The Witch's Bodyguard [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Snape's face was full of anger, and his face was extremely ugly, that's for sure, the noise made by Sirius has already made the dementors ready to move, if it wasn't for Dumbledore's strong opposition, they would definitely run into the school to search People, this is undoubtedly a bad incident that damages the reputation of the school.But in fact, looking at it this way, there was no superfluous expression on Snape's sallow face, and all his emotions were projected out of his eyes.

Now that everyone knows that the vicious fugitive is hiding somewhere in the school and may appear at any time, Hogwarts has become no longer a guarantee of safety.As Snape who knew the truth, he should have reported Sirius' traces to the Ministry of Magic immediately, but the reason why he didn't do so right away was entirely on Ma Linglong.

"Why does he deserve your trust." Snape gritted his teeth, which made him look a little out of breath, "He sneaked into the Gryffindor common room, targeting Harry, he wanted to kill him, all Everyone knows Black's motives."

"If Black wants to kill, he will kill you first." Ma Linglong said gently, but she couldn't help mocking, "After all, you betrayed Voldemort, and Black worked for Voldemort, and you just don't like it. The other party, what do you think, Severus."

Snape twitched the corners of his mouth and clenched his hands into fists, not intending to hit anyone, let alone use violence: "You are as stupid as Potter, and stupidity blinds your eyes to reality." He was trying to restrain his anger, Looking directly into Ma Linglong's unruly eyes, "Every member of the Black family is a Death Eater. I know them very well. Sirius Black is no exception. He didn't kill me because he didn't know my current situation. .”

"He doesn't kill you because he never kills." Ma Linglong said angrily, "You don't understand anything at all, Black loves Evans (Lily), how could he lay hands on her child, think about it, Snape, think of yourself."

"Black admires Lily?" Snape looked puzzled for a moment.

Even the Slytherin students knew that Sirius liked Ma Linglong, Snape didn't understand why Ma Linglong would say such a thing suddenly, maybe the girl was out of breath, Snape thought.

They were in Dumbledore's office, where there was no way anyone could overhear the conversation, and Dumbledore was sitting in his headmaster's chair.He was by far the most qualified to judge this, but he had been watching their argument in silence, and not even Dumbledore could tell which of the two was more annoyed.

Ma Linglong continued: "You can report on him, Snape, you know where he is."

"Yes, I swear I will," Snape murmured, "before he makes any more noise."

"First of all." Dumbledore tapped the table with his right index finger, "The black tea is already cold, so I replaced it with a new one for you just now." He spoke very slowly, but the words he said carried weight, "Second , I hope you calm down with each other, arguing will not solve the current problem."

Neither Ma Linglong nor Snape was in the mood to drink black tea, even though it was brewed by Dumbledore himself, it was delicious and served with a plate of small snacks.

"Sorry." Ma Linglong said to Dumbledore, "I shouldn't have left the school at this time, but I have no choice."

"I understand," said Dumbledore. "I think Anthony must be in great trouble, so you have to leave your friends."

Ma Linglong nodded: "He is about to die."

Snape's shoulders trembled slightly.

"And now?" Dumbledore asked worriedly.

"Still hovering on the brink of death."

Under the condition that Stark assured that he could deal with the troubles in front of him by himself and would never mess around again, Ma Linglong returned to Hogwarts that night.She had to come back because of the panic at school caused by Sirius' impulsiveness, and she wasn't worried about the safety of her students or the other teachers.It was Sirius himself who was really in crisis, he just appeared in front of the oil paintings without any cover, as long as he was seen by one of them, he was seen by all the oil paintings.

Those oil paintings are comparable to surveillance cameras, and there is no possibility of counterfeiting.

Ma Linglong first came to the Shrieking Shack, smelling of gunpowder full of anger, and she had already thought of a reproach that would make Sirius feel ashamed.But he wasn't there, and Ma Linglong suddenly felt horrified. She wasn't sure if the dementors had noticed something strange when Sirius turned into a human.Then, Ma Linglong thought of Lu Ping again, and she soon arrived at Lu Ping's office.

