In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Jon didn't stop this time. He stepped forward until he reached the wall directly behind the desk, when the voice in his head called him to stop.

"It's the wall in front of you. Just reach out and push it. Just push it gently. You are already qualified."

According to its words, Jon's hand touched the cold wall. Just when he put his hand on it and exerted force, the whole wall began to tremble.

Then the bricks on the wall in front of Jon suddenly began to split, and soon an entrance was opened in front of him for people to pass through.

The candlelight in the principal's office shone into the dark secret room, and Jon also saw that it was filled with tattered picture frames as if it were a garbage dump, with parchments and notes thrown everywhere. A tattered hat in the corner.

When Jon first entered the secret room, his eyes were fixed on the broken hat. It was a gray, patched and pointed hat covered with dust.

"It's you?"

he asked.

The voice sounded in his head again.

"Ah ha, I never thought that after all these years, I could still see living Hogwarts students!"

The hat's voice sounded a little emotional, and Jon certainly noticed the hidden meaning in its words.

"That is to say, you have met students from Hogwarts before, but they are all dead."

"About seven or eight years ago, that reckless young man entered by mistake and was swallowed alive by the big snake. At that time, I could still vaguely feel some things happening outside."

It seemed that the hat itself didn't want to talk more about this topic, and it quickly moved the conversation to somewhere else.

"I think even if the Hogwarts you went to school in was not this castle, you should have heard of my existence, right? The Sorting Hat was once used to make choices for freshmen to decide which college they should go to. place."

Of course, it was impossible for Jon not to recognize it. He walked to the side of the Sorting Hat, picked it up from the ground, and patted the dust on it.

"When I first entered school, the senior students told me that there used to be four houses in Hogwarts, and you were the hat used to sort the houses. However, the tradition of the school generally does not tell the freshmen to wear a hat to sort the houses. Such a simple thing."

"Of course, this is a good tradition. After all, when those children know that the sorting is just to wear a shabby hat like me, instead of dueling with trolls or fire dragons, they usually just breathe a sigh of relief and no longer go Trying to put me on their head would mess up their hair, which they had carefully styled just last night."

The Sorting Hat seemed like it hadn't talked to anyone for a long time. It talked a lot. It hadn't stopped talking since it saw Jon.

But Jon obviously can't continue to waste time here. Although he has a three-hour advantage over Emil, for one person to search the entire castle, let alone three hours, even thirty hours, is not enough. You will definitely be able to find every part of the entire Hogwarts Castle.

"Mr. Sorting Hat, do you want to go out with me? I am still competing in a game, and this game is about whether Hogwarts Castle will continue to belong to the Dark Lord, or whether it will return to Dungeon. In the hands of Professor Bullydo, there is no time to waste.”

"Why not?" the Sorting Hat's answer was simple. "I have been thrown here for so long. Of course I will not refuse the opportunity to go out and get some fresh air. Although I was left here for most of the year before. I'm in the cupboard, but one day I'll come out to sing and chat. Now I haven't talked to anyone for a long time."

Seeing that it agreed, Jon folded it solemnly and finally stuffed it into his robe pocket.

And this does not prevent the Sorting Hat from continuing to communicate with him in his mind.

After leaving the principal's office, Jon went downstairs with a clear goal and started walking towards the auditorium on the first floor.

According to normal reasoning, it is of course impossible for the Triwizard Cup to be placed in the auditorium in such a clear and straightforward manner. However, as the entire castle has the largest concentration of students, it is also the place that comes to mind immediately after entering the castle. Jon felt that it was Xiu and the others will definitely leave some clues in the auditorium.

"What kind of competition are you having? You can actually decide who belongs to Hogwarts?"

The Sorting Hat's voice rang in Jon's mind.

Jon replied as he walked downstairs.

"The Triwizard Tournament, before the game started, the Dark Lord and Professor Dumbledore made a blood oath together. Warriors from two Hogwarts schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang respectively came to participate. Which side If you win, you will be the only orthodox Hogwarts, and you will also have the legal right to occupy the castle."

"Using the Triwizard Tournament to make this kind of bet?" The Sorting Hat's voice sounded a little weird, "Do you know that the Dark Lord has never actually gained control of the castle and cannot even stay here for more than 10 years? One day, otherwise this castle will either collapse on its own or he will get out.”

This was the first time Jon had heard what would happen if Voldemort stayed in Hogwarts for a long time, but he soon asked again.

"But we also found that he was trying to eliminate the original consciousness of this castle and then impose his own consciousness."

"Of course he will do it, and it has actually been successful. Now there is only the last step left." The Sorting Hat said matter-of-factly.

Jon stopped subconsciously and frowned.

"Only one step away? What do you mean?"

The Sorting Hat seemed to know all about Jon's question, and it answered quickly.

"I have a deep connection with this castle. I can feel what he is doing more intuitively than other things. He has actually succeeded. The only thing missing is that the original will of the castle has not been completely eliminated, so he Only the last step is left, which is the step of the Triwizard Tournament that you are currently in?"

Jon couldn't help but hold his breath. He felt as if he could reveal why Voldemort wanted to hold the Triwizard Tournament in the first place.

"So this game will help him take complete control of the castle?"

"Of course." The Sorting Hat seemed to snap its fingers, "Don't think that the Triwizard Tournament was started after the death of the Big Four, and that means it won't have any impact on this school, just like the beginning of this castle. When they used it as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it was just an ordinary magic castle with some magic applied to it at that time, and it was far from having its own consciousness."

