Chapter 245 It Seems that We Misunderstood You Before

Upon hearing this shocking news, the hall suddenly fell into a brief silence, and the two professors Flitwick and Sprout, whose expressions changed greatly, immediately ran out.

Naturally, there was no need to continue the duel on the field. Ivan turned his head and asked Snape to restrain and protect the students in the hall, and then followed eagerly.

Snape was very dissatisfied with Ivan's command of him, but he still fulfilled his duties as a professor and ordered all students to stay where they were and not to go anywhere!

On the other side, Ivan rushed to the third floor as quickly as possible.

Except for Snape, all the professors at Hogwarts had arrived. Madam Pomfrey squatted on the ground and looked at the people who were attacked.

Dumbledore stood aside with a frown, not knowing what to think.

Ivan walked a few steps before he saw the injured girl. She seemed to be a Hufflepuff girl in the second or third grade. Her face was extremely pale and her breathing was very weak.

Different from the last time, the girl was not injured or bleeding, and there were no messy writings on the surrounding walls.

Ivan was not surprised. He had been at the Duel Club tonight, and Tom might have known that there was no possibility of framing him.

"Poor child, her vitality has been severely lost, just like the Ravenclaw girl before." Madam Pomfrey sighed sadly, but there was nothing she could do.

"What kind of black magic can cause such an effect?" Professor McGonagall was very angry, and the hand holding the wand was trembling. She looked at Dumbledore, expecting him to answer.

"What matters is not how it was done, but who did it!" Dumbledore did not give an answer, but said in a deep voice.

"Perhaps we can investigate which students did not come to my duel class tonight. I think there won't be many of them." Ivan suggested.

He suddenly found that this was a good opportunity to catch Tom Riddle. The corridor on the third floor was not remote, so the time when the girl was killed should be very short, at least after the duel club started!

This means that the suspicion of most people has been eliminated at once!

The remaining young wizards who did not come to class can immediately find out whose hands the Horcruxes are by investigating one by one!

"Very good suggestion! We'd better take action immediately!" Professor McGonagall quickly figured this out and said in surprise.

"By the way, where is Severus?" Professor McGonagall had not seen Snape back for a long time and was somewhat confused.

"I asked him to stay in the big exhibition hall to protect the children so that the attackers would not attack them while we were away. Now it is convenient for us to count who is not present!" Ivan said confidently. He thought this Tom will never be able to run away again!

"Professor Lockhart, it seems we misunderstood you before. I didn't expect you to be very reliable at critical moments." McGonagall was surprised by Ivan's careful arrangements.

The other professors also looked at "Lockhart" in front of them strangely. It was hard for them to believe that Lockhart had said those words just now.

Looking at everyone's confused looks, Ivan realized that he had gone too far and did not fit the character of "Lockhart".

But precisely because this opportunity to find a Horcrux was so rare, he was so excited that he even forgot about role-playing.

Ivan hurriedly coughed twice and spoke out to make amends.

"Ahem, that's natural. I have encountered such emergencies countless times in my legendary career. I dare say that no one in the magic world knows how to handle a crisis better than me!"

Ivan reluctantly came back. Fortunately, none of the professors had the intention to study it in detail, and their thoughts were on how to capture the attacker.

Ivan volunteered to catch the little wizards who did not come to class.

He felt that it was best for him to find the Horcrux before others, make up a reason to destroy it and then report it, so that Dumbledore would not learn some bad news about him from the Horcrux.

Although this possibility is very small, we must be prepared.

Unfortunately, after Ivan proposed to participate in the search, Dumbledore vetoed it.

"No! I need you to inform Severus, work with him to protect the children in the hall, and count all the students who have not taken dueling classes!" Dumbledore said.

Can't you send someone else to do this little thing? Ivan was about to retort when he opened his mouth, but noticed that Dumbledore's eyes under his half-moon glasses were staring at him, and he decisively closed his mouth.

"Okay, I'm going to inform Snape right now." Ivan rolled his eyes aside carelessly, avoiding eye contact with Dumbledore, and turned to leave.

Ivan had been running Occlumency, but when he walked out of the entire corridor, he found no trace of his brain being invaded.

Even so, Ivan still noticed that Dumbledore seemed to have a little doubt about his identity, otherwise he would not veto his proposal to participate in the search.

"Damn it, I should always carry the Marauder's Map with me!" Ivan couldn't help but sigh aloud on the way to the big exhibition hall.

Because he was going to exchange identities with Lockhart today, he put away all the things that did not match his identity, so as not to fall out during the fight and be suspected.

Ivan also didn't expect that Tom Riddle would be so bold and dare to choose this time to carry out the second attack!

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Returning to the large exhibition hall, Ivan found that Snape had cast a spell to remove the duel platform and replaced it with the long tables of the four major colleges. All the little wizards stayed in their seats.

Snape saw Ivan walking into the exhibition hall and walked over with a gloomy face. "What happened? Someone was attacked?"

Ivan nodded, told about the attack on a third-year Hufflepuff girl, and then continued.

"Anyway, we need to count the number of people now. I believe the attacker should be among the students who did not come to class! I will be in charge of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw Houses, and I will leave Slytherin and Hufflepuff to is you."

After explaining, Ivan hurried to the long tables of the two colleges to tally the lists of personnel.

Snape was very awkward. He was unwilling to follow Ivan's command, but he had to admit that the other party's arrangement was very reasonable, so he could only do it with a dark face.

After spending more than half an hour, Ivan and Snape checked the list of personnel. They were overjoyed for a moment. There were fewer young wizards who did not come to class than he thought, only two girls from lower grades!

The Horcrux must be in the hands of one of them!

Ivan felt that Tom might not be able to dance for long, but things were going too smoothly, which made Ivan feel that something was wrong.

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