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Chapter 141 Footprints
Chapter 141 Footprints
"What are you still doing here, don't you have classes?" Snape interrupted Linde's self-criticism, and began to cast his piercing eyes on the children around him.
A large number of children around were scattered, and not everyone of them had classes this morning.But with Snape here, they really didn't dare to stay any longer.
Linde also retreated slowly, only to be hugged by a big hand.Looking up, Dumbledore hugged him, "Minerva, please tell Professor Sprout that Linde may be late for class today!"
Professor McGonagall was a little puzzled, and Dumbledore then said, "I feel that Linde may have discovered something!"
"Okay!" Professor McGonagall nodded, and then, her wand slowly swiped in the air, and a silver cat jumped out of it.
Patronus spell!
The tip of the cat's nose twitched, as if it was smelling something, but after a while, it made a running gesture in the air and flew away.
And Professor McGonagall himself, after releasing the Patronus Charm, looked at Dumbledore. "After that, I will leave it to you!"
Dumbledore nodded.
After that, Professor McGonagall walked upstairs.
She also has class this morning, and since Dumbledore has taken over this matter, she can go directly to class.
After class, I have to observe and deal with the spread of the chamber of secrets among the students, or it needs to be corrected, curbed or appeased in time...
Thinking about it, Professor McGonagall, who was walking quickly on the stairs, couldn't help but patted his forehead, "What are these things!"
"Did you find anything just now, big detective?!" Snape looked at Linde maliciously, with the corner of his mouth raised.
Dumbledore patted Linde on the shoulder, motioning him to say boldly, just as Linde was about to say something, Professor Flitwick jumped out.
"She's awake, I think you should go and have a look." Then he saw Lind, "Hey, Augustus. Why are you here?"
"Oh, ok. Let's go see the girl first! As for Linde, he seems to have found something. So I think we may also ask him to find out about the situation."
As he spoke, he looked at Linde, "Want to take a look?"
Lin De wanted to refuse, but looking at the word 'secret room' written in blood on the ground, he felt a little uneasy for no reason.Then nodded.
A group of four came to the infirmary on the second floor. Madam Pomfrey blushed when she saw so many people coming. It was Dumbledore who let them in together, and it only took 15 minutes.
After walking in, Linde saw a girl lying on the bed.Black-haired, yellow-skinned, she kept looking at her plastered feet with dazed eyes.
Seeing this appearance, Linde remembered when he had put on a cast some time ago.The girl must be here for some time.
"This is Qiu Zhang, the third year of our academy." Flitwick whispered to Linde from behind.
Dumbledore naturally sat down beside the hospital bed, his blue eyes looked at the little witch in front of him with concern. "Qiu Zhang, are you alright?"
The girl hadn't noticed the person next to her until now, and was startled by Dumbledore's voice. "Oh, Professor Dumbledore. You know me?"
"I know every kid in the school. Just like you all know me!"
Linde stood behind and glanced at Professor Flitwick inadvertently, and Professor Flitwick returned a meaningful smile.
Now, Linde didn't know whether the old man Dumbledore had such a good memory that he memorized every student or whether he said this because of Professor Flitwick's endorsement in advance.
Seeing that his face was not red and his heart was not beating, Qiu Zhang believed him anyway, and he seemed to be happier.
Speaking of this Cho Chang, she is still Harry's future first love.One grade higher than them.
And she looks really good-looking.She wore a black ponytail, and her hair was twice as long as Linde's, which was about the length Linde had before he shaved his head in June.His hair now reaches his shoulders too.
At the same time, there is fair skin, which can be seen as the fairness of the yellow race, not the fairness of the white race.But at this time, there is still some paleness mixed in.
The nose is tall and straight, the eyebrows are delicate...
In the previous life of Huaxia Junior High School, she was definitely a white moonlight girl who was famous in several classes around her.
"Cho Chang, do you remember what happened?" Dumbledore said in that magical, calming voice.It seems that during the short conversation with Dumbledore, Linde felt that Qiu Zhang's face turned rosy.
