Speaking of which, the reason why Luna was discovered by Snape last night was that the problem was Aberforth.

Because of Luna's words at that time, the knot that had bound Aberforth for so long suddenly opened the knot, so that the latter, under strong remorse, immediately drove away all the drinkers in the bar.

Something like this offends, not to mention that Aberforth is still a member of the Order of the Phoenix—even if he has nothing to do with the Order of the Phoenix, the story of "a strange old man with a big waist who left his customers and ran after a certain girl that night" would have gone viral.

So in fact, not to mention Snape, even the Lupin people in London had already learned about this through the channels of Mundungus.

Snape, on the other hand, only concluded that the person who traveled at night was Luna through the rather specific descriptions in the rumors.

“…… What did you do when you left Hogwarts that night last night? ”

At this moment, Snape stood quietly behind the podium, looked at Luna in his seat and questioned.

"Huh?" Luna tilted her head and recalled, "Professor Snape, where did you see me?" Why am I not impressed? ”

The entrance to the secret passage she walked through was entirely within the Ravenclaw Tower, and to enter the tower, she had to pass the Bronze Eagle Knocker - even the school professors.

So, Luna was really a little surprised at this time.

"Can you go through a wall like a ghost...... Oh, you're a ghost, aren't you? ”

By the time Aberforth was furiously dislodged from the guests, Luna had already left the bar, so she couldn't have known how she had exposed her nighttime outing to Snape in the first place.

Otherwise, with her extremely jumpy thinking, maybe she could really guess the source of the leaky rumors in a flash of inspiration!

However, no matter how out of the box Luna's words were, Snape paid no heed.

"Miss Lovegood, you don't care how I know," he said, raising his chin, "Say it! Where have you and Aberforth gone since you left Hogwarts last night? London? ”

"Oh! How do you know everything? ”

After hearing Snape's question, Luna suddenly looked at him with an inexplicable look of admiration.

"I see, you're not just a ghost, you're a jack of all trades! Wait, if 'Miss Jack of Trades' is Hermione...... Then you must be 'Mr. Jack-of-all-trades'! ”

Hermione's nickname was still called out by Snape, and most of it was malicious sarcasm. And now Luna, with her hand, put it on top of his own head, and Snape twitched in anger.

After waving his hand a little impatiently, Snape skipped the topic again and finally said bluntly:

"All in all, you not only left your dorm room last night, but even slipped out of school and went to London. In order to give a proper punishment, starting after school today, you go-"

The matter of punishing the student should have been left to the dean of the student's house, and Luna was a little wizard of Ravenclaw, so Flitwick had to deal with it. But Snape didn't want to care about it now, just go and say it to Flitwick later.

After all, he didn't really look at Luna as unpleasant - he didn't even think it was bad for Luna to break the school rules.

To be honest, Snape's punishment of Luna this time was really just to warn her not to run to London again.

Obviously, Snape is no longer the somewhat absent-minded Potions professor he used to be.

All right! Of course, his partiality towards the Slytherins still seems to have some after all.

But before Snape could say what the punishment was, he heard footsteps at the door. Immediately afterward, the front door of the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom was opened from the outside, and Professor McGonagall appeared in the doorway.

"Severus, so you're here?"

It can be seen that Professor McGonagall was in a hurry, as she was only standing outside the door, so she didn't even see Luna sitting in the middle of the room.

Behind her, Flitwick, Sprout, and Slughorn followed, all of whom were following closely in the hallway outside.

Before McGonagall's last sentence was settled, she continued:

"From the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Scrimgeour sent someone with an urgent message - you know, Maca has put all the Muggles who may have fallen into the dark arts in the dungeons of the Ministry of Magic. And this morning, those Muggles had collectively undergone a mutation without warning...... That level of the dungeon has been lost. ”

Hearing this, Snape probably understood what Scrimgeour meant by sending urgent news.

"So, he's asking for help?"

said that he was asking for help, but those who knew the inside story actually knew that he was actually asking Maca to come over.

However, no one knows where Maca is now, and Scrimgeour obviously knows it. Therefore, in desperation, he could only go directly to the current headmaster of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall.

