Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

Ron sneered, "But send them to Azkaban? Who's going to catch them? The Aurors? Or Fudge himself—he looks like a warthog, can he even cast spells?"

After what happened in Diagon Alley and after learning from Ryan about Fudge's cooperation with the pure-blood family, Ron has always been hostile to Fudge.

But it was obvious that Harry thought so too.

In fact, as we gain a deeper understanding of the magical world and the magical abilities of wizards.

Harry was actually quite skeptical too.

With the magical abilities demonstrated by Ryan and Dumbledore, if they were unwilling to participate in the so-called questioning, could the elite Aurors of the Ministry of Magic really do anything to them?

At least that's not how Harry felt.

But Harry was also very clear - since the Wizengamot had already expressed that this questioning was not malicious.

Given Ryan and Dumbledore's personalities, they should give each other some face so as not to embarrass them.

but...

"They said they'd call a witness at the inquest who knows something about the Bloody Baron... I bet they'll definitely call someone from Slytherin!"

Harry's expression was not good when he saw some of the content in the report.

And it wasn't just him, Hermione and Ron apparently thought so too.

This is not difficult to guess - it is said that Ryan passed by the Slytherin common room while searching for the Bloody Baron, and then many young wizards in Slytherin went to the hall to check the situation.

"If they testify in court, they will definitely say something unfavorable to Ryan and Dumbledore!"

Harry has never had a good impression of Slytherin.

"That's for sure—I even heard that the video that was most widely circulated in the newspapers was the work of McCall Dohorov... That bad guy, he will definitely go out of his way to discredit Ryan..."

"Oh, don't worry about that."

Although Hermione roughly agreed with Ron's idea, she also pointed out that this was impossible to happen: "Because of his father's affairs, I don't think the Wizengamot would let him testify in court..."

But even so, Hermione agreed with what her two friends said.

"We can't just stand there and watch."

She said, "Ryan's been very busy lately. I think we can help him think of a way to deal with the inquiry... Got it!"

As she said this, an idea seemed to come to her.

"Filch—he was the one who was actually there when Ryan and the Bloody Baron clashed... We can go find him!"

she said excitedly.

"Filch?"

After hearing this, Harry and Ron looked at each other.

They'd never considered it - mainly because their relationship with Filch was... well, not great.

Hermione, on the other hand, rarely went out at night, obeyed school rules, and loved cats - which made her have a good relationship with Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris.

So after Hermione's reminder, they finally reacted.

Filch was indeed a very good choice - the night watchman was said to have been in the Great Hall when the incident happened.

Apart from that, he has a very good relationship with Ryan. It can be said that Ryan is the only one among all the young wizards who is truly respected by Filch.

It is obviously very reasonable to ask him to testify in court.

So, Harry and the other two went straight to Filch's office.

But when they arrived at the office door, they unexpectedly found...

"Why is the door open?"

Looking at the half-open door, the three of them were a little surprised.

Because of his night patrol duties, Filch would usually rest during the day when he had nothing to do - of course, as he was getting older, he didn't have much time to rest, and occasionally he would leave the office and go to the door to catch some little wizards who didn't follow the school rules.

But whether he left or stayed in the office, Filch's office door was mostly closed during the day.

So at this moment, the three of them looked at each other.

Then Harry gently pushed open the office door.

"Mr...Filch?"

He shouted somewhat uncomfortably.

Then...

"what!"

Accompanied by Ron's exclamation and Hermione's covering her mouth and gasping for air.

The trio saw the scene inside the office.

At this moment in the office, Filch and his cat were "stuck" to the wall in a very strange posture.

Filch's limbs and the cat's limbs were twisted unnaturally, and blood was flowing on their bodies.

The flowing blood was formed into a line of letters.

"Find it, Elias—you know what I mean."

"Otherwise, more people will die because of you!"

The final word "DIE" was made up of Filch and his cat.

then...

"Quick! Go call the professors—and Ryan... tell them something's wrong!"

"Ron, go inform Madam Pomfrey!"

At this moment, Harry was the calmest one.

He said this to Hermione and Ron while taking out his wand to rescue Filch and Mrs. Norris.

Hermione and Ron naturally left immediately.

Soon, the professors and the school doctor, Madam Pomfrey, gathered in Filch's office.

"So, Argus was already like this when you arrived? And you didn't see any suspicious people?"

Dumbledore stood before Harry.

The old wizard's blue eyes behind his glasses flashed with anger.

After Harry and the other two nodded, he said softly, "You came just in time—if you had a little more time, Argus might have..."

What he meant was obvious.

So, Harry and the other two were naturally sincerely grateful.

Even if it was Filch, they didn't want anything to happen to him.

"So, Mr. Filch... he's alright?"

"This is uncertain and needs to be confirmed by Ryan and Bobby."

Dumbledore said softly, "But at least from my perspective, although his physical condition looks terrible, there is no serious problem. The prisoner just wants to shock us through this terrifying method and demonstrate his 'deterrent power', but he doesn't really want to kill him!"

That's right.

Even though Filch's limbs were broken and he bled profusely, there was no magic in his wounds.

In the wizarding world, such injuries are merely superficial and not fatal.

But there was no doubt that Dumbledore's words were enough to make Harry realize something.

After all, this behavior pattern is very obvious.

"Is it Voldemort?"

Harry said through gritted teeth.

He had heard about it a long time ago - during the wizarding war more than ten years ago, Voldemort liked to enhance his deterrent power through horrific punishments and some horrifying means.

"I'm afraid so."

As for Harry, Dumbledore did not deny this.

Chapter 192 Memory! The whereabouts of the locket!

After hearing what Dumbledore said, Harry's expression was naturally extremely solemn and angry.

But it is obvious that after many things that happened in the past year and summer vacation, plus someone's secret teaching.

He is no longer so easily swayed by anger.

So after the anger, doubts also arose in his heart.

Voldemort's attack on Filch and his cat is certainly noteworthy in itself.

But there is no doubt that the attack itself was not Voldemort's purpose.

Its real purpose is to leave behind that line of words.

"Find it, Elias—you know what I mean."

"Otherwise, more people will die because of you."

The meaning of this sentence was so clear that Harry couldn't help but look at Ryan.

Voldemort wants Lion to find a certain object - what is it?

"Oh, Harry..."

Seeing that Harry seemed to want to ask, Dumbledore gently persuaded him.

“Courage and curiosity, and the conviction to stand up to evil—these are certainly good and necessary, enough to make you a warrior.”

"But sometimes, you have to learn to trust your partners... I believe Ryan will always tell you the truth. If he doesn't tell you now, it must be because of some inconvenience."

The old wizard taught me this earnestly.

When Harry heard this, he was stunned at first.

Then he nodded gently: "I understand, Headmaster Dumbledore."