Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

Harry searched the secret room carefully for nearly two hours, from the floor to the wall to the ceiling, he carefully observed it, but found nothing.

On the other side, Zhang Xu, who pretended to be trying to find clues, but actually touched the fish all night, was already yawning there.

"I didn't find any clues tonight." Harry said to Zhang Xu with a bit of reluctance.

I tossed so hard at the beginning tonight, but in the end I got nothing.

"I think you should bring Professor Dumbledore over next time." Zhang Xu said to Harry, "Maybe he can find something that we haven't."

Harry felt that what Zhang Xu said was quite reasonable, and after seeing the slightly tired expression on his face, he decided to stop tonight's actions.

After finishing this anticlimactic operation, Zhang Xu went back to his dormitory to wash up and go to sleep, but the little clue found in the passage made the trio of Harry think.

For other things, I will go to Lao Deng when Zhang Xu is free and ask him what he thinks.

The days that followed returned to normal.

Hogwarts students had their first Quidditch match of the school year.

Off-campus, the only good news was the new Knight Buses coming into service, and other than that, there was little to cheer the wizards up.

Since the last search operation in the Chamber of Secrets was almost unsuccessful, the Harry trio has stepped up their surveillance of Malfoy.

Hermione, who wasn't very interested in Quidditch, even found an excuse of not feeling well, so she didn't go to watch the match between her house and the Snake House. Instead, she hid in the dormitory and watched Malfoy's actions with the Marauder's Map. .

After Voldemort's public appearance at the end of last school year, Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic went through a series of transactions, and most of the education orders issued by then Minister of Magic Fudge and most of the orders of Senior Inquisitor Percy Weasley were revoked.But both parties had forgotten to revoke Percy's ban on Draco Malfoy from Quidditch for life.

Even now that Malfoy has won a Medal of the Order of Merlin, this prohibition is still valid.During the period, Malfoy wrote to the Ministry of Magic to respond to this problem, but all those letters were thrown into the sea.

In Harry's eyes, when almost all the students in the school watched the Quidditch match, it was the best time for Malfoy to make troubles.

As a result, Hermione saw on the Marauder's map that Malfoy did not leave their college common room, and only saw Zhang teasing Mrs. Norris and Crookshanks on the balcony of the corridor for a long time, as well as Larry Fu ran to the top of the Astronomy Tower.

It was late at night, and the trio of Zhang Xu and Harry, who had been approved by the vice-principal, Professor McGonagall, to go to the centaur tribe to attend the wedding of Firenze, were returning to Hogwarts Castle after attending the wedding.

The centaur's wedding opened the eyes of Harry's trio, and they feasted on all kinds of fruits and mushrooms that are rarely eaten on weekdays.

As for why tropical and subtropical products such as sugar cane, pineapple, watermelon, pomelo, mangosteen, and custard apples appeared at the wedding banquet, Zhang Xu asked the three of them to ask Scarlet.

Several people walked and chatted in the Forbidden Forest, and the topic changed from today's Quidditch match to Katie Bell, the Lion Chaser who was injured because of the opal necklace.

As the captain of the Lion House Quidditch team, Harry recently wrote a letter to Katie Bell to find out about her physical condition. He said to several people around him: "Katie Bell is sending St. She has been well taken care of in the hospital and is recovering very quickly, and I think she will be back after the Christmas break."

"Have you found the murderer?" Zhang Xu asked Harry and the others.

Since Katie Bell's accident, the students in Hogwarts have once again embarked on a journey to solve the crime together, and the Harry trio has participated in many of them as the parties involved.

It's just that Zhang knew about the murderer early in the morning, and it was only 260 days before the college entrance examination, so he didn't get involved.

Now I don't know what step this group of tried and tested students have achieved, so Zhang Xu asked curiously.

"You are one of the suspects." Hermione said to Zhang Xu.

The stunned Zhang Xu almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Why me?" Zhang Xu asked in confusion.

