In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Chapter 463 461. The war is about to begin

When Slughorn left the room, he happened to pass by Barty Jr., who was walking over.

They usually didn't have much contact with each other. It wasn't that Slughorn didn't want to get in touch with the popular man who always favored Voldemort.

But little Barty had always stayed in Hogwarts Castle before, and rarely had time to meet and communicate with Slughorn, who worked in the Ministry of Magic. Now that Hogwarts is gone, even if he returns After joining the Ministry of Magic, he mostly lived alone. Slughorn held several private parties and sent invitations to him, but he never received a reply.

When he reached the corner of the stairs, Slughorn paused slightly and watched Barty Jr. disappear behind the door.

After Slughorn left, Voldemort entered a state of contemplation.

His wand was placed in the tray next to the chair, and while he was thinking, his hand was subconsciously rubbing the back of his other hand. The surface of the skin had obviously become much rougher than before.

It wasn't until there was a knock on the door that he came back from his thoughts.

"Come in."

As soon as little Barty came in from the door, he knelt on the ground, then respectfully raised a small square box over his head and handed it to Voldemort.

Seeing little Barty, a rare smile appeared on Voldemort's face.

No matter what happened, his most loyal servant behaved impeccably when faced with him.

Voldemort took the square box from his hand, and there was a blood-red stone lying inside!

"The Philosopher's Stone can delay my aging. Although it is not a permanent solution, it can also be used as a temporary means. You are very thoughtful, Barty."

"Being able to help you is my greatest wish."

Little Barty was always so humble in front of Voldemort. Even though his master never asked him to do so, he spontaneously expressed his reverence in this way.

"How are the others doing?" The smile on Voldemort's face faded.

Little Barty still lowered his head.

"There are still some objections circulating among the Avery and Carlo families, but they seem to be just complaining and don't dare to really have any dissatisfaction with you."

"Hmph, they have forgotten their great ambitions for the sake of this immediate benefit." Voldemort said sarcastically, "They just don't dare to do anything, but who knows if someone will give them this one day? courage."

Little Barty didn't say anything about these words. He seemed to know what to say and what not to say very well.

"Where's Dumbledore? What's the news?"

Voldemort leaned back in his chair. His current channel for obtaining information from the outside world was through Barty Jr. His next step was to support Barty Crouch Jr. to the position of Acting Minister and control the Ministry of Magic for him.

"The French side seems to be actively preparing for the war. They haven't stopped since the end of the Triwizard Tournament. They have been preparing."

Upon hearing the news, Voldemort's expression darkened significantly.

"He really looks down on me."

The voice of this sentence was very soft. I didn't know who Voldemort was talking to, but soon he asked another question.

"Then I have asked you to pay attention before. Do you have any new news about other matters?"

This year's recruitment process for Hogwarts, which just started during the summer vacation, is not easy.

After all, all eligible Muggle students are still in the UK, and Dumbledore has no intention of letting Hogwarts compete for Beauxbatons students. Therefore, McGonagall and Lily still need to stay in the UK just like they did in the era of carriage exile. Wanted by the British Ministry of Magic to contact new students.

But now that they are enrolling students, they don't have to rush to take people away before Little Barty and others arrive, as they did before.

If Voldemort loses the Book of Access and the Pen of Acceptance, he loses the most basic information about those children with wizard talents in Muggle families, and has no ability to compete with the current Hogwarts.

This means that Mag and Lily no longer need to clear the relevant memories of the new parents. They only need to explain the interests and risks to them and let them make a choice voluntarily.

And because we know that there will be a defensive-to-offensive war this year, Hogwarts itself is not particularly eager to enroll students this semester.

Each of them is full of hope for the better direction of the next war. When Hogwarts returns to the UK, all the order will be continued. Even if they are not recruited in time this year, they will enroll late next year. One year is the same.

In this atmosphere, the new semester of Hogwarts begins.

Since last year, the opening party has been fixed in the auditorium of this temporary school. In the past, Hagrid took the students around the UK in a carriage and held banquets in various outdoor venues. A source of bragging among senior students and freshmen.

But every time a new student shows an envious expression and says that the old students had a really good life before.

They will be educated that these are actually just joys and sorrows in the exile life. No one likes to live in precarity all day long and face being hunted.

Now that I can settle down and have a stable teaching venue, Hogwarts would be the best.

After entering fifth grade, students in the same grade as Jon began to be selected as prefects.

Neville was successfully elected as prefect this year, but Jon did not participate in such an election. For him now, participating in student management is a complete waste. Even after reaching fifth grade, he did not even attend normal classes. Not much need to go.

Normal courses can no longer teach him anything.

A lot of advanced magical knowledge, Jon's time studying with Grindelwald was already equivalent to what a normal senior student would gain in one semester.

But in addition to the magic on the ring, after the fifth grade started, that is, after September, Jon began to undergo professional apparation training with George Fred and other new graduates this year.

Even if Jon can perform a special apparation by changing only the magic power in his body into the Phoenix's exclusive magic power while he is still in the human body, this does not mean that he does not need to learn ordinary phantom magic.

