On the morning of Halloween, Harry and the others woke up and went downstairs to breakfast together. He was in a terrible mood, but on the surface he had to pretend as much as he could.

"We'll bring you a lot of candy from Duke Honey." Hermione felt very sorry for him.

After all, for the vast majority of young wizards, Hogsmeade Village is a magical and charming place.

"yes, bring a lot." Ron echoed.

Due to Harry's low mood, he and Hermione finally forgot about their quarrel about Crook Hill.

"Don't worry about me." Harry wanted to look casual, though he had to hold his breath, "Have a good time meeting at dinner!" ”

He accompanied them to the antechamber, where Filch, the caretaker, stood by the door, checking each one with a long list. He looked at everyone's faces suspiciously, beware of anyone who shouldn't have slipped out.

"Left behind, Potter?"

Malfoy looked left and right and saw that Maca was not here, so he yelled at Harry, who was standing in the line with Crabbe and Goyle.

"Oh! How pathetic! Poor Potter—"

Crabbe and Goyle laughed too, and all three of them were a virtue.

Harry ignored Malfoy, and walked up the marble staircase alone, through the untouched hallway, back to the Gryffindor Tower.

"Password?"

At the door of the lounge, the fat lady in the portrait yawns and asks - she has just woken up from a nap.

"The stars are shining." Harry said listlessly.

At this time, Maca was being dragged by Luna's sleeve towards the Ravenclaw tower.

“…… That's what Miss Gray told me," she whispered as she pulled Maca forward, "she said it was the best way to reach Hogsmeade. ”

"That's pretty good." Maca nodded, letting Luna tug at her sleeve.

The bronze knocker in the Ravenclaw common room still didn't react to him, just went about his business as usual.

After Luna answered the knocker's question, the two of them walked around the bookshelves, tables and chairs in the common room to the marble statue of Ravenclaw.

There is a small marble platform that looks like a protruding part of the statue's base. On the smooth surface of the marble table, there are more than a dozen rows of slightly concave dots, which are really impossible to see if you don't look carefully.

Luna drew her wand and tapped cautiously on a few dots.

Suddenly, several straight lines appeared between the dots, which were connected to each other to form a peculiar pattern.

"It's supposed to be some kind of puzzle as well...... Sure enough, it's Ravenclaw style. Maca thought to herself.

As the pattern formed, Maca immediately felt a slight vibration beneath her feet—the marble table automatically moved away, revealing an old trapdoor underneath.

As Luna said, this passage is not as narrow and cramped as the others, it is very wide. Not only do people walk in it without having to hunch over, but even Maca and Luna can walk side by side.

After they had walked a short distance, Maca heard another slight vibration behind her—the marble platform moved back on its own.

The exit to the secret passage is in an abandoned underground warehouse in Hogsmeade Village.

Probably because almost no one knows about this secret passage, the underground warehouse outside the exit looks very dirty. The crooked shelves around are all covered with a thick layer of dust, and people can't help but cover their mouths and nostrils so as not to choke on the dust raised.

Avoiding the dirty shelves, the two stepped on the creaking wooden staircase to a house above the underground warehouse.

Here, as below, it's not only black and rumbling, but it's also dirty. It can be seen that no one has lived here for a long time.

The house was at the very end of the avenue in Hogsmeade, next to the back door of the Deves and Bans magic equipment shop, and a few steps further back was the Hog's Head Bar.

The village of Hogsmeade today looks wonderful.

Although it was still covered in snow and the cold was just as cold as walking down the streets, the huge pumpkin lanterns that could be seen everywhere in the snow dispelled the gloom that had been brought by the Dementors for a while.

Occasionally, you can see enchanted snowmen, waving dead branches stuck in the middle of the snowball and greeting passing wizards.

"Oh, that's my nose, please give it back to me-"

As Maca and Luna walk past a snowman, a carrot rolls at Maca's feet.

"Huh?"

Maca bent down and picked up the carrot - it had just fallen in the snow and didn't look dirty at all.

"Thanks," Maca took a bite, crunch!

He munched on it as he muttered to the angry snowman, "Oh, it's fresh...... Happy Halloween, Mr. Snowman. ”

"Oh my God—my nose—" said the snowman, waving his slender arm vigorously, "yes, Happy Halloween, Mr. Bandit!" ”

"Give you a better one." With a carrot in her mouth, Maca reached out and grabbed a cloud of snow from the nearby wooden fence, pointing her wand at it.

