Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts
Chapter 142 The clues gradually connected
There was a red mark on his forehead, which was undoubtedly a very distinctive feature. Ender was delighted. With this clue, he wanted to find out this foodie who had entered the Malfoy Manor in the British wizarding world, which had a small population. Dead Apostles are much simpler.
"Besides, are there any other characteristics? Dobby." Of course, it would be great if there were more clues.
Unfortunately, the elf shook his head and said: "No, Dobby has told you everything he knows, sir."
This made Andre a little disappointed, but compared to the previous confusion, the situation now is much better. At least he has a direction for investigation.
"Dobby has to go, Dobby should go home." But at this moment, Dobby suddenly moved his huge ears, and then murmured.
Before Andre could stop him, he saw the house elf turn around, make a slight 'bang' sound, and completely disappear from the ward. Apparently he had left Hogwarts by apparating.
Immediately afterwards, the door to the room was pushed open, and Sirius walked in. He spotted Andre immediately: "Andre? Why are you here?"
"Um..." Andre was so focused on Dobby that he didn't notice the footsteps outside the door. He didn't know how to explain it at this moment.
Fortunately, Sirius was not Snape. He did not scold Andre for this, but continued to ask: "It's my turn to watch the night in the castle tonight, so I wanted to come over and see Harry. By the way, I seemed to hear it before I came in." To the other voice, no, not you, Andre."
"That's a house elf." Harry, of course, would not hide his godfather. He immediately revealed the matter about Dobby: "Didn't I tell you that Ron and I were unable to wear clothes when school started? Do you drive Mr. Weasley's car only after crossing the wall at platform nine and three-quarters? I just found out today that the person who enchanted that wall was the house elf just now."
Sirius turned his gaze to Andre with some doubts. It wasn't that he didn't trust Harry, but these words were indeed a bit strange.
"Harry is right. In fact, during today's game, I discovered that the Bludger that hit Harry had been tampered with, but my counter-spell on it had no effect. At that time, I guessed it was It's not the magic of goblins or house elves, because we discovered with Kreacher before that the magic system of house elves is completely different from that of our wizards, and they can even ignore the existence of the anti-Apparition spell." Fortunately, Ender Lie became a witness for Harry. He said: "And I was worried that Harry would encounter the guy who had tampered with the Bludger before when he was alone in the infirmary. That's why he left the Gryffindor tower in the middle of the night. Sneak out."
Although this explanation was a bit far-fetched, Sirius didn't care too much. He didn't pay much attention to school rules. What's more, the person standing in front of him was Andre, and he never regarded him as an ordinary boy. See it as a wizard.
But he was still confused about the house elf they were talking about: "But why did the elf you mentioned stop Harry from coming to school? And why did he mess with the Bludger in today's game? "
"The elf's name is Dobby, and he is from the Malfoy family," Andre explained, but before he could finish his words, Sirius' eyes widened and he roared: "It's Lucius Malfoy. That bad guy instigated him!?"
"No," Andre shook his head helplessly. Like Harry, when he heard the name Malfoy, Sirius immediately felt like dynamite being lit. "In fact, Dobby was not influenced by Malfoy. It was because of his own instigation that he heard something at Malfoy's house, so he specifically prevented Harry from coming to Hogwarts on the first day of school. And his actions today were actually out of good intentions. He wanted to get Harry out of his way. Injury so that he can be sent home from school."
After repeating what Dobby told them, Sirius felt more and more confused: "I still don't understand, even if what the house elf said is true, why did he come all the way to help Harry? ?You didn’t know him before, right?”
"Regarding this, I think it is difficult for us to understand the thoughts of an elf, but according to his own statement, he felt that Harry defeated the mysterious man back then and won a chance to breathe for these people on the edge of the magical world. , so he ran here specifically for Harry's safety regardless of his master's position." Andre gave a rough analysis of Dobby's motives.
Sirius suddenly felt as if he was laughing. It was really a big joke that such an alien could appear among the house elves who were always loyal to their master. Compared with Kreacher in Black's old house, it was really a big joke.
"But Voldemort..." Originally, Sirius wanted to say Voldemort's name directly, but Andre immediately stopped him. Now it is no different than before. The Voldemort who possessed Quirrell last semester was just a lingering figure. It doesn't look like it has much magic power at all.
However, at the moment, he does not know how much strength the Dark Lord found from the Albanian forest by the Free Magic Union has recovered. If the other party is resurrected two years in advance, then he can no longer treat him with the same attitude as before.
