Just as Lupine, who had transformed into a werewolf, was charging toward Maka again fiercely, Maka stepped back and pointed the tip of the wand firmly at the ground between Lupine and him.
"Shattered to pieces!" "Bang!"
With an explosion, large pieces of mud and rocks mixed with turf flew up, and Lupine, who was rushing towards him, was completely enveloped in it.
Although the noise is quite loud, it obviously will not cause any harm to the werewolf. This kind of behavior seems a bit unnecessary.
But at the next moment, Maka pointed the wand in Lupine's direction again—more precisely, he aimed at a large ball of mud that hit Lupine's arm!
What is he going to do
If someone is watching from the sidelines right now, they will definitely have such doubts. It's a pity that there is no audience here, so no one can see the magic application skills he will show next.
The lump of mud deformed in mid-air and quickly wrapped around Lupine's left arm, turning into an iron ring shining with metallic luster.
"Float into the sky!"
This was the last spell. Maka controlled the iron ring to directly lift Lupine's feet off the ground. Then, he flicked the wand suddenly, and the iron ring dragged Lupine forward and fell at Maka's feet.
Maka, who had been waiting there for a long time, raised the syringe tightly held in her left hand, stabbed it smoothly on the side of Lupine's neck, and pushed the medicine into his body.
This is a beautiful combination of spells. Each spell is closely connected to the next, quickly and accurately, and cleverly avoids the weakening effect of the spell directly applied to the werewolf.
Regardless of the type or power of the magic spells used, they are not beyond the scope of what ordinary students can learn. Theoretically, any upperclassman in Hogwarts can do it.
Lupine, who had been injected with the medicine, was still struggling, trying to get up from the ground. It took a while before he finally fell asleep.
I have to say that the various resistances of the werewolf are really terrifying.
Seeing that Lupine had calmed down, he had time to take a look at the castle, and then used the floating spell to drag Lupine all the way to Hagrid's hut.
Soon, he found Blake who had returned to human form under the Whomping Willow, but he found no sign of Scabbers here.
"Where's Peter?" Maka asked Blake, who was sitting next to the secret passage.
In fact, he had roughly guessed it without asking.
"...He ran away again!" Blake's eyes flashed with anger, and his dirty face was terrifyingly hideous.
Maka glanced into the secret passage that had been opened, but it was so dark inside that she couldn't see anything. No need to ask, Blake must have searched the Shrieking Shack, but obviously couldn't find it.
He turned his head and glanced at Lu Ping, who was still sleeping, and his brows furrowed tightly.
Although Maka didn't know when Peter Pettigrew escaped, it was definitely not now.
To be honest, he didn't care too much about this matter, because he had already made up his mind to face Voldemort on his own strength - that guy would definitely come back, and the outcome would probably be the same with or without Peter Pettigrew.
But now things still deviated from his expectations, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
"Although we have prepared a backup plan, the inexplicable advance of Peter's escape time has added an unknown factor to the original plan..." Maka kept thinking in her mind, and after a while she shook her head again, " Forget it, let’s find out about Lupine first!”
"I'm afraid this has something to do with Peter Pettigrew's escape..." He couldn't help but think so.
Wolfsbane potion needs to be taken in advance. If you drink it now, it will definitely not work, so you can only wait patiently.
As for the period of weakness after returning to human form, it doesn't really matter.
At Maka's urging, Black took Lupine with him to the Shrieking Shack to avoid being discovered by anyone who came out to search.
It wasn't until the sky brightened that Lu Ping gradually recovered his body.
"Professor Lupin?" "Lupin."
Maka and Black shouted to Lupine who had just opened his eyes.
"Um...how..." Lu Ping had just finished speaking, and he understood it himself, "I transformed again? And... didn't the Wolfsbane potion work?"
He raised his head hurriedly, and was about to ask something, but he immediately saw Blake.
"Sirius?"
Blake nodded silently as a greeting.
Lupine looked at him intently, with some suppressed emotion in his tone: "Why did you come out, Sirius?"
Blake's face was expressionless and he sat motionless. After a few seconds, he said solemnly: "I have something I have to do..."