"I... I went back to the castle late last night. I've been riding a broom in the playground. Because I want to be on the Quidditch team next year. When I got back to the castle it was empty and I was running in a hurry .
In the end, I didn't notice that there was a staircase that changed its position at some point, and I fell down all at once..."
"Is that so?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes, Professor. Is there any problem?" At first she thought that the professor was here to visit her, but now that Dumbledore asked this question again, she gradually felt that the atmosphere was not right.
Professor Snape is here, Professor Flitwick is here, and Professor Dumbledore is here.
Oh, and there's another boy who doesn't look easy to get along with at the back.
Dumbledore should be able to confirm whether what Qiu Zhang said is true or not, and Linde can tell whether Qiu Zhang is lying or not just by looking at Dumbledore's facial movements.
Seeing Dumbledore's rather dignified expression, it seems that what Qiu Zhang said is true.
After that, Dumbledore comforted Qiu Zhang again, and the four left the infirmary.
"Filius, could you please clean up the bloody writing on the first floor? There seems to be a spell attached to it! Filch shouldn't be able to handle it." Dumbledore said.
"Ah? Oh, yes!" Professor Flitwick agreed and hurried away.
Afterwards, the three of them, led by Dumbledore, came to the principal's office.
Sitting down in the chair, Dumbledore looked at Linde and Snape, "That girl doesn't know anything."
"Yeah!" Snape nodded. In fact, he didn't care about this kind of thing at all, he just cared about the so-called secret room and the warning to the whole Hogwarts.
Linde also nodded knowingly from behind.
In Qiu Zhang's memory, he just thought it was an accidental fall and broke his leg.
But let me ask, she didn't hit her head, and she didn't have cerebral palsy.Why was the broken leg not screaming for help but "sleeping" on the ground, and was not found until the next day!
Dumbledore looked at Linde, "Linde, did you find anything else?"
"Um, it's nothing!"
"Nothing will make you so annoyed to be disturbed by others, and even subconsciously swear!" Dumbledore smiled, and Linde felt that he was deliberately not opening the pot and carrying the pot.
"Well... there are some clues."
With that said, Linde walked to the table, took out the parchment paper and quill, and began to carefully and slowly trace a somewhat weird circle on the parchment paper...
"This is?"
"The footprint of a remnant, this footprint appears directly below the text, which happens to be the best writing position."
As they said that, the image of a person squatting on the ground with Qiu Zhang writing blood on the floor appeared in their minds.
"How do you know it's not the footprints of someone passing by later?" Snape asked Linde seriously.
"Hogwarts is cleaned by house elves at night. So the footprints I saw must have appeared after the cleaning last night. There are only three kinds of footprints that normally appear around there.
First, after cleaning, there were footprints before the incident.
Second, the footprints of those who did bad things.
Third, the footprints of the helpers this morning.
There are not many three kinds of footprints, only more than ten pairs in total.
Some of these footprints were covered or cut off by blood books.These are one type of footprints, and the least footprints.Only one pair.Because the cleaning time of Hogwarts must be after curfew, so there are very few little wizards wandering outside, and they happen to leave footprints nearby.
The second type is the footprints on the blood book, which can also be ruled out.Because the person who did this would definitely not just trample on the blood book again, after all, this is his "work".
There are also footprints that are too small and in the wrong place...
After excluding these.Only this one footprint meets all the conditions.
This footprint appeared not only at the writing position of the blood book, but also at the position two steps back directly below the blood book.It's like observing the overall effect after writing. "
With that said, the three of them began to make up their minds.
Late last night, a girl fell down in a dark corridor, her calf was twisted irregularly, but her breathing was steady, as if she had fallen asleep in this corridor.
This is, a man came out slowly, he first circled around the girl twice, and smiled with satisfaction.Afterwards, he took out the blood, and borrowed some unknown little spell to let the blood flow naturally to say something...
After saying that he was done, he took two steps back and looked at his masterpiece.And then back to the darkness again...
Linde continued,
"And...these are the footprints of an adult. And I'm sure he doesn't belong to Filch. Filch's patrols usually only last until two o'clock in the evening, so we only need to look for irregular behavior after that time. people can do it!"
