In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 133: Draught of Living Ghost

Everything went as usual in the wagon.

But the arrival of Gabrielle had caused a stir.

Although there were once many ghosts in Hogwarts Castle, and even a ghost professor who specialized in teaching the history of magic, the students on the wagon had never seen such a being since the beginning of the exile.

Most of the students here were originally Muggle students, who had learned about the knowledge related to ghosts only when the professor talked about it during the class, but they were also the same as Jon, just aware of it, but seeing it for the first time.

"How unfortunate." Lavender said in a small voice as she looked at Gabrielle, who hid behind Jon because she was surrounded by a group of people, somewhat shy and panicked, and Hermione, who was beside her said.

"She died so young, I read that a person will turn into a ghost after death when they have a deep obsession with the world, she must have suffered a lot when she died."

Gabrielle, who obviously heard her words, pouted and grabbed the corner of Jon's robe, trying to poke her head out to explain, but finally shrunk back unhappily.

She is now only seven years old, and although her personality is considered cheerful, in this period of time, after going through so many events, she also started to become somewhat more cautious.

"This is Gabriel Delacour." Jon can only introduce on her behalf, "from France, going to be a guest at Hogwarts for a period of time, she is indeed a ghost now at present, but she's not really dead, rather drank the Draught of Living Ghost, which temporarily turned her like this."

The Draught of Living Ghost is somewhat unorthodox and not widely known, in short, it is a potion that can forcibly turn a wizard into a ghost.

But this potion has a high degree of complexity and difficulty to make, some of its ingredients are now even basically extinct, and the degree of restrictions is very high, after all, it can artificially cause ghost transformation, but it cannot be compared with the real ghost, it will not have the characteristic of not dying again after the death, normally one can only survive in the form of a ghost for four or five years, then that person will die completely.

But the advantage is that, after drinking the vial and turning into a ghost, it is not irreversible, as long as the body of the person who drank the potion is well protected, then if you are able to feed the antidote within the five-year limit, you can revert that person back to his/her original human form.

Madame Maxime had indeed reached the point where she had no other way out, otherwise, she would not have risked killing her friend's daughter by feeding Gabrielle the Draught of Living Ghost.

Lavender and the group did not know what the Draught of Living Ghost is, but they heard the implication in Jon's words.

But they really didn't care whether or not Gabrielle actually died, there was hardly a child on the wagon, and although the child is a ghost, it still made Lavender and the senior girls a little excited.

Soon they took Gabrielle to tour around the wagon, while Jon went back to his dorm room with Neville to put his bags down.

"After you and Professor Dumbledore left, the wagon seemed to have stopped once midway through due to some problem, although Professor McGonagall, Professor Potter and the others checked it out, they found nothing unusual." Neville's tone was more casual when he said this, and he didn't seem like he thought it might be a big deal.

This year Jon's rescue of the students from that castle had dissipated a lot of the original caution and anxiety that the students on the wagon had felt due to being in exile.

After all, in the eyes of the students, Jon is indeed gifted in learning magic, but he is not particularly different from the other students.

The fact that he was able to rescue someone from Hogwarts Castle after less than a year of infiltration, in addition to proving his greatness, also showed that the enemies in that castle are no better than that.

This gave the upperclassmen, who knew little about Jon, the illusion of "If I went there, I can do it too".

But Jon clearly knows more.

With Voldemort's vengeful character, he is unlikely to be able to take such a big loss without a little counterattack, and now it is not the time to relax, but to be more vigilant.

This is something that Dumbledore and the other professors are also well aware of.

Jon remembered just before getting on the wagon, Hagrid told about damage on the wagon enchantment to Dumbledore; the wagon stopping and the magic enchanted on it being damaged should all talk about the same thing.

What exactly happened when the wagon stopped once in the middle of the journey, the professors obviously did not say much to the students.

Jon also did not talk much about this with Neville, he put his luggage away, went to the great hall for dinner, and Ron and the group chatted for a while at the table about the interesting things he encountered on this trip to France, and he returned to his dormitory alone.

He hadn't really studied the gem he got from the castle library since he returned from Hogwarts Castle.

The gem had long since turned from blood-red to a pale blue exactly like the original gem on the ring.

Jon did not try to spare any hand when he finally left.

As a result, all the magic energy in the gemstone was used up without reservation for just a levitation charm and a general counter-spell.

The effect was naturally significant, Jon could be said to be unharmed under the joint attack of many professors in the castle, moving freely, although there are no effective means of fighting back, but he originally was not intended to kill anyone at all, and in the end, he managed to escape with Hermione, which is already considered to have exceeded the requirements of the task.

What he said at the end, was not that he wanted to pretend to be cool or due to the indignation from working hard there, but there were so many students present that time, so he thought it would be a good time to say something like that.

The more the Ministry of Magic wants to cut the presence of Hogwarts led by Dumbledore, the more Jon has to make a public announcement that there are still people in the wizarding world who are still fighting against Voldemort's system.

This may not let all the half-blood students see the nature of this pureblood supremacy theory, but it is possible to wake up a few people, making their originally submissive mentality change a bit.

Even if there is only one person who can have such a change, then it is not a loss for Jon to say these words, and it can also leave a seed of rebellion in the hearts of others.

The pureblood under the leadership of Voldemort may seem strong and difficult to resist, and this seed may never break the surface, but once even a subtle change occurred in the situation someday, the scale is not completely tilted to one side, then the seeds planted today will blossom, and when the time comes, it may play an unexpected role.

With the magic stored in the gem he was able to do so much, so Jon felt that this deal was not a loss, and besides, it is not as if he could not store magic inside in the future.

And the most crucial thing is that Jon always felt that this gem retained more than just magic power alone.

Previously, because of him being anxious about rescuing students from the castle, he did not have the time and energy to study it, and after he came back, he went out with Dumbledore for a few days, and now he can finally spare time to seriously study what is on this gem.

If there is something else in it that he has not found, then Jon can only assume that the knowledge was absorbed together with the magic in the restricted books.

Magic power is a carrier of the knowledge in the restricted books, but it does not mean that is all those knowledges.

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[TL;]

The potion that can turn people into a ghost seemed like an author's self-creation, previously I assumed it as a modified Draught of Living Death, but the time limit and other info that the author gave in this chapter prove it isn't any exciting canon potions, I searched Wiki and other websites to make sure of it; now I will edit the name of it in the previous chapters into Draught of Living Ghost.

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