My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 294, Section 291: The Resurrected Ghost

The conversation on the lawn continued.

"But you are an American, even if you are a descendant of Slytherin, why would you travel all the way to Hogwarts to open the Chamber of Secrets and release the Basilisk?"

Besides attacking Snape today, the previous two attacks were either overt or covert, with the first one even openly showing an intention to kill me.

In Hogwarts, I always played the role of "Professor Lockhart." Although this wizard usually caused trouble, he would never be so foolish as to provoke a pure-blood American family.

So if you want to kill me, you must have recognized my original identity as Lynn Belloc. But I have never had any contact with American wizards, and I have never even heard of the Fontana family before.

But later I figured it out.

I have never had any contact with you, but my only relative in this world, my great-uncle, had a very close relationship with you.

When he wreaked havoc in the United States, he killed more than one Auror from the Magical Congress of the United States. Perhaps one of them was a wizard named Fontana?

Lynn coldly watched the girl opposite him clench her fists expressionlessly and continued speaking.

"At first I thought you were the daughter of one of the Aurors from the Fontana family that my great-uncle killed in the United States, and that you had traveled all the way to Hogwarts just to kill me to vent your anger. But thinking about it carefully, you are only eleven years old. When my great-uncle was causing trouble in the United States, your grandfather was probably still a baby. Even if a family member really died, how could it be your turn to take revenge, you are only eleven years old."

Although I've confirmed that you're the murderer, I still can't understand how an eleven-year-old girl like you could have such deep thoughts and such good acting skills.

To this day, I received a letter, sent to me by that elder relative of mine who lives outside of school.

His in-depth investigation revealed that no girls had been born in the Fontana family this century; they were now a single-lineage family, and no girls had appeared for three generations.

So how did you get here?

A girl who shouldn't have appeared?

Right after I received that letter, I suddenly remembered a conversation I had with the fat monk on Halloween. He boasted to me that he and his friends had developed a magic that could resurrect ghosts.

At first I was only skeptical, but after I consulted the fat monk about the aftereffects of the ghost's resurrection and where his ghost friend who knew about this magic was now, I was certain.

Lynn stared intently at the girl.

"You are not an eleven-year-old girl at all, but an Auror from the Fontana family who was killed by my great-uncle. After you died, you became a ghost, took over this girl's body, and used her to infiltrate Hogwarts, open the Chamber of Secrets, and release the Basilisk, all in an attempt to kill me to avenge yourself and vent your anger."

Am I correct, Mr. Fontana? Mrs.? Or lady?

Fontana took a hair tie from the pocket of her robe and used it to tie her wind-blown hair into a single ponytail.

Although her face was still pale and her figure still slender, she stood up straight, no longer showing any of the fragility she had shown before.

"Ms. Fontana, I died before I was married."

Lynn was also somewhat surprised by her gender; he had assumed that someone so ruthless must be a man.

"So, Ms. Fontana, you went to such great lengths to come to Hogwarts, surely it wasn't just to kill a third-year wizard like me for revenge? Otherwise, you wouldn't have sneaked into the headmaster's office, been so eager to get rid of Dumbledore, and then had your accomplices take the Basilisk away to kill Snape after he left."

"Can you guess why?"

Lynn paced across the lawn, and Ms. Fontana's gaze followed his movements.

"I do have a guess."

Your infiltration of Hogwarts this time is not a solo operation. Before you came, someone taught you the magic of resurrection, allowing you to be resurrected through the body of a child. Outside, the Rolle family, traitors from England, secured seats on the Hogwarts Board of Governors to provide cover for you. Inside the school, you still have a non-wizard accomplice who can use Apparition within the castle.

You were an Auror in the Magical Congress of the United States during your lifetime. Even though you were born into the illustrious Fontana family, because you were a woman and not the heir to the family, it was impossible for so many people to serve you after your death.

So the one who planned to have you infiltrate Hogwarts wasn't you at all. They just took advantage of the fact that you had a grudge against my great-uncle but didn't dare to go to Austria to seek revenge directly. So they told you that I, Grindelwald's only descendant, was studying at Hogwarts, using the opportunity to give you revenge as a condition for having you continue to work for them.

Lynn moved to face Hogwarts Castle, and Mrs. Fontana followed him, turning her back to the castle.

"And these 'them' are the American Magical Congress, which you served both in life and after death, right?"

The lawn fell silent, with no sound except for the wind.

After a long silence, Lynn finally spoke again.

"Let me make another bold guess: is the mission the Magical Congress has given you to destroy Hogwarts Castle?"

Fontana looked at him as if he were a living monster.

"I will not admit it."

"Of course you won't admit it. If you did, it would become a dispute between the Ministry of Magic and the United States. Although the Magical Society of America wants to stir up trouble, it doesn't want to start a war directly."

"I have indeed miscalculated a lot. I didn't expect that you would discover your true identity and gain his trust so early under Dumbledore's nose. I didn't expect you to become a professor at Hogwarts. I didn't expect you to be so young yet so strong. I didn't expect you to make contact with the people your parents left you so quickly. And what I didn't expect even more is that you are so incredible." Fontana's cold face was full of disbelief.

She thought it was already quite magical that Lynn could guess her identity, but what was even more magical was that he seemed to be omniscient and omnipotent, guessing everything.

Lynn shrugged: "I'll take this as a compliment."

Fontana's mastermind was the Magical Congress of the United States, and Lynn's guess was correct that the real intention was to destroy Hogwarts.

Out of a Chinese person's instinctive suspicion, if anything goes wrong there, it must be the work of the American government.

Judging from Fontana's performance, Lynn guessed everything correctly.

(End of this chapter)