When he hurried downstairs again, he saw Quirrell stumbling towards the restaurant. He ran up the stairs leading to the basement, then disappeared around the corner at an extremely fast speed, seemingly not seeing Maka on the stairs to the second floor.
"Salute to the spirit of the actor." Maka straightened her upper body and saluted as she ran. Without stopping, she quickly ran into the basement corridor.
As soon as he got there, he smelled a combination of smelly socks that hadn't been washed for two months and an old toilet.
"This smell mixed with the pumpkin smell all over the castle, it's really terrible."
Maka looked up and saw the troll in the corridor, but the other person didn't seem to notice him.
"Fainted!" Maka took out her wand and gave it a shot.
"boom!"
The troll fell down in response, but Maka was stunned for a moment - he remembered that the book said that the troll's resistance to magic was pretty good, so he wouldn't faint like that no matter what, right
While Maka was thinking, the troll struggled to get up again. It seems that Maka remembered it correctly. The anti-magic skin of this thing is a major feature inherited from the giant.
Immediately afterwards, Maka saw the second major characteristic of the troll - his brain is not working well.
He looked around, probably because the corridor in the basement was too dark, and he didn't find the enemy attacking him. Instead, as if it heard something, it used its strange strength to forcefully squeeze in through the door next to it.
Immediately, Maka heard a shrill, frightened scream.
"The IQ is lower than I thought. It seems that the book "Monsters and Their Origins" will be revised. The explanations in it are too vague." Maka hurried there with complaints.
"Hermione!"
Arriving at the door, Maka immediately saw Hermione huddled under the sink, trembling while looking at the angry troll!
The troll obviously didn't notice that there was someone behind him. It was approaching Hermione with big strides, and the big-headed wooden club in its hand was about to hit Hermione. The situation at the scene was obviously extremely critical, and it was obviously too late to use the floating spell.
"Flying sand and flying rocks!" In a hurry, Maka reluctantly aimed at the wooden stick in its hand and cast a blowing spell.
The big wooden stick escaped from the troll's hand and flew over, almost grazing Hermione's hair. After bouncing in the corner, it landed in the toilet cubicle, knocking down a large piece of the partition.
"Shattered to pieces!"
While the troll was still dazed because of the stick being released, Maka aimed at the back of the troll's neck and hit it hard with all her strength.
Only a "bang" sound was heard, and a bowl-sized gap appeared on the back of the monster's neck. There was a bloody mess inside, and the shattered cervical vertebrae could still be vaguely seen.
The giant monster's huge body shook, and then fell to the ground with a crash, and its body even twitched a few times.
"Huh—" Maka couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when he saw this, "If it had been hit somewhere else, it would probably be a matter of missing a piece of flesh. No wonder this big guy is famous for his rough skin and thick flesh!"
"Um... Maka!" Hermione looked frightened and threw herself into Maka's arms.
He felt the beauty in Xiangyu's heart, but he was muttering in his mind: "In what grade did this little girl start to grow?"
"Ahem, it's okay, it's okay." Feeling that the girl in his arms was trembling, he had to temporarily suppress his random thoughts and speak to comfort her.
Speaking of which, Maka didn't have any special feelings for this know-it-all lady, even when she grew up. But who would refuse a heroine who takes the initiative to throw herself into his arms? Although there was a reason for the incident at the moment, it also made Maka feel a little elated.
In order to calm down the turbulent mood, Maka began to mutter something in a low voice, and could vaguely hear incomprehensible words such as "three years" and "death penalty".
Suddenly there was a sound of loud footsteps, and the two people hugging each other raised their heads. Hermione was stunned for a moment, and quickly pushed Maka's chest hard to keep herself as far away as possible.
Apparently the commotion just now was too loud. The violent collision and the roar of the giant monster attracted someone.
"Hermione!" "Maka?"
Ron and Harry came. They looked at everything here in surprise and did not notice Hermione's red face.
But before they could say anything else, Professor McGonagall rushed into the bathroom, followed closely by Snape, and Quirrell at the end. Quirrell only glanced at the troll, then let out a weak sob, sat on a toilet, and clutched his chest tightly.
Snape walked over and looked at the troll. Professor McGonagall looked at the people present. Her lips were pale and her eyes were wide open. She was obviously in a very angry state.
"What the hell are you playing?" said Professor McGonagall, with cold anger in her voice.
Harry and Ron glanced at Maka, who was still standing there with his wand in his hand.
"You're lucky not to be killed by it! Why don't you just stay in the dormitory?" Professor McGonagall scolded loudly. Maka secretly thought that she was indeed the head of Gryffindor, and got angry and came to argue with the name on the school emblem. The lions are exactly the same.
