The next morning, the weather was sunny and sunny, with a pleasant breeze blowing gently.

"It's the perfect weather for a Quidditch match!"

At the Gryffindor table, Wood said enthusiastically, adding plenty of scrambled eggs to each team's plate.

"Harley, cheer up, you need a good breakfast."

Hallie's share is extraordinarily large.

In the absence of further evidence, Xana suggested that it would be inappropriate to act solely on the basis of such a flawed piece of information, either by suing the school or questioning Hagrid.

"I've already contacted my sister, and she will contact the British Ministry of Magic through the US MIB office in London to fully investigate the history of this Riddle, and I hope this guy is still alive, and if we can find him himself, maybe we have more information."

Riddle himself may be the key to solving the secret room incident. Xana decided to stay on hold at the school for the time being, investigating Riddle from the periphery, hoping to get more information.

"This time I'm going to kill someone... Let me tear ... Let me tear..."

"That voice!" *2

Xana and Harley spoke in unison. It was the first time Xana had heard the voice, cold, full of killing death, and obviously very clumsy dragon pronunciation.

"Where?"

If she and Harley could hear it, it shouldn't be too far away.

"Passive sonar found that the signal was coming from that side."

Unfortunately, when they arrived at the ground, there was only a thick stone wall in front of them, and the signal disappeared.

"Did you run away?"

"Probably. We'd better check here to see if there's any trace left. ”

Xana was going to do a full scan of the place to see if she could find anything.

"But the game is about to begin!"

Hallie wants to catch the killer, but if she doesn't get to the ring now, Wood will kill her.

"Hey! What are you doing there? ”

It's Filch. Xana discovers that it's not far from where Mrs. Norris had an accident, and Filch often patrols the area in an attempt to catch the killer. I have to say, this guy chose the right place, and that monster just now should be very close to Filch. But at the same time, Filch is also dead, a Squib facing a Slydrin monster, and no one thinks that Squibs have a chance of winning.

It's a pity.

Xana pulled Harley and Hermione up and ran, Ron close behind, and finally yelled at Filch for not following the school rules.

"Got rid of it, right?"

It was only when they ran to the gate of the castle that everyone stopped.

"Yes. Without Mrs. Norris, Filch was at least half as dangerous. ”

"Hopefully Filch didn't go back. He was actually very dangerous just now, and the monster was near him. Several students have been killed, and there is a ghost, and I don't want to add the castle keeper. ”

Xana ran away when she saw someone, and she also had the intention of luring Filch away from the danger zone. In any case, he is also the owner of Mrs. Norris, and for Mrs. Norris's sake, Xana can't let a war scum like Filch wait there to be eaten by monsters.

"I see! I need to go to the library! ”

Hermione suddenly reached out and patted her forehead, and then ran back down the hall up the stairs.

"What did she understand?"

"Maybe it's a clue to the monster? You know, that's Hermione's style. Ron said, shrugging his shoulders, "If in doubt, go to the library." ”

"It's almost eleven o'clock, the game is about to start, and we'll know when we get back."

At Ron's urging, everyone rushed to the court.

"Please get on your broomsticks!"

Mrs. Hodge was about to announce the start of the match when Professor Milo suddenly ran across the arena with a large purple microphone in his hand.

"The game is canceled."

Professor McGonagall announced the emergency cancellation of the match through a microphone into the crowded bleachers, a bad news that caused the crowd to boo and shout in discontent.

"We have to play... House Cup... Gryffindor..."

Captain Wood rushes over and tries to dissuade Professor McGonagall, shouting that can be heard even from the stands, but Professor McGonagall ignores it and continues to shout.

"All students must return to the college's common room! There, the head of the academy will tell you more about it. Please leave as soon as possible! ”

Professor McGonagall repeated the phrase over and over again, telling everyone to hurry back. Ron still couldn't figure out what was going on, but Xana guessed a few points, something must have happened.

Sure enough. No sooner had she returned to her dorm than Professor McGonagall made the startling news that another attack had taken place, and that a Ravenclaw girl had been found attacked near the library, petrified as in previous attacks. So far, three of the four colleges have been attacked, and students have been killed in all of the houses except Slydrin.

"All students have to go back to their college's common room by six o'clock in the evening. No student is allowed to leave the residence hall after this time. Each class is escorted by a teacher. No student is allowed to use the bathroom without a teacher. All Quidditch training and matches have been postponed. There will be no more activities in the evenings. ”

Gryffindor students huddled in the common room, silently listening to Professor McGonagall.

