The result of Professor McGonagall's consultation with the others was to divide the most effective professors and volunteers into teams to guard the entrances to the schools, while teams of students patrolled the various floors of the castle in pairs.

I have to say that this is the most reasonable arrangement in this situation, the professors with the strongest combat effectiveness are placed in the most dangerous places, and their students who are a little less skilled are arranged in relatively safe floors. Theoretically, if there were intruders, they would have to go through the professors' defenses in order to reach the students who came to help.

Professor McGonagall soon began to assign the staff, with Ryan and Hermione being assigned to the seventh floor, and Malfoy and Pansy being assigned to the eighth floor, where the Requirement Room was located. Ryan thought it might not be a coincidence, but that Snape had deliberately arranged it when the professors had come together to discuss it.

However, this further confirmed that Malfoy should be operating tonight, and luckily, Ryan was assigned to the seventh floor this time, which was the best place for him to be tonight, just in time to spy on what Malfoy was going to do.

"Alright, now you guys are all in place. I think tonight will be a calm night like before, but you will need to work a little harder. "As everyone went to their patrol positions, Professor McGonagall said to everyone.

"I wish it would be quiet tonight, but I don't think it will be like that. As he walked up the grand staircase to the seventh floor, Ryan said to Hermione through the Phoenix Brand.

"Is Malfoy's plot about to succeed?" The attentive Hermione had already observed Malfoy's state change before, and now Ryan knew the truth as soon as she mentioned it. "I'm going to see how well you've been boasting about the trap for most of the semester?"

"Just watch. Ryan looked assured, "I'll surprise those invaders." ”

Because the two of them were relatively fast, Malfoy and the others had not yet come up when they reached the seventh floor. Ryan motioned for Hermione to look at the staircase for him, and then he ran to the eighth floor and placed a few alchemy monitors on the vase next to the tapestry. It wasn't until everything was ready, and after he had descended to the seventh floor, Malfoy and Pansy slowly walked up the stairs.

After seeing Ryan and Hermione standing in the hallway on the seventh floor, Pansy squirmed her lips as she saw chewing gum sticking to the soles of her shoes, as if to be sarcastic. But Malfoy jerked her and headed upstairs.

Less than five minutes after Malfoy went upstairs, a small badge on Ryan's body shook, indicating that there was now only one person left in the hallway on the eighth floor. Ryan immediately grabbed Hermione and pointed to the stairs going upstairs, and Hermione nodded in understanding. After that, the two men ran up the stairs to the upper floor.

Pansy was looking nervously down at the top of the stairs, and her face turned pale at the sight of Ryan, and she spoke in a sharp tone. "You two mudbloods shouldn't have come up now, you shouldn't have come here tonight, I warn you-"

But before she could finish her sentence, Hermione drew her wand and waved it at her without warning. A red beam of light flew directly towards Pansy, but when the beam got close, a white barrier popped out of Pansy's body to block the front of the beam to neutralize the attack.

Just as Pansy raised her chin slightly, she was about to smile and say something when Hermione's ring-bearing left hand clenched into a fist, and the white barrier shattered like glass, and then another stun spell struck her in the chest. Pansy fell forward on her knees, and then rolled down the stairs to the seventh-floor landing before stopping.

"Don't the Weasley twins sell things and don't look at people?" Hermione stepped forward and walked over to Pansy and pulled up the sleeve of her left hand. Ryan immediately saw that she was wearing a copper bracelet on her hand, which was probably one of the dozens of bracelets sold in the store before.

"No way, this low-grade bracelet won't have much investigation before it's sold. And we also know that most of the people who can pay for this kind of stuff are purebloods, and if we don't sell it to them, we estimate that our market will be less than half. Ryan explained as he looked at Hermione, who was removing the bracelet and wand from Pansy.

"Alright, let's go upstairs and wait. Hermione said after collecting the loot and magically tying Pansy into a dumpling and throwing it into a broomstick compartment.

The two men went upstairs to find the hallway empty, and there was no one. So Ryan asked Hermione to help keep an eye on the exit of the Room of Requirement, and he set up alchemy circles at both ends of the corridor to create barriers, so that no intruder would bypass the interception and run to other places to hurt others.

After spending more than 40 minutes setting up the alchemy circle, Ryan was just about to set up enough magic traps with Hermione at the door of the Room of Requirement when he heard Professor McGonagall's voice in the hallway. "Please keep your posts on all floors, there are people trying to attack in the direction of the Forbidden Forest now, we are confronting them at the main gate of the castle, but you don't need to worry, the attackers should not be able to break through the castle's defenses. ”

"Is this attracting attention?" Ryan thought of this at once, first attacking the Ministry of Magic to attract Headmaster Dumbledore, and then attacking the castle gate to drag the professors to the first floor. It seems that this attack on Voldemort and his men has been bloody! This also shows that the group of people brought by Malfoy will not be easy.

Maybe he'll catch a big fish this time, Ryan thought about dropping a few silver badges down the hallway. Then he and Hermione hid to the side, using the alchemy circle to hide themselves.

The next ten minutes were pure waiting, but Professor McGonagall downstairs never lifted the alarm. Ryan thinks this is probably because the Death Eaters coming from the direction of the Forbidden Forest are not very numerous and powerful. But once they've hidden their bluffs, there's nothing Professor McGonagall can do but be vigilant at the door.

Even if Professor McGonagall could guess that the people outside were attracting their attention at this time, they would not take the initiative to attack, because she did not dare to gamble on the safety of the whole school, after all, as long as she could ensure the safety of the students until Headmaster Dumbledore returned, if she took the initiative, if the enemy lured them out and killed them before attacking Hogwarts Castle, then she would definitely regret it.

After waiting in silence for ten minutes, a door appeared on the wall in front of Ryan. Malfoy sneaked out of the door alone, his face was bruised, the wound was not there before he entered, he must have been beaten just now. In addition to this, he held a disgusting, withered hand aloft. There was a candle in his dead hand, but from Ryan's point of view, the candle was not lit.

"What is he doing here?" asked Hermione through the Phoenix Brand.

Malfoy was observing his surroundings, and he had a glorious hand in his hand. It is taken from the hands of the hanged man and wrapped in mandrake or other herbs and soaked in them. The person holding the hand can use it to illuminate in the dark, but others cannot see it. It's a good companion for a thief or robber, and it's fitting for Malfoy to use it now. ”

Malfoy whispered in the direction of the staircase, "Pansy, where are you?" but now that Pansy was knocked unconscious and tied up and stuffed in the broom cabinet downstairs, it was impossible to answer his shouts.

After shouting twice, Malfoy also realized that something was wrong, and he immediately turned around and prepared to run back to the Requirement Room. However, Hermione was quicker at this time, and she waved her wand and released a thin thread of black mist that wrapped around Malfoy's left hand holding the Hand of Glory and pulled hard. Malfoy's left hand immediately fell to the ground along with the Hand of Glory.

Malfoy let out a scream, but didn't stop and rushed straight into the room of requirement.