Chapter 74 73. Breathing
"Remember what you are going to do! I know that Professor Sinistra has taught you the cleaning spell this week, and this is giving you a chance to practice the spell. Be sure to clean up this auditorium before noon today, or you will be in the I'll tell Mr. Dolokhov who's being lazy!"
The male prefect was giving orders to Jon and his second-year students. As the managers of the Mudblood, the two prefects would of course have preferential treatment.
Not only can they direct and supervise the work of other students, they can also not participate in this kind of collective labor, but be the supervisor of the castle administrator.
After assigning the tasks, he turned around and left. Not only the second-year students, but as a prefect, he also had to inform the other Mudbloods about Dolohov's arrangement.
After the prefect left, Jon and the others didn't dawdle. Everyone knew very well what the consequences would be if their task area was not completed when the time came.
Even if you have learned the cleansing spell this week, so far, only Jon and Hermione can barely use effective spells for the difficult skill of casting spells with gestures.
So this time the cleaning work, both of them consciously took on the main force of the labor. With the help of magic, they will undoubtedly save a lot of effort.
The weather in September is still very hot. As time goes by, the sun gradually rises, and everyone has a lot of sweat on their faces.
"Immaculate."
Using gestures to cast spells, and after clearing an auditorium seat again, Jon straightened his sore waist.
He wiped the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his robe, then turned his head and said to Hermione and the others as if nothing had happened.
"I'm going to apply for a toilet."
No matter how strict the management is, Hogwarts Castle will not restrict the physiological functions of Mudblood students, but only control the time they go to the toilet, and each person only has five minutes.
The lavatory on the side of the Quidditch pitch is right under the auditorium. It takes about a minute and a half to run there, and more than half the time to go back and forth. Be in a hurry.
The prefect guarding the entrance of the Quidditch pitch followed Dolohov's example and stared at Jon viciously.
"You know the consequences of not coming back on time, the timing starts now!"
Jon didn't stay long, he quickly ran down the stands, and rushed towards the bathroom. Looking at his eager back, the faces of the two mudblood prefects, male and female, couldn't help showing a sneer.
It took more than a minute to run to the bathroom. There is no one here now, and Jon calculated the exact time.
The fast running made his breathing a little short, and he walked directly into a compartment without stopping.
Quickly unbuttoning the gray robe on his body, there was a cloth pocket sewn on the inside of the robe. Jon took out the pendant with the ring from the cloth pocket and put it on his neck !
The familiar cold feeling pressed against the sweaty skin in front of him, and he said a spell that he hadn't used in two months.
"Wingardim Leviosa!"
Two minutes.
Jon counted the time in his heart, and then his two thin arms grabbed the edge of a small window above the bathroom cubicle, and climbed up with great ease.
The front exit of the court is facing the big lawn between the Black Lake and Hogwarts Castle. If you run directly from this direction, you may be caught by the mixed-race or pure-blood students who play by the Black Lake on weekends. It was discovered that behind the window of the washroom was facing the wall that encloses the entire Hogwarts campus area. Unless they came here specially, no one would pass by here at ordinary times.
After jumping lightly from the window more than two meters high, Jon ran straight along the wall towards the main entrance of Hogwarts and the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
His speed was surprisingly fast. In less than half a minute, he had already run to the wall of the road that separated Hogsmeade Wizarding Village outside the school.
On the grass here, there was a small cloth bag of the same color as the soil on the ground lying there quietly. Without hesitation, Jon reached out to pick up the bag and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his robe where the ring was hidden, and then moved Quickly return the same way.
He swiftly turned back into the bathroom, took off the pendant around his neck and put it back in place, and adjusted his breathing rate briefly. Jon slowed down his movements and moved towards the audience seat The location ran over.
When he returned to the field, the prefect guarding the entrance glared at him and let him in.
Only four and a half minutes had passed, even if the prefect wanted to make things difficult, he couldn't find any excuses.
Returning to the area cleaned by the second-year students, Jon was slightly relieved. This was the first time he went through this process of getting potion materials. At the beginning, it was the most prone to problems, but nothing happened now. Mistakes, it will become a lot easier when you get familiar with it later.
And just as he was about to continue his previous work, Jon suddenly felt a gaze looking at him beside him.
He turned his head away, meeting Hermione's eyes.
"Randy...would you like to take a break?"
The girl asked hesitantly.
At this time, Jon realized that because of the relaxation just now, his shortness of breath after pretending to be strenuous exercise had subconsciously slowed down a bit.
Surrounded by 12-year-old children, this shouldn't be a big problem, but Hermione is obviously much more sensitive and careful than normal children.
He didn't do the act of superfluous and short of breath again, he said without changing his expression.
"It doesn't matter to me, let's speed up the progress. If you don't finish cleaning here by noon, you will be punished."
Hermione also seemed to be concerned about it in general, and didn't say anything more, and turned her attention back to the seat full of dirt and dust.
After this episode, the second-grade students didn't stop for the rest of the time, and finally finished the tasks assigned to them before lunch started.
The weekend lunch is better than the previous few days. At least everyone can get a piece of bacon, but the exhaustion of the whole morning makes the students not in the mood to enjoy such "food". After finishing the lunch in a hurry, They returned to their dormitories and started the few rest periods this afternoon.
Jon also returned to the dormitory, but he didn't make any movements during the day. He was very patient, and there was a safer environment for him to open the cloth bag after dark.
(end of this chapter)