Chapter 359: Weak Call for Help

"Wake up, Harry, wake up." Harry felt he had slept for a long time. He opened his eyes and saw Luo En shaking his body vigorously. He subconsciously looked at Luo En's watch; it was only past nine.

"What's wrong?"

"Didn't you notice the ring is burning?" Luo En held out the hand wearing the ring. "Most of the members of Deng Buliduo's Army have gathered outside the dormitory; you have to make a decision."

"What decision," Harry said, his eyes bleary with sleep. "Where's Neville? Doesn't Deng Buliduo's Army listen to his command?"

"Neville is gone; I guess he went to the Ministry of Magic." Luo En said somewhat anxiously.

"Are you crazy!" Harry shuddered and sat up abruptly. "Why would he go to the Ministry of Magic?"

"To get that thing Deng Buliduo left behind." Luo En said. "He probably feels this is a rare opportunity."

"Don't say 'probably'," Harry said while putting on his clothes. "What's the actual situation? What exactly happened?"

"The actual situation is, I saw him staring at that pin in a daze," Luo En also realized he had said too many subjective things. "Then he went out and never came back. I originally thought it was nothing, but suddenly I found the ring started to burn, and it just happened to point in the direction of the Ministry of Magic."

"Calm down, Luo En." Harry stood at the dormitory door without rushing out. "Neville has the Time-Ascension Charm; he won't fall into a predicament so easily. So, if the ring is burning, we must prioritize suspecting that someone else is in a predicament, and only then suspect him."

When Harry walked out of the dormitory, some members of Deng Buliduo's Army immediately surrounded him.

"Neville is gone!" Seamus said urgently.

"Hermione is gone too!" Jin Ni's tone was more anxious than his.

"Hermione?!" Harry widened his eyes. "That's impossible; does Neville think Hermione would be more useful than Luo En and me?"

"Yeah, looking at it optimistically," Ivy said, hugging her arms, "perhaps they just went to have an affair."

"Who rubbed the ring?" Jin Ni shouted at her.

"Hannah, she called everyone to help catch them in the act." Ivy said in a relaxed tone.

"Is Hannah also gone?" Harry keenly extracted this key information from the banter. "Let's go out first. Where are the other members of Deng Buliduo's Army? Let everyone gather in the Room of Requirement first."

"They are already there." Jin Ni said while walking. "Our agreement is that if the ring burns, gather first to determine who exactly is calling for help."

"But the Slytherin members aren't there; they went to the Ma Erfu house for a dance party." Ivy added. "What if it was someone at the dance party who had nothing to do and rubbed the ring?"

When Harry walked out of the dormitory door, he saw Zhang Qiu standing in the corridor with a serious face, followed by a few Ravenclaw students. At this moment, the door of the Room of Requirement was open, and a burst of noise came from inside.

"Harry, didn't you go to the Department of Mysteries? Then it must be Neville who went." Zhang Qiu opened her mouth and reached the same conclusion as Luo En. "He should have brought Hannah and Hermione; he wanted to bypass you and go practice fate himself."

"Wait, wait, don't rush to conclusions." Harry always felt he had overlooked something; in such a chaotic situation, he tried hard to find that anomaly in his mind.

"Elina!" Harry slapped his hand. "Is Elina there?"

The Gryffindor girls looked at each other; no one could answer this question. Ivy took half a step back and said: "I'll go confirm."

"If Neville wants to find Hermione to form a team, would Elina follow them?" Harry said while walking into the Room of Requirement. The students raised their heads one after another to look at him, and the noise suddenly became much smaller.

"The ring is burning, Harry." "It's been burning for a long time." "It points to the southeast."

"Calm down, students, calm down!" Harry said loudly. "Who is not at school? Don't talk about Gryffindors; I already know."

"Luna is not here." Marietta said.

"She should have gone to the Ma Erfu house dance party as Cui Ge's dance partner." Harry explained.

"Hannah and Ernie are not here either." Jia Siting from Hufflepuff said. "Susan is not here either."

Susan referred to Susan Bones; Harry had an impression of her, a pure-blood family girl who looked very honest and had a good relationship with Ernie.

"Mostly they went to the dance party too." Harry couldn't help but curl his lips. He had previously suggested Draco hold a dance party to attract Lucius's attention, but he didn't expect this dance party to bring them such difficulties at this time.

"Elina is not here." Ivy ran back to the Room of Requirement, panting.

Harry glanced at her; he couldn't help but think whether Hannah and Neville had also gone to the dance party.

"Hannah is too strange; she couldn't possibly leave Neville behind and go to the dance party with others." Jia Siting said. "She must have gone on an adventure with Neville."

