The blazing light caught Harry and Ron's attention.

Harry looked nervously back at the castle, wondering if the professors in the castle had noticed the anomaly.

Ron's mind was full of worry, the fire in the sky had dimmed the stars, the night on the horizon had turned orange-red as if it had been blown away, and Mr. Riddle had not returned.

After so many things, Ron's legs seemed to float up and turn into wisps of smoke, but his head was very heavy. But at this moment, he seemed to have forgotten the horror of the Forbidden Forest, and forgot his fear of spiders.

"No, Harry, I need to find her!" Ron said resolutely.

Mr. Riddle he didn't care, but Ginny—that's his sister!

"Let's go!" Harry didn't care about the exhaustion of his body, and didn't think that he had escaped death for less than a few hours, and without hesitation, he stood up with Ron, took a deep breath, and took another step in the direction of the Forbidden Forest with a resolute face.

But before the two of them could reach the edge of the Forbidden Forest, they saw a small shadow emerge from the jungle.

"Ginny!" Ron's heart pounded, as if it had suddenly regained its vitality, and he felt as if he was standing on the ground, and the soles of his feet were solid.

He rushed towards the shadow, tripped himself in a hurry, and rolled around in the mud. But that didn't stop him from moving forward, and he crawled to the ground at Cyrus's feet.

"You...... What are you doing? Cyrus didn't expect Ron to make such a big gift as soon as they met, and looked at him in surprise.

"You're alright, Ginny!"

"Not even a single hair hurts." Cyrus didn't correct Ron's title, but just reached out and shook his hair, indicating that he was safe: "Those spiders wouldn't let me go, thinking that they would drag me to death if there were too many of them, so I had to take a little time to kill them all." ”

He said something that scared both Harry and Ron a little, so much so that both silly kids suddenly realized that they were more worried about each other than about the spiders.

"All killed?"

"I'm sure Hagrid will be very sad when he's released from prison."

"Sad? Let those spiders eat us, maybe he won't be sad. Ron complained, "It's almost dawn, so let's hurry back." Otherwise, it would be bad for the professors to catch it. ”

Harry clothes Ron in the cloak of invisibility, and Cyrus casts a spell.

After returning to the Gryffindor tower, they didn't go back to their rooms, and simply rested against the couch in the common room. Cyrus fed Harry and Ron a large vial of vitality potion to refresh them a little. Harry also took advantage of the fact that the others hadn't gotten up to tell Cyrus his suspicions.

"It was indeed Myrtle who was killed fifty years ago, but I'm afraid she doesn't have any clues, or Hagrid's grievances would have been washed away." Sellers said apologetically.

"Don't feel guilty, it's not your fault, keeping an eight-eyed giant spider at school is no better than raising another monster." Ron still has a lot of grudges against Hagrid, but no one can be more forgiving in this situation.

"Anyway, let's give it a try." Harry didn't want to pass up the slightest opportunity.

"We were in the bathroom, three toilets away from her, and we couldn't even ask her." Ron said bitterly, "Now ......"

These days, looking for spiders is enough for them. Want to avoid the teacher for a long time and sneak into the girls' bathroom?

It's simply not possible!

Professor McGonagall forbids students to go to almost any place that is not related to their dormitories, classrooms, or auditoriums. Not to mention that this girl's bathroom is not elsewhere, but next door to the scene of the first attack-

"We can go over at night with the Cloak of Invisibility, just like today." Harry said.

"It's not the same inside the castle and outside the castle. And you can't communicate with Myrtle in an invisibility cloak, so she won't be happy. "She's so sensitive, she cries and makes trouble over the slightest thing, and she's sure to draw the professors in." You know what it says, Harry - murderers always come back to the scene of the crime - and we will be at a loss for words at that point. ”

Harry and Ron let out a wail at the same time.

Of course, Cyrus had a way for them to avoid the professors' gaze and communicate with Myrtle, but not yet, and he still had one last bit of preparation to complete.

Having sacrificed so many lives of the Eight-Eyed Spider, the Philosopher's Stone seems to have begun to take shape, but it will take a little time for it to completely condense. He also has to find an opportunity to hide the unformed "life" in the crucible into the room of requirement, waiting for the moment of real transformation.

And it won't be long.

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"I'm afraid it won't be long before Tom takes action."

Dumbledore stood at the edge of the Black Lake, looking at the ancient and huge castle shrouded in darkness from afar, on the other side of the Forbidden Forest, the glimmer of the morning light had slowly begun to drive away the darkness, and a faint mist filled the forest, but it would take a little time to wait for the sky to be completely bright.

Dumbledore waited.

More than a month has passed since he left Hogwarts, and he naturally hasn't done nothing.

These days, he first visited the school trustees to try to convince them to cancel their previous proposals. It was much easier than he had imagined, as several of the school trustees agreed to Malfoy's proposal not because they really wanted to get rid of him, but because they were threatened by Malfoy and forced to sign it.

Now, Dumbledore had obtained the school trustees' approval of his continued role as Headmaster, but he did not disclose the matter, let alone return to Hogwarts.

He's waiting for an opportunity to avoid startling the snake.

And he believes that time will come soon.

Even though he wasn't at Hogwarts, Dumbledore still had a variety of ways to get information about the school. Not to mention that three of the four Deans, led by Professor McGonagall, were loyal to him, and even Snape had no reason to betray him and return to the arms of the Dark Lord.

Not to mention, the fact that the decision of the school board did not affect the fact that he was the true "Headmaster" of Hogwarts Castle.

It looks as if he has been driven away, but in reality, the traps, portraits, and sculptures in the castle...... All loyal to him. He said to Harry at the time, "I only really left this school when everyone here betrayed me." "It's not just Harry.

Now, Dumbledore is waiting for a signal that he believes that Tom Riddle's character will not stop there, and that the next attack will show his true colors.

But before that, he has one last preparation to make.

He turned, and the dawn light rose behind him, like a cloak of morning light.