Chapter 103 101. Defense Department Professor Office
Handon was a little surprised why Jon's reaction suddenly became so big, but after all, not everyone has Hermione's careful observation and keen intuition. He didn't ask any more questions, but just answered Jon's question.
"At the beginning of the Christmas holiday, Mr. Dolokhov asked some of us to clean the area in front of the school gate. You were not assigned at that time, and Ariel and I went there together. At that time we I saw the two professors Carol carrying their suitcases together and it seemed that they were going to go home together. We haven’t seen them in school since then, and they probably won’t come back until the start of school.”
The office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is also the goal of Jon coming to Hogwarts Castle.
It's just that he hasn't been able to find any chance to sneak in before. The current defense professor Amycus Caro seldom leaves his office, and during his class time, Jon also has to fight with other muddies during the day. If such students stay together, it is easy for Dolokhov to find out the problem if he sneaks out alone.
After the Christmas vacation started, his attention was always on **** the basilisk to enter the principal's office, and he always ignored the reconnaissance of the defense professor's office. In fact, if he was more careful, he would have discovered it very early. Well, the defense professor's office was already empty, and the brothers and sisters of the Carlo family left Hogwarts Castle at the beginning of the Christmas holiday this year.
After all, they are all teachers with families, unlike Snape and little Barty, who killed his own father, who are homeless every festival.
But now Jon, after Hanton's reminder, found out that it's not too late. There is still nearly a week left in the holiday, and these days are enough for him to go in and out of the defense department office dozens of times.
"Thank you, Hanton, my pumpkin juice is yours."
Jon stuffed a mouthful of untouched pumpkin juice into Hanton's hand, which made the little boy look dazed, not knowing what he had done for him.
The snow that fell on Christmas has still not meant to melt.
Hogwarts Castle was very cold at night, Jon put on all his clothes, then put on the invisibility cloak, and left the underground bedroom with the opened Marauder's Map.
The defense professor's office is located on the third floor of the castle. A room away from it is Barty's Charms professor's office. This is the only place Jon should pay attention to tonight, and he can't make too much noise. so as not to disturb this "big filial son" in the magic world.
Aberforth didn't ask Jon to return the retractable eye that Jon lent him for use, which gave him more room to scout before entering the door.
After checking that there were no magical portraits or living creatures hanging in the office of the Defense Division, Jon used the unlocking spell to open the door of the office and walked in carefully.
By the moonlight shining in through the window, he could clearly see the layout of the office.
There is a lot of space here, basically a little smaller than Voldemort's headmaster's office. There are rows of bookshelves along the surrounding walls, but there are very few books on them, and they are all weird things.
Grindylo larvae soaked in an unknown liquid, placed upright on a shelf, dry human hands unknown, a necklace stained with dried blood, a green human skull, etc.
But combined with the character of that Professor Carlo, it is reasonable for his office to be like this, but Jon is a little curious about how he usually teaches 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 inner room where the office is usually used for rest.
The furnishings here are much more normal than the outside, but the 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 much time. Before stealing the Sorcerer's Stone, Slughorn gave him all the notes and materials left by Mr. Adrian Fox, who created the ring and cast spells. He had long known where Adrian hid his research results when he was a defense professor at Hogwarts.
He walked around Carlo's bed and found a floor at the end of the bed that looked indistinguishable from the rest. Then he drew his wand, and lightly pointed at the floor according to the spell he read from the notes. Tapped.
"Invert up and down."
The floor suddenly moved, it turned over on the ground, the side that was originally exposed on the ground turned to the underground, and the side that was originally hidden underground was exposed on the ground.
At the same time 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 full of rolled parchment.
He opened the cloth bag that had been cast with the No Trace Stretch Curse, and put all these materials into the bag.
In the process of sorting out the information, he was very careful, but until he took all the things in the box, he didn't see any shadow related to the gemstone on the ring.
This made Jon frowned, but he didn't stay in the office any longer. After making sure that nothing was missing, he restored the wooden floor to its original state, put on the cloak of invisibility and left.
There was no accident on the road. He returned to the dormitory safely. After returning, he spread the Marauder's Map beside the bed, lit the candle, and began to take out the materials he had brought back one by one.
Adrien’s notes did only record that he hid some relevant materials in the office, but did not say that the gem was 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 and gem together That's all.
Jon was not so discouraged, he began to look through the hidden magic materials bit by bit by the faint candlelight, hoping to find some clues from them.
Just when he saw what these magic notes were researching, his whole attention was attracted by the information above.
I overestimated my codeword speed. I finished writing two chapters before 12 o’clock and posted them together. There is another chapter in the back
(end of this chapter)