Chapter 76 75. Responsiveness
The lively Hogwarts Castle during the day is silent after night falls.
Jon went up the stairs, stepping on the stairs that were not active and quiet during the day, and came to the eighth floor.
This floor is not only restricted to mudblood students, but also to other mixed-race and pure-blood students.
Because the current owner of Hogwarts Castle, Voldemort's headmaster's office is here, although he basically only comes to Hogwarts Castle once every school year on the first day of school, but his authority in the school is not half reduce.
Coupled with the express prohibition of Vice-Principal Snape and Castle Administrator Dolohov, none of the students even thought of getting close to the principal's office.
After Jon arrived on the eighth floor, he didn't go directly to the principal's office, even though his lurking target was probably in this office.
He came to the blank wall opposite the tapestry of "Trolls Beat Barnabas" with a clear goal, and wandered back and forth three times wearing the cloak of invisibility.
"I need a room that only Jon Green can open to make potions."
He repeated these words in his heart, and before he knew it, an ordinary-looking door appeared on the blank wall.
Jon focused his attention on the door and did not open it rashly. Instead, he stood there and took a deep breath. At the same time, he reached into his sleeve with his left hand and touched the door that had been hidden in his shirt. Fox feathers under the sleeves.
Opening the Room of Requirement was a gamble for him.
This room was discovered by Harry Potter at the end of the original book. In fact, he had found it as early as Voldemort's student days. Later, he even hid the Ravenclaw crown that was made into a Horcrux. in.
Jon doesn't know whether Voldemort's Horcrux is still there, and if so, whether it will continue to be stored in the Room of Requirement, but it is certain that Voldemort knows the existence of this secret room.
Now that he knows, he might make arrangements here, so opening the Room of Response is a very risky move for Jon.
But he had to take this risk, because there was no other place in Hogwarts Castle for him to brew Polyjuice Potion, a potion that would take nearly a month to successfully refine and had never been discovered.
In the original book, the place where Hermione made the compound potion was in the girl's bathroom where Myrtle resident. Because of Myrtle, few people go into that bathroom, but now there is one in the whole castle. The ghosts couldn't be found, and Myrtle wasn't there, of course, and the girls' bathroom wasn't abandoned either.
If he can't make the compound potion, then the next infiltration will become a joke.
Jon adjusted his state to the best, then stretched out his right hand hidden under the invisibility cloak and put it on the doorknob of the door. He increased his strength a little, and then the door was easily opened by him from the outside.
Behind the door is an empty room. There is a crucible in the middle of the room. Next to the crucible is a brand-new set of tables and chairs. There are also a stack of blank parchment, quills and ink on it. There are materials and finished products on the wall. A wooden stand for potions.
Even after entering the room, he didn't take off the invisibility cloak, but stayed in it for another ten minutes before Jon could be a little sure that Voldemort really didn't seem to have made any arrangements for the room.
Thinking about it, if he really has the ability to monitor the Room of Requirement at any time, he should have created such monitoring as early as when he stored the Horcrux in it, and he would not let Harry enter it so easily in the original book. To that crown.
After ensuring that it was really safe, Jon quickly poured out all the potion ingredients in the cloth bag. He burned the cauldron, and then put dozens of lacewings in it.
The most time-consuming part of compound decoction is the preparation of lacewing insects. It needs to be boiled for 21 days before it can be used as medicine. Moreover, this thing cannot be stored and used at any time after cooking. It must be cooked within 21 days. Use it up the next day, or it will be a pile of scrap later.
But fortunately, Jon doesn't need to keep looking here while cooking the worms, he just needs to take a look at it every once in a while to make sure there is no problem.
The boiled cauldron was bubbling and bubbling, leaving all the potion ingredients here, and Jon exited the Room of Requirement.
Since the room was not tampered with by Voldemort, then he can be sure of some other things.
He continued to wander back and forth in front of the wall, asking for a room to hide things in his mind.
Then a door exactly the same as before appeared in front of him, Jon pushed open the door and walked in, and came to a space as big as a small square.
There are all kinds of discarded debris piled up here, including lame desks and chairs, broomsticks broken in two, broken statues, and portraits with broken frames.
Jon searched carefully among all kinds of piles of sundries. According to the impression he remembered, he searched for about 20 to 30 minutes before finding the wooden cabinet with blisters on the surface. There is a pockmarked statue of a wizard with a certain wig on his head.
But there were only these around, and Jon didn't find any suspected rings around, let alone a crown.
Horcruxes have been taken by Voldemort.
Although this trip did not bring Jon any actual gains, it also confirmed a guess in his mind.
The reason why Voldemort has changed now is very likely to be related to his Horcrux. Since the multiple soul separations made him become more and more crazy and lose his mind, then get his soul back, He will also inevitably return to the "Tom Riddle" he once was.
Jon did not continue to stay in the Room of Requirement, he exited the room, and then watched the door slowly disappear into the wall before his eyes.
There is still a long time left in the night, and he actually still has a lot of plans to do, such as going to the library in the castle, or going to the office of the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, or... just take a look at the The principal's office was less than twenty paces ahead of him.
Jon, shrouded in an invisibility cloak, stared at the door of the principal's office. After hesitating for half a minute, he stepped forward.
Of course he would not do such a reckless thing as going in directly, but sooner or later he will find out what is going on in this office, so why can't it be tonight?
I work overtime on weekends, and I can’t stand it any longer. I’ll get up tomorrow and write again. Try to add as many chapters as possible to make up for the two-day update.
(end of this chapter)