The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

At that moment, Helena floated over and told him that she had not found the target in the Room of Requirement or even on the entire eighth floor.

Scott pulled out the [Magic Mirror] and simultaneously contacted the others in the Tower of Babel.

The communication connection was established, and the avatars of other people quickly appeared on the divided mirror surface.

"How is it?" Scott asked.

Fred: "I'm on the seventh floor, and I haven't found my target yet."

George: "I'm on the sixth floor, and I don't have any there either."

Eddie, "Fifth floor? No."

Roger: "Fourth floor? No."

Milton: "Three floors, no."

Luna: "I'm on the second floor, and I haven't finished checking half of the area yet."

“Keep searching,” Scott said. “By the way, Dumbledore has notified the other professors, and the house-elves are also joining the search.”

Everyone was overjoyed to hear the news.

"Oh, that should help us find it quickly!"

Scott and Helena began their search on the first floor of the castle.

After an afternoon, the vanished cabinet was finally found before dinner that day.

As Scott expected, the house-elves were the ones who found them in the end.

Coincidentally, it was Lulu who found it.

The location was not unusual; it was a dormitory room in Slytherin.

That dormitory room was not the one Malfoy had lived in; it was a girls' dormitory.

This is the dormitory room where Jasmine Travers once lived.

Ever since Travers "died in an unfortunate split accident," no one else wanted to move in, leaving the dormitory empty and rarely used.

In short, the vanishing cabinet hidden under the bed was found by the house-elves, who quietly moved it to Professor McGonagall's office.

Now, Scott, representing his companions, and several professors have gathered here to watch Dumbledore examine the Vanishing Cabinet.

"It has been repaired somewhat, but the other party doesn't know alchemy; they only used a repairing charm, so it's not completely repaired," Dumbledore said.

Professor Moody asked, "So, it's not working properly yet?"

Dumbledore nodded.

"So it turns out it was just a false alarm?" Professor Sgrahorn breathed a sigh of relief.

Professor Moody said, "It must have been done by those expelled Slytherin rascals, but they were expelled before they could fix it."

Upon hearing his words, Sgrahorn's expression turned ugly, but he couldn't utter a rebuttal.

"Things are not that simple."

Dumbledore stood up.

“The traces of the Restoration Charm seem quite recent.” He turned and beckoned to Scott. “Come and take a look, Scott. Your senses are more accurate.”

Upon hearing this, Scott immediately stepped forward, squatted down, and carefully examined the area.

He quickly came to a conclusion.

“Professor Dumbledore is right,” he told the others. “The most recent Restoration Charm was used last night.”

Snapped.

"Last night? The first day of school?"

Professor Moody slammed his cane into the floor.

His demonic eye kept turning, glancing sideways at Professor Sgrahorn.

"In other words, there's a little venomous snake hiding in Slytherin House."

“Impossible!” Professor Slughorn retorted angrily. “Alastor, you can’t doubt my student without any evidence!”

Professor Moody snorted coldly.

"Voldemort was once your student!"

"you……"

Professor Sgrahorn's mouth dropped open, his face turned ashen, and he was too angry to speak.

His thick, multi-layered chin twitched incessantly, making "hoo, ho" sounds in his throat.

"Oh, are you alright?"

Professor Sprout supported his arm.

“Alastor, it wasn’t Horace’s fault.”

Dumbledore stopped Professor Moody from saying anything more.

"After all, Voldemort was once my student."

Hearing him say that, Professor Sglahorn seemed to feel a little better, but he still sat on the sofa with a bad expression, looking somewhat dejected.

Professor McGonagall said, "In short, someone is trying to repair this cabinet, and we must find him first."

“That’s easy, just have the house-elf put it back where it was,” Professor Flitwick said. “Then all we have to do is wait.”

As he spoke, he looked at Scott.

Scott understood immediately, took out the surveillance "eyes" and handed them to Lulu, the house-elf waiting nearby, instructing it to install them in that bedroom.

Lulu accepted the "eyes" with trepidation and then disappeared before everyone's eyes with the vanishing cabinet.

"Next, there's no need to disturb or stop them. Just let them fix the vanishing cabinet."

Professor Moody clearly shared the same idea as Scott.

"Once everything is ready, we can strike first and catch them off guard."

"This……"

Apart from Dumbledore, the other professors were somewhat hesitant.

“Of course, I’m not talking about you.” Professor Moody waved his hand. “You are just professors, not Aurors, nor members of the Order of the Phoenix.”

“It has nothing to do with who we are; I just think your plan is too risky, Alastor.”

Professor Sgrahorn explicitly expressed his opposition to the plan.

"Moreover, even if a student did such a thing, he might be under a spell. What we should do is rescue him."

Professor Moody had no objection to this.

“Of course,” he said. “If it’s a student who is under a spell, we will fix the vanishing cabinet for him after we rescue him.”

Professor Sgrahorn nodded and said nothing more.

Professor Moody turned to Scott and said, "Mr. Trolop, lend me your surveillance magic items, and I'll keep watch myself."

"no problem."

Scott did not refuse; he handed the [Magic Mirror] to him and even taught him how to use it.

There are no more secrets in this [magic mirror] now.

Because the Magic Mirror was frequently used by other people, Scott made a new one during his summer vacation at home, transferring all the secrets stored in the old Magic Mirror to it.

Scott then took his leave.

Leaving Professor McGonagall's office, Scott saw his companions waiting at the other end of the corridor.

"How about it?"

"Have you found the person who hid the cabinet?"

"I'm not surprised at all by the result; it was Slytherin again."

When Scott walked among them, everyone spoke at the same time.

Scott briefly explained the situation and instructed them to keep it a secret.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Fred and George couldn't help but feel a little schadenfreude.

"Just wait, we'll have the answer soon."

"Oh, I wonder which unlucky guy it is; Professor Moody will definitely catch him red-handed!"

"I wonder if I'll be scared to death."

"Ha, if he did it on purpose, then he'll get expelled from school like Malfoy, but he deserves it!"

"Let's go, it's time for dinner."

"Oh, I feel good, I'm sure I can eat more tonight."

After dinner, Scott went to Professor Frivi's office alone, carrying research materials on "Yuktrahiel" and "Gungnir".

Besides applying for the use of the crown, the purpose was to share these materials with the professor.

Professor Frivi has taught him a great deal of knowledge without reservation, and he is now equally willing to share this invaluable knowledge.

After Scott explained his purpose, Professor Flitwick, who was always sentimental, was deeply moved and almost jumped for joy.

But he still suppressed his excitement and did not immediately accept Scott's sharing.

“Oh, Scott.”

Professor Flitwick's hands were clasped together, clearly in a state of great distress.

“This knowledge is too valuable, and you risked your life to retrieve it. I shouldn’t just accept it like this.”

"You're too kind."

Scott was somewhat helpless.

He understood the allure of ancient super-magic to a master spellcaster, yet Professor Flitwick resisted it and was even worried about his student being taken advantage of. How could anyone not respect such a character?