Finally, she rolled up the parchment document she had just read and said in a somewhat choked voice, "Actually, needless to say, I have rarely been in such pain before. Schools are likely to be closed unless the culprits who masterminded these attacks are caught. I urge everyone who thinks they know something to come forward. ”

As soon as Professor McGonagall left, the whole lounge began to chatter.

"Has any of the teachers noticed that the Slytherins are all safe? Isn't it obvious that all of this stuff came out of Slytherin! The heirs of Slytherin, the monsters of Slytherin - why don't they just get rid of all Slytherins? ”

Plum? Jordan exclaimed. Radical words in times of panic are always easy to please the masses, and the audience nods their heads frequently and bursts of applause.

Percy? Weasley sat in the chair next to Lee, seemingly in a hurry not to express his opinion for the first time in his life. He looked pale and frightened.

Percy freaked out. George whispered to Hallie, "That Ravenclaw girl, Penelope?" Kerry Watt - is a prefect. Percy had probably thought that the monster would not dare to attack the prefect. ”

"By the way, did anyone see Hermione? She also went to the library just now. ”

Xana looked at her watch, it had been a long time since the accident, and Hermione was not in the break room. If she hadn't been notified when she attacked before, she should have come back after all this time.

"Not good! Hermione may have had an accident too. ”

Xana, who noticed that Hermione was not there, and that the magic communication was unresponsive, hurried to Professor McGonagall.

"Miss Sakai! I said I couldn't leave the dormitory without permission..."

Professor McGonagall was so angry that she had just announced that she couldn't run around and that a student would violate her in person.

"Hermione is missing!"

An anxious Shana interrupted Professor McGonagall's reprimand.

"Merlin!"

Professor McGonagall was taken aback when she heard the news, and she didn't bother to blame Xana for running away. She hadn't counted the number of people in the break room because she was too busy just now, but now she heard that Hermione wasn't in the break room, and she happened to go to the library where the incident happened, so she quickly contacted the other teachers to search.

All students were once again strictly forbidden to leave the common room, the heads of each college carefully counted the number of students in each house one by one, the entire castle was strictly searched, and all rooms and secret passages were repeatedly checked in order to find Hermione, who had not been heard from.

But it's a pity. Late at night, when no one found Hermione, Professor McGonagall had to sobble to announce Hermione's disappearance, and once again sternly warned everyone that they should never leave the common room without permission.

"What are we going to do?"

Ron has no master, and Harley is anxious to turn around.

"Hermione is not an ordinary girl, she is a magical girl, and she is not so prone to accidents. I'll ask QB first to see if it can find Hermione. ”

Xana asks the house-elf to pull QB out of the kitchen cage, but QB says she can't find it.

"There's nothing I can do about it."

Theoretically, QB could know where she had signed up for a magical girl, but QB said that now she couldn't find Hermione's location, and the magical connection between Hermione and QB was severed.

"Has it been..."

Ron's legs were shaking, and he couldn't even find QB, and Hermione had probably been eaten by a monster.

"Shut up!"

Xana was sure that Hermione wasn't dead. If the magical girl dies, the power of the contract will ensure that the magical girl is first connected to the divine realm of the round god. But that didn't happen, so Hermione must still be alive.

"We'll have to talk to Hagrid." "I can't believe it's him this time." But since he released the monster last time, he must know how to enter the secret room, and this is a breakthrough point. ”

"Riddle's words may not be true, but we certainly can't wait for a reply from the Ministry of Magic."

Even the magical girl was planted, and Xana had to recalculate the strength of the monster. Another attack made it impossible for Xana to wait for the dragging Ministry of Magic to reply, and although she was a little sorry for Hagrid, she had to talk to him now.

"By the way, why do you believe in Riddle so much?"

Xana asked.

"That's... That one... Riddle is a nice guy and often helps me with my homework..."

Hallie said, twisting her fingers.

Hey, hey, it's been told! It's been taught! Xia Na covered her head, she was actually attacked by a book, if it weren't for just a book, it was estimated that the relationship would have been determined, no wonder it would be like that that day.

