"Charlie came back just now."

At first, when Ron arrived at Hermione's tent, he said nothing more than that. And his purpose is naturally just a casual mention that is almost speechless.

However, perhaps it was because he didn't want to think about Percy anymore that Ron would sometimes fill his head with something else. When he talked to Charlie before, he had been thinking about how he would fight the living corpses when he returned to England...... And now, after mentioning it himself, he seemed to be half a beat slower, and rethought the conversation he had just had with Charlie.

"Is there anything I can help me with?"

Sitting down at the table in the tent, he couldn't help but ask when he saw Hermione and Luna drawing rune cards one by one. Of course, in fact, he was still thinking about the Hogwarts alumni that Charlie had said at the moment, and he was somewhat absent-minded.

"No...... I had already asked you to try to learn ancient magic texts, but you couldn't learn them. Hermione said without looking up, "By the way, what did you just say?" Is Charlie back? ”

"Well, yes!" Ron leaned down on the table and said vaguely, "I'm going to find Bill, and I said that there is a group of people who want to pick it up, so I have to go and discuss it with him." ”

"Oh?" When Hermione heard this, she stopped her movements slightly, and said with some curiosity, "Is it a refuge?" Where did he come from? ”

"'Evacuees'? Well...... Sort of! Ron said, then explaining, "The same wizards who had settled at Hogwarts earlier. According to Charlie, they were forced to move to the Yorkshire Dales for a time, and then they were attacked by living corpses, and finally they had to go all the way south to join us—"

"Is that them?"

When Hermione heard this, she finally stopped keeping her head down and was busy on her own, but turned her head to look at Ron and whispered to herself quite seriously:

'They left Hogwarts?' Forced'? Don't...... Something happened to Hogwarts again? ”

"That's probably the case!" Ron sighed and said, "This upheaval in the fog seems to have happened all over the UK, and it seems that Hogwarts has—"

Because when Charlie and Aslan Sr. and other wizards were kicked out of Hogwarts by Maca, Hermione and Ron were still in Winchester. And in addition, Charlie came and went in a hurry just now, and he didn't bother to mention this matter, so they obviously didn't know what was going on, but naturally thought that it should be a matter of the arrival of demons.

But soon, Hermione suddenly shook her head again, frowned and said:

"No, I remember when I was in Weymouth, and Miss Newistanson mentioned that Hogwarts was on a ridge deep in the mountains, and was not shrouded in fog. What happened in the fog before shouldn't have affected the school, right? Well...... Ron, did Charlie say that the living corpses attacked Hogwarts? ”

"Ah, that's ...... Probably not, I remember he only said that the reason for giving up the Yorkshire Dales was the living corpse and leaving Hogwarts...... He didn't seem to say, and I forgot to ask. ”

After hearing this, Hermione nodded again:

"I'll have to ask him about it, I was wondering if Maca would go to Hogwarts...... Oh, he doesn't look like he's there, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. ”

She said this, but didn't notice that Ron suddenly pursed his lips.

"Hermione," after a moment's pause, he finally couldn't help it, "can you...... Not to mention Maca? At least until he reappears in front of us-"

"What's wrong?" Hearing Ron's words, Hermione couldn't help but be stunned, "Why?" Wait a minute...... Ron, are you really starting to think that Maca is going to leave us? Oh, I see, it was Goverfein's words in Winchester before that that made you ......"

"It's not!" Ron furrowed his brow and said, "I don't even remember what Miss G'Oaffin said, it's all my own thoughts!" And...... Hermione, it's not that I don't trust Maca, but I think sometimes you ...... No, it's all of us subconsciously relying too much on Maca! Don't you think? ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but spread his hands, and then said:

"Not long ago, we said several times that we could no longer put the burden on Maca's shoulders, and we had to work hard ourselves. That being said, we actually seem to be trying to do something on our own...... But what about the facts? What did we do? ”

"No, we didn't accomplish anything!" Ron seemed a little angry, but he seemed to be very annoyed, "In the end, we went to find Maca...... Why? We're going to be so useless......"

In the end, he couldn't help but hammer his thigh hard, and said indignantly:

"Especially myself!"

These words are like a summary of what everyone has done during this time, which is very true and cruel. His "summary" made Hermione a little speechless for a while.

After a moment of silence, Ron continued:

"So, we'd better forget about Maca for a while! No matter where he is, whatever he does, we can't count on him again and again – I think he must be tired, more tired than any of us. ”

Ron said this, and seemed to go on, and Hermione rarely didn't retort or even add. However, at this moment, the curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted by a hand.

"I don't know if Maca is tired, but the fact that we were forced to leave Hogwarts had something to do with him." Charlie suddenly walked in from outside, looked left and right at the two of them, and said, "Hermione, you guessed right, Maca did go to Hogwarts!" ”

"What?"

After waiting in Winchester for a long time, she didn't wait for Maca, and in the end, Hermione even gave up. But who knew that now, he got the news of Maca so easily from Charlie's mouth.

"Maca at Hogwarts? This...... So...... Why? Mr. Aslan, and why were they forced to leave Hogwarts? ”

Seeing Hermione ask, Charlie couldn't help frowning and said sullenly:

"Because, old Sir and I were kicked out by Maca himself at that time!"

"It can't be!"

This time, not only Hermione and Ron, but even Luna, who had been carefully drawing rune cards since just now, suddenly raised her head and looked at Charlie at the door in a daze.