Was Professor Staky the One Who Ran into Trouble This Year?

Edmund, formerly a Beater for the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team, was already in his seventh year and had honorably retired from the team.

Come to think of it, since the start of this term, this seemed to be the first time Manus had seen Edmund anywhere other than the Great Hall...

Seventh-years preparing for graduation were even busier than students in other years.

Edmund first smiled and nodded in greeting to Manus before telling him about what had just happened.

They had not been the only ones to feel such a huge disturbance. The professors had felt it too, and it had already been dealt with. They could only reconstruct what had happened through descriptions.

"Just now, a classroom on the third floor exploded..."

The third floor?

Manus had been down in the dungeons just moments ago.

Edmund had originally been in the library on the fourth floor, very close to the source of the explosion, so he had felt the tremors much more strongly. He had also come out in time to witness nearly the entire incident.

In short, several Gryffindors had recklessly tried to make their own Broomstick and had run into a little accident. When Professor McGonagall dragged them away just now, she seemed to have said something about calling their parents...

Edmund had not paid much attention to their names at the time. He only recognized Black and Potter, who were fairly famous around the school.

Manus figured that, unless something unexpected had happened, it was probably the four Marauders... Why was it them again?

"They should still be lying in the Hospital Wing now."

Edmund could not help shaking his head.

Even Manus had felt the tremor down in the dungeons, so those right next to the blast could hardly have escaped unscathed. Fortunately, there had