Lu Ping's dark circles were heavy, and his face was more haggard than before. He would be torn to pieces every month due to the pain caused by the deformation, but Ma Linglong didn't pay attention to his physical condition today.Lupine told her that Sirius was worried about being discovered by the dementors, and he hid in his office for a while. He had just left, and Ma Linglong and he might have missed it on the way.

Ma Linglong breathed a sigh of relief, at least Sirius was still astute.

Just when she was about to return to the Shrieking Shack, Snape appeared, and they went to the Headmaster's office together.Snape advocated handing over Sirius to the Ministry of Magic, but Ma Linglong strongly opposed his proposal, and there was a fierce quarrel.In fact, the sarcasm between the two of them had sparked an argument that was not so intense that Dumbledore allowed them to defend their positions.

"Severus."

Dumbledore was about to say something, but Snape immediately replied: "It's useless, I've tried it, Muggle problems can't be solved by potions at all."

"Have you tried?" Ma Linglong was stunned.

"I tried," Snape repeated, "don't be grateful, I just don't want to be bothered by you, not because of that Muggle." He said, "don't expect magic to work on him, you should pray that he Good luck can be delivered."

"Good luck..." Dumbledore muttered thoughtfully.

"I think, Professor," Snape said, "we should go back to Black, given that he's been hidden, and he's really aggressive."

"How aggressive can a wizard without a wand be?" Ma Linglong said immediately, "Professor Dumbledore, leave Black's problem to me. We don't know why he is so impulsive."

"He's always been like this," Snape said. "A prisoner from Azkaban, do you expect him to be mentally normal?"

"He is very normal." Ma Linglong said to Snape, "I made it very clear to Black, he promised that he would never act without authorization, and he couldn't rush into the school for no reason the next day. Something unusual happened."

"Can you take care of it?" Snape said indifferently, "Muggle or Black, who is more important?"

"Then what about you, Snape." Not to be outdone, Ma Linglong said, "Which one is more important, revenge or finding out the truth?"

Snape didn't tell the Ministry about Sirius in the end, not because of Ma Linglong or to help Sirius.Perhaps as Ma Linglong said, he wanted to know the truth, he wanted to find out who the informer was. The revenge Snape really wanted had nothing to do with the fact that he was almost bitten by a werewolf back then.

Ma Linglong returned to the Screaming Shack again. She flew away in the form of a bat. Showing people with the appearance of an animal is the best way to hide.

Given the current situation, presumably every adult in the school is being watched, as are the students, and the Ministry of Magic fears that Sirius might use Polyjuice Potion to turn into someone in the school.Not only that, there is also an upsurge among students and teachers to use codes to confirm whether the other party is a real friend. George and Fred are even veterans of inventing codes.

The oil paintings in the corridor took turns to be on duty with staring eyes, and any suspicious clues could not escape their sight.

"I hope your reasons can convince me." Ma Linglong said to Sirius, "If not, I think I will set up a barrier for the whole house, so that no one else can get in, and you can't get out."

Sirius didn't look like he did anything wrong, he probably didn't feel that he was wrong, his deep-set eyes were more determined than ever: "So, I went from one prison to another, Are you trying to tell me this?"

"At least staying in the 'prison' will keep you alive." Ma Linglong said weakly.

"Thank you." Sirius said, but not really thanking, "I don't care if I live or not."

"Only by living can we kill the murderer." Ma Linglong said.

"If the murderer ran away, if the murderer knew that I was coming to catch him and was already trying to get rid of me, then what's the point of me hiding?" Sirius' face contorted convulsively, "I almost caught him yesterday Yes, just a little bit!"

