In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 363: Hoss's Happy Life Begins

Jon, who had slept comfortably through the night and had a big lunch the next day, didn't care about all the buzz.

The first Task had just finished, and the second would not be held until the first day of the next year, with a long break in between to give every champion time to recuperate.

And instead of lounging around in the wagon after a night's rest, Jon followed Hagrid quietly to Hogsmeade, a wizard village near Hogwarts.

As the subject of constant Aurors surveillance, it was also a question of how to get out of this school without being noticed by anyone.

Luckily, Dumbledore helped them by using an extremely high-end transfiguration spell to turn both Jon and Hagrid into two birds, they then sneakily flew into the Forbidden Forest and then flown through the Forbidden Forest to go outside of Hogwarts, without alerting the Aurors.

And after arriving in Hogsmeade, they headed straight for the filthy Inn with a hog's head in front of the door.

Aberforth had also anticipated their arrival today and hadn't opened the Inn at all, but had been waiting in the yard behind the Inn with the doors closed.

"Truly what a mess to throw at me! Let me look after this stupid mule, do you know what it nearly did last night? It was going to mate with my goat!"

As soon as they met, Aberforth was furiously complaining to Jon about what Hoss had done.

Jon, however, was unconcerned and stroked Hoss's bald head, which looked stupid but was in fact incredibly intelligent.

"Hey Percival, did you know that Hogwarts castle was attacked by dragons last night?"

Aberforth thought he was changing the subject, and although his anger had not yet subsided, he was clearly interested in that matter as well.

"Of course I read today's newspaper, the Daily Prophet had nothing good to say about you, they implicitly said that Albus had cheated by teaching you some kind of dark magic that the average person couldn't imagine, which had helped you to control those dragons and made them attack Hogwarts Castle."

Hearing this upside-down version of the story, Jon laughed disdainfully as he told Aberforth exactly what had happened to him in the Forbidden Forest. The average person would never have guessed in any case that the biggest help he had received in the Forbidden Forest, and the biggest contributor to the attack on Hogwarts Castle that had happened last night, was actually this stupid mule who seemed to be in some kind of rutting phase.

In response, Aberforth had clearly changed his opinion of Hoss somewhat for the better.

"Well, even though it looks a bit stupid, it does have something unique about it."

Hagrid's emotions were much more intense after seeing Hoss, and he cried out on the spot as he hugged Hoss's big head, as if he had found his long-lost relative.

"I was looking for you in the Forbidden Forest when we left Hogwarts Castle, but you ran off somewhere at that time and I couldn't find you no matter where I looked, Hoss, it's a good thing you're still alive Hoss! If I had lost you too, then I really don't know how I would be able to live without anything to hold on to."

Hoss was clearly excited to see Hagrid, too, and he struggled out of Hagrid's bear hug to stick his tongue out and lick Hagrid's bearded face.

But there wasn't much time left for them on their reunion, and within a few moments of staying at the Hog's Head Inn, Kingsley, who was originally in France, arrived at the Hog's Head Inn with perhaps a dozen wizards from the Witching Horizon through an Apparition.

Upon seeing Jon, Kingsley and the wizards were obviously happy, Jon had spent some time with Kingsley during his time in Lyon and had a good relationship with the dark-skinned wizard who was also from a pureblood family.

As soon as they met, he spoke about what had happened regarding yesterday's task.

"Word is getting around all over France, we all know it must have been you who influenced those dragons to attack Hogwarts Castle, nice work Jon, even though I still have nostalgia and affection for that school, I know it's not the same Hogwarts at all now."

Jon patted Hoss's bald head.

"The major credit belongs to him, it's because of Hoss that there was a chance for me to get back at the Dark Lord for their plot to set me up, please do look after him once you've taken him with you."

Before, Kingsley had learned of Hoss's existence, and one of their purposes in coming here today was to help bring Hoss to a safe place.

Dumbledore had thought it through, if Hoss had stayed here and appeared in the wagon it would have been too conspicuous, and without seeing him it was unlikely that anyone would be able to guess exactly what Jon had used to divert the attention of those dragons, but once someone had noticed Hoss's species, and given the timing of his appearance at this point in time, surely some clever person would be able to guess some truth.

It was inevitable that someone would then want to take revenge on him for that, so the safest thing to do now was to send him to France, which was already virtually under the control of the Witching Horizon.

"I read in the letter Hagrid wrote to me that this big contributor is a bit horny." Kingsley smiled as he looked into Hoss's large and small eyes, "It just so happens that we have recently seized one of the French Ministry of Magic's Abraxan winged horse breeding farms around Beauxbatons, where there are more than three times as many mares as stallions with a shortage of good stallions, so if he likes it, we can take him there."

At Kingsley's words, Hoss's big and little eyes visibly lit up!

He was even impatient to break free from Hagrid's grasp and follow Kingsley to this faraway heaven now.

This made Jon, who had been a little worried that Hoss might not want to go to France, speechless, but he could only conclude that this stupid mule would never change his nature.

Of course, it certainly wouldn't take nearly this many wizards to pick up Hoss, and Kingsley, who had risked all the scrutiny of the British Ministry of Magic and had come to Hogsmeade for more than just Hoss, a horny horse.

There was a remnant tribe of Centaurs waiting for them in the Forbidden Forest.

Dumbledore didn't delay, since he had to promise Firenze to escort them from the Forbidden Forest, it was better to do it sooner rather than later, no one was sure if Voldemort would make any other moves against these Centaurs later on.

After having one of the wizards take Hoss away from the Hog's Head Inn, Kingsley, Hagrid and Jon began to discuss plans for the rescue of the Centaurs.

Inside the Hog's Head Inn, Jon spread out the simple map he had drawn in the forbidden forest and pointed out to Kingsley and Hagrid where the Centaurs currently resided.

"After getting them out of that valley, I specifically told them to head for the edge of the Forbidden Forest close to this side of Hogsmeade first, only this part of the Forbidden Forest has complicated terrain with a steep hill obstructing their path, and there is also a high probability that there are British Ministry of Magic surveillance means in place in the border area."

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