Professor McGonagall asked:
"Douglas, what should we do now?
I mean, do you have any other plans..."
Douglas nodded and motioned for them to step back...
They watched as he tapped his wand against the floor.
Then they saw magically marked footprints appear on the ground.
After examining them, Douglas erased some of the footprints.
In the end, one set remained, stretching all the way to the window.
Seeing this, Douglas couldn't help breathing a sigh of relief.
His greatest worry had been that Voldemort would take the person into the Chamber of Secrets.
Then he would have no choice but to make up another lie and reveal that Harry Potter spoke Parseltongue.
Then they would all enter the Chamber of Secrets together to kill the monster.
But clearly, the other party had been clever.
They had actually chosen to escape through the window.
No wonder he hadn't found any trace of them on his way over.
Unfortunately, though, he hadn't brought the Marauder's Map with him.
Of course, even if he had, he wouldn't have taken it out at a time like this...
He didn't want to be the reason the Marauders' gift to the students of Hogwarts was locked away.
Douglas followed the footprints to the window and looked down.
Naturally, he found nothing.
He explained to the others:
"A little trace-detecting spell. It can detect all sorts of traces left in a place over a certain period.
Luckily, hardly anyone comes into this bathroom.
That's why I could isolate these footprints so easily.
Judging by their direction and size,
the person was probably a teenage student, and after the alarm was triggered,
for some reason, they chose not to open the Chamber of Secrets, but escaped through the window instead..."
The other three watched Douglas casually take