Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 133 Dead Soul Water
Everything was normal on the carriage.
Gabrielle's arrival caused a sensation.
Although there used to be many ghosts in Hogwarts Castle, and even a ghost professor who taught the History of Magic, the students on the carriage never saw such creatures again after the exile began.
Muggle students make up the majority of the students here. They have learned about ghosts in class, but like Jon, this is the first time they have seen one.
"How pitiful." Lavender looked at Gabrielle, who was hiding behind Jon shyly and frightened because she was being watched by a group of people, and whispered to Hermione beside her.
"She died at such a young age. I heard that people who become ghosts are those who still have a deep obsession with this world after death. She must have been in great pain when she died."
Gabrielle obviously heard what she said. She pouted and grabbed the corner of Jon's robe, wanting to stick her head out to explain, but in the end she shrank back in disappointment.
She is only seven years old now. Although she has a cheerful personality, she has experienced so many changes during this period of time and has begun to become a little cautious.
"This is Gabrielle Delacour." Jon could only introduce her. "She is from France and will be staying at Hogwarts for a while. She is indeed a ghost now, but she is not really dead. She drank the dead soul water and has temporarily become like this."
The knowledge of Dead Soul Water is a bit obscure. Simply put, it is a potion that can force wizards to turn into ghosts.
However, this kind of medicine is very difficult to refine, and some of the materials have basically become extinct. It also has great limitations. After all, it is an artificially created ghost, and it is completely incomparable to a real ghost. It does not have the characteristic of not dying again after death. Generally, it can only survive in the form of a ghost for four or five years at most, and then it will die completely.
But the good thing is that turning into a ghost after drinking this potion is not irreversible. As long as the person who drinks the potion is well protected and given the antidote within five years, he or she can turn back into a human being.
Madame Maxime had indeed reached a point where she had no other options at the time, otherwise she would not have risked killing her friend's daughter by feeding Gabrielle the water of the dead soul.
Lavender and the others didn't know what the Dead Soul Water was, but they also heard Jon's subtext.
But they didn't mind whether Gabrielle was really dead or not. A child finally came to the carriage. Although the child was a ghost, it still made Lavender and several senior girls excited.
Soon they were taking Gabrielle to visit the carriages, while Jon went back to the dormitory with Neville to put their luggage down.
"After you and Professor Dumbledore left, the carriage seemed to have some problems and stopped once. However, Professor McGonagall and Professor Potter checked it and found nothing unusual." Neville said this in a casual tone, and he didn't seem to think it was a big deal.
The fact that Jon rescued the students from the castle this year eased the students on the carriage's original caution and worry about exile.
After all, in the eyes of the students, Jon was indeed gifted in learning magic, but he was not particularly different from others.
He was able to rescue people from Hogwarts Castle after hiding there for less than a year. This not only proved how powerful he was, but also showed that the enemies in the castle were no more capable than him.
This gave senior students who didn't know much about Jon a non-malicious illusion of "I can do it too."
But Jon obviously knew better.
Given Voldemort's vengeful character, it is impossible for him to suffer such a huge loss without any fightback. Not only should we not relax now, but we should be more vigilant.
Dumbledore and other professors were also well aware of this.
Jon remembered what Hagrid had said to Dumbledore before getting on the carriage. The carriage stopping and the spell attached to it being damaged probably meant the same thing.
The carriage stopped once to find out what happened, and the professors obviously didn't say much to the students.
Jon didn't talk much about this with Navidad. He put his luggage away and went to the restaurant for dinner. He chatted with Ron and the others at the table for a while about the interesting things that happened during this trip to France, and then he returned to the dormitory alone.
He had not really studied the gem he had taken from the castle library since returning from Hogwarts Castle.
The gem had long since changed from blood red to the same light blue as the original gem on the ring.
Jon didn't dare to hold back when .
A levitation spell and a breaking spell allowed him to use up all the magic power in the gem without reservation.
The effect was naturally significant. Under the joint attack of several professors in the castle, Jon was completely unscathed and able to move freely. Although he had no effective means of counterattack, he had not gone there to kill anyone. In the end, he was able to escape successfully with Hermione, which was considered to have exceeded the mission.
The last few words he said were not because he had some kind of chuunibyou syndrome or wanted to act cool, but because there were so many students present, it was a good time to make a statement.
The more the Ministry of Magic wanted to reduce the presence of Hogwarts led by Dumbledore, the more John wanted to publicly publicize the fact that there were still people in the wizarding world who were resisting Voldemort's system.
This may not make all mixed-blood students see the true nature of pure-blood superiority, but it may awaken a few people and make them change their originally submissive mentality.
Even if there is only one person who can make such a change, Jon will not lose anything by saying these words, and it can also plant a seed of resistance in the hearts of others.
If Voldemort could continue to lead the pure-bloods in this strong manner, this seed might never break through the ground. But if one day the situation undergoes a subtle change and the balance is no longer completely tilted to one side, then the seed planted today will blossom and bear fruit, and may very well play an unexpected role.
The magic power stored in the gem can do so much, and Jon feels that this deal is not a loss. Besides, the magic power in it can be stored again in the future.
And the most important thing is that Jon always felt that this gem contained more than just magic.
Before, he was busy trying to rescue the students in the castle and had no time and energy to study it. After he came back, he went out with Dumbledore for a few days. Now he finally has some free time to seriously study the gem.
If there was something in this that he had not discovered, all Jon could think of was the knowledge that had been absorbed from the forbidden magic book.
Magic is the carrier of forbidden book knowledge, but it does not mean it is the whole of knowledge.