It also made Xana turn Riddle's danger level up a notch again. Riddle is definitely not as honest and trustworthy as Hallie suggests, and the notebook is suspicious. Xana regretted that she hadn't forcibly confiscated the notebook from Harley that day, it wasn't a simple magical item.

"Alright, let's go to Hagrid's in the evening. Now everyone be careful. ”

In the middle of the night, Xana and Harley open the all-information stealth path, and Ron follows behind in Harley's invisibility cloak and quietly moves towards the castle gate.

"It's a lot of night patrols..."

"Shut up! Snape came over. ”

Ron, who followed the last in an invisibility cloak, felt terrified. Although they had the communicator given by Xana in their hands, they also said that they were walking in front, but Xana and Harley couldn't see at all, and only saw a patrol of teachers, prefects, and ghosts coming in front of them, for fear of being caught accidentally.

Fortunately, there were no dangers along the way, and I finally came to the door of Hagrid's hut.

Woohoo! Woohoo!

After knocking for a few seconds, Hagrid slammed the door open, crossbow bolt in hand, and the Great Hound Tooth barked loudly behind him, and then ran away with his tail between his legs as soon as he saw Xana.

"Oh, it's you." Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his weapon, "What are you two doing here?" ”

"Sit down... I'm going to make tea..."

Hagrid let everyone into the room, turned to pick up the kettle, and seemed a little unsettled, and the water in the kettle spilled out, nearly extinguishing the fire, and then his thick hand shook violently, and knocked the teapot over again.

"What's going on with Hagrid?"

"I don't know. It looked like he was a little nervous. ”

Harley felt that something was wrong with Hagrid today.

"Did you hear about Hermione?"

Although she was sorry for Hagrid, Harley wanted to ask the period about it quickly and decided to stir up the conversation.

"Oh yes, I heard that."

Hagrid's voice choked slightly.

He turned and walked over to the fire, took a cup and gave each of them a large cup of boiling water (so fazed that he forgot all the tea bags), and then went back to get the cake. Hagrid would look out the window from time to time, and just as he was about to cut the fruitcake, there was another loud knock on the door.

Hagrid tossed away the fruitcake and grabbed her bow and arrow, and Xana quickly beckoned Ron and Harley to hide inside the invisibility cloak. Seeing that everyone was hidden, Hagrid took a deep breath and slammed the door open again.

"Good evening, Hagrid."

It was Dumbledore, but why did Hagrid tremble when he saw Dumbledore outside?

"What happened to Hagrid?"

Ron couldn't figure out why Hagrid saw Dumbledore the way he did.

"It probably has something to do with the people behind Dumbledore. It seems that Hagrid was waiting for them, and we happened to meet them today. ”

Xana pointed to Dumbledore, who was not the only one who had come, the other man was following Dumbledore into the house.

"That's my dad's boss!" Ron gasped and said, "Connelly? Fudge, Minister of Magic!"

"Shhh

The man had already entered the house.

"That's bad, Hagrid." In a crisp and quick tone, Fudge said, "Very bad, had to come." There were four attacks on Muggles, which was too much and the Ministry of Magic had to take action. ”

Let's go? What were they going to do to Hagrid?

"I didn't," Hagrid looked at Dumbledore pleadingly, "you know I didn't, Professor Dumbledore, sir..."

Hagrid's appearance was ugly, his face was pale and sweaty, and after seeing clearly that it was the Minister of Magic, it was difficult to even stand, and he fell directly into his chair.

"I hope you understand, Connelly, that I trust Hagrid completely."

Dumbledore said with a frown at Fudge.

"But look, Albus." Fudge said unnaturally, "Hagrid's track record is not good for him." The Ministry of Magic had to take some measures...... The school board has been contacted. ”

Xana felt that the measures to be taken would probably be very serious for Hagrid, otherwise Hagrid would not be scared like this.

"But Connelly, I'm still going to tell you that taking Hagrid away won't help at all."

Dumbledore said that even through the hazy cloak of invisibility, Xana could see the fire in Dumbledore's eyes. Xana had never seen Dumbledore so angry.

"Look at it from my point of view."

Fudge said, still fiddling with his top hat.

"I'm under a lot of pressure and I have to do something. If it turns out that it's not Hagrid, he'll be back. I had to take him away, shouldn't I fulfill my ......"

"Take me away?"

Hag shuddered.

"Where to take?"

"It's a short time." Not looking into Hagrid's eyes, Fudge said, "is not a punishment, just a precaution." If you catch another person, they will release you and apologize fully..."

