"Strange..."
Harry could not help muttering under his breath, "Where's Mr. Viktor? And those people who helped out in economy class... They didn't look like ordinary people. Why aren't they on the bus?"
An unsettling thought surfaced in his mind:
Could it be that even they had to have their memories erased?
Hermione, who was sitting beside him, showed an extremely strange expression when she heard that.
Her lips moved as though she wanted to say something, but she held herself back, only casting an uneasy glance at Lupin in the front row.
Lupin turned around and explained calmly, "Those people... have rather special identities. Before you woke up, they had already left through other channels."
His words were vague, and he clearly had no intention of revealing more. Harry guessed that they might be something like "Wizarding World mercenaries," then nodded with only half an understanding.
However, when Lupin turned back around, the smile at the corner of his mouth unconsciously flattened into a somewhat solemn expression.
He had not deceived Harry, but entirely truthful words could also form a lie that was a hundred thousand miles away from the truth.
Viktor and the others had indeed left before Harry woke up... but they had departed far earlier than that.
Even before the plane landed, that group had silently vanished from Arthur Weasley's sight. That was the information Mr. Weasley had discreetly conveyed to Lupin afterward.
Lupin did not know whether Viktor and the others had entered Wade's seemingly ordinary yet extraordinary Wardrobe Space, or whether they had completely left the plane through some even more secretive method beyond even his understanding.
At the very least, Dobby, the House-elf at Wade's side who could cross thousands of miles for him, possessed the ability to silently get people off a