The Real Hogwarts Chapter 74 Unimpeded
After darkness enveloped the entire Hogwarts Castle, Jon lay quietly on the wooden bed.
The air was a bit stuffy because there were no windows in the dormitory. At this time when summer and autumn are changing, it is easy to feel depressed.
Jon had no intention of sleeping. He was listening carefully to the footsteps outside the door that were gradually fading away. It was the sound of the castle warden Dolohov patrolling at the beginning of curfew.
It has been a week since Jon came here, and he has basically figured out the habits of this castle manager.
After the curfew begins, he will start patrolling from the basement upwards. After the patrol, he will return to his office to rest. Unless he hears some unusual noise in the middle of the night, he will not go out.
So after his footsteps completely disappeared, Jon waited for about twenty minutes and then sat up from the bed.
Instead of lighting the candle directly, he fumbled for his robe with an inner pocket, took out the cloth bag he found in the morning, and then slowly drew out his wand.
This inner pocket on his clothes was specially made for him by Dumbledore. It was cast with a powerful traceless extension spell. On the surface, it looked like an ordinary pocket, but in fact, there was quite a lot of space inside.
Gently waving his wand, he used a Transfiguration spell to transform a quill on the bedside table into a pair of scissors, and then put his wand away again.
Using a pair of scissors, Jon cut the wick of the candle on the candlestick to two-thirds in the dark. After making sure the flame was small enough, he lit it.
The light from the fire was very dim, but it was enough to illuminate the area in front of him.
With the help of this little light, Jon opened the cloth bag he picked up from the wall today and took out various potion materials one by one.
Lacewings, crude antimony, leeches without their mouthparts, sap grass picked during the full moon, grass leaf powder, bicorn horn powder, and most importantly, dried strips of African bush snake skin.
The compound potion made from these ingredients is enough for John to use two bottles a day for a month. If there are more, this cloth bag, which has also been cast with the Traceless Stretching Spell, is not unable to hold them, but the medicinal properties of the ingredients cannot be guaranteed over time.
The Extension Charm can only stretch space but cannot freeze time. This is why Dumbledore did not directly prepare enough Polyjuice Potion for Jon for a school year before he came. If it is not used for a long time, the efficacy of the Polyjuice Potion prepared in advance will also disappear. Jon must be self-sufficient in Hogwarts Castle.
After checking that there was nothing wrong with the materials delivered, Jon was about to put the things back into the bag when he reached into the innermost part of the bag and suddenly touched something cold and liquid-like.
Jon was stunned at first, then he took out the object which was so light that it seemed as if it did not exist at all.
This was a transparent cloak that emitted a faint silver light. The moment he saw it for the first time, Jon subconsciously held his breath.
There was a note left on the cloak.
[After Lily knew where you went, she asked me to give it to you. Please keep it well.]
After reading the contents of the note, Jon immediately placed it above the candle and lit it. He watched the flame shine for a few seconds and then go out again. He knew clearly what the cloak handed to him was.
Invisibility cloak!
It's not the ordinary stuff sold in the magical market that is made of invisible animal fur or is cast under the Disillusionment Charm.
If this invisibility cloak was originally in Lily's hands, then it is very likely one of the three Deathly Hallows passed down in the Potter family, the one in Harry Potter's hands in the original book!
After the death of Harry and James, it was basically confirmed that the Potter family would have no descendants, so the invisibility cloak naturally passed into Lily's hands.
Jon looked at the invisibility cloak in his hand, and his mood quickly calmed down from the initial excitement.
This thing can be said to be a precious relic left behind after the death of her husband and son. It is definitely of great significance to Lily. Now that she has given the invisibility cloak to Jon, if something happens to him, there will be no chance for her to return the invisibility cloak.
Jon could understand the meaning of this. During the previous year in the carriage, he could see that the only motivation for Lily to insist on living now was revenge.
Revenge on Voldemort, revenge on Snape, revenge on everyone who had participated in the murder of her husband and son.
Asking Dumbledore to give him this invisibility cloak was also to make it easier for him to move around in Hogwarts Castle and achieve his ultimate goal.
Perhaps this was mixed with some considerations for his student's safety, but it was mainly due to the uncontrollable hatred in his heart.
But regardless of whether she was wholeheartedly considering his safety or not, Jon was sincerely grateful for the invisibility cloak she gave him.
With this thing, his next actions will undoubtedly be greatly facilitated!
He put everything except the invisibility cloak back into the bag, stuffed the bag back into the inner pocket of his robe, put on the robe and blew out the candle.
With the invisibility cloak, his plan, which had been postponed, can now be brought forward a little.
After listening carefully by the door for more than a minute to make sure there was no movement outside, Jon put on an invisibility cloak, completely concealing his figure, gently pushed open the door and walked out of the dormitory.
Outside was a dim corridor, with candlesticks embedded in the wall flickering with faint flames. John carefully drew out his wand and walked to the iron door at the end of the corridor.
When curfew began and Dolohov inspected the basement, he would lock the iron door, which was like a prison cell, from the outside and would not open it until the next morning. The mudblood students, who had no wand and could not learn any spells outside of class unless taught by the professor, would not be able to open this door even in their seventh year.
But for Jon, who had a magic wand and had received a year of formal magical education, this locked iron door was useless.
He slowly extended the front end of the wand out of the invisibility cloak and tapped it lightly against the door lock.
"Alaho is open."
A faint unlocking spell was cast, and the tightly closed iron door creaked and was opened from the inside by Jon.
He walked out of the basement, locked the door again from the outside, and then turned and walked up the stairs.
The entire Hogwarts Castle was silent except for the whistling sound of the wind.
And on this night, a "Mudblood" who was previously bound will now be free.
