In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Hermione thought Jon was joking, and her face was still pale from excessive nervousness.

"Blow up Hogwarts? Well, this is indeed a matter worthy of discussion, but fortunately I escaped from the castle. The Dark Lord set up a new anti-Apparition magic in that secret room, and Fox cracked it It takes time and luckily at the last moment we didn’t get caught by him.”

Hermione felt like her whole body was chilling, and her back was soaked with sweat. If Fox hadn't brought her back at the last second, she would really have been caught by the Dark Lord.

She did not forget the important things. After the heart palpitations subsided, she took off the satchel she was carrying from her shoulder.

"I did it, Professor, I found the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, but its entrance is not where Mr. Slytherin and you guessed it to be."

Jon and Dumbledore had already sat back in their seats. They both made a tacit understanding not to explain to Hermione that what they just said was not a joke, but to listen carefully to what she experienced in the castle.

"Oh? It's not on the first floor or the principal's office? Where is that?"

"It's the Room of Requirement, Professor!" Hermione's eyes lit up, and she looked at Jon, "When we were at sea, Jon told me that when he played Randy in Hogwarts Castle, The preparation of Polyjuice Potion was started on the eighth floor of the castle, hidden in the magic room opposite a tapestry - the Room of Requirement. That room was magical, it could satisfy almost all people's needs, so he asked Fox to leave from the principal's office. After the search yielded no results, I thought of this room, and I felt that if it was really so magical, it would definitely be able to help me find the entrance to the secret room."

Jon also guessed what Hermione wanted to say at this time.

"It turns out that even the Dark Lord himself was actually using the Room of Requirement to enter the secret room!"

"Yes! Later I found out from observing on the Marauder's Map that he also used this method to get in. Just like Professor Dumbledore's previous analysis, the Dark Lord knew that Mr. Slytherin was willing to help us, and he would definitely want to help us. Move the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets from its original location, because the person who built it must know where it is better than anyone else, and the target of his move is the Room of Requirement!”

Dumbledore also said thoughtfully.

"Of course this is a good choice. The Room of Requirement is very hidden. Although there is no guarantee that no one knows about it, it is almost impossible for anyone to associate this room with Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

Regarding the Room of Requirement, even Dumbledore himself only learned about it after Jon returned from Hogwarts Castle in his second year. Even Dumbledore himself had not fully explored the wonders of this castle (according to Harry According to the original Potter books, Dumbledore probably only learned about the Room of Requirement when he went to the toilet during the Triwizard Tournament.)

"I found a lot of magic words in the secret room."

Hermione talked about her gains. She took out the piece of parchment used as a record from her satchel and handed it to Dumbledore.

"Time is very urgent, I can only copy this. In addition, there is a dwarf that looks like a ghost tied under the statue of Mr. Slytherin, but it is unconscious. No matter what, I can't call him. Wake him up. When the Dark Lord came to the Chamber of Secrets for the first time, I hid in the secret passage that Mr. Slytherin told me. When he left me and came out again, the dwarf had disappeared."

Dumbledore looked at the contents recorded on the parchment and listened to Hermione's story, his brows furrowed at some point.

After Hermione finished telling her story about what happened in the castle, the principal's room fell into silence. It was not until a long time later that Dumbledore's sigh broke the silence.

"We guessed it right, Salazar, he is planning to kill that castle, or in other words, he is already implementing it."

Dumbledore's words caused an uproar on the wall covered with portraits of previous principals!

"How dare he! Doing this is equivalent to erasing thousands of years of British magic history!"

"What else does he get if he does this?"

"He is trying his best to kill Hogwarts! Then why doesn't he just re-establish a new school? Why does he keep occupying the position of principal like a clown with an unjustified name?"

"Perhaps he knows he can't get it, so he wants to destroy it directly? So that we completely lose the chance to regain the school?"

"That will only make us have no thoughts and worries at all! The castle is dead, so what if we will always use the carriage as a school in the future!"

The principals launched a heated condemnation and discussion. They obviously did not expect that Voldemort would actually dare to do this, even though there had been some speculation among them before.

Jon and Hermione looked at each other.

From the beginning, Jon didn't know what Dumbledore was doing by asking Hermione to sneak into the castle at this time. Hermione herself only knew what she was going to do, but she didn't know what the meaning of it was.

Dumbledore clapped his hands gently to silence the headmasters.

"Don't get excited. He is indeed doing this now, but this is also good news, isn't it? Now that he still can't stay in the castle for a long time, it means that his plan has not succeeded yet. The so-called killing of Hogwart Ci Castle is just a futile move."

However, Salazar, who had just been hung on the wall, said with a serious face.

"But we don't know whether he wanted to establish his own authority over the school while trying to kill the castle itself."

"He wants to kill Hogwarts and rebuild it!" a bitter old man screamed, and the other principals also looked angry.

"Killing it and rebuilding it will completely separate this castle from us and turn Hogwarts into something else!"

Dumbledore tapped his fingers lightly on the table. He seemed to be thinking about something and was hesitant about a certain issue.

By this time, Jon could almost hear what the principals were talking about.

He remembered what Firenze had said to him in the Forbidden Forest. After the decisive battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort, Hogwarts Castle was occupied all the time, but that man's The goal was never achieved. Directly above the Castle in the Sky, the star representing Hogwarts was always shining.

So he told about his encounter in the Forbidden Forest.