You must know that the name of the Dark Lord is enchanted. Without Dumbledore, the greatest white wizard of this century, present, Andre does not want to be perceived by him because of a name.
"Okay, mysterious man, wasn't he defeated by you last semester? But according to the elf, he came back so soon? Although I don't know much about his injuries, but last time he accumulated ten It took several years to possess Quirrell and return to Hogwarts, but this time it has only been less than half a year."
Andre couldn't tell him about the Free Magic Guild, so he could only say vaguely: "On this point, I think we would rather believe that it exists than that it doesn't exist. After all, it is the Dark Lord, even if there is only ten thousand If there is a possibility, we should also be fully prepared.”
This made Sirius nod in agreement: "That's right. You can't be too cautious in this regard. I did not think carefully enough just now."
"By the way, regarding what Dobby told us, the identity of the wizard with the red mark on his forehead must be found out as soon as possible, otherwise I'm worried that more accidents will continue to happen in the school." Since Sirius happened to run into this incident So Andrei naturally entrusted him with the investigation task. After all, the professors at Hogwarts always had higher investigation efficiency than just a student like him. He would not even have a chance to walk out of the school in an honest manner. .
"Of course there's no problem with that, but I still don't understand. The Death Eater you're talking about, how can he take you two away from the school?" Sirius frowned and nodded, "Near the castle. They all have anti-Apparition spells, and Professor Dumbledore stays here most of the time. They don’t think they can easily complete this plan by just sending a few people into the school from Hogsmeade, do they?”
Andre hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the story about the disappearing cabinet. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to gain the trust of others just relying on the information provided by Dobby.
"At the end of October, that is, on the night of Halloween, a few of us went to the death anniversary dinner hosted by Nearly Headless Nick. You should know about this, right?"
Hearing this question, Sirius smiled and said: "Yes, at that time I was curious why you were not found in the auditorium. It was the Weasley twins who told me, although I know that most young wizards are very interested in ghosts and the like. Interested, but I have to say that you made a wrong decision, their banquet is obviously not prepared for living people."
This made Andre smile bitterly. In fact, if Nick hadn't spared no effort to help before, he would not have agreed to attend that messy dinner.
"The ghosts' dinner is indeed very different from that of us living people, but what I want to say is not that, but that during that dinner, a ghost from Knockturn Alley provided Nick with a very useful message."
"He told Nick that one late night not long ago, he saw someone resisting a boy wearing a Hogwarts uniform from Bojin Bock's shop, and that time coincided with the day Jerome disappeared. , I have every reason to suspect that Jerome was sent to Bojinbok.”
"How is this possible!?" Sirius exclaimed in surprise.
"Actually, this possibility exists," Andre said calmly: "I don't know if you know it, but there was originally a disappearing cabinet on the second floor of the school?"
"You mean the big iron cabinet on the second floor?" Sirius recalled it carefully and said, "I didn't know that was actually a disappearing cabinet. That thing is not common."
"Yes, but I have read similar introductions in alchemy books. I am pretty sure that it is a disappearing cabinet. It is just that it was originally in a state of disrepair. Normally, students will not be teleported even if they accidentally get into it. To other places." Andre continued: "But when I learned from Nick that Jerome appeared at the door of Bojinbok's shop, I immediately thought of that cabinet. After all, if I wanted to leave the castle, I could The options are very limited, especially since we saw Jerome in the Great Hall in the morning, but he disappeared from the Marauder's Map at noon."
Sirius's expression became serious. If Andre's guess is correct, it is not just as simple as Jerome's disappearance. The disappearing cabinet is not one-way. If the cabinet on the second floor of the castle is really Being connected to the Borgin Bock store in Knockturn Alley means that people from outside can enter Hogwarts from there at any time.
"But when I went to the second floor to look for the iron cabinet the next morning, I found nothing."
"What do you mean? You mean the cabinet on the second floor is missing?"
"Yes, I searched all the corridors and rooms on the second floor, but I couldn't find that cabinet." Andre nodded.
Sirius took a breath and said, "In other words, someone in the castle secretly hid that cabinet?"
This is an obvious thing, and Andre already has a suspect, the mysterious girl he bumped into twice at the door of the Room of Requirement, but he doesn't want to say it yet. After all, the Room of Requirement is related to his hiding last year. Norbert's problem.