Although the Phoenix's special Apparition has basically no restrictions, and it can come and go freely even if there is anti-Apparition magic, its form of expression is still too eye-catching after all.

Every time the Apparition occurs, a golden-red light will light up. After the Apparition landing point, the same light will also illuminate. This will undoubtedly give Jon an extra level of recognition. As long as the golden light appears, that's it. He is leaving or coming.

This kind of recognition was obviously something he didn't really want. If he was needed on any battlefield in England, a golden light flashed and a group of Death Eaters shouted, "Jon Green is here! Let's surround him!" ” or “Jon Green is here, let’s run!” No matter which one, imagine what may happen later and you will know that ordinary apparation also needs to be learned.

For Jon, who has already had the experience of Apparating naturally after becoming a Phoenix, it is not difficult to learn ordinary Apparition now. He is the fastest learner among the graduating students, and he is the fastest in the major. By the third day of training, I could basically transfer and reveal myself stably, without a single splitting error.

After the Weasley twins graduated and joined the Wu-Ping line, they did not join the front-line battle order, but were absorbed into the logistics research department.

The Weasley ball they developed before has become a mass-produced weapon in Wuping. In addition, some of the magic props that Jon and Jon talked about that have not been completely successful have also begun to be actually improved and explored.

Dumbledore obviously attached great importance to the twins. Not only did he give them an expanded team, but he also transferred their father, Arthur Weasley, to work with them.

Because Arthur himself was also extremely interested in improving various magic props, the talents possessed by George and Freed were probably inherited from him.

After the start of school at Hogwarts in September, the situation in the entire European wizarding community has become increasingly calm.

As if the war has completely ended, various magic newspapers no longer publish predictions about when the British and French Ministry of Magic will go to war every day as before. Instead, they report some news that was basically placed in newspapers before. The most remote part of the page is filled with tidbits.

Even Spain's Magic Daily has begun to imagine that the Quidditch World Cup, which was suspended last year due to the war, might be rescheduled this fall.

Just when the vast majority of wizards in Europe thought that during the rest of this year, they could spend the rare peaceful time in these years.

On the last day of October, it was supposed to be Halloween night, in Dumbledore's principal's office in Lyon, France.

The Halloween dinner on campus is not over yet, and even in the principal's office with the door closed, laughter can be faintly heard coming from the auditorium.

At this time, Dumbledore was not celebrating Halloween like other students, nor was he reviewing any documents, nor was he holding any meetings with others.

He just held a letter in his hand, and there was only a brief sentence in the letter.

"Preparations are complete."

Dumbledore slowly put down the letter in his hand. Under the candlelight, his eyes were as deep as the sea of ​​stars.

It was quiet in the principal's office, and even the portraits of the previous principals on the wall made no sound. They all seemed to know what Dumbledore meant when he received this letter.

"What if our guess is right?"

There was a rare sense of sadness in his tone.

And this question is obviously about the portraits on the wall.

"This is against the order of magic, and I think it's very unlikely."

The person who spoke was the headmistress Delise, and she frowned in the portrait.

"But even this magical order was inferred based on history that has no precedent. No one knows whether it is a truth or not."

Slytherin said solemnly.

"And now the only person who can help us confirm this is right in front of us."

"Then everyone is doomed." Phineas shouted, "But again, these are just guesses after all, and you must practice them to make the guesses become truth."

After hearing his words, all the surrounding portraits stared at him as if they had offended someone.

"Shut up! If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb!"

"Why can't you talk less at this time!"

"It didn't matter before. Do you know what you are talking about now?"

"Get him off the wall quickly! If I stay with him any longer, I'm afraid my brain will be infected by him and I will become an idiot!"

Phineas couldn't help but shrink back when he heard the scolding and scolding around him. In the end, Dumbledore clapped his hands to stop the quarrel.

"What Phineas said is not wrong. I have the same idea as him. You shouldn't blame him like this."

Dumbledore's words made every portrait on the wall take a breath. Every principal of Hogwarts for thousands of years looked at him in shock, even Finny who said these words. The same goes for Yas.

"I think you should maybe think about it again. Even if you try it, maybe we have more."

Slytherin didn't finish what he said. It wasn't that he was interrupted by someone, but when he got to the end of his words, he couldn't come up with any better suggestions, so he could only remain silent.

"You actually don't have to be like this. From the very first moment I walked in front of you and announced to you that I was the new principal of Hogwarts, didn't you already have unreserved trust in me?"

Dumbledore calmly picked up the bottle of golden gravel.

"Jon always said that I have a very bad habit of never explaining things clearly to others. I just like to make people guess."

"But I don't like people to guess riddles, but some things are already destined. Telling the destined results in advance will just add trouble to people. It's better to let them understand the causes and consequences by themselves, and wait until they leave When you get to that final step, if you look back and look at the past, you will find more fun than if I just said it directly.”

Most of the portraits on the wall curled their lips after hearing these words. No matter what Dumbledore said, they still thought it was a bad taste of Dumbledore.

He didn't hear anyone complimenting him, and Dumbledore didn't care. He blinked and stood up from the chair in the office.

"We can talk about the verification later, but no matter what, there is one thing that cannot be changed. The war is about to start."