Everyone turned to look at Hermione, who had spoken.
"What? You know!"
Filch hurried forward a step and looked at Hermione.
"Tell us! Was it him?"
He pointed at Harry.
"Honestly." Hermione waved a hand. "The culprit is obvious. Were none of you listening just now?"
"Who?"
Seeing how certain Hermione sounded, everyone fell silent and watched her. Even Dumbledore looked somewhat surprised.
In the silence, Malfoy suddenly felt uneasy for some reason.
"I seem to remember someone saying, 'You'll be next.' Isn't that right?" Hermione said blandly. "Who sees a murder scene and makes that their very first remark? Clearly, the murderer had just killed his first victim and was announcing his next murders."
Everyone turned to look at Malfoy.
Draco's vision went dark.
"Right, the culprit accidentally gave himself away. Case closed." Hermione clapped her hands. "Professors, please call the Aurors to arrest him."
With that, she walked over to Filch and patted his shoulder.
"No need to thank me. Just call me Detective Granger."
What do we do? That actually sounds convincing... everyone thought.
"I... I..."
Under the suspicious gazes around him, Draco was almost frantic enough to cry. "It really wasn't me!"
He might have wanted to be the Heir of Salazar Slytherin, but definitely not like this!
He had no idea who the culprit was, but at that moment, there was one thing he knew for certain.
This witch had absolutely heard what he had said earlier!
Malfoy slapped himself hard across the face twice.
Why couldn't I keep my stupid mouth shut?
"Stop that! Stop!" Seeing him about to keep slapping himself, Crabbe and Goyle hurriedly restrained him.
Hermione was a little surprised too.
Why had he suddenly started serving up small, medium, and large slaps?
"Pfft..."
Having never seen Malfoy like this before,