Chapter 90: Tower in the storm
It has been more than a week since Black tried to break into the Gryffindor Tower.
There are different opinions among the students, and rumors are everywhere...but the only thing that can be confirmed is that the school did not catch the intruder.
Azkaban’s fugitive, Sirius Black, is still at large!
The first Quidditch game is approaching, but the weather is getting worse.
Originally the first game was supposed to be Slytherin vs. Gryffindor, but Slytherin captain Marcus Flint claimed that their Seeker’s injury had not yet healed; so Hufflepuff had to top it first. Go up and participate in this game.
"Gryffindor just lost to us a few months ago, they definitely want to get back!" The day before the game, when returning to the common room, Jon heard Cedric tell the players: "We Be extra careful, never careless!"
The wind and rain outside the window were violent, even more violent than before; before it got dark, the corridor outside was already black.
"We can definitely win!" The members of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team shouted in unison, and Jon heard Zacharias's voice loudest.
……
Early the next morning, Jon woke up, it was still dark outside.
You can faintly hear the sound of thunder in the sky, the sound of strong wind hitting the walls of the castle, and the sound of trees in the forbidden forest being blown in the distance.
It's half past six in the morning, and the Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor will begin in a few hours.
Coming to the common room, it is rare that early in the morning, the place is already full of people; even if it is raining outside, it still cannot affect their enthusiasm for Quidditch.
Many people have already put on yellow and black cheerleading robes, and others are discussing how to amplify the sound in a storm and cheer for Hufflepuff.
Jon didn’t spend much time in Hufflepuff’s common room. He went straight to the restaurant, drinking porridge and thinking about today’s plans.
According to my own understanding of the original plot, the large number of spectators in this Quidditch game was a great temptation for the dementors-so that they violated the agreement reached with the Ministry of Magic and flew to Quebec. Diqi Stadium, enjoy this feast!
This is a good opportunity for my patron saint to fight.
But Jon doesn’t plan to go to Quidditch Field and wait for the rabbit...
After all, there are so many people on the court, a second grader summoning a complete patron saint is a bit more conspicuous; and with the presence of Dumbledore and other teachers, the dementors will be driven away as soon as they appear. To do it yourself.
Jon's plan is to go to a high spot where there is no one, and wait until the dementors break into the school from all directions and pass by their position, then compete with them.
Anyway, I am not born to be greatly affected by dementors, and coupled with the existence of Occlumency; even if there is a little accident, there will be no bad consequences.
There are two conspicuous vantage points at Hogwarts, the tops of the Gryffindor Tower and the Ravenclaw Tower; in this stormy weather, there will be no people on the tops of the two towers.
The former was directly ruled out by Jon. After all, a password is required to get in and out, and the defense has been heavily guarded by Black's intrusion recently; the latter is a good choice.
Ravenclaw’s common room is almost the easiest to break into among the four academies. You only need to answer the olecranon door knocker question, and you can pass unimpeded.
Jon said as he took out a bottle of jet black compound decoction from his pocket; as long as a little hair or other things are added, this bottle of compound decoction can help him maintain his transformation for about an hour.
……
8:50 in the morning, only ten minutes before the Quidditch game started.
Compared with the empty Hufflepuff common room now, Ravenclaw’s tower is obviously more lively...In such bad weather, there are not too many Ravenclaw students who are willing to visit Gryffin. Quidditch against Hufflepuff.
Jon saw a Ravenclaw student in the library a quarter of an hour ago who was struggling to write and finish his homework; he pulled out a piece of his hair and put it in the compound decoction.
Now, he has become the Ravenclaw student. It seems that he is a third grader called "Michael Kona" or something, he can't remember clearly.
Following the route Percy Weasley had taken a few months ago, he first entered the Ravenclaw Spire and then crossed a spiral staircase.
Jon finally came to a door without a handle and a keyhole: a wooden door of a few years old with a bronze eagle-shaped knocker on it.
He stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker lightly.
The eagle's mouth suddenly opened, but it made a soft and pleasant sound instead of a bird chirping:
"It will swallow everything,
insects, fish, birds and beasts, flowers and trees,
Corrosion through pig iron and steel;
turns the rock into fly ash,
Kill the king, slaughter the town,
The sea is a mulberry field, and the mountains are a plain..."
To be honest, Jon doesn’t like this kind of brainstorming question and answer, which is why he chose Hufflepuff between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw; of course, even if he chose Ravenclaw back then Law, Ravenclaw might not want him either.
But this question is not difficult for him.
"Time!" he replied in Michael Kona's husky voice.
"Good answer!" said the soft voice, and the door turned open.
Ravenclaw Common Room is a spacious round room with blue and bronze silk curtains on the arched windows on the wall. If the weather is not bad, I am afraid you can see the beautiful hills around here; unfortunately, it is completely dark outside now.
Jon also saw the marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw, and the words "Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of mankind" engraved below.
