The Real Hogwarts Chapter 79 and beyond... who can say for sure?
The Marauder's Map is a magical map created by the Marauders, which marks almost all the locations and secret passages of Hogwarts Castle. It is also attached with an extremely powerful human trace spell, which can show the names of all the people and ghosts in the castle on the map.
Even though Jon is now wearing an invisibility cloak and drinking the Polyjuice Potion, the name revealed on the Marauder's Map where he is standing on the first floor of the castle is not "Randy Smith" but "Jon Green".
This map is very important for John who is now sneaking into Hogwarts Castle. It can be said that with it and the invisibility cloak, there is almost no place in the entire castle that he cannot go.
More importantly, it also marked the entrances to all the secret passages in the castle, which meant that John had the opportunity to walk out of the castle and contact Dumbledore directly outside!
This map is equivalent to activating a full-map cheat for John, removing all the fog of war in the castle and allowing him to know the movements of everyone in Hogwarts.
Jon carefully glanced at the name of each person marked on the Marauder's Map.
In fact, after entering Hogwarts Castle, he has been wondering about one thing: why have all the ghosts in the school disappeared?
Now even if he got the Marauder's Map, he still didn't gain anything. Peeves, the Bloody Baron, the Grey Lady, Nearly Headless Nick... These ghosts all had names in the original book, but he couldn't find any identical names on the map.
Ghosts have died once, and there is no way to kill them again. No matter the Unforgivable Killing Curse or the Basilisk's Instant Death, there is no way to kill them again.
The only explanation for the current situation is that they have all been taken away from the castle, but Jon has never seen these ghosts in the carriage, so why did Voldemort take them out of the castle?
Jon couldn't figure out the problem for the time being. Just when he was about to stretch out his wand to cancel the magic on the Marauder's Map, he suddenly found that a person's name seemed to move suddenly at the bottom of the map.
Jon stopped what he was doing, frowned slightly, and looked down carefully at the place that should be the basement of the castle, but he found that every name was staying well in his or her room, and no one was walking around or going out.
He did not immediately conclude that this was his illusion, but continued to stare at this position on the map for five or six minutes. Finally, he continued the action where he had just stopped and tapped lightly on the live map.
"The prank is over."
All the lines on the map converged and finally condensed into an ink dot on the tip of his staff and then disappeared.
Jon put away the map that had turned back into an ordinary piece of parchment, then tightened the invisibility cloak around him and walked out of Filch's office.
Even if someone really moved just now, it wouldn't make him too frightened. Even for Mudblood students, there was no rule that they couldn't get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
Walking down to the basement, he closed the "cell door" with his backhand. The creaking sound of rusty hinges echoed in the quiet corridor of the underground dormitory.
After locking the door again, he returned to his dormitory.
However, what Jon did not realize was that the door of the dormitory he just passed was not closed. An eye hidden in the darkness stared at the empty corridor. Then a faint sound of footsteps was heard, and then the dormitory door of a student named "Randy Smith" was opened and then closed again...
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It was October now.
The weather had gradually begun to get colder, and the pure-blood and half-blood students had already changed into thicker school robes. Even the mudblood students had each received a worn-out thick robe to wear to keep out the cold.
But in such weather, they still need to put their hands into cold water, wash the rags and clean every place in the castle and the Quidditch field.
Even though most students have already learned the cleaning spell cast by hand gestures, this spell is not omnipotent. It can be applied to most scenarios, but some still require the mudblood students to do the work themselves.
The atmosphere in Hogwarts Castle has become increasingly heated recently, because it is October, which also means it is time for the Quidditch competition every semester to begin.
For the wizarding world, which is already lacking in entertainment activities, this is something that can easily excite the students studying in the castle.
However, the two separate colleges, half-blood and pure-blood, will not compete with each other. Instead, half-bloods will compete with each other, and pure-bloods will compete with each other within the college.
Students with ideas can go to the flight course professor who is in charge of this matter and apply to form a team. Then each team will compete with each other. At the end of the semester, the winning team will receive actual material rewards such as the latest flying broom, and the team name will be placed in the center of the trophy display room.
It was obviously a deliberate move by Voldemort to separate half-blood and pure-blood students in both education and sports. He wanted to engrave the idea that pure-bloods should have privileges deeply into the minds of half-blood wizards when they were young, so that they would accept this from the bottom of their hearts both now and in the future. This would completely solidify the class structure of the wizarding world in the future.
But no matter how lively the castle was, it had nothing to do with the Mudblood students. On the contrary, this carnival of half-bloods and pure-bloods simply increased their workload.
Before the game, they have to clean the unused courts in advance, and the job of cleaning up the scene after the game also falls on them.
The first Quidditch game ended on Saturday, and Jon and his team's second job of cleaning the field began the weekend after the game.
Because of the experience they had once before, the second-grade students' work progress this time was much faster than the previous time.
"Come on, Randy. Your spells are better than mine. You should be able to clean these things up."
The boy named Hamton, who had previously told Jon the exact location of Filch's office, looked at the drink spilled on the ground, which was not sure whether it was pumpkin juice or butterbeer , and approached Jon and spoke to him.
Jon nodded and handed the broom to him, asking him to clean up the streamers that were scattered all over the floor in the audience seats.
"In fact, you just have some deviations in pronunciation. If you change your habits a little, you can use the cleaning spell well."
"Hermione told me the same thing." Hamton took the broom with an envious look on his face. "You are so talented. Professor Sinistra only taught you once, and you all learned it."
"Learning magic requires not only diligence and hard work, but also the ability to accept the process." Jon did not use the cleansing spell immediately. He wanted to teach the boy something. "When casting a spell, we have to rely on our thoughts and will to complete the spell. If you are interested in the spell itself, it is not difficult to learn."
Hanton lowered his voice.
"I secretly watched the competitions of those wizard students. They could actually fly in the sky on a broomstick! That was really fun!"
"Be careful. If Dolohov catches you peeking, it will be disastrous."
Hamton looked up at the blue sky above his head. He put the ordinary broom that Jon handed to him under his crotch, and just like those half-blood and pure-blood students, he was riding on the broom and flying into the sky.
“It would be great if I could fly like them,” he said longingly.
Jon didn't look at Hamton. His eyes never left the drink stain in front of him, but he never started to cast the spell. He broke the brief silence and murmured in a voice that Hamton didn't know if he could hear.
"In the future... who can tell?"
