The Admiral of Hogwarts

After the discussion ended, everyone could only watch Filch, tearful, leave with his petrified cat.

After all, more than a hundred Galleons was no small sum; it could even support an ordinary person for an entire year. It was absolutely impossible to get the board of governors to approve such a large sum of money to save a cat.

After watching what happened in Lockhart's office, Hugo and Veneto immediately disconnected from the Admiral Network. By this time, they had already entered the Ravenclaw common room, and almost every student around them was discussing the sentence on the wall and what had happened to Filch's cat.

Fortunately, a few minutes later, Professor Flitwick also came up from the trapdoor and told everyone that Filch's cat had only been petrified, and that they already had a way to free the cat from petrification.

After hearing the good news from their head of house, the Ravenclaw students quickly relaxed and held the house's internal ghost story competition as planned. In the end, Veneto won the championship with a series of stories about hauntings on a warship.

After everyone had had their fun and gone to bed, Hugo gained a Destiny Point for the plot change. In addition, through the Admiral Network, he also obtained a list of students who were absent from the Great Hall that night from Firefly, Veneto, and Enterprise.

"There seem to be a few too many people on this list."

Looking at the list, Hugo couldn't help but frown.

Because the list contained nearly 20 names, and they were relatively evenly distributed among the four houses. More importantly, Hugo was basically unfamiliar with these people.

"But these people certainly didn't attend the Halloween feast,"

Enterprise said at this time.

"And according to what I know, many of them have very good reasons."

"For example, Gryffindor's Lavender and her roommates have had severe colds for the past two days, so they had to ask for leave to rest in the dormitory. Only Ginny was forced to attend the dinner tonight after her brothers force-fed her a bottle of cold potion."

"To make matters worse, Parvati passed the cold on to her sister Padma,"

Veneto interjected at this time.

"So you see, the people in her dormitory went to bed as soon as they returned from the dinner tonight, because even after drinking the medicine, they are much more tired than when they are healthy."

"Damn climate!"

Hugo muttered softly. Originally, he could have narrowed down the range of suspects by who didn't attend the Halloween feast.

But now, although the range of suspects has indeed been narrowed down, there are still dozens of people on the list. Then the difficulty of catching the mastermind behind the scenes has suddenly increased by more than one level.

After all, the flu is highly contagious, and even wizards with magic cannot escape it. Although the specific situation in Slytherin is unknown, collective colds have occurred in entire dormitories in Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor, which is also an important reason why so many people did not attend the feast tonight.

"Next, we can only analyze them one by one."

After repeatedly looking at the list several times, Hugo finally had no choice but to make a decision for a protracted war.

"I believe that after the first attack, that guy will attack repeatedly. With prior preparation, we can always catch him in the act."

The next morning, everything basically returned to normal, except that for several days in a row, the students' topic of conversation when they met was nothing else but the attack on Mrs. Norris.

However, because this time it was just Filch's unpopular cat that was petrified, not many people felt panic.

Of course, Filch's performance also repeatedly reminded everyone of this matter. He often paced back and forth in the place where Mrs. Norris was attacked, as if thinking that the attacker would come again.

Enterprise once offered to help him erase the words on the wall, but was rejected, because Filch seemed to think that once these words were erased, his cat might be forgotten by everyone and never come back to life.

After being rejected by Filch, Enterprise could only shrug and let him go. After all, at this time, this wall attracted the attention of all the teachers and students in the school, and showing too much concern for this wall was not a good idea. Therefore, Enterprise could only give up the opportunity to obtain that Destiny Point.

Many people expressed unease about this matter, especially the Hufflepuff students.

After all, the proportion of non-pure-blood wizards in Hufflepuff is as high as in Gryffindor, but they are not as courageous as Gryffindor, or rather, not as reckless as Gryffindor. Therefore, it is very normal for them to feel scared.

In the beginning, some soft-hearted students expressed sympathy for Filch, but soon everyone's sympathy was withdrawn.

Because during this time, if Filch was not patrolling the crime scene, he would stare with his red eyes, secretly hiding in the corridor, and then suddenly pounce on unsuspecting students, trying every means to find excuses to give them detention, such as their "breathing too loudly" or "grinning".

"Sure enough, there is always something hateful about the pitiful."

Hermione originally had some sympathy for Filch, but after she saw Filch inexplicably scolding a Hufflepuff first-year student until they cried, she withdrew her sympathy.

"By the way, did you borrow 'Hogwarts, A History' today?"

"Still no, my dear sister,"

Hugo said to Hermione with a helpless look at the library table.

"I specifically asked Mrs. Pince, and found that the book borrowing list has been scheduled for two weeks later."

"What do you want this book for?"

After hearing what the Granger siblings said, Veneto pretended to be ignorant and said.

"That book is big and thick, and it's completely like a ledger, which is especially boring to read."

"You've read that book, that's great!"

After hearing Veneto say this, Hermione immediately leaned forward and asked.

"By the way, do you know what the book says about the Chamber of Secrets?"

"I really have some impression of this,"

Veneto smiled and motioned for Hugo and Hermione to come closer to her, then whispered about the records of the Chamber of Secrets in that book.

"After the four founders created Hogwarts, they spent a very harmonious time together. They searched everywhere for young people who showed magical potential and brought them to the castle to cultivate them well."

"But, slowly, they began to have differences. Slytherin hoped that Hogwarts would be more picky when recruiting students. He believed that magical education should be limited to pure-blood magical families. He was unwilling to accept Muggle-born children, believing that they were unreliable."

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"After some days, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a fierce argument over this issue, and then Slytherin left the school."

"According to legend, Slytherin built a secret room in the castle that the other founders knew nothing about. When leaving the castle, Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school."

"Only that heir can open the Chamber of Secrets, release the terrifying thing inside, and let it purify the school, clearing out all those who are not worthy of learning magic."