Chapter 151: Fickle Yoder

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Only Allen stood helplessly in the dormitory, looking utterly desolate...

He realized his words just now had been a bit too extreme.

But he suddenly found that Thomas had come up with a good idea.

Without even changing his shoes, he rushed out of the dormitory, found Prefect Percy, and said he had lost something.

After hearing Allen's words, Percy took it very seriously. "Gryffindor Tower hasn't had a theft in a long time; this matter must be investigated thoroughly!" Percy said sternly.

Then he followed Allen to their dormitory.

"What did you lose?" Percy held a notebook, recording Allen's words.

"A black-covered, worn-out, thin notebook. Nothing was written on it, and it bore no markings." Allen said in a solemn tone.

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Percy's eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"Just an old notebook?" Percy's voice became somewhat dissatisfied.

"Yes, yes! That notebook is very important to me." Allen hurriedly said.

"Why is it so important to you? Did it contain something important?" Percy asked in confusion.

"No!"

"Then did it contain something that shouldn't have been written?" Percy gave Allen a look that said, "You know what I mean."

"Nothing was written on it; to be precise, every page was blank..." Allen felt something was wrong at this moment, but he still forced himself to say it.

Percy snapped his recording notebook shut with a clap, and Thomas's snicker came from nearby.

"Are you trying to amuse me?" Percy's tone grew even more dissatisfied.

"No, no, that notebook is really important to me!" Allen said anxiously.

But Percy no longer had the patience to listen to Allen's explanation; he walked out of the dormitory without looking back.

Thomas also followed the Prefect out the door; before leaving, he cast a mocking glance at Allen.

At this moment, Allen also felt a bit more sober; he realized the mistake in his conversation with Percy just now.

He had only said he lost a very ordinary, low-value item; of course, no one would take it seriously.

But he didn't want to describe the diary as a very important magical artifact.

Describing the diary as a magical artifact would certainly attract the Prefect's and the school's attention, but how a Muggle orphan could possess a magical artifact was itself a very difficult thing to explain.

Furthermore, although Allen was somewhat unwilling to admit it, he vaguely felt that this diary might also be a Dark Magic creation. If the school eventually helped find the notebook but discovered it was a Dark Magic creation, the school would likely confiscate the diary out of safety considerations, which was something he did not want to see.

In fact, even if the diary was not a Dark Magic creation, Allen did not want to make a fuss, because the diary stored many of his memories about ancient runes. If the diary fell into Professor Dumbledore's hands, Dumbledore, as a wizard proficient in memory magic, would certainly discover the memories stored in the diary; at that time, he would have no way to explain where those memories came from.

Although Allen trusted Professor Dumbledore very much, it was better for his own fate to be in his own hands.

In that case, the diary would still very likely be confiscated.

So the optimal solution for Allen regarding this matter was: quietly, without alerting anyone, retrieve the diary.

Thinking this, Allen decided to abandon the idea of finding the diary through the school and prepared to start searching for the diary alone.

This matter sounds easy to say, but it is very hard to do.

Allen washed his face with cold water to make himself more sober.

Calmed down, Allen began to analyze today's incident.

The loss of the diary was definitely an organized and premeditated action.

First, he had previously discovered traces that his things had been tampered with:

The first time was when he returned late at night and found his bed actually felt warm;

and on that day, the diary had been placed under the bedding at the head of his bed;

The second time was when he discovered someone had tampered with the drawer of his desk.

Neither of these two times had attracted his attention.

Then, the thief specifically chose Saturday and Sunday to commit the theft, which also showed that he was very familiar with Allen's whereabouts; at the very least, he knew Allen returned very late every Wednesday and Saturday.

Finally, this time Allen only lost the diary; nothing else was missing. The sphere given by Professor Flitwick should still be quite precious, but the thief did not touch the sphere, indicating the thief's target was very clear.

In summary, today's theft was definitely committed by an acquaintance, and the four roommates of Allen were the most suspicious.

This was an unexpected but reasonable answer.

But Allen couldn't think of their motive for the crime; just a tattered notebook, one Jin Jin Jialong could buy ten of them; what was there to steal?

Unless they discovered the diary's miraculous nature!

But how could they have discovered the diary's miraculous nature? It must be remembered that Allen had written half a notebook of ancient runes on the diary at the time, forcing Yoder to appear before he discovered it; and the thief might have only had limited contact with the diary a few times, so how could they have so coincidentally discovered the diary's miraculous nature?

Allen fell into deep thought...

Suddenly, an idea jumped into his mind: Did Yoder actively display the diary's miraculous nature? Did this lead one of Allen's roommates to commit such an act?

After this idea appeared in Allen's mind, he gradually thought of more.

He thought of Yoder's always lukewarm, half-committed attitude towards him;

He thought of how he had previously told Yoder that he went to work every Wednesday and Saturday;

He thought of how he had always instilled in Yoder the concept that he was an independent life form.

Allen gradually felt this idea was becoming more and more plausible...

It must be that Yoder actively seduced my roommate! Allen thought resentfully.

I didn't expect Yoder, with those thick eyebrows and bright eyes, to be so fickle; I treated him well enough usually! And yet he just went and cheated on me! The more Allen thought about it, the angrier he got.

Even if you were going to find true love, you could have at least given me a heads-up! Leaving without a word, what kind of thing is that?

If you had given me a heads-up in advance and said something, I might not have stopped you... uh... I definitely wouldn't have let you go! Allen thought sheepishly in his heart.

Maybe this is the reason Yoder ran away silently!

Allen suddenly felt a bit dispirited.

He suddenly realized he did not understand Yoder, nor did he understand Yoder's shifting thoughts...

For a moment, Allen felt that letting him go just like that would be fine...

But the next instant, Allen cast that thought aside...

He wants to run! How could it be that easy? I must find you! Allen thought, grinding his teeth in his heart.