Peeves' words caused an uproar in the crowd.

Dumbledore's expression suddenly became solemn, and he drove all the Gryffindor students to the Great Hall.

Under the professors' very tough emergency arrangement, the little wizards who had never seen this kind of battle acted very quickly and cooperated with the professors' work very well.

Only ten minutes had passed, and the students of Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin had also arrived in the auditorium with the Gryffindor students.

The auditorium suddenly became noisy, even more lively than the opening dinner, and many young wizards looked like they couldn't figure out what was going on.

"The professors and I are going to conduct a thorough search of the castle," Dumbledore said to the students, standing on a high platform in front of the Great Hall.

At this moment, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick closed all the doors of the Great Hall, and even the magic of the sky reflected on the ceiling of the Great Hall was closed, and an oppressive atmosphere permeated the entire Great Hall.

"For the safety of all students, tomorrow's class is temporarily suspended." Professor McGonagall informed, "I am asking the prefects to stand guard at the various entrances to the auditorium, and the male and female student council presidents to remain in charge of the auditorium."

"Report anything to me right away," she added, looking at Percy, who had already followed, and Percy looked proud of being an important person, "You can find a ghost to bring me a message."

The other young wizards had nothing to do, and began to discuss eagerly how Sirius Black had come to Hogwarts Castle.

"Who guessed that a wanted criminal ran into the castle?" Ron said to Harry and Hermione, "We thought this was the most unreliable guess, but we didn't expect it to be true!"

"Do you say Blake is still in the castle?" Hermione didn't bother to think about this kind of question, and asked anxiously in a whisper.

"Dumbledore apparently thinks so." Ron said.

"Harry's luck that he picked to come here today, you know?" Hermione said fearfully, "We were going out to practice magic today, and we weren't in the tower......

Not only was she scared of Harry, but she was also glad that her time-turner had been taken away by Professor Dracula.

Otherwise, by the time the professors ordered the young wizards to come to the Great Hall, there was a good chance that there would be two Hermiones in the castle.

Hermione was scared to think about.

What would happen if both Hermiones were dragged into the auditorium by the prefects and professors; What if she hadn't been spotted by the professors and prefects, and had chosen to stay where she was, and Sirius Blake had found out......

Thankfully, Professor Dracula took her time-turner and avoided the worst-case scenario.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione listened to the professors' speeches, walked straight to the corner of the Gryffindor table, pulled up a few chairs, sat down, and leaned their upper bodies on the table to whisper.

Harry's face was a little unnatural.

He knew that Sirius Black was trying to kill himself to win Voldemort's favor, so he sneaked into Hogwarts Castle.

In a sense, he didn't even bother the Hogwarts students from returning to the common room, and even caused tomorrow's classes to be stopped. ….

Harry could vaguely hear some trivial words from the Ravenclaw table next door, and it seemed that some Ravenclaw wizards were already complaining that he had caused Hogwarts to be suspended.

Even Ravenclaw, a college that usually gets along well, has people thinking like this, so Slytherin, a house that already has a big conflict with him, must not know how much cynicism he has to say......

"Don't care what they say, Harry." Hermione saw Harry's sadness and comforted, "It's not your fault, it's all Sirius Black's fault!"

"Yes, Harry, Blake must have been tortured by the Dementors in Azkaban to be mad enough to sneak into Hogwarts." Ron nodded approvingly, "Luckily I was motivated today and dragged Harry out to practice spells, otherwise I really don't know what would have happened!"

Said

Here, Ron's expression changed to a little pride, as if he had done a great deed to save the world.

Of course, after discussing other issues, the topic of the three young wizards inevitably returned to the same question tacitly - how did Sirius Blake get in?

"Maybe he knows how to dive," said a Ravenclaw student a few feet away, "just coming out of thin air, you know what I mean."

"Probably came in with makeup." A student in a Hufflepuff house robe said.

Harry turned his head, only to realize that it was Rove and Luna who had come together at some point to join the conversation, and looked at Harry with a look of concern.

They all knew that Sirius Black had come to Hogwarts with one purpose, and that was to find Harry!

As a result, Harry's friends were worried about him.

Harry greeted them and said he was okay and didn't need to worry about him.

"Or else...... Maybe he flew in." Dean Thomas, who was sitting not far from the Gryffindor table, also leaned over and gave his guess.

"Honestly, am I the only one who hasn't been afraid to read Hogwarts, a piece of school history?" Hermione said angrily to the little wizards around her.

"Quite possibly." Ron nodded solemnly, "But why did you mention this all of a sudden? We all know you're good, Hermione, you really don't have to do it again."

"It's not because of this!" Hermione glared at Ron viciously, "Hogwarts, A School History mentions Hogwarts' protective magic, and if you read it carefully, you won't have so many unreliable guesses!"

"The castle is not only protected by the walls but also by the hardware," she explains, "and the castle is enchanted to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. You can't get in with the latent form alone."

"And I'd like to see what kind of makeup can fool the Dementors outside the door. These guys guard every entrance...... Even if he flew in on a broomstick, the Dementors would be easy to see."

"Not only that, but Filch knows all the secret passages in the castle, and the Dementors will block them all......

[In view of the general environment, under Hermione's explanation, the young wizards quickly lost interest in continuing the discussion.

