Chapter 147 145. Image
A student is missing, this is the first time that happened in the carriage since the exile.
Besides, Percy will be in the seventh grade after the summer vacation, so he can be regarded as a half-adult wizard, not to mention his excellent grades, which can be said to be the best among the students in his class.
Even if someone sneaked into the carriage and hijacked him, it was impossible not to make a little noise.
The small welcome dinner that was originally scheduled was cancelled. After McGonagall searched the entire carriage to no avail, he immediately sent a message to Dumbledore who was dealing with other affairs in the Order of the Phoenix. Soon Dumbledore brought a pale Wes Lay and his wife came to the carriage together.
Apparently when they got the news, Ron's parents, Arthur Weasley and Molly Weasley, were with Dumbledore, so they followed him as soon as they learned that their son was missing. To the carriage.
In the principal's office, all the professors came here except for Hagrid who was driving the car and Filch who was watching over the students in the cafeteria.
Arthur and Molly fidgeted, and even Molly's eyes were a little red, but at least they maintained the most basic calm, listening to the professors sort out today's situation.
"Percy was not found in the carriage, and there is a high probability that he is no longer here."
McGonagall's voice became obviously a little hasty, and it was obvious that she actually cared about Percy's safety. It wasn't that she had a preference for Percy, but that she would be so nervous if any student in the carriage had such a situation.
Lily's voice was much calmer.
"This morning, I returned to the carriage with the last freshman of the year. At that time, Hagrid stopped the carriage once. The fireplace on the carriage is only connected to the Floo network in Grimmauld Place, and there is no way to use Apparation in the carriage." , if there is no other person to assist, he can only leave the carriage at that time."
Arthur took a deep breath, his thoughts were still calm.
"Why did he leave school quietly? When he returned home some time ago, he was obviously very happy about being the chairman of the boys after school started, and he had been showing it off to his younger siblings."
"You forgot, Arthur." Molly's eyes were red, "He had a big fight with George Fred before returning home to school, saying that they didn't have any respect for his brother at all."
"There have been a lot of quarrels like this between them before." Arthur shook his head and sighed, "I don't think this time is any different from the previous few times, and even if there is a dispute between their brothers, they shouldn't leave the school, he will go to where?"
"Maybe he went home to find us?" Molly speculated with a hopeful tone.
"If this is the case, then we should see him at home at noon. He will Apparate and want to go home after leaving the carriage. It will take less than a minute."
There was a brief silence in the office. Dumbledore did not participate in the speculation between them, but kept looking at the fireplace thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking.
It wasn't until everyone fell silent and looked at him that he turned to Flitwick and asked.
"You said earlier that you found a robe left by Percy in his bedroom?"
Flitwick nodded.
In the principal's office, six eyes turned to him. Flitwick took out a small glass bottle and a badge from his pocket and put them on the desk.
That badge was exactly the boy chairman badge that Percy had just gotten in the summer vacation, and the small glass bottle contained a third bottle of shiny green powder, which looked a lot like Floo powder.
"I checked the badge with Remus, and there's no sign of any spells on it," Flitwick said, "but the powder in that bottle we didn't recognize, at first I thought it was just an ordinary Floo powder, but Remus reminded me, let me find that this thing is different from Floo powder, it doesn't seem to have the function of connecting to the Floo network."
Dumbledore's eyes paused for a second on the chairman's badge, and then looked at the bottle of suspected Floo powder.
He picked up the glass bottle, pulled out the cork, put the mouth of the bottle on the tip of his nose and took a light sniff.
"This is a variant of Floo powder." He said, "Two years ago, the magic company that made Floo powder launched a new product. Put the powder on the fireplace, and you can record a video in front of the fire. To see this image, you only need to sprinkle the recovered powder into the fireplace. However, because the practicality is not high, it is very troublesome to recover the powder, so most wizards do not have much demand for taking pictures. Stuff has only been on the market for less than a year and is no longer in production."
He put the glass bottle back on the desk, and both Arthur and Molly stared at the small glass bottle.
"What message is Percy trying to leave us with?"
"During the period when this thing was sold, as far as I know, Percy never left the carriage." Dumbledore folded his hands, his eyes were deep, "you haven't even heard of this thing, so you don't know." Maybe he brought it to school from home, so if he wanted to leave us a message, how did he get it?"
The headmaster's room suddenly fell silent, and everyone else obviously followed Dumbledore's words and thought of this.
Molly's face was frighteningly pale.
"I, my son was kidnapped and taken away!"
Arthur's lips were trembling, but he still grabbed Molly's hand, reassuring her that he was still there, he said as calmly as he could.
"Whoever left this thing, let's take a look, Dumbledore."
Dumbledore nodded, and he handed the glass bottle to Lupine, who poured the powder into the fireplace that had been extinguished in summer.
The moment the powder fell into the fireplace, green flames rose up, and soon, the flames formed a familiar face, appearing in the fireplace.
This person is none other than Percy who disappeared from the carriage!
Seeing that familiar face that could no longer be familiar, Molly's tears were already streaming down her eyes.
Everyone in the principal's office was looking at the thin boy with glasses who was approaching adulthood. His face was made of green flames, and it was clear that he was very indifferent when recording this video.
He looked forward, as if he was looking at all the professors and his parents in Hogwarts face to face.
"I have always believed that outstanding people should obtain more rights, Professor Dumbledore."
(end of this chapter)