Ever since the Petrification incident, the entire Hogwarts was in a state of panic.
Even the young Magi of the Lion Courtyard, who were known for their boldness, did not dare to stay outside after class. They would return to the lounge as soon as possible.
Even when they went out, they habitually walked together.
He was afraid that he would be petrified by the unknown murderer because he was alone.
In this atmosphere, Hogwarts welcomed the most popular sport in the Wizarding world, Quidditch.
Over the next fortnight, the four Quidditch teams from the four Houses trained hard for the House Cup.
This kind of focus and enthusiasm gradually diluted everyone's fear of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Qin Feng, on the other hand, had no interest in the Quidditch match. He was completely focused on finding the thief who had stolen the Horcrux diary.
Starting from Slytherin House, he had searched Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff in the past two weeks.
However, no matter how he checked the students in these academies one by one, he still did not get Zhihe's perception.
After a round, Qin Feng finally returned to Gryffindor House.
"Did I guess wrong? I searched all around... but I didn't find any trace of the Horcrux diary at all!」
Qin Feng still found nothing even after he came out of Gryffindor's common room. He looked at Zhihe, who was lying on his shoulder, in disappointment.
He did not miss a single Gryffindor student. He even went to the rest room to look for the Horcrux diary.
However, there was no sign of his existence until he left.
"It's not in the student's hands. Could it be…in the hands of a professor?」
After Qin Feng eliminated all the students, he still did not find the soul tool diary. In the end, he could only suspect two possibilities.
One was that the Horcrux diary was in the hands of a professor, and the other was that the thief who stole the diary was neither a student nor a professor.
"Wait, if it's the former, then according to the professionalism of Hogwarts professors, even a junior wizard should know to be vigilant and stay away from dark magic tools with unknown effects!」
"There's no reason that an adult wizard who can be hired by Hogwarts as a professor can't even compare to a young wizard in this aspect!」
[No, I was too careless. There really is a guy…who might fall for it!]」
The entire Hogwarts team of professors was of high quality, but there was one fellow who was just making up the numbers, and that was Lockhart, who had just become Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor this year!
If it was this guy, Qin Feng did not doubt that he would fall for it. This was because this guy had already returned most of the things he had learned from Hogwarts to Hogwarts after years of impersonation.
In addition, Lockhart's situation at Hogwarts was not good. Because of his previous embarrassment in front of the students, his fans had decreased a lot.
Under the situation where his soul was struck, the ability of the Horcrux Diary to confuse people might even affect him, an adult wizard.
However, this guess was only one of the possibilities.
"Given Lockhart's character, he had absolutely no reason, nor the ability, to break into my room... not to mention, after turning the room upside down, he would take the seemingly ordinary Horcrux diary with him!」
"Ordinary people shouldn't be able to sense its power at all, not to mention that it didn't take anything else with it, but it took that one!」
"So... it's the last possibility, that it wasn't the student or the professor who took the Horcrux diary!」
He was neither a student nor a professor. Was there such an existence in Hogwarts?
Of course there was, and there was more than one!
Like the house-elf, who was neither a student nor a professor, or like Peter Pettigrew, who was Ron's pet mouse, who was neither a student nor a professor.
If other mystical creatures with the ability to infiltrate were included, the possibility of this happening would be even higher.
Of course, Qin Feng believed that there were only two possibilities among the many possibilities-the house-elf and Peter Pettigrew!
"Fortunately, I finally have a new train of thought. It's not like I've gained nothing!」
Just as Qin Feng was about to begin the next step of the investigation, he suddenly discovered that the paper crane on his shoulder seemed to have been stimulated. It suddenly flew up from his shoulder and in the next second, it quickly leaped out and flew into the distance.
[Is there a reaction?]
Seeing Zhihe's actions, Qin Feng subconsciously sped up and chased after it.
As Zhihe and Qin Feng sprinted, they soon arrived at the third floor of Hogwarts.
" Wait a minute, I can't see the person's movement pattern at all. This speed, direction of movement…"
Qin Feng, who was running, did not stop thinking. On the contrary, he had already thought of what Zhihe was chasing after during the time he had chased up to the third floor.
A thousand-year snake monster!
On the way here, Qin Feng did not see the specific image of the target that the paper crane was tracking. The other party's trajectory was all around the castle's drainage pipe.
Coupled with the existence related to the Horcrux diary, the only thing Qin Feng could think of was the thousand-year-old snake monster hidden in the secret chamber that Slytherin had left for his successor.
Very soon, Qin Feng and Zhihe stopped in their tracks because they no longer had any path ahead of them.
"This is... the abandoned bathroom on the third floor, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom!」
Just as Qin Feng was muttering the name of this place, a ghost woman suddenly crawled out from an abandoned toilet bowl at the side.
[I heard someone calling my name just now…Hey, you're that professor from the Eastern Magic Academy. You're so handsome!]」
Moaning Myrtle was the only victim of the Basilisk's murder fifty years ago, and the place where she was killed was the bathroom before them, which had been abandoned since then.
And this was precisely the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber.
Qin Feng looked at the copper dragon head not far away. The small snake carved on it is extremely good. This is undoubtedly the best proof.
[It seems that…no matter what, I have to enter the secret chamber to find out the answers to all the questions!]」
After deciding on his next target, Qin Feng directly returned home.
Even though the Basilisk was killed by a 2nd year wizard like Harry in the movie, the combat power of a 1,000-year-old Basilisk was not to be underestimated. If they were not fully prepared, how could they fight the Boss?
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