"Nearly every wizard in the UK has graduated from this castle for thousands of years. They spent the entire seven years here from the age of 11 to 18, which is equivalent to the castle witnessing their entire youth. .So when the students were doing magic in school, the lost magic power was also constantly affecting the castle. Of course, the magic power of a single little wizard was limited and would not have much effect at all. But over time, Change happens slowly over time.”

"One day after the school was first founded, Peeves appeared. At first, both students and professors thought it was a ghost that accidentally wandered into Hogwarts, but it became more and more... He became extraordinary and showed amazing abilities.”

"Peeves?" Of course Jon was familiar with this name, knowing that it had once been one of the ghosts in Hogwarts.

"Yes, Peeves." The Sorting Hat patiently continued to Jon, "It is an elf that appears in front of people in the form of a ghost, or you can also call it a castle elf. It is the castle that generates consciousness. A concrete embodiment of the castle, but it represents the naughty and bad side of the students of this castle throughout the ages. I wonder if you have ever heard how much the administrators of this castle hated it, and in order to keep it How much effort it took to evict it from the castle.”

Jon shook his head.

"Well, that was actually in 1876. The administrator of the castle at that time was Coros Calpe. He carefully laid out traps, using various weapons as bait that he thought Peeves could not resist, and then prepared A huge bell-shaped jar, cast with various containment spells, ready to cover Peeves when he walks onto the trap."

"The results of it?"

"The result is that Peeves not only escapes easily, but also scatters broken glass in the corridor, and even evades a trap consisting of several scimitars, a crossbow, a short gun and a small cannon. Peeves just for his own entertainment Taking pleasure in himself, he shot at the windows at will, putting everyone's lives in danger. The castle was evacuated. The teachers and students of the entire castle had a three-day confrontation with it. In the end, the headmistress Yupra Thea Moore capped off the contract by agreeing to give Peeves additional privileges."

"Privileges include allowing Peeves to swim in the boys' toilet on the first floor once a week, giving priority to throwing out stale bread from the kitchen, and getting a new hat made by Madame Elaborate in Paris, and that's when it started. From now on, no matter how annoying Peeves is, no administrator or headmaster will ever think of expelling him."

"Think about it, how could a normal ghost do these things? That idiot Calpe had no idea how he could drive himself out of this castle? Peeves is an elf created by the magic of students, and he also It represents the Hogwarts castle itself.”

"But just after the Dark Lord took over the castle, Peeves disappeared within a few days. There were many rumors at the time. Some people said that it offended the Dark Lord himself, and was used by the Dark Lord with the most powerful weapon. The Death Curse killed Peeves, and some people say it was because Hogwarts was no longer the original Hogwarts, so Peeves disappeared. But in fact, it was the Dark Lord who imprisoned him, plus the oppression. Some students in the school let the suppressed emotions and magic conflict with the will of the castle itself, constantly erasing its ability and existence."

Jon had arrived at the auditorium at this time.

"Then what does this have to do with the Triwizard Tournament?"

"Don't worry, I will talk about it next. Just like the magic power and emotions of the students affect the castle, around the thirteenth century, less than three hundred years before this school was built, the Triwizard Competition began This competition was proposed for the exchange of young wizards from various European countries. The competition was held every five years, and the venue was taken by three magic schools in turn. Such competitions were not suspended until 1792, and this It has been 500 years. Do you know how many times Hogwarts has won the Triwizard Tournament in these 500 years?"

Before Jon could guess, the Sorting Hat himself had already told the answer.

"63 times, it is the school that has won the most championships. The mark of this game has been deeply engraved on the castle that was given the name Hogwarts itself. No one can erase it. Just like magic, will is the decision. The key to everything. It is precisely because of this that the Triwizard Tournament has a very unique meaning to this castle, especially when the students participating in its name win the championship. And the most important thing is that the Dark Lord still He made a bet with the will of this castle that the students of Hogwarts would never win the Triwizard Tournament."

Jon suddenly seemed to think of something, and he asked immediately.

"What if a student representing Hogwarts wins the championship?"

"Then his plan is over, especially you, the student named Jon Green. The fact that you can wake me up means that this castle itself has a good impression of Ji Ji. If you win the championship, then the Dark Lord and others All the efforts you have made over the years will be in vain, the will of the castle itself that was consumed by him will be restored, and you will become the new owner of this castle."

Hearing such an answer, Jon was not surprised or excited at all, but continued to ask.

"Then what if another student representing the Hogwarts students under his tutelage wins the championship?"

"This is not a good thing for him. I don't know how the castle feels about that student, but as long as he wins the championship in the name of Hogwarts, it will be a huge boost to the castle's own will. A booster. , that should be the word. But once this game is played with Hogwarts as its home court, especially if the game is still held in the castle, the game will end with the victory of the other two schools, not to mention that it is still a three-year-old school that has been suspended for more than two hundred years. The resumption of the Strong Tournament is a terrible consequence for the castle, because the castle itself is blocked by itself. If the students of Hogwarts do not win, then it will disappear on its own and will never be seen again. Become a resistance to the Dark Lord.”

Only then did Jon finally understand!

Understand why it was Draco Malfoy who finally represented Hogwarts Castle in the competition, and why the person who had high hopes was Emil Lestrange!