"Hmph......" Snape chuckled, a bit sarcastically, "I guess at the moment, our minister, I don't know if Kwamaka was prescient or if he was to blame for causing the Ministry of Magic big trouble!" ”

Snape had never had a good impression of Scrimgeur.

The former Auror had always been mediocre in ability, but taking advantage of the chaos of Fudge being killed by Voldemort, Maca and the Order of the Phoenix intervening, he almost half-forced, half-voluntarily took the position.

And now, the stability of the British wizarding world depends mostly on Maca's prestige, and although he has done a lot of things, they are all minutiae.

Of course, at least in Snape's view.

It's just that no matter how much he looks down on the current Minister of Magic, he still has to help. Just as Maca was happy to keep Scrimgeour in that position, at least the guy always believed that being on Maca's side was the best choice.

"Don't talk about that yet," Snape sneered, and McGonagall didn't hear it, but listened to her continue, "Severus, anyway, I'm going to let you and Slughorn go on a trip—let's see what is going on!" What to do about it, remember to keep in touch. ”

There were some things that McGonagall didn't say explicitly, but Snape understood.

As we all know, the Ministry of Magic's dungeon is not directly connected to the upper floor, and even the elevator cannot go directly down to that floor. And the staircase leading to the dungeon can actually be completely cut off.

So, what Professor McGonagall meant was that if the current state of the Ministry of Magic wasn't bad enough to be breached, then it would be better to delay it a little longer! If you can drag it until Maca comes back, that's the best.

After all, who knows what the hell the Muggles have become down there?

"Well, I understand—"

Because of this sudden incident, even Snape forgot about Luna's existence without paying attention. But before he could remember, everyone present suddenly heard a light voice interrupting Snape's answer.

"Professor McGonagall, if only I could walk around the neighborhood where Maca disappeared," Luna staggered from her seat and looked calmly at the door, "maybe I'll find out where Maca is." ”

"What? You...... Are you serious? ”

If she had gone to Professor McGonagall yesterday and asked her to be let go to London, she would have been rebuffed; But now that something is going on in the Ministry of Magic, the possibility of the other party agreeing to her is very high.

Luna was almost instinctively aware of this, so she opened her mouth without thinking.

"Well, really!"

……

Luna relied on her talent and hard work to gain the ability to perceive magical powers.

And this ability to sense magic with one's own spirit surpasses the contemporary detection alchemy props in terms of subtlety alone, and if used well, it can even help Luna greatly deepen her study and use of magic spells.

It's just that her talent for spells and her spiritual talent are obviously two completely different aspects. In addition, the study of magic must not be done in a day, but it can be put aside for the time being.

All she needed now was to use the basic utility of perceptual magic to probe for traces that other wizards couldn't.

To be honest, it is still unknown whether the space where Maca can be found through this more detailed search.

Therefore, the word "maybe" that Luna used before was really not that she was modest.

While Professor McGonagall made the decision to take Luna to London to try to find Maca, Snape and Slughorn soon appeared in the fireplace foyer of the Ministry of Magic as planned.

"Mr. Scrimgeour."

When the two of them got there, they immediately found that the hallway, which should have been a crowd, was empty. Presumably, Scrimgeour secretly said that it was not good, so he simply found some excuse and invited all the wizards in the Ministry of Magic who came to handle affairs.

"Ahh Professor Snape, Professor Slughorn, you're here......"

Scrimgeour watched the two of them walk towards him, and while catching up, he glanced at the place where the two had just appeared.

It's a pity that the one who had complained to him not long ago because he was trying to stuff muggles into the dungeon didn't show up now.

Big brother, don't leave the mess and run!

"Don't look, we haven't found out where Maca is right now—" Snape said nonchalantly, "Of course, he'll reappear in front of us sooner or later, there's no doubt about it." ”

Regardless of what happened to the Ministry of Magic, it would never be wrong to give Scrimgeour a shot first. Later, if it is confirmed that it can be delayed, his words will naturally play its due role.

"Oh, yes, yes!" Scrimgeour smiled reluctantly.

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