Chapter 838

"Hagrid!"

"Oh, Maka? I just went to see you... Come and have a look. I found a lunatic animal farm willing to cooperate with us... Ah, and Hermione is here?"

Hagrid said, throwing a feed ball further away. Those little meatballs were controlled by the talent of those little guys as soon as they were in the air, and none of them fell to the ground.

"Farm?" Marca nodded. "That sounds good."

He casually echoed a sentence and went to the moon crazy herd.

Let's say these were all grown up under the care of wizards! When someone approaches, they will not run away, but will gather towards you.

"Hermione, come here together! These little guys are not afraid of people."

After Maka shouted, Hermione walked over carefully.

But just then, Maka suddenly looked up at the bright moon in the air, with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"It seems that we have good luck today."

"What's the matter?"

Hermione also looked at the moon subconsciously, but she didn't see any strange image except that it was really bright.

Maka smelled the words and didn't explain. She directly pointed to the moon crazy beasts around her.

Originally, I don't know when, a thin layer of light and fog began to diffuse on the silver gray skin of these lunatic beasts. That kind of light like water vapor changed from light to thick, and soon shrouded the moon crazy beasts slightly.

At a glance, they seem to be standing in a luminous cloud, which adds a lot of illusory and real feelings to this small backyard.

"Oh!"

Hermione stood on the edge of the lunatic herd and was surprised to see the scene gradually changing and forming. She immediately felt an unprecedented sense of dream.

"This is..."

"They have just had enough to eat and drink, and the moonlight is bright enough tonight... So they are ready to dance."

After Maka said this, she saw that the little guys tilted their necks, raised their big heads and looked at the silver moon in the sky from a distance.

After a while, more than ten lunatic beasts formed a circle with a very tacit understanding, and then raised their front feet together into a standing position with the back soles of their feet.

Seriously, it's hard for them.

Because the bodies of these little guys look unbalanced as a whole, and their thin legs are not in proportion to their round bodies. If they were not magical creatures, there would certainly be no animals like them in nature.

They can rely on mental magic to prey on flying insects, but they are enough to support their bodies upright with natural magic, and even continue to dance a complex and unique dance.

The light and fog around them flows gently under the moonlight

Suddenly, with the sound of trampling, the upright lunatic beasts had trotted in a circle.

In the light fog, they move forward and backward sometimes. Even if they can't see their flat hind feet because of the silver fog, they can understand by listening to the sound - the dance steps of these little guys are very complex.

"Maka was right just now. It's not easy to see the dance of moonmaniacs - they are very picky about the moonlight." Hagrid nodded his head. "We brought the first batch back at night today. We didn't expect to see such rare things that night. We were really lucky!"

In about tens of seconds, their dance steps gradually changed.

At the beginning, the lunatic beasts just formed a circle, and then circled head and tail. But as time went on, some of them began to stand out alone and jump around alternately in the middle of the circle.

While appreciating the charm of this primitive dance, Hermione's habit of inquiry also makes her increasingly want to understand some questions - what is the meaning of the dance they are dancing?

At this moment, as if she knew what she was thinking, Maka suddenly said:

"I still remember that I got the dance of moonmaniacs in grade 3. It was only because there were not too many detailed descriptions in the textbook monster and its origin, so the test was very simple... But in fact, as far as I know, Mr. scarmand raised a small number of moonmaniacs himself."

"Then why didn't he --"

Hermione whispered at once, but before she finished, Marca continued:

"I think it's because he didn't understand - although many magical biologists speculate that the dance behavior of lunatic animals may be related to mating and reproduction, no one has concrete evidence to support this view."

"Oh, that is... They don't look for a partner immediately after dancing?"

When Maka heard the speech, she nodded slightly.

"Yes, for them, dancing in the moonlight may be just a kind of entertainment?"

Because these were all things that were not in the books, Hermione, who was eager to learn, listened carefully. But in the end, she tasted Maka's last sentence, and always felt that the latter had some meaning.

