28 An unexpected name

Before Anthony finished speaking, the expression of the leader of the investigation team changed.

"how dare you--"

"Just because I have always been a legal taxpayer, both in the Muggle world and the wizarding world." Anthony said seriously, "Whether I am a cashier or a Hogwarts professor, I treat every job with dedication and responsibility. Ministry of Magic..." He shook his head, "If you really cared about trolls, you shouldn't spend so much time on me."

The team leader argued: "The Ministry of Magic has always been committed to protecting the safety of students, but Hogwarts failed to fulfill its responsibility!"

"Of course, I don't question your meaning." Anthony said, "It's just that I recently learned that a student died here inexplicably fifty years ago, and her soul is still lingering in the castle. If the magic at that time The department is as resolute as it is now, so I don't think I have to spend so much energy investigating."

"Wha-what?"

"I think he's talking about Myrtle, Captain," the Auror said.

"I know what you are referring to, Anthony." The team leader said fiercely, "Your accusation is completely unreasonable. If you only do a little more research, you will find that the Ministry has decided to close Hogwarts at that time! "

"There is no record of Hogwarts being closed," Anthony affirmed. If the school had ever been closed, he couldn't have failed to notice it when he checked the school's history.

"Because the culprit has been found!"

"Really, then why don't I see any records?"

"Because Dumbledore kept him, you idiot, just as he wants to keep you now. Dumbledore was keen on filling the school with dangerous people and dark creatures... always with the same rhetoric, what's in his heart? Yearning for the light, he is a loyal and good man, he would not do such a thing...but we, those of us who truly care about students, we know what instability is. Hogwarts is not his picnic basket!"

"Let me point out that, apart from the fact that I am a necromancer (Anthony noticed that the other person's hand tightened on the wand), I did not find any of the 'unstable factors' you called. Every faculty member does his or her duty."

"Of course, you are busy letting trolls into the school and you can't see the world around you." The team leader said contemptuously, "Like that big gamekeeper. Ask him why he didn't leave Hogwarts graduate."

"Hagrid?" Anthony asked doubtfully. He didn't expect to get such an answer at all. God knows, he was expecting the other party to say bad things about Snape.

"Aren't you asking how Myrtle died?" The team leader stared at him closely. "Ask the keykeeper. No one knows better than him."

"You can't be saying that Hagrid is a murderer!" Anthony said. "Let me point out, sir, that Mrs. Norris is more of a murderer than Hagrid. At least the student has a real grudge against her."

"Ha, what do you think, Professor? Aren't you the ones who look innocent on the outside but are the most evil secretly? Trolls... Acromantula... Dumbledore's preferences are really consistent." The team leader ignored it. The Auror tried to silence his voice and whispered angrily, "What does he think of Hogwarts, a magical zoo? It's no wonder, after all, he himself was the first person to turn the school into a shelter for dark wizards." "

Anthony left the classroom confused. Acromantulas - as far as he knew - did not have large yellow eyes.

…

After telling Professor McGonagall that the investigation was over, Anthony came out of her office and saw Tonks standing in the corridor chatting with Professor Sprout. She was gesticulating happily and somehow knocked over the torch above her head. The students on both sides quickly moved out of the way, but the papers of several people were still affected.

"Oh! Sorry! Clear water!" Tonks exclaimed, extinguishing her burning wizard robes at the same time as Sprout.

"Why are you still so reckless?" Professor Sprout patted Tonks on the arm.

She saw Anthony coming out of Professor McGonagall's office and happily waved him over.

"This is Tonks, Henry, the last graduate of Hufflepuff, now working in the Ministry of Magic." Professor Sprout said happily. She still didn't know why Tonks came to Hogwarts. "Like you, a loyal buyer of coconut sorbet. Tonks, this is Professor Anthony, our popular Muggle Studies professor."

"Miss Tonks." Anthony nodded towards her.

"Ah, Professor Anthony," Tonks said awkwardly.

Professor Sprout looked around doubtfully and frowned: "Do you know each other?"

"Met not long ago. Miss Tonks is a member of the investigation team." Anthony said.

"What investigation team?"

Anthony shrugged: "Investigate whether I put the troll in the underground classroom."

"Did the Ministry of Magic actually care about this matter so quickly?" Professor Sprout asked in surprise. "I thought we would have to wait at least until the school board protested. But why didn't I receive a notice of the investigation?"

"Maybe I'm the only one who needs it," Anthony said honestly.

"But - what -" Professor Sprout turned sharply to Tonks, "Tonks?"

Tonks was lowering her head while trying to repair her wizard robe. She suddenly raised her head, feeling a little aggrieved, and whispered to her dean: "I can't tell you what's confidential."

Professor Sprout frowned tightly: "Why would you want to investigate Henry? He is one of the people least likely to release the troll."

"It's nothing, Pomona. Maybe it's because I wasn't at the dinner at the time, so I don't have an alibi." Anthony reassured her, changed the subject and asked, "Then who do you think is the most likely person to release the troll?"

"Uh..." Professor Sprout began to try hard to come up with a name.

Tonks glanced at Anthony gratefully and smiled sheepishly at him.

Professor Sprout shook his head in frustration, "I don't know. Peeves. I have to say, I can't imagine anyone but him who would find a troll wandering around an underground classroom interesting."

Tonks was surprised when she heard this and asked: "Professor, do you think that person was just doing it for fun? Didn't he want to harm the students?"

"If it is to hurt students, this person is more of an idiot than just doing it for fun!" Professor Sprout said unceremoniously, "Most of the professors at Hogwarts were present at the time. Not to mention the principal, the guest of honor Which one of Filius, Minerva and Severus at the table can't subdue the troll?"

"Even if Granger... oh, my god (she shuddered), luckily she was not hurt, but even if she..." she mumbled, "no matter what, it is impossible for the troll to cause widespread death. . There are things scarier than trolls in the magic world. Pulling up a mandrake in the hall is more dangerous than placing a troll in the ground."

Anthony noticed that she was quite certain when she said "widespread death." He had a flash of inspiration: "Pomona, you know how Hagrid was expelled, don't you?"

"I know, and I don't believe it." Professor Sprout said, "Henry, we send good boys like Tonks to the Ministry of Magic just so that the Ministry of Magic can really do some good things instead of doing random things every day. Doubt others."