The Real Hogwarts Chapter 104 Preparation
Jon could understand what this meant.
The signing of a magic contract is essentially the person who creates the contract leaving his or her own magic power on the contract. When someone signs the contract, half of the magic power left on the contract will split and enter the body of the signatory of the contract.
These two magical powers jointly maintain the effectiveness of the contract, and if there is a problem on either side, the contract can be broken.
The gem left by Adrian can only absorb the magic power from magical items and spells that erase the effects of magic. These magic powers are outside the wizard's body, and it cannot affect the magic power that is already in the wizard's body.
Therefore, the gem has no way to absorb the contract magic of those mudblood students, but it can absorb the magic left on the contract they signed.
But all the admission contracts were not in Hogwarts Castle. Before Christmas, John asked Aberforth about this, wanting to know if he could start with the contract itself. However, Aberforth told him that the admission contracts of all Mudblood students were kept in the archives of the Ministry of Magic, and no one else was qualified to access them except a few people with permission.
This completely eliminates the possibility of solving the problem from the contract itself.
When Jon got this special gem, he still had a glimmer of fantasy in his heart, thinking that maybe Mr. Fox could do more in-depth research, but the words he just read had completely shattered Jon's fantasy.
He could only use this gem to solve the three paintings in the tower. How to rescue these mudblood students in the castle was still a dead end.
Jon let out a long sigh. Although he was a little disappointed, he was far from giving up on the matter.
The issue of the contract is indeed the key, but whether these children can be taken away from the castle in the end depends on Dumbledore's response.
Jon took the ring off his neck, then placed the scarlet gem against the diamond-shaped gap on the left side of the center sapphire.
He loosened his hands slightly, and the gem and the ring fit together perfectly like positive and negative magnets.
The red magic power like flowing water was still circulating in the gem. John took the magic notebook that was originally used to store the gem, changed the bookshelf back to its original state, and then left the library.
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Getting this gem only provided Jon with a direction to solve the problem of the three paintings in the tower. This direction was very straightforward, and there were no stumbling blocks on the road, but he also needed to take steps forward.
He had just started learning the universal breaking spell from Aberforth and was far from being able to use it proficiently. He also needed to practice trial and error in transitioning the spell from the wand to the ring.
Fortunately, the pronunciation of the Stop Spell is far less than that of the Levitation Spell, which means that once John truly masters the spell to break the spell, it won’t take him a long time to try to cast a spell on the ring.
The Christmas holiday is over soon.
The pure-blood and half-blood students returned to school after spending a happy holiday at home.
The castle began to become bustling as usual. There were more people in the corridors, and the daily work of the Mudblood students returned to the level of hardship before Christmas.
After school started, Jon paid more attention to the Marauder's Map. Whenever he had the chance, he would open the map to check the location of the principal's office. After frequent observations, he was now basically certain that no student would approach the area on the eighth floor.
It seemed as if they had been given a death order, whether they were purebloods or half-bloods; even the most mischievous students would not cross this line.
The same applies to the faculty and staff. Apart from the principal's office, there are no other professors' . No one dares to put their office on the same floor as Voldemort, not even Snape and Barty Jr.
After all, it is a creature that has lived for thousands of years, and the basilisk's corpse is not so easy to rot. After Jon cleaned up all the blood inside and the fishy smell was gone, no one would smell any strange smell.
This ensures that Jon has plenty of time to lurk in the castle.
"Make a list of people you think are trustworthy and whose minds have not been shaken. Remember, this list must be careful, because if there are students who have been brainwashed by the pure-blood slave mentality, the rest of us will be exposed."
It was another night, and Jon came to Hermione's dormitory in the dead of night and assigned her a task.
In fact, even if the students had to be rescued in the end, they would not follow the list given by Hermione. Jon could only try his best to take away the first and second grade students. When the students above the third grade were discovered at the assembly last semester, most of their memories had been changed. They have become more submissive now, and there is no guarantee that any of these people have had any tricks left in their minds by the Ministry of Magic's memory cancellation technicians.
If they were brought back to the carriage, there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be problems that would affect the safety of the carriage.
Jon will do what he can, but only if it does not cause any danger to the people around him.
He asked Hermione to make a list tonight just to give the little girl something to do. Jon was afraid that if she was idle all the time and focused her attention on him, and if she later found out that he was actually lying, something bad would happen.
Hermione nodded solemnly to Jon.
"I will be careful. You can leave this matter to me."
After assigning the task to Hermione, John came to the Room of Requirement under the cover of night. He had to speed up his practice of breaking the spell. Even though it seemed that the headmaster's office was temporarily safe, he could not rest completely safe.
Fortunately, the progress was very smooth afterwards. John was not slow in learning spells, and the spell-breaking spell itself was not a difficult spell to learn. By the first weekend after the Christmas holiday, mid-January, he had completely mastered the spell and could ensure that there would be no mistakes in daily use.
Then, he began to transfer the spell casting from the wand to the ring, marking the spell to break the curse on the second gem.
At this point, it was even smoother than when he practiced breaking curses. After all, this gem was created specifically for breaking curses, and the spell to break curses was not complicated.
By the end of January and before February arrived, Jon had completed all the preparations and planned to start his second trip to the principal's office.
