Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 144 The Disappearing Person
In previous years, recruiting students on a horse-drawn carriage was actually quite difficult.
There were only so many professors on the bus, and every wizard in the Order of the Phoenix had his own duties, so no one had so much free time to wander around in the Muggle society all day. They could only try their luck among children who were 11 years old when school started every year.
Fortunately, the population of the UK is limited. As long as we first grasp the population information of the Muggles and then conduct screening and searching, we will always gain something.
In the meantime, they would inevitably run into the admissions professors in the castle, just like when Lily confronted Barty Jr. and took Jon away from the orphanage.
In the the enrollment period was always thrilling. Lily and Mag, who were mainly responsible for this task, would experience an adventure almost every time they brought new students into the carriage.
Lily's condition is better due to some special reasons, but Mag has walked on the edge of a knife many times.
This year, they finally no longer have to take that risk and can go out to pick up the children from the carriage long in advance.
The arrival of new students provided the bored students on the carriage with new things to do. These children, who were preparing to enter the first grade, had just lost their families and now needed others to comfort them.
Every new student from a Muggle family, after being told that he or she is actually a wizard and will come to Hogwarts to study magic, will be cast a spell similar to the Forgetfulness Charm by Lily or McGonagall to erase their identity.
All traces of their existence in this world will be erased, including files, photos, and memories, as if they had never existed.
This is actually a rather cruel thing.
It is said that when the carriage first went into exile, there was a great controversy within the school and the Order of the Phoenix as to whether or not to use such protection measures for the new students they admitted.
But at the beginning, when Voldemort had just taken over the wizarding world and was suppressing Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix the most severely, the Ministry of Magic ruthlessly found the families of Muggle wizards in the Order of the Phoenix, arrested them, and used them to threaten them.
Some of these captured Muggles were successfully rescued, while others became the pain in the hearts of some people in the Order of the Phoenix...
After that, no one raised any objection to whether or not to erase the memories and existence of Muggle students. After taking the Muggle students away, Lily and McGonagall would properly deal with their parents and try their best to conceal the fact that they once had a child and that the child was taken away by the magic school.
Because the Ministry of Magic today has no shame in dealing with rebellious forces like the carriage and the Order of the Phoenix. Once they are sure that a child is taken away by the carriage and will be trained to become a rebel with "rebellious" ideas in the future, they will do whatever it takes.
Most of these 11-year-old children do not understand. They do not know the grudges in the wizarding world or the special nature of their own identities. They only know that the appearance of the Hogwarts professors will separate them from their parents.
Generally, when conditions permit, Lily and McGonagall will explain the situation in the wizarding world and the plight of their children to these Muggle parents.
After proving the existence of magic, they would show the Muggle parents some Daily Prophet articles about blood class policies. Most parents were able to see the reality clearly, and they would rather not let their children become slaves than be separated from their own flesh and blood.
But Muggle students like Jon, who are orphans, don't need to worry about this.
The vast majority of orphans with magical talents do not have much affection for the orphanages that adopted them. Growing up in such a mixed environment without blood ties, these children are almost always isolated by others due to their own peculiarities.
Moreover, the orphanage was relatively special, and the Ministry of Magic generally would not take action against the adults and children here, so Lily did not lie to John at the time. Even if the students were snatched away from the orphanage in front of little Barty, the people in the orphanage would not be in any danger.
Students like Hermione who were rescued from the castle this year were not idle on the night they were taken to the carriage. Moody and other members of the Order of the Phoenix who assisted Lupin and others in breaking out of Azkaban were also busy. They urgently transferred Hermione and others' parents and got them out of the sight of the Ministry of Magic.
The Order of the Phoenix can only do these things to the best of its ability.
Protect the families of these children, and then tell these children who have been completely forgotten by their parents and families that one day in the future they may be able to erase the magic that erases their memories and existence, allowing them to reunite with their families in broad daylight and walk in the sun.
This was the reason why they
Not only for your own freedom and equality, but also for your family!
In less than two weeks after the beginning of August, Lily and McGonagall had brought all of this year's freshmen to the carriage. There were a total of 9 Muggle students, which were recorded in the admission book, all the Muggle students who met the age requirements this year.
All nine students were taken into the Hogwarts carriage, which meant that the castle did not cheat away any "Mudbloods" this year. Together with the first and second grade students brought back by Jon, there were already three full grades of "Mudbloods" vacancies in the castle.
This is a very serious matter for Voldemort's policy. After all, the key to raising the status of pure-bloods and stabilizing half-blood wizards is to use the oppression of "mudbloods" to compensate for the interests that pure-bloods originally encroached on half-bloods.
Now that there are fewer and fewer "Mudbloods", the lowest oppressive class is gradually disappearing, and the half-blood wizards who were originally in the middle class will become the bottom class.
This kind of class decline will cause great chaos to Voldemort's already stable rule.
Logically speaking, what he should do now is either to find ways to destroy the carriage, even if he doesn't kill all the students, he must destroy the existing teaching facilities, or to take back the Book of Admission and the Pen of Acceptance.
But four or five months have passed, and Voldemort has not taken any action. It seems as if the books and pens being stolen, the students in the castle being rescued, and the prisoners escaping from Azkaban have no effect on him.
Jon always felt that something was wrong with this situation, and the current calmness did not make him feel at ease.
Just when all nine freshmen were taken into the Hogwarts carriage and the students and professors on the carriage were preparing to hold a small welcome ceremony for them in the restaurant in advance, an unexpected thing finally happened !
Percy is missing.
His disappearance was discovered when Professor McGonagall wanted to find the head student to help manage the students in the cafeteria.
No one knew where he went, it was as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth. Just when someone wanted to find him, he disappeared from the carriage.
McGonagall immediately realized that something was wrong. She immediately gathered all the students into the dining hall, and then together with other professors, conducted a thorough search of the entire carriage, but still found nothing.
Percy's things were still in his dorm, even his freshly washed robe was hanging next to his bed, but he was gone.
