Chapter 152 150. Hallucinations (four thousand)
On the first day of the new term, Hogwarts was unaffected by last night's dementor attack.
According to the class schedule, after the students had breakfast, they went to the classroom where they were going to start the new school year.
But while the classes were not affected, it was impossible for the students to really treat yesterday's events as if they never happened.
At that time, there were only a dozen or so students who actually saw the dementors, and most of the other students on the carriage didn't even know what the dementors were. These were not the knowledge they wanted to learn.
During break time, the students who had seen the dementors were all vividly describing the appearance of these monsters to other students.
But in fact, in that situation, most of them were overwhelmed by the dead breath, and now if they were really asked to describe the specific appearance of the creatures they saw, they would become all kinds of people.
Many people can only talk about the gray shabby robes and tall and thin body, and then subdivide it. Some people say that the dementor has a monster face, some say that it has a skeleton on its head, and some say that this creature It has nothing on its neck at all, it is a headless monster.
Such remarks were quickly refuted by students whose parents had wizards, saying that if the dementor was a skeleton or had no head at all, then it would be impossible for them to kiss others, let alone absorb wizards in this way of the soul.
As the person closest to the dementors at the scene, Jon did not join the discussion between them.
He is not at all interested in what the face of the dementor hidden under the cloak looks like. What he cares about most now is about his learning progress in the Patronus Charm.
Before he started learning this spell, he expected that the Patronus Charm would be very useful in the future, but he didn't expect that the dementors had already launched an attack on the carriage before his third-year student life even started.
This attack actually came very strangely.
Jon learned from Lupine that the reason why Azkaban was able to escape from prison earlier this year was because more than 30 members of the Order of the Phoenix who were imprisoned in it used the Patronus Charm together.
The overflowing positive emotions completely crushed the siege of the dementors, and this gave them a chance to reconcile with Moody who came to meet him.
It is impossible for the Ministry of Magic not to know such information. More than 30 people in the Order of the Phoenix have learned the Patronus Charm, and they were able to rush out of Azkaban, the base camp of the dementors. How can it effectively suppress the Hogwarts carriage?
Jon didn't see what happened last night, but even if so many dementors swarmed, only Dumbledore could resolve such a crisis outside the carriage. It can be said that what kind of "harassment" type attack can have any significance.
This is the same as instigating Percy to rebel. Apart from giving the students in the carriage some psychological blows, it has no practical effect at all.
If this is Voldemort's counterattack for what happened in the first half of the year, then his behavior is more like a face project, and he didn't get a little bit of it.
However, the dementors have no effect on the carriage. This is because the professor and the wizards in the Order of the Phoenix are proficient in the Patronus Charm. Jon doesn't like the feeling of entrusting his safety to others for protection. He desperately wanted to speed up the learning progress of the Patronus Charm, so as to prevent the situation where he would be a one-faced dementor one day, but he couldn't use any countermeasures.
After the last Potions class in the morning, Jon, Neville and Hermione went to the restaurant for lunch.
On the way, they met Ginny and Luna, who also just finished class, but they seemed to come here on purpose.
"Senior Green."
Ginny, who also had red hair, hesitated and called Jon. Jon saw that they had something to say to him, so he couldn't help but stop, and signaled Neville, Hermione, Ron and the others to go to the restaurant first.
"You can just call me Jon. I have a very good relationship with your brothers. There is no need to call them so unfamiliar." He said casually.
"Can I just call you Jon, too?"
Beside Ginny, the girl with a cork on her neck and carrot earrings blinked her protruding eyes and asked in an ethereal voice.
She looks a little familiar, and her voice is erratic, but her eyes are so serious.
Of course Jon knew the girl's name, and he smiled at Luna.
"Of course, you can call me Jon, and I can also be called Luna, right?"
The girl with the carrot earrings said it as it should be.
"This is the most fair thing."
"We didn't come to Jon about names, Luna."
Ginny saw that the topic might be distracted by Luna, so she hurriedly got to the point.
"Gabriel has been in a bad state since she came back to the dormitory last night. We were worried about her, but we had never seen a dementor and didn't know how to enlighten her. Then we woke up this morning and found that She's not in the dormitory anymore, and I haven't found her all morning."
Jon frowned slightly. To be honest, he originally thought that the dementors should not have that much influence on the ghosts. After all, they are all dead people.
Now it seems that Gabriel who drank the dead soul water is still very different from ordinary ghosts, not to mention that she had the closest contact with the first dementor yesterday.
"I'll look for it. I should be able to guess where she is. Don't worry, I will comfort her. You guys go to the restaurant to have dinner. By the way, give Neville a message and ask him to help me when he returns to the dormitory." Bring two sandwiches."
Naturally, Ginny and Luna had no doubts about his words.
Although Jon is only in the third grade now, the achievements he made at the beginning of this year have already given him enough respect and admiration from most of the students on the carriage.
This should also be the reason why Percy dislikes Jon. A student who has only been in the carriage for less than three years has even surpassed his prestige as the student president, which makes Percy's instinct for power even stronger. Aroused boredom and jealousy.
After watching the two little girls leave, Jon also turned and walked towards the end of the corridor.
He came to the opposite side of Dumbledore's principal's office, the door leading to the driver's cab, and easily pushed it open.