Suddenly, the lump of snow quickly deformed, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a crystal clear pumpkin-colored carrot.

After the transformation was completed, Maca inserted her hand into the snowman's nose, but the next moment she immediately pulled it out.

"Sorry, I reversed it."

He tossed the translucent "carrot" and redirected it so that the tip was facing his side, then reinserted it.

"Let it flash again," Maca whimsically tapped the snowman's new nose with her wand, "and at night, you'll be the most striking snowman." ”

With Makana at the last moment, the snowman was surprised to find that its nose began to shimmer with a pumpkin-colored glow, as if it had a light bulb in it.

It was as dazzling as the neon sign invented by Muggles.

"It's beautiful." Luna looked at the snowman's nose and patted her hands gently.

The snowman tilted his head, and then said happily; "Oh! Thank you! That's a lot better than a carrot! Thank you ......."

With the snowman frantically waving his hand, Maca and Luna continued on to the Duke Bee candy store, where the candy was not bad, at least the more normal-looking ones.

"Jingle Bells"

As the doorbell rang, the hot atmosphere in the store immediately rushed towards the two of them.

Duke Honey has always been one of the most popular Hogsmeade shops for young wizards, and every Halloween is always packed with young wizards.

The arrival of Maca and Luna barely alarmed anyone - it was so lively.

Most young wizards have just bought the candy they want, and they can't help but eat it in the store. From time to time, you will see some little wizards munching on ice cream balls, and float without paying attention; There were also some little wizards who had eaten some kind of pepper-flavored candy, and at this moment they were constantly belching out thick black smoke.

There was even a little girl with a freckled face, who was breathing fire at her friend, and when the flames were about to be extinguished, her friend's face turned black.

"Hahaha......"

They were smiling happily at each other, as if it wasn't a big deal.

Here, everyone's mood is clearly written on their faces. Those seemingly childish little jokes made Maca inexplicably touched.

"Maka, what's wrong?" Luna touched Maca's hand and leaned in to ask.

"Huh? Oh, it's okay......" Maca stepped out of that touch, shaking his head slightly.

Perhaps, that subtle touch was not an illusion, but an opportunity – it really told Maca that her emotions were still there.

On this basis, using Dumbledore's story as a reference, trying to solve this test, it seems that there is only passive waiting left.

“…… Maca? ”

Suddenly, a voice popped up from the pile, it was Hermione, who was with Ron with a large pile of assorted candy in her hands.

"Hermione?" Maca nodded at her, looked at the candy in her arms and said, "Harry?" ”

"Oh yes." Hermione said, subconsciously glancing at Luna beside Maca, "Harry can't come over today, Ron and I will bring him some more...... She was? ”

"Luna Lovegood, Ravenclaw College." Ron answered suddenly.

Maca looked at Ron and nodded again.

"Yes, this is Luna, my friend." "We met before the start of first grade," he said. ”

"Oh, that's good...... Hello, I'm Hermione, Hermione Granger. ”

“…… Hello. ”

Luna looked at Hermione in a trance.

For some reason, the scene was a little awkward.

"Well, can you tell me about the sweets here? Ron, I remember you were good at this. Maca patted Ron's arm.

Ron seemed to be intrigued by this, and he said, "Then you can't miss this...... Follow me! ”

Led by Ron, the four of them rushed into the crowd.

It wasn't long before Maca and Luna had a lot of candy in their arms, and after saying goodbye to Hermione and Ron, they left.

Behind them, Hermione and Ron stood in the doorway of Duke Honey, watching the backs of Maca and Luna as they departed.

"Listening to Fred and George, Lovegood was often called 'Crazy Girl' by others, and she and Maca often walked together, so they never called her that to each other." Ron whispered, "But it's said that she's not bad in Ravenclaw." ”

"Mad girl?" Hermione looked puzzled.

"You see, she always wears strange clothes and often preaches her strange ideas to others...... And, in some ways she seems to be a little detached from reality, and she has a strange idea of how to behave. ”

"It's not good to talk about other people!" Hermione accused.

"Oh yes...... But everyone else is secretly talking. Ron argued in a low voice.