In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 104: Preparation

Jon can understand the meaning of this sentence.

The signing of a magic pact is actually essentially the person who created the pact, leaving his or her magic on that pact, and when someone signs the pact, the magic left on the pact splits in half and enters the body of the pact signer.

These two pieces of magic work together to maintain the effect of the pact, and any problem on either side can break the pact.

This gem left by Adrien can only absorb the magic power on the magic item and the magic spell which has its effects erased, these magic powers are outside the body of the wizard, and it does not affect the magic power already in the body of the wizard.

It can't absorb the magic of the pact left on the mudblood students' bodies, but it can absorb the magic left on the pact they signed.

But the admission pacts are all not in Hogwarts Castle, before Christmas Jon asked Aberforth about this matter, to find out whether it is possible to steal the pact and destroy it, but was told by Aberforth, all the mudblood students' admission pacts are stored in the Ministry of Magic archives, except for a small number of people who have access, no one else is qualified to get in contact with it.

This completely cut off the possibility of solving the problem from the pact itself.

Originally, when he got this special gem, Jon's heart still had a trace of fantasy, thinking that maybe Mr Fawkes could have made more in-depth research, but when he saw this paragraph earlier, it had completely shattered Jon's fantasy.

He can only use this gem to solve the three portraits in the tower, as for the matter of rescuing these mudblood students in the castle, it is still at a dead end.

Jon let out a long sigh, he was a little disappointed in his heart, but he was nowhere near the point of wanting to give up on the matter.

The pact is indeed the key, but whether or not these children can ultimately be brought out of the castle is still depending on the response from Dumbledore's side

Jon took the ring off his neck, then put the scarlet stone, aligning it in a diamond-shaped slot on the left side of the blue gem in the centre.

He slightly loosened his hand, and the gem and the ring seemed like positive and negative magnets, tightly bound together.

The red magic power-like liquid still flowed around in the gemstone, and Jon took the grimoire that was originally used to store the gemstone, then changed the bookshelf back to its original state, and left the library.

The gem gave Jon a direction to solve the issue of the three portraits in the tower, a direction that seemed very straightforward, without a single stumbling block, but it required him to take a step forward.

The General Counter-Spell he had only just started to learn from Aberforth, far from being able to use proficiently, and he still needed to make trial and error with the spell on the transition from wand to ring casting.

But the good thing is that the incantation of the general counter-spell is far less pronounced than the levitation charm, which means that when Jon has really mastered the counter-spell, it won't take him long to experiment and cast the ring-casting version of the spell.

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Christmas break was soon over.

Both pureblood and half-blood students returned to school after a happy break at home.

The castle became lively again, as usual, the corridors became more crowded, and the daily labours of mudblood students returned to the same level of hard work as before Christmas.

And after the start of the school term, Jon's attention on the Marauder's map became more focused, he would open the map whenever he had the chance to check the location of the Headmaster's office, and after his frequent observations, he was now basically sure that no students would go near that area on the seventh floor.

Whether pureblood or half-blood, it was as if a death order had been issued, and even the most mischievous students would not cross that line.

Faculty members are also the same, there is no other professor's office on the seventh floor in addition to the Headmaster's office, and no one dares to have their office placed on the same floor as Voldemort, even Snape and Barty Jr. is no different.

After all, it is a creature that has lived for thousands of years, the corpse of the Basilisk also did not decay that easily, so after Jon cleared all the blood traces inside, without that fishy smell coming out, no one would smell anything odd.

This ensured Jon that there is still plenty of time to lurk in the castle.

"Make a list of people who you think you can trust and whose minds are not yet swayed. Remember, you must be extremely selective and careful with this list, because if any students among them have already been brainwashed with pureblood's slave mindset, then the rest of us will be exposed."

On another night, Jon came to Hermione's dorm room in the dead of night and gave her this task.

In fact, even if the students eventually would be rescued, it would not be according to the list given by Hermione, Jon could only do his best to take away the first and second-year students, while the third-year students and above students' memories had been changed mostly at the time when the gathering was discovered last year, so now they now became more submissive, and there is no guarantee that the Ministry of Magic's Obliviator had not left any secret thoughts in their heads.

If they were brought back to the wagon, no one could guarantee that there would be no problems with the safety of the wagon.

Jon would do what he could, but only if it didn't pose any danger to the people around him.

Tonight he asked Hermione to make a list just to find something for this little girl to do, Jon was concerned that if she had been left idle to focus her attention on herself, she would find him to be actually lying later on, and it would lead to some kind of mess.

Hermione nodded solemnly to Jon and agreed.

"I will be careful, you can rest assured and leave this matter to me."

After giving the task to Hermione, Jon made his way up to the Room of Requirement in the darkness of the night, he had to speed up the practice of general counter-spell, even if it seems that the Headmaster's office is safe for the time being, but it didn't let him relax in peace completely.

The good thing is that the progress afterwards is very smooth, the speed of Jon learning spells itself is not slow, plus the general counter-spell itself is not much difficult to learn spell, so at the end of the first weekend after the Christmas holiday, the middle of January, he already considered to have thoroughly grasped the mastery of this spell, can ensure that there would be no problems in the everyday use.

Then he began to convert the wand incantation to the ring incantation, marking the general counter-spell on the second gemstone.

When it came to this one, it was even smoother than his practice of general counter-spell, after all, the gem was created to counter spells, and the incantation for countering spells was not too complicated.

At the end of January and before the arrival of February, Jon had finished all the preparations and planned to start the second trip to the Headmaster's office.

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[Author:]

The Hogwarts Castle plot will end in three to five days at most, the following are all the climax, it would also be considered a good show for you to enjoy.

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