Snape pulled his lips, "You really know the nightlife at Hogwarts..."
Dumbledore also said, "This is not a discovery!"
Only then did Linde come back to his senses.He scratched his head in embarrassment, he just got into the scene and didn't notice the occasion.And it wasn't just Snape, there was continuous suppressed laughter from the portrait of the headmaster behind him.
Logically speaking, the portraits of principals are all professionally trained, and they generally don't laugh, unless...
Dumbledore nodded, agreeing with what Linde said just now.
Seeing that Dumbledore and Snape were not talking about it, Linde stepped back and stood behind.In fact, what he thought was whether he could go, but Dumbledore didn't seem to have that intention.
Linde is very good, but this way...we can't seem to find anything.
"Isn't there a portrait?" Linde said subconsciously.
Dumbledore shook his head when he heard his words, "Magic portraits are only similar to humans, with certain memory and thinking abilities. But they are not humans, and you cannot impose human senses on them.
Their perception of the outside world is actually very slow.Take "sight" as an example.In good light, they can 'see' a lot.But when the light is not enough.Their "vision" was basically completely closed.
For example, our Brother Alis, even if he has no eyes.During the day, he can still see the little wizards passing by outside like other people in the painting.But at night.He and the other portraits can no longer see the outside world! "
Alice was the name of the blind monk who passed away two days ago.
Dumbledore carefully answered Linde's knowledge about the magic painting.
"They are just magical creations endowed with the image of wizards. You should not use your thinking to bring them in." Snape said lightly.
is that so? ?
Linde is a little numb!He had always thought that the ubiquitous magic paintings in the school were Dumbledore's monitors, so since last year, as long as he didn't go to the Room of Requirement, he basically tried to avoid the monitoring of those magic paintings.
But now Dumbledore told him that in the case of insufficient light, the magic painting basically has no vision.
"Otherwise we would have known who killed Brother Alis, wouldn't we?" Dumbledore said helplessly, spreading his hands.
yes!It took Linde a moment to react.At first he thought that the magic painting was Dumbledore's surveillance because he was discovered by Dumbledore for no reason.That was not long after he entered school.
In the final analysis, the idea that magic painting is equal to surveillance has always been what he thought and believed to be reasonable.But like Snape said.These magic paintings are just like people, but the concept of people cannot be imposed on them.
However, Snape said "wizard" at the time, and Linde automatically translated it as "human being".
"By the way, could it be that the one who killed Mohua and the one who broke Qiu Zhang's leg were the same person?" Linde thought suddenly.
"..."
The atmosphere in the office suddenly became stiff.
If it is really the same person.
It used to be a magic painting, but now it is causing serious injuries.
What about next time?
Are you going to kill someone?
"Severus, please repeat the scene..." Dumbledore said coldly.
Snape also knew the seriousness of the matter compared to Hogwarts and Dumbledore, and immediately stood up and walked out.
Seeing Snape go out, Linde hesitated, and pointed to the door, "Professor..."
"That's right, I've wasted so much of your time. Hurry up and go to class!"
Lin De seemed to be pardoned, and hurriedly said goodbye and walked out.
Dumbledore looked at Linde's back and smiled.
"He is no worse than when you were young! This kind of sincerity is especially commendable." An old principal on the wall said, and his words were also agreed by other principals
Dumbledore smiled and said nothing.
After a while, Snape came back.No change could be seen on the face.After all, he doesn't care about school safety or anything like that.
He just pays attention to certain people alone.
"Nothing. It's a mess!"
Dumbledore nodded. The spell "Flash of Traces" is very versatile, but it is very simple to counter it. Even its counter-curse has no spell, and only needs a wand to wave the trajectory.
In skilled hands, countering the spell may require only a random flick of the wand.
Just like himself.
"Flashing Trace" is the spell of Fantastic Beasts II,
It is really easy to use in the HP story, and it is indeed a BUG
But both series are still one world.
How can you justify this!
If there is no restriction, it will be fine!
(End of this chapter)