Chapter 48 - The Eight Tracking Charms

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    I...I don't know what you're talking about, how would I know where Tony is? If I did, I would definitely find someone to save him.

    To know that he disappeared, the group's stock price plummeted...

    Obadiah explained in a frightened manner, and from his expression and tone of voice, there was no sign of any inconsistencies.

    If it were not for George's simultaneous use of psychometry and telepathy to read Obadiah's mental activities at this moment, we might have been deceived by him.

    He is not a good guy. He can act so convincingly even under life-threatening circumstances.

    That's true, if he was a good guy, he wouldn't have fooled Tony around and wiped out all the people of the Ten Commandments sect.

    "In the desert near Baghlan Province in Afghanistan, it seems you don't even know the exact location."

    George frowned as he stopped using psychometry and telepathy.

    He originally thought that Obadiah would know the location of the stronghold of the Ten Commandments sect, but it turned out that the other party was also looking for it, and they only found an approximate location.

    "You...how do you know that?"

    He heard George's words, and Obadiah was stunned.

    And George was too lazy to explain it again, raised his hand to start casting spells to Obadiah:

    "Empty all memories!"

    This is the only spell he learned from Lockhart in the past three months. Although he cannot use it as well as Lockhart, clearing the memories of ordinary people for a short period of time is still possible.

    After casting a Forgetting Charm on Obadiah, he also cast one on the unconscious bodyguard.

    After handling everything, he rode off on the motorcycle that had been parked by the roadside all along.

    It wasn't long after George left that the bodyguard and Obadiah slowly woke up. All they remembered was driving their car off the road and then passing out, without any memory of George.

    "Damn, I'm going to fire you, this piece of trash. Hurry up and call someone to save us, and immediately seal the news so that no one outside knows I was in a car accident!"

    The next day, the news of Obadiah's injury from the car accident was reported by those omnipotent New York journalists.

    Of course, these journalists would also like to thank the kind person who placed this explosive news on their desks.

    The disappearance of CEO Tony Stark and the car accident injury of the main responsible party Obadiah led to a plummet in the stock price of Stark Industries.

    As the world's largest group, these impacts are significant, but not fatal. It's just a difference between making more money and less money.

    "It's quite a large desert. It's not easy to find someone there!"

    At the gates of Hogwarts Castle, George looked out at the falling snowflakes, pondered for a moment, and then turned towards the office of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

    "It seems we need to look for some books in the restricted section."

    To find the trace of Tony Stark in the desert, even though the desert is not very large, it is still not an easy task.

    Therefore, he needed a kind of magic that could locate someone, a magic that he hadn't seen in the regular bookshelves of the library, and so he had to check the restricted section to see if it was there.

    Many spells used by wizards are inspired by the abilities of magical creatures, such as the Charm spell, which was inspired by cats and leopards that naturally have the ability to charm people.

    He didn't believe that there was no wizard who had researched the cat's remarkable tracking ability, and he remembered that Neville was particularly good at tracking magic, and could even manifest the scene at the time.

    Ron had mentioned during meals that he was practicing a tracking spell, specifically to catch criminal black wizards.

    But since there is a tracking spell, there is also an anti-tracking spell. He remembered that Sirius was proficient in anti-tracking spells, so even the Aurors could not lock onto Sirius's location, and even the owl could be shielded.

    But people in the Marvel Universe wouldn't have anti-tracking spells. As long as he could master a tracking spell, he could quickly find Tony Stark in the desert.

    To enter the restricted section, a teacher's permission is required. Even though Snape is currently the most important teacher who likes him, he wouldn't give him permission to go to the restricted section.

    Because there are too many dangerous black magic and dangerous magical knowledge inside, one wrong step for excessive greed may lead to astray and also hurt oneself.

    So he had to go to Lockhart, that teacher who could easily be given a pass to the restricted section if George paid him a few compliments.

    As expected, because he has deliberately gotten close to Lockhart in the past few months, he was able to get a pass to the restricted section without much effort.

    "Go ahead, but don't mess up the precious magical books in there, or I won't spare you."

    Mrs. Pince looked at the pass George held in Lockhart's hand, furrowed her brow, and warned him before letting him into the restricted section.

    Compared to the thousands of magical books outside, there were far fewer in the restricted section, but they were arranged more neatly, obviously not many people went in to read.

    George skipped over the books that contained tempting black magic and began to search for books that recorded tracking spells.

    George wasn't reluctant to look at the books, but at the very moment he entered the restricted section, his telepathy ability told him that someone was watching him secretly.

    If his assumption was correct, the person who watched him was most likely Dumbledore. It might be a spell or magical item that George didn't know about.

    Since Voldemort found information about soulcatchers in the restricted section, Dumbledore has paid particular attention to the restricted section. Implementing surveillance measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again is understandable.

    As long as he doesn't touch the dangerous black magic books, there won't be a problem. He can use excuses like "looking for my biological parents" when asked about it later.

    He will wait until Dumbledore is not at school before he goes into the restricted section to study those black magic.

    "Found!"

    After a search, he really did find a magical book called "Eight Methods for Finding Lost Objects" and flipping through it, he was surprised to find that it recorded eight different tracking spells.

    There were tracking spells that would appear arrows in the direction after casting the spell, spells that would appear footprints after casting the spell, and advanced tracking spells like Neville's that could even reveal a person's shadow.

    The most powerful of these was one that involved time magic, which could allow direct time travel to see past events, thus knowing everything the person being tracked had done.

    However, this kind of tracking spell has never been recorded as learned by any wizard.

    George's current level is far from high-level tracking spells, so he will definitely not be able to learn them. All he needs to do is learn the simplest one with arrows guiding the way.

    There are no buildings in the desert to obstruct the view, so a tracking spell with an arrow guide is enough for him to find Tony Stark.

    With the book on tracking spells in hand, George left the restricted section, registered his visit with Mrs. Pince, and returned to the Slytherin common room to begin studying the simplest tracking spell.

    At the same time, the main world of Marvel started to launch a clean-up operation against the senior management of the Carlson family.