Hearing this shocking news, the hall fell silent for a moment, and the two professors, Flitwick and Sprout, whose faces had changed drastically, immediately ran out.

There was no need for the duel on the field to continue, and Ivan turned his head and instructed Snape to restrain and protect the students in the hall, and then eagerly followed.

Snape was very dissatisfied with Ivan's command, but he still fulfilled his duties as a professor, ordering all the students to stay where they were and not to go anywhere!

On the other side, Ivan rushed to the third floor as fast as he could,

With the exception of Snape, several of the Hogwarts professors had arrived, and Madam Pomfrey crouched on the ground to check on the attacked.

Dumbledore stood to the side with a frown, not knowing what to think...

Ivan walked a few steps before he saw the injured girl, who looked like a Hufflepuff girl in her second or third grade, her face was extremely pale, and she couldn't even breathe very weakly.

Unlike the last time, the girl was not injured and bleeding, and there was no messy handwriting on the surrounding walls.

Ivan wasn't surprised, he had been at the dueling club tonight, and Tom probably knew there was no chance of framing him.

"Poor child, she has a terrible loss of vitality, just like the Ravenclaw girl before." Madam Pomfrey sighed sadly, but there was nothing she could do.

"What kind of dark magic can cause such an effect?" Professor McGonagall was furious, her wand trembling hand, and she looked at Dumbledore expecting him to answer.

"It's not how you do it, it's who does it!" Dumbledore didn't answer, but said in a deep voice.

"Maybe we can investigate which students didn't come to my dueling class tonight, and I don't think there will be a lot of them." Ivan suggested.

He suddenly realized that this was a good opportunity to catch Tom Riddle, this corridor on the third floor was not remote, so the time for this girl to be killed should be very short, at least after the start of the dueling club!

This means that the suspicion of the vast majority of people has been eliminated at one time!

The remaining few young wizards who didn't come to class, as long as they investigate one by one, they can immediately find out whose hands the Horcruxes are!

"Very nice advice! We better act now! Professor McGonagall quickly figured this out and was pleasantly surprised.

"By the way, what about Severus?" Professor McGonagall hadn't seen Snape back for a long time, and was somewhat puzzled.

"I told him to stay in the big hall to protect the kids from the attackers from taking advantage of our absence, and now it's just right for us to count who didn't show up!" Ivan said confidently, he thought that this time Tom would definitely not be able to run!

"Professor Lockhart, it seems that we misunderstood you before, but I didn't expect you to be very reliable at a critical time." McGonagall was amazed at Ivan's cautious arrangement.

The rest of the professors also looked at "Lockhart" in front of them strangely, and they couldn't believe that what Lockhart had just said.

Looking at everyone's puzzled eyes, Ivan realized that he had shown too much and did not quite fit the character of "Lockhart".

However, because this opportunity to find the Horcrux was so rare, he was so excited that he even forgot to role-play.

Ivan hurriedly coughed lightly twice and said in a loud voice.

"Ahem... That's natural, I've had an emergency like this many times in my legendary career, and I dare say no one in the wizarding world knows how to deal with a crisis better than I do! ”

Ivan reluctantly came back, but fortunately, the professors didn't have the intention to delve into it, and their minds were all focused on how to capture the attackers.

Ivan volunteered to catch the little wizards who didn't come to class.

He felt that it was best to find the Horcrux before anyone else, and make up a reason to destroy it before reporting it, lest Dumbledore learn something against him from the Horcrux.

Although this is unlikely, it should not be left unguarded.

Unfortunately, after Ivan offered to participate in the search, Dumbledore vetoed.

"Nope! I need you to inform Severus, work with him to protect the children in the hall, and keep a list of all the students who didn't attend dueling classes! Dumbledore said.

Can't you send someone else to do this little thing? Ivan opened his mouth to retort, but noticed that Dumbledore's eyes under the half-moon glasses were staring at him, and he closed his mouth again.

"Alright, I'll go tell Snape—" Ivan opened his eyes nonchalantly, avoiding eye contact with Dumbledore, and turned away.

Ivan had been running Occlumency, but when he walked out of the corridor, there was no sign of brain invasion.

Even so, Ivan sensed that Dumbledore seemed to have a slight suspicion of his identity, or he would not have vetoed his offer to participate in the search.

"Damn, I should have the live map with me at all times!" Ivan couldn't help but sigh on the way to the big exhibition hall.

Because he was going to exchange identities with Lockhart today, he put away all the things that didn't match his identity, so as not to fall out and be suspected during the fight.

Ivan also didn't expect Tom Riddle to be so bold as to dare to choose this time for a second attack!

……

Back in the large hall, Ivan found that Snape had cast a spell to remove the duel platform and replace it with the long tables of the four colleges, and all the young wizards were honestly in their seats.

Snape saw Ivan walk into the exhibition hall and walked over with a gloomy face. "What the hell happened that someone was attacked?"

Ivan nodded, recounted the attack on a third-year Hufflepuff girl, and continued.

"Anyway, we need to count the number of people now, and I believe the attackers should be among the few students who didn't show up for class! I'll be in charge of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, and I'll leave Slytherin and Hufflepuff to you. ”

After explaining, Ivan hurried to the long tables of the two academies to count the list of personnel.

Snape was very awkward, he was unwilling to follow Ivan's command, but he had to admit that the other party's arrangement was very reasonable, so he had to do it with a black face.

It took Ivan and Snape to check the list of personnel, and for a moment they were overjoyed, there were fewer young wizards who didn't come to class than he expected, only two junior girls!

The Horcrux must be in the hands of one of them!

Ivan felt that Tom was afraid that he wouldn't be able to jump for long, but things were going too smoothly, which made Ivan faintly feel that something was wrong....

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