Chapter 46: Sickness
After the guy released the Black Thorn Charm, the strong magic fluctuations and sharp shouts immediately alarmed Mr. Bagman, who was in the office, and after a short period of shock, Mr. Bagman immediately came out of the office, and then went down the spiral staircase to the corridor around the corner, and ran around the corner to see Melinda lying on the ground, which took a very short time, maybe not even a minute, in this short less than a minute, where could the perpetrator go?
Everyone followed the strange footprints with solemn expressions, and found that he ran quickly to a window that was not too wide around the corner, and then the footprints disappeared, and he fled through the window?
Bagman stepped forward and looked through the window and found that the floor was very high above the ground, and if a normal person jumped out of the window, he could directly collect the corpse! Outside the window was a deep forbidden forest, and a thick fog shrouded the forest, which basically eliminated the possibility of eyewitnesses.
Gryffindor also stuck his head out of the window, looked around, and said hesitantly, "He must have escaped through the window, could it be an Animagus?"
Slytherin nodded, and said, "Quite possibly, if you turn into a flying animal, then you can calmly get out of here without worrying about being discovered by anyone, it seems that this guy is very tricky!
"As long as there is a clue left, there is a chance that he will be caught, unless he has left Hogwarts, it is impossible to escape my tracking" Gryffindor is the best wilderness hunter, and his ability at tracking is unmatched by very few people.
"I'm worried that this Dark Wizard has left school, but why would he attack a normal Hufflepuff first-year, is there anything about that girl that deserves a well-hidden Dark Wizard to expose himself?" asked Gryffind, frowning.
At this time, Mr. Bagman muttered for a moment and whispered, "When Lord Hufflepuff was treating that girl, I found that he had a fragment of a basic book on spellcasting gestures, which I lent to Mr. Trelawney."
Hearing this answer, everyone's eyes were focused on Hugo's head again, Hugo's heart jumped, in front of His Excellency Ravenclaw, he had no intention of dragging Helena into the water at all, if this cold Excellency knew that her baby daughter might be Hugo's substitute ghost, then she didn't hate Hugo!
"It seems that Melinda borrowed the book, and I told everyone who borrowed the book that it was best to return the book to Teacher Bagman before next week, she should have come to return the book, but I didn't expect it... This will happen" Hugo's face was very pale at this time, as if he was frightened by the continuous changes, and lowered his head so that people could not see his face clearly.
Slytherin's brow furrowed, and he said slowly, "So his target is Mr. Trelawney, but why is this dark wizard waiting for you here? Are you going to return the book today? Have you talked to anyone about when you plan to return the book?"
Hugo was stunned for a moment, shook his head involuntarily, and felt that something was wrong, even if he didn't lend the book to others, he might not return the book today, could it be that this dark wizard has been waiting here to ambush Hugo in the past few days? This is too time-consuming! And there is a possibility of encountering Teacher Bagman at any time, such an elite dark wizard who can lurk in Hogwarts should not do such a stupid move!
"If that's the case, then the chances of this dark wizard ambushing Mr. Trelawney are not very good, in that case, there is only one explanation, and that is that his target was Melinda in the first place!"
Gryffindor was stunned and asked, "But why did this dark wizard kill Melinda? I don't think there's anything unusual about this little girl!"
Slytherin smiled lightly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and a twinkle in his eyes: "This question is very simple, we just need to catch that dark wizard and ask him directly?"
"Yes, Professor Bagman, let all the students gather in the Great Hall, and we will find him out and see what this dark wizard is trying to do?
"Yes, Lord Gryffindor"
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Soon all the wizards who remained at the school were gathered in the lobby, and Hugo was standing in the crowd of first-year people, next to Will and Helena, who at this time did not look very well, and looked very unwell, as if she was sick.
"Helena, what's wrong with you?" asked Hugo whispered beside her, and the whole hall was filled with the sound of buzzing conversation, which had never happened before at all, so all the students were talking to each other.
Helena didn't look very good, and said sickly, "Stupid! Of course I'm sick, don't you see me so unwell?"
She's sick, so she asked Melinda to return the book to Teacher Bagman!
"Hugo, do you know why we all have to meet here all of a sudden?" Helena asked Hugo casually, holding her chin with one hand and her eyelids drooping listlessly.
After a short silence, Hugo said lightly: "It's not very clear, it should be an important thing" If Helena knew that Melinda was seriously injured and almost died because she went to return the book, I don't know what she would think, and Hugo didn't want an 11-year-old child to feel too guilty, at least Hugo didn't want to be the 'villain' who leaked the news.
Of course, he knew that so many wizards were concentrated here to catch the dark wizard, but Hugo had already secretly noticed it just now, and the dark wizard didn't care about the second-year students, he should have known that he was very likely to be exposed after the shot, so he had already left the school.
Lord Gryffindor cast a tracking spell in the hall according to the footprints left by the dark wizard, a blue light swept over everyone's feet, but found no matching the footprints in the corridor, as expected, nothing was found, after this all the wizards who returned to the school one after another, were gathered in the auditorium, but still did not find the dark wizard, it seems that the guy must have left the school.
Then the heads of all the grades began to check the students of their own grade, and found that among the students of Hufflepuff House in the second year group, there was one student who was usually silent and not at all conspicuous, and almost all of his classmates had a very flat impression of him, the most decent kind of student, who would never be praised or noticed.
The dark wizard who had taken the Polyjuice Potion had finally left Hugo's side, as long as he didn't hide from his students, there was not much danger to Hugo.
It seems that this crisis is over, but why is there no sense of relief?