While Milton was in a very low mood, Scott and Roger's mood was also affected.

They weren't ready to leave until Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts.

Milton is still waiting to go to Austria to continue his musical dreams.

Although he has not yet officially decided whether or not to withdraw from Hogwarts, it can be said that he has already made this intention.

When it came to it, he told Scott and Roger, "I've talked to Professor Flitwick about this, and of course the professor's opinion is that I'd better hold on for another two years." ”

In short, Professor Flitwick, as a teacher, did not approve of him giving up his studies.

The professor thinks that two years is useful, and at least it can improve Milton's magic level to a certain extent, making him a more qualified wizard and thus have more self-preservation ability.

But Milton seems to be tired of all things wizarding and wants nothing more than to hide in his musical world.

This can also be said to be an escape.

But Scott didn't persuade or give any advice.

Although he sympathized with Milton's plight, he could not empathize, and no matter what he said, he scratched his boots.

Scott himself faced a bunch of trouble.

He even felt that many things were involved, and it was already a mess, and there was a lack of clarity in his head at this time.

In this situation, Scott felt that he also needed to calm down and think about it.

So he walked into the Responsive Room, Helena's study.

"Scott?"

Helena, the girl in the painting, was visibly surprised to see Scott.

"I remember it's summer vacation, why are you here?"

"Something happened."

Scott recounted the attacks they encountered in Austria.

"Oh, that's bad luck." Helena looked at him sympathetically, "I was originally happy to go to the concert, but I encountered this kind of thing. ”

"I'm used to it." Scott shrugged his shoulders.

In the past two years, he has always encountered endless accidents.

Helena then opens the door, and Scott enters the inner room to meet the Ravenclaw mentor in the painting.

"I heard you talking to Helena." The Ravenclaw in the painting speaks softly, "In order to avoid further repercussions, it seems that you have to find a way to solve some problems as soon as possible." ”

Scott nodded, "When I find the Caro siblings, I'll make them disappear." ”

Ravenclaw smiled, "It's not easy, not to mention whether you can find them or not, but more importantly, to prevent the other Death Eaters from finding out that you were the one who did it." ”

"It's not just Death Eaters." Scott said.

"Yes." Ravenclaw nodded slightly, "As far as I know, your Potions Professor is a double agent that Dumbledore has placed in the Death Eater Order. ”

Scott's eyebrows were raised, "This kind of thing...... Tell me that's it? ”

The smile on Ravenclaw's face didn't change at all, "You're my apprentice. ”

"Thank you." The smile on Scott's face widened.

I don't understand, no matter how complicated the situation becomes, the Ravenclaw Mentor is undoubtedly on his side.

At this time, Ravenclaw opened his mouth and asked him, "Do you have that sailor's astrolabe with you?" ”

"Oh, yes."

Scott remembered the thing and quickly pulled it out of the shape-shifting lizard's leather pouch.

"Put it in the very center of the room." The Ravenclaw in the painting instructs, "Then move that set of tables and chairs out, and of course, you go outside and wait." ”

Scott answered, placing the Sailor's Astrolabe on the ground, waving his wand to make the set of desks and chairs float and carry them outside.

Then, he saw that the small space was filled with dazzling blue-white light.

"Come in."

As the light faded out, Ravenclaw's body and mind came out.

Scott walked in again.

"It's harmless." Ravenclaw concluded, "Communicate more, and maybe you'll get something unexpected." ”

Scott immediately relieved himself and thanked him solemnly.

Ravenclaw said, "Now that you're here, go ahead and go on with your lessons." ”

Scott certainly has no objections.

However, the day's lesson lasted only half a day, and after lunch, Scott went to the crow territory in the forest alone to meet Rimbaud.

"No news yet."

In the oak cabin, Scott sits on the bed and listens to Rimbaud.

For a long time, the ravens have been helping to find Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr., as well as other Death Eaters, who have been in hiding, but have never found any trace of them.

Of course, the search for the Caro siblings will not go so smoothly this time.

"Did you find Malfoy Manor?" Scott asked.

He still remembers that Voldemort used Malfoy Manor as his command base after his resurrection in the "original book", and he doesn't know if that has changed now.

Rimbaud shook his head.

It said: "All English wizards know that the Malfoys are happy to party and are keen to throw balls at their estate, but oddly enough, they have recently become low-key. ”

Scott immediately understood, "This means that there are ghosts, and Voldemort may be hiding in Malfoy Manor." ”

Rimbaud said, "But it's clear that the location of a pure-blood wizard's estate is a secret. ”

"I think a lot of people know the address of Malfoy Manor." Scott had a flash of inspiration, "Mr. Weasley, for example." ”

As far as he knew, the Ministry of Magic had searched Malfoy Manor, and Mr. Weasley might have known the address.

"I'm going to write to Fred and George."

Scott sat up.

"No, they might be able to get it right...... But it might hurt them......"

He hesitated for a moment, then lay back down.

"Maybe there's another way."

Scott pulled out the identity card of the Scholars Alliance, unfolded the Book of Prometheus, and searched for the answer in the [Knowledge Bank].

"Nope." He wasn't discouraged, "but I can still offer a reward for the answer." ”

As soon as he thought of it, he anonymously hung up the question, thought about it, and offered a reward of 500 credits.

The next thing is to wait.

And he didn't have to wait long, the 500 credits were taken in a minute.

[Malfoy Manor is located 6 km north of the town of Wootton Basette, Wiltshire.] ］

The person answering the question is also anonymous.

"Good." Scott laughed.

Rimbaud also saw the answer, "Where shall I go and see?" ”

"No, there's a good chance you'll be discovered." Scott vetoed his offer, "Don't forget, Voldemort may be there, and you were once discovered by Medea." ”

Rimbaud hung his head in frustration.