Xana didn't hear the slightest apology in her words.

"It's not Azkaban, is it?"

Hagrid asked in a hoarse voice. Before Fudge could reply, there was another knock on the door. Dumbledore went over to open the door, and the people who came in were unexpected, and Harley almost screamed.

Lucius? Mr. Malfoy strode into Hagrid's cabin, wrapped in a long black travel cape and with a cold, contented smile on his face. Why did old Malfoy come here so late?

"You're here, Fudge." He said with satisfaction, "Good, good..."

"What are you doing here? Get out, get out of my house! ”

Hagrid said angrily.

"Believe me, my dear friend, I'm not glad to enter your room—oh—you call it a house?"

Lucius Malfoy looked around the small chamber and sneered.

"I just came to the school to have a look, and I was told the principal was here."

Except that the height of the two is reversed, and the typical tall and handsome rich ridicule the short and poor, Slydlin's ability to infuriate people in this regard is MAX-level.

"What the hell are you looking for me, Lucius?"

Dumbledore said.

"It's terrible." Old Malfoy said lazily, pulling out a long roll of parchment, "The board thinks it's time to let you go." It's a recall order – you'll see twelve directors all sign it. We don't think you're using your talents. How many attacks have occurred so far? That's two this afternoon, aren't they? And one is missing. At this rate, there would be no Muggle students left at Hogwarts, and we all knew that would be a terrible loss for the school. ”

"Oh, what, what did you say? Lucius..."Fudge panicked, "Dumbledore deposed? No... No... We absolutely don't want to do it now..."

"The appointment of the headmaster—ah! No, it's the recall — it's the board's thing, Fudge. "Since Dumbledore has failed to stop these attacks..."

"But... Lucius, if Dumbledore can't stop them......" Fudge started sweating, "I mean, who can stop it?" ”

"We'll see." A wicked smile spread across Malfoy's face, "All twelve of us voted......"

Hagrid jerked to his feet, his furry, black head brushing against the ceiling.

"How many people did you threaten and blackmail to force them to agree? Well! Malfoy? ”

In the invisibility cloak, Xana also held Harley's hand tightly, the school board has the highest power over the management of the school, and in the current situation, even if he holds a gun to the old Malfoy, it is impossible to change anything.

"Oh my God! Oh, my God! You know, this bad temper of yours is going to get you in trouble one day, Hagrid—" old Malfoy still looked like he wasn't smiling, "I want to give you a word of advice, don't shout at the guards of Azkaban. They won't like it. ”

It was a nasty remark, but Xana and the others finally knew where Hagrid was going. Azkaban, Xana felt sick when she heard the name, it was a model for the legal system of the wizarding world, which could be said to be backward to the level of the Middle Ages. No wonder Hagrid was afraid of that.

"You can't take Dumbledore!"

"If you take him away, the Muggles won't have a chance to live! There will be murders soon! ”

Hagrid was still yelling, so frightened that the hound's teeth trembled and whined in the basket. Dumbledore's dismissal made Hagrid so furious that he forgot that he was about to be captured.

"Calm down, Hagrid."

Dumbledore stopped Hagrid harshly and turned to look at Lucius Malfoy.

"If the board wants me to go, Lucius, of course I'll give up my seat," he said. ”

Dumbledore's blazing blue eyes were always staring at Lucius' cold gray eyes.

"But," Dumbledore said very slowly but clearly, so that everyone present could hear every word he said, "I will only leave this school when everyone here has betrayed me." You will also find that at Hogwarts there is always help for those who ask for it. ”

Dumbledore, what does this mean? Xana sensed Dumbledore knew they were eavesdropping.

"Emotionally commendable."

Malfoy said, bowing.

"We'll all miss your – oh – very personal way of handling things. Albus, I only hope that your successor will be able to stop the killings once and for all. ”

Malfoy strode to the door of the hut, opened it, and bowed Dumbledore out. You can see that he is very proud.

Fudge continued to play with his top hat and motioned for Hagrid to walk in front of him, but Hagrid didn't move.

"If someone is looking for something, they just follow the spider and they will find the right direction! That's all I have to say. ”

Fudge's words made Fudge stare at him in shock.

"When I'm not around, someone needs to feed the teeth."

With that, Hagrid walked out, and the door slammed shut.