As soon as Draco Malfoy stood at the door of the ward, Maka already knew. Because he is currently doing interesting things beside Luna's hospital bed, it is not convenient for others to see him.
"...Stop standing outside the door, come in!"
Although I don't know who stood outside for so long, but the other party obviously didn't notice the warning spell he set, so there is probably no need to be too cautious.
After the words were settled, Draco opened the door after a short while.
"Oh-uh, good evening?" he greeted wincingly.
"Huh?" Maka was stunned for a moment when she saw him, and then she remembered something, "Oh, it's you... did your father ask you to come?"
Draco nodded stiffly.
"Don't stand at the door, come in quickly... and close the door." Maka waved her hand casually and sat back on the chair.
Since it's Draco Malfoy, he doesn't have to care so much. After Maka said hello to him casually, she took out all the things she was thinking about just now.
Draco walked to the end of the hospital bed and watched as he placed many strange things on the floor one by one. He was dazzled by the mess.
"What's this?"
Draco's expression of wanting to ask but not knowing how to ask was like Hamtaro seeing Jerry - they are both mice, but they are not the same thing at all!
"Oh, this is a Muggle technological product. They call it a 'television'." Maka said without looking up.
When Draco heard this, a trace of disgust immediately appeared on his face - to the pure-blood wizarding family, everything about Muggles is disgusting, including the very existence of Muggles.
Although Maka doesn't know exactly where wizards originate from, a side-by-side comparison shows that they are probably closely related to Muggles.
However, Maka was not interested at all in Draco's reaction.
"Wait there for a while, I'm busy here!" Maka said casually, "Just find a place to sit for a while, and I'll tell you when I'm done."
After that, he picked up the parchment roll that he had just placed on the bedside table, spread it out on the floor, and started writing and drawing.
How long had Draco waited? Ask Merlin!
All he knew was that when he woke up from his nap again, it would be daybreak.
Throughout the night, he slept and woke up - after all, this was his first time sleeping on a chair, so he was really as tired as he wanted!
The key is that he didn't dare to disturb Maka at all.
This time, when he looked towards Maka again, he found that the other party was still lying on the floor playing with the weird things scattered on the floor.
"...Mr. Maclean?" Draco couldn't bear it anymore.
"Stop talking!" Maka didn't even have the time to look at him.
"Uh..." Draco opened his mouth, but leaned back on the chair again.
But this time, he finally didn't have to wait any longer. Of course, although this was a great thing, Draco was really not happy.
"Well..." A soft voice sounded from the quilt on the hospital bed, "Maka... good morning?"
Maka, who hadn't raised her head all night, heard the sound and immediately stood up from the ground. Her reaction was so fast that Draco was frightened.
"Good morning, Luna!" Maka said happily, "Did you sleep well? Do you need to sleep a little longer?"
"Um."
Luna, who was already asleep, closed her eyelids again after hearing these words. But after a while, she opened her eyes again and looked at Maka with her silver-gray eyes.
"I'm still not going to sleep..." she said in a dreamy voice, "I'll be hungry if I wait any longer."
Maka nodded, then turned back and waved at Draco.
"Go out and talk."
Immediately afterwards, like a suspect, Draco walked out of the door under Maka's gaze.
There was nothing I could do, my legs were numb after sitting all night.
The two of them stood in the corridor, and Maka immediately said: "You go back and answer a letter to your father. Two days later, at nine o'clock in the evening, at the Pig's Head Bar in Hogsmeade... Do you remember clearly?"
"Um...oh, is that all?" Draco said in surprise, "Nothing else?"
"What else do you want?"
Maka shrugged, turned around and went to the ward, leaving Draco alone in the empty corridor.
"After waiting all night... is it just a word?" Draco looked at the closed door and said without tears.
This time, Maka really didn't mean it. Once his mind is fully engaged in research, if there is something else, he will often be unable to turn around.
Just like this time, the fact of Draco's arrival was basically just spinning around in his mind. No matter how it got in, it would usually be driven out of his mind exactly as it was in the end.
If Luna didn't have a higher priority in his heart now, and Maka's attention was distracted as soon as she made a sound, Draco would have really had to wait.
