In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Chapter 392 390. Lost contact

In Hogwarts Castle, the dance in the auditorium continued.

Just after Jon and Lee seduced Barty Jr. and Snape and left the castle, the carriage and Durmstrang students who were still attending the dance had already left early under the leadership of Rozier.

Lucius also received a report from his subordinates about unusual movements in the upper levels of the castle, but he did not take it too seriously. He just asked a team of Aurors to go to the confinement room where Selwyn was being held. , thinking that this young lady was having a bad temper.

However, when little Barty returned to the auditorium with an ugly look on his face and found him, Lucius felt that something was wrong.

"Send someone back to the Ministry of Magic immediately and notify the Death Eaters who are staying in the Ministry to come to Hogwarts immediately! Then seal the entrance and exit of the auditorium for me now, but don't disturb the students, referees and newspaper reporters here, tell them Routine investigation work is going on in the castle, and they need to cooperate and stay here. All other Aurors are sent out to search the entire castle, and report any abnormalities immediately!"

Old God Snape was standing next to Barty Jr., and when he was giving orders, he acted as indifferently as an unrelated person.

After hearing Barty Jr.'s order, Lucius first turned his head and glanced at Snape. After finding that the vice-principal, who had always been at odds with Barty Jr., did not say anything, he did not stop and went to arrange for his subordinates to be proud. Luo unfolded the arrangement according to his words.

After finishing directing Lucius, Barty Jr. turned to look at Snape again, and he lowered his voice.

"The master must be informed of this matter, and I will bear all the consequences."

Snape just glanced at him faintly.

"You don't have to stress it to me. Regardless of whether you admit it or not, you should be responsible for the consequences. And why did you tell me specifically about notifying the master? You can do it yourself."

Little Barty pursed his lips tightly. It was obvious that Snape's words were undoubtedly adding another barrel of oil to his already burning anger.

"Stop pretending to me at this time! I can't contact the owner at all! After I reported my plan to him at the end of the first project, I never received any instructions from him again."

Hearing what he said, Snape frowned slightly and took a deep look at Barty.

"you sure?"

"I'm sure I tried to contact the owner twice during this period, but I didn't receive any reply. I thought the owner was dealing with other important matters and didn't have time to communicate with me!"

Snape did not continue to say any weird words. He obviously also noticed the big problems involved.

"follow me."

He left these words, and little Barty did not hesitate. Lucius was left to organize the Aurors to arrange the entire castle, and he followed Snape to his office.

Snape selected a book with a black cover and no marks on it from the bookshelf, then spread it out on the desk, sprinkled some Floo powder on the pages, and finally tapped the book with his wand.

The next moment, the Floo powder on the page ignited with green flames. The flames were not violent, just like small flames burning on a candle.

However, nothing happened after the green flames lit up. The green light shone on the faces of Snape and Barty Jr., making both of their faces look so ugly.

"The master has lost contact with us."

Little Barty's voice was trembling. He rarely showed such emotions, especially in front of Snape.

Snape didn't speak. He stared at the pale green flames silently, and his already pale face looked even more bleak at this moment.

"When was the first time you couldn't contact the owner?"

"The second week of October."

"It has been almost two months now. You have contacted me twice. This is the first time for me. It is definitely not a coincidence that I have not contacted you three times in total."

After Snape finished speaking, the office fell into a deathly silence.

After a long time, Barty Jr. said in his terrifyingly calm voice again.

"Absolutely, absolutely no one else should know about this."

Snape said nothing, he still looked at the green fire and just nodded heavily.

In the castle, Little Barty's arrangement was quickly implemented.

Voldemort gave him and Snape a lot of power. Before, it also included the Lestranges. But now that the Lestranges were killed by Jon in public, the two of them are the entire British wizarding world. An existence below one person and above ten thousand people.

After the Death Eaters who stayed in the Ministry of Magic arrived at the castle, they naturally took over the job of commanding Aurors. Each Death Eater led a team of Aurors and conducted a carpet-like search of the entire castle.

