In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 121: The Traitor

Lupin is wearing a decent black robe, his hair and beard have obviously been purposely tidied, or at least look much neater than Jon.

The prison escape plan from Azkaban and Jon's plan to escape with the children from the castle was synchronized, compared to the castle side, the escape from that prison is obviously much more violent.

Similarly, Dumbledore also let Moody with a lot more members of the Order of the Phoenix pick them up, after breaking through the Dementors' encirclement, they used the afternoon to get rid of the subsequent pursuit of Death Eaters who came to reinforce.

The prisoners who escaped were exhausted from the long torture they had endured in prison and the fierce battle they had fought today, so they fell asleep as soon as they returned to a safe place, so no banquet had been organized tonight for the wizards who had regained their freedom.

The celebration and welcome party within the Order of the Phoenix will not begin until Sirius and the rest have completely recovered.

However, Lupin's state is quite good, he was lurking and wandering around the island, without suffering any dementor abuse, so apart from the energy he consumed in today's battle, which was basically recovered after half an afternoon of rest, he has no other problems.

Originally, Dumbledore intended to let him continue to rest for a week before taking up his post here in Hogwarts, but Lupin took it upon himself to suggest that his state is all right and that he can come to the wagon today.

The students were obviously relatively unfamiliar with him, but Neville whispered an introduction to Jon and the rest of them.

"I know him, my father took me to meet him at the banquet when the Order of the Phoenix gathered a long time ago, he has a very nice personality and gave me a box of candy at that time."

Lupin took his seat at the long table and nodded with a gentle smile as he looked at the students who welcomed and applauded his arrival even though they might have felt uncomfortable or unfamiliar with him.

Jon looked at Lupin's appearance, his face looked a bit odd, in his memory, this messy, male wizard who ended up tragically in the original story also entered Hogwarts as a professor, but that was at the beginning of the third year, and now it is near the end of the second year, the time difference is not that far.

This makes Jon can't help but feel a sense of loss caused by the fact that things are not quite the same.

The banquet was over after Dumbledore finished announcing all the things, the students rescued from the castle were assigned to their dorm rooms in the wagon, they experienced a lot of shock and worry today, but they were not allowed to rest immediately, Dumbledore took them into an empty classroom alone, to deal with their enrolment pact.

Only near midnight, the children lay in a soft and comfortable four-poster bed that they had never experienced in another school, and soon slipped into dreamland.

The wagon left the tulip garden and continued the journey that they did not know when it would end.

And after everything was properly resolved, in Dumbledore's Headmaster's room, now all the professors in the school, including Lupin, who just joined today, all gathered here.

A quill and a book were placed on Dumbledore's desk.

Looking at these two familiar things, McGonagall's face showed a nostalgic expression.

"Reclaiming them back allows us to get muggle students in advance ahead of the people in that castle in the future."

Flitwick also nodded and said.

"Jon brought out all the first and second-year students in the castle, and now that the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance have also been brought back, it would mean that that castle has lost its source of Muggle students, which will definitely have a great impact on them."

Lily said in a cold voice: "The Dark Lord originally relied on the constant oppression of Muggle wizards to stabilize the unbalanced mentality of half-blooded wizards towards pureblood wizards having privileges, and now the oppressed object is lost from the source, it will definitely bring big trouble to his rule in the future."

"Do not be mesmerized by the unseen situation." Dumbledore calmly shook his head, "he will not just watch us make moves and do nothing, he can hold a grudge greater than anyone else, the main reason why we have managed to accomplish so much so successfully is still that his attention has been focused on other areas these past few years, except for the Horace affair last year, he basically adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards us. "

Lupin frowned intensely.

"I've been in Azkaban all these years and don't know much about what's going on in the magical world, so if the Dark Lord isn't focusing on us, what else is keeping him so preoccupied?"

The Headmaster's office fell into silence for a while, apparently, McGonagall and the others could not answer this question.

Dumbledore gently tapped his fingers on the desktop, and only after a long time did he reopen his mouth.

"I learned something from a special channel that has only been obtained recently, several of his most trusted men, including three Lestrange; Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange and Rabastan Lestrange as well as Peter Pettigrew, who betrayed us, has not appeared in public for close to two years. I guess if the Dark Lord really has something more important to do, it might have something to do with this."

At the moment he said the name "Peter Pettigrew", Lily instantly clenched her hand.

Her body obviously tensed up, and breathing could not help but become rapid, Lupin also looked gloomy and stared at the corner of the desk.

This name, which seemed to have disappeared from the magical world, was never forgotten by them.

Seeing their reaction, Flitwick also could not help but sigh and raised his hand to pat Lily's arm to offer comfort. Dumbledore knew exactly why they became like this when they heard the name, and he took off his glasses with a slightly weary look.

"Do not relax your focus yet, we did achieve some success, but compared to the original loss, these successes are not enough to convert into our capital to obtain victory. Let's stop here for today, about where his attention is actually placed, that is left to me to investigate."

After Jon returned to the wagon, he found that life here remained the same as before he left without any major changes.

The rescued students are still divided according to their original grades, except for Hermione, Hanton, and other second-year students who are not temporarily attending classes with Jon and them, but instead, they have been integrated for the targeted remedial classes when they will receive their wands.

Their study time will become more compressed, after all, compared to the students on the wagon they have fallen behind quite a few essential classes that they should have taken.

But no one complained about this, after officially integrating into life here, Hermione and others studied magic with a lot of enthusiasm, they even use less rest time than others, and continue to spend most of their time outside of class to learn magic.

Jon was also catching up on the lessons he had missed after entering his second year, but it didn't affect him much.

On his fifth day back on the wagon, Dumbledore suddenly called him to his office.

"You did a great job with that task, as a reward for that, do you want to go out with me and relax for a few days?"

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