In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 90: Preparations

The temperature in Hogwarts was getting colder and colder now, and every one of the professors in the castle did not seem to be in a good mood lately.

The library had become off-limits to all students for two weeks, during which time Barty had frequented it, sometimes bringing in several specialists from the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries who specialised in dealing with unique situations.

However, it seems that in the investigation on the disappearance of magic in the restricted books, they did not make much progress, Barty Jr. has not even shown his signature smile for many days, and even the pureblood students are afraid to take a breath in front of him.

But these things happening in the castle, for better or worse, have nothing to do with the mudblood students, and no one would even guess that the problem of restricted books would be caused by the mudblood students, after all, these people, not to mention going to the restricted books section, they are not even qualified to go near the library.

According to Jon's reasoning, the matter of the restricted books is already considered a big deal, if these professors in the castle can't figure out the reason for it, then Voldemort will probably come to the school to check the situation in the library personally.

But from beginning to end, Voldemort did not return to Hogwarts Castle, he seems to have been busy with other important things, even if such a major event happened, it didn't seem like he wanted to come to the school to personally investigate the situation.

After three weeks of investigation without any results, Barty and Snape left the school together for a few days, and when they came back, both of their faces were a little pale, no one asked them what they went out to do in the past few days, but after they came back, they withdrew all the investigations carried out on the library and then relocated the few remaining restricted books that had not been ruined, all of them were moved away from Hogwarts Castle.

The mishap in the castle did not affect Jon, at the very beginning when the school faculty launched an investigation in the library, he cautiously suspended his spell practice for three days, and only later, after observing at night with a marauder's map that no one was going out in the castle after midnight, did he continue to resume his original schedule.

The entire month of November passed in this way a little quietly.

In the middle of all this Hermione organized another gathering, the long life of hardship, will make these mudblood students become numb, so Hermione is trying her best to remind them that they still have their dignity as human beings, otherwise even if they have a backbone, after being trampled on for a long time, will help to create a habit, which is why Voldemort has chosen to oppress and abuse these children from the age of 11 when they entered school.

And in the meantime, Jon went through the secret passage to visit the Hog's Head Inn twice, where he not only learned all the possible spells he could learn in a short time from Aberforth but also further discussed with him a clear plan for Christmas Day.

The progress of Jon's spell learning made Aberforth feel very shocked, he knew very well that with the living environment of the mudblood students in Hogwarts castle, Jon could hardly squeeze in private time for spell practice normally; all the spells he taught Jon were not too advanced, but there is always a process of practising to make it proficient, according to Aberforth's initial estimate, by December, if he could learn two or three of them, Jon would be considered exceptionally gifted.

But up to now, he has taught Jon a total of eight or nine spells, including several transfiguration spells, which Jon has basically been able to use smoothly.

Although his proficiency can obviously still be seen as somewhat rusty, this has already far exceeded Aberforth's expectations.

This is a number of spells that a normal second-year student would learn in a school year if they give it their best shot, but Jon just learned it from him in less than two months on-and-off, during which even if he could practice, the practice time would be drastically limited, yet he was able to master it to this extent.

This makes him feel mixed emotions as he thought of a person, his older brother Albus Dumbledore when he was a child.

In Dumbledore's second year, he was also like Jon now, learning any new spell at his fingertips, and even more exaggeratedly, at the age of 12, he was already able to perform the high-end transfiguration spell of turning an inanimate object into a living creature.

Learning magic does depend on talent, and Jon is clearly an equally gifted student.

"About the rooster, I have already picked a good one, wait for the day before Christmas and come to my place one last time, then pick up that rooster."

The wind was so strong tonight that a "whine" could be heard inside the Hog's Head Inn, and Aberforth brought Jon a cup of hot cocoa so that he could warm up in this weather.

"I guess it's going to snow in a couple of days." Jon looked at the weather outside the window, holding the hot cocoa and said, "On Christmas day, the dark lord won't appear at the castle dinner feast, right?"

Aberforth said with an affirmative nod.

"The most important identity he has now is not simply the Headmaster of Hogwarts, most of the forces in the entire British magical community depend on him to maintain, on such an important day as Christmas, he will hold a grand banquet to entertain those under him, I heard that he will also make a summary about the development of the magical community this whole year at this banquet, which means that the castle will not have many professors left at that time. All of his core henchmen will attend the banquet held outside the castle."

Jon pondered and asked.

"In other words, there are actually very few students and faculty members who would stay at the school every Christmas?"

"Very few, basically the number of people who would attend the castle dinner would only add up to about a dozen, almost all the half-blood and pureblood students have their own families, so they all would go home on Christmas Day, and the remaining students and faculty would be those who do not have families and those who are marginalized in the Dark Lord's hierarchy, so Christmas night is really your best opportunity. "

"I have one more question."

As Christmas Day is getting closer and closer, Jon has to think through all the possible mishaps and circumstances before the operation starts.

"If I managed to kill that Basilisk in the end, then will the Dark Lord over there can immediately sense it?"

Aberforth frowned seriously and thought about it for a long while, and finally shook his head and said.

"No, there is no such magic in the magical world, linking a person's sense with the magical creature's state, which involves a part of magic blind spot, Dark Lord's strength lies in the destructive and bizarre curse of dark magic, he can't do such a thing."

Jon actually also felt that even if Voldemort changed greatly, it is unlikely that he could attain such a feat.

After all, he didn't even receive any induction when even his own Horcrux was destroyed in the original story, not to mention the fact that the bond between Basilisk and him certainly hadn't reached that point of the Horcrux.

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