For an old-hand at Hogwarts, it was no secret that the portraits were the eyes of the castle.
Draco walked along the corridors where portraits were sparse, and Shuxin noticed that a few of these portraits had long since closed their eyes, while the vast majority of the remainder favored Slytherin.
Draco kept moving upward and soon reached the eighth floor—not the eighth floor belonging to Gryffindor, but the eighth floor where Dumbledore resided. A few more steps forward would bring one to Dumbledore's office.
Chapter 118