Chapter 1296 The Clever Thief

Twenty minutes later, Harry and Hermione, who had gone back to their respective dormitories to investigate, returned to the common room.

Their respective roommates were waiting for them here.

"How's it going, Harry, Hermione?"

This was not the first time that Harry's dormitory had been robbed. Harry's roommates were relatively calm, but Neville asked solemnly,
"Did you find anything missing?"

The anger in Harry's green eyes was about to burst out, his fists were clenched tightly, and the corners of his mouth were twisted in anger.

Out of caution, Harry did not answer Neville's question and looked at Hermione.

For the same reason, Hermione didn't say anything, but just exchanged glances with Harry.

"Someone sneaked into the girls' dormitory and stole things!"

Parvati seemed frightened by this. She grabbed the collar of her angora-red wool sweater with both hands and screamed shrilly.
"We must tell Professor McGonagall, and Professor Brain, he is responsible for the safety of the students!"

Even without Parvati's reminder, Harry decided to do it, but there was still a problem.

"Has anyone seen Ron and Lavender?"

Harry tried hard to control his emotions, tightened his lips, and looked at the trustworthy friends around him.

"Ron and Lavender?"

Neville frowned and thought for a while. After confirming that he had not seen these two people since he came back, he still frowned.

"They. Harry, you don't think they are the two..."

This was a complicated matter to explain, and under normal circumstances, Harry wouldn't mind saying a few more words, but right now he had no intention of explaining.

Worrying about Ron more than his anger at losing his things, Harry looked at Hermione.

"Let's go to the Great Hall first and find Malfoy to find out where Ron and Lavender are. If he dares to say he doesn't know, I swear I will knock his teeth out in front of all the professors!"

Did Malfoy do this?

Neville and the others, who knew nothing about the situation, showed varying degrees of surprise.

But what surprised them even more was that Hermione, who in their eyes was much more rational, not only did not dissuade Harry, but nodded heavily!

Wow--
The Fat Lady's portrait was then torn open, and Arya's face appeared outside the doorway.

"Oh, great to see you here, Harry!"

Arya said happily, waving at Harry.

"I'm sorry, Alya, if Angelina sent you to me for a tactical meeting, I'm afraid I don't have the time right now."

Harry said in a deep voice.

"Oh, nothing to do with Quidditch, Harry, it's Professor Dumbledore -"

"Professor Dumbledore?"

Harry asked in surprise, his heart skipping a beat!
"Just now in the hall, Professor Dumbledore seemed to have received a message from Professor Brain's Patronus. Then, he went upstairs with Professor McGonagall. Before leaving, he asked me to find you two -"

Arya pointed at Hermione again.

"I hope you two can go to the school hospital as soon as possible!"

"School Hospital, why?"

Harry asked again in surprise, but after he asked, he already had the answer in his heart, but he was unwilling to face it.

"Come on, Harry, let's go!"

Hermione grabbed Harry's sleeve and hurriedly left the Gryffindor Common Room under the worried gazes of their respective roommates.

Harry ran downstairs as fast as he could in his life. He didn't have time to wait for the slow spiral staircases to change position. Several times, he jumped up and flew over before the stairs were reset.

Even Hermione was frightened by this bold move.

"Calm down, Harry, Ron and Lavender will be fine. Malfoy wouldn't dare to do anything outrageous in Hogwarts!"

Hermione, who hurried after Harry, said breathlessly. "Oh, really? I don't have that kind of confidence in Malfoy--"

Harry responded with hatred in his tone.

He didn't know what happened yet, but he thought he had a pretty good guess.

When Harry thought about how Malfoy had the courage to sit at the Slytherin table and eat dinner calmly when he walked into the hall earlier, he felt like his heart was going to explode!
The two men came to the fourth floor of the castle where the school hospital was located.

Because of the sudden drop in temperature after October, the school hospital was a little busier than usual, and the beds in the public ward were almost full of listless little wizards.

"Come in, Harry and Hermione -"

The two men stood at the door and looked around at the beds in the public ward, searching for the familiar face.

The door of a small ward on the left suddenly opened, and Professor Brain's calm face appeared in Harry and Hermione's sight.

Harry and Hermione hurried over and rushed into the softly lit ward.

"It seems that you have anticipated this situation, right?"

Professor Brain asked calmly after running into the ward and seeing Lavender and Ron lying unconscious on two adjacent beds, and then Harry and Hermione fell silent.

As Arya said, Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were also in this ward.

Professor Dumbledore's gaze as he looked at them was still full of tolerance and wisdom, but Professor McGonagall's expression was much more severe. It was as if all the trouble was caused by them!
"us."

Hermione didn't expect Harry to have any brilliant answer in this situation, so she took the initiative to change the topic.

"us."

However, under the gazes of the three professors, the alertness that Hermione was proud of suddenly disappeared. For a moment, she could not find a suitable reason to explain why they seemed to have known that something had happened to Ron and Lavender.

"I think you may not fully understand the current situation, Harry, Hermione--"

Professor Dumbledore said gently, then he looked at Professor Blaine.

"That's it—"

Amosta's calm face showed no emotion.
"As soon as I returned to Hogwarts, I noticed that someone had entered my office without permission, so I immediately went back to the office to check the situation—"

Professor Brian's office was still opened.

Harry pursed his lips. He wasn't surprised either. He had expected this since he found something missing in his dormitory.

But he didn't have time to tell Hermione what he had lost, so Hermione still showed an expression of surprise and subtle fear.

"Ron and Lavender were just lying on the floor of my office and I immediately did some tests on them -"

"How about it?"

Harry's voice trembled slightly as he asked bluntly, not caring that his tone was a bit presumptuous.

"It was the Stunning Spell that caused them both to be unconscious and they both had high fevers—"

Amosta pointed to Ron and Lavender's robes hanging on a hanger at one side.

"It looks like he's been caught in the rain. His clothes are soaked. Besides--"

After a pause, Amosta continued to speak to the two in a calm tone,
"Before sending them here, I did a quick check of my office. Oh, there's no need to check, it's obvious what's missing."

"What is it, Professor Blaine?"

Although there were still many questions, Harry asked this question first. He wanted to know what Malfoy had been planning to steal this semester. What mission did Voldemort give him?
"Oh, you've all seen it. I've been displaying the staff I stole from the black witch Vitia Clyona in the display case in my office."

That impressive, powerful vine staff. It's lost. This is what Voldemort wants to steal!

"Mr. Potter and Miss Granger, you know the seriousness of this matter!"

Professor McGonagall was the first to break the oppressive silence. She walked up to the two of them, her eyes filled with a fascinating light, and looked at them sternly.

"Madam Pomfrey gave Mr. Weasley and Miss Brown a tranquilizer and said it would be best for their health if they had a good night's sleep.

But I see, you seem to know something, right! " (End of this chapter)