This brief report gave Weilan an idea.
Currently, outside of Hogwarts, many extremely noble pure-blood Wizards are being harmed one after another.
Is it truly safe inside the school?
With Professor Dumbledore presiding over Hogwarts, the safety factor here is naturally much higher than in the outside world.
However, thinking of Daphne being set up, Weilan had a bad premonition.
Could it be that Daphne is also one of the serial killer's targets?
Noble birth, extraordinary bloodline.
Daphne perfectly matched the killer's murder characteristics.
Moreover, as of now, no member of the Greengrass family has been harmed.
As long as Daphne becomes a Champion, the killer will have plenty of opportunities to harm her!
Class was about to start, so Weilan got up and walked towards the Transfiguration Class classroom.
On his way, he was still deep in thought.
Weilan remembered that Professor Dumbledore had said that when Daphne became a Champion, Mr. Crouch reacted indifferently, but Mr. Bagman clearly wanted to cover something up.
Mr. Crouch's usual poker face was not surprising.
However, Mr. Bagman's guilt and concealment made Dumbledore feel it was very abnormal.
And Weilan not only felt that Mr. Bagman was very abnormal, he felt that the entire Ministry of Magic had been very abnormal recently.
This abnormal Ministry of Magic was not only covering up the irregularities in the Triwizard Tournament, but at the Quidditch World Cup arena, they cooperated with that Veela to send Mr. Malfoy to Azkaban.
“Hiss… could Daphne being chosen as a Champion also be related to that Veela?”
When cooperating to help, they must only cooperate with their own people.
And Daphne being chosen as a Champion, and Mr. Malfoy entering Azkaban, both of these events had the active cooperation of the Ministry of Magic behind them.
This is also why Weilan would connect Daphne's matter with that Veela.
Based on the connection he guessed, Weilan designed a question and, during Transfiguration Class, spent 1 minute performing a divination to verify it.
“Is the intelligent creature that designed Daphne to become a Champion the same Veela who once kidnapped me?”
The coin was tossed from his right hand, flew up, and fell.
“Ding—”
The coin landed on the desk, Wizard side up, number side down.
The divination gave a “yes” response.
Weilan's heart was gripped tightly.
“We will meet again at Hogwarts—”
The Veela's last shout echoed in Weilan's ears again.
That evening, Weilan waited for the Seer's cooldown to end and eagerly began a second divination.
This time his divination question was: “Did the Veela who once kidnapped me participate in the serial murder case of the pure-blood Wizards?”
This time, the divination still gave a “yes” response.
Weilan held his glowing wand, staring at this result for a long time before putting his things away and going to bed.
James was right.
Someone in the Wizarding World was plotting a huge conspiracy.
At dawn, Weilan wrote a letter about Daphne's situation and the Ministry of Magic's subtle cooperation behind it.
In the letter, he tried his best to hint to James: the person who designed Daphne and the killer in the pure-blood Wizard serial murder case might both be related to the Veela who kidnapped him.
“I hope Mr. Potter understands what I mean.”
Thinking this, Weilan asked Ron, who had just woken up and was still sleepy, if he could borrow his Pig.
“Ah—” Ron stretched lazily in bed, letting out a big yawn, “Go ahead and use him. Pig hasn't delivered mail in days, he's practically going crazy.”
Although daytime was the owls' resting period, Pig was still energetically hopping around in his cage.
When Pig saw Weilan approaching him with the letter, he even excitedly “cooed” in his birdcage.
“Thank you, please deliver this letter to Mr. Potter.” Weilan opened the cage and tied the letter to him.
He had originally wanted to feed Pig some ham, but as soon as Weilan let go, Pig jumped out the window and flew out of sight.
There were still two weeks until the first event of the Triwizard Tournament.
However, the members of the Costa Detective Agency were not very concerned about the timing of the Tournament events.
They were very busy, traveling between various villages, collecting rumors of ancient ruins, helping villagers find lost livestock, and resolving neighborhood disputes.
Relatively complex cases were still not many, and Weilan only earned 4 experience points.
Thus, the value in his right eye's experience bar reached 10.
Experience Level: 2 (10/40)
As for the rumors about the ruins, Weilan couldn't distinguish which were true and which were false.
He could only organize them all and submit them to Dumbledore.
Weilan believed that the Professor, being intelligent and wise, would know how to distinguish them.
And Dumbledore had clearly stated to Weilan in a reply a few days ago:
He was currently organizing and summarizing the knowledge gained from those ancient ruins.
He would soon hold a private class for Weilan in the Principal's office, on the subject of Ancient magic.
Within these two weeks, what Weilan found hard to believe was that Hermione had actually found the three verbs on the side of the Merlin coin through a large amount of calculation and statistics.
“Oh, it's not as troublesome as you think.”
Facing Weilan's utterly admiring gaze, Hermione's cheeks were flushed:
“Although tens of thousands of verbs sounds like a terrifying number, there are only a few thousand commonly used verbs in total.”
“I tallied the frequency of different verbs appearing in Ancient Runes and sorted them from highest to lowest frequency.”
“Then, based on this frequency sorted list, I prioritized searching for high-frequency verbs.”
“The first verb appeared at the 352nd position in the frequency ranking, and its meaning is ‘reasoning’.”
“The second verb appeared at the 1002nd position, representing ‘thinking’.”
“The third verb… well, I'll just say its meaning. It means ‘observing’.”
“So, the meaning of the sentence on the side of the coin, translated, is ‘I think, I observe, I reason’.”
They soon discovered that the first word of the sentence on the back of the coin was indeed the word representing “thinking.”
So the sentence on the back became—
“Thinking… I… past…”
Weilan tried to guess the part of speech of the remaining unknown words:
“In this sentence, ‘thinking’ should be followed by a verb.”
Weilan quickly clarified the next direction for deciphering: “Our next step is best to identify the meaning of the verb in the sentence on the back.”
With the appropriate method, they quickly found this verb by cross-referencing the verb frequency table: “knock.”
Weilan followed the clue: “Generally speaking, one ‘knocks’ on a certain door. We are now looking for the noun representing ‘door’.”
Through their unremitting efforts, the meaning of the sentence on the back of the coin became—
“Thinking… I knock… on the door of the past.”
“Only two left.” Weilan could already see victory waving at him, “This time, we can't determine the part of speech. It could be a preposition, or a verb, or an adjective.”
“But in any language system, the number of prepositions is always one of the smallest categories of parts of speech, which is not difficult to rule out.”
“Let's check prepositions first!”
