"Charlie came back just now."
At first, when Ron came to Hermione's tent, this was all he said. And his purpose was naturally just to mention it casually, as if he had nothing to say.
However, perhaps it was precisely because he didn't want to think about Percy anymore that Ron sometimes filled his head with other things. When he was talking to Charlie before, he had been thinking about how to fight the living zombies after returning to England... But now, after mentioning it like this, he seemed to be slowing down and rethinking what he had just said. Charlie's conversation.
"Can I help you with anything?"
He sat down at the table in the tent and saw Hermione and Luna drawing rune cards one by one. He couldn't help but ask subconsciously. Of course, in fact, at this moment, his mind was still thinking about what Charlie said about the Hogwarts alumni, and he was somewhat absent-minded.
"No... I asked you to try to learn the ancient magic script, but you couldn't learn it." Hermione said without raising her head, "By the way, what did you just say? Charlie is back?"
"Well, yes!" Ron leaned down on the table and said vaguely, "I went to see Bill. He said that a group of people were coming to take over, so I had to discuss it with him."
"Oh?" When Hermione heard this, she stopped her movements for a moment and asked curiously, "Is he an asylum seeker? Where did he come back from?"
"'Asylums'? Well... that's probably it!" Ron said, and then explained, "They are the wizards who settled in Hogwarts before. I heard from Charlie that they were first forced to move to the Yorkshire Dales. We went there, and then encountered a zombie attack. In the end, we had no choice but to go all the way south and prepare to join us—"
"It's them?"
When Hermione heard this, she finally stopped lowering her head and minding her own business. Instead, she turned to look at Ron and whispered to herself quite seriously:
"Did they leave Hogwarts? 'Forced'? Could it be... something happened to Hogwarts again?"
"That's probably it!" Ron sighed, "This drastic change in the fog seems to have happened all over the UK, and it seems that Hogwarts also -"
Because when Charlie, old Aslan and other wizards were kicked out of Hogwarts by Maka, Hermione and Ron were still in Winchester. In addition, Charlie came and went in a hurry just now and didn't bother to mention this matter, so they obviously didn't know what happened, but they naturally thought that it should be the arrival of the devil.
But soon, Hermione suddenly shook her head and said with a frown:
"No, I remember that when I was still in Weymouth, Ms. Navistanson also mentioned that Hogwarts is located on a deep mountain ridge and is not shrouded in fog. What happened in the fog before, It shouldn’t affect the school, right? Hmm… Ron, did Charlie say that it was zombies attacking Hogwarts?”
"Ah, that's it... It doesn't seem like that. I remember he only said that the reason for abandoning the Yorkshire Dales was the living corpses, and about leaving Hogwarts... He didn't seem to say it, and I forgot to ask."
After hearing this, Hermione nodded immediately and said:
"Then you have to ask him. I was wondering before if Maka would go to Hogwarts... Oh, it seems he is not there, otherwise this kind of thing would definitely not happen."
As she said this, she didn't notice that Ron suddenly pursed his lips.
"Hermione," he finally couldn't help but say after a short pause, "can you... forget about Maka? At least until he reappears in front of us—"
"What's wrong?" Hearing Ron's words, Hermione couldn't help but be stunned, "Why? Wait... Ron, are you really starting to think that Maka will leave us? Oh, I understand. , it was Geofein’s words in Winchester that made you... "
"No!" Ron frowned and said, "I don't even remember what Miss Geoffrey said. These are all my own thoughts! And... Hermione, it's not that I don't trust Hermione. Ka, but I think sometimes you... No, all of us subconsciously rely too much on Maka! Don't you think so?"
Having said this, he couldn't help but spread his hands, and then said:
"Not long ago, we said several times that we can no longer put the burden on Maka's shoulders, and we ourselves have to work hard. But that is what we said, and in fact we seem to be trying to rely on ourselves. We can do something with our own strength... But what are the facts? What have we done?"
"No, we didn't accomplish anything!" Ron seemed a little angry, but also seemed very annoyed. "In the end, we still went to find Maka... Why? We are so useless... "
At the end of the sentence, he couldn't help but hit his thigh hard and said angrily:
"Especially myself!"
These words are like a summary of everyone's actions during this period. They are very true and very cruel. His "summary" rarely left Hermione speechless for a moment.
After a moment of silence, Ron continued:
"So, we'd better forget about Maka for now! No matter where he is, no matter what he has done, we can't count on him again and again - I think he must be very tired, more than any of us Everyone gets tired."
Ron said this, and seemed to want to go on, and Hermione rarely refuted or even added anything. However, just at this moment, the tent door curtain was suddenly opened by a hand.
"I don't know if Maka is tired or not, but the fact that we were forced to leave Hogwarts was related to him." Charlie suddenly walked in from outside, looked at the two people from left to right and said, "Hermione, you You guessed it right, Maka did go to Hogwarts!"
"What?"
After waiting for Maka for a long time in Winchester, Hermione even gave up in the end. But who knew that now, he would get the news about Maka so easily from Charlie.
"Maka is in Hogwarts? This... then... why? Why were Mr. Aslan and the others forced to leave Hogwarts?"
When Hermione asked, Charlie couldn't help but frown and said dullly:
"Because, Old Sir and I were driven out by Maka herself!"
"This is impossible!"
This time, not only Hermione and Ron, but also Luna, who had been drawing rune cards carefully since just now, suddenly raised her head and stared at Charlie at the door.