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"Petrified? Ah! I think so too." Lockhart said, but no one cared what he was saying at this moment.

"But what exactly happened, I don't know..." Dumbledore shook his head.

"Ask them!" Filch screamed, turning his mottled, tear-stained face to Harry and Malfoy. "They showed up!"

"There's no way they can do that, Filch," Dumbledore said firmly.

"The oldest of them is a second-year student, and the little girl is even a young wizard who has just entered school. At their age, they do not have the ability to turn a cat into stone. This requires extremely high black magic skills."

"But who else could it be if they weren't them?" Filch spat, his fat and saggy face turning purple. "There are so many students, but they were the first ones to show up at the scene! And everyone else was attending the banquet!

"

"Filch, the principal is right. These students don't have the ability to petrify a cat." Luo Cheng said: "And of these children, three are Gryffindors and three are Slytherins. I

But I don’t think they will act together. If there is a problem between them, the other party will report it, right? We might as well listen to what they have to say first."

"Please allow me to say something, Principal."

Snape's lips twisted into a sneer. "I think neither Potter and his friends nor Malfoy and his friends should have been in that place at that time. But I think they have to explain,

Why on earth did they leave the banquet early and go to the corridor above? Malfoy! You tell me first!"

"Professor, I, Clara and Goyle just went out for a walk after eating. Not long after we walked, we saw the new student Gryffindor standing there alone. As for Potter and Weasley, they came here later.

, Oh, Weasley seems to be the brother of the new Gryffindor student, they are in the same group."

Malfoy said calmly.

"Then it means that Mr. Malfoy is not suspected of committing the crime. Can Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, and the new Gryffindor student explain?"

Harry and Ron scrambled to explain that they had heard from Neville that Malfoy and his gang had followed Ginny out, and they had followed because they were worried that Malfoy and the others would be harmful to Ginny.

"Really? It makes sense that he cares about his sister." Snape said, his dark eyes sparkling in the candlelight. "So, it is the new student of Gryffindor who witnessed the first scene? Then

, this Ginny Weasley, can you tell us what happened?"

Ginny looked at everyone with a pale face, trying to open her mouth but unable to speak.

"She was terrified, Severus!"

Professor McGonagall said sternly, "She is just a new student! You can't be so stupid that you doubt what she can do!"

"Professor McGonagall, that's not what I meant. What I meant was to ask her if she had witnessed the real murderer. We all know that these students are unlikely to do such a thing."

Snape gave a twisted smile.

"Professors, there is no need for you to argue." Luo Cheng said. "In my opinion, this matter has nothing to do with these students."

Snape's ugly smile became even more obvious, "Does Professor Luo Cheng have any wise ideas?"

"I can't speak highly of you. I just want to express my personal opinion."

Luo Cheng walked up to the cat. "Obviously, this cat has been hit by a very powerful petrification spell. Professor Dumbledore has just used several special effects spells to remove the spell, but they have no effect at all. We all know that although there are many

A spell that can cause petrification, but no matter which one it is, it can be lifted by the corresponding spell-removing spell."

"Perhaps the caster is too powerful-" Lockhart interjected.

"Is there any wizard stronger than the headmaster? Even if there were, would he be so bored that he would go to Hogwarts and attack a cat?"

Luo Cheng couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

"That's not necessarily true. Isn't that written all over? That's the descendant of Slytherin! That secret room in Hogwarts! When I was at Hogwarts, I was also a Ravenclaw student. I'm very familiar with it.

This legend is very familiar."

Lockhart unexpectedly became serious.

"You are right, Mr. Lockhart." Luo Cheng said, "But I still insist on my opinion. Even if Salazar himself is alive, the principal of Salazar will definitely be able to break the petrification curse."

"Continue, Professor Luo Cheng, but don't go too far," Dumbledore said.

"I suspect that this cat was not harmed by a wizard's spell, but by some dangerous magical creature, such as a basilisk."