The sound of the door pushing outside the door was getting louder and louder, and Ivan frowned, wondering if he could let Filch in and give him another Oblivion Charm.

However, this thought was quickly thrown out of Ivan's mind.

The commotion here might have aroused the minds of others, and Filch alone would not solve the current predicament.

"Dobby...... Dobby! Ivan snapped his fingers and shouted softly.

The crumpled house-elf appeared in the open space next moment, and said sharply. "Sir, do you need Dobby's help?"

"Can you use Apparition to remove this fireplace?" Ivan asked, gesturing to the fireplace next to him.

Dobby followed Ivan's point, and the golden fireplace in the candlelight nearly blinded it.

However, after a brief pause, Dobby quickly reacted.

After all, Ivan would also let it transport some gold products back from time to time.

Originally, these things were mortgaged to those pure-blood families in exchange for the same amount of gold Galleons, but the money was indeed obtained, but no one dared to collect the things, so they were all piled up at home.

Now that there are gold tables and chairs, gold cabinets, and gold teapots at home, it seems that there is one more golden fireplace now!

Dobby is very happy, and if he could, he would like to exchange everything in the house for gold.

"How's that, can you move?" Ivan asked.

"It's too big, sir......" Dobby gestured his hand to the size of the fireplace, and shook his head very depressedly, it didn't have enough magic to take this thing away at once.

"Then I'll try to make it as small as possible...... There is no shadow! Ivan pulled out the wand on his waist and waved it one after another, and the invisible magic blade quickly split the fireplace into dozens of parts.

A large gold nugget with a levitation spell applied to it was smashed to the ground, making a slight muffled sound.

Using a shrinking charm, he shrunk the huge nuggets to a quarter of their size, then looked at Dobby and asked again. "Is that okay?"

Dobby nodded, and when he pressed his hand on the two gold nuggets, he activated the illusion.

After a dozen rounds of this trip, the disassembled fireplaces were all removed.

Outside, the sound of Filch banging on the door grew louder and louder.

Ivan took care of himself to clean up the traces around him, and did not pay attention to Filch's meaning, he cast a spell on the door, even if he banged on the door for a whole day, the other party would not be able to enter......

"What's going on? Filch? In the hallway, another familiar voice suddenly rang out.

"Professor McGonagall, I caught a little imp who came out on a night walk, and now he's hiding in the conference room! But he cast a spell on the door, and I can't get in, can you please open it for me? Filch shouted excitedly.

"Get away, Alohomora~" Professor McGonagall waved her wand slightly, and with a click, the lock was unlocked.

Filch pushed open the door impatiently, and walked in quickly, with a slightly excited look on his face.

However, to his surprise, the large conference room was empty, and there was no one inside.

"Come out, you can't run, I caught you!" Filch cried out loudly with an oil lamp, thinking that the damn imp must still be in this room, just hiding somewhere.

Thinking of this, Filch took steps to find every place where people could hide, thinking of the bill that had just been passed the other day, and he had always missed the feeling of hanging the erring student from the ceiling, and he might be able to revisit it today.

Unfortunately, after searching for a while, Filch was disappointed that there was no one in the room.

"Damn, he must have been hiding behind the door just now, using the illusion charm to run away!"

Filch cursed to himself, and as he was about to return to the door, he was surprised to find McGonagall, who had come in with him, staring at a wall.

"What's wrong, Professor McGonagall?" Filch asked in a strange way.

"I remember if there should be a ...... here? Fireplace? Professor McGonagall stared at the neat stone tiles on the walls, uncertain.

"What?" Filch's mind was stunned for a moment, and then he soon realized it, and looking at the empty wall, Filch couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity in his heart.

Could it be that thieves came to the castle and stole the fireplace at night?

……

While the two were guessing, Ivan had already returned to the dormitory, and after a simple nap before dawn, Ivan pretended to be okay and went to the Great Hall with Harry and the others to have breakfast.

As he expected, word of the disappearance of the fireplace in the conference room had spread, and many strange rumors had spread from it.

Harry and Ron were a little incredulous at first, how could the fireplace be stolen? But after taking a look at the conference room, the two of them had to admit that there was really everyone in this world!

Hermione analyzed it scientifically and rigorously. "It's not easy to get such a big fireplace out of school, let alone hide it from Filch and Professor McGonagall, so someone must have used a powerful vanishing spell on the fireplace!"

"That's weird, using a vanishing charm on a fireplace?" Ron said with a grumble.

"Hmm...... Probably caused by being too nervous after being discovered, and the magic was out of control. Hermione asked, guessingly, then looking at Ivan. You tell me? Ivan? ”

"How do I know that a fireplace is just a fireplace and it's not worth much...... Who would steal this if nothing is fine? Ivan yawned and said casually.

As the culprit who moved the fireplace, Ivan didn't mean to reveal the truth at all, but led Harry and the others to a dead end in a few words.

Don't look at the big trouble in this matter, but as long as you can't find any clues, it is estimated that it will be over in the end.

After all, a fireplace is not such a precious thing, it takes dozens of dollars to install a new one......

A few days passed in a flash, and Ivan focused almost all his energy on improving his strength in addition to studying, and even the usual assembly was suspended on the grounds of avoiding being discovered by Umbridge.

He needs to master the full power of the Philosopher's Stone as soon as possible, only then will it be possible to escape from the siege of a large number of wizards.

The news from Tumbledown Alley has not been broken for a day, and a large amount of information, good or bad, has been conveyed to him through Dobby.

The worst thing is that the patriarch of the Nott family broke free from the Imperius curse a day ago and his whereabouts are unknown......

"Damn, you can't even look at anyone who has fallen under the Imperius curse! It was at this time......" Ivan threw the envelope into the fire with a headache, muttering to himself.

Dobby replied with a slurry. Mr. Flon said that Mr. Knowt had neglected to keep an eye on Mr. Nott because of the need to transfer too many people lately...... And ......"

"And Nott has always been honest, they've all been a little slack, right?" Ivan sighed helplessly, not to mention taking care of the Nott werewolves, even he almost forgot that there was such an unstable factor.

Considering that he needed the strength of the Noether family when he ran for minister, he temporarily spared the other party's life, but he didn't expect that something would happen at this juncture.