Chapter 172 170. Ghost Wizard
It's not just this little captain.
Below the deck, other ghosts following him also floated out.
These ghosts were obviously dressed as sailors, each with weapons in their hands, and they looked menacing, as if they were really planning to rob Jon and his ship.
"Hand over the treasure! Boys!" the little captain brandished a saber that was half his height in his hand, and the parrot standing on his shoulder shrieked, "Captain Jack only wants money." Don't kill me!"
Following Captain Jack, those vicious ghost sailors also shouted.
"Hand over the treasure! Spare you not to die!"
Jon George and Neville looked at each other in blank dismay.
Gabriel didn't have any panic or fear on her face. Instead, she happily floated to the side of the same camp as the pirate ghost, and shouted happily.
"Hand over the treasure! Spare you not to die!"
She treated it like a role-playing game.
To be honest, when the ghost ship sailed towards them, the posture was really scary, but after seeing these ghosts stand up, Jon and the others felt that it was more like a farce.
Even if ghosts can still exist in the world of living people, they have no way of causing any substantial impact on reality, and at most they can scare wizards or Muggles who don't know how to do it.
But whether it is Jon, George or Neville, they are not ignorant people.
These ghost pirates look scary, but they can't do anything.
Jon asked tentatively.
"Well, Captain Jack, what kind of treasure do you need?"
"Sure enough, it's a brat!" The little captain raised his head proudly, and the parrot on his shoulder also said in a timely and proud voice, "Of course we only want gold, silver and jewelry!"
"With all due respect, Captain, even if we have gold, silver and jewels for you, your ship will not be able to take them away."
Captain Jack was furious, and the parrot on his shoulder seemed to be jumping angrily.
"How are you talking! Are you insulting Captain Jack!"
Jon was very speechless. He felt more and more that these ghost pirates had nothing to do hanging out on the sea, and they came here to have fun with them.
And just as Captain Jack was waving angrily, with a long knife in his hand that couldn't do any harm to Jon and the others, a helpless voice came up from below the deck.
"Drake, stop messing around, don't forget your agreement with Dumbledore."
Another ghost Shi Shiran floated up from below the deck. He had silver curly hair and seemed to be middle-aged when he died. He was wearing a robe like a medieval nobleman.
He looked kindly, and when he saw Jon and the three of them, he nodded kindly towards them.
Just a horrifying scene happened.
I don’t know if it’s because he nodded too hard, his head suddenly tilted from his neck, leaving only a little skin to connect his identity together!
This scene made Jon and the others take a step back in shock, only to hear the ghost whose head almost fell off his neck straighten his head again, and then kept apologizing.
"Ah, I'm so sorry, but I think you can understand that the executioner didn't master the strength of my executioner, which prevented my head from being completely chopped off. I was also very distressed because of this. That’s why I have never been able to join the Headless Knights.”
He was chattering, looking like a chatterbox.
Captain Jack seemed very dissatisfied with the ghost who appeared later, whose painting style was completely opposite to theirs, the parrot that kept jumping around on his shoulder screamed.
"Stupid Nicholas! You ruined Captain Jack's plan! All the gold and silver treasures that were not taken on board will be compensated by you!"
"Hey! Don't make a joke for everyone here, Drake, today is the time for you to complete the task. Didn't you still want to find a place to celebrate the festival just now? In fact, this is a good place."
The decapitated ghost called Nicholas looked around Hogwarts with a relaxed expression. He twisted his neck so much that it made people worry whether his head would fall off his neck again in the next second. .
Jon heard the conversation between the ghost and Captain Jack, he looked at the decapitated ghost with a strange expression and asked.
"You know Dumbledore, sir?"
"Although I prefer to be called Sir Nicholas, people who are kinder call me Nick."
He reported his family name, and Jon finally realized who he was at this time.
The almost fleshy head that has not been chopped off, Sir Nicholas, the almost headless Nick, this is the Gryffindor garrison ghost in the original Hogwarts book—Nicholas de Mimsy Popington!
When Jon was lurking in the castle before, he had been wondering where the ghosts in Hogwarts had gone.
He didn't see them in the carriage, nor in the castle, but he didn't expect to see one of them now that he had left the British territory.
George's eyes widened when he heard Nick introduce himself. He had obviously heard the name before.
"I seem to have heard of you. Bill told me that when he first entered Hogwarts Castle and was not exiled with the carriage, there was a ghost in Gryffindor called 'Almost Headless Nick'!"
Nick didn't seem to be satisfied with George's title at all, he said somewhat self-destructively.
"Well, I knew it, someone will always remember this nickname! I have been away from that castle for so long, I didn't expect to get rid of it yet!"
He muttered a few words, but he still hadn't forgotten what Jon had just asked about.
"As the red-haired boy said, I used to be the resident ghost of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but I left after the castle was taken by people who shouldn't have it .After all, Gryffindor College is gone, so there is no need for me to stay there anymore."
"After I left, I traveled in the wizarding world with Hufflepuff's resident ghost fat friar for a while. But Dumbledore found me and wanted me to do something for him, so I joined the German Lake's fleet has been drifting on the sea for many years. Then, not long ago, Dumbledore wrote to me saying that you have entered the sea, and specially asked me to find you and serve as your guide."
(end of this chapter)