Maka thought he wouldn't run into anyone because he marked the destination of the portkey outside the school gate. But who knew, by chance, someone would be standing here—and there was more than one person.
Because something happened in the school, the potholes left by Dumbledore's battle at the school gate were temporarily forgotten. It wasn't until the holiday was about to come that someone came to repair them.
And now, the unlucky guy who was sat on the ground by Maka was none other than Mundungus Fletcher, a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
Mundungus was an unshaven, short, fat wizard with long, messy ginger hair. His eyes were often bloodshot and swollen, and he had an unpleasant smell of tobacco and alcohol.
Like Maka's partner Tarino, Mundungus is also a rogue wizard who lives at the bottom of the magical world.
But unlike Tarino, Mundungus' abilities were limited to some inconspicuous activities, and he got to know some liars and thieves because of this. Although he is greedy for profit by nature, he does not have enough skills to live a decent life like Tarino.
In the Order of the Phoenix, he usually plays the role of spying on information. His loyalty is not a problem, but he often messes up a lot of things because of his personality.
Speaking of which, Maka had met him several times through Tarino before the Order of the Phoenix reboot.
Maka grew up in a very bad environment, so naturally she would not have any disgust towards people like Mundungus. Even though the smell on his body was really strong, Maka didn't care.
He finally stood up and looked at Mundungus grunting on the ground, but still shrugged indifferently.
"Hurry up, what are you pretending to be... Do you still want to blackmail me for money?"
Maka glared at him angrily, ignored the pretentious Mundungus, and turned around to say hello to the other two.
"Hi! Tonks, Hagrid..." He looked around casually, and then continued, "Voldemort has come? How is the situation?"
Hagrid was still staring at him blankly, not having come to his senses!
Just now, they suddenly felt a sudden silence around them, followed by a scream from Mundungus. They hurriedly turned around and saw that Maka was sitting on Mundungus' chest and said hello to him with a smile on his face.
The most puzzling thing is that Maka is holding a...a cartoon ** of unknown origin!
"Oh..." Tonks' face darkened when she heard this. She shook her head and said, "I think... the situation is not good..."
When Maka heard this, he frowned slightly. He didn't want to hear any bad news, especially about Voldemort and the Black Death.
"What happened?" he asked hurriedly.
"Everything else was pretty good. Dumbledore drove away Voldemort, and the Death Eaters quickly retreated..." At this point, Tonks hesitated, and then said sadly, "But... the crazy old man is missing. , haven’t found it yet.”
"Professor Moody?" Maka said in shock, "Everyone else is fine, but he is missing?"
"Yeah... Before he disappeared, a girl saw him. It is said that after they worked together to eliminate a strange man with black smoke all over his body, the crazy old man was injured. He asked the girl to inform Professor McGonagall After starting the Knights of Stone Dune, I just stayed there and said I wanted to take a rest..."
"...and then disappeared?" Maka continued, and Tonks nodded.
"Where did he disappear?" Maka then asked, "Also, what did Dumbledore say?"
"The last place I saw him was at the back entrance of the castle, by the underground dock... There are still traces of the battle there." Tonks answered truthfully, "Professor Dumbledore didn't say anything, and he looked very... Puzzled."
Maka thought for a moment, then waved her hand and said, "You guys get busy first, I'll go to the scene to see if there are any clues - it hasn't been touched yet, right?"
Tonks shook her head and said: "It's been cleaned up there... After all, it's been several days, and it's still in school."
It does have a bad impact on students if they see a place like that. Hogwarts has already been attacked twice by Death Eaters. If the little wizards continue to be frightened, parents will probably come to the door soon. .
In fact, for the past few days, piles of owls flew into the dining room every morning during breakfast, and letters rained down on the staff table, almost drowning the dining table.
Whether they were dining students or professors, they had to be baptized by a howling letter every day. Snape was so angry that he waved his wand and killed several of the howling letters.
Upon hearing that the scene was gone, Maka had no choice but to say goodbye to the three of them and hurried to the principal's office.
…
"...Professor Dumbledore?"
In the principal's office, Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk, looking through a copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" with a calm expression. When Maka came to the desk, he looked up and smiled.