In addition, this secret room that only a few people knew about was something that he would often use in the castle in the future. It didn't matter that Dumbledore, the headmaster who didn't care much, knew about it, but if Professor McGonagall and the others found out about it, then don't think about it anymore. Consider it a secret base.
"I think the person who attacked Flint and caused Jerome's disappearance is actually the same person, and his ultimate goal is actually to kidnap Harry and me and deliver them to the mysterious man."
"But we still don't know who attacked Flint. There are no clues left on the path outside the castle." Sirius also agreed with this inference, but it didn't seem to matter if he knew that the murderer behind the scenes was the same person. After all, the professors in the school had made the same guess a long time ago.
But the point of Andre's words was not actually that the murderer was a person: "Have you forgotten what I said before? It was a wizard with a red mark on his forehead who went to Malfoy's manor. Dobby was I overheard what he said and learned that someone was secretly planning to kidnap Harry and me."
"You mean?" Sirius seemed aware.
"If our speculation just now is correct and the other party plans to use the disappearing cabinet as a necessary item for the operation, then there is no doubt that the person who moved the cabinet in the castle must be connected with the wizard who appeared in Malfoy Manor. "Andre continued his analysis.
"I understand, so what you are saying is that as long as we find the wizard with the red mark on his forehead, we can follow the clues and find out who caused these accidents in the castle." Sirius said suddenly.
Andre also smiled and nodded: "It's very possible, and we can further narrow the scope and focus the search on the immediate family members of the students, especially those who followed the mysterious man during his reign. His people, I know there are still many such people in the British wizarding world today. Most of them escaped trial by relying on various lies or political donations after the war, but I am afraid they have never realized what they have done for themselves in the past. Things to repent of.”
"Yes, so I have always felt that it was a pity that Professor Dumbledore did not become the Minister of Magic. If he had assumed this position, then those Death Eaters would have had no room to escape." Sirius Sighing, "Forget it, I shouldn't discuss this with you two children. In addition, Andre, I will investigate the clues you told me today, and of course, I will also pass them on to Mag Professor. After all, this matter is related to the safety of the school and the two of you."
This was also what Andre expected. Sirius is now still the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Even though he has never liked to follow the rules, he still has at least a sense of responsibility, otherwise he would not have followed him back then. James Potter and the others joined the Order of the Phoenix and resisted Voldemort's rule.
"Besides, are there any other characteristics? Dobby." Of course, it would be great if there were more clues.
Unfortunately, the elf shook his head and said: "No, Dobby has told you everything he knows, sir."
This made Andre a little disappointed, but compared to the previous confusion, the situation now is much better. At least he has a direction for investigation.
"Dobby has to go, Dobby should go home." But at this moment, Dobby suddenly moved his huge ears, and then murmured.
Before Andre could stop him, he saw the house elf turn around, make a slight 'bang' sound, and completely disappear from the ward. Apparently he had left Hogwarts by apparating.
Immediately afterwards, the door to the room was pushed open, and Sirius walked in. He spotted Andre immediately: "Andre? Why are you here?"
"Um..." Andre was so focused on Dobby that he didn't notice the footsteps outside the door. He didn't know how to explain it at this moment.
Fortunately, Sirius was not Snape. He did not scold Andre for this, but continued to ask: "It's my turn to watch the night in the castle tonight, so I wanted to come over and see Harry. By the way, I seemed to hear it before I came in." To the other voice, no, not you, Andre."
"That's a house elf." Harry, of course, would not hide his godfather. He immediately revealed the matter about Dobby: "Didn't I tell you that Ron and I were unable to wear clothes when school started? Do you drive Mr. Weasley's car only after crossing the wall at platform nine and three-quarters? I just found out today that the person who enchanted that wall was the house elf just now."
Sirius turned his gaze to Andre with some doubts. It wasn't that he didn't trust Harry, but these words were indeed a bit strange.
"Harry is right. In fact, during today's game, I discovered that the Bludger that hit Harry had been tampered with, but my counter-spell on it had no effect. At that time, I guessed it was It's not the magic of goblins or house elves, because we discovered with Kreacher before that the magic system of house elves is completely different from that of our wizards, and they can even ignore the existence of the anti-Apparition spell." Fortunately, Ender Lie became a witness for Harry. He said: "And I was worried that Harry would encounter the guy who had tampered with the Bludger before when he was alone in the infirmary. That's why he left the Gryffindor tower in the middle of the night. Sneak out."
