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A student is missing, the first time this has happened in the wagon since it went into exile.

Moreover, Percy will be moving up to seventh grade after the summer break and is considered a half-adult wizard, not to mention that he has excellent grades and can be said to be at the top of his class in terms of strength.

Even if someone had sneaked into the wagon and abducted him, it would have been impossible without making even a little noise.

The originally scheduled small welcome dinner was cancelled, McGonagall after searching the entire wagon without any results, immediately sent a message to Dumbledore who was dealing with other matters in the Order of the Phoenix, and soon Dumbledore came to the wagon with a pale Weasley couple.

Apparently, at the time when the message was received, Ron's mother and father - Arthur Weasley and Molly Weasley were with Dumbledore, so the moment they learned of their son's disappearance, they also followed to the wagon.

In the Headmaster's office, the professors all came here, except for Hagrid, who was driving, and Filch, who was watching the students in the great hall.

Arthur and Molly fidgeted, especially Molly whose eyes were a little red, but at least they kept their basic composure and listened to the professors sort out the day's situation.

"Percy was not found on the wagon, the odds of him being no longer here are high."

McGonagall's voice also became obviously a little anxious, it is clear that she actually cares a lot about Percy's well-being. It's not that she's partial to Percy, she would be this nervous if it happened to ANY of the students on the wagon.

Lily's voice, on the other hand, was much flatter.

"I brought the last of this year's freshmen back to the wagon this morning, and that's when Hagrid stopped once. The fireplace on the wagon was only connected to the floo network in Grimmauld Place, and there was no way to use the Apparition inside the wagon, so without the assistance of others, he could only have left the wagon at that point."

Arthur took a deep breath, his thoughts were fairly calm.

"Why did he need to leave the school without a word? When he came home some time ago, he was obviously happy about being a head boy when school started, and kept bragging to his younger siblings about it."

"You forget, Arthur." Molly's eyes were red, "He had a big fight with Fred and George before he went back to school from home, saying they had no respect at all for him as a brother."

"They've had a lot of fights like that before." Arthur shook his head and sighed, "I hardly think this one is any different from the previous ones, and even if they had a falling out between brothers he shouldn't have left school, now where would he go?"

"He might have gone home to visit us?" Molly speculated with a hopeful tone.

"If that's true, then we should have seen him at home at noon, he would have apparated and gone home in less than a minute after leaving the wagon if he had wanted to go home."

A short silence fell in the office, Dumbledore did not participate in the speculations between them but kept a thoughtful face looking at the fireplace, it is not clear what he was thinking.

It was only when everyone had quieted down and looked at him that he turned his head to Filius and asked.

"You said earlier that you found a robe Percy left behind in his dormitory?"

Filius nodded.

"It is a Christmas gift he received from the school last Christmas, and I found two things in the pocket of the robe."

Six eyes turned to him in the Headmaster's office, and Filius pulled a small glass vial and a badge out of his own pocket and placed them on the desk.

It was the same head boy badge that Percy had just received over the summer, and the vial contained a one-third vial of shiny green powder that looked a lot like floo powder.

"I checked this badge together with Remus, there's no trace of any spell on it." Filius said, "but neither of us recognized what the powder in that vial is, at first I thought it is just a normal floo powder, but Remus pointed out to me that this thing is different from the floo powder, it does not seem to be connected to the floo network."

Dumbledore's gaze paused for a second on the head boy badge, then he looked at the vial of powder that was suspected to be floo powder.

He picked up the glass vial, pulled the cork out, put the mouth of the vial to the end of his nose and sniffed lightly.

"This is a variant of floo powder." He said, "Two years ago, the same magic company that made the floo powder introduced a new product. By placing the powder on the fireplace, you can record an image on the fire, and if you want to see that image, you just have to sprinkle the re-collected powder into the fireplace. But because the practicality is not high, it is very troublesome to re-collect the powder, so most wizards do not have much demand for keeping the image, and it was no longer in production after just under a year on the market."

He put the glass vial back on his desk, and Arthur and Molly's eyes were locked on the small glass vial.

"What message Percy was trying to leave us?"

"Percy never left the wagon during the time this was on sale, as far as I know." Dumbledore crossed his arms, his gaze deep, "you guys even didn't have heard of this thing, so it couldn't have been something he brought to school from home, so even if he wanted to leave a message for us, how did he get this thing?"

The Headmaster's office abruptly went silent, and all the others obviously followed Dumbledore's train of thought.

Molly's face turned frighteningly pale.

"I, my son-he must have been abducted!"

Arthur's lips were trembling, but he still grabbed Molly's hand, reassuring her that he is still with her, and he did his best to remain calm and said.

"Whoever left this behind, let's take a look at it, Dumbledore."

Dumbledore nodded, and he handed the glass vial to Lupin, who dumped the powder from it into the fireplace that had been extinguished in the summer.

And the moment the powder fell into the fireplace, green flames rose up, and soon, the flames formed a familiar face, which appeared in the fireplace.

This person is none other than Percy, who disappeared from the wagon!

Seeing the familiar face that could not be any more familiar, Molly's tears flowed down from her eyes.

Everyone in the Headmaster's office was looking at the boy who was nearing adulthood, wearing spectacles and has a slim build. The face composed of green flames could clearly shows that he looked very cold while recording this image.

He looked ahead as if he were looking at all the professors and his parents in Hogwarts in person.

"I have always believed that outstanding people should acquire more power and privileges, Professor Dumbledore."

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