In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Sometimes night is not the best time to hide your whereabouts.

Even though Voldemort is not in Hogwarts Castle, he still has very tight defense arrangements here, with Aurors guarding every entrance almost 24 hours a day.

Especially after dark and the entire castle began to implement a curfew, at Voldemort's signal, the Aurors and professors stationed in the castle implemented the strictest control.

As long as any suspicious person is found during night patrol, you can take action directly, regardless of life or death.

The secret passage leading from the Honeydukes candy store to the statue of the one-eyed hunchbacked old witch on the third floor of the castle had already been occupied by Barty Jr., Snape and others when Jon took Hanton and the others to escape last year. It was discovered that it was now also completely destroyed.

Of course, in addition to this secret passage, there are several other secret passages marked on the Marauder's Map that can also be used. For example, there is a secret passage behind the statue of the flatterer Gregory that leads to the outside of the school.

But no one could be sure that they were safe, so for safety reasons, Fox came to Hermione's side.

And the dark night is not a good protection for Phoenix.

Hermione stared at the top of a tower on the easternmost side of the castle on the Marauder's Map. It was one of the three tallest towers in Hogwarts. The others were on the westernmost side of the castle and was once the Ravenclaw House lounge. 's tower, as well as the tower that formerly housed Gryffindor House.

Now the other two towers have been abandoned and are used as utility rooms. Only the astronomy tower is still in use, but it is still in the afternoon and no astronomy class will be held at this time, so the astronomy tower is very empty. There was no one up there.

Moreover, there are almost no other classrooms in the area where it is located. If the nearest group of students who are in class want to get to the astronomy tower as quickly as possible, it will take at least five minutes. Even if there is an accident, five minutes is enough for He Min Lai is more than enough to deal with trouble.

"Why don't you let me come with you? I am a ghost, and I have been in this castle for thousands of years. No one is more familiar with it than me. I can provide you with a lot of help!" Ms. Gray opened her eyes in confusion. said.

In order to make sure that she didn't make any omissions, Hermione finally checked the names in the entire Hogwarts Castle to make sure that the Dark Lord was really no longer there.

"I don't need your help, madam. If you really want me to help you, then it's best to agree to my request. This is good for both of us."

At this time, Ms. Gray finally heard the metaphor in Hermione's words, and she said in disbelief.

"You think I'll be a burden to you!"

Hermione didn't have such a hard heart after all. She looked up from the Marauder's Map.

"It's not a burden, Ms. Gray, but if we all enter this castle, then our goals and action standards will be inconsistent. If there are disagreements or difficulties in reaching a consensus, it will be difficult to solve the problem. That's why I proposed This requirement.”

Although her tone was much more tactful, her attitude of refusing Ms. Gray to enter the castle with her was still firm.

Hermione knew very well how important this mission was, and she also knew very well that as long as Ms. Gray followed her, she would definitely continue to instigate her to find the Ravenclaw diadem, and even in some extreme cases, she would You might have to force yourself to make a choice.

So Hermione actually agreed to her request at first, partly because she wanted to hold her back first.

Ms. Gray was not deceived by Hermione's words, which were slightly better than "drag". Even if she had experienced these thousands of years in vain, at least she would still be an adult before she died.

But in the end, she hesitated for a few seconds with an ugly expression on her face, and agreed to Hermione's request.

"I can agree not to enter the castle, but you must keep your promise. You intend to help me, not just a perfunctory word!"

Hermione looked at her and nodded seriously. Maybe she was perfunctory when she agreed at first, but from the moment Ms. Gray was willing to give her this trust, Hermione really corrected her attitude. .

No matter what changes the past two years have brought to her, her essential kindness has never changed.

After receiving a positive answer from Hermione, Ms. Gray did not continue to stay in her dormitory. Hermione, who had completed all the preparations and solved the biggest hidden danger of Ms. Gray, stretched out her hand to Fox. cut his own arm.

"Can you see this, Fox, we're going here."

Looking at the Marauder's Map, Hermione pointed out the location of the Astronomy Tower to Fox.

Fox just glanced at it and jumped directly onto Hermione's shoulders, spreading his golden-red wings.

Golden light emerged and spread on it, and soon enveloped Hermione's whole body. However, they were not teleported away at the first time. Instead, as the golden light flickered, the body was connecting with the path bit by bit. The light merges together.

In Hogwarts Castle, on the basis of its own anti-Apparition magic, Voldemort has strengthened the function specifically for Phoenix Apparition.

But even if his magical attainments have reached the pinnacle in the magical world, magical animals themselves are still advanced magical animals like the Phoenix, and the magic and magic they use are very different from wizards.

No matter how much he restricts it, he can only limit Fox's teleportation speed. Whether it can be done or not is beyond his control.

So after a delay of about a minute, Hermione and Fox disappeared into the carriage's dormitory together, and at the same time, a man and a bird reappeared on the castle's astronomy tower.

The moment her feet touched the ground, Hermione lifted up her invisibility cloak, covering herself and Fox under the cloak, and then began to observe the surrounding situation vigilantly.

The afternoon sun shone into the tower, and the movement caused by Fox's Apparition was not as dazzling as in the dark night. There was no one on the Astronomy Tower except Hermione.

Then Hermione took out the Marauder's Map, and after finally confirming that this trip had violated the "trespassing" agreement between Dumbledore and Voldemort and not alerted anyone, she hunched over and carefully came to the stairs. direction.

"Remember not to make any noise, Fawkes, and don't come out of the invisibility cloak suddenly. If something unexpected happens, we will leave the castle immediately. Professor Dumbledore said that as long as they don't catch us on the spot, the Dark Devil will The boss won’t do anything to us.”

