"Harry, come with me!"
The moment Luna also started running towards the other end of the corridor, Maka also said hello to the right. He originally wanted to wait for Harry to pass by him and spot someone unexpected.
However, the development of things was not as simple as imagined.
"Maka McClain, there is no need to pretend there. I know that if it were you, you would probably be able to correct the influence I exerted on Miss Granger."
As soon as these words came out, Maka had to take out the staff. At least in front of ancient wizards of Haierbo's level, even he needs to be cautious.
However, compared to Maka's preparedness, "Harry" who was still standing on the other side of the corridor did not make much movement.
"Well, look! It didn't take long before we met again... To be honest, it was actually thanks to your blessing. During this time at Hogwarts, I learned a lot of knowledge and theories that were very new to me. "
The other party looked directly at Maka with Harry's blue eyes inherited from his mother. Even though he accidentally fell into Maka's hands last time, he did not show any expression other than calmness.
"Really, I admire you very much, McLean." Haierbo chuckled, "Using my desire for the rules of death, I turned the modern magic itself into a deadly weapon... Ridiculous, I thought I have obtained a treasure."
Hearing this, Maka, who was still silently on guard, immediately curled her lips.
"That is indeed a 'treasure', isn't it?" He said, "Even if the Death Curse involves only incomplete death rule runes, it will still be useful to you. Although your body will be damaged by it. Destroyed, but haven’t you already got what you want?”
Unexpectedly, Haierbo immediately sneered and shook his head.
"Hmph, to me, the runes themselves are of no use." He said dismissively, "For modern wizards like you, the rule runes may be extremely precious. But in our time, the natural rule runes were Most of the searching and summarizing of articles has been completed a long time ago... "
"Oh, that's right?" Maka couldn't help but nodded, "The unknown founder of the modern spell system must at least have analyzed many runes before simplifying and constructing it... I think this is the case. Ignored."
After muttering like this, he put aside these unimportant things and spread his left hand towards the other party.
"In short, please leave Harry's body! If you don't plan to leave voluntarily, then I will have to do it myself."
"Well, it sounds quite polite," Haierbo couldn't help but raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "But you are indeed right. Unless I leave on my own, it's you who drives me away... In this place called Harry... There's really only a limit to what I can do inside a Potter boy."
As Haierbo said, the individual qualities of wizards are still quite different. If Haierbo wants to exert his full strength, he must choose a body that better meets his requirements.
Although Harry's potential is not small, from Haierbo's perspective, it is not quite enough.
Therefore, there were actually many wizards in history who replaced their own bodies, but almost all of them chose to use magic to carefully shape a new body instead of taking someone else's.
But in the middle of the sentence, Haierbo turned around and said: "But... I don't think you will ignore the life and death of the original owner of this body... Do you think I am right? Maca McClain?"
After saying that, he forced a mocking smile on Harry's face, as if he found it quite amusing.
However, Maka's next behavior was beyond Haierbo's expectations.
But I saw that after he looked at Haierbo carefully... well, to be precise, after looking at Harry, he actually smiled with emotion.
Immediately afterwards, he strode towards the other party.
The distance between the two people was not far, but now they quickly shortened to only one step away.
Then, Maka reached out her left hand without hesitation and patted Harry on the shoulder amidst the surprised expression.
"Helpo, I actually knew that you would choose to possess Harry. After all, only he can allow you to effortlessly 'embed' your soul fragments... To me, it is unpredictable. It’s just the time you spent lurking into Hogwarts.”
Hearing Maka say this, the smile on Haierbo's face suddenly dropped. I only saw his pair of eyeballs turning violently a few times, obviously checking the condition of the body quickly, but then he showed a look of doubt.
"So you already knew that this was a 'living' Horcrux?" Haierbo narrowed his eyes and asked, "But what can you do if you know it? Do you think that I will not be able to completely control this mere wizard? The body of an apprentice?”
Yes, Harry is a "humanoid Horcrux". Not many people know about this matter, but for Haierbo, it is something that can be seen through at a glance.
