The Legend of Harry Potter Schoolmaster

Jon only felt that Mrs. Diana Greengrass's slender arm might break free from his grasp at any moment, so he had to hold on tighter.

The surrounding scene became pitch black, and the strong squeeze from all directions made him a little breathless, as if his chest was tightly strangled by something... Compared with using Fox to apparate, real apparition , it is much more uncomfortable during the journey.

Jon recovered quickly and took a look around... They seemed to be in an abandoned square with an old war monument in the middle and a few benches.

"If I remember correctly, it should be this way..." Mrs. Greengrass murmured, "Come with me."

With soft steps she passed an empty tavern and houses...then turned a corner...and finally passed a telephone box and a bus shelter...

Jon has been following in her footsteps.

It took about a minute for Fox to find this side too, and she flew behind Jon.

"Badley-Barberton Village, it should be here!" Mrs. Greengrass smiled, "A Muggle village, the letter Slughorn gave me two weeks ago, Tell me he lives here now!"

"He lives in..." Jon couldn't help but frowned, and began to think back to the episode where Dumbledore brought Harry Potter to visit Slughorn in his previous life.

"Borrowing a Muggle house that is temporarily empty, he has always done it!" Mrs. Greengrass shrugged.

"Why?" Jon asked curiously.

"If I remember correctly, Horace Slughorn's father was a notorious gambler who mortgaged the entire castle of the Slughorns to Gringotts... and Slughorn Laghorn has been working hard to redeem that castle for decades after he became an adult; until he retired more than ten years ago, he finally saved enough money to get his wish..." Mrs. Greengrass explained.

"Since he's redeemed..." Jon said with some surprise.

"A castle requires a lot of money to maintain and take care of it. Obviously, Professor Slughorn didn't realize this before he retired..." Mrs. Greengrass smiled: "So after retirement, he can only continue Living in a Muggle house..."

"Then that castle?" Jon was a little puzzled. Doesn't it need to be taken care of if no one lives in the castle?

"I don't know too well, it seems that he has been carrying it with him all the time!" Mrs. Greengrass said casually.

She waited on Jon and walked up a steep, narrow street; then turned left into another straight side street; and at the same time she heard the church bells ringing at noon behind her... …

Jon recalled that in the original book of his previous life, Horace Slughorn first stole the herbs from Professor Sprout on campus, and then cheated the venom of the Octopus from Hagrid. I'm short of money... This actually adds a bit of success to my plan.

As they approached a neat little stone house in a garden, Mrs. Greengrass stopped and held out her hand to signal to Jon not to go any further.

They stopped outside the yard wall.

Mrs. Greengrass took out her wand, and tapped twice on the fence.

"Professor Slughorn, are you there?" she asked loudly.

...

"Oh, Merlin's beard... This familiar voice... Of course, I'm here!" A somewhat excited voice came from inside the room: "Wait a moment!"

A few seconds later, a bald, fat old man with protruding eyes and a silver beard as thick as a walrus sprinted out of the room.

"Oh, Diana, what brought you here?" Horace Slughorn said excitedly. He rushed over and gave Mrs. Greengrass a warm hug.

He shouted eagerly: "I've heard... It is said that Mrs. Burns wants you to be reinstated, or even go one step further?"

"It's just reinstatement. The procedure will be completed within two weeks." Mrs. Greengrass said lightly.

The dumpy old man's mouth kept babbling: "Oh, that would be great... To be honest, Fudge, and that Umbridge, what they did to you is too much, I've been expressing strong indignation about it... By the way, you know Barnabas Guffey, editor of the Daily Prophet, who's always interested in hearing my opinion on the situation; He signaled, that's why he never wrote articles attacking you..."

"Then I am very grateful to you..." Mrs. Greengrass quickly interrupted the other party: "Professor Slughorn, I brought a guest today!"

"Guest?" Horace Slughorn set his eyes on Jon for the first time.

"Oh, hello!" He held out his hand to Jon slightly indifferently: "Horace Slughorn, the Potions teacher at Hogwarts."

"Hello, Professor Slughorn...I'm Jon Hart." Jon smiled and lowered his head, shook hands with him, and introduced himself.

"Jon Hart?" Slughorn's face changed: "I seem to have heard of this name..."

Since Voldemort fled again, neither Jon nor Dumbledore deliberately concealed the existence of the character Jon Hart, although they did not deliberately advertise that he was actually alive.

"Oh, I remembered!" Slughorn suddenly realized: "Three days ago, when Albus Dumbledore invited me to be a teacher at Hogwarts, during the half-hour conversation, he mentioned at least five time your name..."

"Yeah, it looks like I'm honored!" Jon nodded with a smile.

"Also, a year ago, you were the champion of the Triwizard Tournament, right...Dumbledore also seemed to mention that you are the most talented student in Potions he has ever seen..." Si Laghorn's mouth fell into chatter again.

"Yes, there's no need to say any more... I'm going to be a little shy about it, Professor!" Jon cut him off.

"Come to my humble house, what can I do?" Horace Slughorn looked at Jon with a smile on his face, his face was full of kindness and gentleness.

"To be precise, I may have brought you a gift." While speaking, Jon gestured to get something into the suitcase.

"Gift?" Slughorn's eyes lit up immediately, and the smile on his face became more intense: "No hurry... let's go in and talk! Come in and tell!"