Ron's mouse is not an ordinary mouse, and Hermione's cat is not an ordinary cat. Crookshanks is a natural cat with raccoon blood that is more spiritual than other wild cats.The first time it saw Scabbers, it saw that the mouse was cunning and cunning. This is not the kind of thinking that a pet mouse should have. Crookshanks also saw through the image of Sirius as a black dog.Knowing that the purpose of the black dog is the mouse, the yellow cat, which is not cute at all, has been secretly assisting him and providing him with information about the mouse.

Just yesterday, shortly after Ma Linglong left, Crookshanks came to the Whomping Willow, walked through a long corridor to find Sirius.It tells him that Scabbers bit him pretending to be bitten by a cat, then hid, and he left blood on Ron's bedsheets, and Ron was furious and threatened to kill himself.

Sirius immediately knew Peter's purpose. It was not the first time he had used self-harm to evade capture. He had already succeeded once, so he wanted to succeed a second time.Sirius didn't intend to inform Ma Linglong, he knew she couldn't come back in time, let alone ask Lupin, he still looks like a werewolf.

So only myself.

He turned into a black dog and came to the school with ease. It concealed ghosts, portraits, teachers and students.Sirius followed Crookshanks to discover the place where Peter Pettigrew was hiding, a drain pipe buried in the wall leading to the boys' bathroom in the lower grades, and even Sirius could smell the blood emanating from it.But he couldn't get in without breaking the bricks with his wand, and Sirius paced anxiously up and down the wall.

Crookshanks was clever enough to take Sirius to the boys' bathroom and enter through the pipe on the other side, although he was not thin enough to move, but in the end, he caught the mouse.

But at this time, Ron appeared, and he might have found it along the bloodstains and footprints.

Sirius had to hide, and then he heard Ron scream, and the little red-haired boy used his wand to cast several explosive attack spells at Crookshanks.He fought so hard to save his pet rat from the cat's mouth that he won, and Crookshanks, smoking from his tail, came to Sirius, dismayed.

Sirius had no time to comfort Crookshanks, he desperately followed the familiar smell to find the Gryffindor common room, but he couldn't get in because he didn't know the password.In a rage, Sirius scratched the canvas with his claws, and left angrily before more people noticed.

"I missed my best chance," said Sirius angrily. "I could have captured him and killed him to avenge James and Lily."

Ma Linglong couldn't say any more words of blame. Sirius didn't think about himself from the beginning to the end. He didn't hesitate to expose his real body to "surveillance", even though he knew that the consequences of doing so would lead to his whereabouts being discovered.

Because the purpose of Sirius' escape from prison was not to gain freedom.

"You can't kill him." Ma Linglong said, "If you want to get rid of the crime."

"I do not care."

"I care."

Sirius was stunned, for a moment, he suddenly wanted to hug Ma Linglong.He's always wanted to do this, 12 years ago, maybe earlier, but he lacked the courage to do it.Sirius had never shown any affection for her in front of Ma Linglong, even though the entire Gryffindor and Slytherin knew his affection for her.

Fortunately, Sirius restrained this impulse, because the next words were Ma Linglong's original intention, not what he thought.

"I don't have many friends, you know, most of them are dead, and I don't want you to become one of them." Ma Linglong showed a trace of sadness, and that expression broke Sirius' heart, "I'm already very tired , Blake, you don't know how tired I am, I can't take care of Stark and take care of your mood at the same time, but you are almost equally important to me."

Ma Linglong closed her eyes, opened her lips slightly and let out a long breath. She adjusted her sitting posture so that her back was completely close to the upright of the armchair.She raised her neck at an uncomfortable angle, but it was able to rest on the edge of the backrest. Ma Linglong stared at the wooden ceiling, but her vision became more and more blurred.

Her physical condition would not be much better than Stark's. Ma Linglong just took the pills to replenish her strength so that she would not appear too weak in front of Stark.The effect of the soul-changing spell was not only effective at the moment of death, Ma Linglong felt it from the moment Stark's blood became unhealthy.With the intensification of the toxin, Stark became terminally ill, and Ma Linglong almost endured half of his pain, otherwise, how could Stark have the strength to put on the iron suit again and have a carnival at the birthday party.