"Because no one saw you anywhere else in Hogsmeade when someone handed that necklace to Katie Bell." Hermione explained to Zhang Xu.

Looking at Zhang Xu who was in a daze, Hermione continued to explain: "We spent a long time doing investigations, most of the people who went to Hogsmeade had two or more people who could prove that the other party was not in the three In the ladies' room at the Broom Bar."

"And a handful of people, including you, did not have an alibi for that time."

"Very good, very powerful." Zhang Xu nodded and said to Hermione, "This method of relying on the masses and mobilizing them to carry out a step-by-step investigation is very good. I think the culprit is likely to be among the suspects you found."

Then Zhang Xu looked at Harry and asked, "Looking at Harry's actions, I think Malfoy is also among them."

"Malfoy said that he took a detour from the residential area to the Owl Post Office, but few students would go to the residential area, so there are no witnesses to prove whether his words are true or false." Hermione replied.

"Then what about the others?" Zhang Xu asked.

Hermione obviously played a huge role in the investigation, which details the details, she said: "There was a couple claiming they were upstairs at the Hog's Head, and the owner of the Hog's Head refused to answer any of our questions."

"A seventh-grade student claimed that he was looking for a house to rent in a residential area and planned to move there after graduation."

At this moment, Zhang Xu was sure that the students had not communicated with the Aurors, otherwise they would have narrowed their targets down to Zhang Xu and Malfoy.

"I think the one looking for the house is innocent." Zhang Xu said to Hermione, "He asked me before whether the house was rented or not."

"Then what about you?" Hermione looked at Zhang Xu and asked, "No one saw you for a long time that day."

"I was on the second floor of that coffee shop at the time, and all the waiters in the shop could testify for me." Zhang Xu said.

Zhang Xu's ability to go to the second floor of the coffee shop was something that many people knew and envied and hated. Hermione believed him when he said that.

Zhang Xu continued: "Have you ever thought about the Imperius Curse or Compound Potion? If the real murderer uses these two methods, then it is very likely that others will become scapegoats."

"So now our investigation is deadlocked." Hermione said, "Now we can only guess the target of the murderer, and then deduce who the murderer is."

Hearing this, Zhang Xu was relieved. No wonder Harry chased Malfoy's ass to investigate, while Hermione and Ron's opposition was limited. It was because Malfoy's motivation was sufficient.

"Who has such a big feud with who in the school now." Zhang Xu said.

At this time, Ron, who had been silent by the side, let out two "hehe".

Hermione glared at Ron and said, "Say what you know, don't act like you know but don't want to say it."

"I'm fine here, it has nothing to do with this matter." Zhang Xu said to Ron.

Now Hermione and Harry were both confused by Zhang Xu's words.

"You just spared them like that," Ron asked in surprise.

"This step is enough." Zhang Xu replied.

Ron said "Oh" and fell silent.

Hermione looked at the two people who were playing charades and didn't know what to say for a while. This kind of situation didn't just happen to Ron. Many students of the magic family, including Neville, had similar behaviors. Everyone was thinking about something. tacit understanding.But whenever Hermione asked them, they kept tight-lipped.

The grievances and grievances between Zhang Xu and those families can be seen by other families, but Zhang Xu didn't want to make a plot of retribution, so he asked Dumbledore to come forward to control public opinion.

Zhang Xu glanced at Harry who was also confused, and said to him: "If you want to know about this, you can ask Black, I think he should know about it."

Regardless of Hermione who was about to go crazy, Zhang Xu changed the topic to preventing the next attack.

At this time, Zhang Xu and his party had already reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest. They suddenly saw a figure moving under the moonlight, and the possibility of Hagrid was first ruled out from the figure's size.

Zhang Xu and the others took out their wands one after another, and spread out to surround them from several directions.

The figure stood under the shade of the tree that the moonlight could not reach, making Zhang Xu and the others unable to see each other's face clearly.

The next moment, four curses were shot at the figure at the same time.