But he doesn’t have much time to put on these, he must find his way to the roof as soon as possible...
An ethereal voice interrupted Jon's thoughts.
"Michael?" A young girl with long, pale blond hair with a messy head and waist-long hair appeared in front of Jon.
"Good morning, Luna..." Jon bit his head and responded.
Luna Lovegood walked around Jon a few times curiously, and at the same time raised her nose and sniffed hard.
"You are not Michael, are you?" She asked softly.
"I..." Jon had quietly held the wand around his waist. He was ready to release an oblivion spell on Luna, but the Ravenclaw students coming and going around made this matter a little difficult.
"Accurately, you should not be a Ravenclaw!" Luna blinked: "You don't have the smell of Ravenclaw... You are a Slytherin, are you?"
"Huh?" Jon was taken aback.
"Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are playing Quidditch. The boys who broke into here and the other colleges are only Slytherin!" Luna asked in a low voice, "You used the harassment fly to help Transformed?"
Jon nodded vaguely.
"Don't worry about what I told others!" Luna said somewhat disappointed: "Even if I did, they would think it was crazy."
"Can you take me to the top of the tower, Luna?" Jon asked tentatively.
"Of course you can, come with me!"
The girl grinned, she walked forward lightly, looking a little mad, and the Butterbeer Cork Necklace jumped with her.
……
A few minutes later, they came to the roof of Ravenclaw Tower.
Luna has held up a big, dirty black umbrella, looking a little precarious in the storm.
Jon took out his magic wand: "Waterproof and moistureproof (
A layer of invisible blisters appeared around them, blocking the rain in the air and preventing their clothes from getting wet.
After making plans for today a few days ago, Jon specially found the "Standard Spell-Level 3" and learned the "Waterproof Spell" temporarily.
Luna put down her **** umbrella and asked softly, "What are you doing here? Do you want to catch the snoring beast in the storm?"
Jon made a hush gesture, and then looked at the Quidditch Stadium far away with a serious face.
The loud noise on the court, even if it was a storm, could not stop it; at the same time, countless dark shadows began to fly towards the court.
"I hate them!" Luna suddenly covered her ears: "Those dementors!"
"Whenever they show up next to me...I remember when my mother died..." Luna whimpered and said unconsciously; she squatted down, lowered her head, and curled up together.
Jon has no time to take care of her. A dozen dementors have been attracted by the two and flew toward the top of Ravenclaw Tower.
The memory of every person with a tragic past is the most wonderful nourishment for the dementor; Luna Lovegood, who witnessed her mother's death, is naturally the same.
Jon used Occlumency to completely free himself from the weak influence of the Dementor.
The closest dementor is only a dozen yards away from them.
"Expectopatronum!" Jon shouted without hesitation.
A dazzling silver light appeared again; then a warm breath surrounded them... Facing a dozen dementors, Jon successfully summoned his patron saint, a cub iron-eater the size of a tabby cat, Hovering over Jon's head.
It snarled at the dementors, seeming to want to scare them away.
But such a young patron saint did not seem to have caused too strong a deterrent to the dementors, they continued to fly towards the blisters.
Jon's mind suddenly felt the anger of the patron saint.
"Attack them!" He commanded softly from the bottom of his heart.
The patron saint flew towards a dementor in the forefront, two furry claws caught the dementor's void body... only a flash of silver light was felt, and the dementor's body was torn into two segment.
With the helpless whine of the dementor, the patron saint found his next target.
It bit on the neck of another dementor again~www.NovelMTL.com~Countless black qi scattered from the wound...
The Quidditch Stadium in the distance suddenly emitted a warm and strong light; the dementors who had just broken into the campus and Quidditch Stadium were deterred by the bright light and fled in all directions.
Including those around Jon, they helped up the broken bodies of their companions and fled in a hurry.
is the phoenix patron saint of Albus Dumbledore... Jon knew this feeling very well because of a close encounter.
Iron Eater still wanted to pursue it, but was called back by Jon. It glared at Jon with a bit of dissatisfaction; at the same time, the iron-eater uttered a tender and feeble roar toward the distant light spot.
Jon suddenly noticed that his patron saint seemed to be a lap older than just now. A few minutes ago it was only the size of a tabby cat, now it is at least as big as a husky.
……
The dementor left, and the patron saint was taken back by Jon.
The storm stopped, and the Quidditch stadium in the distance gradually ceased, and the game was over.
There was not much time left to transform the compound decoction, and Jon was about to leave the Ravenclaw Tower.
Luna Lovegood, under the influence of the Dementor, has not fully regained consciousness, Jon helped her up——
pointed the wand at her head at the same time, frowned and said softly:
"Forget everything--"
He finally put down his wand.
"You can use the Forgetting Curse, but it's not necessary!" He said to himself.
gave Luna to Ravenclaw's second-year student Melinda Pobin, and asked Miss Pobin to take her back to the dormitory.
Jon left the Ravenclaw Tower when there were only a few minutes left to transform.