“…… Mr. McLean? ”

Hearing someone call for herself, Maca immediately turned her head and gestured to the other party. With a wave of his hand, the white cloth that had been floating until then covered Sokas's entire body again.

"Madam Pomfrey, thank you...... "Are there many wounded people?" he said softly. ”

"No, most of the students were in the classrooms when it happened, and the students who were in the Conservation of Magical Creatures class came back just in time—" Madam Pomfrey, the head nurse at the school hospital, shook her head slightly, "There is some trouble with the injuries of the two students. ”

"Who?" Maka hurriedly asked, "Is it petrified?" If the Mandrake Resurrection Potion is out of stock, I've got ...... here."

"No, no...... Madam Pomfrey said softly, "I haven't used the reserves since I replenished them before, and there are still enough potions available." ”

If there is any staff member whom Maca admires the most in Hogwarts, it is undoubtedly the Madam Poppy Pomfrey in front of her.

Madam Pomfrey had been a resident healer at Hogwarts for a long time, and she had been working as a school doctor there when Snape and the others were students.

Her vast experience in healing, as well as her mastery of healing spells, potions, and herbal mixtures, were enough to land her a well-paying job at St. Mungo.

But she remained at Hogwarts for decades, treating every patient who came to her with both stern and gentle treatment. Even if most of them are just minor injuries, she never complains about boredom.

Incidentally, Madam Pomfrey's potions generally taste strange, and some of them are sweet and tasty, but they become "bitter medicines" that are hard to swallow when they come to her.

I remember Madam Pomfrey once said:

"If you don't want to drink these weird-tasting potions, please don't get hurt, and don't give yourself a chance to come to the infirmary. Otherwise, please bear the consequences! ”

Of course, I've heard that she's a little tricky about spell damage and other diseases, and I don't know if it's true.

"It would be best if there were," Maka nodded, "then, I'll go and see the injured student." ”

"Well......" Madam Pomfrey's face turned a little serious as she heard that he was going to enter the hospital room, "Of course, I have heard of Mr. McLean's achievements in Potions. If it's you, that's fine, but be careful not to stay too long...... Patients need to recuperate! ”

"Yes, I understand. I have been cared for by you, and as a former patient, I am equally grateful for your first-principle approach to patient protection. ”

Maca leaned over politely, and then followed Madam Pomfrey to the hospital room.

When Maca walked in, the fireplace was flickering, the warmth of the flame dispelling the cold outside, baking the room as if it were still spring.

The beds on both sides are separated by white curtains, but there are very few patients at the moment, so most of the curtains are opened, and only two beds are still covered, so that even if the patients wake up, they will not feel disturbed by the empty wards.

Maca has been to this school hospital ward several times, and the longest time she has stayed here is probably the period when Luna is hospitalized and recovering.

And it was here that he also encountered an unusually significant turning point in his life.

After that, first, he basically didn't need to come here anymore, and second, in his heart, he actually had some indescribable resistance to this place.

In this way, it seems that it has been a while since the last time I came to the school hospital. Now that he was back here, he immediately glanced subconsciously at the window.

It was there that he had seen things that he shouldn't have seen, so much so that after that, even the path he had been determined to take was dramatically deflected.

Evading the memories in her mind, Maca took a step to the foot of a hospital bed where someone was lying, and her eyes fell to the patient on the bed.

It was Ron, who was still gray, but as far as petrification was concerned, it was clearly in the process of recovery. When he gets back to his old self, he should be able to jump around again after a little rest.

Maca stood aside and checked on him, then turned and walked to another hospital bed.

"Huh?"

The other student was lying across from Ron, and when she saw it, Maca couldn't help but snort. Because in his opinion, this patient's condition was probably much more serious than Ron's.

"I remember she was—" Maka recalled slightly, and said to herself, "...... Well, is it called 'Helen Schoen'? ”

"I was bitten by the eight-eyed giant spider, and when I found her, her external injuries had begun to heal, and she should have done some emergency treatment on her own." Madam Pomfrey, who was following along, said softly, "But it's just a flesh wound, and at the end of the day, it's all about toxins." ”

She paused, as if to pity the cute-looking girl.