"Oh..." "Please don't do this, Professor McGonagall... he is looking for me."
Maka was about to speak, but was interrupted by Hermione.
"Miss Granger!" Professor McGonagall said a little surprised. In her impression, Hermione Granger was a good student who strictly abided by school rules.
Hermione finally struggled to stand up, holding on to her weak knees.
"I came to see the troll because I... I thought I could handle it on my own—you know, because I'd read about them in books and knew a lot about them."
"Oh, Hermione, there's no need for this." Maka shook her head, he had already gotten up just now.
"Professor, I heard someone say on the way to the restaurant that Miss Granger is in the bathroom." Maka explained, "She was in a bad mood because she encountered something, so she stayed here and did not go to the restaurant."
"I just wanted to come over to comfort her. You know, she is my friend." Maka spread her hands with an innocent expression on her face, "But who knew there would be a troll running rampant in Hogwarts? "
"I think this should be investigated." Maka glanced at Rocky meaningfully, but Rocky was covering his face and sobbing loudly, continuing his actor-level performance!
"Oh - if that's the case..." Professor McGonagall mused, looking at them.
"Mr. McClane, you used the Crushing Curse to shatter the troll's cervical spine, right?" Snape glanced at Harry coldly, then looked at Maka.
Maka immediately shouted something bad in her heart, but on the outside she nodded without changing her expression.
"I think so."
"Huh, pretty powerful, but can you explain where you learned it?" Snape stared at Maka with a gloomy face and said, "I don't think there is anything like 'curse' in the first-year textbooks. A spell?"
Professor McGonagall looked back at the giant monster's wound, which was still gushing blood until now!
"...I am self-taught." Maka had to tell the truth.
The scene just now was too urgent, and he didn't have time to think too much. He just subconsciously picked a suitable spell. Now that things have come to this, he can only be glad that he is still far from being able to master the Unforgivable Curse! Otherwise, if he accidentally threw a green light up just now, he would probably have to go to Azkaban to deal with the dementors.
"Oh my god! You have to know, you are only in the first grade!"
Professor McGonagall seemed to have come back to her senses just now. She hurriedly rushed over and turned Maka around to look at her. It seemed that she was more concerned about her student's physical condition than the spell.
"…Maka."
Hermione looked at Maka with a worried look on her face, she classified the spells very clearly. "Curse" spells are all black magic without exception, which require strong negative emotions to be successfully released. Even the three unforgivable curses are in this category!
However, it is different from other "curses". The reason why the Unforgivable Curse is "unforgivable" is precisely because the "Killing Curse" and the "Cruciatus Curse" do not have corresponding breaking spells; and the "Soul-stealing Curse" is because of its extremely disruptive spell characteristics - it can Complete control over one's body, mind and thoughts.
"It's okay, it's just a little bit out of control - I mean, Mr. MacLean, you must give a reasonable explanation for your behavior!" Professor McGonagall seemed to be relieved, and after realizing that something was wrong, he immediately He straightened his face.
"Well, I think my progress may be a little fast - I mean, I like learning very much, and..." At this point, Maka glanced at Hermione deliberately, "I hope that I can protect the people I want to protect. "
Hermione couldn't help but blush again when she heard this, but Harry and Ron beside Professor McGonagall didn't react at all. It seems that girls are always more mature than boys, which makes sense.
Professor McGonagall looked at Maka and couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth. In her opinion, the appearance of a little adult like Maka makes people laugh a bit.
Snape looked back and forth at Maka and Hermione without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Professor McGonagall, if Maka hadn't saved me, I would have been eaten by the troll by now." Hermione pleaded.
"I think we need to talk to Dumbledore about the 'Shattering Curse'," said Professor McGonagall. "But I don't think there has ever been a first-year student who has been able to defeat the troll alone. You are Hufflepuff?" Earned ten points.”
"Now, you follow me to the principal's office. As for you," Professor McGonagall glanced at the others, "you can go."
Maka glanced at the three of them, then seemingly calmly followed Professor McGonagall, who turned to leave, and walked out of the bathroom door—in fact, there was only a cracked and damaged door frame left.
"Oh - I'm here to deal with this big, big guy." Quirrell stammered while wiping his face.
Snape gave Harry a cold look, then followed him without looking back.
Hermione looked at Maka's back with a worried expression. As for whether Maka would be expelled or something, she had no idea at all.
Harry and Ron didn't have such worries, or they didn't think much about it at all.
"What is a 'curse'? That looks so cool!" Ron looked at the motionless troll lying on the ground, and the bowl-sized wound looked a bit scary.
"Yeah! Even that big bat that only hurts people said 'not bad'! I can't believe it." Harry also nodded.
"He was just mocking Maka!" Hermione shouted.