As long as Voldemort's soul fragment is still "embedded" in Harry's soul, Halbo can follow that point and directly break into Harry's soul gap.
He, the inventor of the Horcrux, is much more powerful than Tom Riddle... Even in the state of a remnant soul, Haierbo can still do many things, including suppressing the souls of certain creatures and controlling them to a certain extent. Replace it within time.
"Wizard apprentice?" Maka smiled and said, "There is no such thing as 'apprentice' now... I think Harry will let you understand the advantages of modern wizards."
To be honest, the caution Maka showed just now was in stark contrast to his current ease. Although Haierbo has not found any abnormalities yet, he can understand from experience that the biggest abnormality is the absence of abnormalities.
However, as an unprecedented researcher of soul rules, he can still escape from here. Therefore, he wanted to see where Maca's sudden confidence came from.
"Hmph... Do you know?" Haierbo, who couldn't find anything strange, suddenly calmed down again, but saw him humming and smiling again, "Your determined look reminds me of a person... It's a pity. Bluffing is of no use to me..."
"Oh, okay!" Maka shrugged, "Yes, I am really good at 'bluffing'. It's just that I don't really like to take risks when there are other ways to go... Maybe that's why , the reason why I wasn’t sorted into Gryffindor house?”
Having said this, he paused for a moment, and then said calmly: "It's just that, although I don't like 'adventure,' Harry does like it very much! Well, in fact, I just discovered the wonder of this... "
"It seems that compared to Professor Dumbledore, my vision is still a little smaller."
The further he went on, the more puzzled Heerbo's eyes became. Obviously, Maka's words sounded somewhat unclear to him, but there was a sense of meaning in them everywhere.
And when Maka said her last words, Haierbo finally noticed a moment of dissonance.
There is a spirit resisting him and trying to snatch control of this body!
"Hey, can't you move?"
Maka looked at the other person whose facial muscles were gradually stiffening and asked unhurriedly. While he was joking, his hands were not idle. He just raised his hand slightly and caught a pointed hat flying from the corner of the corridor.
"Oh - why are you calling me here in such a hurry? I was taking a bubble bath just now! Do you understand being a fashion pioneer? It's rare to be fashionable, so why bother... "
"Stop talking nonsense now. I'll let you wash up later."
Maka grabbed the brim of the hat, her hands were wet and greasy, and she found that she could squeeze out a lot of water with just a little force. But he didn't have time to care about this, and he stuffed Harry's hand into the hood of the Sorting Hat.
The next second, Haierbo stopped fighting for control of Laoshizi's body, and saw him suddenly jump out of Harry's body like a monkey whose butt was burned by fire.
"Godric? No, that can't be—"
After Halbo's remnant soul left Harry, it naturally had no reason to stay here anymore and hurriedly rushed out of the window at the end along the corridor.
Haierbo in the soul state was extremely fast, and Maka knew that there was no way to keep him alive, so he simply didn't even wave the staff and just watched the phantom disappear from his sight in the blink of an eye.
"...Maka?"
Beside, Harry's eyes returned to alertness from dullness, and he subconsciously took his hand out of the wet hood of the Sorting Hat. And what followed him was the exquisite sword that shone with bright silver light.
"How do you feel?" Maka patted his shoulder again and asked casually.
This was not a pleasant experience for Harry. But after being stunned for a while, he raised his right hand again and glanced at the sword in his hand.
"It's okay!" He replied almost subconsciously, "I just can't believe that I really did it... The person who took over my body just now must be a very powerful dark wizard, right?"
"Yes," Maka nodded with a smile, "very powerful. If it weren't for your outstanding performance just now, I couldn't guarantee that I could drive him away without hurting anyone..."
"But," he was saying, and shook his head subtly, "can you make some less weird gestures next time? To be honest, I don't understand what you want to express at all! "
"ah?"
Hearing this, Harry couldn't help but raise his palms and make a few gestures of his own, and soon a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.
"Oh, sorry... I thought... uh, forget it, just pretend you didn't see it!"
Before they finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded from the other end of the corridor, and the relaxation in their hearts was instantly wiped away.