Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

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Because at this moment, if anyone has a little knowledge of magical animals, they can see that the characteristics displayed by Friday at this moment are very similar to those of a "scorpion tail beast".

This powerful magical animal, known as the 'Wizard Nemesis', not only has a ferocious character, but the most important thing is its eyes and skin.

Unlike a fire dragon, the eye disease spell that directly stimulates the fire dragon's eyes is very effective.

But the Sphinx Manticore is different - its eyes have a special membrane that allows it to see through most of the wizard's spells and traps and avoid them in advance.

In addition, its skin and eyes are extremely resistant to magic, and can even be called 'magic immune' to a large extent.

In fact, as far as Ryan knows.

The only things that can break the defense of the Sphinx are pure physical attacks or legendary spells.

Normal wizards can't even harm this special magical creature.

And at this moment, what is shown on Friday.

This is exactly the characteristic of the Sphinx - this is also one of the surprises Friday brought to Ryan during this period.

Just like Newt said, Friday is still in its rapid growth period.

Its body is almost constantly awakening the blood circuits belonging to different magical animals, allowing it to gain new abilities.

The Scorpion Beast is one of its most recent 'transformations'.

At this moment, Friday was looking at the continuously bursting magical restrictions, and then decisively ignored these tickling things.

It just looked at the box in front of it and the things inside the box.

That is also a booklet.

But it's not something like a diary where you can tell its origin at a glance.

I opened it on Friday and took a look, and all I saw was some very scattered information.

For example, the first page.

【Werewolf】【Information search】【Full Moon】【Flowers of Muenhua】

For example, the second page.

[Ghost][Obsession][Ancient Banquet][Mark Key - Ancient Noble Dress]

A rough sketch of the costume is also drawn at the bottom of the second page.

"..."

Friday obviously didn't quite understand what this thing was.

So, it decisively made the simplest choice.

"Just take it back first."

Since I can't understand it anyway, I might as well take it back and let the little master take a look at it.

With this thought in mind, the little white cat took the booklet in its mouth and leaped out of Lockhart's office.

Then Friday went into another office.

That was, of course, Barty Crouch Sr.'s office.

At this time, of course, the office was still empty.

The furnishings in the office were much neater and cleaner than Lockhart's office - there was almost nothing else in the entire office except tables and chairs, it looked very cold, and there was even dust on the floor.

"Meow?"

But Friday was a little surprised at this moment.

It had actually heard a long time ago that one of the two offices that the little master wanted it to explore today should be guarded by a house-elf.

But obviously, it did not encounter the elf at this moment.

"Where did it go?"

Friday muttered.

But since there is no one getting in the way, it certainly doesn't mind.

So it quickly jumped onto Crouch's desk and began to rummage through it as familiarly as it did with Lockhart's desk.

But unexpectedly, after turning over almost the entire desk on Friday, he still found nothing unusual.

In addition to the lesson plans made for the students, there were some potion materials and some newspapers.

But Friday was not surprised.

It naturally still remembered what Ryan had told it this morning.

"Neither professor will be in the office today, and no one will be back early - I'll go to the dueling club to make sure of that, and all you need to do is go find something."

"Professor Lockhart's shouldn't be hard to find—though I don't know where he got that adventure, but given his personality, he always leaves traces behind when he does things."

"But Professor Crouch is different... He's a veteran, very experienced..."

"If you don't find anything special or suspicious, then pay attention to whether there is a suitcase in the room - my intuition tells me that will be the key."

This is what Ryan entrusted to it.

Ryan even later described to it the appearance of the suitcase and why he was suspicious of it.

"It's been watched too closely - ever since I first met Professor Crouch on the train this semester, it's almost never left Professor Crouch's side as far as I can remember."

"Besides that, every time there's a class...even if Professor Crouch isn't there, the house-elf Winky will always be by his side."

"The only surprise was the Room of Requirement incident... It was that incident that made me guess something."

So, Friday began looking for the so-called suitcase.

Soon, it focused its attention on a huge wooden cabinet in the office.

That wooden cabinet is the most conspicuous item in the entire office besides the desks and chairs.

Friday approached the huge wooden cabinet cautiously.

Its cat paw rested lightly on the cabinet door, and its keen sense of smell caught a familiar scent - the unique magical fluctuations of house-elves, and... some deliberately hidden traces of magic.

"Meow!"

It's really weird.

The white cat's pupils once again flashed with the faint light of a sphinx in the darkness, allowing it to successfully see the complex protective spell wrapped around the cabinet door.

It was a compound magic, far more powerful than the restrictions in Lockhart's drawer, covering the entire cabinet door layer by layer like a spider web.

Friday tilted his head and wagged his tail gently.

It knows that brute force cracking won't work—not because it's impossible, but because it can't be done covertly.

But the great Friday had a plan of his own.

Then it closed its eyes and its body began to change - its hair gradually became transparent and its whole body swayed like water waves.

After a moment, he turned into a pool of water.

It 'flowed' in through the gap in the cabinet.

That is the ability of the Kelpie.

"Meow!"

The successful infiltration made Friday excited again.

What made it even happier was that after it entered the cabinet, it really saw the suitcase that Ryan mentioned.

It is stored in the center of the cabinet.

But what instantly soured Friday's mood was...

At this moment, the suitcase was also wrapped in a spell.

And it's different from the spell outside the cabinet.

This time the spell was cast directly on the suitcase itself.

Even Friday, a habitual criminal who possessed many characteristics of magical animals, knew very well that it was impossible for it to take the suitcase away without leaving any trace.

To be exact, Friday could even feel it—the spell cast on the suitcase made even him feel a little uneasy.

That is a very powerful spell.

"How cautious."

Friday sighed.

Then...

It turned around decisively, turned into liquid again, and flowed out.

Yeah...right—Ryan had already mentioned that to him.

"If you encounter any problems in Professor Crouch's office, especially some powerful ones that you are not absolutely sure of cracking, then don't crack them."

"Just come back and tell me."

And Friday clearly took Ryan's request to heart.

So at this moment, it decisively chose to leave.

It turned back into a pool of water and flowed out of the cabinet door, then passed by with a colorful glow.

Its figure disappeared in the office.

But apparently, Friday didn't know that.

After it leaves.

Inside the huge wooden cabinet, in the suitcase that was cast with a powerful spell.

"Buzz!"

As the magic power flowed, the powerful spell used to defend against invasion by outsiders was silently released.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, the suitcase was slowly opened.