Volume 8: In this Hogwarts without the Dark Lord Chapter 503 Hogwarts
Jon knocked on the farmer's door, which seemed so abrupt in the silent night.
But there was no movement from inside for a long time, but he continued to knock on the door patiently until he heard a few vulgar curses and a series of footsteps from inside.
The door was opened from the inside, and a burly man with a beard holding a double-barreled shotgun in his hand stared at Jon and Lily with a hostile look on his face.
When he saw clearly that the people standing outside the door were children and women, the wariness in his eyes obviously lessened a little.
"If you are lost, you can stay in the hut next door for one night. We can deal with other matters tomorrow. If you have other purposes, you'd better consider the weapon in my hand first!"
He didn't think of Jon and the others as beggars, because although their clothes looked strange, they didn't look like vagrants.
What was somewhat beyond his expectation was that the person communicating with him was not the beautiful woman who looked cold, but the boy who looked no more than 7 or 8 years old.
"We just wanted to ask for directions, sir. Sorry to disturb your rest, but we did run into some difficulties."
Jon could see that this man only looked rough, but he should be easy to talk to, otherwise he would not be willing to help them as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Where are we now, and what year, month, and day is today?"
The man looked at Jon and Lily with an increasingly strange gaze, and his sleepiness seemed to have mostly disappeared. After a moment's silence, he finally answered.
"This is Paisley and today is June 2, 1996."
After hearing his answer, Jon couldn't help but look at Lily. These two pieces of news were actually good news for them.
Paisley is an area in southwest Scotland, which means that they were in Northern Europe before traveling through space, but now they have returned to the UK.
In terms of time, they were 5 months faster than in their original world.
Although they are not exactly the same, the gap is not that big. They can even roughly infer from this that the time that Voldemort used the time converter to reverse in this world should be 5 months!
After getting these two crucial pieces of information, Jon finally showed a smile on his face for the first time since Dumbledore fell asleep.
He turned his head and continued to look at the man, reaching into the pocket of his robe with one hand while speaking.
"There's one more thing I want to trouble you with, sir. Maybe it can't be called a trouble, after all, this matter is beneficial to you. Can we exchange some money with you?"
As soon as the man finished hearing Jon's words, his eyes were subconsciously filled with vigilance again, and his hand began to raise the muzzle of the shotgun.
Then he saw what Jon pulled from his pocket.
Those are two golden beans.
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After completing this transaction that satisfied both parties, the man did not sleep. He enthusiastically offered to help Jon and Lily go to a nearby station.
So, as the sun just rose, Jon and Lily arrived at the platform of a small train station in Scotland.
The two bought tickets to London in front of the platform. After a day, they arrived in London from Scotland in the afternoon.
But from here on, they have returned to the most familiar place.
The entrance to Diagon Alley, the location of the Leaky Cauldron has not changed. It still sits incongruously in the middle of a busy street in London.
When Jon and Lily go to the bar together, they can clearly feel the active and relaxed atmosphere of the magical world in this world.
The bar was lively, wizards and witches of all bloodlines could sit at the same table, and there was no tension or dullness at all. From time to time, you could hear people talking about last year's Quidditch World Cup, and how the Irish team defeated the Bulgarian team to win. Or they were talking about the Triwizard Tournament held by the three European magic academies last year, and how two Hogwarts warriors won the championship together.
Lily listened to the second thing very carefully. She wanted to know whether there was any information about Harry in it, but she did not hear the names of the two warriors who represented Hogwarts in the competition from those who were talking about it.
Jon saw that Lily was feeling uneasy, so he turned around and looked at the bar owner, Old Tom, who was cleaning the bar, pretending to be puzzled.
"Sir, was the person who represented Hogwarts in the competition last year the famous Harry Potter?"
Because of Jon's age, Lao Tang didn't feel strange about him asking this question and answered naturally.
"This is something that everyone knows, kid. Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory lifted the Triwizard Cup together, but they fell into a trap set by the remnants of You-Know-Who. However, they worked together to defeat them and eventually brought back the truth. The Daily Prophet has been reporting on this for almost a year."
Lily seemed to be frozen in place. She stood there while Old Tom began to answer Jon's question.
Before she came here, she kept reminding herself in her mind not to have too much hope. Sometimes, the greater the hope, the more difficult it is to accept the disappointment.
But now, it was like a blasting spell that suddenly exploded. Before she could return to Hogwarts, the news that Harry Potter was still alive and had won the Triwizard Tournament on behalf of this world's Hogwarts had already bombarded her brain.
After standing there for a long time, Lily's body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Jon grabbed her arm, which finally brought her back to her senses and made her turn to look at Jon.
She seemed to want to say something but didn't know how.
Before she spoke, Jon had already looked at Old Tom.
"Can you get us some Floo powder? We need to go to Hogsmeade."
In just four Sickles, Jon and Lily used the fireplace in the Leaky Cauldron and Flooed to the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade.
After arriving at Hogsmeade, the two did not stop. They first wrote a letter at the owl post office and sent it to Hogwarts, and then immediately came to the school gate.
They watched with their own eyes as the owl carrying the letter flew into the castle. They didn't have to wait long before Mag, from another world, walked out of the castle with the same straight back and serious expression.
When she saw Lily, who claimed in the letter to be a student from long ago, standing outside the school gate, she felt familiar yet also unfamiliar.
The whole person just froze there.