You know, I just turned him down at Slughorn's ball!

Hermione hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to tell the real reason for her refusal, but before she made a decision, Maka seemed to think of something again.

"By the way, do you know the 'crop circle ①' in Muggle world? That's actually the trace left by the dance of moon maniac - this was what Mr. scarmand told me last time he came, and I was quite surprised!"

"Oh! Really?" Hermione said in surprise, forgetting her thoughts for the time being. "I saw news reports on TV when I was at home on vacation. At that time, I thought, is this a prank by a wizard!"

However, if you have to say that it was done by a wizard, it's not impossible. At present, we can hardly find any wild lunatic. Most of those strange circles are accidents caused by poor management of the farm.

During their casual conversation, the dance of the lunatic beasts gradually came to an end. Aware of this, Maka and Hermione also stopped their words tacitly and watched the little guys slow down until they stopped completely.

Then, the light fog intertwined with the moonlight slowly began to subside, revealing a shallow tread mark on the ground in the backyard.

Seeing the moon crazy animals scattered, Hermione suddenly felt empty in her heart, as if there was something missing.

"Oh - it's over."

Hagrid must be the most serious one. He hardly spoke. He stared at the dozen little guys jumping dazzlingly from beginning to end.

His love for these magical animals is indeed comparable to that of few people.

"Hagrid, you can discuss it with Professor flavy and let him try to help you make a luminous little moon with deformation."

The activity must be held during the day, not to mention during the day, even at night, it may not happen to encounter such fine weather.

But Hagrid seemed a little puzzled.

"Why not go to Professor McGonagall?" he asked subconsciously.

"Don't bother Professor McGonagall," Marca said. "She still has a lot of things to do... To be honest, I'm going to find a suitable deformation professor for the school before the coming of the next school year, which can at least reduce a good part of her burden!"

"Oh, you're right!" Hagrid nodded again and again. "You still know how to be considerate."

"Well, let's go first..." Maka looked around and then said to Hermione, "don't you want to go back to your bedroom? Let's go and I'll see you off!"

He said so, but in fact, he was thinking that Hermione would probably refuse - even if the moon crazy beast is so likable, it can't change people's mind at once, can it?

Unexpectedly, Hermione didn't say anything this time, just nodded silently.

They said goodbye to Hagrid and walked silently towards the castle with some wet grass. Marca was ahead, and Hermione was a step or two behind him.

"Marca."

In fact, Marca hasn't figured out any reason to guide Hermione to speak, but Hermione took the initiative to pull the back of his robe.

He couldn't help but stop and slowly turned around.

"What's the matter?" Maka asked softly. "Is there anything you want to say to me?"

It was almost obvious that he was promoting the topic, but since Hermione had the intention to say something, how could he not seize the opportunity?

Even if he was a little stiff, he had to follow the atmosphere.

"Yes."

Sure enough, Hermione finally whispered.

"I know I behaved strangely at the ball before... But don't worry, I wasn't affected by anything dangerous."

Maka soon understood what she said.

"At the beginning, I did think about whether it was helbo," he explained, "but on the way, I probably understood that the problem was certainly not as serious as I thought at first. Since you don't want to say, I won't ask any more..."

Then he waved his hand and said:

"Come on, I'll take you back!"

"No, wait --"

When she didn't know why at first, Maka naturally wanted to find out. But after slowly confirming that he was afraid of being a little worried, he didn't expect that Hermione wanted to explain again.

"In fact, I just thought about it, and then I found that you were right." she said gently, "at present, we can't hide anything because of some personal problems... Doing so will easily lead to misunderstanding."

"So, I think it's better to explain what happened at the ball just now."

Her words were somewhat hesitant. Maka thought about it and nodded her head to agree.

"Well... Actually, I just have a stomachache."

Maka listened and suddenly blinked and was stunned.