Maka on the side couldn't help but shook her head and said: "Professor Lupin, he is out to capture Peter Pettigrew."
"What?" Lupine suddenly turned to Maka.
"Do you know Ron's pet rat?" Maka asked, "The one called 'Scabbers'."
There was a hint of surprise on Lupine's face, but that was all. It can be seen from this that he actually already had some kind of guess in his mind.
"That is to say - but -" Lupine turned back and looked at Black intently, as if reading his mind, "Why didn't he reveal the truth before?"
"Unless—" Lupine's eyes suddenly widened, as if he was looking at something other than Black, and the focus of his eyes wandered to the air in front of him.
"Unless he's the one... Unless you just... changed without telling me?"
Black raised his head and stared at Lupine's face, then nodded slowly.
Regardless of his physical weakness, Lupine struggled to get up and walked to Black, grabbed his hand, pulled him up hard, and then they hugged each other like two brothers.
"Friendship between men?" Maka touched her chin, showing a thoughtful look.
The two patted each other on the back and sat down separately. It seemed that they needed to have a good chat - especially about Peter Pettigrew.
"Professor Lupin," Maka spoke first, "I think, before that, I need to understand the problem of Wolfsbane potion... Is the bottle still on you?"
"It's in my office, but it's not lost yet. Let's go take a look together later." Lu Ping said, "Actually, I also want to know what went wrong... I hope I didn't hurt anyone."
Maka shrugged and said, "Probably not. You jumped out of the window just after the howl of transformation, and then you ran towards me. You had no chance to hurt others."
"Oh—" Lupine asked nervously, "Are you okay?"
"Of course, I injected you with some medicine that can make you sleepy. There is no problem." Maka said, spreading her hands to show that it was nothing.
Lupine had long been accustomed to Maka's weird behaviors. After he confirmed that Maka was not injured, he couldn't help but knock on the iron ring still hanging on his arm.
"So, what did you do to me?" he couldn't help but ask.
"You know, the werewolf's skin has a strong anti-magic effect, so... I can only rely on other things to knock you down." Maka explained, "Otherwise, it's really difficult to get close to a standing werewolf. A very difficult thing.”
"...I really want to score some points for you." Lu Ping said with a grimace.
"That's not necessary," Maka said, then stood up, "Professor Lupin, and Uncle Black, you guys are here to catch up on old times, and I will go back to have breakfast first."
The two of them looked at Maka's leaving figure and couldn't help but look at each other, with a trace of confusion in their eyes.
…
The Easter holidays aren't exactly relaxing.
There had never been so much homework for a third grader, and Neville seemed to be having a nervous breakdown, and he wasn't the only one.
"It's called a holiday!" shouted Seamus Finnigan in the common room one afternoon. "Exams are still far away. What are they doing?"
But no one was as busy as Hermione.
Even though she no longer takes divination classes due to some reasons, she still takes more classes than anyone else.
She was usually the last to leave the common room at night and the first to arrive at the library the next morning. She already had shadows under her eyes like Lupine, and the endless busyness seemed to have made her a little nervous, giving the impression that she would shed tears at any time.
Ron had already taken over the Buckbeak case.
When he wasn't doing homework, he was engrossed in reading thick volumes with titles such as: "The Hippogriff Psychological Manual" and "Fowl or Monster?" ", "Research on the Savagery of Hippogriffs" and so on.
He'd been so immersed in it lately that he'd forgotten to be mean to Crookshanks.
At the same time, Harry had to find time to do his homework after Quidditch practice every day, not to mention endless discussions on tactics with Wood.
By the way, the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin game will be played on the first Saturday after Easter.
As for Maka, after he detected the sugar in the Wolfsbane potion bottle, he already knew in his mind that it must have been secretly done by Peter Pettigrew.
Although I don’t know when he did it or how he did it, the suspicion is almost clear at a glance.
Now, he may have gone to show his loyalty to his old master - or simply seek refuge, who knows
It was useless to think about it any more, Maka decided to settle the Buckbeak matter first. Although he missed a whole day due to the accident, the matter was not that urgent after all.