Volume 6: Summer at Spider's End Alley Chapter 437 Magic Potion
Every time Jon got Fox's feathers, he actually wondered if there would be a day when all the feathers on the phoenix would be plucked out.
As a result, when he turned into a phoenix, he also faced this problem.
The form of the wizard in the Animagus state is of course based on the wizard's human form, and all parts of the body change together, including the decorations worn by the wizard at the moment of completing this magic, which will be integrated into the transformation. The most typical example is that after Magg turns into a tabby cat, there is a circle of glasses-like patterns around the eyes of the cat form, which is a kind of fusion of specific objects.
The feathers on Jon's body after he turned into a phoenix are actually various body hairs in human form, most of which are hair. If his hair is plucked without restraint in a short period of time, he will really appear bald after he turns back into a human form.
Just when Jon was wondering whether plucking too many feathers would have any impact on his hair growth, Lily suddenly appeared beside him, holding a trembling old wizard in her hand.
Jon immediately stood up from the ground, and after meeting him, Lily immediately grabbed Jon's arm and took him away quickly.
"How's Penny's family?" Lily asked in a cold voice while grabbing Jon's arm with one hand and dragging the older wizard with the other.
Jon quickened his pace to keep up with her.
"I have sent them back to Lyon and handed them over to Professor McGonagall. As expected, I encountered problems at their house. Three Death Eaters came to our house. I killed one and captured one, and finally one escaped. Then I handed the captured one to Professor Lupin. I think they will be able to get a lot of information out of his mind soon."
After quickly walking away from the meeting point where they were before and making sure that no one else was following Lily's Apparition, Lily grabbed the wizard and gave Jon instructions.
"Wait here for me. I'll send him back to France. There's still a lot of information we can get from this person."
Jon nodded immediately, and then he watched Lily and the wizard disappear from his sight again.
During the period when Voldemort controlled the British wizarding world, the entire UK was under the Ministry of Magic's Apparition monitoring. Anyone who wanted to use cross-border Apparition magic had to submit an application to the Department of Magical Traffic, and any private cross-border Apparition was illegal.
In serious cases, the Aurors will directly follow the traces left by the Apparition to a foreign country. Even if the person is a pure-blood, he will be questioned by the Ministry of Magic and asked to explain the reason when he returns to the UK.
And now, because the Triwizard Tournament has just ended, the current Lord Voldemort has carried out a major reshuffle of the top management of the Ministry of Magic, causing the basic work of the Department of Magical Transportation to be temporarily paralyzed. The extremely labor-intensive task of comprehensive Apparition monitoring of the UK has been temporarily shelved.
Of course, the magical people in the outside world are unaware of such news, but there are obviously some internal channels in the Wizarding World.
Jon didn't have to wait long. After more than ten seconds, Lily reappeared beside him.
She looked dusty, as if she had just walked out of a construction site. It was only at this time that she had time to cast a cleaning spell on herself to clean up all the dust.
Without rushing to talk about their experiences today, Lily took Jon to the central street of the town and found a restaurant to have their first meal of the day.
In order to save time, they didn't have a proper meal during the day. Jon could have had a meal at the Dursleys' house, but unfortunately when he arrived at noon, the relationship between the two sides was not pleasant, so he missed the meal.
After the food was served and there was no one else around, Lily ate while quietly talking to Jon about what she had gained that day.
"I found out that the supplier of potion materials that Snape's alias Prince used to buy from was the wizard I just sent to France. He has a catalog of materials that Prince needs every year."
"Did you find the catalogue?"
"I've almost found it, but the materials are too mixed. Without further clues, I can't tell what kind of potion he wants to make. But there is one thing I can roughly guess."
Lily's eyes flickered.
"He had been making some very important potions for his master."
Jon said, thinking.
"Why do you say that?"
"If he needs these materials for himself, there is no need to use a fake identity and find a third-party material supplier. He used to be the vice-headmaster of Hogwarts Castle and also served as a part-time potion professor at the Pure-Blood Academy. With his position and connections, he can use the resources of Hogwarts to obtain these materials. This would be more convenient and more cost-effective."
"But now he is acting as Prince, which means he doesn't want or someone wants him not to be noticed by others. The making of this potion is related to Snape. And when we met him this morning, he also said that when his master realizes it, he will come to him. The only person in Britain who is qualified to order him to do this is his master. But because of the Triwizard Tournament, Voldemort has become a different person. He didn't know how important Snape was to him at first, but now he has finally realized that no one except Snape can help him make the potion he needs."
"So when we were at Snape's house, he had someone conduct a second investigation there, and we happened to run into them. Today, when I was tracking down Prince's identity, I also ran into a group of Death Eaters. They had apparently also discovered Snape's identity."
Jon nodded thoughtfully, and followed Lily's line of thought.
"So what we need to find out now is, what kind of potion did Snape make for Voldemort ? Why did he realize it so late and still couldn't get rid of it?"
Lily did not answer Jon's question. While drinking the cream of onion soup in her bowl, she recalled the list of ingredients she saw in the evening. She memorized every suspicious ingredient on it.
So if these materials were made into a potion, what kind of potion would it be that Voldemort could not get rid of, and that only Snape could make?