She told Fox these words that she had repeated countless times on the carriage. Fox touched Hermione's face with his sharp beak with some dissatisfaction, as if he was unhappy about why she felt that she was a fool who couldn't understand human speech. Bird-like.

After receiving Fox's response, Hermione grasped the invisibility cloak with one hand and held the Marauder's Map in the other hand. After making sure that there was no one else under the tower, she began to go down the steep stairs.

It is now four o'clock in the afternoon, and there is still an hour before the last class ends in the castle today. In other words, this hour is the period of time when there are the fewest students wandering around in the castle except after the curfew starts.

Hermione didn't waste a second. She kept looking at the Marauder's Map, constantly choosing the unoccupied stairs and starting to go down. She also discovered some strange things, that is, the person who helped her in the castle a year ago The movable stairs that allowed him to quickly find Jon have now become ordinary.

It can no longer play tricks on people, and it can no longer provide any help to Hermione, just like it is dead.

This caused some uneasiness in Hermione's heart, but she pursed her lips to suppress some speculations rising from her heart, and instead focused on the task assigned to her by Dumbledore.

It took about ten minutes for her to finally reach the first floor cautiously.

And when she walked down the stairs, a voice sounded, causing her to subconsciously shrink into the invisibility cloak and hide in the corner.

"If you ask me, Master should really find a way to tear up the so-called contract directly and take advantage of this opportunity to kill Dumbledore and his gang. This is in our own territory. What kind of disturbance can they cause?"

An ugly-looking witch with a body like a fat pig whispered with a fierce expression.

Next to her was a wizard who looked similar to her but was as thin as a stick. They walked side by side and passed by Hermione.

"Don't doubt the master's decision. Just say this in front of me. Don't let others hear it, especially Snape. He likes to report this news to the master most."

Hermione looked coldly at their backs as they climbed the stairs. Of course, she had not forgotten the Carrow brothers and sisters.

In the past, the most erring "slaves" would be taken away and used as classroom props in Muggle Studies classes.

The fear they brought to the hemp students before was even more than that of Dolohov, because if they were to fall into Dolohov's hands, there would be a high probability that they would only suffer a lot of torture and leave a trace behind. However, almost all the students who were taken away by the Carlo brothers and sisters did not come back alive.

Hermione watched as their figures disappeared before her eyes. She then continued her actions. She pressed against the wall of the corridor on the first floor of the castle and began to carefully investigate every room on the first floor.

There are very few classrooms on the first floor. Most of them are functional rooms such as auditoriums, storage rooms, and bathrooms, and Hermione's goal is in these rooms.

It seemed that the first floor of the castle was very large, and it was basically the place with the most student activities during meal times, which restricted her movement. Fortunately, a portrait of Principal Dumbledore's office circled a section for her. The approximate location of the target.

This makes Hermione's task perhaps not as difficult as imagined.

…

Jon's lunch was a treat from these unicorns.

After he rode the leading unicorn and found fresh food in the Forbidden Forest, the little unicorn's life was no longer in danger.

The entire unicorn group became much closer to Jon because of this, and even the ones that were obviously hostile to his appearance at first became no longer so repellent.

The unicorns found a place with water nearby and found a lot of wild fruits to share with Jon.

Even with Jon's picky taste, he felt that these fruits that he could not recognize any of them tasted good, but he did not lie down by the river with the unicorns to drink water. Instead, he used magic to summon some water. Clean water.

It was time to talk about business during the meal. While gnawing wild fruits, Jon held up the wooden sign in his hand and asked the unicorn who was the first to recognize the leader of the wooden sign.

"Do you know if there are any other animals in the Forbidden Forest that recognize this wooden sign? If so, can you take me to meet them in the afternoon?"

This unicorn can obviously understand human speech. After listening to Jon's words, it immediately nodded its head, which instantly made Jon feel much better.

He originally thought that this trip to the Forbidden Forest might encounter a lot of trouble, but now it seems to be going smoothly.

Of course, he did not forget the biggest hero - the bowtruckle that led him to find these unicorns. Jon used a knife to help it cut off the pulp of some wild fruits, but this little guy didn't seem to have any. What interest.

But after seeing that the little unicorn was no longer in danger, he jumped away.

Sometimes Jon can actually understand why Hagrid likes these magical animals so much, because compared to people, sometimes the emotions of animals are really pure.

While helping Hagrid solve his problem, Jon certainly had not forgotten about the game. He continued to ask the unicorn.

"How far is the fire dragon that attacked you from our current location? According to the speed you took me to run this morning, can I make it from the time the sun rises to the zenith to the time it sets?"

Even if this unicorn could understand human language, it would still not be able to understand every noun in human language, so Jon did not talk about hours, but directly used the time the sun was in the sky to make an analogy. .

Even so, the unicorn seemed to have difficulty understanding his words. The action of lowering his head to gnaw the fruit obviously paused for a moment, and his bright eyes seemed to be thinking.

Then it seemed to finally understand Jon's words, and nodded.

Jon blinked and began to narrow down the time frame again.

"Then if it's the time when the sun sets halfway, is it still enough?"

This time the unicorn didn't think about it for long, but nodded directly.

"Which direction is it? Just use your horn to point it to me."

Soon, it turned its head and pointed the horn on its head toward the southwest.

Jon didn't ask any more questions. He lowered his head and pondered, estimating the speed and time. Due to the lack of accurate parameters, he couldn't get specific values.

But what is certain is that this fire dragon, which has fought with the entire unicorn group, is very close to him.

I have entered the second stage of low fever, constant coughing, nasal congestion, and a knife cutting my throat, but to be honest, I feel much better than when I had a high fever.