"Maka, this... TV? Is it done?" Seeing Maka come in, Luna, who was almost awake, looked curiously at the parts on the ground and asked.
"How can it be so easy..." Maka spread her hands and said, "Using magic to transform technological products is just an idea at best now... But from now on, I should have a lot more free time than before, as long as I take my time , it will succeed one day.”
"Yeah." Luna nodded and turned her attention to the window again, looking at the clouds in the sky in a habitual trance.
In fact, the reason why Maka came up with this idea in the first place was just to study the practical applications of various runes. Moreover, this can also be used to confirm the various meanings of runes.
But soon, Maka had a lot of ideas about this, and the earlier "combination of magic and technology" quickly evolved into "using magic to transform technological products."
The goal has become much more practical, and the foundation is still based on the magic that Maka is good at, which greatly simplifies the originally extremely complex theoretical research.
Of course, most of the current research focus is still on the study of regular runes. This idea is just an exercise on the application of runes for the time being.
"Maybe in a few years, there will be TV programs to watch in the magical world..." Maka thought for a while and found it quite interesting, "Let's not mention magical news and the like, just watching 'Animal World' Looks interesting?"
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Early that morning, after Maka packed up all the parts on the floor, she went to the auditorium to have breakfast. He didn't need to worry about Luna. The "nutritious breakfast for sick patients" prepared by Madam Pomfrey was much richer than the breakfast everyone usually eats.
And just as the students were passing by the foyer, they saw the obvious but extremely frustrating announcement on the bulletin board - today's trip to Hogsmeade was indeed ruined.
Harry felt quite regretful - if he had known better, he should have sent the letter to Sirius after the second project was over. Obviously, now he can only dig into the secret passage.
At noon, Harry secretly took his invisibility cloak and set off. As for Ron and Hermione, of course they were also indispensable.
When they arrived at Hogsmeade Village through the low secret passage, the weak sunlight was shining on this snow-covered street all year round, and the three people's eyes were bright.
Today was the warmest day in a while, and all three of them took off their cloaks and draped them over their shoulders. Sirius also asked them to bring food in the letter, and now they are being carried on Harry's back!
They stole a dozen chicken drumsticks, a baguette, and a whole bottle of pumpkin juice from the lunch table.
It is naturally not easy to sneak into Hogsmeade. They wandered around first. Although they didn't dare to run into the store, even walking casually in the sunny streets and alleys was a rare relaxation.
At half past one, they walked along the road past the "Devis and Bans" magic equipment store and headed out of the village.
Harry had never been in this direction before.
The winding path took them to the wild fields around Hogsmeade. There were only a few cabins here, but the gardens attached to those few were very large. They walked towards the base of the mountain, where the village of Hogsmeade lay in the shadow.
Finally, when they turned a corner and saw a fence at the end of the path, waiting for them there was a large, scruffy black dog.
At this moment, its front paws were resting on the highest fence, with a few newspapers in its mouth - this dog looked very familiar!
"Hello, Sirius," Harry said as they walked over.
The black dog sniffed Harry's schoolbag eagerly, flicked its tail, then turned around and started trotting in a bushy field.
The field led to the foot of a rocky hill, and Harry, Ron and Hermione hurriedly climbed over the fence and followed closely.
Sirius led them all the way to the foot of the mountain, where the ground was covered with large and small stones.
The advantages of four legs showed up in this inconspicuous place - Sirius walked easily, but Harry, Ron and Hermione were soon out of breath from exhaustion.
They followed Sirius higher and higher and began to climb up the mountain.
They followed Sirius's wagging tail and climbed up the winding, steep, rocky path for nearly half an hour. The originally warm sunshine now gave the illusion of being exposed to a scorching sun.
Finally, beside a certain rock, Sirius disappeared in a flash. When they came to the place where he had disappeared, they saw a narrow cleft in the rock.
They squeezed in and found themselves in a dimly lit, cool cave.
It's Buckbeak, the hippogriff! It was now tied to the end of the cave, its rope wrapped around a large rock. All three of them bowed deeply to it, but Buckbeak just looked at them haughtily, motionless.
"Ever since it came back from the World Cup, it won't bow to anyone except McClain." The black dog transformed and turned into a human again.