In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Hanton was a little surprised why Jon's reaction suddenly became so loud, but after all, not everyone has Hermione's careful observation and keen intuition. He didn't ask any more questions and just answered Jon's questions.

"At the beginning of the Christmas vacation, Mr. Dolohov asked some of us to clean the area in front of the school gate. You were not assigned to it at the time, but Ariel and I went there together. At that time we We saw the two Professor Carlo carrying their suitcases together and seemed to be preparing to go home together. We haven’t seen them in school since then, and they probably won’t come back until school starts.”

The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office was also Jon's target when he came to Hogwarts Castle.

It's just that he has never been able to find any opportunity to sneak in. The current defense professor Amycus Carlo rarely leaves his office, and during the day when he is in class, Jon has to interact with other mudbags. If the students stay together, it is easy for Dolohov to find out if he sneaks out alone.

After the Christmas vacation began, his focus has been on how to kill the basilisk and enter the principal's office, and he has always ignored the reconnaissance of the defense professor's office. In fact, if he had been more careful, he would have discovered it much earlier. , the Defense Professor's office was already empty, and the Carrow brothers and sisters left Hogwarts Castle at the beginning of this year's Christmas vacation.

After all, they are all teachers with families, unlike Snape and Barty Jr. who killed their own father and are homeless every festival.

But now, after being reminded by Hanton, Jon discovered that it was not too late. There was still nearly a week left during the vacation, which was enough for him to go in and out of the Defense Department office dozens of times in these days.

"Thank you, Hanton, my pumpkin juice is yours."

Jon put his untouched pumpkin juice into Hanton's hand. This made the little boy look blank, not knowing what he had helped him.

The snow that fell on Christmas Day still hasn’t melted yet.

It was very cold in Hogwarts Castle at night. Jon put on all his clothes, then put on the invisibility cloak, and left the underground dormitory with the open Marauder's Map.

The Defense Professor's office is located on the third floor of the castle. One room away from it is Barty Jr.'s Charms Professor's office. This is the only place Jon has to pay attention to tonight, so as not to create too big a problem. movement, so as not to alarm this "great filial son" in the magic world.

Aberforth did not ask Jon for the telescopic eye he had lent to him, which gave him more room to scout before entering.

After checking that there were no magical portraits or living creatures hanging in the Defense Department office, Jon used the unlocking spell to open the door of the office and walked in carefully.

With the moonlight shining through the window, he could clearly see the layout of the office.

The space here is very large, basically a little smaller than Voldemort's principal's office. There are several rows of bookshelves on the surrounding walls, but there are very few books on them, and they are all strange things.

The Grindylow larvae soaked in an unknown liquid were placed vertically on the shelf, withered human hands that were unknown as to whether they were genuine or not, a necklace stained with dried blood, a green human skull, etc.

Rather than saying that this is the office of a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Jon prefers to believe that this is a secret base of a dark wizard.

However, considering the character of Professor Carlo, it is reasonable that his office would be like this, but Jon was a little curious about how he usually taught students in defense classes.

While thinking about these messy things, Jon carefully walked past the bookshelves without touching anything on the shelves, and then walked all the way to the back room of the office where he usually rests.

The furnishings here are much more normal than outside, but daily necessities are thrown away randomly. It can be seen that Amycus Carlo is not a person who likes to be clean and tidy.

Jon didn't waste any more time. Before Slughorn stole the Philosopher's Stone, he gave him all the notes and information left by Mr. Adrian Fox, the man who created the ring and cast spells. In those notes, He had long known the location where Adrian hid his research results when he was the defense professor at Hogwarts.

He walked around Carlo's bed and found a piece of floor at the end of the bed that looked no different from the rest. Then he took out his wand and touched the floor lightly according to the spell he saw in the notes. Knocked lightly.

"Invert up and down."

The floor suddenly moved. It turned over on the ground. The side that was originally exposed on the ground turned underground, and the side that was originally hidden underground was exposed on the ground.

Just as it turned over, a long and narrow wooden box with the same length and width as the floor was brought out.

The wooden box had a lock, but it was not locked. Jon opened the box without hesitation, and it was filled with rolled up parchment.

He opened the cloth bag that had been casted by the Traceless Stretching Charm and put all the information into the bag.

He was very careful when sorting out the information, but until he took out everything in the box, he didn't see anything related to the gems on the ring.

This made Jon frown, but he did not stay in this office any longer. After making sure that nothing was missing, he restored the wooden floor to its original state, put on the invisibility cloak and left.

There were no accidents on the way. He returned to the dormitory safely. When he came back, he spread out the Marauder's Map beside his bed, lit the candle, and began to take out the information he had brought back one by one.

Adrian's notes indeed only recorded that he hid some relevant information in the office, but did not say that the gems were also in this place.

But since Slughorn clearly told Jon that there is a gem in Hogwarts Castle, there should be no problem with this matter, but Adrian did not put his research together with the gem. That’s all.

Jon was not too discouraged. He used the faint candlelight to start looking through the hidden magic information bit by bit, hoping to find some clues from it.

But when he saw what these magic notes were researching, his entire attention was attracted by the information above.

I overestimated my coding speed. I finished writing two chapters before 12 o'clock and posted them together. There is another chapter after that.