In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 109: Opportunity

Jon stared at Dolohov's back while glancing at Lestrange from the corner of his eye, who was walking towards Dolohov and looked like he had something to discuss.

Unobtrusively, Jon shook his head at Hermione, who was also standing by and waiting.

Hermione pursed her lips and turned her back from outside the iron gates of the underground dormitory, and together with Jon settled at the very end of the line of mudblood students, heading back towards their own dormitory.

"Wait for the night." Jon whispered beside Hermione in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

Hermione did not speak, just nodded looking a little disappointed.

And Dolohov, who was not aware of their little gesture, was listening to Lestrange's invitation.

"-You know if you hadn't made a big splash at the Christmas banquet, Mr Crouch wouldn't have extended an invitation to you. In previous years, we only just included the few professors from the Sacred Twenty-Eight Families at our club gathering."

A smile appeared on Dolohov's face, knowing that because of a few words from Voldemort at the banquet that day, he now actually seemed to have squeezed his way into the inner circle of purebloods.

"Of course, I've always longed to attend this club that Mr Crouch started, it's just. You know, never had much of a chance before. What time is the gathering scheduled?"

"It was originally scheduled on Friday night, but the Carrow siblings had to go home that day for their mother's birthday and spend all this weekend at home. Mr Crouch then re-scheduled it on Thursday, when none of them had any classes, while Mr Crouch did have a charms class himself, but that was in the afternoon, so the gathering got scheduled at nine o'clock on Wednesday night."

Lestrange looked at Dolohov and reminded him.

"I know you have to patrol after 8:00 every day, be careful not to be late for the gathering then, there were already some other people who were not happy with the fact that you were invited."

Dolohov asked hesitantly.

"The professors do not have classes on Thursday, but I still have work during the day, will the gathering be held all night?"

"We usually play cards for an all-nighter, and if you still have things to do during the day, there are rooms for lodging upstairs at the Three Broomsticks where you can rest. We have also known each other for so many years, don't blame me for not reminding you, you can rest if you want, but pay attention to the occasion, don't spoil everyone's mood, otherwise, this, your first time participating in the gathering is estimated to be the last time."

"You don't have to remind me of this, I'm not insensitive to that extent."

They chatted and walked out of the underground, then parted at the stairway on the first floor.

Dolohov, who had never been in a better mood, returned to his office humming a little tune, feeling that he had a great future ahead of him after the last Christmas banquet.

***

Late at night.

Inside Hermione's dorm room, Jon said with a serious expression.

"This kind of thing can not be done forcibly, if there is an accident while attacking Dolohov, and be discovered by others, then it would be a foregone conclusion, we will not even have the chance to put up one last fight."

With today being Tuesday, the date agreed on with Dumbledore for this week is around the corner, and the only viable solution Jon can think of now is the castle caretaker Dolohov.

His primary responsibility in managing the castle is actually watching over the mudblood students, so Jon as long as he can find a way to solve him, and use the polyjuice potion to change into his appearance, then it is perfectly possible to assign a cleaning job to the first and second year mudblood students on the third floor of the castle at noon on Thursday, and then find the right time to unknowingly take everyone out of the castle.

But the difficult part of this matter is how to take care of Dolohov without alerting anyone else.

In terms of strength, Jon is certainly no match for an adult wizard like him, especially a Death Eater who has followed Voldemort for more than a decade and survived many battles.

And if Dolohov reacts, he certainly will not have the slightest reservation, and directly cast a killing curse on Jon.

Jon just got the gem that contains a powerful magic power, but this magic power can only be used for the magic on his ring - levitation charm and general counter-spell, but these two spells no matter which one, it has no way to block the effect of the killing curse.

So he can only sneak attack, using the situation where Dolohov is completely defenceless, to knock him down.

It is hard to find such an opportunity when no one else can be around and when Dolohov is completely defenceless.

After Jon came up with this plan, three days passed, and this evening they returned to the underground dormitory was their best chance, originally they were going to let Hermione attract Dolohov's attention, and then Jon will make a move, but Lestrange's arrival forced them to terminate the original plan.

Hermione sat on the bed with her knees, she looked at Jon.

"Can we find another chance?"

Jon crossed his fingers, and his face became dim, as he whispered.

"Then we need to find a chance at night, the day after tomorrow is the time scheduled for the operation, I'll try to sneak into Dolohov's room tomorrow night, there's no one to disturb him at night, and he won't be alert."

***

On Wednesday night, after curfew had completely begun, Jon sat up from his bed, took out the Marauder's Map, lit a candle and began to stare at Dolohov's every move.

He watched from the map as the castle caretaker left the underground mudblood dormitory, then walked all the way up, checking every floor of the castle, and then at eight-fifty, abnormally actually left the school grounds through the Hogwarts gates.

Jon couldn't sit still in his dorm room.

He knew very well that if he still wants to carry out the plan of pretending to be Dolohov, then tonight is the only chance.

Without a moment's pause, he immediately put on the invisibility cloak and also left Hogwarts through the secret passage and arrived at the brightly lit Hog's Head Inn.

Now the time is only nine o'clock, and there are still many wizards in the Inn drinking and chatting, Jon carefully avoided everyone, walked to the back counter of the bar where Aberforth is preparing cider for customers, and pulled the hem of his robe.

Aberforth was instantly aware of the situation.

Instead of closing the Inn immediately, which would have been too obvious, he called for a wizard he knew well and asked him to help watch the Inn below, then excused himself to get the liquor from the cellar and took Jon with him to the underground cellar in the backyard.

"I want to attack Dolohov then pretend to be him and bring the students to the secret passage tomorrow, but this night he left the school. I need your help to check on Hogsmeade to see if he's still in this village, and if he is alone, then both of us together can handle him with more certainty!"

Jon quickly told the current situation, Aberforth also instantly decided not to wait, instructed Jon to stay in the cellar and wait for his message, and then went back to the ground.

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