"We don't know what kind of qualitative change a wizard's magic will bring if it is strong enough to reach the level of Voldemort or Dumbledore, in short, it is better to be careful."

Scott said as he thought.

"Leave it to me to spy on Malfoy Manor, and let the crows watch from the periphery first."

Ordinary crows are supposed to be unaware.

It just so happened that he could try the set of magic circuits he got from Ravenclaw on his birthday.

With an idea, Scott got busy.

He asked Rimbaud to send him back to Hogwarts Castle and begin to familiarize himself with the set of magic circuits.

In order to try to actually use the effect of this set of magic circuits earlier, he indulged all his time in this, and other things were temporarily ignored.

In the Ravenclaw common room, Scott writes at his desk, still silently reading.

Milton, on the other hand, sat in front of the window, also holding the cello and practicing.

Roger walked around the lounge one moment, lay on the couch the other, and played wizard chess with himself.

"I can't take it anymore!"

I don't know how long it took for Roger to complain loudly and wake up Scott and Milton, who were obsessed with studying and practicing.

"I'm so bored!"

Roger's tall, strong body writhed on the couch like a giant bear child.

"You can leave Hogwarts right now and enjoy your summer vacation." Scott looked up and said to him.

"Yes." Milton chimed in.

Unlike Scott and Milton, they stayed here because of something, and Roger could have left here to enjoy his summer and the Quidditch World Cup anyway.

"Hey! I'm here to be with you two! Roger shouted dissatisfiedly, "Do you treat a caring friend like this with righteousness?" ”

"Thank you, Roger." Milton laughed, "But you don't have to accompany us, really." ”

"But if you do decide to drop out, won't we not see each other for a long time?" Roger muttered.

Scott couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Laughing at what? What to laugh at? Roger yelled at him again.

Scott also laughed louder, "I want to ask you, what are you blushing about?" ”

"Oh......" Roger covered his face, "I think what I just said was a little sensual." ”

“……”

Scott was a little speechless.

"You don't blush when you talk about love." He glanced at Roger with disdain, "It's just that I can't bear to have anything to blush with my friends." ”

He was about to laugh at Roger when a flock of owls flew in through the window and threw a pile of letters and gifts in front of Scott.

"Oh......" Scott was a little surprised, "I just lifted the mask on my name this morning. ”

He took out some food to entertain the messengers, and began to look through the letters and gifts.

"Is this your late birthday present?" Roger walked up to him curiously.

Scott nodded, "Probably, I thought it wouldn't be, because I blocked my name." ”

"Look at who they are." Roger looked over, "Oh, Luna, the Weasley brothers, Potter, Cedric, Sawanna...... You're very popular. ”

"It's fine." Scott smiled.

He opened the letters and looked at them, and found that most of them contained a birthday card.

This was followed by gifts.

The gift Fred and George gave him was a ticket, a ticket to the Quidditch World Cup final.

They invited him to go with them, on August 22.

"Oh, tickets to the finals?" Roger hurriedly took it away and looked at it, "There is still a month before the finals, and the tickets are actually issued now?" I've got to get one now. Although it is not yet known which teams will compete in the final, the British team is promising this year......

Scott ignored his rumors that the British national team had missed the World Cup for 30 years and continued to unpack other gifts.

Luna's gift was a homemade necklace.

Compared to her homemade carrot earrings and butterbeer cork necklace, this necklace looks a little more normal.

It's certainly not so normal.

The chain of the necklace is made of silver, and there are white bones and brown eagle feathers of some unknown creatures hanging from them, as well as black crow feathers.

Harry's gift was a magazine, Transfiguration Today's first half of the book.

Sawana sent another golden acorn.

According to her, this fruit is different from the previous one, which sealed an attack spell, but this moment can heal injuries and can also be reused.

That's all there was to the gifts, and everyone else only gave greeting cards.

However, Scott was relieved that he would only need to return a greeting card for other people's birthdays.

You know, every Christmas in order to choose the right gift, it will give him a headache for a while.

With all the gifts and cards in place, Scott wrote a letter back to everyone.

Of course, some of them wrote a little more, briefly describing some recent situations, and some wrote less, just thank-you letters.

After spending a lot of time writing the letter, he went to the owl house of the school to send all the letters.

That afternoon, Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts.

In the evening, several professors and three students who remained at the school during the holidays had dinner together in the auditorium.

After dinner, Scott was about to talk to Dumbledore when there was a sudden thunder and lightning outside the window, and a torrential downpour.

"Oh! I can transform! ”

Scott stood up with some excitement.

"That's right." Professor McGonagall immediately said, "Now go retrieve your potion and try it under my watch." ”

"I'm going!"

Scott didn't say a word, and directly activated the door key.

"Rimbaud!"

When he arrives in Raven Territory, Scott first casts a waterproof spell on himself, and then asks Rimbaud to take him to the cliff where the potion is buried.

After using a spell to bring the large rock and dig the potion out of the ground, he asked Rimbaud to send him back to Hogwarts as quickly as possible.

The whole time, it was pouring rain from the sky, and even with the waterproof spell, Scott was still embarrassed.

When he returned to the auditorium, everyone was still waiting for him.

"You buried the potion in the Forbidden Forest?"

Professor McGonagall looked at him in a bit of embarrassment, and waved his wand to keep his body and clothes dry.

She didn't pay much attention to Scott's strange behavior of suddenly disappearing and riding a crow just now, but directly ordered, "Adjust your breathing and state, and then drink the potion, and I think you remember the rest of the steps, because I have told you many times." ”

Scott nodded his head.

He took a few deep breaths, then opened the potion bottle, tilted his head and drank the red liquid from the bottle.