The carriage is passing through a city that looks very beautiful at this time. Those low red-roofed houses keep avoiding to the left and right, and the appearance of making way for the carriage will feel funny after a long time.
But in the driver's seat, Gabriel, who was propping her chin with both hands, obviously didn't pay attention to this.
Although she is young, she also understands some principles. If she wants to integrate into a group as soon as possible, she must abide by the same rules as the group.
But Hagrid is an exception here. Usually, when driving a carriage, Hagrid is very boring alone. Now that he has become familiar with Gabriel, he finally has a child who usually doesn't need to go to class to talk to him.
When Jon came, Hagrid was holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, and was exchanging experience with Gabriel about raising magical horse animals.
But the little girl was obviously listening absent-mindedly. She was sitting on the wooden cabinet in front of Hagrid that was usually used to store small items, shaking her white and transparent calf following the slight bumps of the carriage, wondering what was going on. .
Hearing the sound of Jon approaching, she was half a beat behind Hagrid before returning to her senses. Hagrid happily poured Jon a cup of black tea, and at the same time handed over a plate of his favorite signature rock cake.
Jon took the cup of black tea, took the plate with the rock cake in his hand, and put it on the wooden cabinet without any trace.
"Aren't you the first day of this semester? Why do you have time to come to me?"
Hagrid and Jon are also very close. When it is not suitable to practice spells in the dormitory, he will come to Hagrid. After a long time, the two have become good friends.
"It was Ginny and Luna who asked me for help." Jon looked at Gabriel when he spoke. Hagrid must be unfamiliar with these two names. They couldn't find you when they got up early in the morning, and they were very worried about you, so they asked me to help find where you are."
Gabrielle lowered her slender eyebrows, and she said weakly.
"Sorry, I forgot to talk to them in the morning."
No matter how nervous Hagrid was, after such a morning, and now that Jon came to find her specially, it could be seen that Gabriel was not in a good mood.
He also knew that this little girl was the closest to the dementors last night.
"Still thinking about those dementors yesterday? Those things were actually scary when you first saw them. You didn't keep them so you didn't see what happened to them. Dumbledore drove them all away with a single spell." !"
Hagrid comforted.
It's just that his words didn't seem to have any effect on Gabrielle, she still looked sullen.
"I think my parents have my sister." She whispered, "I don't know where they are now, how are they doing..."
Until now, it has been four or five months since Madam Maxim took over Gabriel, but she still hasn't received any reply.
Before the former headmaster of Beauxbatons left, he promised that after finding Gabriel's parents, he would get in touch with Dumbledore and bring her to her family.
But it has been so long, and there is still no news.
But some things, in fact, no news is the best news.
Jon looked at her and said.
"If you miss your family, don't keep these thoughts in your heart. Many students here may be older than you, but they all have the same experience of being separated from your family as you, even your parents and sisters. At least I still remember that there is a relative like you, but their parents don't even know who they are."
This kind of comparison will undoubtedly resonate with a little girl like Gabriel who is already full of emotions. After staying in this carriage for so long, she naturally knows a lot about the situation of the students in the carriage. It is very clear. Knowing that compared with her current situation, there are many people who should be more sad than her.
Her original sad mood subsided a lot, but she just looked at Jon hesitantly, as if she wanted to say something.
"I was very sad last night, just wandering around in the carriage..." she said in a low voice, "Then when I was crying alone, thinking of my parents and sister, I don't know if it was the picture I thought of or it was real. I saw a person…”
Jon was keenly aware of the important information in Gabriel's words, and he raised his eyebrows lightly.
"Who? A student or an adult?"
"It's an adult. I... saw him at my home before. He came to my house and discussed something with my dad alone." Gabriel seemed to be trying hard to recall the picture in her memory, "But Dad that day Very upset, he ended up kicking that person out of the house, my sister and I have never seen him so angry."
Jon turned his head and looked at Hagrid.
They all clearly felt that this was a very important message!
"Where did you see him? Gabriel."
"I, I don't remember." She shook her head and said, "In fact, I still feel that I haven't seen him at all. I just missed my parents and sister so much that I remembered seeing the picture of that person, but... I don't Dare to be sure..."
Gabrielle's description is very vague and her tone is very unconfident, which sounds unreliable.
But neither Hagrid nor Jon took this matter seriously.
Jon stood up from Hagrid's driver's seat, he said with a serious face.
"Regardless of whether you really saw this man in the carriage or not, we must tell Dumbledore about it. This may be an important clue."
He never thought of conducting any investigation on his own, and he had the psychology of being a hero alone.
The dangers faced by the carriage today are related to the lives of many people. Jon consciously knows that the professors will definitely make a more correct decision than him after they know more.
He didn't hesitate, and then left the driver's seat with Gabriel. After returning to the carriage, he went directly to the door directly opposite, and knocked on the door of the principal's office.
Dumbledore was writing something with a quill pen in the office. After entering the door, he didn't say anything else. Jon directly asked Gabriel to repeat these words to Dumbledore again.
After quietly listening to Gabriel's unconfident narration, Dumbledore couldn't help but frowned, and he said softly.
"Can you describe to me the specific physical characteristics of the adult wizard you mentioned?"
Finally finished the two chapters two in one, made up for the leave owed, and went to bed.
(end of this chapter)