Inevitably Helena noticed that something was wrong, Ivan suppressed the excitement in his heart, and continued to talk, trying to find more clues.

We talked until the wee hours of the morning, and Ivan said goodbye to the ghost lady as usual.

"Hals, I'd like to ask you for a favor, is that okay?" Helena said suddenly.

"Of course it's fine, we're friends, aren't we?" Ivan nodded, Helena finally told him the location of the mana storage room, and now he naturally wouldn't refuse if there was a request.

"I want you to bring my mother's crown here...... Helena said hesitantly.

"Okay, I'll get it for you as soon as possible...... I haven't been able to find Dumbledore's whereabouts lately, though, and the crown should still be with him. Besides, this thing is broken......"

Speaking of this, Ivan looked at Helena with a slight hesitation, if he was not mistaken, as a ghost, Helena could not pick up or touch the real thing.

"I just want to take one last look at it...... Helena said quietly.

Thinking about what happened to Helena before her death, Ivan understood a little, glanced at the ghost lady with sympathy, and then turned into an owl again and flew out through the wide open window.

By this time, the sky had already darkened, and the first rays of the morning sun pierced the darkness and spilled onto the earth.

Ivan stayed up all night but was still in good spirits, and had no intention of returning to the dormitory to catch up on sleep, but hurried to the eighth floor, walked back and forth three times opposite the huge tapestry, and said silently in his heart.

[I need to enter the Mana Storage Room at Hogwarts.] 】

When Ivan opened his eyes again, a door appeared out of thin air on the flat wall.

"It's good to have a response......" Ivan breathed a sigh of relief, proving that it was possible to enter the mana storage room directly through the Room of Requirement.

However, in such an important place, there are nine times out of ten that some obstacles will be set up, such as statue guards or something, so that someone does not stray into the power system that destroys the entire castle.

So before opening the door, Ivan drew his wand and was ready to respond to a possible attack.

Inside the door was a boxy space, surrounded by pitch black, which looked a little creepy.

Undaunted, Ivan stepped inside, waving his wand and illuminating it with a powerful light charm.

The sporadic fluorescence gradually dispelled the deep darkness, but to Ivan's surprise, there was only one quaint bronze door in the entire space, which looked very similar to the one in the Ravenclaw lounge? There is an eagle-shaped knocker on the doorknob.

Is there another door inside the door?

What kind of protection is this?

Ivan is a little confused? Because the bronze knocker on it gave him a familiar feeling.

It's not like you're going to have to answer the questions, is it?

Ivan walked to the door nervously, and sure enough? The bronze eagle asked slowly.

【Excuse me... What is the nature of magic? 】

Ivan was silent for a long time? A face was a little scary, and only the sound of the bronze eagle machine reverberated in the boxy space.

Moments later? Ivan suddenly raised his wand and gestured at the door, but finally put it down? Decide to give the knocker a chance generously!

"Change the question!" Ivan said calmly.

However, the rigid bronze eagle spoke again.

【Excuse me... What is the nature of magic? 】

"Okay? Since you want to know so much, then I'll tell you that the essence of magic is-" Ivan raised his wand expressionlessly, and a hot flame slowly emerged.

“Confringo！ (Thunderbolt)"

The flames swelled into the wind and turned into a large fireball several meters high, and soon hit the bronze door, and the next moment? A huge roar followed? A sea of scorching fire enveloped the entire space.

After a full minute or so, the flames in the sky were gradually dissipating, and the bronze door was still repeating the same question unscathed.

"So hard?" Ivan couldn't help but stumble, and after taking a few steps closer and taking a closer look, he found some clues.

There's a lot of protective magic on the door? Otherwise, it would never have been possible to stop him from a thunderbolt explosion.

As for forcibly breaking through, it's not impossible, Ivan estimates that it should be about the same after four or five hours of crazy attacks? But then the mana stored in the Room of Requirement will be completely emptied, because the protective magic is kept running? It is the magic that the castle has stored for thousands of years.

"Rowena Ravenclaw, you're really giving me a problem......" Ivan stared at the bronze door in front of him with a headache? sighed helplessly.

He finally mastered those complex alchemy circles? Time-consuming and laborious brushing Helena's favor? I thought it was foolproof and I could make the Philosopher's Stone right away, but it was blocked by a door.

……

Ivan, who had been making a fuss all morning, returned in vain, so he had to go to the Great Hall to enjoy today's breakfast.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were already seated at the Gryffindor table, and when Ivan walked in from the foyer, Hermione hurriedly greeted her.

"Ivan, this way!"

On the other hand, Ron curiously asked where Ivan had been in the morning.

"Find a place to practice your magic......," Ivan replied casually as he stepped forward and sat down on the empty seat.

Practicing magic?

Harry and Ron looked at each other, someone who was more talented than you was working harder than you, and both of them suddenly felt that the pie in their hands was not fragrant.

Hermione also looked at Ivan with admiration, and immediately decided that she would have to work harder in the future.

Just as a few people were silently thinking about things, a messenger owl flew in from outside, hovered and threw a newspaper in front of Ivan and the others.

"It's the new issue of the Daily Prophet!" Hermione picked up the newspaper for the first time and glanced at it a few times, the expression on her face becoming more and more solemn.

"Look at it, we're in trouble!" Hermione said angrily, unfolding the newspaper and placing it in the middle.

On the cover was a half-length photograph of Dolores Umbridge, smiling and winking at them, with the headline below prominently causing Harry and Ron to gasp.

[The Ministry of Magic seeks educational reform, and Dolores Umbridge has been appointed as the first High Inquisitor!] 】

Ivan had expected it and was not too surprised, and after quickly skimming through the content, he made a rough summary.

The Ministry of Magic recently passed a decree known as the Education Order XXII, which allows Minister Fudge to directly intervene in the appointment and dismissal of Hogwarts staff.

At the same time, Fudge has also added a position called Senior Inquisitor to Hogwarts, which will be held by Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Umbridge.

This means that the Ministry of Magic is going to do something to Hogwarts!