"Good afternoon, Maka."
Maca looked at Dumbledore inexplicably. He felt that Dumbledore was a little different from the past, but he couldn't tell what was different.
"Uh... Professor," he blinked, then shook his head, putting aside this weird feeling, "I just heard that Professor Moody is missing?"
"Yeah..." Dumbledore nodded, and then pointed to the cabinet behind Maka, "The memories about the scene are in the Pensieve. You can go and see them if you want."
"Don't you know how he disappeared? No clues?"
Maka did not go and see it right away, but chose to ask Dumbledore first.
After all, in his opinion, if Dumbledore didn't know clearly, he might not be able to see anything, so it wouldn't be too late to check it out later.
But Dumbledore shook his head.
"When Alastor disappeared, I didn't notice anything... As for the clues..." he said, then paused and said, "Miss Granger..."
"Oh, I've heard what Hermione said."
After Maka said that, she lowered her eyes and thought for a moment. Seeing that Dumbledore didn't continue, she simply turned around and walked towards the cabinet with the pensieve.
He skillfully opened the cabinet door, and in the rippling silver light, he quietly immersed himself in Dumbledore's memory fragments.
With a trance in front of her eyes, Maka immediately found that she was standing on the pier at the back door of the castle. The time should be in the morning, but there is still not much light on the lake hidden under the cliff.
"In the morning?" Maka said to herself, "Did you come here until the next morning? That is... the 25th?"
On this pier, there are traces of battles everywhere, and there are even several spots of bright red sprayed on the ground, which makes people feel a little shocked.
After Maka glanced briefly, his eyes were immediately attracted to something on the ground - it was an arm, and it undoubtedly belonged to Mad-Eye Moody.
In other words, it once belonged to him.
After frowning and taking a closer look, Maka paced back and forth a few more steps, constantly observing the various traces around her, trying to find some clues.
But not long after, he heard a mess of footsteps coming from behind, coming from far and near.
He turned around and saw familiar figures walking out of the back door. As expected, the person taking the lead is none other than our Miss Granger.
She looked a little pale now, as if she was nervous and a little scared, but she forced herself to stay calm.
"... This is where I was... ah!"
As she walked out of the doorway, she turned back and said something. But when she subconsciously looked forward, she suddenly screamed in fear—she also saw the arm on the ground.
Maka looked at her thoughtfully and thought: The time when Moody broke his arm was probably after Hermione left.
Dumbledore came out first behind Hermione, followed by McGonagall, Snape and Filch. Perhaps because Harry and Ron had also "walked" around here, they were also Called over here.
When they saw the shoulder-length broken arm, everyone was shocked except Dumbledore and Snape who just frowned.
"Oh - Merlin bless you," Professor McGonagall said in surprise, "This... what exactly happened?"
"Miss Granger, before you and Alastor separated, his arm was still on his shoulder, right?" Dumbledore, like Maca, thought of this immediately.
"Uh... yes, yes..." Hermione didn't dare to look at the arm. She looked away and said shakily, "Professor Moody's shoulder was seriously injured at that time, and it was even dented and deformed... But it is indeed While it was still on him, I also gave him some magic potion - given to me by Maka, which was said to have a very powerful healing effect on physical injuries."
When Maka heard this, she immediately frowned—Hermione was right. The powerful healing potion he prepared was an improvement on the past Bai Xian potion. It was a rather expensive and powerful healing potion.
As for the "sunken and deformed shoulder" described by Hermione, it was a purely traumatic injury. After taking the potion, you only need to wait a quarter of an hour for the effect of the potion to take effect and most of it can be recovered.
Obviously, Moody may have been attacked by someone, or—
"With that crazy old man's character, if there is an emergency, he would really cut off his arm..." Maka shook her head, but she had to admire her secretly, "No matter what the reason was, he probably wanted to hold on for dear life. The back door prevents enemies from breaking into the castle.”
But at this moment, Maka keenly noticed that Dumbledore seemed to have thought of something, and his originally calm expression suddenly flashed with a hint of haze.
"What's wrong?" Maka looked at Dumbledore in confusion and muttered to herself.