"But how am I going to tell Ginny? She values ​​that diary more than anything else."

Harry said with some embarrassment, "To be honest, I feel bad that we kept the secret from her about Mr. Sellers."

"But this is Mr. Sellers' request. To be honest, although Ginny is my sister, I completely understand Mr. Sellers. If there was a girl talking to me 24 hours a day, I would collapse!" Ron said seriously, "And she still writes in her diary from time to time."

"You two don't understand girls' minds at all." Hermione shook her head in disgust and stood up. "Let me go. I can tell her to use the diary to review."

After saying that, Hermione just walked away.

Ron leaned his head closer to Harry's ear. "I bet she wants to talk to Mr. Sellers herself."

"You better keep your mouth shut." Harry nudged him with his elbow.

The atmosphere between Ron and Hermione had been giving him a headache recently. Crookshanks - the cat Hermione bought - kept staring at Ron's Scabbers, which caused them to quarrel constantly.

Harry would often be tortured by the two of them after coming back from hard training. —— "Tonks, Dawlish, now we need the two of you to repeat what happened at that time."

Scrimgeour, the head of the Auror Office, arrived with Fudge shortly after Tonks woke up. As soon as he entered the ward, he immediately said with a sullen face, "It's mainly you, Tonks. I've read Dawlish's report."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, don't be so anxious." Fudge came out and tucked his green hat under his arm. "Dumbledore said he would be here soon. He wants to know some details. Let's wait until he arrives."

Dumbledore was coming? Although Cyrus had not expected this, he could not help but sit up straighter.

Only when you really face that old man, you will know how terrifying he is. Those eyes seem to be able to see through everything, seeing through a person from the inside out, even the most obscure secrets in the heart seem to be completely defenseless in front of him.

Especially since he had spent a lot of time taming the dragon, and by the time the Aurors arrived, he no longer had time to modify Tonks' memory.

After a while, Dumbledore walked in with brisk steps.

He was very tall, with a long beard that reached down to his waist, and he looked very wise and kind. Every move he made seemed to contain great magical power.

As soon as he entered the room, his eyes swept over everyone present. His gaze hardly lingered, but Cyrus felt that he paused on himself.

To the point that Cyrus even suspected that the other party had seen something and began to get nervous.

Of course, he remained calm on the surface and didn't talk much, just like Dawlish himself.

Finally, Dumbledore's gaze rested on Tonks lying on the hospital bed.

"How are you feeling, Tonks?" He walked to the side of the bed kindly. Cyrus stood up from the only two seats and gave his seat to him. "Oh, thank you, Dawlish. I'm glad you care so much about a centenarian."

Dumbledore took the chair and sat down without any hesitation.

"I'm fine, Professor Dumbledore," Tonks said, shaking her head.

"Just like the several Aurors who were knocked unconscious in the Ministry of Magic before, the injuries are not serious, but it took some time for the hospital to break the curse." Moody first glanced at Scrimgeour, then said to Dumbledore.

After all, Scrimgeour used to be his old colleague and was now the head of the Auror Office, so they had some friendship.

As for Fudge?

Really unfamiliar! After hearing this, Dumbledore nodded with a half smile.

He felt more and more that Cyrus was different from Tom Riddle.

However, Dumbledore was still a little confused as to why Cyrus appeared on the Scottish coastline.

"Miss Tonks, could you please tell me what you saw?"

Tonks immediately glanced at Cyrus and nodded stiffly. She was also a student who had just graduated two years ago, and Dumbledore's aura as the headmaster had not yet faded.

"Dawlish and I were originally keeping watch at the Hog's Head Pub, but then Dawlish got bored and started going to the Three Broomsticks every day to flirt with the landlady..." Tonks said resentfully.

Cyrus: ???

When did I flirt with the proprietress of the Three Broomsticks?

Feeling that five pairs of eyes in the ward were all on him, especially Tonks' smug expression as if she had let out a sigh of relief, Cyrus knew that he had to defend himself.

"Haha, I understand. Madam Rosmerta is indeed beautiful." Dumbledore said with a smile, squinting his eyes.

"Is this true, Dawlish?" Moody asked immediately in a bad tone.

He had already grasped the cane in one hand, and it seemed that if Cyrus did not give him a satisfactory answer, he would immediately pick up the cane and cast a spell on Cyrus.

Scrimgeour was relatively restrained, but his expression was still solemn.

A Metamorphmagus genius is a very rare treasure in the Auror team, otherwise there would be no need to specially invite Moody to train him.

"Of course not. I guessed from the beginning that the goblin and the dark wizard were very vigilant. I am not Tonks. If I appear in the bar every day, it will arouse suspicion. You know, I am not good at Transfiguration." Cyrus said immediately.

"And I didn't actually leave. I was following Tonks the whole time. I just hid myself. Otherwise, how could I have saved her?"

"You're following me?" Tonks asked in surprise.

"But why did I hear from the bartender at the Hog's Head that you didn't return to the bar until the evening?" Moody's scrutinizing gaze was like a laser.

At this time, Fudge also nodded and added fuel to the fire: "It was the bartender of the Hog's Head who notified the Ministry of Magic. He said that an Auror was missing, and the other Auror who was traveling with her has not arrived yet."

Dumbledore also became interested and looked at Cyrus with a smile, as if waiting for an explanation from him.

Cyrus was not panicking at all.

"That's the problem. I didn't go anywhere that afternoon. I was hiding the whole time. You can ask any shopkeeper in Hogsmeade for proof of that."

Cyrus did not go to any store that afternoon, but instead walked around the Screaming Shack, which became his alibi.

"Then I discovered that Tonks had followed the dark wizard alone, so I followed him in secret. As for the 'me' in the evening - I think this explains why Tom Riddle appeared on the coast of Scotland."

"You mean, the 'you' who appeared in the Hog's Head Inn in the evening was actually Tom Riddle in disguise?" Dumbledore confirmed gently.

"I'm afraid so."

I was supposed to update three times on the weekend, but the company forced me to have a team building on the weekend. Damn it. 　　 　 (End of this chapter)