In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 105: Book and Quill

The temperature at the end of January is still very low, and these past two days a winter rain also fell at Hogwarts, the cold wind at night passed through the window to enter the corridor, and the invisibility cloak draped over Jon blew with a rustle.

After he stepped out of the underground, he went all the way up the stairs.

The stairs in the castle which were active during the day are now quiet, previously under the lead of Hermione, these seemingly sentient stairs helped them, but they were not so helpful to Jon, as if they only recognized Hermione alone.

But Jon now did not need to rush up, he reached out and wrapped the invisibility cloak tightly around himself, and then came to the seventh floor of the castle.

He crossed the limit that Voldemort had set for everyone, opened the door to the Headmaster's office and walked into the foyer.

There were still some traces of blood stains on the floor, and the pitted floor was not repaired. From the foyer, he went forward and walked into the Headmaster's office, where he could see the corpse of the Basilisk with a lot of holes.

A month has passed yet its corpse has not shown any signs of change, the bright green scales are still as bright and shiny, and the flesh and blood exposed at the wounds are still fresh, without half signs of decay.

After all, the Basilisk is XXXXX level magical creature, not to mention this Basilisk created by Salazar Slytherin has lived for more than a thousand years, from venom to snake hide, its entire body is precious magical materials, as long as you can take it out you can definitely sell it for a high price.

Unfortunately, Jon did not have a way to take the body away, the cloth bag enchanted with Undetectable Extension Charm that was prepared by Dumbledore for him, was far from being able to contain the Basilisk's corpse to the point that he could only find a way to knock off the venomous fangs, and collected some venom to keep.

In fact, he originally intended to remove the two eyes of the Basilisk, but he was not able to guarantee that the magic on the eyes of the Basilisk would also lose its effectiveness when it died, to be safe, he did not bother to do this somewhat risky move.

After passing the Basilisk, he could see the desk with the four relics of the founders.

These four relics were still placed there quietly, looking like exhibits in an exhibition hall, nothing special or unusual.

Jon, however, passed by them cautiously, the more harmless the four relics appeared, the more he was filled with vigilance.

All the way up the spiral staircase that is located at the back of the office, he once again came to the door of the small room at the top of the tower.

Inserting the telescopic eye in the door crack, Jon first made sure that the old witch, the middle-aged male wizard and the young male wizard in the three portraits were all still in their frames before he raised the ring in his hand.

"Finite."

An incantation distinct from the normal wand-casting general counter-spell incantation sounded softly, and Jon's body abruptly became distinct.

From his body there was a strange wave began to spread outward, this wave soon passed through the door in front of him, broke into the room inside, and then the original three portraits that were still snoring with their heads down, suddenly all become still as if the pause button was pressed.

The originally realistic and vivid portraits began to become stiff, like a living object became a dead object, the three wizards in the frame all fell silent, they were not breathing, not moving, and turned into three ordinary dead paintings.

The room became quiet, and the book on the middle desk was spread out like a breeze turned the pages, then a quill plugged into the ink bottle flew up out of nowhere, and wrote a child's name on the blank page.

Outside the door, Jon did not feel anything, but when he looked at the ring he was wearing, he could vaguely find that the blood-red gem seemed to have become a bit darker in colour.

The magic power contained in it was exceptionally abundant, and after absorbing the magic power from three more portraits, it had almost no more room left for a semblance of storage and could only wait to be discharged.

Jon did not stay outside the door, he pushed open the door and walked into the room, did not bother to look at other things, and went directly to the desk, closed the book filled with names, while taking away the quill that just flew back into the ink bottle!

These two things, are the objects that Dumbledore let Jon sneak into Hogwarts to steal - "The Book of Admittance" and "The Quill of Acceptance"!

Hogwarts' annual admissions are all based on these two magical items. When a child first shows magical talent, the quill will fly out of the ink bottle, trying to write the child's name into the Book of Admittance, and then the Book of Admittance will "slam" closed, refusing to be written until it receives enough evidence about the possession of magic power.

In other words, to qualify to study at Hogwarts, a child must go through a two-step screening process, and only when both the book and the quill agree, the child will be recognized as having the talent to become a wizard.

In the past thousand years since Hogwarts was founded, the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance have never made a mistake. They have never let a muggle or a squib with no ability to learn magic into the castle, nor have they ever missed a single student with magical qualifications left out.

This also means that this book contains the names, addresses and dates of birth of all the students who have attended Hogwarts Castle for close to a thousand years since the year Hogwarts was founded, a privilege that belongs exclusively to Hogwarts.

Before Voldemort ruled the wizarding world, the Ministry of Magic had no right to see any information in this book.

But after Voldemort became the master of the Ministry of Magic and the Headmaster of Hogwarts Castle, he was able to use the information of the students on the Book of Admittance to screen the identity of wizards throughout the British wizarding world to determine their lineage.

No one can hide their origins, after all, all the wizards in the entire British magical world graduated from Hogwarts, and when they enrolled, they had already left an absolutely real trace.

However, Voldemort did not make the existence of the Book of Admittance public, the tower connected to the Headmaster's office can only be entered by him alone, which is equivalent to his monopoly on the interpretation of the wizard's lineage.

The first thing that confuses Jon is that such important items, in accordance with Voldemort's current shrewdness, he would put it in a safer place where he can see them, but Dumbledore gave Jon a vague statement that it is not Voldemort did not want to change the location of the book and quill, but he simply could not do so.

But now Jon obviously has this ability!

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