When Cypher hurried back to the Alchemy Workshop,
Iris and the others had already been waiting in the hall for quite some time.
"Uh! Sorry! I disturbed your rest!"
As he pushed open the door and faced the concern in the three girls' eyes, warmth rose in Cypher's heart, and much of the chill on his face faded.
"What happened? They called you over before dawn!"
Iris and the others only knew that he had gone to the headmaster's office, not why.
As the eldest among the three, Iris naturally took it upon herself to question Cypher.
"Grindton and Eileen's group has gone missing!"
At those words, the three girls' expressions turned solemn as well. When they heard that Horace Slughorn had actually been partying until now,
Luna practically wanted to grab Cypher's Katana and chop that fat seal into pieces.
"Are you going to handle this?"
Iris took a deep breath, calmed herself, and continued asking.
"Do I have a choice?"
Cypher shrugged helplessly. Leaving aside the fact that he had proposed this idea himself, even if he did not need to take responsibility for it,
Grindton and Eileen were both his good friends.
Moreover, that group was not made up of only Grindton and Eileen. They had merely just met the minimum requirements to participate in the operation.
Leading them were senior students who were trainee Aurors, along with several senior trainee Aurors whose theoretical knowledge still needed improvement.
It could be said that their group could be used as a three-person Auror team fresh out of training.
But now, they had suddenly all lost contact.
Sending any other team over would be little different from sending them to their deaths.
At present, the only people at Hogwarts who could possibly deal with this were probably Cypher and