Although this explanation was a bit far-fetched, Sirius didn't care too much. He didn't pay much attention to school rules. What's more, the person standing in front of him was Andre, and he never regarded him as an ordinary boy. See it as a wizard.
But he was still confused about the house elf they were talking about: "But why did the elf you mentioned stop Harry from coming to school? And why did he mess with the Bludger in today's game? "
"The elf's name is Dobby, and he is from the Malfoy family," Andre explained, but before he could finish his words, Sirius' eyes widened and he roared: "It's Lucius Malfoy. That bad guy instigated him!?"
"No," Andre shook his head helplessly. Like Harry, when he heard the name Malfoy, Sirius immediately felt like dynamite being lit. "In fact, Dobby was not influenced by Malfoy. It was because of his own instigation that he heard something at Malfoy's house, so he specifically prevented Harry from coming to Hogwarts on the first day of school. And his actions today were actually out of good intentions. He wanted to get Harry out of his way. Injury so that he can be sent home from school."
After repeating what Dobby told them, Sirius felt more and more confused: "I still don't understand, even if what the house elf said is true, why did he come all the way to help Harry? ?You didn’t know him before, right?”
"Regarding this, I think it is difficult for us to understand the thoughts of an elf, but according to his own statement, he felt that Harry defeated the mysterious man back then and won a chance to breathe for these people on the edge of the magical world. , so he ran here specifically for Harry's safety regardless of his master's position." Andre gave a rough analysis of Dobby's motives.
Sirius suddenly felt as if he was laughing. It was really a big joke that such an alien could appear among the house elves who were always loyal to their master. Compared with Kreacher in Black's old house, it was really a big joke.
"But Voldemort..." Originally, Sirius wanted to say Voldemort's name directly, but Andre immediately stopped him. Now it is no different than before. The Voldemort who possessed Quirrell last semester was just a lingering figure. It doesn't look like it has much magic power at all.
However, at the moment, he does not know how much strength the Dark Lord found from the Albanian forest by the Free Magic Union has recovered. If the other party is resurrected two years in advance, then he can no longer treat him with the same attitude as before.
You must know that the name of the Dark Lord is enchanted. Without Dumbledore, the greatest white wizard of this century, present, Andre does not want to be perceived by him because of a name.
"Okay, mysterious man, wasn't he defeated by you last semester? But according to the elf, he came back so soon? Although I don't know much about his injuries, but last time he accumulated ten It took several years to possess Quirrell and return to Hogwarts, but this time it has only been less than half a year."
Andre couldn't tell him about the Free Magic Guild, so he could only say vaguely: "On this point, I think we would rather believe that it exists than that it doesn't exist. After all, it is the Dark Lord, even if there is only ten thousand If there is a possibility, we should also be fully prepared.”
This made Sirius nod in agreement: "That's right. You can't be too cautious in this regard. I did not think carefully enough just now."
"By the way, regarding what Dobby told us, the identity of the wizard with the red mark on his forehead must be found out as soon as possible, otherwise I'm worried that more accidents will continue to happen in the school." Since Sirius happened to run into this incident So Andrei naturally entrusted him with the investigation task. After all, the professors at Hogwarts always had higher investigation efficiency than just a student like him. He would not even have a chance to walk out of the school in an honest manner. .
"Of course there's no problem with that, but I still don't understand. The Death Eater you're talking about, how can he take you two away from the school?" Sirius frowned and nodded, "Near the castle. They all have anti-Apparition spells, and Professor Dumbledore stays here most of the time. They don’t think they can easily complete this plan by just sending a few people into the school from Hogsmeade, do they?”
Andre hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the story about the disappearing cabinet. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to gain the trust of others just relying on the information provided by Dobby.
"At the end of October, that is, on the night of Halloween, a few of us went to the death anniversary dinner hosted by Nearly Headless Nick. You should know about this, right?"
Hearing this question, Sirius smiled and said: "Yes, at that time I was curious why you were not found in the auditorium. It was the Weasley twins who told me, although I know that most young wizards are very interested in ghosts and the like. Interested, but I have to say that you made a wrong decision, their banquet is obviously not prepared for living people."
This made Andre smile bitterly. In fact, if Nick hadn't spared no effort to help before, he would not have agreed to attend that messy dinner.
"The ghosts' dinner is indeed very different from that of us living people, but what I want to say is not that, but that during that dinner, a ghost from Knockturn Alley provided Nick with a very useful message."
