Chapter 86 Clues and Responses

However, the colors above the letter kept changing, and finally merged into an image: volcanic stone walls, velvety classical armchairs, black wizard robes, hands with white gloves, and words or letters cut out from "Wizard Weekly" and pasted on the envelope.

Seeing this clip, Dumbledore and other deans looked solemn, while Professor McGonagall looked angry. But everyone was silent in tacit agreement.

As the clip ended, sweat was already oozing out of the five people's foreheads. It seemed that this spell had taken a heavy toll on their bodies.

After a short rest, the five people cast the same spell on the second letter. This time, a completely different image appeared, but this time it was very strange:

There was silence in the dim corridor of Hogwarts Castle, and nothing changed for a few seconds.

Just when everyone was confused.

A short wizard in a black robe suddenly appeared. His hood was pulled so deep that his face could not be seen at all. He squatted down, took out a letter and stuffed it into Filch's office.

Then he waved his wand lightly, and his figure disappeared again, and the image stopped abruptly.

"Disillusionment Charm. Are you not proficient at it? The casting is very unstable, otherwise it would not have failed and revealed your figure." Professor Snape said gritting his teeth.

"Short in stature...is it a house-elf, a goblin or a little wizard? It can't be me, right?" Professor Flitwick asked helplessly.

"Okay, there's nothing to hide. The incident happened in the Gryffindor common room, and the traitor is most likely a young Gryffindor wizard. What do you think of this inference?" Professor McGonagall was obviously in a bad mood, so she simply got straight to the point and said it herself.

The other professors looked at each other and nodded silently.

There were new developments in the incident, but everyone's faces were not looking good and the atmosphere became increasingly heavy.

If an adult joins an organization and does something despicable because of his own interests, extreme ideological impact or coercion from people around him, although everyone hates it, at least it is within everyone's understanding.

But these kids are different, this is Hogwarts! The letter was posted by this kid, and the black-robed wizard was naturally called by this kid. Even if he is not the mastermind, this kid must know most of the inside story.

But the kid did it anyway, and his style of doing it was shocking: he was calm, meticulous, capable, and paid attention to every detail.

This is too scary. At what age does this training start? At what age does this child enter this mysterious organization? Is this child an exception? If not, how many such children are there in Hogwarts? Why do they join such a cold-blooded and cruel organization?

These questions lingered in everyone's mind, and every time they thought of the key points, they felt their scalp tingling.

Dumbledore's expression was more serious than ever before. He was going to dig up the roots of Hogwarts and even the future of the British wizarding world.

"Interrogate the little wizards of Gryffindor one by one, and use Veritaserum on all of them!" Snape's cold voice sounded.

"What did you say? Are you crazy? This is impossible. Veritaserum itself is illegal. Moreover, interrogation will cause panic among students and create distrust among each other." Professor McGonagall objected loudly.

"You have to understand what such a person means to the students! What exactly does this organization want to do? To win over and assimilate? Or to kill hope?" Snape remained unmoved and insisted on his point of view.

"You are Professor Snape, right? I agree that you are sufficiently alert to the harm of that organization. But the method you mentioned, excuse me for being blunt, not only will not get you what you want, but it is likely to cause very serious consequences." Unexpectedly, the person who spoke was Old Xia.

Snape didn't say anything either, but stared at Mr. Xia gloomily, as if waiting for his explanation.

"Think about it. If that child is really a member of this organization, when words like interrogation and truth serum appear among the students, will he just sit there and wait for death? What will he do next? If he runs away, that's fine, but considering the cruelty of that organization, and thinking about the body of the black-robed wizard..."

Snape's face changed when he heard this, but Old Xia continued speaking:

"If it's even more cruel, is this child a person? If these people fabricate multiple student deaths to confuse the public in order to protect themselves, then it's hard to say whether Hogwarts can continue to operate."

Dumbledore and the four deans were silent. When they knew that this incident was most likely done by a Hogwarts student, they instinctively felt angry and vaguely sensed a huge crisis. But no matter what, they still regarded this little wizard as a child and did not think deeply about it.

But Old Xia had been secretly following Yang Tian and Nightmare's actions, so he had a certain understanding of Sarok's style of doing things. This was the so-called information asymmetry.

So when he expressed his views from a relatively objective perspective, the Hogwarts people suddenly felt that their three views were completely destroyed. But when they calmed down and thought about it carefully, they really didn't dare to conclude that this thing would definitely not happen.

Dumbledore was the first to react. He asked sincerely, "So what do you think we should do?"

Elder Xia pondered for a moment and said, "Two aspects. The first is external. I think in the past week, you should have tried your best to find out the origins of these black-robed wizards, right? Then the question is, how does such a huge and cruel organization hide itself? Why is there no movement in the entire British wizarding world? This is abnormal, isn't it?"

Xia Lao's words were like a huge rock hitting a calm lake, shocking several people. Dumbledore and the four deans were not really stupid, they just suffered from the lack of information.

"Yes, it is very abnormal. Even the pure-blood families cannot hide such a huge force in the wizarding world. Moreover, these black-robed wizards have even gone to war with the pure-blood families." Professor Flitwick spoke first.

"These people may not live in the wizarding world at all. They may have rooted their power in the Muggle world, so we can't find out any information about them anyway." Snape said thoughtfully.

Dumbledore nodded and said, "I didn't realize it before, but now that we have a target, it's easy. I will mobilize my old friends to reach out, and I should be able to get some useful information."

"Also, I should talk to the pure-blood families; of course, there is also Minister Fudge. He should talk to the authorities in the Muggle world. Have the people in the wizarding world become too easy to talk to in recent years?"

After saying that, Dumbledore looked at Old Xia again, wanting to continue asking for his opinion, but he saw that Old Xia was looking at him calmly, with no intention of speaking at all.

Dumbledore thought for a moment, then smiled and nodded to Elder Xia, saying, "Internally, there is no need to take any other actions for the time being. Just pay more attention to the students' whereabouts."

Seeing Snape was about to refute, Dumbledore said again: "Severus, you should have heard the analysis just now. It is not appropriate for us to alert the enemy now. What we can do now is to cut off the connection between this chess piece and the outside world. Without the support of the outside world and without forcing him into a desperate situation, he is just a small wizard. We still have time to dig him out."

The four deans were all silent after hearing this...