The students of Eagle House learned the news that Zhang Xu's villa was burned down by the Death Eaters from the Daily Prophet early in the morning, so they were not surprised when they saw that Zhang Xu had returned from France ahead of schedule, but when they surrounded Zhang Xu and wanted to ask for details, they found that Zhang Xu felt a little different to everyone.

At that time, everyone just thought that Zhang Xu was in a bad mood, so they didn't care. The only student she cared about was Luna, who followed Zhang Xu to the boys' dormitory, only to get down with her head in her arms shortly after.

When Zhang Xu left the common room shortly after, Luna said to the classmates next to her, "I think there is something wrong with Zhang. ”

The bystander asked curiously, "How do you know that there is something wrong with him?" ”

"He doesn't usually use a lot of force, but he used a lot of force today." Luna said, rubbing her head.

Except for a few senior students snickering on the sidelines, the surrounding students were speechless. Everyone could see that Zhang Xu was in a bad mood just now, after all, no one's house was burned to the ruins, and he deserved to be hit again if you provoked him at this time.

After walking back to his professor's office, Zhang Xu wrote several letters in a row and sent them through an owl.

It is not Zhang Xu's style to be beaten and not fight back, but the preparations must be done before starting.

So Zhang Xu's first letter was to Rita Skeeter, asking her to help collect and sort out the information on the Lestrange family's properties in various places.

Lucius Malfoy's hint is clear, this matter is inseparable from Bellatrix Lestrange, she is one of the key figures if not the leader of this operation, and it must be good to seek revenge on her anyway.

However, Bellatrix is the representative of the die-hard faction among the Death Eaters, and Lao Ma is one of the leaders of the Meritorious faction.

However, Zhang Xu is not afraid that this is the old horse who wants to borrow a knife to kill people, even if Voldemort orders the old horse to do this, Zhang Xu will also "kill".

Because no matter whether Lao Ma "borrowed a knife" or not, Zhang Xu definitely wanted to "kill".

As for whether the culprit is Bellatrix, Zhang Xu believes that he can get the answer tonight.

At dinner, many friends from other colleges came to condolence after seeing Zhang Xu come back, but they were persuaded to retire by Zhang Xu's dark face, and they dispersed after a few sentences.

When he walked out of the cafeteria after dinner, Zhang Xu found Malfoy who was walking towards the common room of the Snake Courtyard.

Zhang Xu walked up to Malfoy's side, put one hand around his shoulder, and whispered in his ear, "If I find out that this matter has something to do with your father, I don't mind tying you to a stone and then sending you to play with the big squid." Then maybe Professor Binns will get an assistant who is a good fit for him. ”

Then Zhang Xu turned around and walked out of the castle regardless of the pony classmate whose legs were so weak that he almost fell to the ground.

Just as Zhang Xu walked out of the castle, a voice behind him said to him, "This is not like you, Zhang." You don't look like someone who threatens your classmates. ”

Zhang Xu turned his head, glanced at the person who came behind him, and said, "Then are you going to deduct my academy points, or do you want to remove me from my position as acting professor, Mr. Senior Investigator?" ”

Percy walked up to Zhang Xu's side, patted Zhang Xu's shoulder, and said, "Let's go to the Three Broomsticks Bar for a drink." ”

"I think the Hog's Head Bar is more appropriate." Zhang Xu glanced at him and replied, "The Minister of Magic's loyal lackeys and Dumbledore's young thugs are conspiring in the bar, and that's how the front-page headlines of tomorrow's Daily Prophet will come out." ”

In the past few months, popular journalist Rita Skeeter and mysterious reporter Miranda Richardson have been scolding each other in the media, while giving other people various hats and nicknames. From Lupin to Zhang Xu to Percy, no one on either side could run away.

Seeing that she was obsessed with scolding her left hand and her right hand and enjoying it, Zhang Xu was very worried that she would become schizophrenic one day.

Percy ignored Zhang Xu's use of Miranda Richardson's "nickname" to make fun of him, and just said to Zhang Xu: "Letter from Mr. Minister, let me stabilize your emotions." ”

"Then you write back to Mr. Minister, saying that my mood has stabilized at 'irritable'." Zhang Xu waved his hand and said.

The rest of the road was silent until the two of them were about to get to the beating willow, Percy said, "My mother has two older brothers, Gideon Prewitt and Fabian Prewit. ”

"As far back as I can remember, they would come to the house almost every weekend and he would bring us a little gift every time he came. Bill, Charlie, Fred, George and I were very impressed with both of them. ”

"But when I was five years old, my uncles were killed by Death Eaters."

"At that time, our whole family was immersed in extreme grief, except for Ron, who was not very sensible at the time, and Ginny, who had just been born."

Fred and George, who were not yet four years old at the time, had already sensed that something was wrong in the atmosphere at home, and it was from then on that they began to play pranks on the people around them, trying to make the people around them happy.

When Ron was three years old, he accidentally broke the toy broomstick that his uncles had given Fred, and then Fred became angry and turned the teddy bear that Ron was holding into a spider. The other brothers and I were angry that Ron had broken the toys his uncles had given him, so we were all watching and no one was helping Ron. ”

After Percy's story was told, the two of them didn't say a word all the way and walked straight to the side of the beating willow.

Zhang Xu looked at Percy, then froze the beating willow, waved his hand with his back to Percy, and then got into the secret passage.

Percy stood aside and watched Zhang Xu burrow into the secret passage, and was there for a moment, then turned back to the castle.

At midnight, an owl flew out of the screaming shack and circled around the ruins of Zhang Xu's villa for nearly half an hour, and landed in the middle of the ruins after finding that no one was ambushed around.

After changing back into a human form from the South Owl, Zhang Xu immediately walked to the location of the living room of the previous house. The charcoal and ash on the floor were cleaned with a wand, revealing the original marble floor, which had been almost entirely burned to quicklime.

Continuing to clean up the debris on the ground, Zhang Xu found his target for the evening under a large piece of extraordinarily thick marble floor—a large black metal box.

Zhang Xu's villa is not an undefended house, and cats and dogs can be allowed to break in.

It's just that now that the entire villa has been burned down, there is basically no clue to the intruder to crack the defensive spell, so I can only look for clues from the "black box" of the defensive spell array.

The existence of this "black box" was only known to Zhang Xu, and he didn't even tell Furong.

If there is a device in this house that can monitor and record all the formations and "camera" operation records in the house in an all-round way, Zhang Xu will be killed by Zhang Qiu and Cedric the next day.

After putting away the "black box", Zhang Xu returned to Hogwarts after recovering the scene.

Just as Zhang Xu had not taken a few steps into Hogsmeade, Zhang Xu suddenly saw a familiar figure running towards him.