I Have a Big Problem with My Hogwarts

"The fundamental purpose of this attack was not for some blood cleansing, nor was he trying to target me. He wanted to divert our attention and then invade the principal's office."

Lynn and Dumbledore walked into the entrance of the headmaster's office, and then went up the spiral staircase.

Dumbledore didn't speak, he looked calm and didn't look like he was worried that something might be missing in the headmaster's office.

On the eighth floor, the door of the principal's office was wide open. Looking around, it was in a mess and all kinds of things were thrown on the ground. The intruder made no secret of his intention to come here to find something.

Dumbledore and Lynn stopped in front of the principal's office at the same time, and did not go in immediately.

On the branch where Fox was, there was a faint flame burning slowly.

Not long after the flames dissipated, an ugly, featherless bird stood on the branch screaming angrily.

It had apparently been killed once just now, and it had just been resurrected when Lynn and Dumbledore arrived.

Except for Fox who was resurrected from the dead, the Sorting Hat that had been sitting on the chair was roughly thrown on the floor, and there was an upside-down silver basin next to the bookshelf, and various parchments on the desk were scattered throughout the room. The house is everywhere, and the characters in the portraits of the previous Hogwarts principals hanging on the wall have all disappeared. One of them seems to have been attacked, and a large hole was burned in the middle, exposing the scorched wall behind. noodle.

"Is there something missing from the professor?"

After they made sure that no one was hiding inside, they walked in. Dumbledore waved his wand to restore all the messy things to their original positions, and at the same time repaired the damaged picture frame.

Hearing Lynn's words, Dumbledore shook his head.

"No, nothing is missing." As he said that, he walked towards the silver basin placed in the cabinet. "There is nothing missing, but the thought may have been peeped."

Lynn looked at the silver basin, and in order to confirm some guesses in his heart, he asked, "Is this a Pensieve?"

"That's right, a very useful alchemy item. I often keep some important memories in it."

Dumbledore shook his head while talking, "The murderer doesn't look like he came here specially for it, it's just that I left the headmaster's office for a while, there is not enough time for him to see something, if his target is really If it was this basin, then he should have stolen it directly."

Lin En looked around the entire principal's office, and said puzzledly: "So what did he want to do after spending so much time sneaking into the principal's office?"

Dumbledore also walked around the whole room, and then stopped in front of Fawkes, who had just been resurrected and looked ugly.

Fawkes looked very angry, and he said a phoenix language to Dumbledore, and Dumbledore nodded slightly.

"It was attacked by surprise, and it was petrified by the basilisk without seeing the face clearly, and it has been resurrected until now."

Although Lynn didn't understand bird language, he must have said more than these few words after listening to Fox's "chirp chirp" for such a long period. It is estimated that Dumbledore omitted all his curse words.

At this moment, a sneaky old man suddenly appeared in the photo frame hanging on the wall. He carefully observed the situation in the principal's room, and shouted when he saw Dumbledore.

"Albus! Why did you come back? Do you know that I was almost burned just now!"

It was an old wizard with a bright face and a goatee, who sounded rather rough.

Dumbledore returned to his seat calmly, and then said to him, "Phineas, call Dalice and the others back, it's safe here."

"They just sent me to find the way." Phineas muttered and left from the photo frame in the principal's office. It didn't take long for the principals who had temporarily taken refuge outside to return to the picture frame in the principal's office.

"Oh! My God! This is horrible, a dark wizard has invaded the principal's office!"

"This is an unprecedented event in the millennium, you must pay attention to Albus!"

"He is rummaging around here, and so is the big snake, just guarding next to it, none of us dare to stare into its eyes."

"Even we, who have become portraits, cannot avoid the terrifying death-death magic."

"Phineas just yelled a few words at the dark wizard, and he almost burned him!"

The principals talked to Dumbledore about everything that happened in the principal's room. They all seemed to be in a state of lingering fear, as if they were very disturbed by such a thing.

Dumbledore stopped them from talking together, and called out the name of a kind-looking headmistress.

"Dalice, have you seen the face of the intruder?"

Dai Lisi shook her head with a sad face: "I'm sorry Albus, he didn't show his face, but his voice should be a wizard."

"Then did you find out what he was looking for?"

"As soon as he came in with the big snake, he asked us to go out. Phineas yelled at him, and then he seemed to be tired of attacking the portrait. We had to escape from here for temporary shelter. I don't know if he has Find what he was looking for."

Dumbledore didn't show much disappointment, which seemed to be what he expected.

"Phineas." He called out the name of the shaggy old man who had entered in the first place.

"I'm here, always have been," Phineas responded.

"Please go to the portraits everywhere in the castle and ask them if they have seen where the big snake appeared. For the safety of Hogwarts, we must catch this basilisk."

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

Phineas disappeared from his portrait, and the principal's office fell into silence again.

Lynn kept observing Dumbledore's expression, feeling as if he had discovered something.

"Professor, do you know the purpose of that intruder sneaking into the principal's office?"

Dumbledore tapped his index finger on the table lightly and thought for a moment.

"I do have some guesses, but I'm sorry Lynn, this is a secret that has been guarded by successive principals. I can't tell you these things unless you take over my position."

Lynn could understand what Dumbledore said. Such an ancient college must have its own secrets. Without Lynn, Dumbledore would have suspected that Dumbledore was hiding something from him.

"Did the intruder succeed?"

Dumbledore's eyes became a little deep, he said softly.

"At present, it seems that he didn't succeed, but I don't know what kind of thing he was looking for."