"Before I entered the Forbidden Forest to participate in the competition, Hagrid asked me to help look after his former gamekeeper friends there. Among them, I met several Bowtruckles, a group of unicorns and a man named The flying horses of 'Hoth', it was with their help that I was able to survive the difficulties in the Forbidden Forest and solve the problems caused by the madness of the fire dragon. Similarly, I also met a person in Hogwarts Castle there. s student."

Dumbledore repeated Jon's last words softly.

"Students in Hogwarts Castle?"

"Yes, his name is Cedric Diggory, and he is a student at the Half-blood Academy in the castle."

When Jon said the name, Hermione and Dumbledore looked at each other, surprise evident in their eyes.

Jon also noticed their reaction and asked with some confusion.

"Have you heard this name before?"

Hermione explained to him.

"When I sneaked into Hogwarts Castle in the middle of the night, I saw on the Marauder's Map that this person climbed into the secret passage on the fourth floor of Hogwarts and left the school. I reported this to Professor Dumbledore, he feels that this student may be able to win over to our side."

Jon nodded seriously.

"He is indeed unable to accept the oppression of the Dark Lord's policies in Britain, but he has never been able to resist. A year ago, he accidentally met the current leader of the centaurs tribe who was still lingering in the Forbidden Forest - Faerun Ze, learned of their difficult situation and the danger of being driven out, so he was willing to risk his life to help them and wanted to rescue them from the Forbidden Forest, but they had never found a suitable opportunity until this day. During the Triwizard Tournament, the remaining centaurs were trapped in the valley by three fire dragons and almost starved to death. It was Cedric who ran out of the castle at the risk again and wanted to help them out of their predicament. In the end, he had no choice but to Found me."

"Hagrid told me that he had friends among the centaurs, so I agreed to Cedric's request and helped him rescue the centaurs from the valley. Firenze took the remaining ten Several centaurs asked me for help. He hoped that I could persuade Professor You to help them leave the Forbidden Forest and leave England. He also told me something about astrology."

Then Jon told everything about the star that represented Hogwarts Castle, causing Dumbledore and the others in the portrait to fall into silence for a while.

"The centaurs are indeed unique in their astrological divination." The principal named Delise, who used to be a therapist at St. Mungo's, said, "If they had really seen this more than ten years ago."

Sirius' great-great-grandfather said with disdain.

"At the beginning, they themselves said that they wanted not to get involved in the bad blood between wizards. Albus had personally gone to the Forbidden Forest to persuade them that even if they did not want to provide help to any party, it was best to leave there. But how did those centaurs themselves do it? They said, 'If wizards really come to invade our home, we will look good on them! You can't understand our courage, Dumbledore.' Is that right? These are what they said themselves, why have they changed their words now? Let’s help them, didn’t Firenze feel ashamed when he said this?”

Dumbledore waved his hand.

"The centaurs are a group of people, not a community of consciousness. Just like we and Riddle are wizards, we also have different ideas. The centaurs who decided to stay in the Forbidden Forest were the same people. Firenze, who is asking us for help now, is different from other centaurs. His attitude towards wizards has always been very friendly. Before Riddle attacked the castle, he came to find us specifically because of divination when danger was coming. We were told about his divination in advance, so he is our friend.”

"Are you going to help them?" Phoenix asked.

Dumbledore nodded.

"Of course we have to help them. In order to enforce bloodline rule, Riddle has almost abolished the human rights of all half-human creatures. These can also become our friends, and even without these, don't forget I said we are friends."

He specially emphasized the last sentence and finally concluded the matter.

Jon was not surprised by this. He knew from the beginning that Dumbledore would never give up on these centaurs no matter what he considered.

Since Jon brought the topic to the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore naturally asked about his status during the game.

Jon told his story.

"Thanks to Hoth's presence, if Hagrid hadn't asked me to go look for it in the Forbidden Forest at the beginning, something might have happened to me at the beginning of the dragon group's turmoil."

Dumbledore laughed at the mention of Hoth's name.

"I know that Glaling horse. I was the one who gave it to Hagrid in the first place. At that time, it was just a little pony. It was captured by a dark wizard who wanted to study the speed magic from it. The secret of it was later saved by me. The different parts of its body you see are all the sequelae left after it was tortured. Hagrid educated it very well, but at that time, it was not the same from Hogwarts Castle. When we escaped, Hagrid searched the entire Forbidden Forest but couldn't find it, so in the end we couldn't bring it out of the Forbidden Forest. I'm also very happy that he can bring you this help."

Jon also talked about his arrangements for Hoth.

"After I asked him to put the things in the castle, I asked him to go to the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade to find Percival. Hagrid will be very happy to see him later."

Dumbledore crossed his hands in front of him, and the look in his eyes became a little incomprehensible.

"So, we can actually confirm that in this first project, the riot about the fire dragon was done by Riddle and the others?"

Jon became a little hesitant at this time.

"When we were in the Forbidden Forest, I had no other doubts at all, and I was already sure that it was him who did it. But after the game ended when he came over and said what he said, I was a little unsure again. He looked really There was no disappointment at all, as if he didn’t care whether I lived or died, which is very abnormal.”

Dumbledore said softly.

"His thoughts are indeed unpredictable, but don't forget the several purposes we listed for him at the beginning. What is the most critical among them?"

Jon didn't hesitate, he always remembered.

"His soul state is still unstable and he needs some special means to fully restore his strength!"