Volume 1 Chapter 5 Bastard
After staying in the cabin until the afternoon, Lily took out a pocket watch from her robe pocket, looked at the time on it, then stood up and took Jon out of the safe house.
There is a dense forest outside. This should be a very secluded place in some remote mountain range.
"Are we going to Hogwarts now?"
Even though Lily had deliberately slowed down her pace, Jon, whose body was still in a period of rapid development, still had to speed up to keep up with her.
"right."
"Then why don't you just use the same magic you used to help me escape?"
"The Ministry of Magic can determine the landing point of the Apparition by the starting point of the Apparition. This safe house can help us hide the landing point temporarily, but we cannot use this magic when we go to Hogwarts."
Jon looked up and continued to ask in confusion.
"So are we going to walk to Hogwarts like this? Or do you have some kind of transportation planned?"
Lily said calmly.
"We just need to walk a little way, and then Hogwarts will come to us."
…
Just half an hour after they left, Barty Crouch Jr. arrived at the safe house in the woods with a team of Aurors.
Looking at the extinguished fire and the teacup with chocolate residue, the face of the other Hogwarts Charms professor turned pale.
"Well, very much, it happens every year, and it happens again. Once again we have that woman escaping with a Mudblood right under our noses."
The Aurors lowered their heads in obedience, and no one dared to look at the young man in front of them who was deeply favored by the man.
Little Barty's eyes were cold, completely different from his gentle demeanor in front of John before.
"I'd like to know why, after all this time , the Auror Office hasn't developed a way to counter these safe house spells!"
A young wizard among the Aurors swallowed his saliva and explained through trembling teeth.
"Professor Crouch, the command center has already put a large part of its manpower into breaking this magic. If it was the same magic used by these fugitives a year ago, we would definitely be able to break it in the first place, but the hiding magic they cast on the safe house has been changing. This year's one has a new spell cast on it, so the previous research is useless."
Little Barty stared at the wizard who had spoken. The coldness on his face gradually faded, and the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a smile.
"May I have your name?"
The young wizard seemed to feel the friendliness from his smile, but he did not notice that the old Aurors around him were secretly looking at him with pity.
He stammered with a smile on his face.
"My name is Andrew Williams, Professor. I took your Charms class during my last two years at Hogwarts."
Little Barty gently twirled the wand in his hand with three fingers, and his voice sounded very gentle.
"I remember that there doesn't seem to be any pure-blood family with the surname Williams, and the Ministry of Magic will definitely not recruit Mudbloods as employees... So, you are a half-blood?"
"Yes, yes, Professor..."
"Crucio!"
The smiling face that was so gentle in the last second turned extremely hideous and ferocious in the next second.
Under the tip of Little Barty's staff, the young wizard curled up on the ground like a cooked shrimp and twisted violently. The pain from the depths of his soul, accompanied by the wails from his mouth, startled a large flock of birds in the woods.
"ah!!!"
"You are just a bastard with dirty and impure blood flowing in your body, who do you think you are!"
He stomped his leather boots hard on the young Auror again and again, as if venting the anger he had been holding back all day.
"In the entire Auror Command, the only person who is qualified to explain these words to me is your Director Lucius Malfoy, understand! Bastard!"
…
Half of the sun had already set below the horizon, and the afterglow of the sunset cast a layer of orange gauze over the surrounding houses.
After Lily led Jon out of the woods, they soon arrived at a nearby Muggle town.
After leaving the woods, she took off her grey robe and wore an ordinary top and jeans underneath. Her dark red hair was also turned into dark brown by a spell.
The two of them walked together on the streets of the town, like a mother and son out for a walk, not attracting any attention at all.
After Jon followed Lily out of the safe house, they had been walking non-stop for two or three hours.
After all, he still has the body of a child, and after walking for such a long time, his body has long been feeling exhausted.
Fortunately, after arriving at this small town, Lily no longer wanted to continue walking. She took Jon to a bench on a secluded road to sit down and rest.
Jon was still very curious about the sentence "Hogwarts will come to us".
In the original book, the castle built by the four founders has now obviously been occupied by Voldemort.
So, at a time when Hogwarts is always wanted and led by Dumbledore, in what kind of place will the students be taught ?
He didn't rush to ask Lily, as he would know the answer soon anyway, but instead raised his own questions about another matter.
"Professor Potter, am I the only one coming to Hogwarts today?"
Lily kept her right hand in her jeans pocket at all times to hide her wand and to be able to counterattack immediately if she encountered any unexpected situation.
"I am not the only professor who goes out of school to guide Muggle students. And you are not the only student I am responsible for bringing back today."
When she said this, her face became noticeably gloomy.
"Before I came to find you, I also went to the home of another girl named Hermione Granger. When I got there, the girl's parents had forgotten that they had a daughter."
Jon was stunned on the spot.
Hermione Granger, this name is naturally very familiar to him who has read the original novel!
This was also the first situation he heard about someone in the protagonist team, and the meaning of Lily's words...
Jon took a deep breath and looked at the witch beside him with a complicated expression.
"You said that if a student like me was taken away from another Hogwarts, they would erase the memories of everyone who knew me. This girl called Hermione Granger..."
Lily's voice was calm, but the anger, self-blame and helplessness hidden beneath the calm could not be concealed at all.
"Yes, she signed the acceptance letter and was taken away by a professor from another Hogwarts, like Barty Crouch Jr."