"Neville invited Hermione and then Elina followed them?" Harry felt this configuration was too abstract. "He had no reason to find Hermione, especially if Hannah was with him—I originally thought Hannah went to the dance party, so Neville would find Hermione."

"That's right, the four of them shouldn't be together." Luo En expressed agreement. "Then who would be rubbing the ring?"

"Hermione and Elina, or Neville and Hannah." Harry felt Luo En's line of thinking had merit. "But Hermione and Elina wouldn't rub the ring if they encountered danger; they have better people to ask for help."

Zhang Qiu instantly understood Harry's meaning. Elina must have the means to ask Donald for help. However, others might not necessarily understand this point.

"Could it be that Neville and Hannah just went on a date." Ivy started talking nonsense again, hugging her arms.

"Then who is rubbing the ring?" Jin Ni questioned her, frowning.

"Crabbe and Goyle, drunk." Ivy shrugged. "Kids don't know better, just rubbing it for fun."

"Calm down, calm down." Harry rubbed his head. "Who else, who else..."

"I think it's Neville," Zhang Qiu said. "There was divination mentioning you were in a bitter battle at the Ministry of Magic; perhaps it was he who went to the Department of Mysteries by some strange coincidence."

"But he shouldn't have brought Hannah!" Harry spread his hands abruptly. "Neville isn't that kind of person; he would either go alone, or before bringing Hannah, he would definitely bring Luo En!"

"We need to go take a look." Zhang Qiu said. "Anyway, it is indeed the ring that is burning."

"We go?" Marietta held Zhang Qiu's shoulder. "Find a professor? Or at least find Krest?"

"Snape is not here." Luo En said. "I knocked on his door and it didn't open."

"McGonagall is not here either." Jin Ni had just finished speaking when Zhang Qiu added, "Flitwick is not here either; they are in the grading group."

"Then what about other professors? Isn't Arnold there?" Marietta said blankly.

"He has no combat power." Zhang Qiu shook her head. "Most professors have no combat power."

"Like this, let's split up." Harry said. "Ivy and Jin Ni, you go contact Draco first to confirm it's not someone at the dance party who got drunk and rubbed it for fun."

"Okay, we'll use the fireplace." Jin Ni said.

"Others go find brooms first; we will fly out in the direction of the ring to see what exactly happened." Harry scanned the crowd. "Gather and depart here in fifteen minutes; if you don't want to go or can't find a broom, stay in your own dormitory, don't act on your own."

After the crowd dispersed, Zhang Qiu whispered: "However, if you go to the Department of Mysteries, there is a faster way."

"What?" Harry hadn't reacted yet.

"Go through the Dream Realm, reverse through the veil." She said in a very light voice.

"No, Snape is not here." Harry pondered for a moment and shook his head. "That means he is at the Department of Mysteries; if Snape is there, we have nothing to worry about."

"Excluding those unlikely options, I think the most likely thing now is that someone got drunk and rubbed the ring randomly." Harry said calmly. "I know you believe in divination, but divination has been delayed several times, hasn't it?"

"However, I think you need to go to the Department of Mysteries; there is something very important to you there." Zhang Qiu flipped through her diary somewhat worriedly. "And this is a very good opportunity."

"What's good about it?" Harry shook his head. "I don't think there's anything I'm urgently lacking now, especially since it's placed in the Ministry of Magic."

"I don't know, divination only says," Zhang Qiu read from the notebook, "The last piece of the puzzle of fate appears in the ninety-seventh row."

Harry pressed his hands together against his nose; he was thinking very seriously about what this so-called fate was all about, and then he said, "No, we don't need to rush in without knowing why. Sneaking in another day is also fine; we don't even need to reverse through the veil, we have the TARDIS."

"I mean, if Neville is trapped there, we can... while rescuing him..." Zhang Qiu's words had only just reached halfway when she froze.

Neville stood panting at the door of the Room of Requirement; his tie was crooked, his robe was worn backward, and there was a lipstick mark on his face.

Just as he was preparing to adjust his breathing and say something, Hannah also ran over; she was similarly disheveled, her hair was messy, her stockings had fallen to her calves, and she was panting, placing the hand wearing the ring on Neville's shoulder.

"What happened? The ring is burning." Neville swallowed a breath and said. "Who is in trouble?" ===== CHAPTER 360 =====

Just as he was preparing to adjust his breathing and say something, Hanna also ran over. She was equally disheveled, her hair a mess, her stockings had fallen down to her calves, and she was panting heavily, resting her hand—which wore the Phoenix Ring—on Neville's shoulder.

"What happened? The Phoenix Ring is burning hot," Neville said, swallowing a breath. "Who is in trouble?"