Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 129 Ghost Girl
But as the principal of three magic schools , Madame Maxime would never live in such a place, and dress so ordinary.
Jon looked around the cabin with confusion in his heart. The decoration here was very simple. It didn't look like a place for long-term residence, but more like a temporary shelter.
Madame Maxime didn't seem to care much about Jon. After Dumbledore introduced them, she just nodded to Jon who greeted her, asked them to sit down, and poured them a cup of tea.
"You should have seen the letter I wrote to you." Madam Maxime looked miserable. "I was fired from Beauxbatons."
Dumbledore did not touch the tea on the table, and his expression became a little solemn.
“So, I came here to find out the reason.”
Madame Maxime did not explain immediately, but turned and looked at Jon.
"Since I brought him here, it means that I absolutely trust him, ma'am," Dumbledore said calmly.
The half-giant, who was the former headmaster of Beauxbatons School of Magic, let out a long sigh.
"Well, your decisions are always right most of the time." She stared into Dumbledore's eyes. "The Ministry of Magic sent someone to replace me. They said that I distorted students' minds and gave them an incorrect education, so they kicked me out of the manor!"
Dumbledore frowned.
"Such a ridiculous charge?"
"Everyone thinks it's ridiculous!" Madam Maxime was recognized and looked very excited. "I deny their accusations. The teachers and students in the whole school can prove it for me. Beauxbatons under my management has always only taught students magic. It will never distort their thoughts. I also don't have any ideas to instill in them!"
"I demand that they produce evidence, otherwise I will never leave Beauxbatons like this, even if it is an order from the Ministry of Magic!"
"And then?" asked Dumbledore.
"Then..." The excitement on Madame Maxime's face began to fade. Her face turned pale and her lips trembled, as if she was thinking of some bad memories. "Then, they said that I am half giant... and they produced evidence, saying in front of all the students in the school that I concealed my life experience, and that as the headmaster of Beauxbatons, I actually made profits for the giants in private, and tried to whitewash the students' views on giants in order to distort their minds..."
She seemed to be feeling psychological effects, as she felt that Dumbledore and John's gazes on her were somewhat piercing, her eyes were slightly red, and she spoke in a trembling voice.
"I swear! Albus, maybe... maybe there is something hidden in my bloodline, but I definitely didn't do what they said! I have always focused my energy on education, I definitely didn't..."
Dumbledore gently comforted the witch who was more than a meter taller than him.
"I know, I know, ma'am, you certainly wouldn't do such a thing. We need to think about the reason why they are bringing up your background now." Dumbledore obviously would not despise Madam Maxime's background. "When you became the headmaster of Beauxbatons, I believe your background had already been investigated by the French Ministry of Magic. But why are they bringing it up now and... dismissing you?"
Jon could tell that Dumbledore was trying to be as tactful as possible in his wording so as not to let the witch, who was about to cry, break down emotionally.
"I don't know." Madam Maxime's voice was a little choked up. Perhaps it was because the half-blood of the giant would make people's emotions simpler. She couldn't hide her sadness. "And they not only kicked me out, but after being expelled from Beauxbatons, they also confined me to my home, saying that the Aurors were investigating my years as headmaster. If my crime was formally confirmed, I would have violated wizard law."
"I felt something was wrong. I felt that no matter what the final result of the investigation was, they would eventually arrest me! So on the night I wrote to you, I attacked the Aurors who were guarding me and ran away from home. Now the Ministry of Magic has issued a bounty on me. They may find this place at any time!"
Dumbledore's frown deepened, and he obviously realized something.
"What did they do with the principal's position after you left?"
"They parachuted a wizard in here." Madam Maxime's tone was filled with hatred. "I thought that even if I was kicked out, my vice-principal would be elected as the interim principal, but they were so impatient that they directly let a wizard that no one had ever heard of be the principal."
"What's the wizard's name?"
"Ivan Galas , I've never heard of this guy before! He just appeared out of nowhere and became the headmaster of Beauxbatons!"
Madame Maxime's tone was excited, as if she was trying hard to control her emotions, but she couldn't calm down no matter what.
"The French wizarding world is in a mess right now. I have no idea what the Ministry of Magic has been doing all this time!" She said in a surprisingly loud voice, "Some time ago, in order to eliminate dissidents, those people actually arrested many family members and issued a wanted order for the Delacour family!"
"Apolline Delacour ran away with her husband and eldest daughter. The youngest daughter stayed at my house as a guest, so I had to place her here first. But the Aurors later searched my house directly. They knew that the youngest daughter of the Delacour family was hiding with me. I had no choice but to feed her a bottle of dead soul water, turning her into a ghost, so that the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic would think she was dead!"
Madame Maxime had a look of grief and indignation on her face; it was obvious that the Delacours were very close friends of hers.
"I wrote to ask you to come here for this purpose. I can't stay in France anymore, so I need your help to take this girl away, Albus."
As she spoke, she took out a rose-red bow hairpin from the empty pocket of her robe. When she took out the hairpin, an illusory little girl, who was about six or seven years old, appeared timidly.
The girl had delicate facial features and long, smooth silver hair. Even though Jon had never seen a ghost before, he could recognize her at first sight. She was definitely a ghost!
As soon as the girl appeared, she hid behind Madame Maxime, only daring to show half of her face to peek at John and Dumbledore.
Dumbledore's face turned grim.
"The antidote to the Dead Soul Water is difficult to prepare. If she's unlucky, she may never be able to transform into a human again and will always be a ghost."