Although the potion suppressed the palladium poison, the problem still existed. Even if Ma Linglong did nothing, she would feel tired more easily than before.

"What can I do for you?" Sirius looked at Ma Linglong a little at a loss. He didn't know whether he should step forward to comfort him. In his impression, Ma Linglong always seemed to be able to handle everything by himself. She Omnipotent and invincible, "I didn't know that there was a quarrel between you and Anthony. You are a wizard and he is a Muggle. He is getting impatient with you?"

"He's fine." Ma Linglong said, "He's impatient with everyone, except for me, there is no conflict between us."

Sirius plucked up the courage to go to Ma Linglong's side: "We have been separated for 12 years, and I knew you already had a boyfriend as soon as I came back." He was actually not used to such a cautious way of getting along. They always had something to say before. What, "I think it's not just me, but Remus (Lupine) must have been shocked too, but he thinks highly of Anthony anyway. That's fine, I mean, wizards and Muggles aren't always easy , but if he treats you badly, even for a second, I will settle with him. So, if you don't mind, if you can tell me what happened to you, I will advise you .”

"I want to sleep for a while." Ma Linglong said, "Come into my dream, and I will tell you about him."

It was already the afternoon of the second day when Ma Linglong returned to the beach villa again. Before that, she met with Ron.Ma Linglong took the little boy of the Weasley family to choose a new wand, which really suited him and was beautiful.She learned about Scabbers from Ron. Ron said that he was 12 years old, which was incredible, so he cherished this pet very much, even though it was old.

In fact, Ma Linglong thought that Banban was more than 12 years old. Obviously, the little boy ignored that he himself was not a baby mouse when he appeared at the Weasleys' house.

Ron complained all the way about Hermione's cat trying to eat Scabbers, and he was annoyed that Hermione hadn't thought about it at all.Ma Linglong didn't listen to his bitterness attentively. She only needed to know that the mouse named Scabbers became extremely sensitive after being caught by Crookshanks. It completely hid itself and only occasionally appeared in front of Ron. , is to tell him that he is still alive and must continue to provide food.

Sirius sympathized with Stark after knowing what happened to Stark. In order not to make Ma Linglong worry about himself, he swore that he would not leave the Screaming Shack for half a step unless he had to. He left all the troubles to Lupine to deal with. She rest assured to stay by Stark's side.

Ma Linglong couldn't confirm whether Sirius could really fulfill his promise at the critical moment. He was so impulsive and irritable, but she had to be with Stark. Ma Linglong even brought back the school work, ready to Put more energy on him, of course, with Dumbledore's consent.

Ma Linglong divided Stark's workshop into two, and then cast an extension spell on her half, making the whole space bigger and more spacious, and completely isolated from the outside world.The containers for boiling medicine and various magical plants were placed here, and it took only a few minutes for Ma Linglong to turn the high-tech-covered inner room into a laboratory dedicated to wizards.

Now Ma Linglong can finally accompany Stark without putting all his energy on him.

"Can I come in?" Stark knocked on the glass, put his lips on it and let out a breath, drawing a heart with his fingers.

The two are separated by a transparent glass door, each can see what the other is doing, but they can not interfere with each other.However, unless there is Ma Linglong's permission, there is nothing unusual about her half of the room with the Muggle's naked eyes.

Ma Linglong pointed at the peach heart with her wand, and opened the glass door for Stark: "Have you finished your work?"

"It's about the same, at least I have a clue, I'm going to the company later." [Steel 2 Plot]

Stark stepped into Ma Linglong's laboratory as if he had come to another space. The smell in the room changed from engine oil and metal to soil and plants in an instant.

"I always thought Howard didn't like me." Stark walked past a shelf with flowerpots, and fiddled with one of the plants (he seemed to forget that this was no longer his territory), the leaves were like some kind of thickened The caterpillar stood upright and wriggled, feeling smooth to the touch. When he touched the thing with his fingers, a goldfish-like eyeball opened on the top of the leaf, "What is this, it's disgusting." Stark said The body is thrown back.