After all, Hogwarts' various defenses have been targeted against all possible infiltration methods, and with the young wizards' shallow knowledge of magic, it is difficult to guess what reliable solutions there are.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Harry leaned on the table a little bored, "Instead of talking about this, let's talk about what we can do in the Great Hall...... If we don't have classes all tomorrow, we'll get bored very quickly."

"Look at it, at least we came to the auditorium without anything," Ron looked a little happy, "we don't even have parchment, and we have a reason not to write any homework that we haven't turned in!"

However, it was clear that things would not turn out the way he had imagined.

Dumbledore lingered in the Great Hall for a while, and when he saw that there was nothing wrong here, he was about to leave the Great Hall when he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, by the way, you may need these things......" He waved his wand at random, and countless pieces of parchment flew in from nowhere, stacked on the table in front of each of the young wizards.

With a few more waves, the corresponding quill and ink appeared next to the parchment.

"Study hard!" Dumbledore smiled and said, "The more nervous you are, the more you can't forget to study! With these pens and papers, it will also help you pass some boring time."

Looking at the parchment and quill neatly laid out in front of him, Ron's eyes widened, and his expression fell into complete numbness.

……

Under Dumbledore's command, all the faculty members moved.

They searched the entire Hogwarts castle in detail, and there was not a single corner

Let it go, but Sirius Blake disappeared as if out of thin air, completely disappeared without a trace.

"You don't have to keep the professors running around."

After Dumbledore had personally searched the entire eighth floor, Dracula's figure suddenly appeared behind him.

Dumbledore turned and looked at him inquiringly.

"Why do you have professors patrolling around the castle when you know I can see the whole castle through the Hogwarts title deed?" Dracula asked, frowning.

"Sometimes, even if you know you can't find Sirius Black, you still have to do the work." Dumbledore turned around and chuckled softly.

"The Ministry of Magic staff still has those Dementors, but we're waiting for us to make a mistake in our work so we can come in and take over Hogwarts!"

"If we don't do anything, the people in the Ministry of Magic will think that my headmaster is incompetent, and even the faculty and staff are likely to be disputed. So, Professor Dracula, this round of search is quite necessary, whether or not the results of the search can be found." Dumbledore said.

"Tsk, that's why I'll just say, people like you are really troublesome, and you will always be hindered by a department like the Ministry of Magic that has no strength at all." Dracula scoffed, "There are so many twists and turns, it's annoying to listen to!" ….

"Sometimes, it's not a bad thing for a person to be constrained." Dumbledore smiled a little sentimental, "Let's not mention that, tell me what you found on the title deed, Professor Dracula."

"If I find something, I'll be bored and you'll be here foolish?" Dracula pouted, "It's not just that I didn't find any useful information this time, but I also checked the title deed once before using the time converter, and I didn't find any suspicious figures at all......

"I guess that time would have coincided with Sirius Blake's destruction of that portrait!"

"In this way, this Blake is an interesting man, who can escape the heavily guarded Azkaban and infiltrate the heavily guarded Hogwarts castle without being detected."

Dracula curled the corners of his mouth with interest, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Sirius was indeed a pretty good wizard." Dumbledore bowed, "But I never thought he had what it took to infiltrate Hogwarts and escape Azkaban...... Maybe I don't know much about him."

He sighed, his hands on the marble railing next to him, and fell into deep thought.

"Actually, it's not like we didn't have a way to catch Sirius Black......" Dracula glanced at Dumbledore meaningfully, and whispered, "You know what I mean, Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore looked back in amazement and saw Dracula's eyes full of meaning.

"No!" He decisively refused, "That's not what we used the time turner!"

"But the Time Turner makes it easy for us to find Sirius Black—" Dracula said, "just hide in front of the Gryffindor common room and wait for the rabbit."

"Don't you want to catch him and ask him about the past? Or rather...... Don't you want the little wizards to go back to the common room and get a good night's sleep?"

Dracula's two questions hit Dumbledore's mind in quick succession.

There is no doubt that both of these issues are the things that the old principal needs to solve urgently.

His old hand was in his coat pocket, gently rubbing the time-turner that Dracula had handed over not long ago, and he hesitated.

"Don't hesitate, Dumbledore, do you want to wait for the maximum time of five hours to pass and you won't have a chance to use it before you regret it?" Dracula urged.

Dumbledore unconsciously clenched the metal necklace on the time-turner.

The cold temperature of the necklace gradually made his eyes a little dazed, as if he had returned to decades ago, clutching the cold blood alliance tightly.

Thinking of the Blood Alliance, Dumbledore suddenly came to his senses

Come here.

"Still don't have to, Professor Dracula." He smiled sadly, "The rules are like a dangerous wall that keeps me from falling, and once I break it, I can't re-erect it."

He looked Dracula in the eye and whispered, "Actually, don't feel sorry. After all, the residual energy in this time turner is simply not enough for a great wizard to perform another time relapse."

"Forget it, I should have thought of it." Dracula walked over to Dumbledore, leaning against the railing next to the hallway, "You guy looks casual, but you're actually stubborn to the core."

"Tell me, how are you going to deal with the threat of Sirius Black?" He asked, "Don't tell me anything, 'Take it one step at a time, or something irresponsible, I don't believe you don't have a backup plan."

"I can't hide it from you, Professor Dracula." Dumbledore smiled and said, "I'm going to get James and Sirius's best friend back then, he's the one who knows Sirius best now."

"I finally got in touch with him a while ago, and he should be in Romania now. Coincidentally, it seems like it's still Professor Dracula's home field!"

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