"He told Nick that one late night not long ago, he saw someone resisting a boy wearing a Hogwarts uniform from Bojin Bock's shop, and that time coincided with the day Jerome disappeared. , I have every reason to suspect that Jerome was sent to Bojinbok.”
"How is this possible!?" Sirius exclaimed in surprise.
"Actually, this possibility exists," Andre said calmly: "I don't know if you know it, but there was originally a disappearing cabinet on the second floor of the school?"
"You mean the big iron cabinet on the second floor?" Sirius recalled it carefully and said, "I didn't know that was actually a disappearing cabinet. That thing is not common."
"Yes, but I have read similar introductions in alchemy books. I am pretty sure that it is a disappearing cabinet. It is just that it was originally in a state of disrepair. Normally, students will not be teleported even if they accidentally get into it. To other places." Andre continued: "But when I learned from Nick that Jerome appeared at the door of Bojinbok's shop, I immediately thought of that cabinet. After all, if I wanted to leave the castle, I could The options are very limited, especially since we saw Jerome in the Great Hall in the morning, but he disappeared from the Marauder's Map at noon."
Sirius's expression became serious. If Andre's guess is correct, it is not just as simple as Jerome's disappearance. The disappearing cabinet is not one-way. If the cabinet on the second floor of the castle is really Being connected to the Borgin Bock store in Knockturn Alley means that people from outside can enter Hogwarts from there at any time.
"But when I went to the second floor to look for the iron cabinet the next morning, I found nothing."
"What do you mean? You mean the cabinet on the second floor is missing?"
"Yes, I searched all the corridors and rooms on the second floor, but I couldn't find that cabinet." Andre nodded.
Sirius took a breath and said, "In other words, someone in the castle secretly hid that cabinet?"
This is an obvious thing, and Andre already has a suspect, the mysterious girl he bumped into twice at the door of the Room of Requirement, but he doesn't want to say it yet. After all, the Room of Requirement is related to his hiding last year. Norbert's problem.
In addition, this secret room that only a few people knew about was something that he would often use in the castle in the future. It didn't matter that Dumbledore, the headmaster who didn't care much, knew about it, but if Professor McGonagall and the others found out about it, then don't think about it anymore. Consider it a secret base.
"I think the person who attacked Flint and caused Jerome's disappearance is actually the same person, and his ultimate goal is actually to kidnap Harry and me and deliver them to the mysterious man."
"But we still don't know who attacked Flint. There are no clues left on the path outside the castle." Sirius also agreed with this inference, but it didn't seem to matter if he knew that the murderer behind the scenes was the same person. After all, the professors in the school had made the same guess a long time ago.
But the point of Andre's words was not actually that the murderer was a person: "Have you forgotten what I said before? It was a wizard with a red mark on his forehead who went to Malfoy's manor. Dobby was I overheard what he said and learned that someone was secretly planning to kidnap Harry and me."
"You mean?" Sirius seemed aware.
"If our speculation just now is correct and the other party plans to use the disappearing cabinet as a necessary item for the operation, then there is no doubt that the person who moved the cabinet in the castle must be connected with the wizard who appeared in Malfoy Manor. "Andre continued his analysis.
"I understand, so what you are saying is that as long as we find the wizard with the red mark on his forehead, we can follow the clues and find out who caused these accidents in the castle." Sirius said suddenly.
Andre also smiled and nodded: "It's very possible, and we can further narrow the scope and focus the search on the immediate family members of the students, especially those who followed the mysterious man during his reign. His people, I know there are still many such people in the British wizarding world today. Most of them escaped trial by relying on various lies or political donations after the war, but I am afraid they have never realized what they have done for themselves in the past. Things to repent of.”
"Yes, so I have always felt that it was a pity that Professor Dumbledore did not become the Minister of Magic. If he had assumed this position, then those Death Eaters would have had no room to escape." Sirius Sighing, "Forget it, I shouldn't discuss this with you two children. In addition, Andre, I will investigate the clues you told me today, and of course, I will also pass them on to Mag Professor. After all, this matter is related to the safety of the school and the two of you."
This was also what Andre expected. Sirius is now still the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. Even though he has never liked to follow the rules, he still has at least a sense of responsibility, otherwise he would not have followed him back then. James Potter and the others joined the Order of the Phoenix and resisted Voldemort's rule.
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