The students who were still reveling in the auditorium hadn't noticed anything wrong yet. It was still early and no one wanted to go back to the dormitory for the time being. After staying in the auditorium enough, they went to the garden in pairs. The Aurors did not stop him.

Thanks to having enough manpower, in about an hour, the Death Eaters led the Aurors to search all the searchable places in the castle, but none of them found anything unusual. place.

After coming out of the vice-principal's office, little Barty and Snape, who had been staying in front of the castle foyer, soon got the news.

Little Barty's face didn't look as ugly as when he just returned to the auditorium. Instead, he showed enough composure at this time.

"Are you sure you have searched all locations in the castle?"

"There's only one place we know that we haven't entered yet." Lucius said, staring into Barty's eyes.

Even if he didn't directly tell where it was, both Barty Jr. and Snape knew where the Death Eaters and Aurors knew but didn't dare to search.

Snape stood up at this time and looked at Lucius with a cold face.

"The master has left me this power. I will take you into the principal's office."

Lucius frowned.

"I have never heard of this. Besides, even if you really have this power, do we still need to report to the master before making a decision?"

At this time, Barty Jr. showed sufficient tacit understanding with Snape.

"You don't have to doubt his words. I can completely prove this. Moreover, the master is doing something very important now. He has warned us that no one can disturb him."

Voldemort gave most of his power equally to Snape and Barty Jr. just for this situation.

If everything goes smoothly, Barty Jr. will definitely target Snape, who is clearly of mixed-race origin but occupies a high position, and compete with him for power.

But if there is a special situation, Barty's loyalty to him will definitely abandon all previous disputes with Snape and unite to cope with the situation.

In the absence of Voldemort himself, as long as Barty Jr. and Snape's voices were unified, even if Fudge, the Minister of Magic, was present, they would not be able to speak as well as the two of them.

Therefore, after hearing that Barty Jr. stood up for Snape, Lucius had no objection.

They led a group of people to the door of the principal's office on the seventh floor, and then, under the witness of everyone, Snape opened the door.

There were broken and destroyed portraits everywhere, a huge snake corpse lying in a pool of blood with a hole in its head, armor fragments scattered on the ground, and two pairs of magic armor guarding both sides of the desk!

Anyone who sees the scene in front of them will know what has happened in this office.

Snape was the first to lead him into the principal's office. He came to Nagini's body and lightly dipped his fingers into some scarlet snake blood.

"He died not long ago, at most two hours ago."

When he said this, his eyes were looking at Barty Jr., and both of them knew very well what they were paying attention to two hours ago.

Little Barty avoided Snape's gaze. He came to the desk and looked at the four relics placed on it as well as the tabletop covered in magic text that could not be noticed without paying attention.

Soon he made a discovery in the grooves of those magic texts.

They were a few drops of dark green ink, the result of the stenographic quill copying magic words and the splashes left behind when the sword, shield and armor hit Gryffindor's sword.

Seeing the traces of ink and looking at the magic words on the table, little Barty could easily think of something.

But he didn't say anything about these findings. He just turned his head and looked at the broken portraits around him.

"Immediately put these portraits back together for me, and then find their portraits in other locations and see if I can find anything."

Aurors soon followed his orders and returned to the Ministry with the shattered portraits to try to repair and find work.

At this time, some Death Eaters finally raised objections.

"If this happens, should we report the matter here to the master first?"

It was the first time for them to enter the principal's room, so no one knew what it looked like before it was destroyed, and no one knew whether any precious things had been stolen. Therefore, someone suggested that it would be most correct to report it to Voldemort first. s Choice.

But little Barty just said lightly.

"The master is doing something that cannot be distracted. Even if there is such an accident in the principal's office, we cannot disturb him."

Snape, the only one who could question his statement, did not speak, so the others wisely chose to believe it.

At this time, Lucius continued to ask new questions.

"Then how do we track down the murderer now?"

"There is no need to trace the murderer at all. The only person with the opportunity, ability and ideas to enter the principal's office is in this school!"