“…… To be honest, it was some rather dangerous toxin, and after some discussion with Professor Snape, I temporarily suppressed the spread of the poison with a dungstone mixture. Professor Snape should now be trying to figure out how to prepare an antidote that is targeted at this toxin. ”

“…… Is it? Maca nodded subconsciously, but her mind was still in consideration of Helen.

His final blow in the spider's lair did hit the guy posing as Socas. Moreover, he was using the gift that Snape had given him back then, the Shadowless Charm.

It stands to reason that this spell created by Snape was extremely effective, not only was it fast, highly concealed, and could cut through the flesh and bones of enemies mercilessly like a sharp sword.

The most important thing is that the injuries caused by this spell cannot be easily healed by any means other than the corresponding counter-spell.

Of course, this is not absolute.

If a person falls under this spell, if he can cut off the flesh from the wound with all his heart, he will be able to get rid of the alien magic attached to it. If the injury is too critical, it can still be recovered without knowing the reverse curse.

That's why Maca is suspicious. Injuries are injuries, and the only person who was sent to this ward was Miss Helen Schoen, except for Ron.

However, he was only suspicious, after all, the fake Socas might have fled Hogwarts long ago.

If Helen was the one who escaped, and she could use the poison of the Eight-Eyed Spider to disguise herself with the poison of the Eight-Eyed Spider while ripping off the flesh from her wounds and recovering from it......

"If that's the case......"

Being ruthless to the enemy is nothing, and if you can be so ruthless even to yourself, then you are the real danger. And this danger has nothing to do with its own strength.

Hazards that occur inadvertently are the most difficult to prevent.

“…… Should you start first? Maca thought secretly.

"Mr. McLean?" Seeing that Maca had been staring at the little girl in a daze, Madam Pomfrey couldn't help but remind.

"Huh?" Maca turned her head and immediately saw Madam Pomfrey looking at him with a disgruntled expression, and he immediately said, "Ah...... I'm just wondering if I'll go to Professor Snape's in a moment. ”

"If you will." Madam Pomfrey nodded, "It's a good thing for the patient to have an extra pharmacist to refer to...... But I think we have to leave. ”

"Oh, of course." Maca immediately chimed in, "You have to let the patient rest, yes, that's right!" ”

As for the toxins of the alienated eight-eyed giant spider, Maca naturally knows better than anyone else. He had already tested and documented Aragog's bloodline when he was transforming it.

This powerful toxin, which combines the characteristics of the basilisk and the eight-eyed spider, may not be much stronger than either of them, but it is quite reliable in terms of novelty and complexity.

He believed that even Snape, who was a master of potions, would not be able to concoct the corresponding antidote in a short period of time.

Judging by the experience of Snape and Madam Pomfrey, it is only a foregone conclusion that the temporary suppression of the spread of the toxin is a foregone conclusion. The benefit of a properly handled approach is to delay the onset of the toxin by a few days.

So, instead of going to Snape's potions chamber as he had said, Maca went back to his office first.

There are still many things to deal with for him, not only the Hogwarts incident, but also the American wizarding community that still has some tails to be cleared. For example, Sirius Black, who is still recovering from bed, or the children he placed in the shack in Jackson Square.

On top of that, he felt it was time for Hogwarts to strengthen its garrison.

“…… At that time, the happiest person will probably be Hermione, right? Maca, who had just walked to the door of the office, shook her head with a smile, then unlocked the door and walked in, "Phew-let's sleep for a while, I haven't closed my eyes well in the past two days, and I can't always rely on potions." ”

After closing the office door again, he lit the fireplace and boiled himself hot cocoa.

While waiting for it to cook, he did not spare any moment, but sat in front of the fireplace while the fire was baked, and began to write and draw in his notebook again.

Ever since entering this colorful and bumpy magical world, Maca has found that she doesn't seem to have been much more relaxed. But for him, this busyness is unusually fulfilling.

Because he can clearly feel that he is truly "living" through this.