Chapter 146 144. The Disappearing Person
In previous years, recruiting students on a horse-drawn carriage was actually quite difficult.
There are only so many professors in the car, and every wizard in the Order of the Phoenix also has their own duties. No one has so much free time to wander around the Muggle society all day long. They can only try their luck among the children who are old enough to be 11 years old when the school starts each year.
Fortunately, the population of the UK is only so large. As long as you have good Muggle population information first, and then go to screen and search, there will always be some gains.
In the middle of this, it is inevitable to meet the admissions professor in the castle many times, just like when Lily confronted little Barty from the orphanage to take Jon away.
In the past, the enrollment period was thrilling every year. Lily and Mag, who were mainly in charge of this task, would experience an adventure almost every time they brought new students into the carriage.
Lily is in better condition due to some special reasons, but Mag has already been on the tip of the knife many times.
And this year, they finally don't have to take this risk anymore, and they can go out and pick up those children back to the carriage long in advance.
The arrival of new students provides new things to do for the bored students in the carriage. These children who have just lost their families and are in need of others to comfort them.
Every freshman from a Muggle family, after being told that he is actually a wizard and that he will come to Hogwarts to study magic, Lily or McGonagall will cast a pure erasure magic similar to the Oblivion Curse on their identities.
All traces of their original existence in this world will be erased, including files, photos, and memories, as if they never appeared at all.
This is actually a rather cruel thing.
It is said that when the carriage was first in exile, there was a big controversy within the school and the Order of the Phoenix whether to use such protection methods for the recruited freshmen.
But at the very beginning, when Voldemort had just ruled the wizarding world and suppressed Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix the most, the Ministry of Magic had no bottom line to find the family of Muggle wizards in the Order of the Phoenix and arrested them. , as a threat.
Some of these captured Muggles were successfully rescued, while some completely became the pain in the hearts of some people in the Order of the Phoenix...
After that, no one raised any objection to clearing the memory and existence of the Muggle students. After Lily and McGonagall took the Muggle students away, they would properly deal with their parents and try to hide it. They once had a child and got picked up by magic school.
Because today's Ministry of Magic has no shame at all in dealing with rebel forces such as carriages and the Order of the Phoenix. Once it is determined that a child is picked up by the carriage and will be cultivated into a rebel with "reverse" thinking in the future, they will do whatever it takes.
Most of these 11-year-old children don’t understand. They don’t know the grievances and grievances in the wizarding world and their special identities. They only know that the appearance of the Hogwarts professor will separate them from their parents.
Generally, when conditions permit, Lily and McGonagall will explain clearly the situation in the wizarding world and their children to these Muggle parents.
After proving the existence of magic, they will show these Muggle parents some of the Daily Prophet who published the blood class policy. Most of the parents can still see the reality clearly, and they are more reluctant than the separation of flesh and blood. Make your own children work hard.
And like Jon, Muggle students who were born as orphans don't need to take this into account.
Moreover, the orphanage is relatively special, and the Ministry of Magic generally does not take action against the adults and children here, so Lily did not lie to Jon at the time, even if the orphanage snatched the students in front of Little Barty, The people in the orphanage will not be in any danger.
Students like Hermione and the others who were rescued from the castle this year, on the night when they were first received in the carriage, Moody and other members of the Order of the Phoenix who assisted Lupine and the others in breaking out from Azkaban were not idle. The emergency also completed the transfer of Hermione and their parents, out of the sight of the Ministry of Magic.
People in the Order of the Phoenix can only do these things as best they can.
Protect the families of these children, and then tell these children who have been completely forgotten by their parents and family members that maybe one day in the future, they can erase the magic of erasing memory and existence released on their families, so that they can reunite with their families in the future, walk in the sun.
The reason why they were taken to the Hogwarts carriage was for this purpose, and this was also the ultimate goal for which most of the Muggle students on the carriage worked hard.
Not only for my own freedom and equality, but also for my family!
After the start of August, in less than two weeks, Lily and McGonagall brought all this year's freshmen to the carriage. There are 9 Muggle students in total, which is already recorded in the Access Book , all age-appropriate Muggle students this year.
All 9 students were brought into the Hogwarts carriage, which means that this year's castle did not cheat any "Mudblood". In addition to the first and second graders brought back by Jon, there have been a whole bunch of students in the castle. Three grades of "Mudblood" vacancies.
This is a very serious matter for Voldemort's policy. After all, he raised the status of pure blood. The key to stabilizing half-blood wizards is to use the oppression of "mudbloods" to compensate for the pure blood's original encroachment on the interests of half blood. .
Now that there are fewer and fewer "Mudbloods", the bottom oppressive class is gradually disappearing, and the half-blood wizards who were originally in the middle class will become the bottom class.
This kind of class sinking will cause great chaos to Voldemort's stable rule.
Logically speaking, the most important thing he should do now is either try to destroy the carriage, even if not kill all the students, destroy the existing teaching place, or take back the book of admission and the pen of acceptance.
But it has been four or five months, and Voldemort has not moved at all. It makes people feel as if the books and pens have been stolen, the students in the castle have been rescued, and the escape of the prisoners in Azkaban has nothing for him. any impact.
Jon always felt that there was something wrong with this situation, and the current calm could not make people feel at ease.
Just when the nine freshmen were all taken into the Hogwarts carriage, and the students and professors on the carriage were about to hold a small welcoming ceremony for them in the dining room in advance, an unexpected thing happened It finally happened!
Percy is missing.
His disappearance was discovered when Professor McGonagall wanted to find the student chairman to help manage the students in the restaurant.
No one knew where he had gone, as if he had disappeared from the world, just when someone wanted to find him, he disappeared from the carriage.
McGonagall immediately sensed that something was wrong. She immediately summoned all the students into the dining room, and then searched the entire carriage with other professors, but still found nothing.
Percy's things were still in his bedroom, even his freshly laundered robes were still hanging by the bed, but he just disappeared.
I have to get up at four o'clock in the morning and go back to my hometown. I will start with a chapter tonight and make up tomorrow afternoon.
(end of this chapter)