"Eyegrass." Ma Linglong said, "The main material used to make eye drops." It's not ordinary eye drops. A wizard can see moving objects hundreds of feet away with his naked eyes with just one drop. It is immature, I will keep it here for a few days, don't touch it, it will die."

"Is it poisonous?"

"Yeah, it's going to die. Eyegrass is very fragile."

So Stark pinched it again with confidence.

Ma Linglong put down the potion book in his hand, walked up to him, and hugged Eyebrow to a safe place on the other side: "Can you temporarily put away your curiosity."

Stark's good mood is related to a video of Howard. The father who he always thought was indifferent to him actually expressed his approval of his son at the end of the video. Although Stark was only seven years old at that time, watching the video The person is 33 years old.He seemed to understand a lot overnight. Howard might really just be too enthusiastic about his work and didn't know how to express his concern. Just like Stark himself, before meeting Ma Linglong, he didn't care about other people's feelings just like his father.

"Ferry said that only I can solve the Howard puzzle and find that replacement element. I happened to see something on the video. They happened to be in the CEO's office in Stark Tower. I'm going to bring it back, hopefully. That thing can start to work." Stark hugged Ma Linglong and kissed her face, not paying attention to the weird atmosphere in the room at all, "You look..." He said to Ma Linglong, "It seems a bit uncomfortable Right?"

"What's wrong?"

"Your eyes are bloodshot and dark circles are heavy." Stark stared at her face for a while, "Don't tell me this is normal, you should go to bed baby."

It was indeed difficult for Ma Linglong to replenish her energy through sleep, but taking a pill could make her feel less tired.

She turned her back and walked to the boiler, picked up the potion book again, and looked very busy, Ma Linglong rubbed her eyes subconsciously: "Take care of yourself." It is true that she is not very good, unless Stark healed, otherwise the discomfort would have continued and worsened.

Stark guessed that the girl's dark circles might have something to do with her worrying about her body, which made Stark feel warm and blamed himself at the same time. There was a cup of coffee on the tea table behind the girl, which was pure black. It should be Ma Linglong's refreshing drink. It looks very bitter, not even a single sugar, and white smoke is coming out.

He walked over and picked up the cup of black coffee: "I don't want to interfere with you, but you really can't lose sleep over me." Stark took a sip after speaking, the taste was very strange, but he still put the coffee He drank half of it down his throat, and he also needed to refresh himself, "Drinking coffee is not the best choice, believe me, before I leave, go to sleep, maybe we still have the energy to do something comfortable at night... ..."

Stark's voice stopped abruptly, he felt a fire burning in his throat, he clutched his neck sadly and wanted to call Ma Linglong.

"I didn't drink coffee." Ma Linglong said, she didn't turn around, Ma Linglong didn't want Stark to discover other abnormalities in her body.

In fact, vine-like bulges of blood vessels also appeared on her chest, the color is very pale, but in a few days, their color will become quite obvious, "Also, I have to go back to Hogg tonight Woz, something happened at school that I need to deal with, you know, the Sirius problem."

Stark didn't answer.

"I'll be back tomorrow afternoon, because there are three classes in the morning." Ma Linglong continued. .

Stark still couldn't make any sound back to his girl.

"Stark?" Ma Linglong had to turn her head, but there was no sign of Stark behind her.

A fat cat jumped onto the coffee table, its caramel-colored eyes staring at Ma Linglong with a strange brilliance.

Ma Linglong was shocked, and walked up to the flower cat in a few steps, and let out a low growl in astonishment: "Stark!" She picked up the cup that had been half-drunk of the black liquid, looked at him dumbfounded, and said, "You drink I got my transforming water..."

"Meow?"

The author has something to say: Well, Nini, please guess what color Nini is~

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