usually has some purpose. And she kept moving forward in a place with no light, but she was not much different from a scurrying mouse.

But just when she happened to pass by a window opening, a blurry figure suddenly appeared on the top of the astronomy tower on the other side of the castle, attracting her attention.

"……Who is that?"

Hermione subconsciously leaned on the window sill, and looked over there through the misty snow curtain. The moonless night makes everything seem to be soaked in ink, and even the outlines are not clear at all.

Just because of her years of familiarity with Hogwarts, she was still sure that someone should be there.

Hermione, who was wondering what she should do that night, no longer hesitated, turned around and walked towards the direction of the Astronomy Tower.

But she didn't know that, in fact, she only needed to turn another corner just now, and she could see a certain brightly lit window from the window on the other side...

Not long after, Hermione hurriedly turned along the corridor to the outer corridor leading to the Astronomy Tower from the main castle.

If you want to reach the Astronomy Tower from the castle, you must pass through such an open-air tower bridge connecting the tower and the main castle. Right now, as soon as she came outside, the strong wind mixed with flying snow immediately made her feel chilly all over.

Snowflakes scraped against Hermione's soft and delicate cheeks, like a small knife was cutting her face, so she had to raise her sleeves to block her side face.

After all, it was Christmas night, the whole year was about to turn, and it was the cold winter of Ling Ran.

Fortunately, the bridge was not long, so she trotted a few steps against the high-altitude wind, quickly pushed open the door of the opposite tower, and plunged into the windless room.

After hastily closing the door, she leaned against the door which was still slightly trembling in the wind, and now she was already thinking about whether she should go for a walk on the platform at the top of the Astronomy Tower !

But when she came back to her senses, she glanced at the room, and the starlight made her suddenly stunned.

"what!"

After a few seconds, Hermione couldn't help but realize again—isn't this the Starry Sky Cafe that Maca brought them to during the day?

The Gryffindor common room is located on the highest level of the main castle, and the top of the Astronomy Tower is the highest place in Hogwarts. Comparing the two, it is natural that she came here to be an astronomy class.

Generally speaking, when you need to take an astronomy class, everyone will not deliberately go to the top floor of the main castle and then go to the astronomy tower, because almost every floor will have a corridor tower bridge like the one just now.

That's why Hermione didn't react all of a sudden this time.

It was just that after being surprised by the little starlight, her eyes gradually dimmed a little—well, Maca seemed to be sitting at that round table with them in the morning, right?

She walked over and stroked the table lightly, but even if there were any traces left at that time, it has already been cleaned up by Professor Sinista with a spell.

After standing by the table in a daze for a while, Hermione finally shook her head, and her eyes slowly shifted to the spiral wooden staircase leading to the top of the tower.

After a short pause, she still planned to go up again. Even if it wasn't for the purpose of seeing who the figure she discovered just now was, she actually wanted to use the biting cold wind to calm herself down at this moment.

"Squeak—"

The trapdoor at the top of the stairs was a bit stuck from the cold snow, and it required not only a lot of strength to open it, but also a harsh grinding sound.

Knowing that there should be someone above, the sound made Hermione pause slightly in pushing the door panel, and then continued to push it open.

And the moment she poked her head out of the doorway, she was blinded by the wind and snow and squinted to look out, only to see that there was indeed a black shadow looking towards her .

It's a pity that even here, if you can't see clearly, you still can't see clearly—it's too dark outside, and the wind and snow are terrifyingly heavy, and being able to distinguish the front or the back is already the limit of this distance.

I don't know what Hermione was thinking, until now, she seemed to feel a little guilty.

No, if she had to say it, she had already realized that it must be very suspicious for someone to hang around on the Astronomy Tower at such a late hour. And maybe it was because she thought of this that she tried to come here to take a look, and she happened to act alone.

But if you want to ask her why she did this... I'm afraid it has something to do with Maca's "leaving without saying goodbye".

"...Who is where?"

While shouting these words, Hermione took out the wand in her sleeve with a very small movement - she had been hiding the wand in her sleeve since Maca taught her.

It seems that this has become a habit of hers.

However, her question was not answered.

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