Had someone visited the Room of Requirement on the day of the competition?
Zhang Xiao grew serious.
"Lady, do you have any more details?"
The parchment unfurled, and lines of faint writing appeared.
"Sorry, that person carried a very powerful magical item that interfered with me. I only know someone came in. I couldn't make out anything else."
A powerful magical item? One that interfered with Glove Lady...
That was hardly surprising. If his guess was right, Glove Lady was very likely a Horcrux, or something similar.
She perceived things differently from ordinary humans. She didn't use eyes.
Glove Lady had previously mentioned fields to him, for instance. Those were things that couldn't be observed with eyes, magic, or even the Dharma Eye.
It was observation from a different dimension.
So it was no surprise that a powerful magical item could interfere with Glove Lady's perception.
Zhang Xiao thought for a moment, then asked a more specific question.
"Can you tell where he went?"
Faint writing appeared on the parchment.
"He spent some time in the room for hiding things. That room is special. It is connected to the thoughts of young witches and wizards at Hogwarts over the past thousand years."
She hadn't spelled it out, but Zhang Xiao understood.
Even Glove Lady couldn't control the room for hiding things. Zhang Xiao guessed that it existed because, for hundreds of years, young witches and wizards had wished for a secret place where they could hide things without anyone noticing.
Children's wishes were pure to begin with. Through their distortion power, those young witches and wizards had actually "created" such a room.
A secret place that went unnoticed naturally possessed a certain degree of built-in concealment.
It seemed unbelievable, but once he understood how utterly unreasonable mind-over-matter could be, he